Good health is not just the absence of an illness - it is the
complete wellness of our physical and emotional selves. Our
nutritional habits affect our health, happiness and our ability to
get a good night's sleep.
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Besides helping us to effortlessly and naturally drop a few
extra pounds, a healthy diet can aid in improving every aspect of
our life - including our stress and anxiety levels.
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Many people feel a desire to change their nutritional habits on
a long-term basis, either to reduce weight, to alleviate certain
symptoms of disease or simply for better well being
throughout.
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. all people must eat and, to do so, must put food into their
mouths( uniformity); however, what people eat and how they eat it
vary from one culture to another(diversity).
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A healthy food food must be safe, available, sufficiently
nourishing to sustain life and permit successful reproduction, and
acceptable by the group and then by the individual.
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One thing thats definitely a problem in the whole grains
category is that so many things are made to sound like theyre all
whole grains, when theyre not. For instance, wheat bread is not
made with whole wheatits just made with wheat flour which is, of
course, standard white flour.
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Made with whole wheat may also be made with not-whole wheat, so
you have to check the ingredients and see where whole wheat appears
on the list. Multi-grain may be made with non- whole grains as
well, so its essentially white flour and de-germinated (non-whole)
other grains as well. Its really annoying that these food
manufacturers deliberately deceive the paying customers.
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The importance Of Studying Nutritional Habits
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1-Solving the problem of nutrition and the deficiency of
information in families about diseases related to nutrition and
nutritional habits. 2-Decrease nutritional awareness in many
families which need intervention from the authorities to increase
it.
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3- the increase in the numbers of food delivery restaurant and
absence of good observation and supervision on it. This passively
affect nutritional habits in families. 4- The need to increase
nutrition education for family members. 5- negative attitude to
practice bad nutritional habits.
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Food habits:
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They are acquired through years in the community. Like the use
of fork and knife in transferring food to the mouth is a
habits
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, a repetitive action that is largely automatic or done without
thinking.
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Some people habitually reach for the salt before tasting their
food. They do so as a habit. A mother may eat food left on her
childrens plates without even realizing she is doing it, because
she has been taught not to waste food.
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Food habit is a food behavior, but not all food behavior is
habit. For example, tasting food deciding it needs a certain amount
of salt to achieve the flavor one desires, and salting it
accordingly is a behavior that is not a habit.
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Food habits are repetitive, characteristic acts, largely
automatic, that an individual completes in order to satisfy a real
or imagined need for food.
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The meanings of food:
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People s beliefs and values concerning food and nutrition
influence their food behavior in a given situation. One may have a
negative or a positive attitude toward a food because of its
association with a place, a person, or an event.
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A child may eat any food while he has upset stomach may never
eat this food again. Spinach and most meats are associated with
masculine images, while salad and nonmeat enters are associated
with feminine images.
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pudding, and carrot strips are food associated with sick
person. Teenager and young today eat hamburger.
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Food preferences:
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Food preferences are developed as a result of many factors in a
persons environment. Social factors exerts a powerful influences on
food choice and preferences; by observing their parents, infants
and children learn which food and combinations of foods are
appropriate to consume and under what circumstances
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Perhaps more influential, though,are the messages from peers
about what to eat and how to eat. Food neo-phobia is common among
children, it can often be overcome by allowing them to observe
another child enjoying eating that food.
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Factors affecting food preferences :
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1-Food available in the community. 2-Food preferred by other
family members, especially parents 3-Food purchased and prepared
that reflect cultural attitudes as well as family income
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4-Food permitted by religious 5-Food whose taste, texture,
color and appeal particularly to individual.
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When you eat Pay attention to when you eat. Notice when you are
hungry. Be attentive to your eating habits: are you eating because
you're hungry? Notice if you forget to eat. Think about how you
feel at different times during your day. How is your mood, your
appetite?. Simply by paying attention to what you eat, you can
uncover your habits and take a step towards changing them.
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What you eat
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Another key to good nutrition is becoming aware of what you eat
and how it makes you feel. For example, if you eat a snack of fruit
and cheese versus a chocolate bar mid-afternoon, do these foods
make you feel any different later in your day?
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These are important things to take note of in your quest for
better general health, which in turn leads to better life
quality.
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Eating Eating is a social events that brings together different
peoples for a variety of events(e.g. religious, or cultural
celebrations, business meeting and family dinners.
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Social pressures Social pressures, however, can restrict our
food intake and selection we might for example order nonmeat dishes
when dining with a group of vegetarian friends.
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Definition of Nutritional Habits: 1-It is repeated behavior in
preparing and eating foods, it also depends on a mixture of
psychiatric, social and economic factors.
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It differs from one society to another. Each society has its
nutritional habits which goes with its believes and religious.
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Another definition of nutritional habits, it is the methods
used in choosing and consuming nutrients available and it includes
all processes of production, distribution, preparation and serving
and saving of foods.
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Classification of Nutritional Habits: 1-Good nutritional habits
2-Bad or poor nutritional habits 3-Unuseful nutritional habits
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1-Good nutritional habits: Which Should be always encouraged as
the habit of eating fresh vegetables and fruits, eating fresh
juices with meals instead of beverages.
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Forming good nutritional habits doesn't happen overnight.
Following are key points that can turn your new healthy lifestyle
into a reality. Start slowly, and gradually build on these
foundations.
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a list of good nutritional habits that help contribute to a
healthy lifestyle:. Dont skip meals; plan for at least three meals
each day. You shouldnt skip breakfast. Start reading food labels so
youll become more aware of what youre putting into your body:
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reading the labels and checking the nutritional facts of every
food before you eat it so that can make good choices. Plan for
healthier snack choices. Between lunch and dinner each day, aim for
five servings of fruits and vegetables: This is a category where
you definitely need. getting at least an apple in each day. Stop
adding salt to foods.
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Eat nothing after 8 p.m. because eating late had contributed to
increase in body weight. Try a new food each week, to help you
introduce more variety into your diet. Eat less meat to reduce your
fat and cholesterol intake. The meat isnt that much of a problem.
eat a lot more fish and poultry and very little red meat,. However,
you should know the difference between healthy and unhealthy
fats.
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Make sure that your breads, cereals, pastas, and crackers are
made with whole grains. You should adjust your weight This is about
changing your whole lifestyle. turning your life around and living
in a new way. This can only help you to make all aspects of your
life better. Wash your teeth before and after meals, especially
before sleep.
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Nutritional Mealtime Habits Adopting nutritional mealtime
habits go a long way in maintaining your overall fitness.. Well,
one thing that parents can do to promote healthy eating habits is
that they should encourage the idea of eating family meal, in which
the entire family sits together and eats the meal. The basic idea
of having a family meal is that the parents can act as the role
model for kids and induce them to eat healthy foods
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Fresh fruits and green vegetables should be incorporated into
the daily food intake, as they provide the nutrients that are
necessary for the body. A fabulous idea that can develop the
interest of your child in healthy foods is to present nutrient rich
food beautifully. To say for example if fruits are presented in the
form of colorful fruit salad, definitely the child would get
tempted into trying it, owing to the fact that it looks good.
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Motivate the child to eat healthy nutritious snacks like
yogurt, peanut butter and celery, or whole-grain crackers and
cheese. If your child likes to eat non- vegetables, then prefer
serving lean meat. Eating fiber food is very beneficial, as it
keeps your digestive system good. So, give your child whole-grain
breads and cereals. There is a need to alter your cooking method,
in the sense, that instead of frying food item, change for methods
like boiling, grilling, roasting and steaming. Fatty foods are not
good for health, therefore the food items that fall into this
category, should be avoided to be served at home.
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Well, the idea is not to deprive your child from his/her
favorite food item, but to make him learn as to how to lead a
healthy lifestyle. If the child gets lured by fad foods, it's not
that he/she is prohibited from consuming it, but there is
definitely a need to moderate the quantity of unhealthy foods. As
important is to eat healthy nutrition rich food, equally vital is
to eat in a balanced manner, because excess of everything is bad.
So, eat healthy and increase the longevity of your life.
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These are the newest techniques from the latest cutting-edge
plan. Rather, they are simple, time- tested, no nonsense habits
that you need to get into when designing a good eating program.
These are seven rules.
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1. Eat every 2-3 hours, no matter what. You should eat between
5-8 meals per day. 2. Eat complete (containing all the essential
amino acids), lean protein with each meal. 3. Eat fruits and/or
vegetables with each food meal.
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4. Ensure that your carbohydrate intake comes from fruits and
vegetables. Exception: workout and post-workout drinks and meals.
5. Ensure that 25-35% of your energy intake comes from fat, with
your fat intake split equally between saturated fatty acids (e.g.
animal fat), mono-unsaturated fatty acids (e.g., olive oil), and
poly-unsaturated fatty acids (e.g. flax oil, salmon oil).
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6. Drink only non-calorie containing beverages, the best
choices being water and green tea. 7. Eat mostly whole foods
(except workout and post-workout drinks). So what about calories,
or macronutrient ratios The short answer is that if you arent
already practicing the above-mentioned habits, and by practicing
them ; putting them to use over 90% of the time (i.e., no more than
4 meals out of an average 42 meals per week violate any of those
rules), everything else is pretty pointless.
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Moreover, many people can achieve the health and the body
composition they desire following these 7 rules alone.
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2- Bad nutritional habits(not useful):
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Which should be omitted and not encouraged like:
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introduction of foods rather than human milk to infants in the
first month after birth or prevention of milk in the infant diet
during diarrhea.As this leads to malnutrition in infants. Eating
fast foods, like hamburger, pizza, etc. which are high in their
content of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol and thus leads to
increase in body weight, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and
diabetes mellitus.
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Eating large amount of sticky and non stick sweets which leads
to teeth decay, obesity and diabetes mellitus. Drinking large
amount of tea and coffee, which increase irritability, hinders the
absorption of iron and calcium and increase cardiac diseases
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Eating while watching television, because this leads to eat
much foods hence suffering from increase in body weight, obesity,
cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. Eating much salt
which may cause increase in blood pressure or affect the
kidney.
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Eating one big meal in the lunch while omitting breakfast and
dinner as assort of regimen. this leads to increase amount of fat
in that diet and this fat will be accumulated in fat cells in our
body leading to increase in body weight, obesity, cardiovascular
diseases and diabetes mellitus.
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Eating large quantities of food in celebrations, which contain
large quantities of fats and carbohydrates, leading to increase in
body weight, obesity, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes
mellitus. Drinking large quantities of beverages, which contain
soda that replace calcium from bones,leading to osteoporosis.
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Breaking Your Bad Nutrition Habits For most of us, its pretty
easy to focus on the foods that we like rather than the ones that
our body needs. This isnt so much of a concern if it isnt a daily
habit. Eating some of those tasty desserts at Thanksgiving is
probably not going to cause you any health problems - unless this
is the way you eat all the time. Unfortunately, for many people, it
is. Thats why one of the first steps in improving your overall
health is to find ways to break all the bad habits that have been
established over a lifetime.
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The first step to breaking bad nutritional habits is to know
what a healthy diet looks like. You need to understand what foods
your body needs, and in what quantities, before you can recognize
which habits are bad for your health. A basic healthy diet consists
of a variety of fruits and vegetables, grains, and low-fat protein
and dairy foods every day. If your diet lacks in any of these
areas, you arent getting all the nutrition your body requires. For
most people, the lack is in enough fresh fruits and
vegetables.
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After determining the nutritional needs your diet lacks, you
can start to replace the unhealthy foods you usually reach for with
healthy ones. If you love to snack, start replacing those snacks
with chopped up vegetables or a piece of fruit. Youll find that you
are actually more satisfied - you might even begin to realize that
you like them better.
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One important factor in changing bad habits is getting the
right kind of motivation and support from your family and friends.
Habits can be very addicting. If you are spending time with people
who share those habits, they will be harder to break. Since you
cant change others, you may need to change where and with whom you
spend your time.
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As you begin changing your bad nutritional habits, dont forget
to reward yourself for your successes. Give yourself extra
privileges as a reward for sticking to healthy meals. This will
serve to reinforce your new habits.
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Everything you eat as part of your daily diet is a choice. Most
of us unconsciously make these choices because theyve become
ingrained habits. While you are changing bad habits, you have to
start consciously thinking about the choices you are making.
Eventually they will become second nature. You will find that you
are feeling better and have more energy, which will also reinforce
your choices. Since good health is based on healthy nutritional
choices, you will find that you are less susceptible to many common
ailments, such as colds, dietary distress, even diseases such as
diabetes. Healthy nutrition is the foundation of a long and healthy
life free from disease!
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3- Un-useful nutritional habits: Which is not good nor bad like
eating high fat high carbohydrate diet rarely during wedding
celebrations.
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Factors affecting nutritional habits : 1-Social factors: The
change and social development lead to change in individual behavior
and nutritional habits; the most important social factors are:
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(1) Religion: Islamic religion prohibits eating pig meat so
pigeon meat is not eaten in Arabic and Islamic countries. Indian
does not eat cows meat because their religion prohibits eating it,
so they are called vegetarian. Drinking alcohol is also forbidden
in Islamic religion, which was found to cause damage to the liver.
In certain months; like Ramadan, Islamic people fast and eat
certain popular foods.
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(2)Educational level: Ignorance of the healthy basis of
nutrition almost leads to malnutrition,while the increased
educational level for individuals leads to better choosing and
preparing of their foods. Many studies showed that educational
level is one of the most social indicator related to nutritional
habits in developing countries; so any increase in educational
level of each parents leads to increase in eating healthy diet like
fruits and vegetables and animal protein of high biological value
as fish, chicken and meat.
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3) Age) Infants depends absolutely on breast milk in the first
six months of life. During winning mother introduce soft foods,
juices to her child and this differ from one society to the other.
Children eat what their parents eat and learn also from their
peer.
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Adolescent begin to be different from their families, eat fast
foods, chips, pizza, and drink soda. Adult eat the food available
in their societies, and may change their diets in cases of
diseases. Pregnant women eat certain foods and increase her caloric
intake during pregnancy.
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Elderly eat less amount of foods Geriatric eat less food and
mainly soft food and changes their nutrition according to diseases
they suffer from.
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(4)Geographical position: Geographical position for any reason,
determines their nutritional life style in consuming foods.
Countries which lies on the sea, eat more sea foods, while in
desert land, people depends on camel milk or goat milk and dates.
Agricultures countries lives on their products of plant foods, like
vegetables and fruits as the main meals.
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Also, the type of food the people eat in each country depends
on the main plant product in that site due to its availability in
low price and good quality. In hot weather, dates, is the main food
eaten.
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(5)Work and function: Income is linked mainly with the position
in the work. Those who has increased income usually eat high price
foods, like animal protein as meat, fish, chicken. Also the type of
work may affect the type of food eaten or nutritional habits in an
indirect way. worker women prefer readymade food.They may purchase
fewer snack foods for their families.
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She usually begin weaning of her infant early in his life. Also
the number of working hours affect the time of the main meal; when
the working hours are less or minimum the main meal is the lunch,
but when the working hours are big the main meal is the
dinner.
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2-Psychiatric factors: Everyone is affected by his environment.
The family plays a major role in our mode. So some of our
nutritional habits result from psychiatric factors which result
from our family believes, problems and stresses. Sometimes we find
that depression,anxiety and irritability cause increase in eating
foods in some people or refusing eating in another people.
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Some mothers give their children more food as a sign of love.
Some parents prevents giving chocolates to their children as a type
of punishment.others give chocolates to their children as a reward
when they do good thing. This make the child relate this type of
food to the good or bad thing so he loves or hate it.
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Some person during stress drink more tea or coffee or alcoholic
beverages. Some feel safely when they eat certain foods in certain
celebrations with their families.
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Physiological factors: Physiological reactions which occur in
the body affect personal behavior. It is found that different
chemical reactions are affected by equilibrium between chemical
products, like hormones, enzymes and nutritional elements. -
Nutritional habits during pregnancy:
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Nutritional habits changes during pregnancy, especially in the
first three months, some pregnant need certain foods to eat and
hate the odor of others, this habits may remain through the whole
pregnancy. Also pregnant women may suffer from vomiting and
anorexia, so they are not able to eat well.
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- Nutritional habits during geriatric: Nutritional habits
during geriatric is a result of many factors; like living alone,
Physiological reactions which occur in their body, weakness in
sensory system, affect their method of eating. They suffer from
weak vision, hearing and taste. they also suffer from decreased
body activity. All these factors leads to changes in their
nutritional habits
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. Poor chewing leads to eating easy digestible foods and soft
foods, which does not contain solids. Also they start eating less
amount of food due to decreased activity and also the length of
time taken during eating meals.
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-Nutritional habits due to sensory feeling of foods It differs
from one person to the other. also it differ in the same person at
different times at different situations. Every person has different
sensation to foods than the others, so some persons like acidic
foods others like peppery foods and some like salty foods.
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- Nutritional habits during diseases: Physiological reactions
which occur in the body during diseases, lead to change in their
nutritional habits. Diabetics should eat certain amount of foods.
He should decrease eating table sugar and sweets, and regulate his
all diet, also people suffering from cardiac diseases decrease
their cholesterol content of diet and follow certain dietary
regimen.
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. The person suffering from hepatitis, needs to decrease fats,
protein in the diet and increase carbohydrate and sugar in diet to
rest the liver metabolism. also during fever we should increase
fluid and use soft food and decrease fatty diet, until the
temperature returns to normal.
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Food sensitivity: Sensitivity to foods is present in many
peoples. Some are sensitive to eggs, others are sensitive to fish
and others are sensitive to milk. So those patient should avoid
eating these foods which cause allergy and fever and abdominal
pain, so this lead to change in their Nutritional habits.
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deficiency diseases: Enzyme like lactose intolerance disease,
due deficiency of the enzyme lactase. When these patient eat milk
they cannot digest it, so they have abdominal pain and diarrhea.
This leads them to avoid eating milk.
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In cases of favism, due to deficiency of the enzyme glucose sex
phosphate dehydrogenase, these patient should avoid eating fava
beans, and thus changing the patient nutritional habits.
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How can we improve nutritional habits Since dietary habits are
formed at an early age, the link to weight and particularly health
could be stressed to children. They may not fully understand some
of the health problems, but merely stating that some foods are good
for you and some foods are bad for you is unlikely to change food
habits.
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As for teenagers and adults, some possible linkages between
food, health, and weight include acne, overweight, heart disease,
and diabetes. Such conditions may be of concern to these people.
Focusing on these types of conditions, as opposed to the
traditional deficiency diseases, would be more appropriate to
today's lifestyle.
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Extension home economists won't change all those who don't care
about nutrition, but we can place the responsibility of one's
health more firmly in a person's mind. The important issue is to
make a strong link between the foods eaten everyday and one's
present and future health and weight.
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The study also documents the importance and effectiveness of
social pressure in constraining one's eating habits. Those women
constraining their eating were receiving and responding to more
social pressure
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Therefore, peer support groups could play an important role in
educational efforts. The effectiveness of peer support weight
reduction groups has been recognized for years. However, health
related support groups are a newer concept. Extension home
economists could endorse and promote the establishment of groups
for concerns such as diabetes and heart disease
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Extension home economists need to do more than teach basic
nutrition. Some women don't care about nutrition, some want to lose
weight, some are concerned about their health, some relate health
and nutrition. Programs directed at audiences with specific
motivations should result in more effective education.
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False Nutritional Believes 1-Vitamins 1-enuromous intake of
vitamins is safe: This is a false believe, because every one should
take only his recommended nutritional daily allowance (
RDA),especially of fat soluble vitamins; because the increase in
its intake cause hyper-vitaminosis and toxicity to the .body and
dangerous symptoms
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e.g. increase intake of vitamin A causes hyper- vitaminosis A
which cause headache, vomiting, fatigue,falling of
hair,osteoporosis, foot edema pain in the bone and enlargement of
liver and spleen.
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vitamin D increase intake of vitamin D causes toxicity appears
in the form of loosing appetite, thirst, vomiting, diarrhea,
lassitude,fatigue and elevated calcium in tissues; like heart,
lungs and kidney and in blood.
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2- the use of fruits &vegetables only in summer to remove
toxins. remove toxins ; Is a false believe ; The body can by itself
Through the liver and using only vegetable and fruits prevents the
body from the use of the important other macronutrients; proteins,
fats and carbohydrates in appropriate amounts. Water soluble
vitamins ; like vitamin C when used in large amounts is removed
from the body via urine.
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3- large volume eggs contains more.vitamins Is a false believe
; the yellow part of eggs is rich in vitamins. Large eggs contain
small amount of the yellow part while small eggs contain large
amounts of it..
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4-vitamins is a source of energy A false believe ; it only aid
in all metabolic reactions in our body, so its deficiency can cause
many diseases.
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Rapid loosing of body weight is safe: Dietary regimen which
cause rapid reduction in body weight is dangerous; because this may
lead to loosing fat around the kidney and hence cause dropping of
the kidney and kidney failure. It also lead to malnutrition and
anemia.
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The use of certain tea or herbs to decrease body weight Is a
false believe; these products help loosing large amount of water
and body fluid through diarrhea and cause loosing vitamins. After
drinking the body resume the same weight easily.
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Drinking a cup of water with a spoon of acetic or apple acids
twice daily dissolves fat Is a false believe; this is may be
painful in case of the stomach ulcers, or inflammation.
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Drinking beverages after meals helps digestion Is a false
believe; this leads to indigestion and also increase the time
needed for the processes of digestion, because it decrease the
concentration of the digestive juices so hinder the digestion.
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Hydrogenated fat( plant fat) is better than animal fat Is a
false believe ; plant fat contains monounsaturated fatty acids and
poly unsaturated fatty acids is more useful and recommended for our
body. But hydrogenated oils cause increase in LDL- cholesterol
which is dangerous,and increase the risk of cardiac and
atherosclerotic diseases.
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Carbohydrate in bread, rice and cereals increase body weight
than proteins ; like meat, chicken and eggs: Is a false believe; as
both carbohydrate and protein give the same calories after burning
; one gram of each of them give 4 calories.
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White bread is more in its caloric content than whole wheat
bread: Is a false believe; whole wheat bread contain the same
calories as white bread but is more in its fiber content. fiber
help in decreasing body weight Because it give the sensation of
satisfaction for food, thus helping in decreasing body weight.
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Diet foods is good for reduction in body weight Is a false
believe; diet beverages, contains sweeteners, which is less in its
content of calories than natural sugar, but experimental animals
showed that sweeteners may cause cancer.
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Prohibit eating milk with fish Is a false believe; some also
prohibit eggs for children. They believe that they can harm their
body. This food contain protein of high biological value.especially
during cold. These food increase the immunity.
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Large amount of tomatoes may cause cancer: Is a false believe;
tomatoes is rich in vitamin A, C and iron. also it is rich in
fibers.
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Some children eat mud in Africa, They believe it as beneficial
to them. Is a false believe, as it contains microbes and so causes
infection to them.
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Some drink fresh cows blood after its injury while it is a life
They believe it as beneficial to them. Is a false believe
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To summarize: 1. THE BEST WAY TO REDUCE BLOOD CHOLESTEROL IS
NOT TO EAT EGGS. Eliminating eggs will not automatically reduce
blood cholesterol. Reducing the amount of dietary fats and
saturated fats has a more significant effect on blood cholesterol
levels.
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2. FOR WEIGHT LOSS, ONLY EAT FOODS LABELED LOW-FAT OR FAT-FREE.
Fat-free and low-fat foods may contain high amounts of sugar and
calories. Remember, fat free doesnt mean calorie free, and in
weight loss calories count, too.
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3. SALT RAISES HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. For people with high blood
pressure, reducing salt intake may lower blood pressure, but
studies have shown other factors may play a more significant role
in blood pressure control. Losing weight, exercise, eating more
fruits and vegetables for the magnesium and potassium and eating
low-fat dairy products for the calcium can help manage blood
pressure.
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4. SUGAR CAUSES OBESITY. Obesity is usually a result of excess
calorie intake and too little physical activity. Sugar can
contribute to the problem, but it alone does not cause it. 5.
BUTTER CONTAINS MORE FAT THAN MARGARINE. Butter and margarine
contain equal amounts of fat and calories per tablespoon. The
difference is butter contains cholesterol and more saturated
fat.
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6. VITAMIN C PREVENTS THE COMMON COLD. Vitamin C supplements
will not prevent a cold. It may reduce the severity of the cold
symptoms. The egg myths are several. What about that white eggs are
less healthy than brown ones. Most people assume that eggs from
hens eating greens are healthiest because they feel more
comfortable with the thought.
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The salt debate is running high. Salt is what makes our food
taste good and we can't avoid it as it's in all processed foods.
But no scientific research has been able to conclude that salt is
the only cause of high blood pressure.
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I've often heard people saying that eating a mega- dose a
Vitamin C should prevent colds and reduce their severity. In this
article from Quackwatch called "Vitamin C: Do High Doses Prevent
Colds?" - they conclude "If you choose to supplement when a cold
strikes, there is no reason to take more than 250 mg per day". If
you "have" to eat ascorbic acid you might just as well drink some
fruit juices.Vitamin C: Do High Doses Prevent Colds?
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Creating a myth is done to help oneself understand what might
be going on. They are preserved by skilled story tellers and
delivered to the younger through oral communication. The power of
the myth arises when it's believed and deeply held as true. Don't
believe everything that is said....