Changes involving what you eat take individual paths. The speed in which
you look and feel better depends on your resolve and commitment, strengths and
weaknesses, the difference between your previous choices of food and your new
ones, and how fast or slow you implement your changes.
Think of food not
in terms of dieting but in patterns of living. Think of the food you eat as a
part of how you can take care of yourself.
Claims regarding specific
nutrients will come and go and forever change but if you establish a healthy
eating pattern of a variety of foods in moderation, the changes in information
won't mean a thing. You'll be healthy and you'll stay healthy.
Disregard fads and diets.
Knowing vitamin, mineral, and nutrient
information is good but it's not everything. With the knowledge you have gained
on how foods act in your body, it is now up to you to self-evaluate and learn
which foods and diets are best for you. Food is sometimes slow to effect but
more profoundly affects all systems of your body.
With information
flowing as it does, it gets confusing what constitutes a healthy diet. Food is
foundational. Rebuild your foundation on the rock of God's nature.
A Couple of
Points:
- When you adopt your new
diet, expect some reactions as the biochemical processes within each cell
changes. Old toxins need to be released and sometimes this can be a bit
uncomfortable for a short time.
- As we grow older, we
need less quantity of foods but more nutritionally concentrated
foods.
Now let's talk
briefly about "dieting"...