Our brain takes 400 milliseconds to register taste, almost half the time required to register its perceived health benefits,hence if u take 15 seconds more on a counter u may be able to choose a less unhealthy food or completely avoid it.
The smoke from cigarettes takes 10 seconds to stir the brain, but a touch of sugar on the tongue will do so in a little more than a half second, or six hundred milliseconds, to be precise,”. “That’s nearly 20 times faster than cigarettes. ”Measured in milliseconds, and the power to addict, nothing is faster than processed food in rousing the brain.
We have a tendency of Biting more than we can chew. Impulsive motivation is one reason which pushes us to enroll, but we do not consider one needs to take baby steps and also try out different things that one enjoys and works for them. Directly jumping too extreme for any goal is highly unsustainable and a reason for burnout!
Think about 3 deadly diseases, think of their primary reason, now look around your family and see if anyone is a victim of these, do you think they could have prevented it, managed it well or delayed it?
Every 2 seconds a person dies due to a disease that could have been prevented or pushed later.
What is the main reason for this? Its Lack of Awareness and Abundance of Negligence
We have a friend to share our emotions, a friend for academic support, a friend/advisor who can guide us with financial planning, but with whom do you share your health/body and food related concerns or get guidance if you need?
Because pests get attracted to nutrient rich food, and home cooked food is natural, on the other hand ultra processed food is stripped off nutrients by adding additives, sugars,fats,heavy oils.If even pests do not want to consume highly processed food, how good it will be for us?
That’s the food for us, why we are so ignorant towards something which has more power to heal us than medicines and something we are going to consume for a lifetime!
Have you noticed u start off ur day with a quality breakfast, maybe even lunch is good, everything is going fine till the time its evening u feel little hungry,you leave your workplace and on your way home u see this fast food chain/vada pav stall/store packed with chips, cookies,chocolates U think u r hungry enough to have something light but not as much to have proper food, so u munch on something like this?
This is the typical 1-2 hour window in the evening where most of the people indulge into bad snacking.How many of you feel this is true in your case?
Just close your eyes, imagine yourself,visualize yourself after 20-30 years.
Do you think you will be better or worse? Will it be an upgrade or a degrade to your mental health and physical health !
For most of us the answer is actually a degrade.This is the condition currently in India with most of the population! In this fast life, we have put our health on a standby. We are so excited about planning our retirement, about finding the right partner, about our financial investments, that we forget, the only thing helping us do this is our body and mind, it’s the CPU of our life. We are so busy in tackling life challenges that we de-prioritise our health till the point health itself presents as a challenge and what do we feel then,the regret that we should have listened to our body when it was screaming signs!
Right now you are young, you have gained maybe 5kgs, if you continue this for a few more years it would be 10kgs suppose, which is easier to lose, when are your energy levels high? When can you actually experiment with different things you like and choose for ur health.? When you become 50 and u would have gained 20 kgs extra with other health complications with less energy, no time to try out different things for health! You would be forced to take care of your health and that time it will cost you more time, energy and money!Giving up on all your fav foods,doing workouts u never liked and that would be a boring life!Think wisely!
Did you know India had a literacy rate of mere 18% in 1951 to 75% in 2018, India has come a long way in establishing a well-educated nation. But shockingly, basic Nutrition literacy is still absent in schools and in college curriculum. Food and Nutrition literacy refers to which food to consume, why to consume and how it will impact us in the short and long term. How to interpret food labels, inculcate good dietary behavior, don’t you think these are equally important as the other core values and principles we learn!. Why schools don’t bring the behavioral change, because if we are not taught about all this in our most crucial habit forming years, how do we expect to inculcate these effortlessly later in life!
We live in a society where an overweight baby is celebrated And a leaner kid is mocked.’Kitna patla ho gaya he, kuch khilate nahi ho kya isse’! Rewards appear in the form of poison! If you complete your homework you will get candy.Bdays are a collective sugar rush day. I don’t know if it’s to give blessings to the child or to make his/her life difficult. Parents are the ones who expose the kids to sugary treats and they are the ones who later complain of the same.My kids do not like vegetables, but how much effort has the parent taken in making the kid understand its importance, or tried out different PnC so that the kid enjoys it, I have seen parents pressuring their kids to eat the desired food, this in turn creates more dislike and their brain perceives it as an unlikeable food to be eaten forcefully.
Turning down the lights: When we lower the lighting, we’re more relaxed, which usually increases satisfaction in general with your overall experience,” Dim light doesn’t just encourage us to eat more—it also affects what we choose to eat. Low light at restaurants has been found to make people reach for more indulgent choices, like replacing a side salad with fries or sticking around for dessert.
Let’s change our approach and call it Mindful Habits! It’s not switching to green salads, or boiled food but adopting small small changes like finding a little less unhealthy option for unhealthiest option! It’s knowing you love coffee and want to have it 5 times a day, filling your cup 5 times a day but not having the whole cup in every sitting. This is called Mindful, u r assessing what u r accessing your body to,instead of working out or jumping to extreme, let’s start with listening to music for 10 seconds! It’s knowing that you love cakes, but eating only what is needed that satisfies your taste bud, u do not have to eat it whole! If u have a piece u can enjoy it for 4 decades, but a whole cake maybe only 3 decades! Think !!
India ranks third in the projected economic burden attributed to overweight and obesity, next to China and the USA