Eshan Maitra
If you went through the first part, you surely have realized how much a healthy can affect your life. Least no need to say the effects on achieving a good health. Before hankering after anything, one should always keep the focus on their health. Keeping the tracks and keeping the habit in line can be hard at first. But the trick is to never give up. Then, if it helping you to improve and also to feel better, why would you even think of quitting? Still, sometimes every one of us need some boost to the mind and some motivational thoughts. Also, who could be more motivational than real scientific facts dug up by experts in various studies and researches? Therefore, here are rest of the true facts about eating healthy with their legit resources mentioned. Rebecca Harrington from TechInsider also deserves special thanks for gathering all these data.
9. Several studies agrees that healthy diet can largely reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. That includes heart attacks to most type of strokes.
Sources: American Heart Association, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, National Institutes of Health, Mayo Clinic
10. Good food also pitches in protecting your memory in the long run. Thus, prevents it from developing Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Amir Khan in Ghajini could have just change his diet rather carrying tons of pictures all the time.
Sources: Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, JAMA Internal Medicine
11. Researchers strongly says that blood pressure is mostly controlled by the nature of eating habit. Healthier the diet more balanced your blood pressure will be.
Sources: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA
12. Good eats mean a diet that consists of all kind bodily needs. Such as Calcium and Vitamin D that can be found in a healthy diet, greatly reduce the risk for osteoporosis and bone loss.
Sources: A Report of the Surgeon General, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition
13. Even sleep satisfaction greatly depends on the diet. A major review of nutrition research strongly suggested that, healthy diet extends the comfort and length of your sleep. So, bite on some carrots rather pastry before you got bed like Bugs Bunny.
Source: Nutrition Research
14. Fat is as needed as any other components of food intake. But nothing excessive is good. Specially, trans fats and some saturated fats too, increases cholesterol. So order less fries with your ‘small’ size burger next time.
Sources: Harvard School of Public Health, Mayo Clinic, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
15. Several studies show; Kidney stones are result of bad diet. Just by eating healthy it could easily be prevented.
Sources: JAMA Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2004, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 2009
16. Eating good always boost one’s immune system. Means your sentry cells will be more active and stronger in dealing with invading diseases to your body. Thus, helping you from getting sick.
Sources: Harvard Medical School, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Cleveland Clinic
17. Lastly most important and most obvious too, eating right is the best way to maintain the right weight according to height and age. Also, wee bit exercising and separated times for sleeping is required as well.
Sources: CDC, USDA