Speech On Eating Healthy

How Eating Healthy Can Save Your Life
Eating healthy is important. There is a wide variety of reasons why, but I am going to inform you in the three main reasons such as disease prevention, weight management, and mood/cognition and energy. These reasons will make you second guess your eating habits and will help you improve a healthy lifestyle.

First of all, because it helps prevent diseases. There are numerous diseases now a days, and most of them depend on your eating habits. A poor diet has been proven to cause disease such as diabetes, heart disease, and certain types of cancer. Foods that are high in cholesterol can make the levels of “bad” cholesterol higher which can lead to arterial damage seen in atherosclerosis. Trans and saturated

Remember when you were a kid or even a college student and your parents always told you that you need to eat breakfast? Now try to go back to the day when you did eat breakfast in the morning; were you more energized and productive? Food has a direct impact on our cognitive performance, which is why a poor decision at meal time can derail an entire afternoon. Almost everything that we eat is converted by our body into glucose, which provides our brain with the energy it needs to stay alert. When we are running low on glucose, we struggle to stay focused. This is why it’s hard to stay concentrated on an empty stomach. Not all foods are processed at the same rate in our bodies. Certain foods like pasta, cereal, bread, and soda, release their glucose quickly, which leads to a burst of energy. However, foods like a cheeseburger, fries, and BLT provide sustained energy, but requires our digestive system to work harder, making the oxygen levels in the brain lower and makes you feel groggy. So what makes us choose the wrong choices for meals? When you 're in a hurry, mentally drained, or short for money it seems as if it is just easier to get foods like a cheeseburger and fries instead of a salad and fruit. Whatever your choice is it will have an affect to the rest of your day. Research shows that eating fruits and vegetables throughout the day isn 't just good for your body—it’s also good for your mind. There was