When we talk about women's health, it is always about stress
and stress related issues, and about emotions in general. To feel and look good
we have to find balance in our lifestyle and in our body.
Let us think for a second what causes stress in our life?
Well, if I say emotions and bad food choices, will you believe me? I am not
sure, but it is true. To feel and look good we have to find balance in our
lifestyle and in our body. So let's talk
about Primary and Secondary foods in our life.
Primary foods, what
does it mean? It is food, but not exactly the one we can eat from our plates
when we are hungry. This is something that feed us in different way, and I am
talking about a hug, a kiss, a touch, a smile. This group of "foods" consists
of career, relationship, physical activities, and spiritual life. Our
mind is not separate from the body. The thoughts we have
influence our physical condition. How satisfied we are in each areas of
our life is very important for our overall balance.
Secondary foods are actual food we can put on
our plates. Unfortunately, not all food is the same. There are natural whole
foods, such as fruit, vegetables, grains, nuts, seeds. And there are
processed foods, refined foods, junk food.
Throughout most of history, food for our body was whole
foods. In general, they supply our bodies with instructions they need to
function properly.
Processed foods, from another hand, contain chemically derived
ingredients our bodies don't know how to read. One of the biggest problems of
the modern American diet is that we move further and further from natural foods
to artificial and refined. It creates metabolic disaster-imbalance.
Coupled with chronic stress and low level of exercises this blank (no
nutrients) food contributes to chronic inflammation which leads to diabetes,
heart disease, obesity, women's issues, etc., in other words it leads to
imbalance in our body.
Toxic chemicals in the water we drink and the air we breathe
also affect our metabolic imbalance and contribute to inflammation in our body
which leads to illnesses. That is why it is so important to detox/cleanse our
body from time to time to get back our balance.
To reach our metabolic balance, we have to change our food and
nutrition preferences, experimenting and making choices based on our
bio-individuality.
To find our lost overall balance we have to start listening to
our bodies and paying attention to areas we are dissatisfied the most. We have
to learn how to prioritize our health, our relationships, our jobs, etc. We
have to sort them out and start a wonderful journey to wellness, journey that
will help us to get back our healthy body and happy mind.
Bio. Irina Wardas is a founder of
NaturalCounselor.com and works with women who have stress or weight management
issues and are experiencing increased appetite, mood swings, insomnia and lack
of energy.
As a Holistic Health and Nutrition Counselor, she
helps her clients get healthier and happier naturally in a step-by-step
enjoyable way for long lasting results. She works around food choices and
lifestyle alternatives. To learn more
about her Women's Health and Wellness Programs and e-Books or
sign up for her free Newsletter visit her
website:http://www.naturalcounselor.com
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