A PENTAGON RULE TO STRUCTURE YOUR DAILY DIET.
Rediscover the incredible art of eating — the point where the tongue and food meet in harmony under the reign of health.
Everyone can say the obvious answer to the title of this blog. Strike all those answers and look back at what you have struck. Let’s rethink why its popping up in your mind. A massive quest under the food pyramid started long ago. Our parents, neighbours, physicians, dietitians and even our intellects remind us about the healthy food behaviours. We scribble our diet plan until our nose senses the yummy dish’s aroma and stomach rumbles. We love to eat and drink as long as our taste buds are drowned in a spicy/creamy taste. Let’s kick off this blog with a cup of your favourite beverage!!
We can find a different group of people who prefer a particular category of foods, cuisines, and calorie value. Some people support the exact opposite of it and assert their principle values. On top of that, they try to convince others to follow it without any background research. A classic example would be Atkins and vegans. Being foodies, most of us rush to taste the cuisine of all the countries across Mediterranean, Americans, Australians, Italian, Indians, and Chinese. (Skip the last one if you hate Bats)
What holds you fit?
Food and air are the basic needs. You can find it around, which makes you physically alive. When we boil down to the answer — carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water are the basic interconnected elements of our daily fuel. Indeed, most of our everyday diets bag these elements in one form or another. Apart from this, human consciousness inherent the string of pleasure in the palatable food. A slight sense of smell and vision reinforces our belly to conquer the mind. Whenever we hear the word fitness, straight away, we imagine our future self with a six-pack or fit body shape — a visible trap to our health consciousness. Our mind and body should be in harmony with genuine satisfaction for a healthier life.
We are searching for the answer an upside down world.
In our evolving modern world, we are overloaded with a plethora of stigmatic information about obesity and losing weight. It paves the way for a lot of opinions and options. Old facts were proven wrong by the succeeding facts, and this endless loop curbs us within the wall. We are suffering from pseudo agnosia where we can’t distinguish between cheese and curd. Of course, not verbatim. If you feel blue by now, the pandemic diseases are here to render the worse scenario. Studies have found that “the more we eat and the less we move, the more we lose health”. Also, we like to fill our cart with costlier ingredients from the market to kickstart our encounter plan. Among those fruits and vegetables, most of them were exotic. It is either coated with preservatives or stored in the appropriate conditions to extend the shelf life of exotic products. Focusing on a foreign diet, we stuff our tummies with poisonous chemicals and frozen processed foods & beverages. It may sound like a magnified notion of current trend. Continue your reading till end to find the crossroads.
DRI (Dietary risk index) is the index to calculate the total amount of pesticides present in the food. Strawberries top the table with 10.3 residues per sample. Out of five Strawberries three were coated with harmful chemicals for long term storage.
When and How to eat?
My schedule and circumstances restrict my focus on daily diet. Uncertainty in my everyday life takes a toll on my diet. After my sickness, I narrowed my diet down to vegetables and fruits with half-mindedness. All these lessons helped me realize the concept behind the circadian clock. Even though you can’t hear the tic-toc sound, it alarms you by changing your mood when you take the wrong turns. Your thoughts will start to tangle around the pointless matters. Its the point where we lose our concentration and mental health. Hence, filling the plate with happiness and nutrition is a two-way process to reinforce better health and is key in maintaining a biological cycle.
What to eat?
The food industry smuggles a monotonous flavour into our childhood diet and we fail to realize the shadow trap. They portray that healthy foods have unpleasant taste and disgusting in children. Hunger is a natural impulse to seek palatable food. It triggers us to fill our tummy under the sense of eyes and nose. Over the course of time, we restrict our mind to the limited tastes and addicted to sensory. We haven’t been adequately guided to pursue health and happiness. We beat the bushes for what we liked in the past, and we liked what we had tasted with pleasure. To break the chain, let us step forward and prefer indigenous fruits, vegetables, and native recipes irrespective of their nutritional composition (low carb or high fat). When we relearn to sync our diet with our circadian rhythm and physical activities, we can feel the food and the heart behind it.
To sum up:
- Prefer the traditional dishes in your daily diet.
- Avoid the chemical additive and preserved foods.
- Follow up your circadian cycle.
- Eat what is grown/cultivated in your natural locality.
- Do physical activities regularly. Gardening is the preferable choice.
These simple tips will make a drastic turn in your life. If you find this article valuable, share it and visit the SOLAI page for more sustainable ways to live our life. Have a GREAT DAY..
