There are many ways a healthy diet improves your life, much more than what most people realise.
Yes, food is there to be enjoyed – But it can also provide tremendous benefits that help you feel better and perform better, both physically and mentally.
Having a healthy diet can significantly improve your life and here are 5 ways that it does this:
1. Your body is properly fuelled
The human body has developed over many thousands of years to process the food a person eats, and to use that food in the best way possible to live a healthy life. This is why the foods that you put into your body decides what you get out.
If you have a poor diet and eat unhealthy foods, then your body will struggle and your output will be poor because you haven’t got the right fuel.
On the other hand, if you have a healthy diet then your body has the right fuel it needs to perform much better. To be able to function anywhere near your best then a healthy diet is a MUST.
Having a healthy diet can greatly improve your life because being properly fuelled means you have more energy. Every day you can feel better and do more in your life because your body is performing at a high level.
Looking after your body by eating healthily is how you get the very best out of each day, which ultimately means getting the very best out of your life!
2. You feel more alert and alive
Having a healthy diet NOT only fuels your body physically, such as your muscles so that you have lots of energy through the day – A healthy diet also feeds your brain!
Your brain is the most important organ in your body. It controls every process that regulates your body and it affects your thoughts, memory, emotions, motor skills, sight, breathing, temperature, and hunger. It affects everything in your life.
Did you know that your brain also burns around 20% of the calories that you consume each day?
With all this in mind, it’s easy to see why it’s so important to have a healthy diet and feed your brain with healthy foods. Your brain will then perform near to its best and you will feel much more alert through the day. You will also feel more alive.
When you think about how your diet positively or negatively affects your brain, this is a real incentive to develop a healthy diet. A healthy diet, leads to the healthiest brain you can have.
3. Your body repairs itself better
Every single minute of every single day, the cells of your body become damaged or are dying and your body needs to make new cells to replace them. Your body needs to repair due to daily living and also needs to recover well from exercise.
The way to help your body repair itself better, is to give it the right amount of nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and water by having a healthy diet.
With a poor diet your body struggles to recover, or can even go downhill and deteriorate. However, having a healthy diet means that your body repairs itself much better and you have a healthier body.
As well as a healthy diet giving you a fitter, stronger, and healthier body, you also experience other benefits like having better skin, hair, and nails.
This means your body not only repairs and performs better, it also looks better. Who doesn’t want this? 😊
4. You feel better mentally
One of the hidden ways a healthy diet improves your life is by helping you feel better mentally.
Most people have at least some idea about what foods and drinks are healthy to have, even though sticking to a healthy diet and learning how to enjoy a healthy diet is not easy.
The problem with having an unhealthy diet is that part of you will want to eat healthy, and so there can be an internal battle. Part of you wants to eat great tasting but unhealthy foods, and another part wants to eat healthy foods and receive the great benefits from that.
This is why, when people are tempted with unhealthy foods and drinks, they may feel some short term comfort or enjoyment, but then also feel some guilt because they know it’s not good for them. A person can easily feel down and worse about themselves because they want to be healthy or lose weight, but keep holding themselves back because of what they eat.
When you have a healthy diet though, it’s a different story because you feel more positive about yourself. You know you are looking after yourself and this gives you a great boost.
You are important and now you are treating yourself as such. This feels fantastic!
5. You have a better immune system
Another benefit of your body repairing itself better and performing better, is that it gives you less chance of suffering from illnesses and diseases.
Studies have shown that a person’s diet has a significant effect on what illnesses and diseases they get. For example, having a diet that’s high in processed meat gives people a higher risk of getting various cancers.
A poor diet affects your daily life where you feel worse, have more time unwell, and have more visits to the doctors and hospital. Then to top this off, you are likely to die younger than what you should.
A healthy diet improves your daily life where you feel much better every single day of your life, and you may rarely become unwell. You can also get on with enjoying your life rather than worrying about health problems or how bad you feel.
Wow. What a difference a healthy diet has on your life!
Use a healthy diet to improve your life
It’s not easy to have a healthy diet. One thing is knowing what to do to eat healthily. Another thing is being able to put a healthy diet and improvements in place and be able to stick to it.
By remembering and reminding yourself of these 5 ways a healthy diet improves your life, this will give you a push to keep on the right track.
It’s also good to know that having some unhealthy foods and treats is perfectly fine as part of a healthy and well-balanced diet. But too many unhealthy foods is a recipe for disaster and will only negatively affect you and your life.
Having a healthy diet is so important as it improves your life AND it gives you a longer and higher quality life!
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James Porter
BoostMyLife Founder
