If we know what to eat when to eat, when to fast, how much to sleep and when and not just know but also develop some understanding as to what goes on inside our mind and body.

All of us think that we are smart, no problem. But it will be a Blunder if we think that we are so smart that we can cheat our body metabolism, sound sleep requirements and that no matter how stressful life we lead, we will always keep healthy. When simply put you must eat when you are hungry and you must sleep in the night at the proper time. Our metabolism or sleep cycle does not care how busy we are that we had to finish some urgent task today itself. All such requirement which are imposed by societal expectation have no meaning or significance at the molecular level.

Sleep expert do know that sound sleep has an enormous role in keeping us healthy, although we still do not fully understand the mechanism by which it is done. Both diet sound sleep should not be treated as money. By this what we mean is that if today we do not have time to sleep because of the work pressure. It does not matter we can be awake through out the night today and compensate for it few days later OR that we can overeat today and go for fast next day. Such kind of money like trade is not permitted in matters of life for the simple reason that we have to be alive every moment at the cellular level and it is not that we can shut down life and open it up when we desire. Such kind of borrowing when need and then repayment of money when in excess is not permitted in processes that are complex and vital to sustain life.

A good diet is important for our health and can help us feel our best but what is a good balance diet? Apart from breast milk as a good for babies, no single food contain all the essential nutrients the body need to stay healthy and work properly. For this reason our diet should contain a variety of different foods, to help us get the wide range of nutrients that our bodies need. A healthy diet provides the body with essential nutrition: fluid, macronutrients, micronutrients and adequate calories to maintain energy balance. Energy balance is where the calories taken in from the diet are equal to the calories used by the body. We need these calories to carry out every day task such as walking and moving about, but also for all the function of the body we may not. Even think about. Process like breathing, pumping blood around the body and thinking also require calories. So food and drinks provides the calories we need to go about our daily lives, but consuming more calories than we need over a is because any extra calories we consume but we don’t use will just be stored as fat.

There is no magic bullets for fighting flab, same is true for just as there is no magic formula for how can one get success in life. It is simply impossible to oversimplify or package solution to complex eating patterns, diet and food facts within a formula. Though most diet and exercise trends have their origin in science, the facts tend to get distorted by the time they achieve public popularity, the risk are downsized and science and prudence get overshadowed.

FAD Diet are based on dodgy science or no research at all, prescribing eating practice that are unhealthy and can make you ill. The British dietetic association says there’s no “ Wonder diet you can follow without some associated nutritional or health risk”. A fad diet is typically a low calorie diet with few foods or an unusual combination of foods. People can lose weight very quickly initially but soon get fed up and return to old eating habits and end up putting the weight back on.

Crash diet make you feel very unwell and unable to function properly. Because they are nutrionally unbalanced, crash diet can lead to long term poor health.

Detox diet are based on the idea that toxins build up in body and can be removed by eating, or not eating certain things. Detox diet may leads to weight loss because they involves restricting calories, cutting out certain food altogether. Detox diet are in effect, a form of modified fasting.

Anorexia nervosa is physiological and potentially life threatening eating disorders. Those suffering from this eating disorders are typically suffering from an extremely low body weight relative to their height. Anorexia refers to self starvation and lack of appetite.

France has banned unhealthily thin model and this is a wonderful thing. Research has shown that people with positive feeling when they view image of underweight people. The French law, which has just come into effect states that model now have to provide a certificate from their doctor endorsing their overall physical health, with special regard to the body mass index (BMI). This tackles also the health of models.

This article will continue and talk about vitamin and nutrient requirement and what should you do and how important is it to get a sound sleep.