Wellness is a Factor of Both Diet and Fitness
Wellness is generally used to mean a feeling one gets when one has a healthy balance of the mind, body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well being. Wellness can also be described as the constant, conscious pursuit of living life to its fullest potential. Wellness is an active process through which people become aware of, and make choices towards, a more healthy existence. Wellness should be a natural goal for everyone, but this isn’t always the case.
Wellness is largely ninety percent diet and ten percent physical fitness. Let’s take a look at ones diet first. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in health and mortality, and can also define cultures and play a role in religion for some. Changing ones dietary intake, or going on a diet, can change the energy balance and increase or decrease the amount of fat stored by the body. Sugar cravings are the major cause of diet and weight loss failures.
Sugar cravings for foods such as donuts, cakes, cookies, and highly process foods cause more weight gain than whole foods such as fruits and vegetables and home cooked meals. So instead of getting To Read More Click Here
Posted: January 6th, 2009 under Wellness, Fitness and Diet.
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