People around the world today are facing the global epidemic health crisis due to the poor eating habits. In this modern era, people don't mind about their eating habits due to their busy hectic schedule. Key role of a human being is to acknowledge what is good diet and implement it in their life to live a healthy life.
A majority of population consuming a poor diet which is high in processed food and meat with a little Whole grains vegetables and fruits are having a very high rate of chronic disease. World wide enormous people suffer from the high spreading rate of diabetes and obesity. This can be controlled by taking back the control over our food preparation and intake is essential for our long-term wellbeing.
We can achieve a healthy eating and healthy life by being concious on our eating behaviour, knowledge on healthy food and learning the cooking skills. With these little efforts we can not only protect us but also our future generation which will bring up pleasure for the rest of our lives.
The technological advances in food industry has led to new era that is characterized by abundance of low cost energy dense but nutrient less foods. Processed food industries also began to capitalise on our need for instant convenient fast foods. These instant foods contain higher amount of fat , sugar and salt. Thus, an average person's caloric intake gets increased rapidly. The consumption of unhealthy calorie dense food and less physical activity is the main cause of the world wide epidemic health crisis.
We do often fall for the attractive advertisements of the instant food companies which offers high calorie snacks that should be taken in moderate amount but we end up eating it more due to the marketing tactics.
Basic understanding and gaining knowledge on healhy food and nutrient rich diet will help us and our family healthy and fit which is a basic requirement of a happy family. So hence, we should all try to eat a nutrient rich food with less calories and not energy dense food with higher calories.
The balance between the availability of inexpensive nutrient less food and the less physical energy expenditure has been disrupted and left us with the exponential increase in the incidence of obesity over the past 60 years. An epidemic that the World Health Organization has labelled a world wide public health crisis.