Food
How we buy/grow food directly influences our nutrition
Why do we eat ultra-processed meals with a lot of additives, sugar etc? Because we believe it’s the easiest & quickest way to feed ourselves. How healthy is it….we don’t even come to this question.
Why are we often practically or actually addicted to foods and drinks with high sugar content and can’t imagine a meal without white carbohydrates (bread, pasta, rice…)? Well, when you are growing up in the environment where such food is considered as the only normal food and it is desired every day, many times per day, practically by all of your peers….how can we expect that we will suddenly realise that we eat food that is more or less devoid of vitamins, minerals, fiber and provides too much sugar to our body?
Sometimes we don’t realise our shopping list or our will to confront temptations that are waiting us in the store actually determine what kind of nutrition we will have. Even though it seems so easy, many people have problems with sticking to buying only things from the list. And temptation does not just lurk in the store but far before, when you are writing the shopping list.
As we are talking to women we see a pattern that women that own a garden mostly eat more vegetables as women that only rely on bought goods.
Womantrack will help you start your path to healthier eating and give you reports about research on this field.
US :
> 70 %
of the population aged ≥1 y is consuming more than the recommended limits [2]
References:
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