Healthy Diet

Defined Terms and Documents 'Aboriginal Teenager Life Skills' Early Intervention Programme

Healthy Diet means in order to maintain a trim waistline consuming Healthy Food & Beverages as fuel commensurate with one's energy needs.

Many people regard a Healthy Diet as not eating foods with lots of sugar, salt and saturated fats. However, many Overweight and Obese Australians consume Healthy Food & Beverages, but eat and drink too much Healthy Food & Beverages too often, relative to their energy needs, because Healthy Food & Beverages -

(a) are highly palatable;

(b) may be prepared in a variety of different national styles, thereby increasing one's capacity to eat more; and

(c) beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, are marketed in a countless array of packaging by astute advertising agencies (eg. some people from low socio-economic regions consider a bottle of bourbon in a handsome bottle with a Jack Daniels label as god-like).

Hence, a Healthy Diet requires -

(A.) avoiding high sodium junk foods, processed foods and greasy foods; and

(B.) not drinking -

(i) beverages with a high sugar content; and/or

(ii) excessive beverages with moderate sugar levels.

Consuming excessive amounts of Healthy Food & Beverages can become habit forming. One in three American adults is Obese and some of these only eat Healthy Food & Beverages, but too much Healthy Food & Beverages too often, for their energy needs.

For all but the last scintilla of human occupation of terra firma, over 99% of humans maintained a very simple diet of one or two fruits, one or two vegetables and one or two meats, where fish, rice and potatoes were prominent. When eating/drinking choices are very limited, there is not the appetite to over indulge on the same old, same old.

Hence, self-control is required to establish a new 'habit' when the variety of foods/beverages in the Western World, particularly for many of the inhabitants of First World Countries, is often unlimited.

Again, for all but the last scintilla of human occupation of terra firma, over 99% of humans burned many more kilojoules than modern humans does today. If you didn't hunt or till fields, you starved to death. Most hunting was done by running down animals that were faster over short distances but didn't possess the endurance of humans "the hunters".

A pleasant option to enjoy eating larger quantities of Healthy Food & Beverages, and still maintain a Healthy Diet, is to burn more kilojoules through participation in a RREA in a LDRREG.