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What bad eating habits come from childhood: they haunt you in adulthood
14.03.2024 09:35
We won’t be mistaken if we say that more than half of eating habits are carried over from childhood to adulthood.
A significant portion of them can be described as harmful and even dangerous.
Tasty - not tasty
Food is one of the most important sources of pleasure in our lives. Most of the foods we consider tasty contain salt, sugar, spices and other flavor enhancers (sweets, fast food, fried food, carbonated drinks, etc.). They distort the true taste of food, stimulate the taste buds, which makes us want to eat more and more.
Truly healthy food does not have a strong taste, but it fills you up much faster, for example, cottage cheese, buckwheat, oatmeal, eggs, chicken.
Eating on the run
As children, we often eat on the go or eat irregularly because our lives are dynamic and eventful, games are played, and our metabolism is accelerated. As we age, things change: we have less time, we are in a hurry and lazy, and our biological rhythm changes. The result is irregular meals, overeating, or starvation.
Another danger of eating on the run is eating ready-made food from a store or cafe, which contains excessive amounts of salt, sugar and fat, which can negatively affect our health and appearance.
Hearty meal
As children, we were taught to eat the first, then the second and the third, and also for our parents and grandparents. This was justified, because our body was growing, and the metabolism was fast, and calories were not accumulated, but burned.
In adult life, everything is the opposite, we have low daily activity, a disturbed metabolism, and sometimes bouts of laziness, because of which the amount of incoming calories must be strictly limited, and food intake must occur according to a regime. We should eat only when we are really hungry, and not "in reserve".
Locust syndrome
Children tend to eat whatever comes to hand and easily jump from one type of food to another – for example, first soup and then chocolate. Or ice cream after sausage.
Such omnivorousness plays a cruel joke on an adult - it slows down the digestion of food and leads to rotting and fermentation of food in the stomach, causing flatulence, pain, heaviness and discomfort.
Adults need to eat small meals and avoid food combinations that slow down digestion.
Previously, we talked about how to stay motivated while losing weight.
