Nutrition
Healthy eating is a lifestyle choice. It involves making a series of nutritional choices that you are willing and able to commit to for an extended period of time, such as for the rest of your life. Maintaining a healthy diet involves incorporating a wide-ranging assortment of “nutrient-dense” food and drink options (unprocessed, or natural, foods packed with vitamins and minerals) and avoiding or limiting “empty calories,” or “junk food” (foods that have been altered from their natural state with the addition of trans fats, sodium, sugar, or high-fructose corn syrup). Your food and drink choices strongly influence your overall health and quality of life.
Consider the following benefits of maintaining healthy eating habits:
1. Weight management
2. Improved sleep
3. Enhanced mood
4. Disease prevention (minimize the risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, various forms of cancer, and other diseases)
5. Increased strength, flexibility, and endurance
6. Improved concentration
7. Increased energy levels
Whether you are preparing for an athletic contest, musical performance, debate, speech, or theatrical performance, healthy eating habits will help you perform at your optimal level.
Luke MacLean
Annandale Middle School and High School Activities Director
Sources:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/272015-10-reasons-to-eat-healthy/
http://www.livestrong.com/article/231424-what-are-the-benefits-of-nutrition-fitness/#ixzz2UdYNa6oQ
Healthy eating is a lifestyle choice. It involves making a series of nutritional choices that you are willing and able to commit to for an extended period of time, such as for the rest of your life. Maintaining a healthy diet involves incorporating a wide-ranging assortment of “nutrient-dense” food and drink options (unprocessed, or natural, foods packed with vitamins and minerals) and avoiding or limiting “empty calories,” or “junk food” (foods that have been altered from their natural state with the addition of trans fats, sodium, sugar, or high-fructose corn syrup). Your food and drink choices strongly influence your overall health and quality of life.
Consider the following benefits of maintaining healthy eating habits:
1. Weight management
2. Improved sleep
3. Enhanced mood
4. Disease prevention (minimize the risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, various forms of cancer, and other diseases)
5. Increased strength, flexibility, and endurance
6. Improved concentration
7. Increased energy levels
Whether you are preparing for an athletic contest, musical performance, debate, speech, or theatrical performance, healthy eating habits will help you perform at your optimal level.
Luke MacLean
Annandale Middle School and High School Activities Director
Sources:
http://www.livestrong.com/article/272015-10-reasons-to-eat-healthy/
http://www.livestrong.com/article/231424-what-are-the-benefits-of-nutrition-fitness/#ixzz2UdYNa6oQ