| Making healthy food choice doesn't come naturally. | | | | good for you and the best part is it tastes fantastic. |
| We learn it only when we decide it is important to us. | | | | 3}I Choose To Eat To Live Longer |
| Here are five personal reasons I have decided to | | | | Reports of obesity and all the health problems it |
| make healthy food choices. | | | | causes are all over the news these days. From |
| Making healthy food choices doesn't come naturally. | | | | children to adults this problem is getting worse as |
| As a matter of fact everywhere you turn there are | | | | people turn to fast food for their lunches and dinners. |
| ads and commercials extolling the benefits of eating | | | | Obesity puts a terrible strain on your heart, making it |
| unhealthy. That is the American lifestyle, live, work and | | | | work twice as hard to function properly. Causing high |
| eat as fast as you can. "Damn the consequences, Full | | | | blood pressure and all sorts of complications that |
| speed ahead! | | | | cannot be reversed unless you lose that weight. |
| The consequences can vary from bad to worse. For | | | | Diabetes which is closely associated with obesity is |
| me it was a trip down the highway with the sirens | | | | also soaring here in America. |
| blaring, the lights flashing and the paramedic feeding | | | | Eating healthy makes me feel better and have more |
| me nitroglycerin. That trip was not fun, as a matter of | | | | energy. If you eat healthy, studies show that you can |
| fact, it was down right scary. But it did get my | | | | live longer and have less health issues than someone |
| attention! | | | | who does not. |
| Being a young man of sixty five I wasn't ready to pilot | | | | I can't wait to met and enjoy my great grand kids. I |
| a rocking chair just waiting to die. I wanted to live, be | | | | know this is possible so I choose to eat healthy to |
| productive and enjoy life. So I decided that if I wanted | | | | make sure I have as much time with them as possible. |
| to live - I'm working on Methuselah's record - I needed | | | | If eating healthy can make you live longer, I choose to |
| to make some changes in my life. | | | | eat to live longer. |
| What I needed to change the most was what I put in | | | | 4}I Choose To Eat To Be In Health |
| my mouth. They say you are what you eat. Junk in | | | | If making healthy food choices helps me to stay in |
| and poor health out. Unless I have a good reason to | | | | vibrant health then I choose to make healthy food |
| change, I can be very stubborn. So here's a list of the | | | | choices. All around me I can see the evidence of |
| reasons I came up with to make healthy food choices. | | | | making bad food choices. You can too. Just go people |
| 1}Say Goodby To All The Chemicals | | | | watching at any mall or a busy street corner and you'll |
| Read the label of that food you are about to serve | | | | be overwhelmed at all the results of making bad food |
| your family. See all the words on that label that you | | | | choices. |
| can't even pronounce or don't have any idea what | | | | The great thing about making healthy food choices is |
| they are. | | | | that you can start anytime. Like right now! Not until that |
| I have always wondered why they use a name for | | | | ambulance ride did it get my attention. Making healthy |
| sawdust that we don't understand if the stuff is so | | | | food choices is now an everyday occurrence. Every |
| good for us. You don't suppose they don't want you to | | | | day it gets easier to make those choices, to say no to |
| know they're putting sawdust in your food do you? | | | | unhealthy food and to live a healthy life style. |
| That is one reason I am all for making healthy food | | | | 5)I Want to Enjoy My Family |
| choices. All the different preservatives and chemicals | | | | If Making healthy food choices allows me to live longer |
| that are contained in processed foods couldn't possibly | | | | and be in healthy so that I can enjoy my family then I |
| be good for you. | | | | choose Healthy Food. I have eight children, eight grand |
| 2)I Want To Savor The Flavor | | | | children so far and a fantastic wife. |
| One of the biggest reasons for making healthy food | | | | Whats important is being able to spend lots of quality |
| choices for myself is the flavor. I like to taste food! I | | | | time with my family to let them know I love they so. |
| enjoy the exciting flavors of vegetables and fresh ripe | | | | I want to be able to spend a lot of time with my wife. |
| fruits. Canned vegetables don't have much taste, they | | | | When you both work and you're taking care of the |
| tend to be pretty bland thats the reason for all of the | | | | kids you don't get to spend a lot of quality time with |
| recipes that have them swimming in mushroom soup | | | | your spouse. The Lord willing, by making healthy food |
| or cheese sauce. You need something to add flavor. | | | | choices now, I'll be able to enjoy her company for |
| Try some fresh green beans. They are loaded with | | | | many more years. |
| flavor, delicious to savor and best of all they are | | | | Those are five reason that I choose to make healthy |
| loaded with good for you nutrients. | | | | food choices. There are more reasons but you get the |
| Take an acorn squash, wash it and stick it in the | | | | idea. Making healthy food choice is a matter of life and |
| microwave for two to three minutes. When the skin is | | | | death. I choose life! I want to live! What better reason |
| soft, split in two, scrape out the seeds, add a little | | | | could there be for making healthy food choices! |
| butter to each half and you have a food that is so | | | | |