Eating for Your Body

Food experts and parents up and down the country have been warning us since the beginning of time that “we are what we eat”. Roughly translated this saying means that every part of our body (and potentially mind) is affected in some way by the things that we put in our mouth. It has got to stage now where you move for being told what you can and can’t put in your mouth. However, if you are not an expert its pretty hard to filer out the really important info, so here is is for you, the foods with the biggest influence on our insides and out.

Salt. This is something that we didn’t even know was bad for us until scientist decide to tell us recently. An agency called the FSA in the UK suggest that 6g of salt is the maximum that anyone should need in a day. More salt might be needed by people who lose a lot through sweating or by diluted body salt levels by drinking lots of water. For 90% of people however, a reduction in salt levels is advisable as it has been closely linked with heart, blood and liver problems. Rather than put it in your body, salt is good at conditioning skin and is in fact an ingredient in numerous Skin care products

Fats. We need different types of fat in our diets in order to maintain healthy cells and for all the various functions of the body. However these are unsaturated fats and not the saturated fats (also known as trans fats) that are unfortunately too prominent in lots of people’s diets. Put simply, eating too many saturated fats will not only make you fat but could also cause heart disease, organ failure and diabetes to name a few. It won’t matter how many times you get a Body polish, inside and out will not be great if you don’t watch your fats

Water. Although water is not something you strictly eat, it’s still something that should be on your radar. Most government agencies suggest that people should consume around two litres of water per day but in reality it will depend on lots of factors like your activity levels, size and metabolism etc. Water is used in every element of the bodies functioning but also has a large impact in appearance, so if you drink enough of the stuff you won’t need to have exfoliating scrub quite so often

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