• • • What do you think about the ten travel tips? What has surprised you about this approach? What are the benefits of this approach? Challenges? Mindfulness in Eating We are what we eat. Every day in life we choose what to eat and we have the chance to pick our food mindfully. As humans we get our energy from the food we eat. It can impact our health in a good way or a bad way. The gift of nature is something very important to pay attention to. It provided us with many different varieties of food that we can enjoy and benefit our health. Some people have less awareness about the food they eat. It can impact their health in a bad way. Such as the people who eats junk food or processed food. Above all, food can affect our emotions and sometimes we pretend to use food as a gateway from our emotions. When we feel sad or our emotions are unbalanced we use food as a way to feel less sad. It can become a bad thing because sometimes we over eat or end up in eating bad food. In the other hand, food can also affect our emotions the food we eat can make us feel some certain way. Eating processed meat, junk food, and sad animals can affect our health. First of all, when we eat processed food such as the food in cans or pact in bags contains a lot of sodium and many chemicals that can cause heart diseases and cancers. It’s not a healthy life style to use canned food as something in our daily diet. Second, eating junk food is something that many of people do. Specially, for busy people or students. Some of the days it gets very hard to cook or being busy in working or studying for a long time and feel hungry at sudden. Some people will just grab a fast food on their way to where they’re going. Eating all this food mixed with many processed oils and ingredients that are unknown is very bad for or bodies. Third, eating sad animals can affect our health and even the emotions. Similar to that, we must give our food a face. It’s very sad to get the awareness after coming to this classes and noticing the stories that our food gets through. After noticing how the animals that we eat suffers in bad environments and treatments. They get abused by the worker and they live a very sad life until they end up in machines that kills them in order for us to eat their and use their body parts for our own goods. Giving that a moment and understanding the food we eat is very important for our awareness of our bodies. In addition, this beautiful earth that we live on today created and provided us with many kids of gifts. The most important gift is the gift of plants. Many different plants such as vegetables and fruits. In fact, our diet should consider a lot of plants and fruits. Instead of snaking on protein bar or other sugar bar taking a moment and thinking of the nutrition that the bar contains and how it can impact our health. Consider eating quiet food is the best thing to do. The definition of quiet food is the food that doesn’t contain a lot of nutrition or just one such as fruit and vegetables. It’s very easier for our bodies to process and do good impact to our bodies. In brief, Read the labels, stop drinking calories, GMOs, mindfulness practice, slow down your eating or drinking, avoid eating fast food, slow down on treats, eat real food, breathe before eating, acknowledge your food. I found these tips are very helpful to me. Because it helps me to understand the right way of eating and build a healthy life style habit. What surprised me the most is that we really need to understand the face of our food. For me personally since I was a kid I have been eating animal’s meats and other goods that they produce. Growing up and coming to this class and learning more about mindfulness and awareness has helped me a lot to develop myself today. I changed the food that I eat from animal’s meat to full healthy vegetarian diet. I find it very difficult; however, I will continue in not eating animals in general as much as I can. What I found beneficial and I really liked it and enjoyed it is the gluten free banana bread. I fallowed the tips to make it and I have done it and it was amazing. • • • What do you think about the ten travel tips? What has surprised you about this approach? What are the benefits of this approach? Challenges? The most important information/key concepts we need to understand from this chapter is: o How can I use the information in the chapter to help me with my daily mindful eating practice? o In what ways will the material learned in this chapter help me manage my mindful eating and stress levels more effectively? o What are your thoughts and feedback regarding the information and the activities in this chapter? According to the last chapter in Sustainable Living & Mindful eating, the most important information we need to understand is how to have a mindful live and how to maintain a mindful eating habit through out our lives. As we all learned through out the semester, that mindful eating is the medicine of mindfulness to cure the disease of desire. I believe that mindfulness in the key to happiness in our life as well. Learning about food, and its nourishment and being able to connect to my food has been a great life-changing journey. The chapter talked about some very valuable “travel tips” for the lifetime journey of mindful eating, which can promote us to a healthful living and more mindful presence. The first suggestion talked about food as energy and how we should eat foods that are only appropriate to our own individual needs. We need to also honor and respect our own body rhythms to become more skillful in eat what our body desires in the right amounts. Secondly, food as fuel, which is being able to pay attention to the food we eat, is it real food? Is it recognizable? Read nutrition facts labels. We need to pay attention to the needs of our own body. Also, the third suggestion talked about the importance of understanding how certain foods affect our emotions and how certain emotions affect our eating patterns. A helpful tip was, slow down while eating to allow us to notice if we are even hungry. Slowing down provides the opportunity to notice what is happening in our bodies. In addition, the fourth top talked about knowing the difference between real foods, fake foods, and junk foods. As we learned in class, fake foods are mainly chemicals and junk foods have very little food in them, and all are bad for our bodies. However, suggestion five talked about how it is not necessary to eliminate all of the less desirable food choices we make. When we understand the consequences of having an occasional treat to an every day habit, we can make better choices and still enjoy treats. Another important suggestion was to limit our added sugar intake. As we learned, eating too many foods with added sugar and solid fats sets the stage for potential health problems. Giving our food face can also be a great way to be more mindful in eating. This means that eating mindfully is facilitated by learning more about food, where it comes from, how it is grown, who harvest it, how does it get to us and how we prepare it. It is also important, to chose to eat a wide variety of whole, fresh foods, and mostly plants. Plants based diets are cost effective, low risk interventions that may lower body mass, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels. Finally, the last two tips talked about how to eat mindfully in the right amount and practicing gratitude. As mentioned, “ finding our way back to simple gratitude for the magic of food and nourishment is the way home.” Learning this information can benefit me in so many ways, living a healthy life and connecting to my food can off course manage my stress level more effectively and can lead me to a more peaceful life. Changing the way I eat and see food has definitely made me more aware of what’s really going on in the foods industry, and we should all be aware and careful. Our bodies are our own treasures and we need to take care of it more.
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