Is it hard to eat healthily?

By Kathryn Miller
Summary: Wouldn’t it be great if everyone was healthy? Just think of the lives it would save, not to mention money and/or harassment from immature peers. The fact of life, however, is humans need food. While many get exercise or have amazing immune systems, eating right is the best thing for you. You could literally stay in bed all day and eat nothing but celery and water and you’d be as fit as a fiddle. (If you are interested in dieting, celery is a negative calorie vegetable, meaning it burns more calories to digest than it has. There are various other vegetables and fruits like this, but this one is ideal because it’s 95% water. The other 5% is made up of necessary nutrients. Handy, right?)
Waking up one day and deciding you’re going to suddenly fast is a terrible thing to do to your body. This actually makes you fatter. The completely obvious irony almost makes it hilarious. Almost. Being anorexic is not something to laugh at, but why would you do it in the first place? When your body loses energy, it goes into Survival Mode. This means that whatever fat you have in your body begins to build up. Over the past millennia, our ancestors lived in cold places a lot of the time, and couldn’t find very much food. And, of course, having fat helps you keep warm and regulate your body heat. Your brain is sort of preparing to ‘hibernate’, because it thinks you won’t get food for a while. That’s why if you eat after you haven’t eaten in a while, it might come back up because you’re not used to it after adjusting to starvation.
All-in-all, overdoing it is not ideal. Eating right will make you feel bestter than candy will, even though most teenagers would beg to differ. You need a little of everything to keep your body going, but getting too much of something can be bad for your health.
Critique: Food can be your enemy. It can be your friend, but it likes to taunt you more than it likes to make nice. Different Carbohydrates are addicting. They are usually associated with anything made with flour, wheat, or sugar, such as bread or pasta. Here’s another thing: candy is mostly sugar, right? Right! Sugar, sugar, sugar. But, the next time you buy a Sour Patch Kids, look at how many carbs it has. In a 2 oz. bag, there is 51 grams of carbs. That’s equal to 1.1 bowls of pasta! I would know – I’m a sucker for carbs. Carbs are good for you – people in China usually eat a bowl of rice every day because it gives them energy, and that’s all they need. Although you need other nutrients – such as calcium, protein, fats, oils, etc. – don’t try to diet by cutting out your carbs completely. The staying power is required for your body to function properly. Same goes for sugar, fats and protein.
Impact: Everything is bad for you if not in moderation. This counts for exercise, food, and water. It’s fine to go out and exercise every day, but if you do it every day, all day, you’re as skinny as a stick, and you feel terrible, don’t wonder why. Relaxing is good for the brain also, and there’s no harm in reading every other day. Too much food at one time obviously can kill. I won’t even go into that. Having too much water in the body in one sitting – and not using the bathroom – makes you susceptible to water intoxication. The basic idea is almost parallel to what alcohol does to the body, only alcohol tastes bad and is not good for your body usually. The blood thins out so much that the nutrients forget what they’re supposed to do and the body shuts down. Vomiting, hallucinations, nausea, headaches, muscle weakness and convulsions are common symptoms that the two share. And that’s only if you’ve got it good. Severe cases range from comas to death.
http://www.fatfreekitchen.com/negative-calorie-foods.html
http://health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/death-dying/water-intoxication.htm
http://www.exrx.net/Nutrition/Carbohydrates.html