A few years ago, I wondered if eating something healthy (healthful, if you insist) wasn’t enough; you had to enjoy it, too. After all, the brochure said
To lower your risk of cancer, enjoy 3 to 5 servings of fruit per day.
Well, I guess the answer is no. Look at the advice offered in these messages:
- Craving candy? Reach for fruit instead (link)
- When anxiety strikes, reach for homeopathic remedies. (link)
- In Sugar Blues author William Dufty has a chapter titled Reach For A Lucky Instead Of A Sweet, where he seeks to demonstrate that sugar is far more dangerous than tobacco. (link)
- 10 Healthy Snack Choices You Should Reach For Every Week (link)
- Currently most teen girls are getting far less than the recommended 700 milligrams of calcium per day. So, reach for foods rich in calcium now. (link)
- Reach for the chocolate – it’s healthy (link)
- When to Reach for a Sports Drink (link)
- Reach for the foods that don’t come with a long nutrition label, such as broccoli, spinach, apples, brown rice, whole wheat flour, fresh fish, nuts, or beans. (link)
You don’t need to enjoy it. You don’t even need to eat it. All you need to do is reach. If it’s right in front of you, just move back a few steps, and then reach. You have to watch out, though. Look at these:
- Not only are our minds preoccupied with the stressor at hand, but our bodies are telling us they desperately need support, so we reach for foods that provide quick energy. (link)
- Emotional eaters also tend to reach for foods that are high in fat, sugars and calories instead. (link)
- Reach for a banana, not Doritos. (Doug remembers reading something like this in a Weekly Reader article on nutrition.)
Just as merely reaching for the right things does you good, merely reaching for the wrong kind of stuff can do you harm.
