A lot of people don’t know a thing about feeding. They eat what they’ve got in the fridge. However, we should remember about healthy eating !

Appropriate nourishment consists

in full coverage of energy and nutritive elements our body requires that are vital to progress of life and keeping our health.

Unhealthy diet is dangerous for our health and life. We eat unhealthy foods because they are delicious and prepared without time loss. In Poland only few percent of adults are obese. In Germany one-third of people deal with this problem.

 We become obese because of two main reasons - we eat too much, and we do not do any sports or any other physical activity. Let’s say that we eat 3500 calories per day - then we can safely assume that we are developing bad eating habits, as 3500 calories per day is just too much one has to eat.

It is very unhealthy for us when we aren’t physically active. Bad eating habits are dangerous for our body. What is more, only 30% of people has genetic predispositions for eating extra meals. Most of us eat because of our own wish. Such patterns are often carried from the childhood to the adult life.

Changes

Resign from fizzy drinks. Drink a lot of water. Thirst is the best quenched with water.

Instead of whole fat products eat their equivalents e.g. curd instead of cheese, drink milk 0,5%, choose yoghurt instead of cream.

• Resign from fast foods completely.• Be physically active. • Eat soups often.

Now, let us see just a few facts from the scope of the history of dietetics. As everybody knows, during the Second World War the food was very hard to get. This is the reason why people suffered hunger and, as a consequence, mortality among them during this period of time was very high.

These gaps in food supplies and affluence people tried to compensate right after the war – when new companies were established and an intense economic development took place. Also this was a time when sitting position became major working position.

Therefore, the surplus of eating products together with sitting position caused progress of obesity. In the sixties people came back again to promote the slim silhouette. Nowadays, these

trends (many times fanatic) for getting such figure we would call anorexia or bulimia.

However, it should be remembered that these expressions did not function in the sixties.

Everyone who wanted to become known in the show-business at that times had to undergo slimming process. It was a basic element of achieving success and making a career. Then a lots of different kinds of diets were invented.

Some of them didn't last, because they were too elaborate or difficult to carry for wage-earning persons. Other ones, however, much more simple to carry out, and which do not disturb living normal life, remained popular until today.