Of Luke Durward's Speech 'How To Make Healthy Eating Unbelievably Easy'

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At ted talk, “How to make Healthy Eating Unbelievably Easy” Luke Durward recalls that after breaking his leg, he used his time to return home and mentor his little brother on healthy eating by illustrating his brother 's dramatic transformation, he shares one of the obvious secrets that is repeatedly overlooked by dieters. According to Durward, his strategy for making healthy eating habits easy to implement is by matching the environment to work toward achieving his goal. For example, removing the food from the front of his eyes and switching the menu with all the bad (unhealthy) optional to healthy optional such as choosing to eat fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meats and healthy fats like nuts or avocado instead of junk food. Also …show more content…

The parents have the accessibility of healthy versus junk foods and availability of physical activity equipment. Children view their parents as healthy adults and model for healthy eating or exercise for their kids help implant in them positive eating habits and healthy lifestyle. Also limiting access to junk foods at home and parents’ support for family meals increases the amounts of healthy foods kids eat. Thus, concluding that a healthy home environment and parental role modeling are important to promote healthy behaviors in children. Lastly social media and advertising can impact our eating habits in a pursuing way. For example, advertisements tend to pursue us by associating their products with something you feel positively about like a celebrity, love and respect. It pursues you to consider their food optional even if it will impact your eating habit negatively or positively. So they affect our nutritional choices by changing your decision about buying their products. In my conclusion, there are many factors that can affect our eating habits such as the environment, the media, and everyday lifestyle. I think one of the recommended ways to stay in track of healthy lifestyle is by finding out what each one personal trigger food and makes a promise to not give them any attention, and switch unhealthy optional by healthy

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