Owing to the various lifestyle-related things, it is nowadays common to find people struggling with some kind of health issue. To counter these, you mostly opt for medicines or alter your diet.
But sometimes it is seen that following a diet pattern is not an easy task due to various reasons.
Although you all understand the significance and implications of a healthy diet, it is something that always bypasses us. Instant food seems to trigger your pleasure zones in a way that vegetables and fruits cannot, and therefore, it becomes hard to resist the urge to gulp in a burger or a pizza. While dieting is not an easy task normally, Indians seem specifically vulnerable to be trapped in the thought of unhealthy food.
In this article, Dietician and Nutritionist Avni Kaul say about why Indians find dieting difficult. Here are some of the factors.
The Idea Of Eat Well
Since your childhood days, you have always heard from your parents and elder ones “do eat well”. While it is a fact that you should eat well, eating well is mostly confused with eating right, and with the goal of eating well you end up eating the wrong food. After all, you can fill your stomach even with unhealthy food. Thus, Indians mostly end up compromising on quality instead of quantity.
Home Cooked Food
Though it is largely acknowledged that mostly unhealthy food is made in roadside eateries and restaurants, Indians are often misguided when it comes to the idea of home-cooked food. Limiting to eat at restaurants or roadside joints is not the only certain way to keep yourself away from unhealthy food, because on the other side unhealthy food can be eaten at home also. Think of fried snacks, white bread, jams, and spreads, they are equally unhealthy. Eating at home does not automatically transform into healthy food.
The Meaning of Healthy
Several Indians find it difficult to diet because of the understanding of the word healthy. For instance, having a big meal of fried and processed food and then compensating by skipping the next meal is not regarded as healthy. Similarly, not every food made at home is healthy. Healthy food in the widest sense refers to food that provides the right nutrition and energy at the cost of minimal side effects. Thus, not everything cooked at home is necessarily healthy.
Your Work Life
India does not have a comfortable work-life balance and culture. Having to do overtime and work for 6 or in some cases, even 7 days a week not only leaves no scope for a proper diet, but it also makes your willpower to suffer. The long duration of stressful work makes you exhausted and hungry, in which most people opt to curb with unhealthy food.
