Ap Lab Five Respiration Answers

diaita is a way of life

The word diet comes from the greek "diaita" : the significance that the ancient Greeks attributed to this word was lifestyle .

A way of life that you included the right food but also the movement, the ability to live a quiet life, philosophy, music and all that were able to supply good feelings.

In short, everything that contriuiva to generate wealth.

welfare was extended to the entirety of the person, well-being such as to generate an optimal state of physical and mental health, fueled by this lifestyle.

Over time, this word has taken on a different meaning and is primarily in the last 30 years that he has distorted the true meaning. Today, unfortunately, the word diet has become synonymous with stress, duress, privation and sickness.

abandoned the original meaning, now gives the word diaita behavior change that is reduced only to an approach made to renounce food, easy to control the amount of calories in our body whose goal is no longer the general welfare of the person but only the reduction of body weight . The natural consequence are lists of forbidden foods, calorie tables follow with fury at the expense of natural self inherent from birth in each of us and promoting the belief that the less you eat, the more you lose weight, thus putting our metabolism to a severe test.

only pursuing this goal of weight loss, failure to achieve what we want, we respond with feelings of failure, failure of which go to influence the psychological sphere of our identity.

for failing to " lose weight, "we feel incompetent, inadequate, wrong, and we confirm our belief in the cycle of failure.

That word that should be synonymous with being becomes for us a source of high stress!

It 'important to reclaim the original meaning of the word "diaita" try to live as people lived the ancient Greeks, with proper attention to food and physical activity essential for the proper functioning of our body and at the same time taking care of every aspect that is part of us. Cultivating interests rewarding, nurturing our self-esteem with greater care of himself, wearing the dress for healthy selfish when you need it, why is not canceled in favor of others that we can find that well-being that both chasing Greeks and Romans over two thousand years ago!