IS IT REALLY ALL ABOUT CALORIES?

'"NO" if you ask me, its not just about dumping calories in your empty stomach or its just not eating until your stomach is full when you're hungry, that's not how our body functions. Body need nutrition, body needs protein for building blocks that our body uses to build and maintain muscle, bone, skin, blood, and other organs, it need carbs for body to gain energy. carbs are the  major source of energy for all the body cells, glucose is important for the heart muscles, Body needs fats which contributes to be the major storage form of energy in body requiring least space and minimum water for hydration. They are essential for meeting needs of essential fatty acids, also promotes absorption of fat soluble vitamins like A,D,E,K ; Body needs mineral and vitamins as protective foods they are considered as essential nutrients. They help shore up bones heal wounds, and bolster your immune system.They also convert food into energy, and repair cellular damage.
      So now, you know every nutrient has a specific role and importance in how our body functions, so you can't just eat for the sake of being hungry, you need to give nutrition to you body to grow, to develop, to repair, and to be  healthy, so next time you feel hungry make sure you give  nutrition to your body and  not just calories.
      It will not be correct to say that calories are not at all important, they are but obsessing over them are not. its is fine to keep a check or calculating your calories intake of your day, but calculating only calories ain't enough, with your calories do keep a check over on your nutrition intake too make sure calories of your day do contain nutrition i.e carbs, protein, fats, minerals & vitamins because empty calories (calories derived from the food containing no nutrients) won't take you anywhere it is like "working hard without any aim."
     Empty calorie foods is one of the leading reasons why our country is suffering from obesity, overweight, cardiac issues and life style diseases. we are so unaware of the food we are consuming these days that we don't realize that we are responsible for these life style disease our self.

we need to know food is for nutrition at first and then for taste, then for presentation, and may be at last for our social media posts. Food that looks so good,taste so good doesn't always mean that it is good for our body too. Lets make it more simpler and thoughtful for you we love having our favorite dishes with dips and sauces and these days we would find mayonnaise in every fridge of our country. Do you know? the mayonnaise you are having contains empty calories. yes it does 100 grams of mayo contains 680 k cal in which total fat is 10 gram, 0 protein, 0 carbs. There is a healthy way to have you favorite food with a dip made by yourself with curd you have at home. You can always replace you mayo with hung curd and adding some salt and your favorite herbs (any) like dried coriander (dhaniya) , mint (pudhina) or oregano's if u want it in videshi style it will give you nutrition plus lesser calories as hung curd 100 grams has just has 65 k cal which gives 3.5 grams of protein, 4.7 grams of carbs and 0 fat. You can clearly see the difference between both and conclude that calories doesn't always come with nutrients, here we can see mayo and hung curd has a huge difference in calories but the mayo we are having is distinctly is empty calories so switch to a better and nutritious way of eating.

     let take an another example that why right amount of calories are important, we all know and thanks to the new technologies and easy asses over internet that we all can browse so easily about health and calories that we now know that an adult and hard working man calorie of a day is 3800 k cal but  that does't mean that all of us who are adult and are male has to consume that much only. Let me tell you one thing consuming a lot of calories are not the only reason behind people getting fat but not sweating it out from our body is responsible for it. An adult who is working as a delivery boy is taking 3800 k cal and a same aged adult who is an power lifter, or a sportsperson may consume calories up to 6000 k cal per day. Can you see  the difference? yes, there is a lot of difference in both the cases of same aged adults because if a normal working adult will start consuming 6000 calories a day he may end up having a lot of problems because he doesn't need that much calories whereas a sports man can easily consume that much a day because his needs are different and he needs much more energy in his work and consuming lesser calories may not lead him achieve his aim. 

    So eating in the right amount of calories which is balance diet having all the nutrients carbs, proteins, fats, vitamins & minerals is the right and the best way of feeding yourself to fulfill all the body requirements. 

(Stay Healthy)