"Finish Your Plate or No Dessert!" - Rethinking Our Eating Habits
Does the phrase "Finish your plate or you won't get any dessert" sound familiar? Is it something you often heard from your parents, or maybe something you tell your children now? In my consultations, 9 out of 10 clients confess they always finish their plates at every meal. If you identify with this habit, rest assured, you're not alone. It's a practice rooted in many parental instincts - wanting to ensure their children get enough to eat, trying not to waste food, or insisting that all vegetables on the plate are eaten. The long-term impact of this habit, however, is often overlooked.
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Dangers of Restrictive Diets
“Lose 10 pounds by only eating 10 onions a day!”
Unfortunately, this phrase and other iterations of it has been plaguing magazines, social media, and television screens for quite some time now. While a quick solution to lose weight seems appealing, restrictive diets come with side effect; that being, risks to both physical and mental health.