Blogpost 8: Healthy Comfort food

Since I mentioned in my last blogspot the comfort fod that we must 'avoid', I'll be discussion some healthy comfort food that we can gladly eat without being guilty afterwards. Even though people has their own preference on choosing what food comforts them (which in fact all food can comfort them or better to say that foood doesn't literally comforts them, lol) having this topic is very much important for them to know the food that will become their best friend and never to regret having them.

But then, I found articles that contradict the statements of my previous blogs, just for example  this article entitled "Why comfort food is healthy" by Naomi Coleman, according to her people have wrong perceptions to about comfort food being unhealthy, but for her these are okay food to comfort oneself. Chocolates, mashed potatoes, baked beans these are some of the food we thought that isn't healthy (specially chocolates) but she stated different good facts that makes us want more of these.

"Sounds too good to be true but finding comfort in chocolate is not all bad. Unlike most saturates, chocolate contains a saturate known as stearic acid which does not raise cholesterol levels. In addition, chocolate is a rich source of iron needed to make red blood cells and magnesium - essential for bone health," said Naomi.

Shiz! what the hell are these scientific words, nevertheless, this quote above just proved that our lovely chocolates isn't that bad to eat. There are different minerals that we can get from these sweets. and well in fact, chocolates does help prevent blood clotting, something that could be helpful to patients who are prone to heart attacks, strokes or deep vein thrombosis. GREAT NEWS FOR CHOCOLATE LOVERS!

The article "Comfort food has a place in a healthy diet" By Laura Parr speaks about comfort food is not bad at all, it can also be in the line of food we can eat while we're on a diet. 

"The key to a healthy diet is to be aware and conscious of what, when and why we eat what we do.  Jamie and I have always felt that no food should be banned or excluded from the diet, because this only fuels the craving more. We just have to be mindful of the portion size and frequency of consumption. Keeping a food diary for a few days every so often can be a useful way of keeping track of what you’re eating and drinking, which will help stop you from falling into a trap of eating mindlessly and letting emotions control your eating habits,"

And, YES! I agree to this statement, the more we resist ourselves on eating the food we crave the more we want them to eat, and big possibility to consume more once we have it.  Like what I always believe, TOO MUCH OF  SOMETHING IS NO GOOD, we should know that eating too much even though we said that its a low calorie food but we eat a lot, it will have just the same result.

It's true that you must be mindful, people should know that we can eat everything we want or we grave, this is okay, we should not regret or fell guilty after eating ice cream, chocolates or burgers because as long as we know are limitations and know when to stop, we can eat everything we like to eat.

Final words: BE MINDFUL AND KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS!