National Nutrition Month follows in March with messages about nutrition and making healthy food choices. Both sides of our brain influence our diet choices. There is a long list of factors that come into play when we decide what to eat. Some of these are food preference, peer eating habits, time demands, personal income, emotions, cultural values and physiological needs. What influences us the most at any given time depends on what we want from the foods we eat.
Balanced diets are hard concepts to sell when the extremes are so tempting.
If you are headed into spring break looking for some well- earned R and R, you may not be looking for balance and moderation. The pills, potions and promises of the many three-day special diets appeal to our creative spirits and hopes for a new beginning in the spring. Somewhere between the antidieting trends and the health community, there is a place for you to begin to trust your own instincts. Use both parts of your brain and start to develop those intuitions that you might have ignored in the past due to overload from somewhere out there in the extremes of your right brain and left brain. Listen to yourself and decide what your own eating agenda is for one day.