About 10 days ago, a report on helping business travelers to eat healthily while travelling. Business travelers are often too busy to care about what they eat and drink. This is not a good idea, doesn't matter how busy you are, your body is the most important thing, but business travelers don't see this. Business travelers are often eating fast food, catching a cheeseburger to go, in order to make a meeting, or catch a flight. Doing this once or twice isn't a bad thing, but if eating cheeseburgers daily, you will suffer from the amount of sugar and fats. Expert Susan Levin says that everyone should try to say as hydrated as possible and eat as much fibre as possible. Experts understand that sometimes, travelers can get really busy and forget about nutrition, that's why Susan suggests that travelers plan ahead of time; to bring home made food. Expert Susan says in order to stay healthy and hydrated, travelers must eat a lot of high-fibre, and low fat food like fruit and vegetables. When going on flights, she suggest to pack pita bread, nuts and dried fruit because it's efficient and easy to carry on the plane. For travelers that are driving, the opportunity to eat healthy meals becomes easier, packing tons of water and stopping once in a while to grab fresh fruit in order to stay hydrated and prevent from eating food containing fats and sugar. Report says that even eating outside in dinner restaurants can be unhealthy because of the fat and sugar in the meal. Experts says that in order to prevent this from happening, order food like grilled chicken, or vegetables. These meals all contain low-fats, high-fibre and low-calories. The report is also saying that now, even fast food restaurants has healthy food like salad, fresh fruit and vegetables or grilled chicken. So, there is no excuse not to maintain a healthy body while traveling on business trips.
I think that this is a great suggestion and tips to give to business travelers. Because these business man are so into making money, they look at their body as a second priority, which is wrong. I know because my father is also a business man and he is always gone early in the morning and return late at night, though he is eating good meals outside, he still isn't aware of the amount of fat and sugar he is consuming. A long-term cycle like this can bring the bodies energy level down, also, increasing weight on the body. The increase in the amount of sugar and fat consumed, can lead to the disease diabetes. Though, more and more people are paying attention to this issue, there are still many out there who aren’t receiving the message. My suggestion for travelers is to really take care of themselves and watch out for the junk food and try to avoid eating it if you can!
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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