Dr. J's Top 20 Reasons to Eat a Healthy Diet

We all know we need to be eating healthy, but that can be difficult if you don't put your WHY behind it.

Here is Dr. Jason West on the top 20 reasons why you should eat healthily.

1. Eating healthy is more cost-effective. If you invest in your food, you’ll save money on future medical expenses.

2. An apple a day does keep the doctor away. Eating healthily reduces your need to go to the doctor's office.

3. Eating healthy protects your bones and increases bone strength.

4. Healthy eating increases sex hormone precursors and keeps your hormone glands healthy including the thyroid, adrenals, ovaries, and teste.

5. PMS symptoms can be reduced by eating a healthier diet.

6. Healthy foods like green leafy vegetables, colorful fruits and veggies, and vitamin C, boost your immune system.

7. A healthy diet helps your DNA to be healthy and reduces your risk factors for disease.

8. Healthy foods reduce the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut, and malabsorption syndrome, and help your body absorb nutrients.

9. Eating a healthy diet now, makes your future children healthier.

10. Healthy foods improve your brain function, memory, and cognition.

11. Eating healthily provides the ultimate metabolism booster, gives your body the fuel it needs, and amplifies the beneficial effect of exercise.

12. Nutritious foods offer a natural calmative effect and help with anxiety. Caffeine and sugar worsen the symptoms of anxiety, mood disorders, and stress.

13. Healthy diet makes for healthy skin.

14. A healthy diet helps increase sex drive, and consistent sexual relations help people live happier and longer lives.

15. A nutritious diet helps fight insomnia and helps you get quality sleep.

16. Giving your body healthy food soothes sore muscles. Your muscles need fuel to function.

17. The right foods give you an energy boost. When people get sick they run out of energy and without healthy foods that energy deficit cannot be repaid.

18. When the body is given the right nutrients it helps reduce cravings.

19. The right fuel for the body makes you faster and helps you use your body better.

20. Overall eating healthily gives you the upper hand and helps you win in life!

There are endless reasons to feed your body healthy and alive foods. It might not always be easy, but it will always be worth it.

Live, Don't just exist! 

Dr. J