Salvere Blog: What is Healthy?

by Salvere Health and Fitness

Walking through the farmers market a few Sundays ago, we passed our favorite hummus stand. The chick pea sellers attempted to lure us over with the promise of the “healthiest hummus around, its low fat.”

This brought on some conversation about what really does that mean? Does low fat make it healthy? What if I wanted to use it as a spread instead of cream cheese and wanted a little fat for some substance? Or even eating it with vegetables as a snack and the fat could help keep me full for a little longer?

Staying true to my never ending curiosity, I decided to google the definition of “healthy”. Well, our friend Merriam-Webster defines healthy as:

— enjoying health and vigor of mind, body and spirit

                — evincing health

                — conducive to health

So, now the definition of health:

                — the condition of being sound in body, mind or spirit

                — the general condition of the body

                — a flourishing condition

                — general condition or state

In reading through all these – why do we even define food as “healthy”? Maybe a reinvestigation on how we label food could be helpful? What about using the term “nutritious” instead of “healthy”? Hmmmmmm – Just some “food” for thought.

by Lisa Martin, owner and personal trainer at Salvere Health and Fitness. To contact Lisa, call her at (410) 707-0055 or email her at Lisa@SalvereHealthAndFitness.com .

We welcome your thoughts and ideas!  Thank you for reading and taking the steps to become a healthier YOU.

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