The best kind of insurance policy that you could ever hope for starts with you and what you eat. Think about it. Every time you consume food and beverages, it affects your body. It affects how you feel emotionally, how you think, how you act, as well as how you physically feel and look. Let’s break it down to take a closer look:

How Food Affects You:

Emotionally: Let’s take the example of coffee. The vast majority of people in the United States consume coffee in one form or the other. Coffee contains caffeine, which gives you that added “boost” when you need it. However, it can also have adverse effects, making you feel jittery, anxious, irritable and over energized. In some cases, it can even cause you to feel ill (caffeine headaches, etc.). Sure, you could drink decaf coffee, but even decaf coffee contains small amounts of caffeine. If you’re a coffee addict (like a lot of people are) and you drink coffee right before going to bed simply because you like the way it tastes, it can cause you to have problems falling asleep. Lack of sleep leads to not being as well-rested when you have to get up in the morning for work or school. This can lead to poor work performance, not to mention danger for you and others if you have to get in your car and drive while tired. In some cases, lack of sleep and poor work performance can lead to depression!

Mental Clarity: As we saw with the coffee example, in some cases, the types of food and beverages we consume can cause us to have a lack of mental clarity, which can be detrimental and have severe consequences. To take it to the extreme, let’s say that you have a cup of coffee before going to bed. As a result, you don’t get any sleep but get up in the morning to go to work. You get in your car, and because you didn’t get any sleep the night before, you are less alert and as a result, you crash into the person in front of you.

How You Act: The perfect example to use here is alcohol. When people consume alcohol, it affects how they act as well as their physical and emotional states. Because their judgment is clouded or nonexistent, they often make poor decisions and act badly.

Physically: For a lot of people, eating foods that they like (even if it is bad for them) is a sort of comfort thing. Guys always make the joke that women who get dumped become depressed and in order to make themselves feel better, they go out to the supermarket and buy a pint of ice cream, chocolate or some yogurt and curl up in front of a sappy movie with some tissues. Eating things that aren’t so good for you every once in a while is ok as long as you have a balanced diet and are eating in moderation. However, some people have a harder time with self control and tend to binge on their favorite junk foods too often, which can lead to health problems such as diabetes, obesity, strokes and heart attacks.

Remember, you are what you eat. For more information about individual health insurance in North Carolina, contact Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina today!

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