Americans are literally running out of time. Achieving a work-life balance, which remains to be a luxury for tens of millions of working parents, has been overtaken by an even greater demand: a work-life-nutrition balance. Unfortunately, this growing demand for nutrition has not been accompanied by a useful technique that permits people to reclaim time from their harried lives. The result of this dilemma has been an additional layer of stress applied on top of an already stressful life. This has brought further light to stress as America’s top health problem, which was first espoused to the public in the early 1980’s, and has since been more prominent in the public’s consciousness in the following two decades since then. Once both time mismanagement and stress are linked, it’s far obvious at this point that this connection exists[ii], an extent of nutritional problems often occur. This leads to a vicious cycle which could be traumatic for some individuals as they either experience it directly or watching it agonizingly unfold through their family, [friends], or colleagues. Stress can — and often does — result in unhealthy eating[iii], which in turn, leads to much more stress because the body is not receiving the important micronutrients and vitamins that it requires. As this occurs, unhealthy dieting is also associated with unwanted weight gain, which adds another degree of psychological stress because of body image issues. Although if the cycle ended here this could be sufficient to solidify this as a significant problem, it continues past this point and becomes worse. This psychological stress due to body image issues/weight gain typically leads to emotional eating. It is estimated that 75% of all overeating is the result of emotional eating[iv]. This, in turn, results in yet more nutritional deficiency, since the emotional eating is typically of unhealthy comfort foods which might be rich in saturated fat. As can be anticipated, this leads to yet more stress and the cycle never ends; if unchecked, this may result in malnutrition, weight problems, and even suicide (which–occurs far more often than individuals realize). The almost indifferent portrayal of this vicious cycle as talked about above, does not even come conceivably close to capturing the indescribable anguish and affliction that tens of millions of Americans encounter everyday because of the mix of stress, time-pressure, and poor diet. While no description could accurately capture the devastation that this destructive loop causes, it is enough in the context of this article to firmly declare that it is a profoundly significant crisis. No quick-fix resolution to an issue of this magnitude is possible, and any attempt for an overnight resolution should be met with the most aggressive skepticism. The key to addressing a situation of this immense complexity is to establish the root cause, and then provide remedies that mitigate or in some circumstances, avoid the detrimental loop from [the beginning] in the first place. One of the root causes of this problem has been noted already: a lack of time. If more People had more time, or felt that that they had more time, the stress related to not having enough time wouldn’t have the ability to pull them under and into a damaging nutrition spiral. Therefore, a solution that works on this level of time is going to be helpful in solving this problem to some extent. It is within this awareness that time is of the essence that numerous nutritional supplements have been created. Unfortunately, whereas many of those supplements take mere seconds to ingest, an array of them are not providing the bodys requirement for micronutrients and vitamins. Furthermore, and fairly irresponsibly, many so-called energy bars are very high in calories and carbohydrates, and as such can lead to emotional eating and set off weight gain. And it’s even more tragic to behold that lost in the race to market most nutritional supplement products are the intentions to help individuals save time, eat healthy, and keep away from the potentially fatal damaging stress cycles, instead of just about filling the companies’ pockets through cleverly crafted ad campaigns and slogans. This is confirmed by the proliferation of self-professed nutritional supplements that are principally only costly and pretentious versions of candy bars. There are, nonetheless, some products which have risen to fulfill the disputed ethical requirements; products that have been conceptualized by precise nutritional scientists who acknowledge the need in our society, and have made strides in an effort to create useful products to help meet this need. The best approach to identify such products is to find those that deliver a complete, balanced source of nutrition for time-starved individuals, including: adults, kids, athletes, sedentary individuals, and all those in between. At the same time, these elite products should provide a range of important nutrients so that, in effect, the nutrition source may be relied upon as a complete meal when time is severely limited. Solving Americas time-starved dilemma is bigger than any one product, or series of products, to solve. Despite the fact that a one-size-fits-all solution to this problem is not actually possible, it’s clear however that the solution ought to focus more on resolving the causes rather than chasing symptoms, in order to be more effective. In this regard, nutritional products such as well-researched and scientifically-developed meals and supplements will have a giant role to play in the resolution of this explicit dilemma.
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