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Nutrition essential for health

Nutrition essential for health

July 2008

The biggest blessing as well as the biggest threat to life and health is the food you eat. It is true, though unbelievable, that many people become seriously ill due to taking lack of nutrititious food than through accident or any other serious cause. Most of us believe that medicine and medical technology can solve all our major health problems. The important role of diet in cancer and heart disease has long been overlooked by the emphasis on the miracle of modern medicines. We are more obsessed with treatment but hardly bother about prevention of the disease.

We seldom realize that health problems can never be solved only by consuming more and more drugs. The health of individual is determined by the variety of biological, behavioural and environmental factors but none of these is more critical than the food we intake. Many doctoes also are not so much concerned about the healing powers of nutrition because they are engrossed in promoting invasive and expensive drugs with potentially damaging side effects that most of the time treats only symptoms.

Good nutrition consists of products naturally grown in the garden, farmed and raised in natural conditions, preferably uncooked and free from chemicals and toxins. The food should be immune system building and allow the free flow of energy in the body. As all of us are aware, there are five basic nutritional needs that we must meet on a daily basis – vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes and flora. The present day environmental pollution, stress and poor diets have placed a significant burden on the body and have created greater nutritional needs than ever before. Further, depleted soils and consuming pre-cooked and processed foods have made it more difficult to meet these daily nutritional needs.

Most people are puzzled what food to eat that will fully contain all the nutrients. They want to find one product or product system to meet all five of these basic needs. The product should include whole food vitamins essential for the creation of stamina and energy, proteins and minerals badly required to promote stronger bones, healthy hair and glowing skin, super antioxidants that insulate you from the serious health risks caused by pollution and stress, enzymes to facilitate proper digestion and to derive nutrition and energy from food and flora to strengthen the body’s immune system.

Among the many factors that are essential for preservation of robust health nutrition is what is critically needed. When you fall sick you will find that along with the medication and nursing, nutritional care becomes essential. Nutrients are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. Each nutrient is essential to life. Nature, in her intelligence, has placed nutrients in food to promote health and physical well-being throughout our life. The cells of our bodies require nutrients for them to grow, repair, heal and preserve life. Our body is made up of billions of cells and they have unique and miraculous ways of responding to daily supply of nutrients. Fruits and vegetables contain many important vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that help fight and prevent cancer and it is best, as far as possible, to avoid cooking vegetables. Whole grain foods contain fiber which helps us to clean the digestive tract and fiber also reduces cholesterol and helps to fight cancer.

It is advisable to replace animal and saturated fat with olive oil and canola and other healthy fats that promote functioning of the heart. Vitamin and mineral supplements help our bodies to obtain nutrients that may be lacking in our daily food choices and as such vitamins and mineral supplements should be taken with daily food to make the diet more balanced.

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