Do You Know
About Nutrition?
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Two out of every
three deaths can be traced to nutrition
related causes, dietary deficiencies and
overweight conditions. The most prominent
causes of death in Western society are
heart
attack, stroke and cancer.
Other health problems are diabetes, osteoporosis,
fatigue, digestive problems, stress, headaches,
and obesity. All of these are based around
nutrition.
Over two million premature deaths each
year are due to nutrition related diseases
with over 70% of premature deaths and
doctor visits being diet and nutrition
related.
Some of the problems in diets
are deficiencies in fiber, vitamins and
minerals, and trace elements, as well
as excesses in total/animal fat, total
calories. salt and sugar.
The body needs cellular nutrition to
be healthy. Within the body the 80 - 100
trillion cells, need protein, minerals,
oxygen and water to live properly. Both
health and disease begin with the cell.
The cells are the living units that create
life. We need our cells to grow, reproduce,
detoxify and function. If you don't get
key nutrition, the cell begins to break
down. When enough cells break down, you
start to feel the symptoms and if enough
break down, it can lead to death.
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What keeps cells from
getting good nutrition?
A certain amount of the problem can be traced
to the way food is grown and harvested. Chemicals,
fertilizers, over processing/over refining of
foods- e.g. instant foods, high fat/sugar foods,
foods that have been processed to make them
tastier, have a longer shelf life, etc. all
contribute to extra calories, salt and sugar
and destroy vitamins and minerals.
Did you realize that you would have to eat
4 bowls of spinach today, to match the iron
from 1 bowl in 1930? This shows conclusively
that our soils are being depleted.
We also keep our cells from getting good nutrition
by the way we prepare our foods. We tend to
over cook foods, thus taking away the minerals,vitamins
and essential
oils, robbing our bodies of the things that
we need for proper health.
Sixty percent (60%) of Western culture chooses
to eat junk food , which is high in fat, sugar,
salt and calories. It is almost devoid of any
nutritional value. It is already a disaster,
before it even gets to your mouth.
Food needs to be digested, broken down into
a useful micro-nutrient form and absorbed by
the intestine, before any of the nutrition gets
to the cells.
Healthy Eating
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