Thursday, July 25, 2013

Food and Health


Throughout the world there are variations in food consumption according to different socioeconomic conditions, food availability, and cultural dictates. If fresh and cooked foods are consumed, in adequate quantities, to meet the energy needs of the consumer, then the needs for protein and the micro nutrients should be met. Having this in mind, it is surprising to learn that some people are poorly nourished and, indeed, may develop one or more nutrition-related diseases.

The list of necessary nutrients is the same for every human being, but the relative amounts needed by each individual are as distinctly different as the shape of people's bodies, and for this reason daily nutritional requirement is impossible to specify. In other words, your ideal daily need is determined by your own biochemical uniqueness, which in turn relates to your mental and spiritual state. Optimum nutrition is not just about preventing or reversing disease, it is to cross the line where deficiency is directly causing disease; more than that, it is about living healthy & happy. It’s very important that you take nutritious food adequately, food can be both pleasure and medicine, and that diet has a crucial role to play in disease prevention and longer healthier living.


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