Nutrition, Health, and Weight Loss

Nutrition has a huge impact on our lives. Eating delicious, healthy meals increases our resistance to disease, provides us with sustained energy throughout the day, and keeps our body weight normal and healthy. The key is healthy nutrition.

Imagine having sustained energy throughout the day and getting a good night’s sleep every night. Imagine enjoying your retirement years with very little risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease or any of the other degenerative diseases normally associated with growing old.

That is a lifestyle not available to a large percentage of the population today. Many suffer from diabetes, heart disease, cancer, kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, and countless other degenerative diseases and ailments.

More and more studies are published every day showing that this alarming increase in degenerative diseases is the direct result of unhealthy eating habits. We’re learning that foods once considered nutritional are in fact, not so nutritional. We’re learning that processing and preserving foods can change their molecular structure such that our bodies simply can’t digest them completely. We’re also learning that good, clean water, and a lot of it, is vital to our overall wellbeing.

We’re also learning that a critical relationship exists between a normal body weight and eating habits. In fact, healthy nutrition eliminates most sustained weight gain. Sustained weight gain, in reality, is an early warning system telling us something is terribly wrong. Many people are under the mistaken impression that weight gain as we grow older is a normal part of life. That is false! Continual weight gain each year is a warning that we need to change our eating habits.

What Are The Problems With Healthy Nutrition Today?

The Processed Food Problem

In today’s fast paced, hightech world we’ve come up with literally hundreds of ways to process food. The problem is, this processing changes the molecular structure of many foods in such a way that our body is unable to digest them completely. Many times, processing transforms good food into foods our body cannot digest completely.

Our digestive system becomes clogged with what can best be described as sludge. Since our body is unable to process this sludge, it simply stores it as fat deposits throughout the body.

Our immune system then identifies these fat deposits as foreign invaders and tries to destroy them. In this fight, our immune system gathers fluid and heat. Thus we see swelling, inflammation, and redness.

If this situation is left unchecked, it can lead to autoimmune diseases and/or any of the degenerative diseases like heart or kidney disease, cancer, and arthritis, etc.

The Water Problem

Another huge contributing factor in this escalating nutrition crisis is the lack of water. Most people drink a mere fraction of the necessary pure water their need. Organs need a good supply of water to function efficiently.

Drinking liquids like coffee, soda, or artificial fruit juices actually add to the problem instead of the solution. Many of these drinks actually dehydrate our body. Our organs need good, clean water, and a lot of it. Water is essential to digestion and proper nutrition distribution throughout the body.

The Carb Problem

Most people are aware that sugar is a huge nutritional negative in today’s diet. However most people are totally unaware that one food group becomes sugar, once it is broken down.

This food group is the carbohydrates. Before you jump to any conclusions, you need to understand, you need carbohydrates to function efficiently. You need an adequate supply of carbohydrates each meal.

However, here is where the problem lies. When your body breaks down a carbohydrate, it turns into glucose for energy. But, if you’ve loaded up on carbohydrates, and you’re not exercising enough to deplete that supply of glucose, your body will store that excess glucose as fat. Then, you take on more carbs, and still not enough exercise. The result is the continual build up of fat.

Carbohydrates are vital to your health and wellbeing, but your intake and exercise must be in balance.

The Calorie Problem

Calories today are the recipient of extremely bad press. Most people have the mistaken notion they need to reduce calories to lose weight. Not necessarily.

Again, like carbohydrates, calories are a vital nutritional factor in your overall health. Without adequate calories, your entire body suffers. You need the right kind of calories, and you need adequate calories.

The Protein Problem

Protein is no exception, your need the nutrition supplied by protein to function. Protein supplies amino to build and maintain muscle tissue. Protein is also essential in stabilizing blood sugar. Like carbohydrates, you need to eat protein at every meal. In fact, you should never eat carbohydrates without also eating protein.

Result – Healthy Nutrition Creates A Healthy Body?

Practicing healthy nutrition, and eating healthy foods is not difficult and can enhance your quality of life in many, many ways. Imagine reducing your risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative diseases. Having sustainable energy all day long and getting a good night’s rest every night. To do this you need healthy nutrition.