Eating For A Healthy Life

By: Ken Snodin

Few people have given any thought to what their nutritional
needs are or how important nutrition is to their overall health.
They don't know that, for example, if the human brain doesn't
get enough protein, it won't develop correctly, or that if a
female body doesn't get enough of certain nutritional substances
like flax oil, the metabolism will be impaired, and the body
will gain weight.

This information highlights and emphasizes the critical
importance of determining what our needs are and meeting our
nutritional needs through good eating habits.

Experts in the media often remind us to take our vitamins and to
eat fortified cereals and to drink out milk, but what we really
need is information about how our eating habits and the foods we
eat contribute to nutrition on a daily basis. We must learn how
to provide our bodies with everything they need - food,
vitamins, minerals - to maintain optimal health.

In order to determine our basic nutritional needs, we need to
educate ourselves about what, exactly, our individual needs are.
Then we can use that knowledge and apply it to buying,
preparing, and eating appropriate foods. We need to recognize
that our nutritional requirements change as we age; the
nutritional needs of a teenager are different from those of a
senior citizen.

In many cases, what we need in terms of vitamins and minerals is
much more critical than our need for calories. If it is
necessary, we can take vitamin and mineral supplements, which
are manufactured by nutrition firms, to help us fill the gap
that may exist if we don't get enough of these substances in our
daily diet.

Nutrition is an extremely complicated subject because there are
so many variables to consider. As mentioned before, it is a fact
that our bodies change as we age, and we will need to adapt our
eating habits and nutritional foods accordingly. Additionally,
the nutritional needs of people with illnesses are different
from those of healthy individuals. Few doctors recognize this
fact, however, and may provide the same nutrition advice to
health pregnant women as to an ailing cancer patient.

To remain healthy and to sustain the optimal health and
functioning of our bodies, we must pay close attention to our
unique nutritional needs. And we must pursue more knowledge
concerning how nutrition, physical exercise, and mental and
emotional factors influence our overall health status.

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