You Are What You Eat!

Tips to Finding Nutrition in a Non-nutrition Based Environment

Nutrition and Health

Many common health problems can be prevented or improved with a quality diet. The efficiency of a person is affected by the food they eat.  Society today provides many dietitians and health professionals who specialize in human nutrition. Their training is to provide safe and evidence based information. But as with any other field economics can dictate decisions.

Poor Diet Results

Throughout history a poor diet can be injurious to health with deficiency disease

• Scurvy
• Beriberi
• Kwashiokor

Health Threatening Conditions

• Obesity
• Metabolic syndrome

Chronic Disease Conditions

• Cardiovascular disease
• Diabetes
• Osteoporosis

Tips for Eating Habits

• Fresh, whole (unprocessed) organic foods (when possible)
• Whole plants to slow digestion and improves absorption
• Eat regular scheduled meals
• Make meat a side dish
• Eat slow and less

Eat Close to the Earth

The meaning of this was that plants are first users of inorganic materials and transform them to organic food for plant eating creatures.