.

Use Nature Balanced Diet For Optimal Nutrition

.

Nutrition means the raw material which nature requires for building and constantly re-building the cells of your body. It includes Protein, Carbohydrate, Fat, Vitamins, Minerals, etc. necessary in the preservation and regeneration of a healthy body. Some of these properties are in all foods, though it is possible to destroy or diminish their value by cooking and processing.

Other properties are scarce and can only be obtained from a well balanced diet.

Care has to be taken not to include de-natured and toxic food items in your diet, which could destroy or leach out some of those essential nutrients.

.

To change an unwell condition you start by changing your diet.

Better nutrition will speed healing and will prevent disease.

Living on junk food will counteract your well being, blocking the way to recovery and Total Health.

.

Use Natures Balanced Diet General Principles:

• Right eating habits.

  General diet restriction.

• General diet suggestion

 

Right Eating Habits

Do not eat if you are not really hungry, upset, emotionally stressed or still struggling internally with the previous meal. Enjoy what you eat! Unpalatable food is not well digested. Neither is it good to continue eating poor food just because one has acquired a preference for it.

Acquire a liking for what is nutritionally good.

.

Good chewing increases assimilation of nutrients in the intestinal tract. Saliva contains digestive enzymes; therefore, well-chewed and generously salivated food is practically half digested before it enters the stomach.

 

 

General Diet Restriction

Avoid The Following Health Destroyers:

 

Sugar - Refined sugar supplies us with Sucrose and nothing else. Sucrose however is not an essential nutrient; we can lead perfectly healthy lives without it. In the process of digesting and metabolising sugar, a number of nutrients are required. Among these are Vitamin B1, B2, B3, B5, Potassium, Magnesium, Manganese, Chromium, Zinc and possibly more. That actually means, that sugar will deplete your body of vital Vitamins and Minerals, without giving anything in return.

 

Hypoglycaemia is the result of a constant overuse of sugar; becoming insulin resistance and itmay lead to diabetes.

 

Most sugar is hidden in refined and processed food. Australians consume an average of 53kg each year, this statistic includes people who have stopped sugar consumption a long time ago.

In soft drinks we find at least 7-10% of sugar, even Milo contains 6.2%, Snackbars about 30-40%, some as high as 70%. Cough lollies and medical syrups may also contain large amounts. All carbohydrates are basically sugar...

 

Salt - Too much refined salt is linked with Hypertension, Strokes, Kidney disease, heart ailments, fluid retention and menstrual tension. Watch the hidden salts to find out your true salt consumption.

The salt we need is a combination of Sodium Chloride, Sodium Phosphate, Sodium Sulphate and about 84 other minerals and trace elements, which we all find in "Unrefined Sea salt ". The amount of salt our system requires is easily provided in a balanced diet, containing high quality sea salt,(must feel moist) seafood, seaweed and special food supplements, like Miso, Tamari etc.

 

Alcohol - Drinking too much alcohol will damage the liver and pancreas, which are vital to digestion and metabolism. It can also damage the lining of the intestinal tract and adversely affect the absorption of nutrients, leading to sub-clinical malnutrition. Regular heavy use of alcohol increases the body's need for B-group vitamins, particularly thiamine, niacin, pyridoxine, folic acid and B12, A and C as well as the minerals zinc, magnesium and calcium. Alcohol affects availability, absorption and metabolism of nutrients and if pregnant will have an adversely affect on your unborn baby.

 

Smoking - Smoking is an irritant to your bronchial tract and the digestive tract. It increases the metabolic requirements of Vitamin C, all else being equal, by at least thirty per cent more than the typical requirements of a non-smoker. Smoking deprives your body of vital oxygen plus polluting your lungs with Cadmium. You never get well or stay well if you continue to smoke.

 

Cystic Breast Disease, Coronary Artery Disease and Hypertension, Birth defects, Cancer, particularly of the Bladder and Pancreas.

 

Coffee is a drug and it is habit forming.

.

On the positive side, caffeine in controlled dosage can be used to overcome certain ailments.

 

Chocolate and Cocoa are among the foods highest in calories. Besides caffeine, they contain high amounts of Oxalic Acid, which renders calcium useless for assimilation. This means double trouble for teeth. Certainly not a desired treat for children.

 

Tea on the other hand has many positive attributes, which unfortunately are spoiled by processing.

Switch over to a nice cup of "green tea", which is low in tannin and caffeine but because of the poly phenol's it contains, is anti-carcinogenic, anti-bacterial and anti-viral . It strengthens the walls of blood vessels while keeping them soft and inhibits cholesterol absorption.

 

Rule One ; drink it green and not too hot.

.

.... read about Refined And Processed Food next, click the link below.....

.

Article supplied by the editor of Use Nature, Dieter Luske

Read on, click here for Use Natures Health Manual Menu,

.

Web UseNature.com