August 23, 2007

What is Nutrition?

Nutrition is the study of how food nourishes your body and our behavior towards food. We all want to understand how food affects the health of our body – it’s natural, because we love food and we care about our health. Knowing and understanding nutrition can benefit both our physical and mental health, allowing us to enjoy the food we eat and appreciate our outer appearance.

Why Nutrition?

If you live to 65 years old you will have had over 70,000 meals and your body would have expelled at least 50 tons of food. From this food our extraordinary body renews its structures, and each day it builds a bit more muscle, bone, skin and blood, replacing old tissues with new ones. It may also add a little fat, if we consume too much, or subtract a little, if we consume less than our bodies require. Remember the saying “you are what you eat”, we can assume with confidence that the food we eat today, becomes a part of us tomorrow.

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The Nutrition and Spa Link

Why supplementing with nutritional products can benefit the health of spa goers

Think of your body as if it were a car; we need oil changes (cleansing the colon and circulatory system with nutrients to keep arteries, veins and our internal piping clear of toxic clogs), and gas (good carbs, proteins and fatty acids) to work properly. Most of our bodies are unable to fight the over attack on the natural defenses and when wrinkles, age spots, loss of elasticity in our skin appear its due to the ‘rusting effect’ of our bodies. The stress at the cellular level is a byproduct of free radical damage, a natural process in which unstable molecules disrupt cell and tissue functioning both inside and out. This is why supplementing is key to maintaining a functioning body all the way to the cellular level which eventually shows through your outer appearance from your skin, hair, nails, eyes, and lips people will notice a difference.

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Choosing A Diet Rich in Nutrients

8 Characteristic foods in the high-tech diet developed over the past 100 years

One in every four people in North America is a victim of one or more degenerative diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular conditions, arthritis, learning and behavioral disorders, cancer, and peptic ulcers. Yet we seem to forget that there’s a connection between our health and all of these disease – the diet we consume either by choice or fortune.

According to Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. and Morton Walker, D.P.M, authors of, “Putting It All Together: The New Orthomolecular Nutrition,” the characteristic of food over the past 100 years have become:

• Dead – modern storage of food only slows down the decaying of foods.
• Stale – to create foods that remain stable for a long period of time the nutritional value of the food was sacrificed leaving preservatives and nutrient deficient foods.
• Artifact – foods that say they are something but contain no derivatives of that food, for example tomato soup that contains no tomatoes.
• Toxic – high tech foods contain a number of chemicals used to create, prepare or manufacture processed foods.

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