What could be more simple? When you give your body the vital nutrients it needs, you will stay healthy, feel good and look vibrant. After all you are what you eat! The food that you consume becomes your skin, your liver, your bones, your brain etc. Every three months you make new bone, new hair and a new liver. Every month you make new skin and every five days you make a new stomach lining. Your body is dynamic and is constantly changing so each time you make new cells why not make healthier ones. The body you have now looks the same but is really totally renewed from one year ago. If you want to know how good your diet balance is just look at your body right now, notice any little changes.

Eating the wrong foods coupled with a stressful lifestyle invites a host of illnesses and general feelings of ill health. Are you always tired, have little energy, get the flu or colds every year and seem to gain weight for no real reason? Have you lost weight for no real reason? Do you constantly have digestive difficulties? Have you noticed more frequent mood swings and you just can not concentrate or remember things like you used to. Do you feel cold or hot all the time? Out of no where your doctor tells you that you have osteopenia or osteoporosis.

Many modern day illnesses and ailments can be minimized or prevented by a wholesome well balanced diet and harmonious lifestyle. Certain foods complimented with specific nutritional supplements and herbs can slow down the aging process and enhance the quality of your life. Today’s highly processed foods are devoid of many vital nutrients and simply do not supply all the necessary nutrients we need to maintain a healthy body.

Over the course of the last one hundred years or so, many of the highly refined and processed foods that have been developed are foods that our bodies cannot recognize. Genetically we have not yet caught up to the modern technology of packaged foods. The production mechanisms used in the processing will often deplete the foods of their many vitamins and minerals. The final product is often deficient in the vital nutrients; it becomes an incomplete food. Our bodies are genetically not programmed at this time to consume incomplete foods so they do not recognize the food and cravings are born. For example: you crave chocolate and no matter how much you eat you still crave it. What nutrient is your body needing in the chocolate? True chocolate, that you were programmed to eat contains magnesium and bioflavonoids. Most of the chocolate consumed today is chocolate flavored and has little to no coco butter in it so these nutrients are missing and all you are getting is mostly sugar. Chocolate is not bad for you but eat the right kind.

Consequently we are seeing increased rates of modern day illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, allergies, high blood pressure, menopause problems and osteoporosis to name a few. The foods consumed in the average American diet tend to very high in calories but very low in nutrients. We need to step back in time and once again consume a diet rich in nutrients but low in calories just as our healthier ancestors did, two hundred years ago.

As an Intensive care nurse, I saw many patients admitted into the Intensive Care Unit whose health status had declined to a state of crisis and about 80% of these patients did not need to walk this road. If these patients had made certain dietary and lifestyle changes their health may not have deteriorated so drastically. Knowledge is Power! Many diseases are preventable. The human body continually strives towards health and balance all you have to do is give it the right building blocks. Remember your food becomes your body. You can bring your body back into a harmonious balance for which it was genetically programmed.

Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. This statement dates back many centuries and is still very applicable today. Learn to read the signs your body gives you and eat the foods that corrects these imbalances. For example: one day you wake up and notice that you have developed white spots on your nails. Why, what is your body telling you?
Zinc deficiencies can be related to the white spots on your nails. Why is zinc so important?
Zinc plays a vital role in your immune system health and in your bone and skin health. Learn to pay attention to the little changes in your body and you can often correct potential diseases which could occur in your future.

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