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To Get Good Nutrition Fruits and Vegetables May Not Be Enough By Stefan Dessalines

If you want to get good nutrition fruits and vegetable are all you need right? Not quite. That statement was probably true a hundred years ago but not anymore. Do you ever wonder what people took to get good nutrition before food supplements were invented? Were people then considerably less healthy than people are now? How were they able to survive without food supplements? If they were able to survive without food supplements can we also survive? These are just some of the questions that one can ask regarding food supplements This article will try to answer the questions above and more. In the process, it hopes to shed more light in the often confusing field of nutrition and on food supplements. The answer to the first question above is very simple. Prior to the invention of food supplements people relied solely on one thing to provide nutrition for themselves and that is food Before, to get good nutrition fruits and vegetable were indeed sufficient. Even today, food is still the ...

Nutritional Illness Prevention by Christina Major

Nutrition plays a huge role in how we feel, both physically and mentally. It determines what our bodies can and can't do. Here's why: When we feel bad about what we eat, our bodies depress our digestive system, leading to poorly digested food and constipation Our bodies know when bad food is eaten and slow things down 70% of our immune system is in our digestive system - if it's fighting bad food, it can't fight the cold Processed foods contain few vitamins and minerals - we are starved for good nutrients Processed foods contain lots of chemicals and preservatives - our bodies are fighting the toxins continuously Even if we are healthy, and we eat bad food, our bodies have to fight the toxins. It leaves our immune system weak. Considering we are exposed to hundreds, if not thousands, of bacteria, viruses, and allergens every day, we need our systems in top form. The immune system should not have to fight bad food, chemicals, and preservatives just from th...