Deficiency of essential nutrients

Under supply of essential nutrients to our body cause deficiency or malnutrition to our body and the this nutritional deficiencies in our body can cause a disease. Diseases may not surface immediately but at later stage when it reaches to about 70%, we come to know about it, when it is late for preventive actions. These nutritional deficiencies in our body are occurring on account of various reasons, some of these are listed below :

(a) Not eating Nutritional foods. Almost impractical to eat balance food as per dietitian‘s chart in today’s life style.
(b) Eating too much of processed foods, vegetable oils and spreads. Due to fast life, consumption of very little of fruits and vegetables in our daily diets.
(c) Taking intense processed and refined foods.
(d) Normally we don’t get fresh fruits and vegetables. It looses its most of the natural properties along with freshness when reaches to us from market. More over these fruits and vegetables contain harmful chemicals due to indiscriminate use of fertilizer and pesticides.
(e) Faulty cooking method and use of wrong cooking mediums.
(f) Skipping meals due to fast and busy corporate life and making habit of taking junk foods like Pizza, Burger, noodles etc.
(g) We generally like to take tasty foods just to satisfy our cravings rather than going for nutritional values.

In addition to the above we also indulge in some bad habits such as smoking, drinking of alcohol and too much of soft drinks. Consumption of ‘bad’ fats in excess quantity and ‘good’ fats in negligible quantity due to selection of wrong cooking mediums and wrong food habits again. All these factors unbalance body’s nutritional pattern.

The above wrong / bad habits are the main root causes of deficiencies of nutrients in our body.