Showing posts with label Nutrition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nutrition. Show all posts

Monday, November 13, 2006

SUPPLEMENT IS THE SOLUTION


Due to occupational hazards, fast life or whatever may be the reason, most of us often skip breakfast or meals, often take junk foods. We don’t prefer to take fresh fruits and vegetables instead of junk foods, The junk foods, what we take, do not provide variety of nutrients. Most of us select foods to satisfy our cravings and never go for nutritional values. The problem is, our body still need a daily intake of over 45 essential nutrients to maintain optimal health. As a result foods what we take fail to supply the different essential nutrients to our body.

Filling the nutritional gap :
Since many diets fall well short of providing essential nutrients the body needs, it is important to identify a good source of essential nutrients. The natural solution is nutritional SUPPLEMENTS. Supplements offer a quick, easy way to get the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants necessary for optimal health. In fact, a balanced nutritional program that includes supplements offers important protections ranging from your immune system to the density of your bones and gradually you will lead to a disease-free long life.

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.