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Nutrients Your
Body Needs:
A recent survey
asked people if they felt they ate healthy foods. 70% responded believing
their diets were basically healthy. When these same people were asked
what they ate, researchers discovered their diets were anything but
healthy.
It's not easy these days to
have a healthy diet. Processed foods have become staples, most of which
are empty calories loaded with fat and sugar. We've lost sight of what
food really is and what it means to our health. Food is supposed to
nourish our bodies and supply us with the nutrients to be catalysts for
millions of miracles that take place in our bodies moment to
moment.
You are not going to get
those vital nutrients in processed foods. I know it, nutritionists and
dieticians know it, the National Institute for Health knows it, the World
Health Organization knows it, and the processed food industry knows it.
Now you know it.
Without the nutrients your
body needs - all of them - you can't prevent that 65% of diseases that will
lead you down the scary path to your incapacitation or untimely death.
You already have the basic requirements in your body for the invasion of
disease. One or more of them are already checking you out. If they
haven't moved in already!
Have I got your attention?
Well, check
this out...
A
scientist who has studied locust behavior says it is a human
primal appetite for protein that makes us humans over-eat! University of Sydney
entomologist Professor Stephen Simpson and colleague Dr David Raubenheimer have
developed a "protein leverage hypothesis" that basically says a high protein
diet is good because people stop eating when their protein requirements are
met. While the study is being looked at carefully by other researchers-and
carries with it many reminders of the Aitkin's Diet craze-it recommends that a
person's diet consist of 30 percent protein, combined with slow-burning
carbohydrates and reduced fats.
Oh, about the locusts? Here's what
Simpson reported: His insight came from an experiment in which he starved
locusts of protein, instead giving them a high-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. The
insects gorged themselves in a vain attempt to satiate their hunger for
protein. In another experiment, protein-starved locusts "zeroed in like
missiles" on high-protein foods.
Okay then... then let's take a brief
look at what the World Health Organization has to
say...
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