NUTRITION – Your body has an amazing ability to restore health. The nutrition choices you make have a profound effect on the quality of your life.
Several times every day you choose what you eat, and what you do not eat. Nutrients from your diet are critical for your health. The proper growth and development of a baby depends on adequate nutrition. Adults need nutrients to replace cells, make hormones and chemical messengers, repair damage, and for all functions in your body.
What are the consequences of poor nutrition? They include infertility, unhealthy children, poor wound healing, allergies, obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancer to name a few big ones. Frances Pottenger, MD studied cats for many years and observed how changes in their diet affected them. A diet that provided all of the needed nutrients allowed cats to reproduce easily, they had normal bone structure and healthy teeth, were resistant to infections, they were friendly and even tempered, well-coordinated and simply died of old age. Cats fed a nutritionally inadequate diet had changes in their teeth and bones, increased infections, endocrine diseases (such as thyroid and diabetes), allergies, degenerative diseases (such as cancer, heart and autoimmune diseases), and antisocial behavior. After 4 generations the cats became completely infertile, and could not reproduce.
How many people do you know with similar health problems? How many health issues have you struggled with yourself? It is easier to prevent these problems than to turn them around after they have already occurred. But the body is truly amazing, and there are many things you can do to improve your health. These articles discuss the lifestyle choices that you make that support vibrant health.
Next will begin the discussion of the basic principles of good nutrition for a human. To be healthy, stay healthy, or recover your health, you must eat whole, real foods so that you are not starving your body of the nutrients you need.
You can read the previous article here: “Daily Choices” – https://sierranewsonline.com/focus-on-vibrant-health-daily-choices/
Dr. Veronica Tilden helps people regain vibrant health using traditional hands-on osteopathy and lifestyle counseling. Her office is in North Fork. You can find out more and schedule an appointment at DrVeronicaTilden.com.
