Understanding the Importance of Nutrition and its Affect on Health and WellnessMany obstacles stand in the way of living a life of health and wellness today. More and more people are falling victim to disease and illnesses that boggle the minds of even the most intelligent health professionals. Poor nutrition is seriously affecting the overall health and wellness of American people. Even though our medical sciences have advanced throughout the decades, so has our population who suffer from debilitating and limiting health conditions that modern medicine seems to fail in treating to provide a substantial quality of life; health issues such as obesity, heart disease, cancer, bone and joint disease, diabetes and autism have continued to escalate all around us. Seven out of the 10 top causes of death today is directly related to our diet. People today are living a less productive life simply because of poor nutritional habits. Noted scientist Dr. Robert Fletcher of Harvard University whose guideline on nutrition stated "Even people who eat five daily servings of fruits and vegetables may not get enough of certain vitamins for optimal nutrition. Most people cannot get the healthiest levels of folate and vitamins D and E from recommended diets". "All of us grew up believing that if we ate a reasonable diet, that would take care of our vitamin needs," Fletcher said. "But the new evidence, much of it in the last few years, is that vitamins and supplements also prevent the usual diseases we deal with every day- heart disease, cancer, arthritis and birth defects."So where do we turn when a medical professional runs out of answers, out of medicine, and tells you that soon you will run out of time? Ask yourself: "What is the one thing that every human being on earth has in common?" We all have to eat to live. Our bodies and our cells, thrive on food in order to replicate and sustain life. Now that answer may not surpise you, and perhaps you've heard it before about eating healthy. Then ask yourself this: "How do you attain adequate and complete nutrition when our nutrient content in our foods is deteriorating with each passing day?" Numerous studies are revealing that our foods are not providing the same amount of nutrients they did 20 to 30 years ago, and these are the foods that we are supposed to eat to maintain good health and wellness. So if we need to be healthy, and our foods are slowly running on empty of all the nutrients necessary to do so, where do we turn? How are we supposed to eat...to live...? The information presented in these pages aim to reveal the strong link between health/wellness and nutrition.
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