Back in March it was Nutrition Month, and I would like to revisit the topic and talk about the importance of nutrition and how it affects detoxification. The quality of life you desire can be obtain through healthy eating and detoxification. I would call this Optimal Living. The quality of your life and how long you want to live it is totally in your own hands.
What you choose to eat will largely determine your quality of health. We are what we eat whether we want to believe it or not. If you choose an unhealthy diet it could and most likely leave your body vulnerable to a host of life-shorting diseases, such as cancer, stroke, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes.
But changing to a healthy diet and healthy habits will help your body ward off these diseases. This can pose a challenge especially if you have not previously followed proven nutritional guidelines. My goal here is to provide you with clear, comprehensive, and encouraging information that will help you change your diet from one that is potentially harmful to a diet that will help prevent disease and prolong your life and the lives of your entire family.
I will plainly show what is desirable in a healthy diet plan. Each 100 trillion cells in your body undergoes billions of chemical reactions every second, and your health may depend on whether a particular enzyme or fatty acid can come to the rescue at the right moment. The food you eat possess powerful capabilities to help and to harm.
HEALTHY EATING
A healthy eating diet plan (not as diet to lose weight) consist of the following proteins, carbohydrates, healthy fats, vitamins and minerals, and proper water intake. Everyone of these are equally important and needed for a healthy body. We will start this month with Protein.
PROTEIN [The Power]
You need protein for life. Proteins are essential constituents of all human cells, controlling such vital processes as metabolism and providing the structural basis of many body tissues, such as muscles and skin. They enable the body to grow and repair itself, and they play a role in protecting the body against infection. Protein-rich foods are mainly of animal origin (meat, fish, poultry, eggs, and milk). But some protein is also found in (wheat, rice, corn, nuts, peas, beans, and lentils).
As stated earlier, proteins are vital for growth and health and form part of many of the foods we eat. Some foods, however, should be eaten with others to provide the quality of protein the body needs. Example {Beans and Rice} The recommended daily intake of protein is different for everybody so below you will find the formula to calculate what your body need.
FORMULA
First, you need to convert your weight into kilograms. To convert your weight from pounds to kilograms, divide your weight by 2.3, multiply that number by 0.75 to determine how many grams of protein you should have daily to maintain your health. Example: If your weight is 126.5 lbs. your weight in grams is 55 kilograms (126.5 divided by 2.3).
Your average daily protein requirement is 41.25 grams (55 x 0.75). The body gain and loses protein every day, therefore, it is important to have some form of protein every day to replace the worn-out tissues that result from general body wear and tear and to manufacture new blood cells, hormones, and enzymes.
REFERENCES
Reader’s Digest. (1995). Eating for Good Health, Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.
Reader’s Digest. (2004). Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal, Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.