Along with daily exercise it is very important to eat right for your optimal health and wellness. Plan your meals including
foods form all food groups to get all the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy. Nutrients don’t work in isolation. The synergy between these nutrients play a major role in our over
all health and wellness. Your unique nutrient needs varies depending upon your age, gender, health conditions, medications and lifestyle. As a general guide, you need to plan your meals in a way to include foods to get all essential macronutrients (protein, fat and carbohydrates) your body needs for energy. Lean meat, eggs, poultry are good source of high quality protein. Low fat dairy and other products like cheese, yogurt etc, beans and lentils will make a good source of protein and carbohydrates as well. Whole grain will be excellent choice for your major source of carbohydrates for energy. Our body also is dependant upon fat sources from foods specially omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids which are essential types of fat required in many metabolic process. These fats must be consumed from food to keep us away from chronic illness including osteoporosis as our body can not synthesize these types of fat. We can easily get omega 3 and omega 6 fat by including fish, algae, flax seeds, chia seeds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, canola oil and sunflower oil. Therefore, these three macro nutrients and essential fatty acids (omega 3 and omega 6) work synergistically in our body to perform many vital biological processes to keep us healthy.
To best support our health and wellbeing we need these essen- tial macronutrients from variety of sources in as natural form
as possible to get hundreds of different
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vitamins and minerals our body needs to maintain our health and keep us away from chronic illness. Although our body has a unique mechanism to
survive many nutrient deficiencies and in toxicities. What makes us chronically ill is inadequate diet in these essential nutrients. |
Quick and Healthy Breakfast Pledge
Make a veggie omelet with omega 3 forti
fied egg. NutriPledge recipe included in the
following page. Serve with a whole grain
toast, small whole orange and a cup of low
fat milk. |
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