Cause and Effect - Diet and Nutrition

Cause and effect

For the most part here in America we have the same diet we did 100 years ago. We consume the same amount of calories, carbohydrates, protein, etc. The main difference between now and then is 100 years ago you didn't just hop in your car and run to the Mc Donald's drive-thru. As a matter of fact getting any where required a lot of work 100 years ago. Feeding and brushing your horse before you saddle it, then hooking it up the wagon. And before you even leave for the day you had to milk the cows and collect eggs from the chickens. I won't go into much more detail but what I am trying to explain is that the trivial things we do daily would have burned hundreds or thousands of calories daily back then yet, our diet and appetite are basically the same.

We consume large amounts of white flour. It is in everything from bread and crackers to pasta and cereal. It converts to energy immediately in the body and if not used it gets stored on as fat. This worked out 100 years ago but now after we eat our eggs and toast for breakfast, there are no cows to milk (for most of us) no horses to saddle up and we don't need to go out and collect the eggs to begin with. After we eat our eggs and toast, most of us take less than fifty steps to our car where we just sit there until we get to work. After we are at work, the majority of us either sit all day or stand in one place all day; yet we consume the same amount of calories we did back then. Do you think there was any need to exercise back then? Not when your regular daily duties included chopping wood for hours or bailing hay with your bare hands for most of the day.

The few Americans that are in shape today are those who exercise to make up for the excess of calories. Is it a sacrifice to take a little time out of the day to actually get some exercise? I don't think so, especially when we get done with a long hard day of sitting we come home to sit some more while we watch TV.

The cause of eating way too many calories leads to the effect of being over-weight. Being over-weight leads to varies health problems. The cause of having health problems leads to the effect of a shorter life. Does this make sense to anyone?

-Brendan
http://www.powerofpositivemind.com

Proper Vitamins and Minerals Nutrition

Vitamins and minerals have all the necessary nutrients that are essential for our body to remain healthy and fit. Any deficiency in this nutrition can weaken our immune system, thereby leading to various diseases. Let us take a look at what steps one has to take to maintain proper level of vitamins and minerals nutrition in the body.

If you want to get the nutritional benefit of almost all the vitamins and minerals, then you have to make your diet more varied. The vitamins important for our physical well being include Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and Vitamin K. The main minerals that one will need for a healthy life include calcium, iron, zinc, potassium, and sodium.

Proper vitamins and minerals nutrition will enable your body fight against various diseases like osteoporosis, hemoglobin deficiency, various eye diseases, diarrhea, and anemia. That is why you need to ensure that your meals are well balanced and enriched with vitamins and minerals.

Pregnant women and infants need these nutrients more than anyone else. Proper vitamins and minerals nutrition help in the growth of children. Make sure a child gets food high in Vitamin D, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and calcium. In case a pregnant woman does not get enough nutrients, the newborn might face life risk because it will be too weak. A pregnant woman must get folic acids or Vitamin B9 in addition to other vitamins and minerals.

With proper vitamins and minerals nutrition, one can live a healthy life. It will also prevent deaths due to malnutrition.

Grace Leer has written some successful e-books about proper vitamins and minerals nutrition.