What Food Does for Your Body

By Sienna Nalin


Our health is something we all need to pay attention to. Everyone wants to be at their best so the way to kick start that is to watch the things that you are eating, consuming bad food will not get you to your best version of you. Eat healthy and you will be healthy.(Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr)

Eating right is the cornerstone to a healthy lifestyle. There are many factors we can't control in regard to health -- hereditary conditions, environmental concerns -- but we can control what we eat, which can help us fight disease, encourage healthy metabolism and more.

In this article, we'll discuss the importance of nutrition, how protein and fat fit into the picture, how to reduce fat and more. You'll learn about vitamin and mineral supplements, special needs diets and how important drinking water is. We'll cover:

Water is one of the most important things that your body needs. Your body is more than half water and needs water to actually function. So keep that water bottle around daily and drink, drink, drink!

Vitamins are a key part of our health. They are in our foods, you can get them from the sun and you can also just by a bottle of vitamins. Our body needs vitamins for certain functions and to better certain operations that our bodies do such as the beta carotene in carrots helps better out eye sight, and biotin helps out metabolism and many other things.

Sometimes, everyone's diet needs a little something extra. Although nutritionists like to insist on "food first," that isn't necessarily the end of the story. Supplements, by definition, are there to supplement a diet, not substitute for it. Pills can't provide you with the disease-fighting phytochemicals that are in plant foods. Yet with smart supplementation, you may be able to make a good diet better.

Food preparation and how you read labels will start to help you see and realize what exactly you are putting into your body. You want to make sure that you understand what labels are saying so you can assess if you should introduce that food into your diet or into whatever it is that you will be preparing to cook.

...More at Discovery Health "Introduction to How Nutrition Works"

You've been given the tools to change your life around, so go out into the world and conquer those issues you had before when it came to eating healthy and getting fit. I see a better you budding and ready to bloom.




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