(.~) Eating to Age Well

What’s a Healthy Diet?

Eating is one of life’s greatest-- pleasures. It’s also a powerful way to enhance—or impair— your health. Over time, the food you eat affects your weight, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, insulin regulation, brain function, emotional health, and immune system. What you put on your plate, day after day, will play a major role, along with your genes, in determining whether you will live a long healthy life or succumb to a heart attack, a stroke, diabetes, or cancer.

Researchers at Georgia State University in Atlanta estimate that between one-third and one-half of the health problems experienced by older people are directly or in directly related to nutrition. So use your fork to your advantage. Simply by making small changes such as eating fish at least once a week, adding an extra serving or two of vegetables to your daily diet, and changing your breakfast cereal, you’ll go a long way toward giving your body what it needs to stay well.

A Pyramid for People over Age 70

USDA researchers in Boston have proposed a special Food Guide Pyramid for people over age 70, taking into consideration changes in nutritional needs. Do you need to learn a new pyramid? Not really. This one’s exactly the same as the standard one, with these changes:

• Water. The bottom “tier” of the pyramid is 8 glasses of water. Why? Water is important for health at all ages. But as we age, thirst becomes a less reliable indicator of our body’s need for liquid, so we need to remind ourselves to drink up.

• Supplements. At the top of the pyramid is a red flag, signaling supplements of calcium, vitamin D, and vitamin 612. Does everyone need these supplements? Not necessarily, but there are good reasons to consider supplements or fortified foods at this stage of life. As we age, many of us lose the ability to absorb B₁₂from food, consume insufficient dietary calcium, and require more vitamin D.

Edible Medicine

Long before Ponce de Leon pounded the Everglades in search of a fountain of youth, people have sought a diet that prevents disease and prolongs life. Today top scientific researchers are in on the act. Even the U.S. government is involved. Here’s what they’ve discovered so far about a healthy diet:

• It’s rich in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.

• It’s low in saturated fat, which is found in fatty meats and full-fat dairy foods.

• It provides adequate but not excessive calories.

The USDA Food Guide Pyramid is a graphic attempt to illustrate the proper balance of foods in a healthy diet. At the base are grains and grain products, which should form the cornerstone of your diet, along with fruits and vegetables, plus a modest amount of protein and only the occasional serving of sugar and fat.

What’s so wonderful about this approach to eating? It’s associated with a lower risk for major illnesses, from heart disease to diabetes. Around the world, wherever researchers find people with low levels of chronic disease, they discover the same eating habits.

OUR COMMENTS:

The suggestions made are in general, good but they do not take into consideration each individual need. Because of this fact, what is given above is not very useful. It may be a step up for most people who are in very bad health because they have abused themselves with many food addictions that have now reached the point of manifesting their toxic nature.

What these researchers are looking at is the direct effect of not having a complete science to work with. In the first paragraph of this article they give you the secret of eating and then go on to defy it in varying degrees with the suggestions they make. They say that food is the cause of most of your diseases but we believe that food is the major cause.

They hint at the idea that eating the same food for a long time is what is the problem, but they do not confront it directly. If they would do that the food industry would come down on them for leaving out their products or telling people not to eat them. Therefore, it is money that drives the diet habits of your planet and not the truth!

Your problem will continue until everyone realizes that certain things your are calling food are very dangerous to eat and to do so is to intensify the probability that you will develop severe conditions that will take your life before your time.

You should be able to see this dichotomy and the nature of how food affects you, along with all of your other destructive living habits of smoking, drinking alcohol, over eating,, environmental toxins, stress, no exercise and many other poor living habits!

What we see happening is that the very people who should know do not and what they do know they change to meet the emotional and economic needs of the people and industry in such a manner that the truth gets put aside and people are allowed to live in their fantasy world!

They are looking at the diets of people around the world and are trying to determine what is the best way to eat in a general manner, without taking into consideration your individual needs. This is the one major glitch in their approach and in the whole world, for in those cultures, people still are getting sick and dying!

Until they look at why, the answer will, though almost as plane as the nose on your face, evade them.

We have the science and it tells us that grains are one of the major causes of disease, when over eaten and this idea of over eaten is misunderstood and misused to the point of denying people the very things they need and giving them what will poison them because those things helped others! A silly out of mind concept!

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