Approach to diet and nutrition

Eating the same kind of food everyday gives you the same kind of nourishment you need. Eliminating nutrition deficiency requires sufficient, safe and varied food suppliers to help reduce risk of chronic diseases and prevent malnutrition. Nutrition transition includes quantitative and qualitative changes in your diet which includes a shift in the structure of the diet itself. Diets evolve over time. Factors like lifestyle and food habits as such as buying at fast foods every meal time affects your nutritional value choices. Discipline and physical activity is very important. When you intend to give yourself chances for a better life, choose what you feed yourselves well. Maybe you can limit fast food counters and try cooking a good meal at home for a change. If you feel lazy slicing tomatoes and cooking on pans then might as well know how they cook your favorite dishes and learn how to balance your food intake. Fit your nutrition to your lifestyle and know if you are getting the most nutrition of what you have been feeding yourselves lately.

Prevention of chronic diseases

Please don’t go to the doctor when you have them already. It is best to develop healthy eating habits including physical activities to keep you in good shape. Diet and nutrition in the prevention of chronic diseases plays an all equivalent role of importance with exercise and daily burning of fats and calories. The best way I can think of preventing chronic diseases is to discipline and teach your own selves to practice thinking about diet, nutrition, fruits, vegetables and walking or any sweat-it-all physical activity.

We don’t rely on doctors to do this for us because the main thing that they do is type in our complaints and save it on their PDAs. They are on to monitoring and giving treatments if we go back to their clinics. They don’t guarantee health. They only help us keep ourselves getting healthy. So where do we go from here if we don’t make ourselves responsible enough to keep us healthy?

Being healthy is not a matter of getting consultations from the best doctor in town. Being healthy means how you take care of your health and your diet. Well we better start now if we don’t want to be kept on queues in their clinics. Who wants to be my health buddy?

Promising cancer cure and genetic changes

Researchers were able to tracked 30 men suffering from low risk prostrate cancer who did not submit to conventional medical treatments like surgery, radiation or hormone therapy. The men were quite firm on their decision to make a major lifestyle change instead of submitting to conventional medical treatments.What they did was performed at least 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise like walking including meditation. Meditation has greatly helped them to manage their stress levels. Their diet was also composed of more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and soy products.

As expected they were successful in losing weight and had managed to lower their blood pressure for the past three months. The most intriguing find is the increased in their activity of disease preventing genes and the decrease or shut down of a number of their disease promoting genes.

I am happy to tell you guys that exercise is the cheapest and the most effective cancer preventing activity you can count on. Why not make this a healthy habit then? Find an exercise buddy and get on with your lifestyle change.

What you lose when you try to lose fats the wrong way

Eating behavior particularly diets that omit or severely restrict whole categories of foods can have serious negative impacts on micronutrient status. Diets that eliminate all animal foods provide almost no Vitamin B12 and have also been associated with cases of crickets (Vitamin D deficiency) and other vitamin deficiencies. Skipping meals and dieting to lose weight frequently compromise micronutrient intake. In general it is extremely difficult to meet all of the requirements for micronutrients at intakes of less than 1200 calories per day.

So we thought that we gain an edge when we lose the fats. Well it will take us to another problem if we start dieting without proper medical consultation. Knowing what your body needs and how to plan your meals correctly are very important. You will never go healthy without proper nutrition intake.

Asthma and its intervention

The severity of asthma fluctuates with corresponding change in management requirements. Effective early introduction of anti-inflammatory treatment in children with asthma improves the prognosis. The earlier the treatment is started the greater the improvement will be in lung function. Usual symptoms of asthma are wheeze, cough, chest tightness, shortness of breath and sputum production. Some may exhibit prodromal symptoms preceding attack like itching under the chin, discomfort between shoulder blades and inexplicable fear. Education, counseling and environmental interventions are very important if you have this disease.

Some parents take asthma for granted. Please don’t take any symptoms for granted. Asthma most of the times are associated with colds and cough. Yes that is true but at certain intensity of the disease, it has to be taken cared of and intervened promptly. A persistent cough and wheeze every night, poor or unmanaged asthma impacts a person’s personal relationships, lifestyle, activity, attendance at school and at work, social interaction and feeling of well being. The prevalence of allergic sensitivity is lower in adults than in children. One of the most important tests is the test for lung inflammation since the main physiological manifestation of asthma is variable airway obstruction. It is logical and compulsory to include pulmonary function test in evaluating the effectiveness of asthma intervention. However with rare disease brittle asthma, high prevalence of food intolerance has been noted.

Overweight is significantly higher in children with moderate-to-severe where overweight promotes severity. The effects on increased BMI on asthma are mediated by the mechanical properties of the respiratory system associated with obesity. Elevated BMI and dietary patterns especially intake of excess lipids contribute to symptoms of asthma. Nutritional status is very important in order to maintain healthy lungs. Lungs functions are said to be better with higher antioxidant levels. Dietary modifications may help manage asthma by preventing distention of stomach from large meals. Large meals results to distress which aggravates asthma. Diet affects altered immune or antioxidant activity which may cause the lungs infection and effect airway inflammation.

Intervention:

1. Optimize nutritional status on Vitamins C, B6 and E, selenium and magnesium. Reduce intake of Oleic acid while increasing intake of Omega 3 fatty acids.
2. Health maintenance program or exercise or physical activity. Maybe tai chi or calisthenics may be advisable at the early stage of physical activity to increase stamina first. Then increase with sports and other strenuous physical activity if tolerated. Stop and rest when you feel you are hardly breathing.
3. Plan a balanced, small meal. Fruits and vegetables are preferred. Omit food allergens like milk, eggs, seafood and fish. Try to lose weight.
4. More fluid intake is encouraged. Please use less sodium.
5. A combination of three herbal extracts in China identified as ASHMI has been found to be useful.

It is always best to consult your doctor and a nutrition expert in your area before implementing your planned diet. I appreciate if you could post comments regarding asthma prevention practice you have.

The truth about ultimate body transformation

Extreme makeover from flabby to fit using both the expertise of a personal trainer and plastic surgeon could be costly. Quick fix in a short period of time could be damaging to your health too. The safest good way to transform your body is always diet, nutrition and exercise. No matter how you slice and restructure your butt and your fats, you still end up listening to the three important fixes of your life and health. So let’s start with diet and nutrition and try to figure out what’s the best diet plan available for us. Given the right exercise and nutrition plan, people can achieve stunning results depending on how strong they are to stick with their plans. Anyone can make his or her body and life. This life transforming experience will drive you through life’s toughest challenge and that challenge is – SELF! The challenge to change is all about you.

What are the factors that you need to know before you embark on your much coveted diet plan and exercise? Have a thorough check up on your medical condition first. See a doctor and know your heart condition and everything that needs to be checked before doing any slimming exercise and diet plan. Know what your body needs because it might not be what you think you need. Consult a professional and be happy choosing which diet plan perfectly fits you. I would consider a diet plan like Zone diet which takes major consideration on the work of glucose on your body or take a look at the DASH diet plan recommended by the government. Whichever suits you and is easier to follow you stick to the meal plan. It pays to really really stick to one diet plan and observe the results. Just be a good boy or girl and you’ll get the body transformation you desire.

Prevention of chronic diseases

Prevention of chronic diseases and the reduction of their impact are seen to be related to dietary and lifestyle changes. The role of diet is essential in preventing and controlling morbidity. Since rapid changes in diets and lifestyles have occurred with industrialization, economic development and market globalization, progress has significant impact on health and nutritional status of population. With the increase of inappropriate dietary patterns and decrease of physical activity is the corresponding increase of diet related chronic diseases. Changes in the world food economy are practically reflected in the shift of dietary patterns. Because of these changes, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, stroke and cancer are increasingly fast becoming causes of disability and death.

Trends in shifting dietary patterns and increasing sedentary lifestyle are major risk factor for noncommunicable chronic diseases. Along with the increased tobacco use are the corresponding increased of diet related chronic diseases which is more common among the poor people. Nutrition is fast coming to the fore as major modifiable determinant of chronic diseases. Any alterations in diet have both positive and negative long term effects on health and life. Dietary adjustments may very well determine any person’s tendency to develop diseases like cancers, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in later life. This is to reiterate the importance of nutrition, diet and exercise in a person’s life even at a very young age. Developing recommendations for diet and nutrition and the need for sufficient physical activity is still best in the prevention of chronic diseases.