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Proper Nutrition

TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH

Food is important to our physical well-being; it provides nutrients required to produce energy, tissue growth, repair, and regulation of our body and its function. Food is also important to the well-being of our spirit. In addition, a sound dietary practices are needed to maintain high-level health.

Physiologically, proper nutrition with nutrients like: carbohydrates, fats, protein, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre and water are ESSENTIAL, which means, they must be consumed in adequate quantities on a regular basis.

Most people seldom think about the importance of proper nutrition and unfortunatelly, not all people eat a balanced diet based on a variety of foods. So, where do you start? The answer is simple LEARN and CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

CHANGING FOR THE BETTER

It is very likely that you can improve your dietary health and reduce the risk of developing disease by learning and implementing healthy dietary practices.

Ways to Improve Your Nutritional Health:
Drink More Water
Eat More High-Fibre Foods
Eat Less Sugar
Use Less Salt
Eat Less Fat
Enjoy a Variety of Foods
Achieve and Maintain a Healthy Body Weigh
Limit Alcohol and Caffeine
Implement Food Safety
Know Your Activity Requirements


Did You Know?

Eating right and being physically active may reduce your risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, certain cancers, and being overweight or obese.
You can avoid impulsive, less healthful snack choices if you pack some fresh fruit, cut-up vegetables, string cheese sticks, or a handful of unsalted nuts and eat them on a long commute or shopping trip.
Excess weight, especially in the abdominal region, can cause your blood cholesterol to rise.
A healthful diet rich in fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products, might prevent high blood pressure in the first place and thus avoid the need to take medication.
About one in five deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is attributable to smoking.
Alcohol increases triglycerides; therefore, you should reduce or eliminate it from your diet.
It’s important to make smart food choices and watch portion sizes wherever you are — at the grocery store, at work, in your favorite restaurant, or running errands.
If you eat 100 more food calories a day than you burn, you'll gain about 1 pound in a month. That's about 10 pounds in a year. The bottom line is that to lose weight, it's important to reduce calories and increase physical activity.
A sedentary lifestyle is a known major risk factor for CVD. In general, the more physical activity you engage in, the more cardiovascular benefit you derive.
The increased risk of CVD associated with overweight is present even if a person has no other risk factors, but, unfortunately, overweight people usually do have other CVD risk factors.

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