The Everything Guide to Nutrition, 2011 Edition

The Everything Guide to Nutrition, 2011 Edition
Author: Nicole Cormier, RD, LDN
The Everything® Guide to Nutrition is about eating real, whole, delicious food, but it goes beyond just handing over a meal plan. People have a desperate need to understand basic nutrition to help them feel their best, mentally and physically. Focusing on lifestyle changes instead of following a specific diet is the ticket to achieving optimal health, decreasing your risk of illness, increasing your energy level, improving your quality of life and wellbeing, and reducing your medications.
Top 10 Reasons Why Understanding Basic Nutrition Can Improve Your Life
1. Basic nutrition focuses on regulating blood sugars, which is important in managing your energy levels, hunger, and weight.
2. Consuming nutrient-dense unprocessed foods without added solid fats, sugars, starches, or sodium can improve and prevent chronic diseases.
3. Lifestyle changes alone can decrease, or even eliminate, the need for several medications related to cholesterol levels, blood pressure, diabetes, and depression, resulting in fewer side effects.
4. Many lifestyle changes modify contributors to cardiovascular disease, such as high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and obesity. Therefore, changing your life can certainly save your life.
5. Eating foods such as beans and quinoa, two “superfoods” that provide both protein and fiber; can help you regulate your blood sugars, hunger, and energy levels.
6. Fats can prevent vitamin deficiencies and create satiety in your life. Polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats from nuts, oils, avocados, and olives are essential for absorbing fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K.
7. Many processed foods cause your pancreas to work more than twice as hard as it should. Today, about 18 million Americans have diabetes and 41 million are pre-diabetic.
8. The average American consumes 6,000–18,000 mg of sodium per day, which can result in high blood pressure, heart disease, fluid retention, and stroke.
9. Despite government labeling requirements, food companies use multiple and sometimes confusing schemes to attract consumers to their products.
10. Fiber sustains a healthy digestive system; however, isolated fiber (the fiber food manufactures add to foods that would otherwise not contain fiber) is not equivalent to whole fiber.

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