Good Nutrition: Making Food Your Best Friend
Many people claim that following a balanced nutrition program is confusing. Some people will say that you should eat a particular item. Others say not to eat that and to eat something else. All of these different theories can confuse anyone. However, the article below will give you the right knowledge so that you can come up with a balanced nutrition program.
Make sure to start each day by eating a nutritious breakfast. This is the most important meal of the day and is much needed fuel to begin the day. Try eating items like oatmeal, low-fat yogurt, smoothies, whole grain toast, whole grain waffles and lean meats. This will not keep you full, but will help keep you full until your next meal.
Try to avoid fad diets. Many of these are not tailored to fit everybody's different nutritional and health-related needs, so doing some of these without consulting a physician can be dangerous. many leave out important daily nutrients that your body needs. Stick to things like lean meats, watching your fats, cholesterol and sugars,and eating healthy produce with a lot of water.
Fish contain omega 3, which is essential for nutrition. Omega 3 fatty acids are an important part of the diet. If you are vegetarian or simply do not enjoy fish, flax seed contains a very good amount of these important nutrients. Adding a bowl or two of oatmeal and flax cereal or replacing a meal or two per week with fish can boost the amount of Omega 3 in your diet.
Legumes are superstars of the nutritional world. They provide protein and help balance blood sugar. But they may seem dull. Just dress them up in a good recipe and they are superstars of taste also: lentils become a good veggie burger, chick peas become hummus, beans excel in Mexican dishes, and there is nothing better than a bowl of homemade pea soup on a cold winter day!
When it comes to cooking from home, choosing a recipe from a diabetic cookbook will help you to lose weight. These recipes are always low in sugar and fats and are also, low calorie. Even if you are not diabetic, sticking to a diet like this, will make weight loss much more successful.
One of the greatest things you can put into your body is fiber. This well help with your digestive tract and will give you tons of energy. Many companies are now making products that are packed full of fiber and also taste great. Try to eat the same amount of fiber each day.
To prevent and relieve joint inflammation, eat a diet that's high in selenium. Selenium fights against oxidative stress near the joints, and helps to keep your body balanced. Selenium deficiency has been linked to several health problems, including rheumatoid arthritis and Kashin-Beck's disease. Foods rich in selenium include tuna, liver, and sunflower seeds.
As the above article states, following a balanced nutrition program is really quite simple. Even though many people make nutrition complicated and treat it like rocket science, it really is not. If you apply the above tips, you will see for yourself that nutrition is not as complicated as it may appear to be.
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Highly acidic foods can increase breast cancer recurrence and mortality among past smokers
Diets higher in acidic foods such as meats and certain cheese can increase the risk for cancer survivors, especially if they smoked. Credit: Alkalife.com
Fresh and processed meats, cheese, eggs, sugary food, soft drinks, and grains are acid-producing foods. For cancer survivors who have a reduced capacity to process such foods that produce sulfuric, phosphoric, or organic acids, it can increase their mortality risk trifold if they also smoked in the past, a new study found.
Public health researchers at San Diego State University analyzed the diet patterns of nearly 3,000 women who had either smoked in the past or had never smoked, but have had breast cancer. Their findings could have implications for the dietary guidelines for cancer survivors.
"Higher acid producing foods can lead to higher mortality from all causes, not just from cancer," said Tianying Wu, an associate professor of epidemiology, whose research at the School of Public Health focuses on nutrition and aging related outcomes among cancer survivors. "Some breast cancer survivors had highly acidic diets, but if they were past smokers with a long history of high intensity smoking, their risk was three times higher than those who never smoked."
Smoking increased the risk for all cancer mortality, including breast cancer. In addition, women who had smoked before and continued to eat acidic foods also had a higher incidence of breast cancer recurrence.
"Meat and cheese can be the main culprits, as they have a lot of protein. Vegetables are alkaline producing," Wu said. "While some fruits have high acidic content, once ingested, they convert to alkaline. A diet balanced between acidic- and alkaline-producing foods is best."
Wu is first and corresponding author of the study, published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine in June. She designed and conducted an ancillary study by leveraging data collected from a large cohort, the Women's Healthy Eating and Living study undertaken by John Pierce, professor emeritus of cancer research with the department of family medicine and public health at the University of California San Diego.
The women were followed for an average of 7.3 years, and given periodic dietary assessments.
Cancer survivors who also smoked in the past will have a reduced capacity to process acidic foods and to excrete excess acid because they have impaired renal and lung functions essential to excrete acids, Wu said.
Current dietary guidelines do not consider the impact of acid producing diets on increased risk for breast cancer mortality, Wu explained. More importantly, they do not consider the differing susceptibilities to acid-producing diets between past smokers and people who never smoked, among breast cancer survivors.
Further reading: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-06-highly-acidic-foods-breast-cancer.html