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Why must we need nutrition?
Healthy nutrition is important for everyone, regardless of weight.
Your body does not function by itself. For processes including the growth of hair and nails to allow the body nutrients, vitamins, minerals, fiber, proteins, fats and carbohydrates) is required.
A shortage of nutrients, the body can not properly do his job.

* To use the skin of vitamin C for the production of a protein (collagen). This protein gives strength to the skin. A shortage of vitamin C leads to a lower condition of the skin.
* You need iron to transport oxygen. With a lack of oxygen, iron is not the right place. Bodies gave them a deficit, making your body less functions. You will notice this, because you are rather tired.

Furthermore, the body uses nutrients as building material. Bones are composed of calcium and protein from muscles and organs. You can actually say that you are what you eat. And that explains why nutrition is so important.

Eat products with enough nutrients, so your body can function optimally. Here you’ll have happier, fitter and less tired. Moreover, given disease in a situation less likely.
But do not eat too much. Not even in the case of a normal or underweight. Excessive feeding is stressful for your body. Your organs should handle this more, making them “run overtime. Give your body enough rest so by eating the right amount.
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Nutrition can play an important role in causing and preventing disease. With a healthy diet will Dutch average two years longer than it is today. It is therefore important to know which factors contribute to a healthy diet and diseases as possible. The RIVM was investigated.

Healthy food
A healthy diet is extremely important in preventing disease. The study of the RIVM is focused on diet as a whole and certain elements from such fats and vitamins, and examines their role in health promotion

Nutrition and chronic diseases
The role that diet plays in causing and preventing chronic diseases to all diseases is not yet crystallized. For cardiovascular disease and diabetes is clear that nutrition plays a role. For cancer, this relationship is less clear. The study of the RIVM focuses on all these diseases, with international cooperating.
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TOP-10 Nutrition

That fruit and vegetables contain lots of good nutrients has long been known. But following products are really at the top because they are full of healthy vitamins and minerals.

1. Broccoli

Broccoli contains a large amount of vitamin C, iron, folic acid, calcium and magnesium. Broccoli contains sulforaphane, the substance that is bactericidal and has a beneficial effect in protecting against certain cancers. The substance is also found in Brussels sprouts.

2. Citrus

Citrus fruits contain a large dose of vitamin C and bioflavonoids, a powerful antioxidant that protects against cancer, heart disease and inflammation. Besides all that pectin cholesterol to maintain.

3. Garlic

The allicin in garlic helps lower blood pressure and improves blood circulation and cholesterol levels. With regular use, you reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Garlic is also anti-viral and anti-bacterial so you are less likely to have colds.

4. Red pepper

Red pepper, chili pepper and cayenne pepper are high in antioxidants that protect against heart disease, cancer and premature aging. In addition, the capsaicin, which the hot, spicy sensation will, ensure that the brains are encouraged to create endorphins, a kind of natural analgesic, to the small fire to extinguish. This creates a pleasant feeling. Furthermore, the stomach induced to produce substances that help protect against gastric ulcers.

5. Grapes

Red and blue grapes, more than white, contain powerful antioxidants than vitamin C and E. Red grapes also contain phytochemicals that have a hardening and blockage of the arteries more difficult.

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This website provides information on the role of nutrition in preventing and sometimes partially treat specific diseases, including Alzheimer’s, arthritis, cancer, high cholesterol, diabetes, and much more. Besides the effects of nutrition on health, and information on what exactly is taking the food, this site contains a section that goes deeper into the general characteristics of healthy and not so healthy food. We offer this selection of translations of scientific articles, which include
The research-based articles written by American Physicians Committee of Responsible Medicine [PCRM]. We got permission from them to some of their quality articles to translate our website so the people would have easier access to these important findings about the influence of diet on various aspects of health.
Authorized translations of selected abstracts of recently published research in professional journals.  New is the new category in which ethical moral implications of the kind of food one eats are examined. There was also a rurbiek open with information about the effect of diet on longevity and mortality risk from all kinds of diseases.

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Clicking on this website the word “vegetarian” encounter on our website, it is usually in the sense of “pure vegetarian” (also known as vegans) – they eat anything of animal origin: no fish, no meat, no poultry and no dairy products or eggs. There are also people who avoid meat but animal products such as milk, cheese, eggs and food, and known as “ovo-lacto-vegetarians (ovo = egg; lacto = milk, cheese).

Where this site refers to a diet, it is meant “a way of eating” and not a regime to lose weight, if one excludes the other not, and whether you will realize that a healthy diet is also a stable and healthy weight may lead some diets is unnecessary.
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