Do you have a tuff time making it through the day without getting sluggish and sleepy? Does it ever happen to you that once you sit down it is so hard to get back up as your energy is zapped? If so it is more common than you might think, and you are not alone. Most likely the reason for your lack of energy is the food you give your body as fuel.

A Background Basis For A Healthy Life

Many years have passed since good health has become a master concern in our daily lives.
In today’s world we have begun to minimize that topic and now we are faced with medical problems which not only affect our bodily functions, but also creates distractions in our day to day activities.

Unfortunately many are raising their children on “fast foods” and manufactured packaged foods.

Free radicals can pose a major threat to our health because they have the potential to damage our body at the cellular level. But what exactly is a free radical?

A free radical is an atom or molecule which contains an unpaired electron. Since electrons have a very strong tendency to exist in a paired state, free radicals try to steal electrons from other atoms and molecules. The danger they pose comes when they react with important cellular components in our body.

The body, blood, skin, organs, bones, mucous, phlegm, water, etc. build up and break down, largely according to the food, nutrients provided. Edema is the accumulation of fluid in the soft tissues. It can occur anywhere in the body: head, arms, legs, etc and is generally caused by poor diet and or weak digestion. Edema is more common in women than in men.

The body digests, transforms food, nutrients into blood, into structure into function, into health or disease. There are only two kinds of nutrients: building and cleansing. Building nutrients (protein and fat) build and fuel all structure and function. Cleansing nutrients (water, minerals, sugar, etc.) reduce, cleanse, cool and moisten.

Are you working out, and not seeing the results you want to see? First off, you really have to see a picture of what you want to look like in your mind. I mean, really see it. Then let your brain and body have you do the things to get you there. There are three nutrients, which your body produces, that increase lean body mass or muscle growth. The question is, Do we need more of them than the body produces? Let’s look at this situation.

To begin improving you nutritional status you need to take daily supplements, these are so critical to good health. Prime Essentials were created with this in mind, to get you started even before you test yourself using the Ideal Health’s PrivaTest. Originally only taken by “health nuts,” nowadays daily multivitamins or mineral supplements are taken as a norm. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, it was published in 2002 that vitamin supplementation was officially recommended for chronic disease prevention in adults and to quote the Harvard Medical School researchers in this study, “Pending strong evidence of effectiveness from randomized trials, it appears prudent for all adults to take vitamin supplements.”

What if there were a significant identifiable risk factor for the cause of coronary heart disease, stroke and peripheral vascular disease (fatty deposits in peripheral arteries). Is this something that you would want to know about? More importantly would you want your doctor checking your status with regards to this risk factor during your checkups?

By significant I mean that 40% of the 12.5 million deaths due to strokes that occur globally each year are a result of this risk factor. What about the estimated 16.7 million people who die each year (globally) from cardiovascular disease. Of those 16.7 million this risk factor increased their risk of heart attack by 50%. Of course we hear a lot about Alzheimer’s disease, but we don’t hear that our chances of developing this disease are increased by 150% by this very same risk factor.

Sue sighed with pleasure as she surveyed her dinner plate. The pungent cheese sauce on tender-crisp broccoli… magnificent. Turkey – cooked to perfection – moist, bursting with flavor. Sweet potatoes to die for. And last but not least, a salad that could have won first prize at any County Fair. Perfection. Colorful.

All of it not only tastefully cooked and served but so good for you, she could almost see the vitamins and minerals marching in-step across her plate. No doubt about it – meals like this made healthy, strong bodies – providing a boat load of vitamins, minerals and enzymes.

Many doctors and scientists believe that many cancers could be prevented with a good diet. Here are a few foods that have been shown to decrease the incidence of cancer.

Tomatoes
Tomatoes are loaded with vitamin C. They also contain lycopene, which may explain a recent popular Italian study finding that people who ate raw tomatoes at least seven times per week halved their risk of several cancers as compared to those who ate tomatoes no more than once a week. Tomatoes are also rich in coumaric acid and chlorogenic acid, which hook onto nitric oxides in the foods we eat and spirit them out of the body before they can form cancer-causing chemicals called notrosamines. Tomatoes and broccoli together have been shown to decrease the growth of tumors in prostate cancer.