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AN INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN NUTRITION
Introduction
Mankind has existed and evolved for many thousands of years. Constantly changing
and adapting. Adapting to our environment over generations in order to survive
and procreate. And through this ever changing, certainty of life, there are
a number of elements that remain a constant thread at all times. One of those
elements is that at all times through human existence and evolution, we are
indeed, kept alive by the nutrition that we consume and turn into energy and
repair and build our very cells. Not only are we kept alive by our nutrition,
but nutrition affects the quality of our life and our life expectancy. Nutrition
affects you and your environment. What your ancestors have eaten has genetically
predisposed you to certain adaptations. In many ways the nutrition you consume
in your life time will affect your future generations.
The power nutrition has over your life
Nutrition has the ability to affect the human race on a global level. People
are generally becoming bigger, taller and fatter and less healthy as a trend.
IT not only has this ability but it is, right now, changing the human race in
many, many ways. Nutrition can do all of this on a global level. Nutrition also
works on a much more direct level. What you consume in foods and drinks literally
changes the quality of your very life as a whole. It does this in both dramatic
and subtle ways. The ability of your mind to focus and concentrate on this web
site will be being affected by the chemical reactions within your eyes and brain
that are directly and indirectly affected by what you have recently consumed.
American studies have shown that criminals caught at the scene of a crime, when
blood tests have been carried out, that nearly all crimes are committed in a
state of 'low blood sugar'. This nutritionally affective disorder cannot of
course be blamed for the cause of all crime, yet shows the powerful affect of
influence it has over ones mind and the decisions and actions from which you
follow through with. This is just one of many symptoms of badly applied nutrition.
Most degenerative diseases are caused by poor nutrition. Health and vitality
and longevity are also a response to good quality and appropriately applied
nutrition. What you place in your mouth will affect you at the cellular level
virtually instantly, in the minutes that follow and hours, days and months.
Every cell within your body is replaced within six months. What you eat today
is going to impact the you of tomorrow. Literally. If you don't understand or
believe just how important your nutrition is in affecting not only your body
but your mind, mental state and mental processes then you should continue with
further reading and study into the web site. Tiredness, night sweats, bloatedness,
sickness are all influenced and caused by your nutrition. Likewise so is strength
of body and mind. Clarity of thought. Motivation. Health. Vigour. Youthfulness
and general happiness.
Nutrition can work for you in powerful ways
It is becoming more and more apparent that nutrition is the most powerful drug
at your disposal. You can use it to feel wonderful and enrich and enhance the
quality of your life. Or, you can abuse and reap the sorrowful and painful consequences.
One only has to look to athletes of today to justify these powerful results
that nutritional manipulation can have on the human body. Nutrition alone can
cause you to alter endocrine (hormonal responses) that will in turn build muscle
and strip body fat. One can supplement the diet with ratios of certain nutrients
and natural substances that alter hormones, prostaglandin's, growth factors
and stem cells that radically change the appearance of the body, the state of
ones mind and of course the way that one feels, including ones physical capabilities.
We need only look around us at the non-training, non athletic world, maybe even
in a McDonalds or some other fast food restaurant, to see the radical effects
of poorly applied nutrition on some people. Obese, sweating, addicted, unhappy
souls with little direction, thyroid and pancreas damage and foggy thoughts.
Amazing sometimes to think that what you shovel into your mouth on a regular
basis can be the deciding factor of whether you lead a productive, healthy,
long and fulfilling life, or, one of pointless misery and unpleasantness. Surely,
nutrition isn't the overlooked factor that can dramatically change ones life
for the better? Well, in short, yes it can be. If you learn and use nutrition
as your powerful ally to assist you in your life's pursuits.
With modern science and research, we are learning so much about the impact
and use of human nutrition that there is a growing upheaval and trend against
the traditional medical systems of the western world. The mindset of more and
more people is changing. Nutrition is becoming a great learnable and tool of
manipulation to achieve the life that you desire. We now know of ways to cure
the incurable, treat the unsolvable and generally improve on what is not even
broken. This is the general shift in the medical model. Instead of asking what
is wrong and only attempting to address one specific symptom, people are beginning
to look are nutrition in a wholly holistic fashion - as a viable resource to
dramatically impact their life. Whether this be to regain health, improve sports,
or as stated, generally just improve oneself to a more advanced level. With
the sport and health supplement market advancing in research and development
as fast as the pharmaceutical companies, people now, more than ever, have access
to natural methods to improve the quality of their life and abilities dramatically.
Hype and Hogwash
And so with powerful technology and techniques of dietary manipulation, so
ensues a huge amount of disagreement and controversy. There is much to be said
that people argue over so many points that are of irrelevance to each other.
Out of the controversy comes mis-education, bad advice, and general greed manipulation
from those who have a vested financial interest in your very ill health. Not
to mention the very powerful influencing strategies of the government, food
industries and pharmaceutical companies in rallying up marketed false and down
right near criminal information. However, lets face it, there are just some
generally unqualified, unreasonable and down right dangerous and useless diets
out there that are near pointless and mass-hyped. There are also many, many
effective nutritional and dietary plans out there to assist you in achieving
the life that you wish.
In the following sections you will learn about how to manipulate your nutrition
to achieve specific desired results. This must be said - that one can achieve
one result while sacrificing another. For example, a body builder may use an
extreme diet to achieve a physique of awe inspiring muscularity and development.
One may do this with a very, very effective diet for that specific result. However,
this said athlete, may follow a diet to achieve a ripped and defined 'Adonis'
physique at the sacrifice of their very health to some lesser or greater degree.
For some of the diets outlines here, within the web site, are the truth and
honest route to achieve desired results. One must make a conscious decision
based upon ones beliefs and core values, should they decide to follow through
with any particular diet. we would advise every person to question their motivation
as to why they are truly doing what they are doing and the reasoning behind
why they want the results that they desire. Not only will this boost motivation
and mental state but also physical state too. One can then safely justify and
acknowledge a suitable diet plan that incorporates ones beliefs, ones values
and the results that one desires, in a harmonious and conscious, methodical
way.
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