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This course cuts to the basics and allows you to use you own logic to understand nutrition and why you should eat what you should eat.
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Can’t Stay Asleep? Study Findings Say “Eat More Fruits + Veggies”
According to experts, healthy adults should sleep between seven and nine hours per night. After noticing a rise in people with insomnia and those getting too little sleep, researchers in Finland examined the correlation between fruit and vegetable consumption and its impact on sleep—revealing a strong association.
For their study, researchers looked at data from 5,043 adults aged 18 and older participating in the National FinHealth 2017 Study. For the study, participants shared their sleep duration and dietary intake of fruits and vegetables. The researchers also looked at other factors such as socioeconomic status and demographics. They also used a sensitivity analysis to exclude “energy under-reporters” to remove that variable.
The researchers compared the average amount of fruits and vegetables eaten by people with different sleep durations—short sleepers (averaging 6 hours per night), normal (averaging 7.7 hours per night), and long (averaging 10.1 hours per night). They found that short sleepers consumed 37 fewer grams of fruits and vegetables a day than normal sleepers and long sleepers consumed 73 grams less per day. Plus, that correlation held true with a variety of statistical models.
Given the strong link between fruit and vegetable consumption and sleep duration, the researchers emphasized the importance of looking at lifestyle variables when treating sleep disorders. They also recommend focusing on the fruit and vegetable groups with the strongest association, such as leafy greens.
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Why is Nutrition So Important?
What is Nutrition?
Nutrition is the sum of the processes by which a body takes in and uses food to support its life.
Nutritious diets play a key role in helping individuals stay healthy throughout life.
But what is a nutritious diet? I’m sure you’ve heard someone say “eat a balanced diet”. But what does that mean?
A balanced diet is getting the essential nutrients that your body needs. This means eating whole foods.
The body is amazing. It has the ability to heal itself. It is replacing cells all the time, but it needs the right nutrients to be able to do this effectively. Without the right “building blocks” your body can’t do its job.
The body given the right fuel will run optimally. Each cell will run well and the DNA will make a new perfect cell when it is time to reproduce itself. However, if you don’t give it the right nutritional ingredients, it won’t be able to make a perfect copy.
As an example, let’s say you hired a contractor and asked him to build you a perfect replica of the Taj Mahal. He could do it. He is that good. He knows the tools of his trade. But the only materials you give him are plywood and nails. He would do the best he could, but he wouldn’t build that perfect replica and it won’t stand up the way the original has.
Bodies do not work on chemicals such as preservatives and flavor enhancers. They do not work on pesticides or any of the other varied things you can find in processed foods or even in poorly grown or GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) fruits and vegetables. You need healthy food.
Although there are many natural remedies that are advertised as helping illness and disease, what these natural remedies are relying on is supplying the body with the nutrients it is deficient in so the body is able to restore its health.
The Underlying Reason
You will notice that all health conditions have some failure of some part of the body to function properly. What do the individual organs and body use to function: Protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids? Where can you get all of these? The answer is Real Food.
The foundation of good health comes from a good healthy diet that provides all the macronutrients and micronutrients that the body needs. Putting real food into the body is the way to undercut having to constantly fight for your health.
Real food is as close to its natural form as possible, unprocessed or minimally processed, without preservatives, chemicals or other additives. If you are looking for gluten-free, go to the Produce Department. Produce is gluten-free.
For anything you buy to eat, read the labels. Make sure nothing is in the food you purchase except natural ingredients.
Eating a healthy diet is a matter of understanding the nutrients your body needs, getting the list of the foods that supply those nutrients, and working your menus around that. This is the way to start on the road to real health.
You should eat for your health, not for your taste buds. We think you’ll find the amount of energy you get, and, if you are overweight, the amount of weight you will lose will convince you to eat for your health.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t been eating well, it won’t hurt to supplement your current diet with good whole food or food-based vitamins and minerals to help address any nutrient deficiencies you have.
Get the Essential Nutrients your Body Needs
If improving your health is your goal, consider starting by improving your nutrition so that your body can operate at an optimum level – both physically and mentally.
