Category Archives: High Quality Diet

Cheap High Quality Foods

There is a perception sometime that high quality foods are expensive. Often individuals claim that they cannot afford to eat well. This is generally not the case and many high quality health providing foods can be purchased cheaply. In fact, … Continue reading

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Healthy Diets Can Be Diverse

Eating a healthy diet is important, as evidence suggest that healthy diets can protect from many diseases. It should be remembered that improvements in sanitation and diet are the two biggest factors in reducing the risk of infectious disease. Good … Continue reading

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I Don’t Have Time For Healthy Food

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The Benefits of Good Childhood Nutrition

Undernutrition is a serious problem in the Third World. In most developing countries, child poverty is a real concern and it is estimated that around 200 million children under the age of 5 years living in Asia and Africa fail … Continue reading

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Does Where You Shop Affect The Food Quality You Purchase?

There is an association between poverty and poor health. This association is quite easy to explain in Third World developing countries, as the poorest often do not have access to adequate quantities of protein or clean drinking water. Therefore the … Continue reading

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Latency Period For Nutritional Changes

Increasingly individuals are realising the importance of good nutrition. Good nutrition not only improves physical performance, but also mental capacity and cognitive processes. Part of the reasons for the awakening with regard good nutrition is the large body of readily … Continue reading

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Metabolic Profiles of Meat, Fish and Non-Meat Eaters

It is becoming clear that the choice of diet made by the individual has a significant effect on health. In particular, clear differences in mortality and disease outcomes are present between those that consume a high quality diet and those … Continue reading

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An Ounce of Prevention is Worth A Pound of Cure

Nutrition is all about preventing ill health and disease. The most obvious examples of this are the nutritional deficiency diseases that result from intakes of essential nutrients that are too low. There exists a threshold for a number of dietary … Continue reading

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More on the Causes of Obesity

Obesity is associated with a number of diseases including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These diseases represent a metabolic dysfunction that centres on the development of insulin resistance. The insulin resistant state defines the metabolic syndrome and increases the … Continue reading

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Diet Quality Affects Cancer Risk

There is a large body of evidence that high quality diets protect from disease. Put another way, there is a substantial body of evidence that low quality diets are a causative factor in disease. In particular, low quality Western type … Continue reading

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