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Four Crucial Nutrition Issues Affecting Our Health

in The Too Busy to Diet Blog on July 20, 2013

  There are four main nutrition issues that you must concentrate on for good health. These include:

1) Cholesterol & Dietary Fat, 2) Sodium, 3) Fiber, and 4) Calcium.

These issues are important because mastering these topics will help reduce heart disease, diabetes, various types of cancer and osteoporosis. These conditions are among the greatest health risks in most countries.  And they are costing trillions of health care dollars worldwide. The future economic future of individuals and countries will be linked to how well we maintain our health and how we do it wisely with the least costly methods.  In the past, DIET was considered the hallmark of treatment for most diseases.  The we placed diet on the backburner for more costly medications and procedures. Today, we return to the DIET to enhance our health and reduce health care costs!

Most people want to be healthy and reduce their health care expenses.  As individuals, we are beginning to understand that we must all bear the responsibility for a healthier lifestyle. But how do we do this with our busy and complicated lives?

The best place to start is with a registered dietitian/nutritionist who will help you navigate your eating habits. You can contact a registered dietitian/nutritionist by contacting www.eatright.org.  Using the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics website, you can access the names of registered dietitians close to your home. Your dietitian will help you navigate your eating and health by finding out more about you and your lifestyle. And your dietitian will coordinate your nutrition plan with your physician to insure that you achieve the best medical nutrition therapy for your health and medical conditions.