Originally published July 24 2005
Variety makes for a healthy diet
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Not only is having a diet full of variety more interesting to the taste buds, it is also necessary for good health, and while eating the same food every day does not provide the body with enough essential nutrients, enjoying a varied diet can help protect your body from diabetes, cardiovascular disease, blood vessel degeneration and some cancers.
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Fruits and vegetables are indeed essential for health, but eating the same food, day in day out, could be dangerous.
Recent nutrition science research say that we need almost 50 essential nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, fats, amino acids, phytochemicals.
Common sense dictates that these can be found only in a varied diet, which includes grains, beans, and even animal products, aside from the usual fruits and veggies.
usually characterizes a diet adequate in essential nutrients.
Japan's dietary guidelines actually include advice to aim for 30 foodstuffs a day."
A varied diet tends to "balance out the positive and negative interactions among food components" and balances availability of nutrients by providing them in different forms from various foods.
Moreover, a varied diet has been shown to protect against onset of diabetes, some cancers, cardiovascular disease, blood vessel degeneration, weight control.
� Stir fries, casseroles, soups and salads are an easy way to increase vegetable variety by using lots of ingredients.
For example, when shopping for groceries, get food you don't normally buy.
� Set aside time to enjoy meals, drinks, and snacks.
AFIC advises, "Regularly offering new foods and new preparation methods for foods to young children are common and very sound advice for parents who wish to establish lifelong healthy eating and lifestyle habits in their children.
In these instances, it's important to avoid confrontation and instead encourage children to take an interest and pleasure in food and drink [for example, by involving them in selection, preparation, shopping of foods] and take a long-term approach by continuing to offer new foods in small amounts alongside favorites, and always remembering that most personal fads will pass over time."
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