4 Basic Nutrition Tips To Stay Healthy

Summary

The article provides four basic nutrition tips to maintain health and prevent potential medical issues: reducing sugar and salt intake, increasing water consumption, and incorporating fruits and vegetables into daily meals.

Abstract

The author emphasizes the importance of simple dietary adjustments for long-term health. They suggest cutting out processed sugar, using less salt, drinking more water, and eating fruits and vegetables daily. These practices are presented as a means to avoid common health problems that often lead to medication prescriptions. The article encourages readers to make these changes to improve their well-being and potentially reduce the frequency of doctor visits.

Opinions

On Sugar: The author strongly advises against the use of processed sugar, equating it to poison and suggesting natural honey as a healthier alternative.
On Salt: They express confusion and concern over the habit of adding salt to food before tasting it, highlighting the negative health effects of excessive salt consumption.
On Water: The author insists on the importance of drinking water regularly, despite personal taste preferences, to help the body flush out toxins.
On Fruits and Vegetables: They advocate for the daily consumption of fruits and vegetables, recalling the childhood adage "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" and encouraging the use of farmers markets for fresh produce.
On Health Responsibility: The article conveys that while the suggested changes may not be desired by everyone, individuals must take personal responsibility for their health and make the necessary adjustments to their diet.

I tend to stay with the simple and the basic. This read is no different. If you follow these four nutrition tips, you can’t help but be healthier! Staying simple and basic is the key!

Have you notice that the older we get, the more and more we move away from proper nutrition? Then, when you go to the doctor and get blood work readings back, what happens? More often than not, the doctor prescribes some sort of medication because your cholesterol is too high or your this to too that, or you need to do more of this, etc. You get the picture as I’m sure maybe you, or a friend of yours has experienced this, right?

How would you like to get a step ahead of this just a wee bit? What I mean is, why not do some preventative “stuff” so those readings won’t be so bad? Believe it or not, there are some simple things you can do with your diet to make it so you, maybe, won’t have to visit the doctor as much.

I’m not a nutritionist, but I do know some common sense tricks to help you out. Here are four of them:

Cut Out Sugar.

You’ve heard this before, but I’ll stress it again, sugar is BAD for you! Wait, let me restate the, PROCESSED sugar is bad for you! The human body was not designed to function well on processed sugar. Sure, we all consume sugar on a daily basis, but what I’m saying is be aware of it and use LESS of it. For instance, and I’m sure I’ll piss a lot of people off here, but quit putting sugar in your coffee! Instead, use natural honey. I’m sure you can think of other times you use sugar throughout the day, but cutting back will do wonders for your health. A doctor friend of mine, a cardiologist, said this to me once and I wanted to relay it to you, SUGAR IS POISON!

2. Use Less Salt

I’m still baffled from what I see when it comes to salt usage. If this is you, I still gotta ask why? Are the person who, before the even taste their food, grabs the salt shaker and adds salt to it? You don’t even know how it tastes yet! Other than, “I like salt”, no one has ever been able to justify that for me. Let me give it to you straight, too much salt hurts the human body! We get plenty of salt from the preparation of the food. Sure, sometimes it needs a bit more, but more often than not, it does not! So put that salt shaker down! Heck, don’t even have it on the table! Salt retains water, if water isn’t allowed to flow through the body, that’s bad. The choice is yours, but I wanted to make you aware of it.

3. Drink More Water

Speaking of water, I’ll encourage you to drink more of it. I don’t care if you like the taste of it or not, drink it anyway to better your health! Folks, this is a simple thing. There are water fountains, water stations, faucets and such EVERYWHERE! Use them! The human body is make up of mostly water! Water filters out the “bad stuff”. BUT, the water holding the “bad stuff” needs to be replaced or that “bad stuff” will stay in your body, is that what you want? I know I don’t. Sure, you’ll go pee more, but that’s a good thing! Drink water baby! That’s what I’ll tell you.

4. Eat Fruits and Veggies Daily

Remember, when you were a kid, what was told to you? An apple a day keeps the doctor away, right? Why did you stop eating that apple? Fruits and veggies are good for you, period! You can get all kinds of vitamins from fruits and veggies, so why not take advantage of them? I’m asking you to focus on eating a piece of fruit every day and some sort of veggie every day. I don’t care if you eat it whole or blend it up or juice it, just do it! Stop by a farmers market and pick some stuff up. You don’t have to change your whole diet, just some simple changes is all I’m asking you to do.

There you have it, four simple nutrition tips to help you out and possibly avoid that negative blood work result. Did I say anything out of the norm? Did I tell you anything you can’t do? Oh sure, you may not WANT to do it, but bottom line, it’s your health. You do what you want. You gotta want it for yourself. It’s the simple things that pay off big time for you!

I did a video going more in depth with these 4 nutrition tips. You can watch it here…..

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4 Basic Nutrition Tips To Stay Healthy

I tend to stay with the simple and the basic. This read is no different. If you follow these four nutrition tips, you can’t help but be healthier! Staying simple and basic is the key!