Building Wealth With Nutrition

New and Widely Distributed, "Forbidden Foods - Are You Eating Them?" by Jacquelin F. Grant

Building a solid wealth for a secure retirement may be your goal. However during this wealth building process many have made nutritional sacrifice that adversely affects the quality of their health, not realizing that Health and Nutrition also influence wealth.

Let’s say you were able to quickly build a fortune during your youthful years – accomplishing this by the time you are 45 years old. However, by reaching 50 you developed cardiovascular disorder, arthritis, and diabetes. This combination of illnesses incurs lifetime expense that is influenced by inflation exceeds an average of US$500.00 per month, plus associated symptoms retard your mobility. Your earning power will thus reduce as your medical expenses erode your wealth.

Take a look now on the converse. You pay constant attention to your nutrition, make sure you eat on time and in a way to get the most from your meals. To ensure adequate nutrients in your diet, you include a supplementary regime. While securing your health, you did not amass wealth as rapidly. However you are able to maintain fairly good health beyond age 70, thus extending your normal earning power for a longer period, while keeping your medical bills at its lowest. In this case you will likely maintain a savings on your wealth and at age 80 you’ll be in a better financial position. But how can you use nutrition to maintain this healthy status?

Education

What You Need To Know

In everything you do, to be good at it you need to be educated. You need to study how to get it work for your benefit. The same principle applies for nutrition.

• · You need to learn how nutrition works for you.

• · You need to learn what proper nutrition is.

• · You need to learn of the benefits of proper nutrition

• · You need to learn what foods to combine for best absorption.

• · You need to study about each essential nutrient.

• · You need to know how to maximize their benefits of supplements.

• · You need to know why proper nutrition pays off.

How Nutrition Works For You?

Everyday body tissues degenerate and need to be restored, or replaced. This is a normal process that gives rise to the need for adequate and correct material to perform daily repairs and replacements. Food provides that material in the form of nutrients. When foods are ingested, they are denatured by digestive processes to produce nutrients the body requires for repairs. Food nutrients when combined produce other compounds that attach to amino acids or proteins to effect body processes, repairs, and replacements of damaged or dead tissues.

For example, beta-carotene is a precursor to vitamin A, and is a very important carotene for vision. When you ingest carotene rich foods, an enzyme called 15 – 15’ dioxygenase found in the intestinal mucosa breaks down beta-carotene (a precursor to vitamin A) to produce retinol. Retinol further goes through a process of hydrolysis converting it to the retinal form, retinaldehyde. This form of  vitamin A is essential for vision.

In the photoreceptor cells (rod and cones) of your eyes retinal binds with the protein opsin to produce rhodopsin and iodopsin respectively. Rhodopsin, also called visual purple, is a light sensitive pigment in the photoreceptor cells of the retina. It is responsible for low light vision (scotopic vision) as well as color vision. Iodopsin is a photosensitive violet pigment in the retinal cones of your eye. It is chemically similar to rhodopsin but responds to bright light and enables you to see color and detail.

Zinc is a component of retinol binding protein, necessary for transporting this form of vitamin A in the blood, and is important for its absorption. In addition, zinc is required for the enzyme that converts retinol, to the visual form retinal. Therefore the transportation, absorption, and utilization of vitamin A depend on zinc. Zinc deficit is associated with decreased release of vitamin A from the liver, and may contribute to symptoms of night blindness (insensitivity to low level light) that are seen with zinc deficiency. In addition to zinc vitamin A, being a fat-soluble vitamin also depends on fat for transportation and utilization. Additionally vitamins C and E aid in the utilization of vitamin A, while zinc plays a vital role in the maintenance of proper level of vitamin E in the blood.

This information can make the difference between changing your glasses annually, and not having to wear glasses at all. In a worst-case scenario, it could be the difference between being blind during later years, and being able to see fairly well all your life. This principle also works with other body functions. Like in the case of vitamin A and other nutrients that interact with it, foods you eat, or supplements you ingest are broken down to their micro-nutrients and are combined in different ways for different functions vital to repairs or replacement of body tissues.

Why Learn About Proper Nutrition?

Take a look around you. Examine the plant in different areas, and at different seasons. Take a close look at plants grown on rocks as against those grown in deep soil. Take a look at plants during dry periods as against those grown during rainy seasons. Also take a look at those grown in mulch or fertilized area as against those that are not. What difference do you see? You will notice that those grown in deep soil with mulch or fertilizer, in areas with lots of rainfall, looks better and live much longer than others. Why is this so?

Plants feed via their roots. With the aid of water they are able to take up elements from the soil to make new cells – leaves, branches, flowers, and seeds. During the rainy seasons soil elements are more readily absorbed. Microbes break down mulch to very small particles making it easier for plants to absorb the nutrients they need for growth. In addition there exist the symbiosis relationship between plants and microbes whereby they feed on dead plant tissues while providing certain nutrients for plant survival. Fertilizer on the other hand, serves as supplement and provides certain basic elements for plants. It is the same for human.

You need to create for yourselves an environment that fosters healthy tissue growth. This is important since like trees where leaves fall on a daily basis and branches go dry at times, many of your tissues die daily and must be replaced. It is the food you eat that will do the repairs and replacement. In like manner a symbiotic relationship exist between plants and microbes, the same is true in your case. In the gut are many microbes that depend on you eating the correct kind of foods that they can feed on. In turn they produce nutrients essential for body functions and repairs. One good example of nutrients produced by gut microbes is vitamin K. Vitamin K is one of several nutrients essential for normal blood clotting as well as the maintenance of bone density.

All nutrients are important for repairs. And like plants, if there is a constant flow of all these nutrients, you live longer in better health. The thing is there are some nutrients that are not readily available, while there are others, though readily available are not consumed in adequate volume because of poor meal choices. Except you are educated in this area, how can you know what you are missing out, or not getting enough of?

Proper nutrition involves getting adequate volume of each nutrient on a daily basis. Therefore you will need to know how much is adequate. We all live in different environments and are involved in different activities, and thus experience different rate of deterioration and energy expenditure each day. Therefore each person requires different volume of each nutrient for repairs, replacements, and energy production. This is another reason you need to learn proper nutrition.

Also there is the interaction of nutrients to provide repairs or replacements. For example, did you know that the maintenance of healthy supply of red blood cells and hemoglobin depends on ingesting adequate volume of protein, iron, zinc, copper, para-aminobenzoic acid, vitamins C, B2, B5, B9, and B12 on a daily basis? Do you know what the volumes are? Are you getting adequate amount of these nutrients in your diet? What are the sources of these nutrients? Do you understand what RDA really means for each individual? Minimal intake of any of the forgoing nutrients results in reduced production of red blood cells and hemoglobin. And that’s just one area of maintenance required for good health.

Learning about proper nutrition will give you comprehensive knowledge of how to combine your foods to maximize nutrient volume, variation, and absorption. Learning proper nutrition do not have to be expensive or extremely time consuming.  It can be as simple as a guideline on your mobile phone using a free kindle app for just a single payment of $9.99, or at your favorite store in your favorite format.

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