When you think of being malnourished, what comes to mind, starving kids in Africa, anorexic fashion models? Do you know that you can be overweight and still be malnourished. Malnourished just means, "poorly or wrongly fed; having poor or inadequate diet" and that could describe most of the people living in the US today.
Most of our diets have an abundance of pre-packaged and/or fast food, with little or no nutrient value to what we eat. We are eating and we are getting full, but we are not eating foods that actually help our bodies function. Nutrients are the chemicals that our bodies need to live and grow. They are used to build and repair tissues, regulate body processes and are converted to use for energy.
Nutrients can fall under two major categories, micronutrients and macronutrients. Micronutrients are required by our bodies in small quantities, whereas macronutrients are needed in larger quantities. Micronutrients include Vitamins A-K and carotenoids. while macronutrients include cargohydrates, proteins and fats. Although both are needed, most people get too much macronutrients and not enough micronutrients.
Also, not only are we not eating the right foods that contain the nutrients that we need, there is a serious deficiency of micronutrients in the foods that should provide these nutrients. 50% of the world cereal soils are deficient in zinc, and 30% of cultivated soils are deficient in iron.
So besides eating whole foods everyone needs to add good supplements to fill the void created from the deficient soils.
To see the supplements I take, click here. or contact me directly.
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