What you eat can make a difference in disease prevention
Healthy eating helps you feel good, perform better and may help fight several different diseases making it a bargain all around.
The role of healthy eating in disease prevention may still be a “mixed message” but what is clear is that getting the right nutrients keeps your body strong, helping you fight off illness and disease. Arming your self with plenty of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans and seeds pulls in plenty of phytochemicals, which seem to help prevent several forms of cancer and heart disease. Choosing healthier fats like olive and canola oils, nuts and nut butters, along with fatty fish also seems to arm the body for health.
If you’re struggling to make changes in your eating, start gradually by adding more whole grains or trying fruits for snacks or even adding back the childhood favorite peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread. Making changes is worth the effort and will help keep you healthy.
Content Source: American Dietetic Association http://www.eatright.org.
