By Ladies Fashion Zone November 16, 2015

Seven Basic Nutrients Eating For Beauty

Power Growth Proteins:

Build and repair body tissue. Sources are meat, poultry, milk, egg, fish, soybeans, lentils, pulses, nuts are also provide partial protein. Western diets include excessive protein; we need only about 60 grams (2 oz) per day. The digestive process breaks protein into amino acids for cells to use.

Energetic Carbohydrates:

Provide energy for activity and warmth. Pasta, bread, cereals, potatoes, vegetables and fruits contain starches that release energy slowly and satisfy hunger. Sweet biscuits, cakes, chocolate bars, deserts, soft drinks and juices are high in hunger trigger sugars. The digestive process slowly breaks starches into a simple sugar, called glucose, for transport and use by cells. The body can make all the glucose it needs from starches; it does not need straight sugar, which the Western diet provides in abundance. Excess carbohydrates are stored by the body as fat.

Essential Fats:

Protect organs, provide insulation, transport certain vitamins, provide energy. Olive oil, sunflower and other vegetable oils, nuts and avocados are examples of vegetable fat sources. Meat, cheese, butter, milk and eggs are sources of animal fats. Certain fats cannot be made by the body yet are essential to cell health, so a tablespoon of fat or oil per day is necessary; Westerns generally consume six times that amount. The liver breaks fats down into glycerol (for cell energy) and fatty acids (used in the metabolic process). As you are probably well aware, excess fat in the diet is stored as body fat!

Wonderful Water:

Essential to life; 60 percent of our body mass is water. It’s in blood, in the tissue fluids that nurture cells, in every cell. It maintains body temperature, acids digestion, dilutes waste products and helps their elimination. You excrete about 2 liters (about 4 pints)of water per day. Most foods contain a lot of water (fruits and vegetables, for instance), but an additional 1.5 liters (3 pints) of fluids daily is necessary.

Feel Good Fibre:

Required by the body for the elimination phase of good digestion. Fibre, also called roughage, is the indigestible part of food called cellulose, found in vegetables, fruits and whole-grains. Muscles move waste matter along the bowel, but this movement occurs only when the intestinal walls are stretched sufficiently by the bulk of the waste matter. Too little bulk (fibre) leads to sluggish movement and constipation, delaying elimination of waste. This can leave you feeling heavy and low, and can result in poor skin.

Sparky Minerals and Vitamins:

Vital to the body’s ability to use nutrients, as spark plugs are to igniting fuel in a car engine. Some minerals and vitamins have particular jobs to do (such as skin cell growth or movement of oxygen), some are essential for all metabolism. Minerals are inorganic and are sometimes called mineral salts. The body contains a great deal of some minerals (calcium in bones, potassium in cells, for example). It has a need for eight major minerals and about six trace elements. Vitamins are organic and, though not part of body structure like many of the minerals, they are necessary for metabolism. Some vitamins are carried and stored via fats, others are carried only by water, which means they cannot be stored in the body. Fortunately, all the minerals and vitamins essential to life are found in foods normally included in a healthy diet, such as eggs, milk, cheese, green vegetables, fish, meet. If you are thinking of taking supplements, note these points:

• Minerals and vitamins are useless on their own; take them with a meal.
• Minerals equal vitamins in importance, and vice verse.
• RDA on the label means. Recommended Daily Allowance, the minimum required to prevent deficiency disease.
• Food quality, lifestyle (caffeine intake, smoking, alcohol intake, medication, pollution, stress) and eating habits interfere with vitamin/mineral intake and uptake; nutritionists recommend an intake higher than the RDA for special needs and optimum health.
• If you want to take booster doses of minerals or vitamins you should take multi-minerals/vitamins because they all interact and depend on each other to work.
• Excess amounts of some minerals and vitamins are toxic; check with a doctor, qualified complementary medicine practitioner or specialist self help book before embarking on a supplement programme.