You can sum up the most important contribution to our good health in a word: FOOD. Our good health is contingent upon those foods and beverages that we choose to consume, as well as the foods, beverages, and unhealthy habits that we choose to avoid – like soft drinks, fast foods, and tobacco products (and almost everyone doesn’t disagree with that one). Our biggest problem today regarding the subject of health is not about getting access to the right insurance plan, or access to all the doctors and treatments and medications we need, or affordable hospital care during the last weeks of life. Focusing on these things is not looking at the problem, but instead is looking at the consequences of a problem that goes unchecked.
And what is that problem?
It is the foods we are consuming. It is the foods we AREN’T consuming.
This is not a difficult solution to understand. It may be a difficult solution to get everyone on board with, but understanding the causal relationship doesn’t take longer than about a 15 minute read. It may take some research and digging into further sources: studies, books, and research, in order to validate, confirm, and verify the opinion you should come away with here, but it is no doubt as close to a solid truth as you can get. That truth: a healthy plant-based diet is the key to good health, wellness, and sustainability of life. Additionally, we will fix the rising health crisis by making this one shift in our food choices. Otherwise, we most assuredly will keep seeing a rise in the number of people dying unnecessarily - from preventable causes - each and every year. Tens of millions just in the U.S.
Health care - we need to do a better job of caring for our own health. Each one of us must be proactive when it comes to good health and the prevention of sickness and disease. And it all begins with what we choose to consume.
We cannot leave health care up to some doctor or clinic (or government policy). It is our decisions that will dictate our quality of life and how long we will live. It may sound like an oversimplification but it is truly not – the foods we need to consume much more of that will help us out of this mess?
Fruits and vegetables. It’s the same as it always has been: eat your fruits and vegetables. They add life to your years and years to your life. We now look at the foundation of good nutrition in terms of not just fruits and vegetables, but plant-based nutrition. Let’s look at this subject a bit further.
Plant-based food sources. What are we talking about here? We’re referring to whole food fruits and vegetables that must be a part of your everyday consumption, and in a minimum quantity. More than just a few vitamins, there are thousands of nutrients in those whole foods, sometimes referred to as phytonutrients, that all work together in support of the body’s many functions. With more than 2,000 physiological processes at work in the body (conservatively), all without you having to think about each one, it shouldn’t take much convincing to see why the body could use the full gamut of nutrients contained within those whole foods. Too often we think that there are just certain vitamins that are important. While they are important, let’s not miss the other hundreds of phytonutrients (plant nutrients) that are present in those whole foods. (See links below).
This is just a basic overview, but:
