There have been some amazing medical breakthroughs into the health benefits of various foods. Nature seems to have provided with most of what we need to cure a variety of ailments.
It’s pretty obvious we need food to survive – for pumping blood, moving muscles and even thinking. But if we make the right food choices then we can help slow down the clock of aging and getting older. New research has shown that a health diet, regular exercise and not smoking can eliminate 80% of heart disease and cancer cases.
Selecting the wrong foods can increase your chances dramatically for developing a variety of diseases:
- diabetes
- heart disease
- digestive disorders
- cancer
- Alzheimer’s disease
Unfortunately the information on the back of your cereal box will not give you very good advice and there is a sea of contradictory information on the internet. The healthy eating pyramid developed by the Harvard School of Public Health and includes the most up to date information on what we should be eating and how much. Based solely on this pyramid we will be looking at the health benefits of various foods.
