Good Health News • February• 2014
Good Health News February• 2014 Volume 6 Number 5
Health in Motion director Natan Gendelman
In This Issue Importance of Nutrition ................................Page 1 How to Celebrate Valentine's Day with Your Family/ Ask Good Health News ................................Page 2 Are You Getting Enough Sunshine & How to Remain Active While Having a Desk Job ................................Page 3 Here's What People Have to Say about LIFE ................................Page 4
talks about importance of nutrition 1950’s statistics showed that around one in six people would get cancer in their lifetimes. Later on, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced the War on Cancer and signed the National Cancer Act in 1971 to find a cure for the disease by increasing research to improve the understanding of cancer biology and treatments. However, cancer remains a major cause of death. According to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, in 2013, 1 in 4 cancer diagnoses in Canadian women over the age of 20 is breast cancer; and according to Prostate Cancer Canada, the most common cancer to affect Canadian men is prostate cancer. Other than cancer, we also live in a generation where every 7 minutes in Canada, someone dies of heart disease or stroke; and 347 million people worldwide have diabetes. Are the prospects dire for those of us who are attempting to maintain good health these days? Not at all! We just need to start with the food we eat each day. Recently one of my patients sent me an article in which a very prominent American heart surgeon Dr. Dwight Lundell, who has 25 years experience and has performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, admitted that he has been wrong in insisting that heart disease results from simply elevated blood cholesterol. He found out that the common therapy to prescribe cholesterol-lowering medication and a fat-restrictive diet was not working. He explained that it is due to inflammation that cholesterol accumulates in blood vessels in the first place. Lundell stated that if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods we were never meant to process, chronic inflammation occurs. Diets that cause chronic inflammation include highly processed carbohydrates such as sugar, flour and excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower in many processed foods. In essence, he recommended eating whole instead of manufactured foods and to take in essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed foods. We are what we eat. To reverse years of damage we might have done to our bodies by a typical diet, we need to replenish tons of vitamins and nutrients. B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are water-soluble vitamins that are not stored in the body and have to be replenished daily. Do you eat enough fruits and vegetables? They are low in fat but have plenty of vitamins and minerals. They also provide antioxidants that fight cancer and boost immunity.
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