Mens Health - Men, What You Eat Makes A Difference In Your Health

Men, What You Eat Makes A Difference In Your Health

As a man in middle age, have you ever wondered why you just don't feel as well as you did a few years back? What has happened to your health?

As a health practitioner, I have noticed a big difference by middle age in a man who ate a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables plus good oils and those who did not.

Why? Many men suffer from eating depleted or marginally depleted foods. Men end up suffering from sub clinical nutritional deficiencies, wich lead to health problems

Increase your health through good nutrition

As a man, unless you have severe colon problems, increase your vegetable and fruit consumption. Here is where you will find the needed vitamins and minerals your body needs.

Vegetable intake, particularly intake of cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower, broccoli and broccoli sprouts, help lower the risk of prostate cancer in men.

Eat a variety of raw foods daily. Cooking depletes the food of enzymes, which your body needs in order to run many of it's daily functions.

When eating cooked foods, I also suggest that you find a high quality digestive enzyme to take with your meals. Most people need them. Our body only supplies so many enzymes and often cannot break down all the foods we consume now days. This leads to toxicity and ill health.

When possible buy organic produce. These foods usually contain a higher amount of vitamins and minerals that we need in our diet than the food we buy at the grocery store. The organic producers are are trying to rebuild the soil and are careful about putting harmful herbicides and pesticides on their products and in the fields.

As a man who wants better health please note: when you eat your foods in their more natural form, your body chooses what it needs for rebuilding and balancing, from the chemistry of the food. That is why I find a whole food nutritional supplement so good to rebuild better health. It has easily digested sources of foods in a powdered form.

Do add good source of oils in your diet from such things as olive oil, almond oil, fish oils and other oils found in the Health food store. However do not use Canola Oil, or Rapeseed as it is sometimes called, no matter if it is found in the Health Food Store. It has been found to cause health problems.

You may also want to ad in a couple of foods that are beneficial for prostate health. Two of the better known ones are ground flax seed oil and pumpkin seeds. Have several servings per week.

Cut down on junk food.

Cut down on your junk food and then move into making it a treat instead of a daily thing. The lightened load from removing the Chemicals, dyes, fats and sugars from your diet will help immensely in building health.

Your body will thank you with far less illness, disease, weight loss if needed, clearer thinking and probably added years of life. Your energy will increase and people may remark that you are looking younger.

by Jeannie Crabtree C.Ac