Alternative Medicine - Macronutrients

Macronutrients

Origins and History

Food is the basic resource of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients
that allow our body to do its daily performance. Our ability to eat
foods and then extract the proper nutrients is what allows us to gain
both energy and the building blocks for our immune system and other
bodily functions. To understand human nutrition we must begin with the
basics, that is, the building blocks and the chemical structure of
food. Some reeducation is useful to help realize that many of the
foods that we buy in food stores, fast food chains, and in health food
stores may not actually be healthy for the human body. No longer may
we overlook terms such as complex carbohydrates, simple carbohydrates,
processed foods, refined grains, caffeine ingestion, alcohol
consumption, and refined oils..(Macronutrients) Food intake and type
have a profound effect on individual health. Although the ingestion of
foods may not cause any acute deleterious effects on the health for
humans, the long-term effects have been clearly documented in the
literature. (Macronutrients)

As we cross the line into the new millennium, physicians and other
health care providers need to consider how to effect change in our
patients with less emphasis on the use of synthetic drugs and other
chemical concoctions. Nutritional literature supports a growing
realization that food could have a significant contributory factor in
many of our chronic ailments of today, including cancer, collagen
vascular diseases, arthritis, and even progressive aging. Our patients
are spending billions of dollars on diets like high protein, low
carbohydrate, low fat, low protein, Paleolithic, blood typing, zone,
starvation, food pyramid, allergic disorder, caloric restriction, and
juicing diets. Unfortunately, none of these specialized protocols is
universally ideal. Individualized treatment and prescription of the
appropriate diet is essential for the improvement for a patient's
nutritional status. (Macronutrients)

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