Many of us search for a fountain of youth, a perfect slender figure, and good health—all based on the food we eat. Maintaining a lifetime of healthy nutrition is among the important things we can do to improve and preserve our health. An optimized pattern of nutrition can help avoid cardiovascular disease (CVD), prevent obesity, diabetes, and certain cancers. Yet eating a healthy diet is a health-supporting behavior that is probably the least likely among Americans and others in wealthy countries, and overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions.
The typical American diet, the TAD, is not healthy. It contains too much saturated fat, red meat, refined grains, sodium (salt), added sugars, processed food, and too many calories. Americans don’t eat enough fruit, vegetables, and whole unprocessed or minimally processed plant-based foods. Our unhealthy diet is an important reason that high blood cholesterol, elevated blood pressure, and obesity are common among people in the U.S. These are the unhealthy conditions that contribute to the noncommunicable diseases that are the leading causes of disability and death in the U.S.: heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes.
A word of warning: Anyone taking medication or with a health problem should obtain medical advice and supervision when changing their diet.
This blog presents opinions and ideas and is intended to provide helpful general information. I am not engaged in rendering advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures and suggestions in that are presented are not in any way a substitute for the advice and care of the reader’s own physician or other medical professional based on the reader’s own individual conditions, symptoms or concerns. If the reader needs personal medical, health, dietary, exercise or other assistance or advice the reader should consult a physician and/or other qualified health professionals. The author specifically disclaims all responsibility for any injury, damage or loss that the reader may incur as a direct or indirect consequence of following any directions or suggestions given in the book or participating in any programs described in this blog or in the book, The Building Blocks of Health––How to Optimize Wellness with a Lifestyle Checklist. References for most of the health related information in this blog can be found in the book, The Building Blocks of Health now available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Building-Blocks-Health-Lifestyle-Checklist-ebook/dp/B08RC3XRCY/. Copyright 2020 by J. Joseph Speidel.
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