Optimum Nutrition for Optimum Health
Optimum health is a lot more than the absence of disease
or ill-health. It is a state of profound wellbeing, physically, mentally and emotionally. Our
health depends on a number of factors both genetic and environmental including many lifestyle factors such as diet, sleep,
stress management and exercise. Most of the common chronic health conditions have been linked, at least
in part, to poor diet. Making sure that we get all the essential nutrients we need, including
proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals and avoiding foods and ingredients that can cause harm is an important step in moving
towards better health.
Maximising
your health potential through an optimised diet and other lifestyle factors can provide our bodies with the environment to
help re-balance systems that have become imbalanced.
The concept of optimum nutrition and the importance of nutrition for good health is not new. As
early as AD390 Hippocrates said
“Let
food be your medicine and medicine be your food.”
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