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Health Terms Explained

By Martin Gover

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There was a time it seemed so simple.

Health was...a doctors visit, brush your teeth regularly, some jogging perhaps, a vitamin C and you were set.

Now there vitamins and minerals and herbs and supplements and phytonutrients and macronutrients and micronutrients and - O yes there's more.

There's BMI and BCoR Scores and Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics and Stress counts and Blood counts and Macronutreinst and Micronutrients.

Then there's enzymnes and co-enzymnes and oxidants and antioxidants, and - where does all this 'information stuff ' come from?

Well of course it was always there - its just everyone is studying it all more, and finding new terms for things they find. And some things are important and some terms are just - terms.

Here are three of the latest terms, and some explanations.

But first a little clarity: -

Remember good health is common sense, no matter how many new terms 'THEY' come up with:-

1) Eat Nutritious food, stay away from fast food as much as possible, eat in moderation. Try to eat in a state of rest. That is be aware you are eating. Eating when stressed and rushed is not a good health choice.

2) Exercise, doesn't have to be fanatical motions, walk somewhere every day, try to do something that increases your heart beat for 15 minutes 3 times a week (sex doesn't count! - for exercise that is)

3) Sleep at least 7 hours a day.Sleep is repair time for your body.

4) have a dream, something to look forward to - and find someone who cares about you to share important events with. Something to do, someone to love and something to hope for.

And now back to the heavy stuff:-

Phytonutrients, Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics.

There are Supplements for health, vitamins and minerals and herbs that add to our bodies health. And it is known that supplements from food based (as opposed to chemical, created in a lab somewhere based) are the most effective. Our bodies are designed to extract vitamins from food after all, not lab beakers.

Now they have there are a further type of supplements strictly plant based that in some cases are beneficial and in some cases essential to optimal health.

These supplements are called Phytonutrients.

Nutrigenetics a term first used in 1975 by Dr R.O. Brennan is the study of how genetic differences make people react differently to the same nutrients.In other words just taking vitamins because I or someone else says so, doesn't mean instant health. Some supplements will work better for you than others. In the same way individual blood types react differently to different foods.

Or to put it another way - we are not mass produced, we are individuals and will tend to have individual reactions to what we do, and some of this can be traced at the genetic level.

Nutrigenomics is the study of how the nutrients we take in interact with our DNA, our very cell structure.Given what was said above with nutrigenetics, that we can react differently to the same nutrients, nevertheless, the nutrients that do work for us in some cases react with our cell structure to produce more than the presumed affect. This is why there is a lot of talk about the positive effects Omega 3 can have, above the basic fact that our body needs Omega 3. And Vitamin D (the sunlight vitamin). Both seem to have far reaching affects (positive, far reaching affects) on our health system.

The immediate market affect of these two studies is to produce a whole batch of 'personal genetic test' that are sold to help you pinpoint which supplements are best for you, and what they do for you, in particular. These may or may not be, at this early stage, useful.

If in doubt, go with common sense.

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