The Art and Science of Nutrition

Eat right, stay healthy and live long
A sound lifestyle from the start puts you on the right footage to healthy and long living. Eating healthy is a learned behavior and a learning process that lends itself to due diligence principles. Educations sheds the light on the path to long healthy life.
The art and science of nutrition
Eating healthy and eating wright is what nutrition is all about. Whether you are healthy, have high blood pressure, obese or have diabetes; a healthy diet is what you need. There is one healthy diet for most conditions.
The art and science of nutrition

Eating healthy and eating wright is what nutrition is all about. Whether you are healthy, have high blood pressure, obese or have diabetes; a healthy diet is all that you need. There is one healthy diet for most conditions.

Eating healthy has never been more emphasized than it is today. Choosing the right kind and amount of food however is subject of high level of knowledge and education. The art of nutrition, the science of nutrition or the knowledge of nutrition has been a subject of debate and large number of publications, each tries to address the problem from it's own prospectives and motivations. Choosing the right diet is a science and a specialty that one can study for years and make a carrier out of such as what dieticians and nutrionists do. Ironically the people specialized in cooking are the chefs and cooks and a large number of them if not most did not study the science of nutrition but rather the art of cooking. Cooking delicious and desirable meals is not to say cooking healthy meals. From this point on, one can see the contrast between delicious and nutricious. Nutricious is about getting the right kind and amounts of nutrients at the right time, no more or less. Excessive or under nutriton both are called mal-nutrition even when ingesting the right kind of food. Delicious on the other hand is the art of producting food that is tasty and desirable, an outcome desired by food markets.

Eating healthy is about a substatial learning process that involves reading and studying the science of nutrition. What are the major nutrients: Protien, carb, fat, vitamins, trace metals elements etc.. What kinds of protein. What kinds of fat. What is good fat and what is bad fat. What are carbohydrates. What is glycemic index. What about vitamins and minerals. What is the most common vitamin deficiency. What is corn syrup and is it used in and what is the glycemic index of corn syrup. What does sugar do in the body once the taste party is over and the metablic battle begins. What is fiber. What is vitamin D deficiency. These are some of the questions that one need to study and learn the answer to in order to begin the process of learning nutrition and applying it to one's lifestyle.

The subject of nutrition is way beyond the scope of this article, beyond the scope of a doctor visit or most books for that matter. The best way to learn is to read over extended period of time and apply knowledge as it is learned. The internet is a wealth of resources for learning this subject and applying it.
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Dr. Joseph Kousa, MD
Dr. Joseph Kousa, MD is board certified in Internal Medicine. He has special interest in nutrition to prevent disease and promote health, anti-aging and longevity.

Original publication can be found at Joseph Kousa, MD