To stay healthy you need to eat well. You feel more comfortable, better about yourself and your concentration increases if you eat healthy food. By eating healthy foods youi can prevent from serious and minor ailments and illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, hypertension and certain allergies may occur. Food is for everyone, young and old, important because good nutricion ensures that we stay alive and live in good health.

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Healthy eating is an important contribution to a healthy and better quality of life. It provides the nutrients needed to keep the body healthy.

And it also reduces the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity (extreme overweight), heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.

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With many other traditions breakfast slowly disappear from the household. For more than a quarter of people leave bread with cheese or meat in the morning and started later in the day to fill the stomach.

But with cookies, bars, chips and croquettes.

Breakfast is an important start of the day. Nutritionists emphasize again that a good breakfast is always essential for both adults and children. Between the meal of the night and breakfast is a period of twelve to fourteen hours. In the morning dinner is gone, we need nutrients making new energy.

Eating and drinking is needed to become our blood-sugar at a good level and get the metabolism going.

The body pulls out the necessary proteins, minerals and fats, causing the cells in the body can be nourished. This keeps your body in optimum condition and your brains can function properly. Without breakfast a man feels weak and will not be able to concentrate.

But also it will be the lack of breakfast in many ways to compensate, usually with products that provide quick energy but often full of sugar and fat: the so-called grazing behavior. Not taken a breakfast in time often get overweight.

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Dr. Richard Beliveau is a professor of biochemistry and director of the laboratory of molecular oncology in the Charles-Bruneau Institute of St. Justin Hospital in Montreal. He wrote the book Food from cancer. In this book he writes: Plants produce toxic substances that protect them from predators.

Animals that eat them are sick or even die. These phytochemicals have strong anticancer effect and we can supply us with an appropriate benefit.

A small daily dose of black pepper and turmeric added during the preparation enhances the anticancer effect of foods.

Foods with the highest anticancer effect: Brussels sprouts broccoli cauliflower cabbage garlic onions shallots spinach Watercress preventive against cancer soy (isoflavones) > flaxseed (freshly ground) tomatoes turmeric black pepper blueberries raspberry blackberries Cranberries (dried) grapes chocolate (70% pure) citrus juice green tea Wine (especially red)

Other anti-cancer foods: Fruit and vegetables in this list contain other phytochemicals with anticancer properties: seaweed eggplant avocado basil rosemary bok choy (Chinese cabbage) capers celery cherries cloves fennel anise coriander ginger lettuce lentils alfalfa sprouts (lucerne) mango barley grapefruit parsley chilli pears apples shiitake bran black tea thyme

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The content of different nutrients, minerals, vitamins in fruits and vegetables went down in recent years usually with 50 to more than 90%! (Figures from research commissioned WHO) To get the nutrients of a tomato in 1985, you now eat at least 5!

1 ounce of meat you would provide the necessary materials? Can you get at this time still quality food?

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Each food provides a number of nutrients, but never one food provides all the required nutrients.

In the active food contains eight groups each do their share to a healthy lifestyle. The tip of the active food, the rest group, stands for movement.

Besides a good diet exercise is an important part of the active food.

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