Spine Diet

Spine Diet Nutrition: What is it?

Nutrients are the chemical elements found in your spine diet nutrition: in other words, they're in the food you eat. They provide your body with what it needs to do everything from breathing to running a marathon if that's what it's expected to do. Some nutrients in your spine diet nutrition, like proteins, fats and carbohydrates provide energy. Other substances like vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, and water are needed for basic metabolism.

All of the chemical changes that happen in our body as a result of what we take in on diet is our spine diet nutrition. "Good spine diet nutrition" means that what we take in adds to our health. Once digested, the food has an essential function in our body.

Metabolism: What is it? How does it affect our spine diet nutrition?

Metabolism is the work of the body. It is all of the chemical and physical processes and changes that are constantly taking place in your body. Creating energy is part of metabolism. All the chemical changes and work that occurs in your blood and other bodily fluids, in your connective tissue and in your bones and organs are also part of metabolism.

Metabolism is the work of changing the chemical energy found in the nutrients in your spine diet nutrition into heat (mechanical energy) in your cells.

Two basic processes are involved in metabolism: 

• building up (anabolism)
• breaking down (catabolism)

The body changes nutrients (chemicals) from your spine diet nutrition into complex substances like bone, blood and connective tissue through anabolism. The body breaks down complex substances into simple pieces through catabolism.

When you eat an apple, for example, a catabolic process is in play: The apple is chewed, swallowed and broken down into vitamins, minerals, fiber, and water. Catabolism usually ends with substances being passed out of the body. When catabolism and anabolism are in balance, as a result of good spine diet nutrition, the body is healthy.

Your body is good at knowing what food is useful and what to get rid of, but cellular energy is needed to get rid of damaging substances and also to sort out the good things in your spine diet nutrition from the bad.

Nutraceuticals and Spine Diet Nutrition

If your joints are inflamed, you have pain or body aches, or if you weigh more than you should, your spine diet nutrition may not supply you with the nutrition you need. That's why nutraceuticals are so important as a part of spine diet nutrition.

Dr. Stephen DeFelice coined the word "nutraceutical" in 1989. The word combines the words "nutrition" and "pharmaceutical." This may help you to understand that nutraceuticals are dietary supplements, known sometimes as functional foods. They are taken by many people to help offset unhealthy spine diet nutrition or a diet that is lacking in adequate nutrition.  

Spine Diet Nutrition: The Right Balance

We face problems with our spine diet nutrition our grandparents would be shocked to learn about. There are chemicals added to our water and our food. The foods we eat are simply not as nutrient-dense as we need them to be for our spine diet nutrition. In order for our bodies to remain healthy, we need our spine diet nutrition to be a proper balance of protein, fat, high fiber and starch.

We need to remember that nutrients work together. When our spine diet nutrition is not in perfect balance, nutraceuticals can help. They can also help when everything included in your spine diet nutrition is not organic. Supplemental minerals, vitamins, fatty acids and amino acids are a way ensure all the needs of your body are met. This is true for growth and tissue repair following injury and also true for the work of metabolism that's required to remain well, be strong and feel good.

Fats which are healthy are necessary to spine diet nutrition. They are essential to the growth and repair of bones, body fluids and normal connective tissue. Good spine diet nutrition includes: 

• fats found in seeds
• nuts
• deep ocean fish like sardines and salmon
• olive oil.

The carbohydrates and fiber found in fresh produce and whole grains help your body thrive and are vital to spine health nutrition. 

The best protein for spine diet nutrition is found in organically raised poultry and beef and in wild ocean fish. If you can't get organically raised meat, limit your exposure to chemical residue by removing all the visible fat from meat prior to cooking.

Building Bone with Good Nutrition

Joints are dependent on proper spine diet nutrition for maintenance, repair, and protection. Bone is made up of minerals such as boron, calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus, in addition to collagen and water. The repair and maintenance of connective tissue and bones require the right amounts of spine diet nutrition and vital nutrients working together.

Vitamin D is necessary to regulate and maintain the health of the teeth and bones and also has a vital role in regulating cell growth and immune function. It is needed to absorb calcium from the intestinal system and also prevents bone loss. Vitamin D helps in the rebuilding of new bone tissue. It helps to strengthen collagen, which is a major component of connective tissue and bone. Vitamin D also assists in neuromuscular function.

• Cod liver oil and some types of fish (tuna, mackerel, sardines, and salmon) contain Vitamin D, but other than these foods, it is not naturally present in food. Only foods specifically fortified with vitamin D have significant amounts of the vitamin. So how can you get enough vitamin D in your spine diet nutrition?
• Sunlight produces vitamin D in your skin, but as you grow older, your ability to produce the vitamin from your skin decreases. A very low-fat diet also makes it harder to absorb vitamin D from your food. Lack of sunshine, getting older and limited consumption of fortified foods may mean you need to talk to your doctor about a nutritional Vitamin D supplement. Supplementation may be based on a simple blood test.
  

If you do not rebuild bone as quickly as you lose it, nutritional deficiencies can complicate the problem. Caffeine causes an increased loss of calcium in the urine. Cola drinks containing high levels of phosphorus also interfere with calcium metabolism. These should be limited to your spine diet nutrition plan.

Some people are more at risk for nutritional deficiencies than others. If you don't get out in the sun much or if you work inside you may be at risk. You are also at risk if you are sedentary and drink a lot of cola or caffeine, or if you are elderly. If your digestion is impaired, or if you are on a fat-restricted diet you may be at risk for nutritional deficiencies. You may need supplementation with minerals, amino acids, and vitamins.

Specific factors that will increase your chance of increased inflammation and pain include:

• Inadequate intake of omega 3 fatty acids from ocean fish
• Inadequate intake of vitamin D from the sun or from fortified foods (milk, orange juice, cereals)
• Inadequate intake of vegetables and fruits
• Inadequate intake of magnesium and potassium
• Inadequate intake of high-quality fat
• Inadequate intake of protein
• older age, use of sunscreen, obesity, kidney disease, liver disease, dark skin, milk intolerant: All risk factors for vitamin D deficiency
• Excessive intake of sweets and starches, causing weight gain and overproduction of insulin
• Excessive free radical ions due to rancid and hydrogenated fats, processed foods and food additives

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