IMPORTANCE OF GOOD NUTRITION, HERBS AND PHYTOCHEMICALS: For Your Health, Good Looks...

Far too long we have treated our bodies like second-class citizens: three to four times a day we fill them with foods and fluids that may not be healthy or nutritious, when they are sick we pump drugs into them, or cut them to remove far deposits in the arteries or unwanted growth in tissues. To add insult to injury, some of us also smoke or use illicit drugs and live and work in environments that are deleterious to our health. Because of all these unhealthy practices many of us have become the beneficiaries of degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Scientists now tell us that 80-90% of these diseases are diet and lifestyle related and therefore preventable.-- Learn the nutritional basis of obesity, degenerative diseases, and the aging process and steps you can take to avert or minimize them-- Learn about vitamins, miner. als, amino acids and phytochemicals and how they influence your mental and physical well-being-- Learn about herbs, herbal teas and spices and how they help balance, optimize, and strengthen the body