May 24 – Top 5 Nutrients Lacking in Our Diet
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There are several nutrients lacking in our daily diets which are frequently overlooked due to their… easy accessibility! But not enough of one of them could lead to the state of discomfort and even development of serious medical conditions called chronic diseases like obesity as an example.
Tapping into the foods that have been created for our bodies to consume and benefit is the most precious gift from Nature. Each calorie from such food consumed goes to a good cause within your body. Why not step into the world of real wonders and start enjoying a vibrant – literally – life style beginning today?
FIBER
Yes, our precious fiber! Both Soluble and Insoluble play an important role.
Why We Need It
Soluble fiber found in beans, lentils, fruit, oats can reduce risk of stroke, Type 2 Diabetes, protect arteries.
Insoluble fiber found in vegetables, legumes, brown rice and many other foods is great for digestive functioning of your body.
IRON
Iron obtained from fish, poultry, and meat is absorbed 2-3 times more readily than from plant sources.
In addition, obsorbtion levels depend on the Food Combinations you have while eating iron-rich foods.
Why We Need It
Iron is crucial in bringing more oxygen to all of your organs and cells. And it is the essential Protein Building Block for all of our systems.
Lack of iron could lead to memory loss, muscle loss, anemia, and difficulties regulating body temperature.
VITAMIN D
It is the ONLY vitamin we can consume through foods and make ourselves! Our bodies manufacture Vitamin D in the form of a hormone when we process sunlight. Being exposed to sunlight is essential to get your Vitamin D supplies!
Why We Need It
Vitamin D regulates cell growth, protects our bones and cardiovascular system.
We can find it in tuna, orange juice
CALCIUM
So many people have calcium via supplements. Obviously, the best source is food sources.
Why We Need It
Calcium is an important nutrient that helps maintain healthy bones, assists in nerve transmission, and helps our blood clot.
Not enough of Calcium can lead to an increased risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures.
PHYTONUTRIENTS
A very critical piece of information is that only in phytonutrients found in plant sources of our food chain can truly feed and supply our bodies with an all-rounded formula of nutrients we need for healthy functioning.
Why We Need Them
We don’t need to know how it happens, even why it happens. When we consume unprocessed fruit and vegetables in their VARIETY, millions of phytonutrient chemicals in all of them work together in synergy. That synergy creates nutrition that is immediately and bio-available to all of our cells in our body. That is a truly real magic.
Funny Picture. But Not Too Funny The Lack of Nutrients We May Be Missing Here
(Photo: Thomas Northcut)
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One event/thing i have been doing lately is that i have been starting to add more fiber to my diet and another thing that is happening sunday is that my baby brother will be 6 weeks old and hes getting so big already!! 🙂
My husband got a phone call about a new job..which is a big deal because he has been out of work for two months
@Constance that’s great news
That is so great @Constance!! Hope he gets it!
That’s great
Thanks i hope it works out. I have been so stressed
Thank you ladys..I hope it works out..
Oh yeah..GOOD MORNING! !!!!
Good morning!! Our significant event this week was our ds moving back in …again! Hopefully this time he is really done with his girlfriend and doesn’t go back again! 🙁
good morning hope I am not late I couldn’t find you all LOL well for me I have lost a few pounds and that great for me
Congrats Karen
thanks it is a slow process but slow is better
Yes a little is better than nothing
Hello- my oldest son was given an award at from the foreign national honor society this past Monday for pre-AP Spanish (had to maintain above a 90% for past 3 yrs- he’s held a 98-100% for the past 4 😉 )
Congrats to your son!!!
congrats to him
That is super great @Jessica! Tell him Congratulations!
Congrats
Congrats Jessica
hello to all and Happy Memorial Day Weekend and Thank you to our Veteren’s who have served and conquered as well as sacrificed! My most important event was my trip to Louisianna it was must amazing to get to be on a Hollywood set! Will never forget it!
Good morning all. I got to feel my lil nephew move in for the first time in my sisters huge huge belly along with saying hello to him. 🙂
Aww such an awsome feeling …I miss it
Hi everyone! I think I commented in the wrong place below so maybe that can be deleted? sorry….the most significant event in my life this week, was my oldest daughter went to court and hopefully a big problem in her life will soon be resolved; this has really had me so stressed out, so hopefully I’ll be less stressed soon as this is resolved for sure.
I hope it all works out for the best
Good morning
Good afternoon, I have been spring cleaning all day . But, I made it.
hey guys! missed it today! but joining in now… my most significant event this past week : my sister became a mom
The most significant thing I did this weekend was make a dream cake for a terminally ill child. This has been something I wanted to do for a while and Icing Smiles organization helped me achieve this goal.
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All done..so awsome
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dine that so kind
done sorry
Ohhh thank you!!! Can’t wait to get the ones I won last month
I got mine a couple weeks ago..and it is pretty cool
Jessica,
They should be on the way, as I confirmed with them.
Entered~wow, these are really nice colors!
done love this. 🙂
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these are so awesome 🙂
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GOOD FOOD SOURCES OF IRON
10 clams (2.62mg)
½ cup edamame (2.25mg)
½ cup lentils (3.3mg)
4oz beef sirloin steak (2.4mg)
1 cup cooked broccoli (1.5mg)
I am so lucky my 3 girls love broccoli (trees). They wont even it I put cheese in it. They like it with butter that is all.
love them to but I don’t put nothing on them
We have to have the cheese on the broccoli! LOL But we love our steak when we splurge on it!
Steak is a splurge for us too
wow awesome i love eating broccoli so this is perfect but i always have to have cheese or ranch or it just doesnt taste right to me
well all great for getting your iron I eat it all and they are all delious
I have to have ranch on raw broccoli too
I do not like dressings in 99% of all that are sold.
What I like is home-made dressings and sauces.
That’s a Splurge!
I really love broccoli!
Broccoli is my all time favorite vege (and my biggest iron source)
I love broccoli.
i love broccoli and so does my children! steamed and ready togo!
Thanks I used the have low iron, so I know all about this.
We really like flank steak with avacado butter and asparagus with balsamic vinegar sause
We grow your own garden every years, and I preserve everything. So we grow lots of broccoli.
GOOD SOURCES OF VITAMIN D
SUNLIGHT
3oz light canned tuna in water (3.8mcg)
1 cup fortified milk (2.9mcg)
1 cup fortified orange juice (3.4mcg)
We eat them all..we are doing good so far
We get plenty of sunlight here! I don’t eat tuna and dd isn’t supposed to have milk (but she will eat tuna!)
Sent 2 hours yesterday mowing the grass and doing yard work I hope that was enough. .it was hot yesterday
We drink/eat them all sot hats good 🙂 and also sit in the sun as much as i can since i cant sit out in it to long or i burn
yes I get all that we could use some more sun here but it is here today as I will be going out to mow 5acer so I will get plenty today
Id come do it for you Karen but 8 am probably not close enough. .I love mowing its my alone relaxing time.
I do to I love it I use to work at a golf course mowed for 8 hrs a day
Sounds fun to me..I get mad if my husband tries to mow..
I shouldn’t be lacking Vitamin D between the time I sopend outside and the tuna/milk I consume but somehow am deficient
I love milk, cheese, all dairy products and green veggies, but I also supplement my diet with Vitamin D & Calcium vitamins.
Tuna I can do.
the info you have been giving us is great thank you for your time and finding the knowledge to give us great health tips!
I now have low Vitamin D, thanks.
My kids love tuna
My girls love it too..they will eat it straight out of the can..not me I like it as a tuna salad
We eat lots of these, so I think we do good.
GOOD SOURCES OF FIBER
½ cup black beans (6.1g)
1 medium pear (5.5g)
½ cup fresh raspberries (4g)
1 medium sweet potato baked with skin (3.8g)
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I have a 2 pear trees that produce some huge pears..I don’t eat them to often though. I have never been a fan of pears, don’t like the texture but my girls like them..when they were babies I would make baby food with the pears.
Dd LOVES raspberries! She takes them in her lunch! We love pears too. Black beans and sweet potatoes not so much! 🙂
We don’t eat black beans either..its hard enough getting my husband to eat any at all. I do like sweet potatoes but for same reason I don’t buy them to aften. .probably no one else in the house eats them
i love all this but respberries they just dont taste right to me but all the others ill touch 🙂
Im not a big fan of raspberries either..but I love raspberry flavored stuff
I to have a fruit garden and I love my fresh fruit
Karen I am so jelious
I got recently hooked on black beans and have always loved raspberries and pears…now to jhust eat them more
I guess you could say I am a “berry addict!” I love strawberries, blueberries, raspberries anytime, anywhere! Also love many types of beans & use them often in my meals.
that’s good Susan they are good for us
I just got to go shopping yesterday for strawberries and I picked up 2 avocados Never tried avocado before going to day.
You should look yup a recipe for avacado butter it is really good with steak.i cant eat avacodo by its self but it is good on a burger
i love everyone of these! i am a fruitaholic! and i always make my family eat the skin on the potatoes!
I love berries.
My husband is so picky and won’t eat a lot of bean, peppers, onions and strawberries. .I do like black beans and rice..but I dont make it cuz no one else in the house will eat it.
Our family loves beans, So I cook a lot of these. As you can tell, I do a lot of home cooking.
GOOD SOURCES OF CALCIUM
1 cup collard greens (357mg)
¼ cup diced Swiss cheese (261mg)
1 cup 2% nonfat milk (293mg)
Making me hungry, I haven’t ate yet. We are a cheese loving family. I only buy 2% milk because ever since I was little whole milk smells like wet dog…gross. I have been trying to get my kids to eat more greens..I like them and I got my husband eatting them
Everyone but dh are cheese lovers here!! We can eat it on everything…all different kinds!
Hey Im from Wisconsin here and love my cheese! so were good on that and drink 1% milk 😀 i think were doing pretty good on this part
yes we get our daily dose of all this eggs straight from the chicken and the collard greens from our garden
Karen I think im gonna come live with you..sounds like you have a nice set up
well after 25 years her on our 20 acer farm it is the only way we know how to live we live of the land we fish and hunt to I guess you can say I am 100% country but I love it
Thats my dream..I love the outdoors. but my husband is a homebody
I cant wait to get my yard fenced in so I can get some chickens. my mom had some and we loved fresh chicken butt eggs
Ive yet to have collard greens I like but I am a cheese nut (and love me my milk)
I am pretty sure I get enough calcium since I love eggs, cheese, milk, all green veggies & supplement w/calcium & vitamin D.
Hey I can eat all of things
i love swiss cheese we for sure go through a bout 1 pound a week great snack with crackers or just by itself!
I also have to eat items with calcium. Thanks
Im lacking in this category, I really do need to drink more milk.
GREAT SOURCES OF PHYTONUTRIENTS
Eat a little bit of everything you see in these images, and your body will THANK YOU!
I like everything I see but I have never been a fan of carrots..I eat them bc I know they are good for me
my mom made pickle carrots oh man where they good
Oh yeah..those berries would be yummy in a smoothie
Both pics have all our favorites!! We are trying our hands at growing tomatoes, carrots, onions and strawberries. I don’t think the carrots and onions are gonna make it though! 🙁
What are those berries on the stem?..they look good
Ill touch everything bu t the raspberries and black berries 😀 everything else makes my tummy growl 😀 imma get some strawberries now!
I have been wanting some strawberries. .me and the kids ate the last bunch with chocolate fondue. .yum..went to walmart last week and got excited bc they were 2 for 3$. But they didnt look good at all so I didnt get any. .so ready for the farmers market
Mmmmmmmm…..keeping fruits stocked here seems impossible but I eat em as often as I can …veges I eat almost everyday
We cant keep them in the house either. .as soon as we bring them in the kids are eatting them
Okay that I will do. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
all of my favorites in those pictures weather raw or cooked! l and a great spinal salad with all the toppings! mmmm
Yummy, I’m getting hungry.
I’ve tried growing a garden. But it gets so dry and hot here. It’s hard to grow anything. I go to our local sprouts and buy veggies and fruits every week.
Spending memorial day with my husand who is an Air Force veteran
We have 5 apple trees in the yard and a grape vine. And neighbors give us berries and peaches, Plus everything we grow in the garden.
Hi everyone & Good Morning to all~The most significant event this week in my life, would be my oldest daughter went to court and hopefully a big problem in her life will soon be resolved…..I’ve been really stressed out over this, so hopefully some of this stress will soon be gone. #AMCoffee =)
I get all this its in our garden every year we live off our land and we put it away for winter
Karen,
Your living reminds me of my grandmothers’, both of them.
All summer long we used to grow and gather fruit, berries, vegetables galore and make different preserves.
Oh, my, how I miss them! I never made a single preserve in my life, though I’ve lived off them, and my grandmas and mom and sis made them.
I guess I am a “black sheep” who chose a different way of getting them!
Sounds liked my dream place
Before I get completely over whelmed I rub my two hands together and lift them up. Than I say I hand over to you. In the end it always works out. I learned this from my Grandmother who was 100% Italian. 🙂 Hope it work out for you daughter Susan. 🙂
Well, I use & ate six of the veggies in the veggie photo above, just this week, so think I’m ok there.
Happy Memorial Day, be safe. Thank you to all those who have served and are currently serving.
You too wendy
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