Nutrition: An Overview
Nutrition. What do you think of when you see that word? For most people,
nutrition conjures up some vague ideas about eating a balanced diet comprising
something of each of the four main food groups, and maybe sticking to
low-fat, low-sugar, low-salt foods. Eating healthily is commonly associated
with lettuce leaves and raw carrots — rabbit food to most people.
But nutrition isn't so much about what we eat as what our bodies do with
the foods we eat.
There are a number of vitamins, herbs, and other supplements that are
well known in helping aid in the thyroid patient's recovery. In this article,
Dr Barry Peatfield and Nikki Tovell discuss these supplements like Vitamin
C and milk thistle, how they can help, and the dosages you should take.
Your
thyroid is a very sensitive and complicated machine. It needs a good diet
and a copious supply of clean drinking water. Learn more about what's
good and what's bad for this major endocrine gland.
When your liver is stressed, which it will be if you've been ill for a
long time, it will be unable to cope and you are therefore likely to react
badly to a lot of substances which would normally not cause a problem.
Find out what these are.