Why Nutrient-Rich World’s Healthiest Foods are the Key to Health and Healthy Weight Loss

Nutrients are the Body’s Ingredients for Health

I am going to review why the nutrients, in which the

World’s Healthiest Foods are so concentrated, are essential to your

health. You’ll see how they provide so many great benefits and are

therefore the key to healthy weight loss and optimal health.

Even though most everyone is familiar with the idea of nutrition and

nutrients, many people do not really know what nutrients actually do

and how they work, including how they contribute to weight loss. I

want to tell you what nutrients do by starting out with the simple

example of calcium.

You’ve no doubt heard that calcium is important for the health of

your bones. And you may also have heard that osteoporosis—a bone

problem that affects 20 million adults in the U.S.—can be “prevented

by calcium.”

I wish things were this simple! But unfortunately, they are not. Even

though calcium plays a pivotal role in maintaining our bone health,

it’s just not true that calcium, all by itself, can prevent the occurrence

of osteoporosis.

First of all, there are many more nutrients that bones need to build

their structure and density. For example, for good bone health you need 

magnesium, manganese, zinc, vitamin D, vitamin C, vitamin K,

boron, silicon, potassium, and a variety of other nutrients. Just

focusing on calcium won’t allow you to achieve the goal of good bone

health. You need a much broader list of nutrients that can only be provided

by nutrient-rich foods like the World’s Healthiest Foods.

Most people are used to thinking about nutrients in a “this cures

that” type of way. This way of thinking is sometimes encouraged

by the overly simplified positioning of dietary supplements in the

marketplace. Manufacturers often include health claims on their

product labels that present relatively simple cause-effect relationships

between nutrients and health. For example, a supplement manufacturer

might claim that calcium builds strong bones, or that fiber

maintains bowel regularity, or that vitamin E supports heart health.

While all of these connections between nutrients and health have

science-based validity, consumers might end up concluding that all

they need for a healthy heart is vitamin E, or that nothing more is

needed for building strong bones than calcium. The truth of the

matter is that no single nutrient is a magic bullet that can singlehandedly

prevent a disease or protect an entire body system like

blood vessels or bones.

It’s not as if a nutrient waves a magic want and voila…a health

problem is fixed. The reason that nutrients are related to the

prevention of future health problems and the improvement of existing

ones is connected to the role that nutrients play in all of the body’s

underlying structures and metabolic activities. They are the resources

that our body needs to make and maintain healthy cells. They are the

substances that help run our metabolism and allow our body to go

about its moment-by-moment physiologic activities. Without them,

our body cannot do the things it needs to do: for example, our cells

can’t communicate, our muscles can’t contract, and oxygen can’t

be carried in our blood. Those three activities are joined by literally

thousands of other activities that go on every second at a metabolic

level that is invisible to us but absolutely critical to our health.

Nutrients, therefore, are the ingredients in the body’s recipe for 

supporting its underlying structure and function, which serve as the

foundation for our physical health.

You can get a glimpse of this massive underlying health foundation

if you take any single nutrient and look at everything it does in the

body. As an example, let’s take magnesium.

Magnesium is a co-factor in over 300 different enzymatic reactions.

These include many steps in the energy production cycle as well as

the synthesis of our DNA. Magnesium is also an important component

in bone structure and plays an important role in cell-to-cell communication,

especially that involving our nerve and muscle cells.

Without adequate amounts of magnesium, our bodies wouldn’t be

able to function properly, which can first lead to lowered energy and

then potentially progress to a variety of different signs, symptoms,

and health conditions when things aren’t working well. As you can

also see, it’s more complicated than simply saying that the role of

magnesium is to promote heart health or bone health, two claims

that are often associated with this mineral. Magnesium, like all other

nutrients, is needed in hundreds of different ways for support of our

underlying metabolic processes, and it is these underlying processes

that serve as the true foundation for our overall physical health.

You might think that this more comprehensive and holistic view of

health and nutrients would make nourishment more complicated.

But it’s actually the opposite! The true role of nutrients in your

health actually makes things much simpler.

That’s because the World’s Healthiest Foods are comprehensive and

holistic as well! If you consider the World’s Healthiest Foods as a

group, you will discover that their nutrients support every aspect of

our metabolic and cellular needs. Not only do they maintain this

massive underlying biochemical structure that supports all of our

health, but they do so in an optimal way by combining nutrients in

their most natural patterns. No supplement will ever be able to

achieve this amazing level of synergy between nutrients! All you have to do is focus on enjoying the World’s Healthiest Foods since their nutrient-richness and natural synergy of nutrients will do the

rest of the work for you.