Healthy eating for weight loss has many more advantages than simply losing weight. Your health improves to the point where you just don't get ill. The secret lies in knowing what the healthy foods are.
Most people know of the benefits of taking vitamin C, especially when it comes to colds and the flu. But it's not that simple. Everything can look simple on the surface, but there are many factors that need to be considered.
Vitamin C is needed by the human body on a daily basis. Your body cannot make it, itself. So your diet must supply all its needs.
Without vitamin C, most people know that their health will suffer badly. But in what way? A deficiency can create weakness, fatigue, muscular pain, an inability to shake off infections, anorexia, soft gums, brittle teeth and bones, skin haemorrhages, slow healing of wounds, capillary weakness, anaemia, destruction of collagen, thyroid insufficiency, premature aging and scurvy.
The illness that results from a deficiency in vitamin C depends on how severe this is and your predisposition, or your 'Achilles heel' to certain diseases.
Most people don't eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables to get all their vitamin C requirements. So they tend to supplement their diets. And this is where the problems start.
The vast majority of vitamin C supplements sold today are in an isolated and synthetic form - calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, ascorbic acid. Although they can appear to give you a short term boost in health, they have long term consequences that can seriously affect your health.
What are these?
You didn't evolve on isolated or synthetic nutrients. Your nutrients need to be in the complex and balanced form called food. Each nutrient co-depends on a whole host of others, to be properly digested and utilised by your body. Your body doesn't know what to do with the synthetic variety. It becomes confused, allowing problems to arise.
So what are these problems?
Synthetic vitamin C makes your body acidic. Your natural body pH has to be alkaline to survive.
Another problem, according to one human study, is that only 1500 mg of synthetic vitamin C per day can cause iron deficiency and anaemia.
Synthetic vitamin C can cause gout, hardening of the arteries and deficiencies in copper, zinc and vitamin B and probably a host of other nutrients.
It is easy to overdose on synthetic vitamin C. Acute symptoms include stomach ache, diarrhea, cramping, nausea and gas. When your body tries to excrete excess vitamin C, it puts an unnatural strain on your liver and kidneys.
Apart from upping your intake of fresh fruit and veggies, what else can you do? There are some very potent, plant based vitamin C supplements around now, which remain active even in storage. Acerola cherries are one such example.
Because your body recognises food, it knows what to do with it. You can't overdose on natural vitamin C, because any excess is easily excreted.
Healthy eating for weight loss is a total package for fabulous health and a gorgeous figure.
Madeleine Innocent is a full time natural health consultant specialising in diet-for-health and homeopathy. She treats both people and animals within these two disciplines. She also coaches people both on- and off-line, on these subjects. For more information, visit: Healthy Eating For Weight Loss
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