Eat for Life The Food and Nutrition Board's Guide to Reducing Your Risk of Chronic Disease (1992) / Chapter Skim
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pelIagra were relatively commonboth are caused by nutritional deficiencies and cured by diets containing sufficient amounts of a particular nutrient. In the case of goiter, iodine is the missing nutrient; with pelIagra it is mainly niacin, a B vitamin.
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. in addition, habitually eating more calories than the body uses for maintenance and physical activity produces obesity and increases the risk of several chronic diseases including noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a form of diabetes that does not usually require daily insulin injections but has many adverse complications and generally appears after age 40.
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Most of the material in Eat for Life comes from the much larger volume Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk (National Academy Press, 1989) , which was the primary result of that review.
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But they also concluded that it would be wrong to ignore the large body of existing evidence supporting a link between nutrition and chronic disease while waiting for absolute proof of the benefits that we as a nation, and as individuals, would gain from making certain changes in our diets. After all their deliberations, the committee members decicled that the overall evidence for a relationship between certain dietary patterns a diet high in saturated fatty acids and total fat, for example and chronic diseases -- such as heart attacks and certain cancers supports three actions.
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AN EATING PAfFERN FOR LIFE NOT A "DIET" The nine dietary guidelines deviser! by the committee can help reduce your risk of developing heart disease, hypertension, various forms of cancer, dental caries, obesity, noninsulindepenclent diabetes, osteoporosis, and chronic liver disease.
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Reduce saturated fatty acid intake to less than 10 percent of calories. Reduce cholesterol intake to less than 300 milligrams (mg)
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And in Chapter 10 you will find practical advice on how to follow the guidelines easily in your everyday life and how to avoid common nutritional pitfalls. In the end, you will probably be surprised at how easy it is to eat healthfully and to enjoy your meals today without compromising your health in the future.
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