Some Amazingly Healthy Foods

Healthy is a lot more than just only eating a certain amount of carbs each day. It is actually about nutrients, vitamins, and fuel.

First off, why do we eat? If your answer was anything other than, "because we would die if we didn't" then you fail because that is the only acceptable answer.

Food is important for every bodily function that occurs every day, including you own. Without food you would be a skinny little man struggling to push your frail fingers against your keyboard.

So it is important that you understand food is going to replace and replenish everything that happens in your body. If you are exercising to gain muscle mass you will need to eat more calories to build some weight for that muscle gain.

A very good food for breakfast is cereal; it has a lot of carbohydrates that will get you all amped up for the long day ahead of you. The problem here is there isn't much more to cereal other than carbohydrates.

So what I like to do is get a bag of ground flaxseed and I just toss two or three table spoons in my cereal. It may not helping that much, but at least is still helping.

There was a study in women, and after the women started eating their flaxseed they found some incredible affects. It was shown that women that ate flax seed regularly were 46 percent less likely to develop breast cancer.

That was an astounding fact when I heard it. And not only does this flax seed help to prevent cancer, but it also has more omega-3s than any other plant in the world.

These omegas are going to strengthen and buttress your brain. These fatty acids are vital in the development of your neurons and synaptic pathways.

So if you do not want to lose your mind, you need to protect it with these omegas. So besides from making you smarter these flax seeds will also help against depression.

You see depression lies in the brain, which the flax seed fixes up. So you can rest easy at night knowing that you won't be depressed as long as you are getting a healthy amount of omegas.

These flax seeds also do a number of things for the heart. So let's outline the benefits, what two organs control everything thing else in the body-- one the brain, two the heart.

What does flax seed protect and help reinforce? Yeah, so it is pretty obvious that you should be getting your flax somehow or other.

Destry Masterson is a health and nutrition expert. She publishes articles for http://www.foodinsurance.com and recommends them for food storage. Contact Info: Destry Masterson - MyOnlineArticleWriting@gmail.com - Twitter: @DestryMasterson