CHAPTER 3
Why Nutrient-Rich World’s
Healthiest Foods are the
Key to Health and
Healthy Weight Loss
Nutrients are the Body’s Ingredients for Health
In this chapter, 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 actuallydo
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 occur-
rence 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
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