Maintain Your Body’s Nutrient Reservoirs
Health Habit # 3 is to maintain the nutrient levels in your body.
 If you let your car run out of gas it soon stops.
Similarly, your body needs to be nourished. A big difference is that your body can “sputter” for a long time after its levels of nutrients go low.
Another big difference between a car and your body is that your body has a need for thousands of unique nutrients and not just gasoline.
The nutrients your body needs come in this order:
- minerals
- enzymes
- all other nutrients
When you get low on a particular nutrient that your body needs, it starts to misfunction in that cellular repair can’t be done right, certain processes in the body no longer occur just right and free radicals can’t be neutralized as well.
As more and more things go wrong, cellular deterioration escalates... and although it takes many years to irreparably damage the trillions of cells in your body... eventually you will stop running — just like a car out of gas.
There are two important concepts to remember in regard to nourishing your body. These concepts are:
- Variety of Food
- Nutrient Denseness of Food
Variety of Food
No single food contains all the nutrients the body needs. Hence, if a person gets in a habit of eating only a few foods that he or she likes, it is virtually guaranteed that this person will run low in nutrients missing from those foods. So, mix up your diet, try new foods, or do a winter, spring, summer and fall rotation in the foods you eat. One good way to do this IS TO EAT WHAT IS IN SEASON.
Nutrient-Dense Food
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