A Healthy Body

“I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks” - Joe E. Lewis

"In an emergency situation or during a natural disaster, it will be of the utmost importance that you maintain your body’s health and well being. This will allow you to have the necessary strength for any tasks that may need to be performed."

So begin the blog post, Long Term Food Storage - The Importance of Nutrition on StealthSurvival.blogspot.com. Since food loses vitamins and nutrients over time, any food in old cans in your food storage may be filling but not doing much for your overall health. In our food store we include a year’s supply of daily vitamin supplements just in case.

During a prolonged emergency your health is likely to decline. Stress, lack of sleep, unsanitary conditions, and inadequate food all take a toll on the body and your immune system. You’ll get tired faster and sick more easily. So it is very important to be in the best of health and fitness during the good times so you will have a health buffer or cushion against the bad times. Think of it as the Old Testament story of Pharaoh and the 7 good years followed by 7 lean years but applied to your own body.

Bottom Line

The secret to health is no secret:

• Eat “real” foods (i.e. limit snack and junk foods)
• Watch your calories. Despite diet wars over fats vs Carbs, science keeps returning to the discovery that calories matter.
• Exercise – just three minutes a day, seven minutes a week, will help according to a recent study, Want to get healthy? Exercise 7 minutes a week

Michael Pollan in his book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto sums up a healthy diet as, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."