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Digestion is the process by which the body breaks down and absorbs nutrients from food and beverages. The nutrients absorbed are used for energy, growth, and cellular repair. U.S federal guidelines on diet suggests that Americans should eat a variety of foods and engage in physical activity. Foods included for good digestion include fat free milk products, fruits, vegetables, unsalted nuts or seeds, whole grains, lean meats, poultry, seafood, beans, peas, soy products, and eggs.

Minerals play an important role in health and body function. Minerals are inorganic substances that are essential nutrients the body needs for daily function and processes. Minerals are obtained through consuming plants that absorb them or by eating animals that consume the plants. These are a few minerals that are important for good hearing.

Everyone takes eyesight for granted until their sight is much less than 20/20. I was the same until an afternoon in 2001. During a one repetition maximum bench press, I ruptured blood vessels in the back of my eye supplying my retina. After observation and testing by an ophthalmologist neurologist. It was recommended that I undergo laser treatment to cauterize the blood vessels. At this point, the prognosis was quite good.

Many foods we consume produce an acid or alkaline base known as bicarbonate that is released into the bloodstream after being digested, absorbed, and metabolized. Grains, fish, meat, poultry, shellfish, cheese, milk, and salt release acid. Too many of these foods can increase acidity which depletes valuable minerals. Highly acidic intake over time may result in heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, or bone, joint, and muscle weakness. Cultures that do not have access to many fruits and vegetables have a very highly acidic diet. Eskimos eat large amounts of seal meat and fish.

Gastroesophageal reflux disease, acid reflux, or heart burn is a chronic problem that occurs when stomach acids backflow into the esophagus. Many have heart burn occasionally when consuming too much spicy food. If you have this burning sensation more than twice a week, you may have acid reflux. In 2005, there were 3,141,965 hospitalizations due to acid reflux. Sixty- two percent of hospitalizations were women. The same study showed that the number of adults hospitalized dropped from 1998 to 2005.

Approximately forty-five million Americans complain of headaches each year which is more than any other ailment. This accounts for one in every six people or sixteen and a half percent of the population. More than eight million people will visit a physician for headache treatment.

From the years 2013 to 2015, 54.4 million adults in the United States or 27.7 percent of the population annually have been told by a physician that they had some form of arthritis encompassing rheumatoid arthritis, gout, lupus, or fibromyalgia. The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis and other rheumatic conditions include gout, fibromyalgia, and rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis means inflammation of one or more joints. It describes more than one hundred conditions that affect joints, tissues around joints, and connective tissue.

In 2018, 30.3 million Americans were diagnosed with heart disease. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. Approximately 647,000 people die of heart disease every year in the United States. One in every four deaths is due to heart disease. Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease, which kills 385,000 people annually. Each year 825,000 people have a heart attack, with 605,000 having a first heart attack and 325,000 having a second or additional number of heart attacks.

There is now a superior product for cardiac stress testing that is much better for patients and physicians. This cardiac stress system provides a better diagnostic test which measures cardiac demand rather than pain induced heart rate elevation due to orthopedic strain or poor lactic acid buffering and tolerance. The research completed tests the treadmill versus our product. The apparatus is superior to other cycles for maximal and submaximal testing as well as cardiovascular conditioning.

The nervous system is probably the most important system of the body and certainly essential for life as we currently know it. The nervous system controls cognition, analysis, decision making, autonomic, and motor function. Signs of nerve damage or malfunction are numbness, tingling, pain, or more serious cases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, or multiple sclerosis. Hopefully, by eating a preventative, healthy diet people may be able to reduce or avoid nerve damage resulting from many diverse factors.