Without doubt, healthy diet plays an important role to our health. Vegetables, fruits, and meats from the last generation are healthier than present due to less usage of weed control, the pesticide, hormone injection and so on.
But time has changed and the foods we eat these days may contain kind of sugar of unknown chemical substances. Moreover, we are not educated of its harmful side effect.
Hence, dietary habit has become the modern human's health issue. Our health is like a depository, when we eat unhealthy foods, it could disturb our system and the body cannot function properly. When the depository becomes empty, various kind of disease such as heart disease, cancer could appear.
健康饮食，毫无疑问，它对我们的健康有着至关重要的作用。在过去的年代，蔬菜水果，肉类都比现在健康，没有那么多除草剂，杀虫剂，激素饲料等。
可是时代变了，我们现在吃的东西不是含有各种各样的糖分，就是一堆连我们自己都说不清楚叫什么的化学物质，更不用说了解它们是什么东西，吃进肚子会有什么副作用了。
因此，饮食的习惯已成现代人类的健康问题，身体健康就有如一个仓库，每当吃入一些不健康的食物时，就会从仓库中取走了一些东西，身体机能就会随着仓库的减少而下降，直到仓库变空，那时候心脏病，各类疾病，癌症就会悄悄地从身体出现。
ARE WE TRULY HEALTHY
Most people claim that they are already healthy - they are not in hospital suffering from a crippling disease and do not need to rely on medication regularly. But what they do not realize is that human beings are constantly bombarded by a myriad of harmful substances daily: pollutants in the air and water, metals, pesticides, food chemicals and preservatives, alcohol and caffeine. We may not suffer its effects immediately, but the consequences can be dire in the long run, with body experiencing a host of degenerative diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, kidney problems and cancer.
我们的身体真的健康吗？
人们总是以为不用住院接受治疗，无需按时吃药就等于身体健康。其实我们的身体每天都暴露在无数的威胁 中，包括空气和水中的污染物，重金属，农药，事物中的化学物质和防腐剂，酒精以及咖啡因等。这些有害物质对人体的侵害不是立即就产生的，而是随着人体功能 的日渐衰退形成可怕的疾病，例如心脏疾病，高血压，糖尿病，肾脏病及癌症等。
PREVENTION OF TOXIC BUILT UP -- A DAILY STRUGGLE
The body prevents toxic waste from accumulating through detoxification - an effective cleaning process involving the immune system, skin, lungs, kidneys, liver and gastrointestinal tract. With increasing work-related stress and worsening environmental pollution, the body is faced with a greater challenge to maintain its immune system. It is common knowledge that cars need regular servicing to ensure peak performance. Like wise, the immune system need proper nourishment daily for optimal functioning of the body. This often requires a double-pronged approach: providing nutrients to fortify the immune system to against diseases during the day while focusing on regeneration and repair of immune cells at night.
每天清楚体内毒素，时刻保持身体健康
身体需要通过排毒来保持身体健康，排毒过程包括人体内的免疫系统，皮肤，肺，肾脏，肝脏以及肠胃道等 部位通过清除毒素以保持正常的运作。然而，随着工作压力的增加以及日渐恶化的环境污染，身体需要面对更严峻的挑战才得以保持身体免疫系统的健康。我们都知 道，汽车需要定时保养才能维持最佳的性能，人体也一样，免疫系统也需要日常适当的营养来维持最佳健康状态。其中最有效的方法就是在日间摄取均衡适当的营养 来强化免疫系统，在晚间则加强免疫细胞的修复，使免疫系统时刻得到最佳的滋养。
ARE WE GETTING ENOUGH FROM OUR DIETS ?
It is irony that though affluence has given us a widen access to many different cuisines, many of us remain nutritionally deficient. Many of us are aware that providing the body with balanced diet of macro-nutrients such as proteins, carbohydrates and fats are essential to good health. Yet, important immunity-building compounds, namely antioxidants, phytochemicals and polysaccharides remain neglected in our diets.
我们所摄取的营养足够吗？
我们虽然处于在一个丰衣足食的时代，却仍然有许多人有营养失调的问题，这的确是一个很讽刺的现象。人 们大多数都意识到从饮食中摄取均衡的常量营养素，包括蛋白质，碳水化合物以及脂肪等对身体健康非常重要，然而人们却经常忽略了强健免疫系统的重要元素，如 抗氧化剂，植物营养素以及多糖体的重要性。
A DIETARY INVESTMENT
Financial advisors never tire of repeating this oft-heard mantra - start saving early and get huge payoff when you are older. The same could be said about our diet. For example, researchers have long suspected that what a woman eats in her 20s, 30s and 40s could lower her breast cancer risk in midlife. they think that prolonged exposure to hormones like estrogen and progesterone levels in the body increases breast cancer risk. Eating healthy low-fat, high-fibre meals may actually lower these hormone levels.
Cancer is not only a result of what we eat, but also what we do not eat. Nutritional deficiencies brought about by hurried and unbalanced meals can drastically undermine the immune system. Many studies have shown that plant food is of particular value in the battle against cancer.
将饮食视为一种健康的投资
财政顾问常会不压其烦地再三强调：及早开始做好准备，以在年老时获得可观的回报。其实饮食的道理也一 样，例如：研究人员一直人为，女性从20-40岁其间的正确饮食，有助于降低中年患上乳癌的风险。他们指出，若体内的荷尔蒙，如雌激素与黄体素的水平长期 升高，将会增加患山乳癌的风险，而摄取低肢肪，高钎维的健康饮食，能够帮助降低这些荷尔蒙水平。
事实上，癌症的发生不只取决于我们所吃的食物，也与我们少吃的食物有关。由于仓促和不均衡的饮食而导致的营养不良，将可能严重地破坏免疫系统。许多研究显示，植物性食物在对抗癌症的过程中扮演着非常重要的角色。
THE IMPORTANCE OF VARIETY
Choosing of variety of plant foods is also crucial for there is no particular plant that can accommodate all of our nutritional needs. Therefore, scientists say that we must consume at least 10 different types of plant foods daily for an adequate supply of nutrients.
When we eat a combination of wholesome plant foods, we are also consuming a combination of different antioxidants, phytochemicals and polysaccharides. Likewise, when we consume different species of the same plant, we may be obtaining different benefits.
Other than controlling what we eat, emotional stability is also an important factor to prevent cancer. This is because long-term anxiety and restlessness will cause our immunity to fall rapidly, and unable to work optimally.
Prevention is better than cure. If we have the awareness of preventing illnesses and cancers, watch our diet, take sufficient rest, engage in regular physical exercises and keep emotional stability, we will be able to live healthily and happily.
选择多样完整植物性食物
值得注意的是，选择多样化的植物性食物至关重要，因为没有一种植物能够提供人类所有的营养需求。因此科学家认为，人必须每天摄取至少十中不同的植物性食物，以获取充足的营养供应。完整的植物性食物含常量营养素和微量营养素，能有效地全面提升免疫系统功能。
摄取各种完整植物性食物时，我们也能获得不同抗氧化剂，植物营养素和多糖体的组合。同样的，当我们摄取同一类植物的不同品种时，也能够得到各种益处。
然而，除了饮食的注意与控制外，保持心情愉快也是预防癌症的重要因素，因为长期处于心情紧张或生气不安的状态，免疫力就会迅速下降，无法正常运作。
预防胜于治疗。我们平时应有预防疾病与癌症的意识，注意饮食的营养与均衡，适当的运动以及稳定的情绪，做到防患于未然，健康就会跟随着，快乐也会缠绕着。
