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Healthy Food vs. Your Seeming Poor Health Status

You eat healthy meals of fresh vegetables and fruits, yet you do not always feel as healthy as you think you should be. Does this sound familiar? Yes? Now ask yourself; what exactly do you eat or drink after which your body gives you these negative vibes? What chronic disease, e.g., diabetes, hypertensive, etc, do you have versus what you are eating or drinking, even if they are healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, or nuts?

Now, here are some few examples of food that do not interact too well with some health status, or disease conditions, or medicines you are taking for those diseases.

1. Spinach and Broccoli are good sources of Vitamin K, which is needed by the body for blood clotting, especially when you have a cut or injury. However, if you are taking medicine to make your blood thinner, then you want to avoid these veggies as they can counteract the effect of these medicines in your body.

2. If you like aged cheese and red wines and you are hypertensive, you may want to avoid these food or drink, because they increase the substance called Tyramine in the body which can contribute to high blood pressure.

3. As healthy as garlic use in food is, you may want to avoid it if you have any kind of bleeding disorder and using antidiabetic medicine.

These are just a few. There are many more of such healthy food and drug/disease interactions. So you should check in with your medical doctor or healthcare professional on your diet vs. your health conditions to be sure that what you’re eating/drinking  is supporting your medicine and your  overall health status optimally.

If you need more details on this  blog topic,  you can read http://www.healthline.com and http://www.hopkinslupus.org. or better still,  discuss with your doctor.

Some time in the future, I will hold a webinar on a topic relating to this article, so watch out for the announcement, or better still, subscribe to my page to be among the first people to know about it, or read my friendly health and wellness blogs immediately as published. Cheers till the next blog.

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