- HETN is at the forefront of exploring the relationship
between nutrition and chronic disease.
- The human body needs sufficient nutrients for optimum
health.
- Today, as a result of environmental degradation, farming
methods, food processing and diet choices, there is a
gap in the nutritional status of most people.
- In consequence, our immunity is compromised and chronic
diseases are on the increase. In the West, people may
be living longer but half of them have a health problem
that requires taking a prescription drug on a regular
basis.
- This worldwide problem is extreme in Africa, where primary
micronutrient deficiencies are widespread and severe.
- Fortification or supplementation of a defective diet
with micronutrients in the form of chemical isolates is
now commonplace, but this cannot solve the problem because
they are often toxic, they are poorly absorbed and they
rarely act in the body in the way nature intended.
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