Spirulina and Chlorella – Summing it all up

You are what you eat. Your health and well being depends largely on what you put into your body and how you use your body. It’s a question of putting in the right things.  Put diesel into your petrol engine car and see how far you get.

A balanced diet, regular exercise, and no nasty habits like smoking, drugs or excessive alcohol, and you are likely to enjoy good health. We in the western world should theoretically, be able to accomplish this relatively easily.  But of course, for all sorts of reasons, this doesn’t happen, as we all know.

It has been a growing cause for concern that in even relatively wealthy western countries poor nutrition is reaching epidemic proportions, particularly amongst the least well off and  even more alarmingly, children. There is too much processed and junk food around and people have lost the habit of cooking from scratch, or simply do not have the expertise, the time or the knowledge to get things right.  There is too much availability of the wrong kinds of food. It can also be quite confusing, to know exactly what to eat in order to be absolutely certain you are getting every single nutritional requirement for maximum health, however well informed you are.

In the third world many people have no choice in the matter. Poor nutrition and malnutrition are global issues of huge importance in today’s world. In developing countries, malnutrition continues to loom as one the key concerns of governments and populations alike. Malnutrition means sickness, inability to thrive and in the worse cases, death.

In the western world, there has been a marked change in diet and lifestyle which has led to a massive growth in obesity and an accelerated incidence of diseases related to poor diet, such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.

Given this scenario, the question is, can Spirulina and Chlorella, singly or jointly, actually help in improving nutrition in this rather depressing situation?

Quite possibly....