Why fiber is so important?
- It helps you to feel full.
- Helps to maintain a balanced blood sugar level, preventing hypoglycemia and craving.
- Helps to soften your stools, preventing constipation.
- Helps to speed up the transition of waste drastically cutting down on auto-intoxification.
- Helps to feed and encourage the correct bowel flora.
- Ensures the removal of excess cholesterol and balances estrogen (helping with PMS sabotage mentioned earlier).
Getting plenty of fiber on a daily basis definitely does not mean eating bran! Bran is:-
Read More14 ways to easily get more daily anti-oxidants
By now everyone knows that antioxidants are incredibly beneficial to their health. Antioxidants can help prevent cancer, slow down or even reverse aging, improve immunity, increase your energy, strengthen the circulation and other systems. Given this information it’s amazing more people don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables on a daily basis. They are our primary source of antioxidants and the popular press have reported many times about the “5 a day” but for optimum health 8 to 10 servings of fruit and vegetables daily is nearer the mark.
Here are some simple steps to add more anti-oxidants to your diet.
Read More6 dos and don’ts of drinking water
1) Don’t drink much water with meals. This is because water will dilute the digestive juices hampering digestion.
2) Do drink a glass of water 30 minutes before a meal.
For two good reasons a) this will encourage your digestive juices and ensure better digestion b) it will discourage you from over eating, as you will have turned off brain confusion – before you eat.
3) Do start drinking water again an hour or so after a meal.
4) Do drink water ideally at room temperature as ice cold water shocks the stomach, however if this is the only way you can drink water then this is better than not drinking water.
Read MoreSigns & symptoms of nutritional deficiencies
Nutritional deficiencies are becoming ever more common these days due manufacturing processes. Most processed foods are void of most of the essential nutrients, classed as “empty calories” or “dead foods”. The more you consume these foods, the greater the deficit. The whole process of digestion from start to finish is a complex series of manoeuvres, requiring a lot of energy and nutrients for digestion, absorption and utilization. There are numerous enzymes, compounds, vitamins and minerals the body absolutely NEEDS to undertake and complete the many stages sufficiently.
If what you consume on a daily basis does not bring with it the amount of nutrients your body requires, it cannot put digestion on hold for some later stage. So the body moves nutrients around, a bit like an army being deployed in a troubled spot leaving other areas vulnerable. The body robs nutrients from other systems in order to complete its digestive mission.
Read MoreEat more fruit and protect yourself from diabetes
A recent study by British researchers led by Nita Forouhi, from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Metabolic Science of Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, collected data on 21,831 healthy middle-aged men and women who did not have diabetes. Over the 12 years of the study, 735 of them developed diabetes.
To determine how much fruit and vegetables these people ate, the researchers measured blood levels of vitamin C, which serves as a marker for the amount of fruits and vegetables eaten.
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What are prostaglandins?
Prostaglandins are hormone-like substances that affect every aspect of your health. There are over 30 different types that have been identified so far. These hormone-like substances fall into three main categories, depending on which fatty acid they are made from.
Series 1 prostaglandin is made from omega-6.
Series 2 prostaglandin is made from Arachidonic Acid (AA).
Series 3 prostaglandin is made from omega-3.
Each series has a different function within the body, having far reaching consequences on every cell.
Read MoreSo what is the role of calcium that circulates in the blood?
Calcium acts as our body’s neutralizer, ensuring balance between acid/alkaline.
When we eat too many acid-forming foods. When I say ‘acid forming foods’ I don’t mean foods like lemons (which incidentally are neutralizing, they are alkaline forming in the body). I am referring to the effect food has on our bodies once it have been eaten and digested. Generally, plant foods are alkaline forming (a few can be acid forming) and animal products in general are acid forming foods to varying degrees. So if you are continually eating acid forming foods, you are constantly forcing your bones to leach out calcium in order to keep the pH of the blood balanced. Also a substance that is very acid forming is sugar and most people consume plenty everyday.
So our first step is to reduce our acid levels, this will stop so much calcium being used from our bones. Number one on the list is pork then beef then lamb and chicken. A 67kg or 10½ stone person needs no more than 40gm or 1½oz of protein a day. It is estimated that for every 10g of extra protein we eat a100mg of calcium, is lost in our urine.
The link between high protein intake and calcium loss has been known to scientists for over 50 years. One of many studies took a group of 1,600 women and found that the vegetarians among them had only 18 per cent bone mass loss compared to 35 per cent bone mass loss by meat eaters. I am not suggesting you need to become a vegetarian, as that would be simplifying the situation. Vegetarians can still eat too much sugar or drink too much coffee etc.
In general it has been found that vegetarians are more health conscious than meat eaters, that there are many aspects to their diets that differ not just the fact that they do or do not eat meat.
Can we get too much of a good thing? We have all heard how we all need more calcium. Yet there is a very real danger of taking too much. We end up with large amounts circulating in the blood stream, creating a very real chance of it being dumped in places other than the bones. What do I mean by this? Excess calcium can form painful kidney or gallstones or calcification of soft tissue as your bodies begin to stiffen up, or it can cause arteriosclerosis. I am not suggesting that excess calcium is the sole cause of these problems but it is certainly a component.
We are told that osteoporosis has reached epidemic proportions!
Read More8 early signs of Alzheimer’s or Dementia
Are you misplacing items?
Are you putting things in odd places – sugar in the fridge or butter in the cupboard?
Are you having some degree of trouble doing the usual simple everyday tasks for instance laying the table – putting knives, folks and spoons in the wrong places?
Do you get disorientation – not knowing what time of day it is, not recognising a familiar street?
Do you forget certain words or take too long to find the right words?
Do you sometimes find it difficult to judge the temperature outside, dressing inappropriately?
Are you getting agitated and irritable?
Are you becoming apathetic about your personal hygiene?
However, on the other hand these signs could also be a result of lack of sleep and/or too much stress that has gone on for too long.
Read MoreWhat are lectins?
Do you know what lectins are? You may have heard of ricin, its a highly toxic substance. What might surprise you is that it occurs naturally in castor bean. The very beans used to make castor oil.
In 1998 experiments with genetically-modified potatoes caused a problem as they damaged the brains and immune systems of rats that ate them. It was the lectins found in the potatoes that were the problem and did the damage. How did this happen? Potatoes were modified with the genes from a South African bean known to be toxic to insect, and evidently rats. They thought this would make the plant insect proof. Lectins are found in varying degrees in plants and animals, some are obviously very powerful, other are so weak they are not worth mentioning.
Peter D’Adamo ND talks about lectins in his books on blood types, and how they can affect us in different ways. Lectins are glycoproteins that can agglutinate cells, meaning lectins act like superglue sticking cells together, acting like an enzymes which means it doesn’t take part but evokes a change. Lectins usually effect red or white blood cells but frankly they can affect cells of any organ like the kidneys, pancreas, or liver etc. Our intestinal lining is exposed every time we eat. It has been found the affect lectins have on cells of the gut and bacteria of the intestines causes a cascade of reactions within the body.
Read MoreYou are what you eat. Do you believe that?
Animals fed on different types of fats and oils have a body fat composition chemically similar to the fats in the foods they were given to eat (this goes for you too, except you have choices). It was found that animals fed on cheap processed oils – their meat was found to be equally as toxic as the processed oils themselves. The same goes for farmed fish like salmon, their diet makes them fatter but they have far less omega-3 than their wild cousins. The natural salmon have less body fat but more omega-3! A direct association – they are what they eat.
Fish – tuna, sardines, salmon that are renowned for being high in the essential fatty acid omega-3, are this way because of their natural diet. The omega-3 comes from the green plant life in the ocean, fish further down the food chain gorge themselves on this omega-3 rich foods, they themselves become a rich source of omega-3 for fish further up the food chain.
Eggs can vary a lot – depends on what the chickens are fed. There are eggs on the market that are advertised as being high in omega-3 this due to the fact the chickens are fed a diet high in essential fatty acids.
Highly processed refined oils are not nutritious they damage enzymes and parts of our cells interfering with their energy production. Eating these processed oils and fats increase your risk of abnormal blood clotting, inflammation, immune deficiency, stroke, ageing, obesity and cancer.
What fats or oils am I talking about?
The processed vegetable oils freely found on the supermarket shelves in clear plastic bottles and in just about every manufactured food available. The majority of the oils are made from or contain in part soybeans. These highly processed oils are heated to extreme temperatures, going through several chemical processes, changing the molecular structure of the oil, causing serious free-radical damage to every cell in the body.
It is almost impossible to buy a packaged food that doesn’t contain processed oils – most often just labelled as vegetable oil, hydrogenated fat, partially hydrogenated fat, margarine or shortening. Avoid them like the plague.
Our cells, the powerhouses where everything happens are directly and indirectly affected by the types of fats you choose to consume. It would seem cells are less flexible and easily damaged on a diet of processed fats – ultimately interfering with the flow of nutrients and oxygen that should otherwise flow freely in and out of our cells.
Best fat and oils –
In a glass container
Cold Pressed
Extra Virgin
First Pressed
Expelled
Okay
Butter
Expelled Coconut oil (a good oil for heating)
AVOID THE REST IF YOU POSSIBLY CAN
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