Beverage Calorie Count
When it comes to the beverages you consume, are you clear on their calorie count? A new initiative by the beverage industry in Canada is taking out the guesswork. Watch the following video for more information.
Iron Deficiency
Fatigue is not only a result of a fast-paced life-style. New methods help detect iron deficiency more effectively. Iron deficiency is a common condition, especially amongst the female population.
This video discusses the problem and one possible treatment method.
Video courtesy of News Canada.
Anabolic Blueberry Oatmeal
New category starting today – Recipes (healthy ones at that!!)
Here is one for Anabolic Blueberry Oatmeal.
Healthy Muffins
If you live in or near the Hamilton Ontario Canada area, and you are looking for healthy muffins, consider Marci’s Muffins.
Marci created the company, “Marci’s Muffins”, in 1989, when she recognized the deteriorating quality in the baking industry.
Marci saw the mass engineered, so called “scary ingredient”, baking “products” showing up everywhere. It was her fusion of love for people and wholesome baking, mixed with a passion to prove that this could be done, that drove Marci to succeed!
Since 1989, Marci has shared her passion with hospitals, retail stores, hotels, nursing homes, and individual customers. She has appeared on television, radio, magazines, and several newspapers sharing her products and vision.
Marci also teaches baking classes, educating people on how to bake healthier, using things like gluten free and vegan ingredients, plus alternative unrefined sweeteners and fats.
Read more at the website of Marci’s Muffins.
Ovarian Cysts
What are ovarian cysts?
A cyst is a little balloon filled with air or fluid on one of the ovaries, which then exerts pressure on the right or left side of the lower abdomen. These cysts can be painful. Besides the pain in the lower abdomen, some other symptoms are:
- erratic periods
- painful periods
- uterine bleeding as a result of elevated estrogen levels
- painful intercourse
- heel pain
- excessive hair growth
When the ovarian cyst bursts the pain is relieved, though in some cases the cyst may reappear.
The incidence of ovarian cysts is on the rise, particularly among women between 14 and 55.
Let’s look at some of the main factors that contribute to the development of cysts, and then the main things we can do to prevent them.
Causes of ovarian cysts:
- Increased use of birth control pills
- Increased consumption of hormone-infused foods such as most
commercial meat and milk, to which growth hormone has been added - Stressful, frantic lifestyle
- Imbalanced, not natural diet
- Obesity
- A toxic, overburdened liver
How can we diminish the likelihood of ovarian cysts?
- Consume healthy, that is, organic meats and milks
- Eat lots of fresh vegetables and drink abundant water
- Use a natural progesterone hormone cream
- Increase your liver metabolism and detoxify (your allies here are the natural tinctures of olive leaf, dandelion, milk thistle seed, and artichoke)
- Check your thyroid
- Stop smoking
- Lose weight
When all is said and done though, it really comes down to a healthy lifestyle. This means to be true to yourself, not wishing yourself to be different. The hard part, oddly enough, may not be acts of “heroism”. Rather, it can be dropping parts of ourselves which are not worth holding on to, but we cling to from sheer habit. Your health is in your hands. So take excellent care of yourself – you are WORTH it!
Warmly,
Pieternel van Giersbergen.
Little Known Ways to Reduce Bad Cholesterol
a. The Myth of Good and Bad Cholesterol
A lot of folks always think cholesterol is not good, but you can actually classify it into two types. LDL and HDL are the two types – the bad one and the good one. If you have plaque build-up in your artery, that means you have too much LDL. This usually results in narrow arterial openings, which will mean a slower and lesser flow of blood. You should stop blaming dietary cholesterol for having a high level of cholesterol in your blood. Instead, you should point the finger at your high levels of both Trans fat and saturated fat. If you take in a lot of healthy, fibrous foods and exercise often, you can keep your cholesterol levels down.
b. What do the Cholesterol Numbers mean?
On an average, adults will usually need to have cholesterol checks every five years. Each time you get a cholesterol check it will yield four results – total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and Triglycerides. You will probably need more exercise and dietary change if you go above or below the healthy levels.
Total Cholesterol – less than 200 mg/dL (5.2 mmol/L)
LDL Cholesterol – less than 100 mg/dL (2.6 mmol/L)
HDL Cholesterol – greater than 40 mg/dL (1.0 mmol/L)
Triglycerides – less than 150 mg/dL (1.7 mmol/L)
c. Vitamin E and Heart Protection
Vitamin E is an important vitamin found in leafy vegetables, nuts, and vegetable oils. It was previously believed that a Vitamin E supplement could reduce the risk of heart disease, but several studies in the last few years have shown that this supplement does little to prevent heart attacks or strokes.
d. Five Great Foods to Lower Your Cholesterol
1. Oatmeal and Oat Bran: These contain a high amount of soluble fiber, which can lower LDL.
2. Fish: Fish is a great source of omega 3 fatty acids, which lowers LDL and raises HDL.
3. Nuts: Not only are nuts high in fiber, but they contain the healthy fats you need to keep LDL in check.
4. Plant Sterols: This is found in foods like margarine, salad dressing, orange juice, and functional cookies. 2 grams per day will lower your LDL by 10-15%.
5. Soy: This popular meat replacement can lower LDL by up to 3%.
e. Benefits Aplenty with Plant Sterols
Foods like granola bars, fat free milk, Benecol Spread and VitaTops Muffin Tops are great sources of plant sterols that you can turn to. Helping your heart starts with eating plenty of these foods rich in plant sterols and nixing your high saturated fat diet. However, these will not make for a saturated fat diet at all. It is still important for you to still need to eat healthy foods and exercise a lot to keep your cholesterol in control.
About the Writer – Deborah H. Land writes for the lowering cholesterol through diet site, her personal hobby blog she uses to help people lower bad cholesterol levels.
Mapping Out Diabetes
Understanding how to manage diabetes with the recently updated Conversation Maps™ tool.
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Foods That Kill
Eating healthy, organic, whole foods is the key to good health and weight loss.
Dr. Klaper explains, in very simple terms, how we’re killing ourselves one bite at a time with a meat based diet. No gruesome animal cruelty videos here, just the truth about how meat affects our own health and why a vegan or vegetarian lifestyle is best.
The following is video 1 of 6. To see the other 5, go here and on the right side of the screen click on the link “MoreFrom: AHealthyKitchen”
Pomegranate Smoothie
I tried a pomegranate / banana smoothie last night. Opened up 2 pomegranates (that I bought real cheap as they were on the “we are about to throw these out” table) and put all the seeds in my blender, as well as some of the fibrous material found around the seeds. Then added a couple of old bananas and some water.
Probably very healthy, but too frothy for my liking. One recipe that I looked up afterwards suggested almond milk instead of water. I’ll try that the next time.
See more info here on pomegranates and smoothies.
Popular Supplements Are a Waste of Money
“3 Popular Supplements That Are a Waste of Money”
by Frederic Patenaude
This might make me a few enemies, but I believe that 99% of supplements and “superfoods” on the market are an absolute waste of money.
It seems like every time you turn your head, someone is offering the latest and greatest “beauty enhancing” or “breakthrough” superfood or supplement.
But what if I told you something shocking yet so simple to understand: there’s no “food” that arrives in a bottle, having been made in a factory and sold in powdered form, that will ever compare in terms of “super-nutrition” to fresh fruits and vegetables.
But still, almost every day I get an e-mail that says, “what do you think of __________” (fill in the blank with whatever supplement or superfood is now being promoted as the latest “amazing” product).
Although it would take forever to review every product on the market, let’s review some popular supplements and superfoods that, in my opinion, are an absolute waste of money.
Green Powder
Almost every supplement company has a variation of the “green powder,” which is basically a powder made with dried grass, dried grass juices or dried vegetables and possibly algae. This powder is supposed to make your body more alkaline and give you nutrition you can’t find elsewhere.
First, I would say that grass powder is not a worthy food and anyone growing grass and turning it into a powder and making a lot of money selling it is really laughing their way to the bank at the expense of unknowing customers. Even if it’s called “wheatgrass”, it’s still grass.
A powder of vegetables or algae can never compare in nutritional value to fresh vegetables, even if those vegetables are not organic.
The real superfoods are dark green vegetables such as spinach, romaine lettuce, black kale, parsley, celery, arugula, and so on.
With the use of “green smoothies” made with *fresh* green vegetables and fruit, anyone can obtain superior nutrition in a few minutes a day (ruling out the argument that people don’t have “time” to eat well).
Green smoothies and fresh raw greens literally put these green powders to shame. For a free mini-course on the power of green smoothies, go to: http://www.greenforlifeprogram.com
Protein Powder
Another all-time favorite of supplement companies is the protein powder, in all its forms. There’s the ultra-refined soy protein powder, we’ve got whey protein, rice protein, and now a less refined hemp protein.
But the idea is the same: that somehow, no matter how much food you eat, there’s still a chance you might not get enough protein, so therefore you should consume protein in a concentrated, powdered form.
This idea is especially popular among body-builders and gym-goers. It’s interesting to note that starting from the Greek gymnasiums two and a half thousand years ago through the ages of gladiators and modern gymnastics, men and women of all ages have been able to build magnificent, muscular bodies eating nothing more than simple foods and without the use of protein powders.
This is a classic example of how you can market a product by first “creating a problem” that doesn’t exist.
Nutrition textbooks teach that you can get all the protein you need as long as you consume enough calories from whole foods, even if all you eat is fruits and vegetables.
Noni Juice
Although this discussion could lead me to cover any possible supplement or superfood among the thousands of products available, I think you’re starting to get my point.
I’ll just finish with an example of a “superfood” called noni and sold as “noni juice.”
The noni is a fruit that’s been used for centuries in Polynesia for its alleged medicinal properties. But there is very limited scientific evidence to support these properties.
When I visited Tahiti last winter, I was on the tiny island of Huahine and had the chance to try real noni juice from a local Tahitian couple who made the juice from their own fruit tree.
Let me tell you that it was the most disgusting, horrible concoction that I ever had in my entire life!
Obviously, the noni is not a natural food for humans, as there is no way anyone would want to consume it unless they thought it had some medicinal value.
My Tahitian friends explained how they prepare the noni juice. They put all these unappetizing, weird-smelling noni fruits in a jar and then let the thing ferment for several days.
Then the fermented juice that oozes out of the fruits and reeks like the juice that’s formed at the bottom of a trash container is what they drink.
Now American companies have had the great idea of adding a bunch of sugar to this awful tasting Tahitian folk remedy juice, making up a fantastic story around it, throwing in some questionable science and selling millions of dollars worth of the stuff to suckers.
Listen closely: it’s completely absurd to think that one food can be a universal remedy for all our ills. We need nutrients from different sources and Nature isn’t so capricious as to put everything in one place.
We’re meant to eat fresh fruits and vegetables, drink pure water and have a healthy lifestyle with lots of exercise and healthy relationships and positive thoughts.
All the rest is marketing and hype.
Of course, you are free to believe what you want about noni juice and other kinds of superfoods available on the market.
But do yourself a favor and make the decision to try for yourself what the study and experience of natural hygiene and health through a pure raw-based diet can do for you.
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