Celebrate Life with Real Food
Teetering and sipping his sixth Eggnog, Uncle Jimmy slurred, “Isn’t life glorious? I’m so ‘bleshed’ to be alive to share this-hiccup-special day with my loving family”, as he and his Chicken Liver Rumaki ingloriously kerploped into a heap on the gift- wrap strewn floor.
Do you brawl with nutritional self-control? Who doesn’t during the holidays? We’re human. Do you have heart disease, diabetes, Crohn’s, RA, cancer or superfluous tonnage? Consider the grand-daddy of ironies; we celebrate meaningful life events by eating poor quality foods which slowly sabotage the privilege of pure health.
By now readers of this column are privy to valid scientific research signifying the most common ingredients humans worship; sugar, AP flour, animal fat, butter, kayo, cream, cheese and salt, are literally addictive. Yep, just like crack. Eating noxious, factory-refined foods stimulate the holy temple to produce the opiate Dopamine, the feel-good drug. Combine with addictive coffee, soft drinks, cigarettes, alcohol and pharmaceutical drugs, clearly we’re been molded, not by choice, into dead-food junkies. It’s not your fault, however. You simple trusted Betty Crocker and Ronald McDonald to be responsible. We can take down the ethically malnourished, out-of-touch corporate Fat Cats by ignoring their products. They don’t own you. Impractical and idealistic? Time has come today to challenge the twisted paradigm of factory produced food and to rejoice in our gift of life by returning to a more natural, preordained, non-suicidal, wholesome and sustainable way of eating and living. There are too many largely preventable chronic diseases here in America. Responsible scientists tell us these Post Industrial Revolution diseases are created by bogus, man-made food-like substances; main-stream brand name foods we consider our best buddies. Think before you eat. Carefully reflect upon your health-enhancing efforts thus far; remember eating consciously now yields handsome dividends as you age.
There are many ways to be a good steward of your temple. Avoid plastic food. In 2010, focus on foods of plant origin. Fruits, vegetables, beans, legumes, grains, nuts and seeds are not only good for you but their production requires fewer earthly resources. Selecting nutrient-rich living foods maximized healing nutrition and makes your food dollars count. Fat, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, MSG, food colorings and salt-laden choices take up much shelf-space in today's supermarkets. Spending on whole food rather than excessive processing and packaging is smart money.
Think globally, eat locally. Every dollar spent on local foods is an investment in local agriculture and farmers. Keeping land in agriculture helps assure food security for future generations.
Reduce "food mile" intake. The mileage on your dinner plate represents fossil fuels burned and carbon dioxide emitted. Long distance food and beverage distribution means wear and tear on vehicles and infrastructure, eventually requiring dwindling natural resources to restore.
Spice up your kitchen with local products. Change the family your diet from season to season according to what’s available from local farms. Tender greens, asparagus, and new potatoes in spring provide delicious prelude to a cornucopia of summer fruits and vegetables. Fall heralds in an abundant harvest of hearty roots, apples, pears and gourds that store well.
Go old school. Buy just what you will eat and don't squander food. When cooking in larger batches, freeze half. Ninety-Eight Million pounds of good food gets tossed out into the trash each year. That represents 44 billion dollars. We can do better.
Yes, I’m besmirching decades of hallowed American eating traditions, however, there comes a time one must ask oneself, especially if you’re chronically ill, “Gee, how’s that working out for ya?”
Happy New You!
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Slim Fast Skullduggery
If you’re snug and comfy with malnutrition and tossin’ your cookies, sugary Slim-Fast, the expensive glucose-laden, nutritionally bogus milk supplement is for you. Actually, take it back to the store ASAP.
Ten million cans of Slim-Fast are currently on recall due to the presence of Bacillus cereus, a common, soil-dwelling bacteria scuba-diving inside the cans.The cause: human oversight. Bacillus cereus is the only living ingredient in Slim-Fast’s otherwise palled, dead ingredients which have been pasteurized, processed, tweaked, refined and cooked, void of any redeeming virtues. Any drink touted as a weight-loss tool made chiefly from processed, refined sugar-water and milk should be prohibited from being sold. Slim Fast’s careful not to make specific claims of weight loss, but the beverages are clearly marketed as a weight-loss tool. Apparently they deem Americans badly informed and gullible.
Big Food’s marketing behaviorists subliminally train Americans to lust for convenience, the IED-embedded path to healthiness. The Slim-Fast diet plan is mind-numbingly simple. Open a can and drink it, “…and we pray to the money gods you don’t have the awareness to decode the ingredient label.” The four main ingredients of the junk-food beverage are skim milk, sugar, fructose and cocoa. Further ingredients include various vegetable oils, emulsifiers and a worthless stew of pharmaceutical synthetic vitamins our cells don’t comprehend. Artificial vitamins, cheaply manufactured and peddled in supermarket pharmacies, lack the essential molecular structure of the absorbable cold-processed food versions (Usana is #1) and are ineffectual and unlikely to improve the body’s cells; hence the idiom “Dead Food.” Because it’s sold in a can, the vessel’s internal lining is likely loaded with plastics containing Bispheol-A (BPA). Research links BPA in canned foods to infertility, prostate and breast cancer. What a mess.
If you honestly want to lose weight properly and become more energetic, beautiful and healthy, focus on calories-in versus calories-burned. However, this means the quality of your food choices become vitally important. It’s not rocket science that most contemporary chronic disease would vanish if Americans ate preordained, healthy whole foods from the generous Cosmic Apothecary.
However, humans diminish the quality factor of calories choosing artificial flavor and instant gratification over nourishment. Staying healthy requires nutritional literacy, effort and possibly sacrificing one of your favorite dead foods for a living version.
You’ve got a potentially explosive predicament when attempting to lose extra chunk in the trunk with this depraved liquid nonsense. Eat less; focus on fresh, pure and clean foods and drinks; exercise and say farewell to short-term Snake Oil. You’re smarter than that. Evoke the “if it sounds too good to be true” rule.
The truth can be ugly and elusive. I express regret for pooping in your cereal, but there are no weight-loss miracles. With nutritional literacy you won’t need Big Food manipulating your health equity or waist-line.
Ten million cans of Slim-Fast are currently on recall due to the presence of Bacillus cereus, a common, soil-dwelling bacteria scuba-diving inside the cans.The cause: human oversight. Bacillus cereus is the only living ingredient in Slim-Fast’s otherwise palled, dead ingredients which have been pasteurized, processed, tweaked, refined and cooked, void of any redeeming virtues. Any drink touted as a weight-loss tool made chiefly from processed, refined sugar-water and milk should be prohibited from being sold. Slim Fast’s careful not to make specific claims of weight loss, but the beverages are clearly marketed as a weight-loss tool. Apparently they deem Americans badly informed and gullible.
Big Food’s marketing behaviorists subliminally train Americans to lust for convenience, the IED-embedded path to healthiness. The Slim-Fast diet plan is mind-numbingly simple. Open a can and drink it, “…and we pray to the money gods you don’t have the awareness to decode the ingredient label.” The four main ingredients of the junk-food beverage are skim milk, sugar, fructose and cocoa. Further ingredients include various vegetable oils, emulsifiers and a worthless stew of pharmaceutical synthetic vitamins our cells don’t comprehend. Artificial vitamins, cheaply manufactured and peddled in supermarket pharmacies, lack the essential molecular structure of the absorbable cold-processed food versions (Usana is #1) and are ineffectual and unlikely to improve the body’s cells; hence the idiom “Dead Food.” Because it’s sold in a can, the vessel’s internal lining is likely loaded with plastics containing Bispheol-A (BPA). Research links BPA in canned foods to infertility, prostate and breast cancer. What a mess.
If you honestly want to lose weight properly and become more energetic, beautiful and healthy, focus on calories-in versus calories-burned. However, this means the quality of your food choices become vitally important. It’s not rocket science that most contemporary chronic disease would vanish if Americans ate preordained, healthy whole foods from the generous Cosmic Apothecary.
However, humans diminish the quality factor of calories choosing artificial flavor and instant gratification over nourishment. Staying healthy requires nutritional literacy, effort and possibly sacrificing one of your favorite dead foods for a living version.
You’ve got a potentially explosive predicament when attempting to lose extra chunk in the trunk with this depraved liquid nonsense. Eat less; focus on fresh, pure and clean foods and drinks; exercise and say farewell to short-term Snake Oil. You’re smarter than that. Evoke the “if it sounds too good to be true” rule.
The truth can be ugly and elusive. I express regret for pooping in your cereal, but there are no weight-loss miracles. With nutritional literacy you won’t need Big Food manipulating your health equity or waist-line.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Fiber: Roto Rooter of the Digestive Tract
My friends take delight when Sandi and I cook holiday dinners for them. Although, more than once, I’ve received a next-day thank-you call accompanied with the observation, “Wow, dinner was great, but things came out of me this morning that I ate when I was 6.” TMI!
The point being, their diet was so deficient in fiber, when it was introduced the colon did what comes naturally: Peristalsis. Now that the holidays have arrived, human nature diverts from the road of nutritional righteousness. This season, evade disease and extra tonnage by decorating your bowls and bowels of sugar plums with more fiber. Let me explain.
Your inner ecology is a labyrinth of pipes. Like all pipes and fixtures, keeping the distance between point A and point B in good shape requires, if you’ll excuse the disturbing visual, a plumbers snake. Maintenance. To stay healthy and active, everyone needs to keep the colon rolling along like White River in the spring. The human body is truly remarkable, but it has limits. Growing up, we were taught our innards could handle whatever we fed it. I’ve learned, however, our temple simply cannot handle the types and amounts of meats and processed plastic foods we feed it without traumatizing the colon — the largest organ, which houses 80 percent of the immune system.
Due to a lack of fibrous foods containing soluble and insoluble fiber, meals take forever to exit, setting up a deadly milieu. Most fiber-less folks carry about 10 meals backed up; fermenting, stewing and releasing methane while brewing toxins inside the dark sanctity of the holy temple. The average fiber-less American has roughly 10 to 15 pounds of concentrated poo and undigested food seething in the bowel. Beginning to grasp the odoriferous implication of a fiber-less diet?
Elvis Presley died of a heart attack and a drug overdose whilst sitting upon his throne, but he still made it onto a stamp. Elvis’ fiber-less diet included mashed taters and gravy, unctuous meats, gobs of bacon, sausage gravy, fried anything-that-moved and sweet potato cream cheese pie. Macho? I think not. It takes much more courage to eat a fibrous, nutritionally dense vegetable. During his autopsy doctors made a startling discovery: The King’s colon weighed close to 60 pounds! The average human colon weighs around four pounds. Thankyouverymuch!
I hesitate haranguing your tastes in food, but the average 50 year old meat-eater has up to eight pounds of indigestible food in their bowels. This decaying food is the common cause of what many people mistakenly think of as the “price of good living” — soaring rates of colon and pancreatic cancers by the age of 50 or 60. How charming.
Humans wouldn’t require such snaking if they’d regularly include fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, ground flax seed, quinoa, steel-cut oats, wheat germ, rice bran or oat bran in their dally edibles. If you’re fraught with holiday constipation and resort to Ex-Lax, a toxin which artificially stimulates your digestive tract to release a log jam, be sure it’s not the same night you take a sleeping pill. Enough said.
The point being, their diet was so deficient in fiber, when it was introduced the colon did what comes naturally: Peristalsis. Now that the holidays have arrived, human nature diverts from the road of nutritional righteousness. This season, evade disease and extra tonnage by decorating your bowls and bowels of sugar plums with more fiber. Let me explain.
Your inner ecology is a labyrinth of pipes. Like all pipes and fixtures, keeping the distance between point A and point B in good shape requires, if you’ll excuse the disturbing visual, a plumbers snake. Maintenance. To stay healthy and active, everyone needs to keep the colon rolling along like White River in the spring. The human body is truly remarkable, but it has limits. Growing up, we were taught our innards could handle whatever we fed it. I’ve learned, however, our temple simply cannot handle the types and amounts of meats and processed plastic foods we feed it without traumatizing the colon — the largest organ, which houses 80 percent of the immune system.
Due to a lack of fibrous foods containing soluble and insoluble fiber, meals take forever to exit, setting up a deadly milieu. Most fiber-less folks carry about 10 meals backed up; fermenting, stewing and releasing methane while brewing toxins inside the dark sanctity of the holy temple. The average fiber-less American has roughly 10 to 15 pounds of concentrated poo and undigested food seething in the bowel. Beginning to grasp the odoriferous implication of a fiber-less diet?
Elvis Presley died of a heart attack and a drug overdose whilst sitting upon his throne, but he still made it onto a stamp. Elvis’ fiber-less diet included mashed taters and gravy, unctuous meats, gobs of bacon, sausage gravy, fried anything-that-moved and sweet potato cream cheese pie. Macho? I think not. It takes much more courage to eat a fibrous, nutritionally dense vegetable. During his autopsy doctors made a startling discovery: The King’s colon weighed close to 60 pounds! The average human colon weighs around four pounds. Thankyouverymuch!
I hesitate haranguing your tastes in food, but the average 50 year old meat-eater has up to eight pounds of indigestible food in their bowels. This decaying food is the common cause of what many people mistakenly think of as the “price of good living” — soaring rates of colon and pancreatic cancers by the age of 50 or 60. How charming.
Humans wouldn’t require such snaking if they’d regularly include fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, ground flax seed, quinoa, steel-cut oats, wheat germ, rice bran or oat bran in their dally edibles. If you’re fraught with holiday constipation and resort to Ex-Lax, a toxin which artificially stimulates your digestive tract to release a log jam, be sure it’s not the same night you take a sleeping pill. Enough said.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Ghoulish Goulash
Ghoulish Goulash
Parents, there are ghoulish dangers awaiting your children this Halloween eve; dangers like high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, refined carbohydrates, food coloring, artificial flavorings, trans fats, and triglycerides just to name a spooky few. All of these kick the “BOO” out of your immune system leaving the door ajar for H1N1.
Food colorings and artificial flavorings have been linked with worsening ADD and ADHD plus, according to several studies, they cause aggressive behavior; the bully syndrome.
All of these common ingredients in Halloween candy are linked to such conditions as childhood obesity, coronary artery disease, diabetes, yeast overgrowth syndrome and multiple-chemical sensitivity. Very frightening!!
If you find this hauntingly objectionable, serve this vegetable rich Vegetable Goulash to neutralize the damage ‘Over-Dosing’ on sugar can cause. Sugar is a drug. Too much of anything is not a good thing. The vegetables and fiber is this dish will help neutralize the damage from the annual Halloween sugar bloodbath of gore.
1 tsp. olive oil
½ medium onion, sliced thin
1 carrot, chopped
¼ cup celery
2 cloves of chopped garlic
1 cup shiitake mushrooms, sliced thin stems discarded (Stimulate the immune system)
1 green pepper, sliced thin
1 tbs. wheat germ
½ cup fake ‘meat’ crumbles
1 tsp. paprika (smoked if you can find it)
1-14 ½ oz. can whole canned tomatoes, chopped, reserve juice
1 cup of cooked beans, drained
½ cup red wine vinegar
1 tsp. oregano
~Heat the olive oil over medium heat.
~Sautee the onion, celery, peppers, carrot, garlic, paprika, crumbles and mushrooms till tender.
~Stir in the tomatoes with juice; add beans, wine, oregano and reserved tomato juice.
~Bring to a boil, but do not cook more than 5 minutes. Add wheat germ and stir.
~Serve over a bed of brown rice, whole wheat pasta or quinoa and a dark leafy green salad.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Aging with Grace
Prolonging the Inevitable
Last weekend, enticed by the multi-colored splendor, azure skies and crisp air, Sandi and I drove the country back roads to visit our granddaughter attending her first semester at Indiana University.
For the first time, despite my steadfast aerobic workout routine and good health, I truly felt like the droopy old fart every 61-year-old man ultimately must acknowledge. I mean, wasn’t it last year that I cradled her in my arms as she cooed, giggled and then yanked my glasses off, while dutifully filling her diapers?
Face it; we’re all going to die. What we do between birth and death, however, factors significantly into life’s final chapters. Am I going to experience late-life morbidity or wake up dead some morning? Using the stimulus, I appraised my personal efforts to steward my temple to remain healthy until I expire. Living to 100 is no longer attractive unless I can remain in lucid mental and physical health.
After patting myself on the back for overcoming cigarette addiction, my first focus was my weight; next to not smoking, the most important thing anyone can do to live longer. Fat cells produce hormones which raise the risk of type 2 diabetes and generate cytokines which cause inflammation, stiffening of the arteries, heart and other organs. Packing surplus fat raises the risk of some cancers. Currently I’m the same weight I was when I was 18, just more wrinkly. I did, however, weigh 300 pounds in 1988.
Next, I scrutinized my vitamin regimen. Big Pharma would love for the vitamin industry to go away. Out of fear and greed, they’ve slandered and discredited vitamins and minerals for decades. Yes, there are some crappy vitamins out there, but with some homework and a friend at your community vitamin shop, anyone can deduce good from bad. I’ve taken Source of Life vitamins for 20 years. Research assures grocery store vitamins are the absolute worst. Most are synthesized by a chemist, not our Creator; therefore our cells cannot use them. Doctors at the University of California-Berkley report we all should take a quality daily, food-based multiple vitamin with minerals. They urge the age-challenged to take daily doses of 800 mg alpha-lipoic acid and 2,000 mg acetyl-l-carnitine, nutritional warriors which power our cells. Mitochondrion decay is a major factor in aging and is connected to Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Anyone over 50 should also pop a B-complex and D-3 every day. Solgar and Carlson brands are top shelf.
Do I know how to mellow out? I’ve learned the value of regularly practicing a series of deep, cleansing breaths. Life strife increases the concentration of hormones cortisol and norepinephrine, which raise blood pressure and suppress the immune system. Seek daily quiet time to meditate and center on each breath. Dr. Andrew Wiel picks deep breathing as a universal anti-stress practice. Exhale strongly, making a whoosh sound. Breathe in quietly through the nose for a four-count. Hold the breath for a seven-count; then exhale with the whoosh sound for an eight-count. Repeat the cycle three more times and feel the fresh oxygen refresh your mind, body and soul.
Do I eat enough fresh produce? Extremely necessary as we age, Antioxidants found in all fruits and vegetables are used by our body intelligence to brawl with free radical agents that damage healthy cells. Fibrous anti-aging fruits and vegetables help the digestive process along. This includes all green leafy vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, collards and kale. Carrots, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, avocado and celery are also fibrous and vigorous.
It’s wondrous how the holy temple heals and restores.
People live longer today than ever, partly due to what scientists and doctors are discovering about how the temple responds to a diet rich in anti-aging fruits and vegetables that extend our relatively short lives. Are you an adult who still doesn’t eat their anti-aging fruits and vegetables? Come on — get with it and grow up! Antioxidants in fresh produce are necessary as we age to fight free radicals agents that damage healthy cells.
Finally, do a good deed. The best way to stay healthy is to be kind and loving to others as well as yourself
Last weekend, enticed by the multi-colored splendor, azure skies and crisp air, Sandi and I drove the country back roads to visit our granddaughter attending her first semester at Indiana University.
For the first time, despite my steadfast aerobic workout routine and good health, I truly felt like the droopy old fart every 61-year-old man ultimately must acknowledge. I mean, wasn’t it last year that I cradled her in my arms as she cooed, giggled and then yanked my glasses off, while dutifully filling her diapers?
Face it; we’re all going to die. What we do between birth and death, however, factors significantly into life’s final chapters. Am I going to experience late-life morbidity or wake up dead some morning? Using the stimulus, I appraised my personal efforts to steward my temple to remain healthy until I expire. Living to 100 is no longer attractive unless I can remain in lucid mental and physical health.
After patting myself on the back for overcoming cigarette addiction, my first focus was my weight; next to not smoking, the most important thing anyone can do to live longer. Fat cells produce hormones which raise the risk of type 2 diabetes and generate cytokines which cause inflammation, stiffening of the arteries, heart and other organs. Packing surplus fat raises the risk of some cancers. Currently I’m the same weight I was when I was 18, just more wrinkly. I did, however, weigh 300 pounds in 1988.
Next, I scrutinized my vitamin regimen. Big Pharma would love for the vitamin industry to go away. Out of fear and greed, they’ve slandered and discredited vitamins and minerals for decades. Yes, there are some crappy vitamins out there, but with some homework and a friend at your community vitamin shop, anyone can deduce good from bad. I’ve taken Source of Life vitamins for 20 years. Research assures grocery store vitamins are the absolute worst. Most are synthesized by a chemist, not our Creator; therefore our cells cannot use them. Doctors at the University of California-Berkley report we all should take a quality daily, food-based multiple vitamin with minerals. They urge the age-challenged to take daily doses of 800 mg alpha-lipoic acid and 2,000 mg acetyl-l-carnitine, nutritional warriors which power our cells. Mitochondrion decay is a major factor in aging and is connected to Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Anyone over 50 should also pop a B-complex and D-3 every day. Solgar and Carlson brands are top shelf.
Do I know how to mellow out? I’ve learned the value of regularly practicing a series of deep, cleansing breaths. Life strife increases the concentration of hormones cortisol and norepinephrine, which raise blood pressure and suppress the immune system. Seek daily quiet time to meditate and center on each breath. Dr. Andrew Wiel picks deep breathing as a universal anti-stress practice. Exhale strongly, making a whoosh sound. Breathe in quietly through the nose for a four-count. Hold the breath for a seven-count; then exhale with the whoosh sound for an eight-count. Repeat the cycle three more times and feel the fresh oxygen refresh your mind, body and soul.
Do I eat enough fresh produce? Extremely necessary as we age, Antioxidants found in all fruits and vegetables are used by our body intelligence to brawl with free radical agents that damage healthy cells. Fibrous anti-aging fruits and vegetables help the digestive process along. This includes all green leafy vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, collards and kale. Carrots, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, avocado and celery are also fibrous and vigorous.
It’s wondrous how the holy temple heals and restores.
People live longer today than ever, partly due to what scientists and doctors are discovering about how the temple responds to a diet rich in anti-aging fruits and vegetables that extend our relatively short lives. Are you an adult who still doesn’t eat their anti-aging fruits and vegetables? Come on — get with it and grow up! Antioxidants in fresh produce are necessary as we age to fight free radicals agents that damage healthy cells.
Finally, do a good deed. The best way to stay healthy is to be kind and loving to others as well as yourself
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Aging with Grace and Style
Last weekend, enticed by the multi-colored splendor, azure skies and crisp air, Sandi and I drove the country back roads to visit our granddaughter attending her first semester at Indiana University.
For the first time, despite my steadfast aerobic work-out routine and good health, I truly felt like the droopy old fart every 61 year old man ultimately must acknowledge. (proof provided with this picture) I mean, wasn’t it last year I cradled her in my arms as she cooed, giggled, and then yanked my glasses off while dutifully filling her diapers?
Face it; we’re all going to die. What we do between birth and death, however, factors significantly into life’s final chapters. Am I going to experience late life morbidity or wake up dead some morning? Using the stimulus, I appraised my personal efforts to steward my temple to remain healthy until I expire. Living to 100 is no longer attractive unless I can remain in lucid mental and physical health.
After patting myself on the back for overcoming cigarette addiction, my first focus was my weight; next to not smoking, the most important thing anyone can do to live longer. Fat cells produce hormones which raise the risk of type 2 diabetes and generate cytokines which cause inflammation, stiffening of the arteries, heart and other organs. Packing surplus fat raises the risk of some cancers. Currently I’m the same weight I was when I was 18, just more wrinkly. I did however weigh 300 pounds in 1988.
Next, I scrutinized my vitamin regimen. Big Pharma would love for the vitamin industry to go away. Out of fear and greed, they’ve slandered and discredit vitamins and minerals for decades. Yes there are some crappy vitamins out there, but with some homework and a friend at your community vitamin shop anyone deduce good from bad. I’ve taken Source of Life vitamins for 20 years. Research assures grocery store vitamins are the absolute worst. Most are synthesized by a chemist, not our Creator; therefore our cells cannot use them.
Doctors at The University of California, Berkley report we all should take a quality daily, food-based multiple vitamin with minerals, They urge the age-challenged to take daily doses of 800 mg alpha-lipoic acid and 2000 mg acetyl-l-carnitine; nutritional warriors which power our cells. Mitochondrion decay is a major factor in aging and is connected to Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Anyone over 50 should also pop a B-Complex and D-3 every day. Solgar and Carlson brands are top shelf.
Do I know how to mellow out? I’ve learned the value of regularly practicing a series of deep, cleansing breaths. Life strife increases the concentration of hormones cortisol and norepinephrine which raise blood pressure and suppress the immune system. Seek daily quiet time to meditate / center on each breath. Dr. Andrew Weil picks deep breathing as a universal anti-stress practice. Exhale strongly, making a whoosh sound. Breathe in quietly through the nose for a 4 count. Hold the breath for a 7 count; then exhale with the whoosh sound for an 8 count. Repeat the cycle three more times and feel the fresh oxygen refresh your mind, body and soul.
Do I eat enough fresh produce? Extremely necessary as we age, Antioxidants found in all fruits and vegetables are used by our body intelligence to brawl with free radical agents that damage healthy cells. Fibrous anti-aging fruits and vegetables help the digestive process along. This includes all green leafy vegetables such as lettuce, spinach, collards and kale. Carrots, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, avocado and celery are also fibrous and vigorous.
It's wondrous how the holy temple heals and restores.
People live longer today than ever, partly due to what scientists and doctors are discovering about how the temple responds to a diet rich in anti-aging fruits and vegetables that not only extend our relatively short lives. Are you an adult who still doesn’t eat their anti-aging fruits and vegetables fruits? Come on, get with it and grow up! Antioxidants in fresh produce are necessary as we age to fight free radicals agents that damage healthy cells.
Finally, do a good deed. The best way to stay healthy is to be kind and loving to others as well as yourself.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sweet Potatoes Redux
Enjoy this tasty easy-to-prepare recipe.http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/living/recipes/Chef_Wendell_Roasted_Sweet_Potato_Salad_20091004
Does it require smothering and incinerating these colorful, nutritional nuggets to get your clan to partake? Once reserved for the holidays, maybe you should reconsider the potent root vegetable as an important addition to your family’s diet throughout the year.
The swollen, tuber like root, a member of the morning glory family is rich in health enhancing vitamins A, C, Calcium, potassium, and fiber. The Nutrition Action Newsletter rated 58 vegetables by adding up the percentages of recommended daily allowances for Vitamin A, C, iron, calcium, fiber, complex carbohydrates and protein. In their report, the sweet potato scored an impressive 583.
Its nearest competition, a raw carrot, came in at 434, and the every-day baked potato, a scrawny 114. ‘High Energy’ Sweet potatoes also contain B6, manganese, and lutein, which had been connected with macular degeneration prevention. It would take 23 cups of broccoli to provide the same amount of antioxidant protection; clearly a super food. They are grown on the ground, so be sure to scrub your spud.
Black beans are a wonderful source of cholesterol-lowering fiber, as are most other legumes. In addition to lowering cholesterol, black beans' high fiber content prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly after a
Does it require smothering and incinerating these colorful, nutritional nuggets to get your clan to partake? Once reserved for the holidays, maybe you should reconsider the potent root vegetable as an important addition to your family’s diet throughout the year.
The swollen, tuber like root, a member of the morning glory family is rich in health enhancing vitamins A, C, Calcium, potassium, and fiber. The Nutrition Action Newsletter rated 58 vegetables by adding up the percentages of recommended daily allowances for Vitamin A, C, iron, calcium, fiber, complex carbohydrates and protein. In their report, the sweet potato scored an impressive 583.
Its nearest competition, a raw carrot, came in at 434, and the every-day baked potato, a scrawny 114. ‘High Energy’ Sweet potatoes also contain B6, manganese, and lutein, which had been connected with macular degeneration prevention. It would take 23 cups of broccoli to provide the same amount of antioxidant protection; clearly a super food. They are grown on the ground, so be sure to scrub your spud.
Black beans are a wonderful source of cholesterol-lowering fiber, as are most other legumes. In addition to lowering cholesterol, black beans' high fiber content prevents blood sugar levels from rising too rapidly.
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