Tag: nutrition
Podcast 384 about Maca with Jorge Ureña
Maca was a regular part of the Peruvian diet, believed to bring strength, resilience, stamina, and immunity. Read More
In Defense of Nutrients
Let’s explore the world of nutrients, calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins, and their interrelationships. Read More
10 Reasons Why Summer Is THE Season for Eating Well
It’s easy to eat fresh, locally grown food when fruits and vegetables are as abundant and available as they are during the summer months. Read More
Personalized Plan
Achieve optimal health based on your genetic metabolic type Read More
The Loving Diet: a book review
Receiving love is just as important as giving it. Most people don’t even realize that the power of love is not only the name of a beautiful song, but also a true force that is able to change lives, to heal, to promote happiness, and to make literal miracles happen. Read More
The Fat Story – Part 2
Saturated fat used to be demonized because sources of SFA are also high in cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the most important compounds in our bodies. Read More
The Fat Story – Part 1
Forget everything you think you know about fat and learn about why avoiding healthy sources of fat might be the thing that’s blocking your path to optimal health and mental well being. Read More
Nutrition for the skin
Our skin is a powerful, yet vulnerable, protective shield covering our whole body, and its condition is very often a reflection of our overall health (particularly of what is happening in the gut and liver). Read More
Power of Spice: Turmeric
Not only do spices add a flavor boost to your meals, pleasant aroma, and often also color, some of them have really significant health benefits. Read More
Power of Spice: Cinnamon
Cinnamon bark from trees grown in Sri Lanka, however, is considered the true cinnamon, and is labeled as Ceylon cinnamon. Read More
Growing Healthy Food
I am going to try patio tomatoes on my balcony with dust and m-state this year. Read More
Food Is Becoming Less Nutritious
To maintain health you must add mineral and enzyme supplementation to your daily program if you eat the standard grocery store and fast food restaurant diet. Read More
Farmed Salmon Troubles
Pure Salmon Campaign exposes the problems with salmon farming Read More
Supplementation is Crucial for Health
Natural supplements are essential for proper nutrient absorption & toxin elimination, enabling a naturally healthy, pain free body. Read More
Step up your smoothie game
It is preferable to chew your meals in order to digest them properly, as long as you keep your smoothies nutritionally balanced, there is no problem with replacing a meal with them from time to time, as a breakfast, or quick on the go snack. Read More
Sprouts
Sprouts are very nutritious because they contain all the elements a plant needs for life and growth. The endosperm of seed is the storehouse of carbohydrates, protein and oil. When the seed germinates, these become predigested amino acids and natural sugars upon which the plant embryo feeds to grow. Read More
Nutrition from Sunlight
Without sunlight, we can suffer from light starvation, just as we can suffer malnutrition from lack of food (or lack of proper nutrition). Read More
Nutrition for Health
An important aspect of nourishment is exercise for your physical body, to maintain a healthy weight and nurture your mind and soul. Read More
Nutrition For Blood Type O
A deficiency of any vitamin, mineral, fatty acid or amino acid will prevent the body from making the required protein or cell and will display the condition as a disease. Read More
Nutrition and Food Combining Principles
All your nutritional requirements are contained within fruits and vegetables; vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, enzymes, carbohydrates, and fatty acids. Read More
New Theory of Disease: Food Safety
Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. Read More
Neglected Nutritional Research
Modern medicine has a drug and a diagnostic test for just about everything and, because of this edifice of pharmacological technology, people are generally in awe of doctors and the medical profession. Read More
Kids: They Are What They Eat
If you suspect your child might be food sensitive, then the next step might be to identify which food or foods are the problem. There are a variety of tests available for food sensitivity. Read More
Juicing Benefits
Juicing does several things, all of which benefit your health: physical well being, your mental state and your spiritual well being also. Read More
Human Nutrition: Evolutionary Perspective
We should stress plant-based foods such as vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds over animal foods in the diet. Read More
Free Online Metabolic Typing
Which nutrient or diet is right for you or for treating a specific condition does not depend on the nutrient itself, but instead on the interaction of the nutrient with the fundamental homeostatic control system directed by your Metabolic Type. Read More
Electrolyte Tests
The electrolytes most closely associated with the pH of the bloodstream are bicarbonate, chloride, and phosphate. Read More
Dr Allocca on Nutrition
Vitamin, mineral, and protein deficiencies will decrease the activity of the detoxification pathways. Read More
Diabetes and Leptin Connection
Leptin’s function is to reduce appetite and induce fat burning (among many other functions). That is what high leptin signaling in a brain would do. Low leptin (in the brain) is an indication to eat more and store more fat (to successfully reproduce and to live long enough to do so). Read More
China Study
The China Study was published in the USA, written by T. Colin Campbell; over the years it has become one of the Americas best-selling books about nutrition. Read More
Book: Recipe for Living Without Disease (Part 2)
Book: Recipe for Living Without Disease (Part 2) Read More
Book: Recipe for Living Without Disease (Part 1)
Book: Recipe for Living Without Disease (Part 1) Read More
Book: 7 Syndrome Healing
Malabsorption is a general term for poor digestion, microbial contamination, and abnormalities in gut mucosa. Read More
Biological Transmutations
Biological transmutations exist and cannot be denied; they are the very core of living nature, which could not function without them. Read More
Apple Cider Vinegar
One of the great virtues of Apple Cider Vinegar is its extraordinary potassium content, an element so necessary for building and storing body reserves and to help the system to achieve harmony and calm. Read More
Sprouts, Lentil, Soy, Wheat, Mung Bean
Sprouts are very nutritious because they contain all the elements a plant needs for life and growth. Read More
Price vs. value
Today’s society is so driven by money, it’s scary. People, who make money by selling fitness programs, diet supplements, and cosmetic “must haves,” try to convince us that everything can be purchased – beauty, happiness, health. We feel like we have to look a certain way in order to be happy and we have to pay for it with hard earned money. Read More
Raw Food Craze
The best thing is, you do not need to fuss about calories – you can eat as much as you want. Read More
Soil Depletion
Any upset of the balance, any considerable lack of one or another element, however microscopic the body requirement may be, and we sicken, suffer, shorten our lives. Read More
Milk: Do NOT Drink It
Milk and dairy products are acid-forming and mucus-producing substances that provide the ideal bodily environment for many children and adults to experience increased frequency of colds and flues. Read More
Importance of Fresh Juices
We have seen amazing numbers of miraculous healings with it alone, nevertheless, problems continually arose with patients from time to time that juice therapy could not handle. Read More
Sprouting: Reasons to Start
Make sprout breads from sprouted wheat, rye, or barley. Snacks from sprouted peanuts, hummus dip from sprouted banzo, cooked vegetable side dish made from sprouted green Chinese sautes from mung, adzuki and lentils, even sprouted wheat pizza! Read More
Kombucha Tea
The preparation of kombucha tea is a simple process that requires only a small amount of equipment and ingredients. Read More
Benefits of Uncooked Food
Raw foods contain enzymes, which influence digestive efficiency – cooking destroys all enzymes. Moreover, the consumption of raw foods stimulates gastric enzyme secretion, necessary to initiate good digestion. Read More
Sprouting Off at the Mouth
People who are drawn to living foods almost always begin through wheatgrass Read More
Gardening: Soil Mineralization
I started the garden a month after everyone else had started theirs, and I caught up and surpassed them by July. I planted everything closely and it looked like a Jungle hedge!!! Read More
All Raw Primal Diet
Now that I look back on my life, I wonder how I could have been so confident, even arrogant, to advise anyone with the little knowledge and experience that I had. I knew a lot about disease but little about health and healing. Read More
Agriculture and Food
All biological organisms (including humans) require organically complexed trace minerals in order to maintain health and prevent disease. Read More
Wheat: Cause For Diseases
Wheat, and all gluten, is the likel Cause of much Disease, not only in the digestive system, but also sytemic, and autoimmune. Read More
Is French Fry a Vegetable?
Jamie Oliver asked a classroom full of six year old kids to name some vegetables. Not one of the kids recognized a potato, never mind something as exotic as a broccoli. Read More
Food For Thought
How much food does a family eat in a week? What are their preferences? Read More
Eating for your Body Type is effective
Today, we are mixing all races and all geographic locations in one genetic melting pot. What comes out are children that may be genetically ready to live on the sea shore in Ireland, or in the forests in Germany, or on the beach in equatorial Africa. Read More
Weight Loss
More than half the population is carrying more weight than they should be and are putting their health at risk. Some people carry even more. If your weight exceeds 20% over the maximum desirable for your age and height, you are obese. Read More
Vegan Against Meat
Becoming a vegetarian was the greatest moment in my life. Read More
How We Eat
Low-fat diets are dangerous and should not be entertained – no matter what the media, some hospital dietitians or the latest nutritional gurus try to tell you. Read More
Health of French People
The French LOVE food and know how to prepare it and eat it. Here are some of their rules and habits. Read More
Food Cravings
Food Cravings can indicate your endocrine dominance, and help you change your diet so that you no longer crave foods. Read More
Essene Science of Fasting
Official medicine looks on fasting as a bad and even dangerous thing for the human organism and regards it as the equivalent of starvation. Read More
Eating Programs
Find the diet that is right for you, one that matches your genetics. Read More
Cacao – Organic and Raw
Cacao has always been highly valued, its seeds sometimes serving as currency as they did during the Aztec period in Mexico. Read More
Beans Health Benefits
The common beans’ contribution to heart health lies not just in their fiber, but in the significant amounts of antioxidants, folic acid, vitamin B6, and magnesium these beans supply. Read More
Argument for Meatless Diet
Random pile of factoids that support the idea that vegetarians leave a smaller footprint. Read More
GMO Foods: A Blessing or a Curse?
Obama quietly signed this Monsanto Protection Act into law thus ensuring the American people have no recourse against this bio-tech giant as they fall ill . Read More
Should You Know If Your Food Is GMO?
If you have not woken up to the gravity of this issue, please consider this your wake-up call. Read More
We Are What We Eat
Morgan Spurlock subsisted on a McDonalds-only diet for a month and lived to make a documentary about it. Read More
Trans Fatty Acids: Proven Serious Health Effects
Metabolic and epidemiologic studies indicate an adverse effect of trans fatty acids on the risk of coronary heart disease. Read More
Trans Fatty Acids in Foods
Trans Fatty Acids in Foods and how responsible governments should institute a mandatory lifestyle course into our children’s school curricula. Read More
Super Size Me: Corporate Backlash
When Super Size Me had its debut in January at the Sundance Film Festival, where it picked up an award for documentary directing, McDonald’s had just pulled itself out of a hole caused by over-aggressive expansion, growing complaints about customer service, concerns about obesity. Read More
Sugar: Armed and Dangerous
The next time a television commercial tries to tell you to buy a candy bar for that sudden burst of energy, consider this, the liver can only store about 150 grams of glycogen (which is derived from sugar), and the excess becomes fat globules. Read More
Sugar Can Ruin Your Health 108 Ways
All the possible ways in which sugar can ruin your health Read More
Splenda or Equal: Lesser of Two Evils
avoid artificial sweeteners. In addition, eating too much REAL sugar will also adversely affect your health, as it will cause your blood sugar level to rise. Read More
MSG: Slowly Poisoning America
MSG: The food producers and restaurants have been addicting us to their products for years, and now we are paying the price for it. Read More
MSG: Monosodium Glutamate
Yes, there are many known side effects of MSG in your food. Monosodium Glutamate should be avoided to prevent damage. Read More
MSG Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills
MSG is not the only taste “enhancing” food additive known to cause damage to the nervous system. They all share one important property. Read More
Microwaving Destroys Nutrients
Microwaving Destroys Flavonoids, substances often found in many brightly coloured fruits and vegetables, have been linked to a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and lung cancer. Read More
Microwave: Effects on Food and Humans
Microwave exposure caused significant decreases in the nutritive value of all foods studied. Read More
McDonalds Diet: Arch Enemy
After 30 days of McDonalds Diet his liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered headaches and depression. Read More
Lifespan Crisis
statisticians at Boston College reveal that in France, Japan and Switzerland, men and women aged 65 now live several years longer than they do in the US Read More
Lethal Science Of Splenda
Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice. Read More
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
Important history of the intertwined science and politics of GMO Read More
How To Get Sick
Many Americans have filled every one of these twenty-seven prescriptions for illness. Their bodies struggle to overcome an unbearable toxic load while fueled with poisonous processed junk food or non-nutritious pre-packaged foods. Read More
Genetically Modified Foods
Avoid GMO foods. Check labels for these commonly altered items: soy, corn oils, and flour, lecithin, canola, and soy protein isolates. Read More
Food Irradiation
The solution to the problem of food borne illnesses is to make tougher sanitation laws for meat processing, because current methods are endangering public health Read More
Food Additives
Scientists believe that neurotoxins are even more of a problem in food than carcinogens. Read More
Excitotoxins: Ultimate Brainslayer
Excitotoxins are biochemical substances (usually amino acids, amino acid analogs, or amino acid derivatives) that can react with specialized neuronal receptors – glutamate receptors – in the brain or spinal cord in such a way as to cause injury or death to a wide variety of neurons Read More
Eliminate Aritficial Sweeteners
When exposed to heat, aspartame breaks down into toxic methyl alcohol. This may occur even at temperatures reached by diet sodas during regular storage. Read More
Eating Wisely
Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food Read More
Do Not Drink Diet Coke
People who experience depression, fatigue, and other symptoms, however, may want to moderate their aspartame consumption. Read More
Dirty Dozen Food Additives
The only way to avoid dangerous food additives is to eat whole, natural, organic food. Read More
Diet Making You Sick
Everything consumed ultimately affects your body, from your skin to your digestive system. Read More
Carbonated Drinks
Carbonated water will make your plants grow vigorously but is not good for us to drink in large quantities. Read More
Antibiotic-Free Pork and Chicken
Compass Group has announced that it will only buy pork and chicken from companies that stop using medically important antibiotics to make healthy animals grow faster. Read More
Sugar – Part 3
In this final section, we will talk about sugar addiction, the traps we fall into over and over, and finally, how to escape this dangerous spiral for good. Read More
Sugar – Part 2
Today, we are going to learn more about what it does in our bodies on a chemical level and how it affect our hormonal, metabolic, immune, and mental health. Read More