How To Improve Energy and Health

Are you taking the right supplement to increase energy and look great?

Well I have already stressed the importance of good nutritional support for your body when you want to lose weight, increase energy, or just want to improve your overall health. Your body requires important nutrients to help function at its best to help fight off disease, improve digestion, and increase your vitality.  Raw food such as fruits and vegetable are very important and when we just are unable to get enough, we really need to take a quality vitamin and mineral supplement.

Just increasing one nutrient can do so much good for your body, i.e. vitamin C helps reduce the effects of the common cold, fights against bad bacteria, viruses and infections. It is also a powerful antioxidant that helps fight of free radicals that can cause cancer and a host of other illnesses. It has also been known to lower blood pressure, helps the eyes to function properly and fight off cataracts and more. So when your body is deficient in just one nutrient it doesn’t surprise me that you can have many complications within your body.

It is important to supply quality nutrients as well. When you take a supplement it is important to use a quality brand. The multi-vitamin/mineral supplement by AOR called "Ortho-Core" may be the best multi I have found to date.  They have many other products you may want to know about and are of the highest quality from what I have experienced. 

Visit their website and check out some of their amazing products. 

AOR (Advance Orthomolecular Research in Canada  www.aor.ca ).

Is Milk Bad For You?

Shocking Report Tells All about Milk and Dairy!

What they don’t want you to know about Milk & Dairy!

Despite what you have heard and read in the past from those television commercials and billboards, milk and dairy products are not the best way to get bone building calcium and just may very well be one of the reason you are having difficulty losing those extra pounds.

What about the effects of milk on the human digestive system? Milk becomes a clogging, mucus-forming mass that hardens and sticks to everything in the small intestine of the body. This makes the body’s job of digesting much more difficult. This also makes it difficult on the respiratory system as milk can be mucus forming and may make it difficult to breath efficiently especially for an athlete. Cheese also have the same effect on the body. If you must indulge, cut up the cheese and mix it in a fresh green salad. The salad will aid in the digestion and counteract some of the effects the cheese would have had on the body.

How To Boost Your Immune To Stay Healthy and Avoid Illness

How to stay young, healthy and avoid getting sick.

 Life is so much more enjoyable and easier when you are healthy and energetic. This is why it is important to maintain a healthy immune system to battle off infections and disease by conquering invading organisms. The immune system is one of the most amazing and complex systems in the human body. For hundreds of years modern medicine has focused on drugs designed to destroy the invading organisms using antibiotics, anti-viral agents, and chemotherapy (which actually deplete the immune system). Antibiotics not only kill off bad bacteria but also kill off the good bacteria in the body and also in the long term create new drug-resistant strains of bacteria. These drugs may win a small battle but don’t often win the war.  This is why after taking an anti biotic or even while taking an antibiotic, it is a good idea to incorporate a probiotic (which you can pick up at your local health food store) to help restore the good bacteria.

How do you build your immune system you ask? Try looking at light exercise, your diet, and your state of mind. You don’t have to go nuts training to help improve your immune, you just need to do a light brisk walk, t’ai chi (has been proven to increase t cels by 40 percent) or even yoga. Over exertion when exercising can actually suppress the immune system. Then there is your nutrition that plays a key role. If you supply the body with those all-important nutrients, the body will heal and defend itself on all fronts. Plenty of fruits and vegetable, whole grains and a diet low in saturated fats will help. This is the reason why I enjoy juicing fruits and vegetables. It is an easy way to get all the important nutrients for a healthy immune. Then there is your state of mind. Stress, depression and grief depress the immune system so learning how to cope and deal with psychological issues and relax is very important to boosting a healthy immune system.

Your immune system relies on the intake of vitamins and minerals such as vitamin A, B1, B2, B6, B12, folic acid, Vitamin C and E as well as the minerals iron, zinc, magnesium and selenium.  Deficiency of these vitamins and minerals will suppress the immune system. It is a good idea to take a good high quality high strength multivitamin and mineral supplement to help boost your immune. I like to take them along with the fruits and vegetables I juice in the morning. Don’t take this subject lightly, as Louis Pasteur said on his deathbed “ the host is more important than the invader”. He didn’t realize until later in his life that strengthening the body was a more effective strategy rather then destroying the invading organism.  Make sure you don’t wait until it is too late. Start by taking a high quality multivitamin and mineral supplement. Try juicing as well, it is really not a lot of work, it easy and simple these days and the juicers are better and easier to use. Read my post living to over 100 and juicing and what type of juicer you should use.  I am in the process of testing other juicers and will be posting a more in depth post on the best juicers you can use. You will really enjoy the feeling of a healthier and more vibrant you!.

How You May Live To Over 100 And Be Healthy Too!

Would Like To Live To Over 100 and still have healthy skin, all your teeth, good memory, strong bones, and weigh the same as you did in your teens?  

Did you know that there are people in the Hunza Valley of Pakistan that are living well beyond a hundred years of age and they still have all their teeth, good memories, strong bones, and healthy skin. Their diet is high in natural carbohydrates and low in protein. They also are not easily exposed to the harmful customs of western society. The majority of their diet is raw unaltered nutritious foods. It is not unrealistic for you to improve your health and wellbeing and maybe you can live longer and healthier. 

You too may be able to live to over a hundred with all the health and vitality that they have in the Hunza Valley.

Foods For Your Well Being! -Apples

APPLES
Apples provide many nutrients and benefits to the body.  Apples help to lower blood cholesterol, remove toxins and metals from the body, improve digestion and bowel function, reduce the risk of cancer, stroke, lung cancer, prostate cancer, type II diabetes and even asthma. Apples are also known to decrease the risk of cancer and heart disease. Apples are great for juicing as they add great taste to a drink and many health benefits and are a great detoxifier. Apples improve digestion, improve colon health, help with arthritis, gout, rheumatism and have been known to help promote weight loss. Apples are a gentle diuretic and lower levels of cholesterol in the blood. Raw apples have also been used to relieve constipation and cooked apples are used to help with diarrhea. 

Knowing all of this, apples should be part of your daily diet and should be purchased organic and pesticide free. If organic is not possible, try buying apples from local farmers and peel the skin to reduce exposure to pesticides. 

Juice your apples and add loads of nutrients for your body. Apples provide many nutrients such as vitamin C, vitamin B, iron, magnesium, calcium, zinc, potassium, phosphorus, sulphur, pectin, folic acid and fiber. 

How to Get Your Vitamins from Food

When you are juicing, here is a list of vitamins that you get from food

VITAMIN A

Sources: Carrots, Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Kale, Cantaloupe, Apricots, Peaches, Papaya, Mango

Benefits: Improves vision, promotes a healthy immune System, important for the development of cells, healthy skin.

VITAMIN C (ascorbic acid)

Sources: Red Berries, Kiwi, Red & Green Bell Peppers, Tomato, Broccoli, Spinach, Guava, Grapefruit, Apple, Orange.

Benefits: Healthy bones, teeth, gums and blood vessels. Forming of collagen. Helps the body absorb iron & calcium. Important to the body for healthy brain function and wound healing.

Which Products Have The Most Pesticide Exposure?

How to reduce your exposure to pesticides from your fruits and vegetables that you buy
When buying fruits and vegetables you should always try to buy organic. The health benefits of fruits and vegetables are very important to the body. If you are unable to purchase organic, then try locally conventionally grown produce. It’s better than not eating them at all. Below is a list of the most contaminated fruits and vegetables conducted by the Environmental Working Group. EWG reports periodically on produce exposed to pesticides. You can visit their site for a full list of fruits and vegetables at www.foodnews.org and see their "dirty dozen" and their "clean 15". 

The following are some of the fruits and vegetables most exposed to pesticides and should be purchased organic:

Apples, Celery, Strawberries, Peaches, Spinach, Grapes, Sweet Bell Peppers, Potatoes, Blueberries….

The least exposed are: Onions, Sweet Corn, Pineapples, Avocados, Asparagus, Sweet Peas, Mangoes…

Visit EWG’s site for a complete list. www.foodnews.org. 

How To Keep You and Your Family Safe From Food Poisoning At Home.

How To Avoid Serious Illness From Your Food At Home.

You should know how to care for the foods you pick up from the grocery store. Food born illnesses can be prevented with the proper handling and care of food products. Salmonella, listeria, E. coli and others can be prevented. Did you know that harmful bacteria can grow in perishable foods within two hours unless you refrigerate them? If its summer and the temperatures are higher, you can cut that time to one hour. Here is a list of suggestions that will help you: