Weight loss! Increased energy levels (energy slumps can disappear) Brighter whites of the eyes better sleep and amount of hours needed lessens. Concentration increased Clearer focus. Sensation of calmness and more grounded. Detoxification of the body/system. Possibility of healing ailments has been proven! Go ahead get to the RAWness of your health regime!! With all the benefits mentioned why wouldnt you considering ditching your microwave! Add Comment Spring Cleaning starts in Your Bowels?!!! 04/03/2011
Bowel Restorative Ingredients: Psyllium Seed, Licorice root, Marshmallow root, Cascara Sagrada, Eleuthro, Hibiscus flower, Peppermint and Cornsilk. Usage/Description: Eliminate is a gentle herbal laxative, intestinal detox and bowel rebuilder. Take as needed, up to twice per day, morning or evening without food. 1 level tablespoon in a ½ glass of water or orange juice, stir and drink immediately, followed by a full glass of water directly after. 2/3’s of North Americans are obese, have an average of 7-25 lbs of old fecal matter impacted in their intestinal tract and require laxatives to have regular bowel movements. This is the main area for pathogenic bacteria, virus and parasite proliferation and the key cause of acidosis and all disease symptoms. Eliminate™ supports to break down and move out impacted waste materials, draws toxins out from all over the body, stimulates our own parastaltic /muscle action and repairs the bowel wall as it travels through our intestinal tract. Food imprinting and food addictions seem to go hand in hand but which one develops first? An imprint is instilled from a vibration that is felt over and over again, be it positive or negative and then a belief is downloaded which attracts more of that vibration, re-enforcing the belief. As we are already aware, many food addictions start when we are very young; infants in fact, and can also be brought forward from our ancestral matrix. Whole cultures bring forward certain patterns and eating habits that do not get questioned because its part of our cultural conditioning and so we keep passing on the same food habits to our children. An example of unquestioned conditioning is a story I heard from a keynote speaker once. She asked her mom why she always cut the ends off the ham before placing it in the roasting pan. Her mom replied that this was the way her mom had taught her to roast a ham. And when they asked the grandmother and great grandmother, who was still alive, why she cut the ends off the ham, great grandmother replied, "so that it would fit in the roasting pan." The guest speaker shouted from the stage, "folks, the buck stops with me." She was willing to clear the conditioning. Last month we identified late night snacking as a food imprint that carried over into adulthood. The correlation here between food imprinting and food addictions is that snack food became more unhealthy as we moved into a new era of preservatives and chemicals in our food and especially snack food. It became extremely difficult to release food imprints because there was now a whole generation of addicted food junkies. Remember the white flour Wonder Bread? Gluten became an addiction which has personally taken me years to get all that glue out of my organs. Another correlation between food imprinting and subsequent food addictions was emotional eating, overeating. I grew up in the era where kids were conditioned to play quiet, be quiet in church, be quiet in school, be quiet at the dinner table, be quiet when put to bed and don't talk when adults are visiting. The one thing we were allowed to do was overeat, suppressing our self expressions with food, eventually becoming addicted to emotional eating. This is still the case today, only now we are poisoning our children with non-food items touted to be healthy food for growing children for the sake of convenience in the busy world of adults with no time to sit down and share meals as a family. How did we become such an addictive society so rapidly? Prescription drugs such as Ritalin were unleashed in the market place as the solution to eating disorders, disruptive behaviours and extreme anxiety disorders in our kids. We thought we were giving our children all the nutritional requirements needed, doling out vitamin supplements along with the prescription drugs, fortified nutritional foods and drinks for families on the go but little did we know that macaroni and cheese is not real food. Yet it is interesting to note that there were many parents who were beginning to realize the absolute necessity of changing their diets to incorporate more healthy choices but now they faced the challenge of coaxing their children to switch from eating pastas and sugared cereals to leafy greens and vegetables. The addictions to white flour, starches, and sugar was already imprinted. We all know what a sugar high feels like. Once kids get a taste for prescription drugs, the addictions for chemical substances start to accelerate. The body always wants more of what you habitually give it. Filling a void, denial, wanting to feel better yet with addictions you never truly feel better, you actually start feeling worse. You feel guilt when you eat and say things like, "this isn't good for me, its not really healthy, its going to make me fatter but just one time and then I'll stop." And this dialog plays out over and over again as we spiral downward into self judgment, victimhood, weight gain, incessant overeating, boredom and depression. Our emotions and feelings run out of control and we begin to experience minor health problems, which if ignored turn into major health crisis. Eventually, awareness is the only way out; understanding that underneath these addictions is the first addiction, that of "food" and the conditioning of food imprinting. Refence: By Wind Walrath is the author of two books and the partner of Charles Holmes - the founder of Conscious Planet. Over the years, she has worked closely with him: teaching, mentoring, and helping others detoxify and rejuvenating the mind, body and soul To Cheat or NOT to Cheat on my diet!?!. 10/02/2009
![]() Trade Secrets from your Narcissistic Nutritionist: TGIF!! To Cheat or NOT to Cheat? Cheat meals are a nice way to keep your sanity and that is about it. The theory behind a cheat meal a week is to keep your metabolism from dropping due to consuming low calories all week. Well that one meal isn’t going to change a thing in that regard. It may not do a lot of harm either so what’s the concern? The thing is that most people who have a cheat meal do one of two things. They either eat an insanely massive dirty meal or they have a cheat day. When you do this, you will generally have a negative effect, but if it is a clean(ish) meal that is off your diet you should be ok. The cheat meal is exactly that, a cheat, and why are you cheating? To reward yourself for sticking to your healthy diet? Hmmmmmmmmmm Good thing we don’t look at marriage this way isn’t it. Guess what, we shouldn’t look at our diet this way either. That one cheat can ruin everything you accomplished over the last week, is it worth it? Not as far as I am concerned. Saying that… People often assume that I have a will of steel when it comes to watching what I eat. In order for me to maintain low body fat levels throughout the year, my diet is somewhat strict as a rule; HOWEVER, I am not an angel. From time to time, I have to cheat on my diet, either for my sanity or because I can’t say no to the occasional dinner out. Ok, you got me, I don’t HAVE to cheat, I CHOOSE to, but I do it as safely as possible. When it becomes a choice & not a privilege you certainly gain more control of yourself don’t you think? However here are MY little secrets for cheating and getting away with it (for the most part). Ideally you will not need this information, hmmmmmm, but it will at least help reduce the risk of falling too far off track if you “must” cheat. Tips from Diet Diva REVEALED: The first part, and most difficult is to get your metabolism fired up. You will need to be eating at least 6 small healthy meals a day for a month or two, ideally with no cheat meals for that period of time. This will get your body accustom to processing your food in an efficient scheduled manner. Once your body stops storing calories as fat from meal to meal and starts using them as energy and muscle repair, you are on your way to becoming a human furnace that burns through calories. You need to train with weights at least 3 times a week, this will ensure you maintain and or build muscle while restricting calories. Basically, you require calories for your bodily functions and to feed your working muscles. The more muscle you have the more calories your body will burn, even when you sleep. For every pound of muscle you gain you require up to 100 additional calories a day to maintain. Now, let’s assume you have been resistance training 3 days a week and have been eating 6 small meals a day for the last couple months. You have been losing fat and have gained a few new pounds of muscle. You have now elevated your metabolism about as far as you are going to on your own. It’s time to take it to the next level; here is where you look to supplements. By adding a fat burning supplement, you can kick your metabolic rate even higher. Choosing a fat burning supplement that addresses many areas such as thermogenisis, elevating thyroid output, shutting down fat receptors and increasing insulin sensitivity is the best approach. And yes I have my recommendations on the ones that are safe, don’t stress out your adrenal glands or make you jittery. Okay, so now you are dropping body fat even faster and maintaining your lean body mass. At this stage, you usually feel your bodytemperature rise shortly after eating as your internal furnace burns through the calories. You are now ready to approach cheating and get away with it, but we need a couple more tools first. I have great faith in the new Fat Blockers, Insulin Mimickers and Carbohydrate Inhibitors on the market. Trust me on that one, I study it all; remember I am a vitamin addict & well Aka Narcissistic Nutritionist! Her Trade Secret: My personal combat for all my meals to keep insulin managed & not spiked is ACV (Apple Cider Vinegar 500mg caps) I take 1-2 prior to eating. With the aid of these supplements, you can block up to 20 grams of fat, 500 grams of starch and shuttle the sugars into your muscles or burn them as energy more effectively. Taking these supplements 15-60 minutes before your OCCASIONAL dirty meal will help you get away with diet murder and ease the conscience. This is the “meat and potatoes” of it; however, there are a few more little rules to follow. Make sure you eat your regularly scheduled meals before and after your cheat meal. Don’t try to starve all day thinking you can use the calories when you cheat later in the day. This will only make you store the calories more readily. Also, don’t fast for the rest of the day because of the extra calories you just consumed. Continue to eat every 3 hours after your cheat meal, but you might want to cut these meals down a little, especially if you are not that hungry. The main thing is we want to keep your body in a fat burning zone by eating every 2.5 to 3 hours, going any longer will just cause you to store calories. **Diet Diva Tip: Another way to ensure your cheat meal has the least impact on you is to work out before your cheat meal. I suggest always a bigger muscle group such as legs or back training. After you work out with weights, your metabolic rate is very high, this will help you burn through the excess calories that you consume. These rules if followed should help you cheat as safely as possible, however everyone is different. People that are really lean are going to be able to get away with more than someone with a higher body fat level. Obviously, if you have been able to get your body fat levels really low your metabolism is fast, if you are having a hard time getting your body fat levels lower than your metabolism still isn’t up to par so be careful. At the end of the day, the best way to stay on track and not let a cheat meal affect your diet or progress is to not have that cheat meal. Sometimes one cheat meal leads to another and another until you are no longer eating the way you should. For most people one cheat meal a week is fine, for others maybe more or less. I hope this helps you and by the way try not to feel guilty after your cheat meal. Make up your mind before you eat and justify it then, if you can live with possible negative outcome then dig in and enjoy. If not, then don’t have it and regret it for days after, it’s not worth it. To summarize the smart way to cheat on your diet:
Alcohol, or ethyl alcohol (ethanol), refers to the intoxicating ingredient found in wine, beer and hard liquor. Alcohol arises naturally from carbohydrates when certain micro-organisms metabolize them in the absence of oxygen, called fermentation. Beer, wine and other liquor contain different amounts of alcohol. The amount of alcohol in distilled liquor is known as “proof”. Proof refers to the amount of alcohol in the liquor; for example, 100 proof liquor contains 50% alcohol, 40 proof liquor contains 20% alcohol, and so on. Traditional wine has approximately 8-14% alcohol, while regular beer has 4-6% alcohol. Recent studies show that moderate use of alcohol may have a beneficial effect on the coronary system. In general, for healthy people, one drink per day for women and no more than two drinks per day for men would be considered the maximum amount of alcohol consumption to be considered moderate use. (By “healthy” people, we are referring to non-pregnant women, individuals not addicted to alcohol, and people without pre-existing medical conditions, among others). However, the amount of alcohol that a person can drink safely is highly individual, depending on genetics, age, sex, weight and family history, etc. A “drink” is considered to be: · 4-5 ounces of wine · 10 ounces of wine cooler · 12 ounces of beer
Alcohol is metabolized extremely quickly by the body. Unlike foods, which require time for digestion, alcohol needs no digestion and is quickly absorbed. Alcohol gets “VIP” treatment in the body – absorbing and metabolizing before most other nutrients. About 20 percent is absorbed directly across the walls of an empty stomach and can reach the brain within one minute. Once alcohol reaches the stomach, it begins to break down with the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme. This process reduces the amount of alcohol entering the blood by approximately 20%. (Women produce less of this enzyme, which may help to partially explain why women become more intoxicated on less alcohol than men.). In addition, about 10% of the alcohol is expelled in the breath and urine. Alcohol is rapidly absorbed in the upper portion of the small intestine. The alcohol-laden blood then travels to the liver via the veins and capillaries of the digestive tract, which affects nearly every liver cell. The liver cells are the only cells in our body that can produce enough of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase to oxidize alcohol at an appreciable rate. Though alcohol affects every organ of the body, it’s most dramatic impact is upon the liver. The liver cells normally prefer fatty acids as fuel, and package excess fatty acids as triglycerides, which they then route to other tissues of the body. However, when alcohol is present, the liver cells are forced to first metabolize the alcohol, letting the fatty acids accumulate, sometimes in huge amounts. Alcohol metabolism permanently changes liver cell structure, which impairs the liver’s ability to metabolize fats. This explains why heavy drinkers tend to develop fatty livers. The liver is able to metabolize about ½ ounce of ethanol per hour (approximately one drink, depending on a person’s body size, food intake, etc.). If more alcohol arrives in the liver than the enzymes can handle, the excess alcohol travels to all parts of the body, circulating until the liver enzymes are finally able to process it. (Which is another good reason not to consume more than one drink per hour.). How the Liver Breaks Down Alcohol The alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme breaks down alcohol by removing hydrogen in two steps: 1. Alcohol dehydrogenase oxidizes alcohol to acetaldehyde 2. Acetaldehyde dehydrogenase oxidizes the acetaldehyde to acetyl CoA. These reactions produce hydrogen ions (acid). The B vitamin niacin (in its role as the coenzyme NAD) picks up these hydrogen ions (becoming NADH). Thus when alcohol is metabolized, NAD diminishes and NADH increases. · During alcohol metabolism, NAD becomes unavailable for the many other vital body processes for which it is needed, including glycolysis, the TCA cycle and the electron transport chain. Without NAD, the energy pathway is blocked, and alternative routes are taken, with serious physical consequences: · The accumulation of hydrogen atoms shifts the body’s balance toward acid. · The accumulation of NADH slows the TCA cycle, resulting in a build up of pyruvate and acetyl CoA. Excess acetyl CoA results in fatty acid synthesis and fat begins to clog the liver. (An accumulation of fat in the liver can be observed after only a single night of heavy drinking). Fatty Liver and Liver Disease With moderate drinking, the liver can process alcohol fairly safely. However, heavy drinking overtaxes the liver resulting in serious consequences. A liver clogged with fat causes liver cells to become less efficient at performing their necessary tasks, resulting in impairment of a person’s nutritional health. Fatty liver is the first stage of liver deterioration in heavy drinkers, and interferes with the distribution of oxygen and nutrients to the liver’s cells. If the condition persists long enough, the liver cells will die, forming fibrous scar tissue (the second stage of liver deterioration, or fibrosis). Some liver cells can regenerate with good nutrition and abstinence, however in the last stage of deterioration, or cirrhosis, the damage to the liver cells is the least reversible. Alcohol and Malnutrition For moderate drinkers, alcohol does not suppress food intake, and may actually increase appetite. Chronic alcohol consumption appears to have the opposite effect. Alcohol causes euphoria, which depresses appetite, so that heavy drinkers tend to eat poorly and become malnourished. Alcohol is very rich in energy, packing 7 calories per gram. But like pure sugar or fat, the calories are void of nutrients. The more calories an individual consumes in alcohol, the less likely it is that they will eat enough food to obtain adequate nutrients. To make matters worse, chronic alcohol abuse not only displaces calories from needed nutrients, but also interferes with the body’s metabolism of nutrients, leading to damage of the liver, digestive system, and nearly every bodily organ. Health Effects of Alcohol Consumption Arthritis Increases risk of gouty arthritis Cancer Increases the risk of cancer in the liver, pancreas, rectum, breast, mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Causes physical and behavioral abnormalities in the fetus Heart Disease Raises blood pressure, blood lipids and the risk of stroke and heart disease in heavy drinkers. Heart disease is generally lower in light to moderate drinkers. Hyperglycermia Raises blood glucose Hypoglycemia Lowers blood glucose, especially for people with diabetes Kidney Disease Enlarges the kidneys, alters hormone functions, and increases the risk of kidney failure Liver Disease Causes fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis and cirrhosis Malnutrition Increases the risk of protein-energy malnutrition,; low intakes of protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamine, vitamin B6 and riboflavin, and impaired absorption of calcium, phosphorus, vitamin D and zinc. Nervous Disorders Causes neuropathy and dementia; impairs balance and memory Obesity Increases energy intake, but not a primary cause of obesity Psychological disturbances Causes depression, anxiety and insomnia To Drink or Not to Drink? Moderate use of alcohol can be an enjoyable, safe experience if used with caution. If you do choose to drink, sip each drink slowly, and always consume alcohol with food. Spaces drinks out to no more than one drink per hour, and consume plenty of water in between drinks | Moi:
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