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Your body needs fuel in the form of nutrition to deliver the kind of performance you need from it day after day. Nutrition is easily defined by the foods that nourish your body, but not all nourishment is the same.
Just because it’s stocked under the title and the package is labeled as such nutritional doesn’t mean it is. It’s hard to believe in the world of advertising, but not all products telling you they’re good for you and nutritious are telling the truth. What is the truth then? Organic nutritional products are the best fuel you can offer your body for optimizing your life.
What are organic nutritional products? The list is too long and detailed to list every single product. They can range from whole foods to supplements to vitamins. They’re products that can help you maintain the active lifestyle you’re accustomed to or even help bolster your body to reach its maximum potential. These products don’t contain the bad for you stuff like preservatives or fillers that regular products do contain.
Not all of the products saying they’re nutritional actually are underneath all the gimmicky packaging. If you want organic (and you do) because it’s the best for you, then don’t settle for something that can’t even qualify as second best.
Your body isn’t like an iPod. You can’t pause your body’s health and rewind. You have to make the best of what you have right now at this moment. So you didn’t start out using organic nutritional products. Doesn’t mean you can’t make better decisions from here on out.
Organic nutritional products have your best health in mind when bringing you their product. They’ve created chemical free products that your body will benefit from using and anything chemical free is always a good choice.
Chemical free means you’re not sticking all that extra additive junk that can do all sorts of nasty things to your health into your body. If you think the FDA will protect you from potentially harmful foods or supplements, think again.
All you have to do is check out their list of recalls to see how things slip through the cracks and into your supermarket, some of them nutritional supplements. That alone should tell you why it’s safer to choose organic products.
What about natural versus organic? Isn’t natural just as good for you? If you think that natural and organic mean the same thing, you’d be wrong again. The USDA has standards in place for a product to qualify as organic, but no so for so called natural products. By using organic nutritional products, you’re guaranteeing your body is getting the best possible nutrition you can offer.
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We are the generation that desires constant youth and vitality. Staying young is top of the agenda for many health conscious individuals, and nutrition is the best all natural method for turning back the clock.
You should always take a natural approach to food. Ripe fruit and vegetables, herbs and spices and simply prepared meat and wild fish contain a startling number of anti-aging ingredients. These include heart friendly fats, protective plant substances and youth preserving antioxidants. Antioxidants neutralise free radicals - the unstable molecules that kickstart the body’s anti-aging processes.
Most articles, reports and books that discuss nutrition for anti-aging begin with the ‘five a day’ principle, and this is no different. Fresh fruit and vegetables are rich in antioxidants and the biologically active ingredients of plant pigments and flavourings have anti-aging properties, too. Eat up to nine portions if you can for even better results. Slice fresh fruit onto your morning muesli, snack on fruit throughout the day, have a fruit salad after meals, and treat yourself with fruit dipped in melted dark chocolate (dark chocolate is packed full of antioxidants!) to boost your fruit intake.
Make sure you are consuming a variety of colours of fruit and veg. Deep green, yellow and red foods contain antioxidant carotenoids that boost immunity and offer protection against various age related diseases and illnesses. Foods such as peppers, spinach, pumpkin and carrots aid absorption of these carotenoids.
For optimum results from your fruit and veg, always consume only fresh produce. If you can, go organic. Non-organic foods contain harmful substances, such as pesticides and fertilisers. Grow your own fruit and veg in your backyard to ensure your produce is fresh and organic – it also tastes a lot better if you produce it yourself and know exactly where it comes from.
Carrying extra pounds contributes to aging you both in appearance and the way you feel. If you aren’t happy in your own body, then you won’t be able to turn back your body clock. As you age, you generally become less active and therefore need fewer calories. Over 50s who aren’t as physically active require 200 fewer calories per day than those who are. Cut down your portion sizes to reduce your calorie intake. Try to maintain a high consumption of protein, vitamins and minerals as these demands do not decline as you age.
Studies have shown that older people with low levels of folate have noticeably more memory problems than those whose diet is rich in this plant nutrient. High levels of folate can be found in green leafy vegetables, such as spinach, lettuces and peas. High quantities are also found in fortified cereal products, sunflower seeds and citrus fruits.
It’s important to include only good carbs in your diet. Good carbohydrates are unrefined, rich in nutrients and fibre, high in flavour and keep hunger at bay for hours. You should try to have at least six servings per day, and nine servings if you are very active. Good carbs can be found in brown rices, oats and wholewheat pasta.
Whole grains are also a good food choice to include in your anti-aging diet. Research has shown that people over 60 who eat the most whole grains are less likely to suffer metabolic syndrome, a group of symptoms implicated in heart disease and diabetes. They were also found to be slimmer. Whole grains are also rich in B vitamins. Brown rice has been found to have twice the quantity of magnesium compared with white rice. A diet rich in magnesium is important for bone density and to prevent conditions such as osteoporosis. Other grains such as spelt flour and quinoa are overlooked but nutritionists believe they are well adapted to the human digestive system.
The majority of your fat intake should come from oily fish, avocados, walnuts and other nuts, extra-virgin olive oil and flaxseed oil. Dietary fat is essential with age. It speeds absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and carotenoids and offers energy and essential fatty acids. Monosaturated fats increase the good cholesterol and decrease the bad cholesterol. Trans fats are oils that have been hydrogenated and serve no nutritional purpose. They are merely used to preserve shelf life and have been linked to increased risk of heart disease, cancer and skin disease. Trans fats are found in processed foods and are not always labelled. The best thing to do is to avoid processed foods altogether.
Avoiding artificial sweeteners is highly important for maintaining optimum health and vitality. Many contain ingredients that are harmful to your health. Aspartame (E951) produces the toxin methanol, which the body can only process in small quantities and has been associated with headaches. Saccharin (E954) has been linked with bladder cancer. Acesulfame K (E950) and mannitol (E421) have been associated with bloating. Try and avoid these.
The World Health Organization recommends that sugar is no more than 10% of your daily food intake. Try and avoid foods if they include any of these ingredients in high quantities: dextrose, glucose, corn syrup, sucrose, fructose and HFCS (high fructose corn syrup).
Protein is essential for maintaining bone density. You should aim for at least two or three servings of protein per day from meat and fishes, pulses, nuts or dairy produce.
Oily fish, such as salmon and mackerel are high in omega-3 fatty acids that have been shown to protect the brain and heart, maintain eye health, ease depression and guard against inflammation that can cause stiff and painful joints. Two to three portions of oily fish per week is sufficient.
What To Eat & When
It’s important to begin the day with a nutrients boost. Without breakfast, the body and mind won’t be able to cope with the physical and mental challenges of the day. Foods that offer a sustained energy boost are ideal, such as porridge, muesli, wholemeal toast, yoghurt, fruit, nuts and seeds. Eggs are also a good way to start the day. Eggs are high in protein and contain the antioxidant selenium, choline for maintaining memory and vitamin D which boosts immunity and helps calcium absorption. Home pressed organic orange juice with ‘bits’ is a good source of potassium, folate, vitamin C and carotenoids which have been shown to reduce the risk of an inflammatory condition that leads to rheumatoid arthritis.
Ayurveda is the ancient Hindu system of natural healthcare. Ayurveda roughly translates as “knowledge of a long life”. The system teaches that body and mind learn to become more aligned if we consume the foods of the seasons. In spring you should begin to introduce lighter, easy to digest foods, such as salads, bitter leaves, light broths, sprouted seeds and raw foods. In summer, take advantage of juicy fruit, such as watermelon and citrus, and water-laden vegetables, such as cucumber, courgettes, celery and watercress. Regularly consume light, fresh mixed salads to keep bones strong. As autumn begins, switch to more sweet, astringent and bitter tasting foods, such as pumpkin, beetroot and parsnips. In winter, consume warming foods, such as roast joints, casseroles, baked dishes based on root vegetables, such as carrots.
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Add pomegranate to your shopping list. The seeds and juice of the fruit contain powerful antioxidant polyphenols that protect against many diseases associated with aging. Pomegranate also contributes to maintaining glowing and healthy skin.
Eat more berries. Berries boost memory and are rich in the antioxidant flavonoid anthocyanins and have been found to fight cell and DNA damage. Blackcurrants, blackberries and blueberries benefit ageing eyes and capillary walls.
Try to consume one pot of organic live natural yoghurt daily. A Swedish study shows that those who get a daily dose of the ‘good’ bacteria, or probiotics, call in sick to work on fewer occasions. Probiotics boost immunity, aid digestive health and strengthen bones.
Add garlic into your salads and cook with it. Garlic is highly effective for lowering high blood pressure, reducing cholesterol and boosting the immune system.
Substitute your cooking oils with olive oil, and also drizzle it over salads or bread. Extra virgin olive oil contains many anti-inflammatory and clot preventing antioxidant phenols. It contains oleic acid which maintains healthy cholesterol levels and inhibits a gene that leads to the formation of breast cancer cells.
Add herbs to some of your dishes. Herbs provide a powerful antioxidant burst and have been used for centuries for curing many diseases and illnesses. Maintain a supply of fresh parsley, basil and coriander.
Treat yourself to a small portion of dark chocolate from time to time. Choose chocolate rich in cocoa solids (look for 70% or over). Treating yourself from time to time keeps the mind young and the antioxidant burst from the dark chocolate is an added bonus.
Healthy Hydration
Hydration is responsible for keeping the skin looking young and glowing, maintaining digestive health, reduce food cravings, boost energy levels and nutrient delivery and flush harmful toxins from the system. Six to eight glasses (2 litres) of water per day is recommended. Try to avoid water from plastic bottles. The plastic taints the taste and can leak the chemical bisphenol-A, which disrupts hormones. If you don’t like the taste of water, then squeeze half a lemon in. It provides an antioxidant boost, aids digestion and improves taste.
Avoid fizzy drinks at all costs. The sugar severely damages teeth and a study in the US has shown that just one can of fizzy drink per day will contribute to a 7kg increase in weight in one year.
Green tea is a potent antioxidant and you should aim for 4-6 cups per day. Green tea has been found to increase longevity, boost the immune system, cut risk of heart disease and reduce inflammation. It is antibacterial and antiviral and has been found to stimulate the burning of calories. When eating curry, have a cup of green tea. Turmeric, an ingredient in Indian-style curries, and green tea have been found to enhance each other’s health giving properties.
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My Top 55 Lean-Body Foods to Build Muscle and Lose Body Fat
by Michael Geary - Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Personal Trainer
In most of my Lean-Body Secrets Newsletters, I like to provide a healthy snack or meal recipe that not only is delicious and healthy, but also helps to get you closer to that hard-body appearance that everyone is looking for, while also more importantly, improving your health for life. In this article, I’d like to give you healthy food ideas in a different way. This time, I figured I’d just give you some ideas of what I stock my fridge and cabinets with.
Remember, if you don’t have junk around the house, you’re less likely to eat junk. If all you have is healthy food around the house, you’re forced to make smart choices. Basically, it all starts with making smart choices and avoiding temptations when you make your grocery store trip. Now these are just some of my personal preferences, but perhaps they will give you some good ideas that you’ll enjoy.
Alright, so let’s start with the fridge. Each week, I try to make sure I’m loaded up with lots of varieties of fresh vegetables. During the growing season, I only get local produce, but obviously in winter, I have to resort to the produce at the grocery store. Most of the time, I make sure I have plenty of vegetables like onions, zucchini, spinach, fresh mushrooms, red peppers, broccoli, etc. to use in my morning eggs. I also like to dice up some lean chicken or turkey sausage into the eggs, along with some swiss, jack, or goat cheeses (preferably raw grass-fed cheeses when I can find them).
By the way I’m talking about whole eggs, NOT egg whites. Always remember that the yolk is the most nutritious and nutrient dense part of the egg, so only eating egg whites is like throwing away the best part… and no, it’s NOT bad for you because of the cholesterol… eggs actually raise your GOOD cholesterol. Try to get free range organic eggs for the best quality. Here’s an entire article I did on the topic of whole eggs vs egg whites.
Coconut milk is another staple in my fridge. I like to use it to mix in with smoothies, oatmeal, or yogurt for a rich, creamy taste. Not only does coconut milk add a rich, creamy taste to lots of dishes, but it’s also full of healthy saturated fats. Yeah, you heard me…I said healthy saturated fats! Healthy saturated fats like medium chain triglycerides, specifically an MCT called lauric acid.
Back to the fridge, some other staples:
Some of the staples in the freezer:
Alright, now the staples in my cabinets:
Lastly, another thing that’s hard to go wrong with is a good variety of fresh fruits and berries. The staples such as bananas, apples, oranges, pears, peaches are good, but I like to also be a little more adventurous and include things like yellow (aka - mexican or champagne) mangoes, pomegranates, kumquats, papaya, star fruit, pineapples, and others. Also, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and cherries are some of the most nutrient and antioxidant-dense fruits you can eat.Well, I hope you enjoyed this special look into my favorite lean body meals and how I stock my cabinets and fridge. Your tastes are probably quite different than mine, but hopefully this gave you some good ideas you can use next time you’re at the grocery store looking to stock up a healthy and delicious pile of groceries.
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Whether we’d like to accept this or not, we truly are what we eat. So it makes sense to put healthy foods in our body instead of junk food that will only make us look older before our time. This junk food leads to oxidative stress which is a major cause of accelerated aging. One top food that is known to reduce oxidative stress is cactus pear fruit (opuntia ficus-indica).
Scientists in Italy have proven that cactus pear reduced oxidative stress in healthy persons. They also found that cactus pear fruit helps balance a healthy oxidative state in your body while it lowers oxidative damage to lipids. This fruit will definitely improve your antioxidant status.
Eating cactus pear fruit also works to increase the vitamin E levels in your body. Scientists aren’t sure how, but researchers found that persons who took either vitamin C supplements or cactus pear fruit ended up with higher levels of vitamin E at the end of the study.
In the end, scientist concluded that cactus pear fruit will improve your oxidative stress and keep you healthier, but that taking vitamin C supplements at a same dose does not affect the body’s oxidative stress as much. So, eating a food is better than having to take the supplement. (Of course, there are times when only a supplement will do due to the type of supplement you need.) But in this case, food wins.
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Today’s article discusses the health benefits of guacamole, plus a quick and tasty guacamole recipe.
But first, what is guacamole?
Guacamole is a thick dip made primarily from mashing avocadoes and mixing with chopped tomato, onion, lime juice, cilantro, apple cider vinegar and chilies. For extra taste season with salt, pepper and cumin.
Anyway, onto the health benefits of guacamole…
The avocado contains a carotenoid called Lutein, magnesium and monosaturated fats. The avocado helps to fight many forms of cancer (including breast and prostate) and improves skin tone. Some of the substances in avocado help to absorb nutrients in other foods.
The lime juice contains potassium and properties that strengthen the immune system. Research also shows that lime helps to cleanse the blood and liver.
The cilantro contains an abundance of antioxidants and relieves bloating, urinary tract infections and indigestion.
The apple cider vinegar has many health benefits. I wrote about the anti-aging benefits of apple cider vinegar in a post a few days ago. It is rich in enzymes, a natural germ fighter, improves digestion, helps reduce cholestrol, expels toxins and normalizes weight. Externally, it promotes a youthful body, maintains healthy skin and slows aging.
The onions in the guacamole recipe can help to lower high blood pressure, remove heavy metals from the bloodstream and help to fight many forms of cancer.
Here’s my favourite guacamole recipe for you to try.
* 3 ripe, medium Avocados
* Juice from 1 Fresh Lime
* 2 Tbsp chopped fresh Cilantro
* ½ Tsp Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil
* 1 Tsp Raw Apple Cider Vinegar
* ½ Tsp Cumin
* 2 cloves Garlic
* ¼ cup finely chopped Onion
Enjoy!
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For a longer and more youthful life, apple cider vinegar can keep you in top shape both inside and out with vibrancy. Here are the health benefits:
Internal Health Benefits
Rich in enzymes
Natural germ fighter
Improves digestion
Helps decrease cholesterol
Helps expel toxins
Helps normalize weight
External Health Benefits
Promotes a youthful body
Maintains healthy skin
Slows down aging
Gives you lusterous hair
Prevents dry hair and scalp
This miracle that keeps you ageless as it maintains the body’s natural acid-alkaline balance, is apple cider vinegar. It is richly beneficial yet inexpensive. The best apple cider vinegar is organic and is labeled as containing “the mother”.
Taking apple cider vinegar drink will also help clean out arterial plaque and keep blood at the right consistency. Calcium metabolism is also improved. And, another important benefit is that it helps sinus and asthma sufferers to breathe easier.
To keep youthful and vibrant, symbol of perpetual youth, Patricia Bragg, MD, PhD, recommends you drink apple cider vinegar three times daily.
1 to 2 teaspoons Bragg vinegar
1 to 2 teaspoons raw honey
8 oz distilled water
Drink this rejuvenator as soon as you wake up, in mid morning, and mid afternoon for a healthier life.
BONUS BEAUTY TIP: For maintaining a healthy glow to your face while maintaining your skin at its optimal pH, apply 3 part water:1 part vinegar to face with a cotton ball. Every am and pm. If you’re in a hurry simply spray it or splash it for a naturally youthful appearance.
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Wheatgrass is a variety of grass similar to barley, oats and rye. It refers to grass grown indoors in containers for between 8 and 10 days and is then squeezed into fresh juice.
Wheatgrass has a variety of health, medical and therapeutic benefits. It has been said that the juice is capable of cleansing the body, neutralising toxins, slowing down the aging process and, some reports suggest wheatgrass helps to prevent the formation of cancerous cells.
Wheatgrass is a source of beta carotene and B vitamins, plus vitamins C, E, H and K and has been found to contain 90 different minerals and 19 amino acids. Wheatgrass contains more iron than spinach and more protein than meat, fish, eggs and dairy produce.
Wheatgrass has been found to be 70% chlorophyll and because of this is capable of healing tissues, purifying the liver, improving blood sugar levels and flushing out harmful toxins. This makes it an ideal addition to your diet if you are trying to lose weight. Chlorophyll is also antibacterial and can be used internally and externally as a healer.
Wheatgrass juice can be used for constipation and keeping the bowells open. Gargle with wheatgrass juice for easing the pain associated with a sore throat.
When you were diagnosed with high blood pressure, most likely the first suggesstion made by your health care provider was to change your diet. High blood pressure can be eased and even cured by changing the foods you eat.
There are some basic rules to curing your high blood pressure using a nutritional approach. Firstly, you should consume unrefined, unprocessed and fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables, onions, garlic, soy, olive oil, nuts, beans, oily fish such as salmon, tuna or sardines.
Reducing sodium intake is an important component of any diet aimed to lower high blood pressure. Research has also shown that a reduction in sodium works even better if potassium intake is also raised. Sodium can be found in very high quantities in processed foods, which is why these types of foods should be avoided as much as possible. Make sure you check food labels to see the amount of salt and avoid those with high salt quantities.
Hydration is also important when it comes to lowering high blood pressure. It helps the entire system work efficiently. Guidelines state that you should be drinking fifty per cent of your body in ounces on a daily basis. So, if you weight 150 pounds, then you should be drinking 75 ounces of water daily.
Herbs and supplements should also be included to help lower your high blood pressure naturally. Herbs such as hawthorn, garlic and yarrow can be included. Supplements should include calcium supplements of at least 800-1500mg and should be taken daily. Vitamin C supplements should also be taken daily.
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