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Archive for the 'Nutrition' Category

Food For Thought

Do you have enough to eat? See how other families around the world shop. Some buy a lot of bottled drinks, some don’t. Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07 United States: The Revis family of North Carolina Food expenditure for one week $341.98 Italy: The Manzo [...]

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RoundUp Ready Organics

Whole Foods declares coexistence with GMO foods possible I am just about at the end of my rope on this issue. Actually, I think we are done in. Already shot, still standing, just waiting to keel over. First our beloved white knight Obama appointed Tom Vilsack to run USDA. Sort of like appointing the goat [...]

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Mineral Deficiency

Can you get enough minerals even if you eat a “healthy” diet? Follow along and see: Breakfast Bowl of oatmeal with blueberries, fat-free yogurt and a glass of fresh squeezed carrot & apple juice. Lunch Steamed rice with vegetables and a small salad Dinner Spelt pasta with canned tomato sauce and a salad According to [...]

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Magnesium and Your Heart

Prevent and Treat Heart Disease, including angina and irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) Without adequate levels of magnesium, your heart will suffer: The mineral helps coordinate the activity of the heart muscle as well as the functioning of the nerves that initiate the heartbeat. It also helps keep coronary arteries from spasming, an action that can cause [...]

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Do you need more Calcium or Magnesium?

Four Minerals that Control Your Autonomic Nervous System Calcium and Magnesium regulate the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) which controls our “fight or flight” reaction. SNS is stimulated by calcium, and inhibited by magnesium. Imbalance causes SNS dominance, an uptight nervous, jittery person. Magnesium will calm you down and bring back your sunny personality. Potassium and [...]

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Intestinal Ecology

Intestinal health is most commonly undermined by: Antibiotic usage Excessive Sugar Consumption Stress – your reaction to stimuli Drinking Chlorinated Water Long term diet of Acid Foods When the ecology of the human gastrointestinal tract becomes disrupted, beneficial microorganisms can no longer flourish in numbers necessary for proper balance.  Toxin producing bacteria and fungi begin [...]

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Enzymes in weight management

My daughter was having difficulty keeping her waistline trim. She is sharing her kitchen with people who do not believe in quality produce, and who will not adjust to accommodate her nutritional awareness. I recommended she supplement with digestive enzymes (Digesticol). Sure enough, taking one capsule with every cooked meal made all the difference – [...]

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Enzymes and Aging

Enzymes and aging: Quite a concept to consider! A critical factor in aging, Enzymes are the spark of life… a critical energy devices that control all body processes. Axiomatically, as we grow older, our bodies produce less and less enzymes, and as the body becomes depleted of enzymes, nutrients essential to maintaining a young and [...]

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Is food becoming less nutritious?

Chuck Benbrook, science adviser to the Greenfield, Massachusetts-based Organic Center for Education and Promotion wrote: “The faster a plant grows/is pushed, the more intensive the production system, the higher the yield goal, the greater the chance that the harvest from that crop will be deficient in some set of minerals, vitamins, and antioxidants.” Well, yes. [...]

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Is French Fry a Vegetable?

Apparently yes! I learned that tonight on the American Food Revolution with Jamie Oliver (is he not lucky to have Ryan Seacrest as his producer?). Yes it is so, USDA guide that forces the people who prepare school lunches to adhere to very finely balanced and calculated guidelines (based on wrong premises) has them listed [...]

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