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7 TIPS FOR IMPROVING FOOD NUTRITION

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FOOD NUTRITION

A nutrient rich diet is the backbone of wellness, both physical and psychological. Whether you’re responding to day to day stresses, or requiring your body to respond on a professional level, accessing nutrition through your food intake is a great step in improving daily health.

  1. Buying food produced by a large company means sacrificing quality, especially in the meat industry. Fast food companies and cheap cuts of meat are sourced from confined animal feeding operations, meaning they’re loaded with growth hormones. Try to improve the quality of your meat, eggs and dairy. First move to hormone free, then, transition to organic.
  2. Visit the Environmental Working Group’s website and read up about the Dirty Dozen; a list of fruits and veggies with the highest pesticide concentrations. If you are thinking of buying organic, this is the best place to start. Our soils are depleted, we’re not absorbing the nutrients our parents did.
  3. Spend a little more time slow cooking. For example, use a crock pot for soups during the coming winter season. Nuking our food in a microwave causes a change in it’s chemical structure. According to Dr. Joseph Mercola; “Another problem with microwave ovens is that carcinogenic toxins can leach out of your plastic and paper containers/covers, and into your food.”
  4. Recognize and eliminate genetically modified foods. According to the Environmental Working Group, the top foods to avoid are; corn and corn derived ingredients, soybean and soybean derived ingredients, sugar and vegetable oils,
  5. Remove all trans-fats from your diet. This includes margarine, vegetable shortening, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Kiss those doughnuts goodbye. Choose either organic olive oil, olive oil produced in California, coconut oil or butter.
  6. Upgrade the quality of breads. Find ancient grains, organic where possible. Our modern bread producing process removes nutrient rich oils for the sake of freshness. Some commercial breads contain gmo’s and trans-fats.
  7. Remove aluminum cooking pans and aluminum foil. It leaches into food and helps to cause dementia. Aluminum is also found in make-up and deodorants.

 

Food Nutrition To Do List

  • If you live in the Big Bear Valley, you can support your health and the Middle School, by joining their produce club.  https://www.farm2mountain.com/
  • Make sure your water is purified of chemicals like fluoride.
  • Start a physical exercise plan.

5 WEIGHT LOSS TIPS WITH NEOLIFE

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Losing weight wasn’t this hard for your Grandmother!

Back in the 60’s most food was organic by nature. Insidious, manipulated sugar products had yet to be invented. Chemicals had not taken a significant role in our food cycle. Animals were not pumped with antibiotics and growth hormones, forced to switch from natural feeds to GMO grains. Back then, we experienced the natural cycles of local seasonal produce and proper animal husbandry.

In the 50’s and 60’s it was easier to take in all 59 nutrients required in daily life.

“For example, in 1948, a bowl of spinach used to contain about 150 milligrams of iron. But today that same bowl of spinach contains only about 2 milligrams! You’d have to eat 75 bowls of spinach today to get the same mineral content of only 50 years ago.” – Robert G. Allen, “Your Health is in Danger.”

Realigning your food choices allows the body to regain vital nutrients, strengthen its immune and circulatory systems, and decrease the feelings of inflammatory pain. Weight loss becomes a natural byproduct when the body is healthy!

  1. ORGANIC

If you can make one change in your life, it would be to buy organic food. Make everything you put in your mouth count. Accessing bio-available sources of food is the first step on the journey of health and wellness.

Eliminating processed foods and sweetened beverages is the next step. Try to cook as much of your own food as possible, and do it without the help of a microwave.

Old School Rules!

  1. THE CARB EFFECT

Our western, wheat based diet relies on carbohydrates, but carbohydrates don’t burn as effectively as fat. Given the fact that carbohydrates release more free radicals; we need to take action. This polluted world is filled with free radicals, along with processed foods, preservatives and alcohol. The cells of our body are continually under attack by free radicals. The cumulative effect is known as disease and old age.

Our body produces antioxidants to neutralize the inflammation caused by free radicals. Vitamins C and E will help, if they are from the right sources.

Try to switch many of your carbohydrate sources away from breads, pasta and potatoes to chard, kale, red peppers, broccoli and cauliflower. (Source: Dr. Mercola’s Powerhouse Vegetables).

“Transition your body into primarily burning fat for fuel and radically reduce your risk for most chronic diseases.” – Dr Mercola

  1. HIGH FIBER

Daily guidelines suggest 20 to 30 grams of high quality fiber a day. Look to increase your intake to 50 or 60 grams of fiber. Processed food will not provide the fiber you’re looking for. Organic vegetables and nuts provide both soluble and insoluble fiber, feeding the micro-organisms in your gut. Genetically modified, processed foods destroy these same micro-organisms.

  1. WATER CONSUMPTION

Did you know the effects of dehydration mimic feelings of hunger? Try to make water your main beverage, not juices or sports drinks. Drinking 2 cups of water, a half hour before a meal, will help you lose weight.

Brenda Davy, a nutrition researcher at Virginia Tech found, “…that older adults who drank two cups of water half an hour before breakfast, ate about 75 fewer calories – or, 13 percent less – than a comparable group who hadn’t drunk water before the meal.”

  1. INTERMITTENT FASTING

Fasting has a number of health benefits including longevity. In the West, we eat too frequently, causing the body to become overwhelmed. Intermittent fasting provides many fasting benefits without the rigorous discipline.

“Intermittent fasting can be as easy as skipping breakfast, making lunch your first meal, and having your dinner as early as 7:00 in the evening.” – Dr. Mercola

This would give your body 16 hours to clean out built up sugars and shift to fat burning mode.

WHY NEOLIFE

Neolife products surpass this country’s USDA organic standards with bio-available, whole food nutrition.

The Shakes provide soluble and insoluble fiber plus 52 of the 59 daily needed nutrients.

Add Neolife’s Provitality Pack to that; along with their Herbal Tea Blend.

This combination gives your body’s systems a stable nutritional source, giving them an opportunity to rebalance and stabilize. Weight loss becomes easier when the body isn’t busy fighting off free radicals.

A few simple lifestyle changes will allow you to jumpstart your weight loss plan and experience a healthy, vibrant YOU!