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Healthy Eating Habit Tips

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Healthy Eating Habit Tips

Healthy Eating Habit Tips

This is a guest post By Beth Ellyn Rosenthal about Healthy Eating Habit Tips

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

Thomas Edison    

Want to eat yourself healthy? You can, thanks to the immutable laws of endocrinology.

Science has proven how smoking can cause lung cancer and excess drinking can hurt your liver.  And just one touch of a leaf of a poison ivy plant can lead to irrational itching.

The same principle applies to becoming healthy. You can literally eat yourself back into bio balance if  you know what to eat. The theory is: if you understand how your body functions, you can use that knowledge to heal naturally. In fact, you have to return to biochemical equilibrium before you can fix any health problem without the intervention of drugs.

However, you do have to be patient. Natural cures take months, sometimes a year. But then  you fix the problem forever, as long as you control what you put into your mouth.

Here are some examples:

Weight loss

 If you need to lose weight, you must recalibrate your metabolism. The only way to do this is get your body back into biobalance.

You have to get six trace elements that need to be balanced in order for your body to behave appropriately. Otherwise, they will create a biochemical road block that will keep you heavier than you’d like forever.

These six elements are:

People having trouble losing weight are typically toxic with calcium and copper and deficient in the other four elements. So, eat cherries (to increase iron), stop eating chocolate (it’s high in copper, and that will be the hardest one), shake black pepper on everything (increases chromium), eat more bananas (potassium) and seafood (magnesium), and keep the salmon to a minimum (calcium).

PMS, Hot Flashes, Night Sweats and Menopause Symptoms:

 All are caused by a copper/zinc imbalance, which leads to too much estrogen and not enough progesterone in the body.

Most Western women are toxic with copper and don’t have enough zinc. The fix is easy: cut out the foods high in copper, especially during PMS week, and eat more of the foods loaded with zinc.

Female infertility

(If all the parts are working) is caused by a copper/zinc imbalance, too.

Female hair loss

Caused  by a copper/zinc, sodium/potassium and/or a calcium/magnesium imbalance. Sorry, educated eating won’t stop male hair loss but it will slow the process!

Osteoporosis

Is caused by over 30 difficult biochemical imbalances. Not enough calcium is one. So is too much calcium. But the big cause is too much copper. (Swim in the ocean because most pools use copper algaecide. And grapes are for the birds, literally. They are loaded with copper.)

It only takes 21 days to change a habit. Changing what you put in your mouth can change your life.

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Nutrition And Your Health

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NUTRITION AND YOUR HEALTHNutrition is indeed very important to our body. We eat in order to survive. However, if the food that we eat does not contain enough or the right amount of nutritional elements, our organism will not be able to function well, grow and cope with every day stress.

Women need nutrients such as omega-3 so they would function properly. Here is a link to a great post: “11 Omega 3 benefits for women.”  We needs nutrients, simply put, and we get them from the foods we eat whether they are healthy to us or not. The healthier your diet is the better your body will function. There is a saying: “You are what you eat.” We still obtain some of our needed nutrients from fatty foods or from junk foods though they are not in the level that our organism requires. And taking more of these foods wouldn’t be healthy, not because they don’t have the nutrients we need, but because they have more of the sugar or fat that our body does not need much at all.

Having a good nutrition means we eat the right type of foods that provides us needed nutrients. Nutrients have 6 classes and they are protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins & minerals and water. All these essential elements have their own role in our wellbeing. Protein is the food of the muscles and they also make our immune system strong. It helps in the repair of cells that have been damaged and it also builds new tissues. Carbohydrates give us energy and the lack of it can lead to ketosis which is a condition resulting from the body’s production of ketones. Fat, just like Carbohydrates, also gives us energy. We may think we don’t need fat since it is, after all, fat! But truth is we still need portions of fat in our diet to absorb vitamins such as Vitamins A and D. Vitamins and minerals are important which is why we take them in pure forms sometimes because we don’t get enough of them from foods we eat. They regulate different biochemical processes. Water is very important and we should keep us hydrated in order to stay alive. After all, our body consists of 80% of water.

Knowing the amount of each of these essential elements that our we require and eating the right foods make up the good nutritional base. If we eat too much of the bad stuff and not get enough of the necessary nutrients, then we are depriving our body of good nutrients. Too much fats and carbohydrates is not good for our health, becasue it increases body weight.

Recommended nutrients of people vary depending on age, weight, gender, blood type and even ethnicity. As we get older, our recommended nutritional requirements change so it’s best to learn about how much of each nutrient your body needs based on your new data. For example, pregnant women, have high requirements of certain nutrients for the benefit of the baby growing inside her and to keep her fit and healthy as well.

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Top 4 Myths for Weight Loss

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WEIGHT LOSSOne of the most misguided beliefs about dieting is the idea that you need to eat special food groups in order to lose some weight. What this does to you though is it deprives you of the essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs in order to operate well every day. We all want to be strong and healthy and this can only be accomplished if we have a balanced diet plan (affiliate link), full of nutritious foods that our body requires. . In this article, you will learn about the top 4 myths about weight loss.

The first myth about weight loss is that we should just consume foods from a particular category. This is wrong and this is usually what is followed by many diets especially crash diets. Our body can’t run on just 1 type of food because we need a varied and well balanced diet plan in order to stay healthy. We need a bit of fat, protein, water, vegetables, some fiber and carbohydrates. Even those “bad” foods are also required by some people as long as it is taken in moderation. We also need portions of fruits, nuts, grains and seeds as they are essential to keep our immune system (affiliate link) strong to ward off diseases.

2nd myth- protein is only from meat. This is false because we can also get protein from vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, legumes and all. In fact, meat is higher in sodium and body fat especially the red meats which is why taking them in excessive amount is not good for our body because of its high cholesterol. But, meat does include protein but not as much as you would have thought. In fact, legumes, grains, oils and nuts have higher protein compared to meat. Our body requires about 30 grams of protein each day so it’s possible that you eat something else aside from all meat in order to reach this requirement.

3rd myth – Less consumption of extra fat to shed that extra weight. Our body needs some fat in order for it to correctly function as it permits the muscle tissues and our joints to work more easily. But, this doesn’t mean you should consume extra fat. What you need to do is to avoid hydrogenated fats. Great source of nutritious fats are from raw nuts, avocado and olive oil.

4th myth- Avoid food to slim down. Women need an average of 1,200 calories a day while men need 1,800 calories a day. Avoid snacking on extra fatty foods with lots of sugar but eat more on fruits and veggies so you won’t just feel happy but you won’t get hungry too without having that much bearing on your weight. The best method of losing weight is to eat on meals that are as nutritious as possible without added sugar or added preservatives to reduce those fats that are not necessary so you will just consume the amount that your body needs. This way you won’t just lose weight but you will also remain healthy.

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