We all agree — the best way to get the nutrients you need is from what you are eating. An incredible array of vitamins and minerals, as well as other nutritive compounds not even yet discovered are packed into whole foods like fruits, vegetables, herbs, beans, nuts and more.
Here are five popular vitamins and minerals you can get from your food rather than a supplement.
Vitamin A
Why you need it: Vitamin A is important for normal vision, immune health and reproduction. It’s also an antioxidant that helps neutralize free radicals.
Where to get it: Yellow, orange and red foods tend to be packed with Vitamin A. For example, squash, carrots, cantaloupe, apricots, sweet potatoes and mangoes are all rich sources of this important vitamin. Spinach, fish, milk and eggs ...
Adjusting and improving your diet can start with a few easy additions... Begin to create a diet that works.
Some people claim that healthy eating takes a lot of time and is complicated. But, a diet that works doesn’t have to be this way. If you know how to do it right, you can incorporate more healthy food into your life!
1. Use this trick to store fresh herbs.
Fresh herbs like basil, mint, oregano and sage flavor your food without adding any chemicals. However, sometimes you might get a huge bunch of basil or mint, use only a few sprigs, and the rest goes off before you know it. But there is a trick to make your fresh herbs last ...
DETOX & CONSTIPATION: Here’s a powerful self-treatment point to relieve constipation & IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) for detox. Locate CV 6 midway from your bellybutton to your pubic bone. Apply pressure gradually in toward the spine taking slow, deep breaths as you maintain firm pressure for 2 minutes. ...
At the core of our health is a properly functioning digestive system.
When your gut is unhealthy, it can cause more than just stomach pain, gas, bloating, or diarrhea. Because 60-80% of our immune system is located in our gut, gut imbalances may be at the heart of hormonal imbalances, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, eczema, rosacea, and other chronic health problems.
10 Signs You Have an Unhealthy Gut:
1. Digestive issues like bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation
2. Food intolerances
3. Anxiety or Depression
5. Mood swings, irritability
6. Skin problems like eczema, rosacea
7. Diabetes
8. Autoimmune disease
Heart disease
9. Frequent Infections
10. Poor memory and concentration, ADD or ADHD
Digestive function and hence the immune system may be addressed with the following approach
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Fats and cooking oil are made up of different fatty acids: mono, poly, and saturated in varying percentages. The predominant fatty acid within the oil will determine whether exposing it to heat, oxygen, light, or moisture will cause a stress to your health.
We generally advise that a polyunsaturated oil, should NEVER be cooked with, these oils are high in omega 6 fatty acids and are highly reactive. It is ok to have small amounts raw. Lipid (per)oxidation and free-radical production quickly takes place when they are exposed to heat - even very low heat. Peroxidation and free radicals produce inflammation and irritation within our bodies, which in turn set us up for any and all chronic illnesses including autoimmune ...
A recent study shows great promise for those seeking Rosacea treatment.The study highlighted that 46% of patients with Acne Rosacea are suffering from an overgrowth of bacteria in their small intestine, otherwise known as SIBO. These are the people whom this Rosacea treatment shows great promise. The main symptom of SIBO constipation, diarrhoea and bloating (IBS)
Patients were screened for SIBO using a Hydrogen breath test. We can arrange for this test if you would like to see whether this Rosacea treatment may be right for you.
Rosacea treatment resulted in total clearance for 72% of patients and 20% had significant improvement after 4 weeks. In the group treated with placebo, there was 0% improvement in all participants. Later treatment of ...
Juicing for Heart Health.....Scientists at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne have proven once again that beet juice is one powerful weapon in the war on high blood pressure.
They looked at men and women who either added 12 ounces of beet juice (mixed with 4 ounces of apple juice) or drank a placebo. They found what dozens of other researchers have already shown…that the beet juice group had significantly lower blood pressure after the 3-week study. Juicing for your heart health is just one reason to become inspired.
Beet juice is packed with antioxidants- more so than many other fruits, vegetables, or roots. However, it can be really strong when taken alone and is almost always mixed ...
There are many reasons why the medical profession design a cholesterol lowering medication that can be taken in a capsule however bizarre as it seems they do not necessarily revolve around improving your health! If you want to improve your health as well then cholesterol lowering has to start with your gut not a capsule!
This study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition is an example of what I mean. It tested the effect of refined colostrum, which is food for your healthy bowel bugs and will restore them when due to illness or lifestyle your bowel may be out of balance. As Hippocrates said: "All disease begins in your bowel" You only have to trawl the internet ...
With Winter coming the need for a strong immune response is your best protection against getting sick and being able to fight off the big ones like Swine Flu H1N1 Virus. Recent research backs up the results we are seeing in the clinic with the use of immunoglobulins to strengthen your immune system... One tablespoon in water twice daily and the immune system can respond in ways that have really impressed me and my patients alike!
Have a look at the snippet of the research and consider doing your immunity a favour
The Swine Flu H1N1 Virus was associated with risk factors that include pregnancy, obesity, and an under functioning immune system .
After identification of immunoglobulin G2 (IgG2) deficiency ...
