Posts Tagged ‘processed food’

Ron Paul popularity is growing and his followers are passionate. This news belongs on a health and wellness blog. What he is running on is the ways America is being shaped. We are all beginning to realize the way business grows in this country it is build on many things and one of them may be greed. What he delivers is a message that health minded people understand.

The nutritional benefit of raw dairy is not an option in this country. Having a choice is a fundamental freedom. Ron Paul is someone who is resonating with a large group of independent thinkers. I am tired of compliance when the supply chain makes the rules that fit their agenda. We don’t really have quality assurance, pasteurized and homogenized dairy isn’t a quality product. Milk, which possesses growth hormones and antibiotics, may meet specifications, but will not meet human needs.  

His message of smaller government resonates. I am not sure he has all the solutions, but he has the right views, at least on letting us decide what we want to use. Change matters now more than ever. People take this issue seriously. The line between freedom and an authoritarian country is beginning to blur. The rationalization that our food supply is now safe is for the American people’s protection is wearing thin.

The trend to flood the market with genetically modified, chemically altered, pasteurized, homogenized, and pre-packaged is proving to be detrimental to both our freedom and health. We are kidding ourselves if we believe this is all being done on behalf of the consumer. Giving nature a helping hand isn’t the same as taking it hostage.

What we should hope is no matter what the outcome, the message doesn’t get lost.America’s foot print is too big in the world of nature.

We need to reign in the FDA and EPA so we become a country, which is better for the consumer, and the world. The claims and promises of these agencies aren’t working, in reality they have helped saturate the environment with products that have undermined the health of the American population. All, the so-called innovation has been strategies to increase sales and dominate the market.

Ron Paul brings puts the American public back into the equation.

Calorie counting is destructive. The initial goal should be to get strong and fit. Counting calories can make many dieters weak. Being hungry all the time is counter productive.

Calorie control equals weight management to most people, and even the medical experts think this is true. What calories really do is different from the hype. When the weight loss industry capitalizes on the proven benefits of cutting calories, what they are doing is promoting a way to utilize diet in an unhealthy way.

Caveman Diet

Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (USCF) say their research has shown people on a high protein diet combined with plenty of vegetables show dramatic health improvements. These include weight loss, and lower blood pressure. What they are talking about is a diet that is considered similar to the “Hunters Gathers” or caveman diet.

Dr. Tim White a paleobiologist from the University of California Berkley said: “Our Biology is still basically the same biology that we had as hunters and gathers 100,000 years ago in Africa.” Dr. White said the constant physical activity that the cavemen had to undertake to hunt and find food kept them fit, lean, muscular and active. Their diet consisted of large amounts of lean meat, and vegetables.

Robert Lustig, MD. an endocrinologist at UCSF, said that people on the diet have experienced a regression of their diabetes as a result, to the point they are effectively cured.

Dr. Kim Mulvihill, a reporter from CBS tried the diet herself and doctors recommended she should stay on the diet permanently. Her cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels dropped dramatically over a few weeks. After seven weeks she was no longer pre-diabetic, and by combining the so called paleo diet with a weight loss program she lost thirty pounds.

Fish

Another article talked about people who eat fish as their primary source of animal protein. They reported lower glucose concentrations with a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Researchers at the University of Valencia reported in the journal Nutricion Hospitalaria that there are benefits from a Mediterranean diet high in fish consumption. This study showed the benefits of the omega 3’s in fish. Omega 3 from fish and grass fed meat controls inflammation. Micronutrients from both vegetables and fruits also, turn off inflammation.

Inflammation

There are a good number of studies that show weight gain may be linked to chronic inflammation. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition researches looked at nine years of data tracking 1,222 adults and found that weight gain was associated with an increase in chronic inflammation. This may be why weight gain is associated with heart disease and cancer. Both these conditions are associated with chronic inflammation.

Counting calories is counter productive, especially when you buy 100 calorie packs of pure carbohydrates in the form of crackers of cookies. The only weapon against obesity is whole foods diet with all the omega 3 fatty acids and nutrients your body need.

A diet based on vegetables, and fruit with some high quality protein is better than a calorie restricted diet for weight management. A nation that has embraced calorie counting as a way to control weight is deluding itself into thinking that saving calories can repair the damage done by faux foods. By changing your goal from weight, to having more energy by becoming healthier your will achieve a consistent weight.

Good digestion is the key to lasting health. Yet, this is one of the most backed-up, overloaded, and sluggish systems. You can tell from the sales of antacids, bulk laxatives, and colon problems.  We depend on the digestive system to operate correctly. You should feel great not bloated, nauseous, gassy, and sluggish from the last meal you had.

Digestion the Golden Rule

The golden rule to ensure good digestion is to not overeat. Digestion depends on the liver, gall bladder, pancreases, intestine and colon. Illness and disease starts when this system is not operating well. The digestive tract goes from the mouth to the anus. The organs that make up the digestive tract consist of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine (colon) rectum and anus.

The liver and the pancreas produce digestive juices that reach the intestine. The gallbladder stores the liver’s digestive juices for when they are needed. The nervous and circulatory system also are major players in the digestive process.

Since all nutrition is dependent on the process of digestion it is an often overlooked as a cause of disease. A well operating digestion system maintains regular elimination, removes wastes that causes disease, and assimilates nutrients. It is a really complex process of breaking down food to usable fuel. When you eat food it is not in a form the body can use to supply nutrients to the cells. Digestion is the process that breaks down food into their smallest parts so the body can make use of it to build and nourish cells and provide energy.

The digested nutrients are absorbed through the intestinal walls and transported throughout the body. What this nutrition does is stimulates the immune system and boosts its function. Saturating your body with powerful nutritional complexes that protect, regenerate and strengthen the body is an important function.

 Several factors are in play

One problem is the food supply, which consists of processed foods and inferior quality groceries. What we in America consume is weirder and weirder concoctions that pose as food. These so called foods are the cause of many of the digestive problems. The amount of refined carbohydrates in our diet is a radical departure from our natural foods. We are vulnerable to the damages these cause in our intestines.

It is not that different from other modern ailments. It comes from the magnitude and measure of the way we have veered from our natural way of eating. Our food supply has developed into an industry that trades health for economic development.

By adopting a new and unnatural way of eating we are building barriers to good digestive health. Innovative companies producing technologically advanced foods are 360 degrees away from promoting a good strong digestive system.

By remembering that the whole body depends on good digestion it is time to get a physical make over, by flooding your body with high quality foods.