Posts Tagged ‘whole foods’

Extra virgin olive oil has many health benefits. There is growing evidence that olive oil may reduce coronary heart disease risk, and prevent some cancers, It also has been shown to modify immune and inflammatory responses. Extra virgin olive oil and its extracts protect against oxidative damage of hepatic tissue. That means it offers your liver protection from known toxins.

Extra virgin olive oil is recommended as part of a healthy diet and can be easily added to your diet. Olive oil is a natural juice which preserves the taste, aroma, and vitamins of the olive.

The beneficial health effects are due to its high content of monounsaturated fatty acids and its antioxidative substances. Olive oil has been shown to offer protection from heart disease by controlling LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels while raising the HDL (“good”) cholesterol levels.

Olive oil protective function means it has a beneficial effect on ulcers and gastritis. It is used to activate the secretion of bile and pancreatic hormones, and lowers the incidence of gallstone formation.

The Good Fat

Extra virgin olive oil makes getting nutrition easy. Extra virgin is the least processed and comes from the first pressing of the olives. Extra virgin olive oil, from the first pressing of the olives, contains higher levels of antioxidants such as vitamin E.  Brands that use high quality ingredients will choose olive oil. With the unlimited food choices extra virgin olive oil should be thought of as a one in a kind delicious ingredient.

Fresh organic herbs and herb blends placed in olive oil containers have blossomed in the market place.  These include basil, dill, chives, cilantro rosemary, sage, tarragon and other blends. While retailers look to exploit every category of spices, seasonings and condiments, none are as healthy and taste as good as those in olive oil.

Oils on the supper market shelves run the gamut in both price and quality. However we were designed to consume whole foods. Extra virgin olive oil is as near to a whole food that you can get.

Potatoes-role in weight loss seems like a silly topic. Yet, it is a very important topic, because it shows the way we think about dieting and nutrition.  Most of the diet advice is centered on the premise of calories in and calories used. The rest is based on low carb vs. low fat.

Potatoes

Potatoes are a starch, and as such become part of the dieting discussion. Potatoes come in so many forms, and are an American dietary staple. Now, the argument can be made that a potato is not a potato when it is processed into a chip. One of the problems is a potato isn’t used as a whole food.

French fries, instant mashed potatoes, home fries, and other assorted renditions of a potato in some ways render the potato impotent. The nutritional aspects gets lost while it is saturated with fats, sodium, sugar, and chemical flavors.

Potato Research        

Research released by the University of California, Davis and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology. Illinois Institute of Technology has shown that people can include potatoes in their eating plan and still loss weight. The research was presented at the Obesity Society’s 28^th Annual Scientific Meeting October 8-12, 2010.

The study sought to gain a better understanding of the role of potatoes and the glycemic index in weight loss, because there have been questions about using potatoes in a weight loss program, due to the potato’s high glycemic index.

The study sought to gain a better understanding of the role of potatoes and the glycemic index in weight loss, largely because some have questioned the inclusion of potatoes in a weight loss regimen due to the vegetable’s designation as a high glycemic index (HGI) food.

Plain Potato

There are usually four or more ways to order a potato. Many forms of the potato aren’t fit for a meal. However, if they spend a ton of money on the research to see if you could lose weight and eat a plain potato, it wasn’t a productive use of the funds.

A plain potato is a whole food that has about 110 calories for a medium sized one. That is one that is 5.3 ounces. A potato has more potassium than a banana, provides half of the daily value of vitamin C, and contains no fat, sodium or cholesterol. Whole foods are the way to measure how and what you want on your dinner plate.

Yes, brown rice is a whole grain. U.S.research wizards suggest that eating more brown rice and less white rice will lower people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This also means that a diet with more whole grains and less refined grains will lower people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

I hope these guys got their degree at Harvard, yes they did.  How astute of them to realize the whole natural form of a food is better for you than a refined version.

Brown Rice Secret Revealed

The reason for their observation was that a National Institutes of Health sponsored study led up to these finding in the June issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. The lead author was Dr. Qi Sun who worked on the study while at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and is now an instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston, Massachusetts.

Sun, whose work was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the Unilever Corporate Research, told the press that this was the first study to compare links between white and brown rice consumption and diabetes risk among Americans, who are eating more rice now than they did a few decades ago.

The reason that is given for the difference is unrefined grains have more nutrients and fiber, which slow the sugar spikes.

Government Guidelines

The US government’s guidelines recommend that Americans get at least half their carbohydrates from grains including rice. Americans are eating more rice, but the choice is usually white rice. Senior author Dr. Frank Hu professor of nutrition and epidemiology at HSPH, said:  “From a public health point of view, whole grains, rather than refined carbohydrates, such as white rice, should be recommended as the primary source of carbohydrates for the US population.”

Think Again

Unilever is on a mission to let you have all the refined food they can manufacture, with some whole grain brown rice thrown in for good measure. Hello, all studies show the importance of a whole food diet. This can include whole grains, but if the truth be known you can include or not include them and avoid diabetes.

Unilever has the biggest market share and is dominant in the food sector. The firm produces a variety of goods in the snack foods, fats and spreads, sauces and seasonings and beverages sectors.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Food

All you have to do is remove all food with high fructose corn syrup, wrapping, and a long shelf life. This is how you stay healthy, and do it your own way.  Any health secret revealed from main stream studies are a watered down recipe for healthy living. Most health conditions are preventable, the key to a healthier you is to realize all manufactured processed food is not food.