Tag Archives: Cells

Carbs can be part of a healthy diet

Carbohydrates supply about half of all the energy our body uses to keep our brain, muscles, tissues and cells functioning. When we think of carbohydrate-rich foods we mostly think of breads, pasta, potatoes, rice, baked goods, desserts, candy and sugary drinks. [...] it doesn’t take much digestive effort to break down the sugars, so they tend to raise blood sugar rapidly. Limit processed snack … Continue reading

Alkaline Foods * Acid Alkaline Diet * Alkalize Your Body to Look Good Feel Better ;)

Alkaline Diet * Raw Food Weight Loss * Do you want to get well? Some people get attached to the story of the disease or illness. On this channel, we are here to get well! And all I want to do is help you! There are more modalities than just food. There is also the … Continue reading

Fatloss Lifestyle Body Fat Percentage Help Guide by Darin Steen

www.FatlossLifeStyle.com The only thing that can come from only using the scale to see if your exercise program is working is “Bad News”. If you really want to know if your program is working for you you need more tools. You see; our body is made up of about 60% water. A 150 lb. person … Continue reading

Fat Controls Your Brain, Eating Impulses

If you’ve ever thought that your favorite food was “calling your name,” irresistibly drawing you to the refrigerator, it’s not just all in your head. Well, actually it is in your head. But, it’s very real. Let me explain… A study at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas has found that fat from certain foods goes to the brain and triggers the brain to send messages to the cells in the body, telling them to ignore the appetite-suppressing signals from leptin and in Continue reading

Increase Metabolism To Lose Weight

Metabolic Rate refers to the rate one expends calories in a given period of time. Essentially, it is the rate by which we expend energy through the chemical breakdown of “burning calories“. Not only do we spend calories during periods of work and during exercise, we also burn calories at rest simply to keep our cells alive. This is a vial point to understand! What I am referring to is known as the “Basil“, or resting, metabolic rate. In fact, you burn more during your ‘resting hours’ than you d Continue reading

See The Most Critical Things To Look For In An Acai Product

In: Health & Fitness 25Sep2009 by Janet P PhillipsLet me ask you this, did you know that antioxidants play a major role in our good health by protecting the cells in our bodies from oxygen free radical damage, which in turn bolsters our immune system? The acai berry contains one of the maximum antioxidant capacities of any food found in the natural world. Antioxidant activity is measured in food by way of an ORAC scale, or Oxygen Radical Absorbency Capacity scale. The acai berry has one of the Continue reading

How To Have Healthy Foods For Great Health

No matter what diet plan you follow, having a balance of carbohydrates, proteins, fat, fibre and minerals is necessary to maintain a healthy body weight. But what exactly does that mean? What are good carbs, protein, and fat choices for developing your own healthy eating plan for weight loss? Healthy Food Choices Carbohydrates Is broken down into glucose as fuel for the body to perform its physical activity. Our cells treat carbohydrates as a universal energy source. There are bad carb Continue reading

7 Ways To Make Alkaline Diet Benefit You

The premise of an alkaline diet is that the nutrients found in supplements, alkalizing foods, and water can bring the body back to balance. These vitamins, minerals, and herbs infuse the body with new energy, vitality, and better health. Alkaline foods and water must be consumed in order to provide nutrients the body needs to neutralize acids and toxins in the blood, lymph, tissues, and cells. When pH balance inside the body is ‘out of balance’ the body tries to correct that sensitive pH b Continue reading

Not All Prenatal Vitamins Are Created Equal

When pregnant please be sure to take a high quality prenatal vitamin – not all prenatal supplements are created equal Information below is courtesy of nutritionist and my mentor Barbara Lagoni Company Difference: Our nutrition products are tested for purity, potency, safety, quality as well as its availability to the cells. The recommendations below are for high quality nutritional supplements specifically for the expectant mother. Some supplement companies may not invest Continue reading

Benefits Of Antioxidants – OPC 3

People today are becoming more and more protective of their health, and they are realizing that they should include antioxidants in their daily diet. Because of this, nutritionists are studying a combination of new dietary supplements that are good for you, made of all natural ingredients, and helps your body work and perform at peak performance. Antioxidants can help play a major role in this. Antioxidants work by controlling the damage that free radicals can do to your healthy cells, as we Continue reading