Was Popeye Right?
May 21, 2010
The other day I was doing some research on discovering which raw foods have the highest alkaline mineral content. The major alkaline minerals are calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. Any raw foods that are high in those minerals will be alkaline forming.
As you may or may not know, it’s very important to keep your body properly mineralized and at the same time functioning at the proper blood pH level of about 7.4.
Eating a cooked food diet will make you more acidic. Also eating too much fat in the diet will make you more acidic, because fat interferes with the body’s ability to deliver oxygen to the cells. Also nuts and seeds tend to be higher in the acid forming minerals of chlorine, phosphorous and sulfur. A high protein diet will also make you more acidic.
Keep in mind that it’s also possible to be too alkaline. The key here is the proper balance.
A Common Dietary Mistake:
A mistake almost all people make is in not eating enough raw and mineral rich leafy green vegetables. This is vital to your health. When you consume a high quantity of mineral rich foods, you’ll notice that your cravings for junk foods will go down dramatically.
We must eat lots of fruit to fuel ourselves, but fruit alone is not enough for us to thrive in the long term. We also need a food that is like a supplement, it’s not high in calories but it is high in nutrients. Dark, leafy green vegetables are high in minerals, vitamins, fiber etc.
Finding a way to enjoy eating leafy greens and even more important, finding a way to properly absorb the nutrients from these foods is vitally important.
Victoria Boutenko and her “Raw Family” started seeing their health deteriorate after many years of being raw. It turns out they didn’t really like eating greens. After extensive research she eventually realized that the lacks of greens in their diet was why their health was less than optimal.
In her book, “Greens For Life,” Victoria talks about a way in which anyone on any diet can improve their health. By simply adding a quart of delicious green smoothies to their diets.
Learn All About Popeye’s Super Food:
The first food I analyzed for its alkaline mineral content was celery. Then I analyzed spinach and found it was much higher than celery in alkaline minerals.
In fact, spinach was high not just in minerals but in virtually every major beneficial nutrient as well. Maybe that is why Popeye was so strong when he ate his spinach.
Let me give you a quick rundown of the alkaline minerals in 25-calorie servings of celery, spinach, kale, romaine lettuce and banana.
Celery
Calcium: 62.0 mg
Magnesium 17.0 mg
Potassium 403 mg
Sodium 124.0 mg
Spinach
Calcium: 109 mg
Magnesium 87.0 mg
Potassium 614 mg
Sodium 87.0 mg
Kale
Calcium: 68.0 mg
Magnesium 17.0 mg
Potassium 224 mg
Sodium 22.0 mg
Romaine Lettuce
Calcium 48.0 mg
Magnesium 20.0 mg
Potassium 358.0 mg
Sodium 12.0 mg
Banana
Calcium: 1.0 mg
Magnesium 8.0 mg
Potassium 100 mg
Sodium 0.0 mg
As you can see, all of these green vegetables are alkaline forming foods, but spinach is the overall winner. Even celery is higher in alkaline minerals than kale is. That was a surprise to me.
Spinach also has a better than perfect amino acid score of 119. Thirty percent of the calories from spinach come from protein.
It’s high in dietary fiber and its sodium is of course in the organic form, which our bodies utilize naturally. It’s the inorganic form of sodium which is toxic to us and every cell in the body.
Sea Salt Is Not A Health Food, No Matter What You’ve Read About It:
Sea salt or rock salt is not a health food no matter how many unabsorbable trace minerals it has. If you drink a glass of seawater you are going to get severely dehydrated, drink enough of it and you’ll die.
Why would consuming the salt, minus the water make it any healthier for you? This is just another marketing gimmick to get you to buy something which actually damages your health.
Spinach is also very high in these vitamins: A, C, E, K, B6, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and folate. Spinach is quite high in these other minerals as well: iron, zinc, copper and manganese.
What many people don’t realize is that per calorie, spinach has over six times more potassium than bananas do. In fact, most of the green vegetables I tested had a higher potassium level per calories than bananas.
This is not to say you shouldn’t eat bananas, it’s just to point out that we’ve been taught to think of bananas as the highest source of potassium when they really aren’t. In fact, there are a number of other fruits that are much higher in potassium than bananas.
** No Need To Worry About The Oxalic Acid In Raw Spinach **
Some people are concerned that they’ll leach calcium by eating spinach. It turns out this is quite unlikely to be a problem for most people.
Here’s a quote from Dr. Gabriel Cousens book “Conscious Eating,” on this very point.
“In one extensive study on children put on a high-spinach diet and other high-oxalate foods, no evidence of any alteration of calcium, vitamin D, or phosphorous metabolism was found. It is possible, however, if a person has a low calcium intake or poor calcium metabolism, that a high-oxalate diet could cause a calcium deficiency.”
Another factor is whether the spinach is cooked or raw. In the raw form it’s believed the oxalic acid will not bind with the calcium. In other words, eat as much spinach as you want as long as it’s raw.
Did you know that many other raw foods naturally contain oxalic acid? Foods like sesame seeds, nuts, citrus fruit, tomatoes, asparagus, beets, Swiss chard, dandelion greens and cranberries. So if you haven’t been worrying about the oxalic acid content in these foods, I don’t think you need to worry about it by increasing your consumption of spinach.
** How To Add More Spinach To Your Diet And Enjoy It **
I’ve been adding more spinach to my diet by putting it in my smoothies. I’ve found that it doesn’t change the taste very much at all. And by blending the spinach in my Vitamix, I make the nutrients from the spinach more absorbable.
Most people don’t take the time they need to chew properly. Even if you are eating big salads, you are likely not absorbing the nutrients from the vegetables well enough, unless you’ve chewed every mouthful down to its liquid form.
Banana, Blueberry and Spinach Smoothie:
3 ounces water. Add more or less depending on how thick or thin you want your smoothie to be.
3 or more bananas
4 ounces of fresh or frozen blueberries
3 or more ounces of raw spinach
This makes for a delicious smoothie and at the same time you are making sure to get extra mineral and nutrient rich food into your body.
It doesn’t matter what diet you are on, adding green smoothies to your diet will improve your health and happiness.
Roger Haeske
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Here Comes Pure Acai Berry 1500mg Capsules Freeze Dried 100% Pure Acai Berry – Is It the Best Natural Weight Loss Solution?
April 24, 2010
Like everyone else, you are aiming to lose weight but find it hard to hit your goal of losing weight no matter how hard you tried. It seems like it does not come to an end in getting rid of those unwanted weight. But, there is a way out of your problem, and this is Pure Acai Berry 1500mg Freeze Dried Pure Acai Berry Capsules.
It is a constant question how is this possible? This berry comes in variant forms like purees, powders, juices, frozen dried, and capsules. The main reason for that is because this berry is extremely delicate that it has to be produced in other forms. Nonetheless, countless consumers who opt to use capsules are able to get its dietary value.
Acai Berry Detox
The Acai Berry is exceptionally rich with antioxidant that it can easily remove the impurities inside the body. Our body gets better and proficiently metabolizes the food when the noxious wastes in the body are rinse out. In addition, fats in your body will be burned hence your metabolism has improved. If regular work out is integrated together with a healthy food intake included in your Acai Berry detox diet, muscles will be developed in your body.
When you include Acai Berry with your nutritional regime, you will shed off at least 5 to 20 pounds of wastes in your body. Fast weight loss is not the only benefit you can get from taking acai berry but also you will reduce your risk of heart failure, decline risk of high blood pressure, and lessen your bad cholesterol while boosting your energy.
Pure Acai Berry Capsules
There are many option that you can choose from with acai berry products, but if eating dried berries or drinking the juice form is not your thing, then you may opt to have the capsule form. Pure Acai Berry capsules can be purchased online from www.WeightLossReviewed.info/PureAcaiBerry. It is made from 100% pure and approved organic Acai Berry containing all the advantages that you deserve in a capsule form. You can easily take it and be on the go.
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Diet Pills|weight Loss Natural
April 24, 2010
Hoodia diet pills helping you lose weight and kills the appetite and attacks obesity, is organic with no synthetic or artificial appetite control agents, has no known side effects, contains a miracle molecule (up to 100,000 times more powerful than glucose) that fools the brain into believing you are full so you will weight loss, and even stops you from thinking about food. But it actually does MORE…
Why Pure Hoodia Diet Pills?
Well, for one there is no reason to doubt the sincerity of the wonderfully lean and fit Bushmen of the Kalahari. What they say about the capability of Hoodia is clearly factual. Their long history involving the use of Hoodia spanning thousands years and many generations not only speaks volumes but serves as illustrious proof of the real benefits of Hoodia at weight loss. Then, as luck would have it, Hoodia is able to go to the heart of obesity crises. Because by comparison to the small handful of genetically related cases, the vast majority are due to overeating and food addiction. Plus, to the delight of the skeptics pure Hoodia has shown to be a natural remedy capable of controlling caloric intake better than the dangerous artificial drugs of the past.
Hoodia gordonii diet pills has been used for centuries by the San bushmen of South Africa. These people may have, at times, consumed Hoodia on a regular basis. The San are known to have chewed on the plant during times of food scarcity, in order to alleviate hunger and thirst and get weight loss.
Hoodia gordonii Diet Pills was found by bushmen to be particularly valuable for use during arduous hunting expeditions in the Kalahari desert. The Kalahari desert is a principle home for the San bushmen and it is a prime location for the growth of the succulent plant, Hoodia gordonii. The power of this succulent plant, known to the San as !khoba (Hoodia) is going to be a continuing focus of international attention in the fight against the global pandemic of obesity. The world has finally listened to the San people.
The Science of Hoodia Diet Pills
Government researchers in South Africa have focused on compounds called sterol glycosides, present in Hoodia gordonii. Hoodia gordonii whole powder contains fiber, organic material, antioxidants, and biologically active substances. The pharmaceutical industry has been so impressed by research findings with Hoodia gordonii that there have been multi-million dollar deals to try to make drugs or food additives from constituents of Hoodia gordonii. Making a drug from Hoodia is not consistent with its traditional use as an appetite suppressant by native South Africans. The consumption of Hoodia gordonii over thousands of years by the San bushmen creates a great precedent for the safety of the Hoodia plant, but it does not create precedence for the safety or effectiveness of a “drug derivative”. Hoodia does not contain dangerous stimulant molecules, but it does contain substances that may mimic the effects of glucose on nerve cells in the brain. Controlled clinical and laboratory experiments show much promise of Hoodia for weight control. Some experiments have shown that obese people taking Hoodia have reduced their calorie intake by an amazing amount of one thousand calories per day so you will get your weight loss.
how it works?
Dr. Richard Dixey who performed some of the first clinical trials on the hoodia plant, explained how the active ingredient actually works:
There is a part of your brain, the hypothalamus. Within that mid-brain there are nerve cells that sense glucose sugar. When you eat, blood sugar goes up because of the food, these cells start firing and now you are full so you will lose weight.
What the hoodia seems to contain is a molecule that is about 10,000 times as active as glucose
It goes to the mid-brain and actually makes those nerve cells fire as if you were full. But you have not eaten, Nor do you want to.
How is Hoodia To Be Used?
The traditional use of Hoodia gordonii for its appetite suppressant effect involved the eating of whole, fresh plants or perhaps dried plants. Flowers, roots, and spiky skin on the plant were not eaten readily by anyone, including the hardy San bushmen. The natural use of Hoodia involved cutting open the skin, and eating or drinking the flesh and sap of the plant. In fact, several TV correspondents have taken the plant in this traditional form. These newscasters, along with others, comment upon its bitterness, and almost immediate effects on appetite suppression. It is clear that Hoodia gordonii cannot be taken in this fresh form by many consumers. Therefore, the Hoodia plant in South Africa has been processed by drying the plant and producing powder or concentrates that can be used in dietary supplements, or perhaps added to food.
The use of Hoodia in a dietary supplement is closer to the traditional use of Hoodia than the isolation of certain extracts of Hoodia (steroidal glycosides). Although recent scientific experiments seem to support that specific fractions or extracts of Hoodia gordonii are responsible for its major effects on appetite, it is not safe to assume that other ingredients within Hoodia do not contribute to its many effects in humans. The precedent for the safety of taking Hoodia rests with the use of the whole plant, not with the use of extracts such as steroidal glycosides.
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Advantages of Organic Shampoo
April 21, 2010
Contemporary consumers are a bit more social conscience than they have been in the past. Whether the gas and energy crisis or the hole in the ozone layer is the catalyst, more and more people are looking for eco friendly products.
Today, unlike the merely functional farm grown products of old, today’s green products have to be both environmentally friendly and perform just as well as mainstream products.
There used to be a time when lets say, an organic shampoo may not have produced the same results of regular on-the self varieties found in popular stores. No longer the case, you can use an all natural grooming product and still have luscious, soft and shiny hair!
Locating a shampoo that is truly organic however, is the real challenge.
Defining organic
As most of us know, the Food and Drug Administration handles most over the counter merchandise, however, organic items are often overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This makes the rules of engagement a bit different and some companies are taking advantage.
For instance, a manufacturer who uses only two natural ingredients can state that their product is “organic”, even if 90 percent of it is synthetically altered by chemicals.
Emerging regulations that safeguard the interests of customers are slowly turning this tide. Until this happens, be sure to do some investigative sleuthing of your own. Read the labels on the back of the organic shampoo-if you are uncertain about a particular ingredient, look it up.
Truly organic shampoo will be free of chemical pesticides that have been shown to be harmful to health. Organic products use all natural pesticides, like citrus and are fertilized with substances lacking irritants.
You can research the maker of any product online or call the company itself and ask about their process.
Dangers of non-organic shampoos and products
Most people are blissfully unaware of the fact that common personal grooming items, like shampoos and soaps, are chock full carcinogenic chemicals. While manufacturers promise that these substances occur in small dose that are harmless to human beings, one has to wonder about the long term effects of prolonged use.
The harsh reality is that the any product that is transdermally applied ( i.e. placed on and absorbed by the skin) is more thoroughly ingested than when it is swallowed. This means that deadly synthetic ingredients can wreak havoc on your system far faster by being rubbed into the skin.
This makes it especially crucial to identity any potentially lethal ingredients in your shampoo-or better yet, one should avoid synthetic products at all costs.
Organic Shampoo: Good for the environment and the skin
Because organic shampoos have unadulterated natural ingredients like aloe vera, hemp, honey or citrus, they are often very good for the skin. Makers of true eco friendly shampoos have learned how to create excellent products that are preservative free but maintain a shelf life due to creative green engineering.
Once again, this fact is beneficial because it lessens the chance of exposure to compounds that would cause harm to the skin or health.
How to find Organic shampoos
Many health food and holistic goods stores carry such products, but as more and more consumers scream for environmentally safe goods, manufacturers are creating them and placing them within easy reach of mainstream stores.
Online homeopathic and green living websites also offer organic shampoo at bargain basement prices.
Do your homework and make sure that the product you choose is primarily herbal in makeup and/or organically grown. In this way, you’ll be assured that you have a shampoo that performs as promised while protecting your skin and your family’s health.
A. Nutt
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Food in the 1600’s
March 18, 2010
One of the best things about living in this century has most definitely got to be the fact that you have the ability to eat healthy organic foods without having to sound like someone just let out of bedlam. Although you might not be able to find an organic food shop around every corner, you can still find at least one in your city or town, and if that fails, you also have recourse to the internet. This means that with the aid of twenty first technology you have the ability to bring the organic food shop to you, and not the other way around.Funny culinary trophies. Of course, these very wonders and marvels of modern technology are the reasons that we need to have an organic food shop to begin with. Just think about it. Culinary kitchen basics lesson. If it wasn’t for the fast paced modern lifestyles we lead; the conventional mass farming methods we use; and the unhealthy dietary habits that we have adopted over the last half a century there really would be no need at all for an organic food shop.
Our grandparents and their grandparents were all eating fine organically produced foods. what is the food web of the grey wolf. There was no need to especially define it, it was a fact of life. All that aside, it does still stand that we do need to have an organic food shop in our lives. And even if we’re not yet fully committed to going completely organic in our lives, at least we can make it a regular occurrence if not a frequent one. The way I figure it, if we keep at it, we’re bound to see some kind of change in our dietary habits as we slowly proceed.
To find an organic food shop however might not be as easy as you could want it to be. For instance if you live in an area where there is absolutely not a single organic food shop around, you will almost definitely need to resort to using the internet to find your organic foods. You might also find that even with an organic food shop around the corner from you, that you prefer to use an online organic food shop instead to deal with your daily organic food needs. foods beginning with x .You will find that the benefits you get by going organic are only enhanced when you do it on a daily basis. And there is no better way to get the weekly shopping out of the way and get your daily dose of organic foods, than by using an online organic food shop, they allow you to get the week’s shopping out of the way with ease, and without having to brave harried people whose minds are most definitely not on whose feet they go over with their shopping carts.
Food Web
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