Top 5 Reasons to Add Raw Foods to Your Diet - There has been a lot of attention and hype in the media and among physicians recently raw food, especially as more studies have shown that our diets consist mainly of processed food. Here are the top 5 reasons to consider adding raw foods to your diet:
Top 5 Reasons to Add Raw Foods to Your Diet
Digestive enzymes
Our body works overtime to create enough enzymes to digest processed foods. This creates an imbalance in the body to the point that the bodies begin to register a markedly lower threshold...
Align Your Diet To Your Body's Metabolic Cycle
Align Your Diet To Your Body's Metabolic Cycle - The human body has three main metabolic periods which are constantly repeated in a cycle every 24 hours. The three periods are: elimination and maintenance, digestive and finally assimilation. As the names suggest periods, the body is centered in certain types of activities during that period.
The cells of the human body are working on eliminating waste products and toxins during the early hours of the day. The body then changes gears and focuses on digesting the late morning until evening. Early...
All You Need to Know About the Fiber
All You Need to Know About the Fiber - Raw foods, so fruits and vegetables, provide high amounts of fiber. We've all heard of the benefits of fiber keeps the digestive system moving, preventing certain illnesses such as cancer and keeps weight under control. The recommended intake of fiber is 25 grams per day, which must come from at least 5 different portions of fruit and vegetables as well as 6 servings of grain products - half of which should be whole grain.
There are two types of fiber found in raw foods: soluble and insoluble fiber. It is...
Get the Vitamins and Minerals From Raw Foods
Get the Vitamins and Minerals From Raw Foods - Everyone knows that fruits and vegetables are high in minerals and vitamins. However, raw foods have a higher content than cooked food. The heat during the cooking process damages the vitamins and minerals and kills the natural enzymes.
With the bad press that multi-vitamins have recently achieved, we must explore all possible areas to meet our requirements for vitamins and minerals play naturally.
The following is a list of raw foods that contain a good amount of some key nutrients our body needs...
Improve Your Colon Health With Raw Food
Improve Your Colon Health With Raw Food - The medical community has reached a consensus that the majority of body ailments and diseases originate in the colon. If digestive waste is not eliminated within a short time from the body becomes toxic. The body continues to absorb nutrients and waste toxins. The colon acidity level also changes to encourage microbes begin to release carcinogens, eventually leading to colon cancer.
Colon
cancer is the third most common form of cancer worldwide and the third
leading cause of cancer death in the...
Benefits Of a Good Breakfast
Benefits Of a Good Breakfast - There
is now enough medical research that has been published to show that a
big breakfast is the way to go - not just when you're trying to lose
weight, but as a general practice of life. Here are the 3 reasons why a big breakfast is good for you:
Benefits Of a Good Breakfast
Feed your body and brain-Most people concentrate their calories at dinner. It
makes no sense to feed until late at night, when you are not working
the next number, and when you can not only burn calories, right? So change everything...
Fighting Disease With Breakfast
Fighting Disease With Breakfast - As a society, we focus so much on measures to stay healthy. We
loaded in multivitamins, pay attention to personal hygiene, and even
sign up for gym memberships with the hope that we will be motivated to
work regularly. Turns out one of the simplest preventive measures we can take to do in the house right at the start of each day.
Regularly
eating breakfast may help reduce the risk of the syndrome of insulin
resistance, diabetes and coronary heart disease by 35% to 50% compared
to the odds if you skip...
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How to Balance Their Breakfast
How to Balance Their Breakfast - We all know the importance of breakfast. It
is the most important meal of the day, after all, to get your
metabolism up and get your body and mind the fuel it needs for the day. What is often overlooked, however, equally important is the art of balancing the breakfast.
What does a balanced breakfast? Well, for starters, it means something more than just a donut (or worse, donuts) and coffee. Our
lives have become so rushed that even when we make the effort to
include breakfast as a meal, is used to "grab...
Why is Fattening Dinner
Why is Fattening Dinner - Almost everyone looks back fondly on memories of family dinner. The dinners are ideal associated with relaxation, laughter and chatter.
The
process of laughing and talking about what foods to stretch technically
food, giving our brains enough time to send satiety signals. Again, ideally, this should mean calories saved and thinner bodies over time.
The reality, however, is different. In today's hurried worlds, we rushed home from work to run errands, events and even school children. Calories begin construction...
Eat More to Lose Weight Fast
Eat More to Lose Weight Fast - There is a golden rule for dieters and dieters alike: Eat often, but eat less. This is practically the easiest way to ensure that you lose weight, even if we do not change anything in our diet. Here's why:
Goodbye
overeat: When eating five or six times a day, we sit for every meal
just feel a slight pang of hunger, instead of wanting to eat everything
in sight when we're hungry. Jump
to more meals a day will also help us better appreciate the food,
which, again, will improve the quality of our lives and...
How Does Stress Affect Your Weight Loss Efforts?
How Does Stress Affect Your Weight Loss Efforts? - There are a lot of getting research published stress and weight gain. While
a variety of behaviors and external factors affect how to deal with
stress, there are also biological responses that occur automatically
within our body.
Cortisol, a hormone related to stress, has been associated with weight gain, especially belly fat. When under stress, very large amounts of cortisol are released into the bloodstream. Most
of the amount of fat is collected in the abdomen region when eating
under...
Seven Ways to Boost Your Metabolism to Burn Fat Fast
Seven Ways to Boost Your Metabolism to Burn Fat Fast - A
higher metabolism helps you feel good with higher energy levels,
maintains the functions of your body will optimally, and becomes an
automatic control mechanism weight for you. Here are ten tips on how to increase your metabolism to burn fat fast.
Eat
breakfast
If you do not eat breakfast, you slow down your metabolism
and send the body into survival mode, thinking it's starving because
you're going a long time without food. Literally breaking the fast that your body has...
Stress, Comfort Foods and Weight Gain
Stress, Comfort Foods and Weight Gain - What do you associate with comfort foods? When do we need these "comfort foods"? The answers to these questions to light direct connection between stress, comfort foods and weight gain.
Most comfort foods are high in carbohydrates, high fat, or both. A bowl of macaroni and cheese or butter mashed potatoes are just two examples of the variety of foods we consider comfort food. We are more likely to achieve these foods when we are under stress and need re-assurance on some level. For
many of us, comfort...
4 Reasons Why You Can Not Burn Fat Fast
4 Reasons Why You Can Not Burn Fat Fast - As you get older your metabolic rate is on the decline and generally requiring a reduction in the number of daily calories. This reduces your ability to burn fat fast. If you are affected by a slow metabolism, it is necessary to take preventive measures or gained weight. You
will need to take a series of preventive measures to arrest the decline
in its metabolism and some steps to increase your metabolic rate.It is important to identify some of the main causes of a slow metabolism so you know what to...
