Something your doctor doesn't know? Bad advice by the food industry, Daily food pyramid and your popular doctors. Are you asking yourself why am i gaining weight and still have those belly fat like myself even though you are diligently exercising and do try to eat "healthy by following main stream diets and doctor guide lines. Is it true that cholesterol is bad for you? Is it true that saturated fat is bad for your health? If you have asked any of these questions and more------see this video called "Fat Head". I know i get the munchies too especially from long hours at work, which leaves me craving sweet cookies & tea, sweet--sugar high, anything sweet treat, whole wheat sandwiches. See why whole wheat bread containing sugar, soda, junk food, are bad and why cholesterol and fats are actually good for your heart and health contrary to main stream advice. Hold on, i hear a pause under your breathe---no time but that's no excuse because your health affects your whole life including your bank. So before you eat your next meal please do yourself some justice, see this video below for free.
Showing posts with label Heart disease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heart disease. Show all posts
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Happy pills in a jar for this season---Dark Chocolate
Its
winter and the weather is chilly cold, recession is knocking at our door and we
are worried about what gifts to send and a little depressed from stress, which can
cause free radical build up and damage to our bodies. (Free radicals are highly
charged atoms that are missing one electron, making them unstable. They enter
our body through sunlight, poor diet, use of alcohol, tobacco, airborne
chemicals, and stress; they steal an electron in order to gain electron stability.
Free radicals target fatty acids, cell membranes which are rich in
phospholipids, DNA, and proteins and in the process cellular activities are
replaced by chaos of electron swapping, which eventually disrupts cell
function. Free radicals are the primary factors in aging and inflammation
because they produce random radical change and disrupt normal metabolic
processes, over time leading to disease). So what can we do to reduce stress---bring
some joy and Santa moments to our life this candy season; we can make time for candies--chocolates
of course. Dark chocolate are little bitter, sweet and high antioxidant snacks that brings on
pleasurable feelings because it releases natural feel-good chemicals called
endorphins in your brain.
Dark Chocolate is a
psychoactive food. It is made from the seeds of the tropical cacao tree,
Theobroma cacao. The cacao tree was named by the 17th century Swedish
naturalist, Linnaeus. The Greek term theobroma means literally "food of
the gods". Dark chocolate made of cocoa bean from the plant (Theobroma
cacao) is a rich source of flavonoids, rich in cell-protecting antioxidants.
Other benefits of Dark chocolate:
- Dark chocolates are highly loaded with epicatechin- an active member of a group of compounds called plant flavoniods. Epicatechin may improve blood flow and can potentially improve the health of the heart.
- Dark chocolates have antioxidant properties that are effective against aging caused by oxidative stress, inhibition of platelet activity, and activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase due to its flavonoids content.
- Flavoniods in dark chocolate prevents cholesterol from gathering in blood vessels, reduces the risk of blood clots, and slows down the immune responses that lead to clogged arteries.
- Dark chocolate was found to reduce blood pressure, improve blood flow and prevent plague formation in the arteries and had mild anti-clotting effects
Dark chocolate has potential cancer-fighting properties---immune boosting.
Dark chocolates improve cognitive function.
Pure dark chocolate improves endothelial function and increases plasma epicatechin concentrations that aids wound healing.
Pure cocoa can help elevate insomnia because it’s
relaxing and can put you to sleep—you tend to dream more when you drink pure
cocoa by nettle and eat dark chocolate!
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes
Author's Biography
Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is
an American science writer. He is the author of Nobel Dreams (1987), Bad
Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (1993), and Good
Calories, Bad Calories (2007), which is titled The Diet Delusion in the UK. He has
won the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers
three times and was awarded an MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship for
1996-97.
Born in Rochester, New York, Taubes
studied applied physics at Harvard and aerospace engineering at Stanford (MS,
1978). After receiving a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University
in 1981, Taubes joined Discover magazine as a staff reporter in 1982. Since
then he has written numerous articles for Discover, Science and other magazines.
Originally focusing on physics issues, his interests have more recently turned
to medicine and nutrition.
Taubes’ books have all dealt with
scientific controversies. Nobel Dreams takes a critical look at the politics
and experimental techniques behind the Nobel Prize-winning work of physicist
Carlo Rubbia. Bad Science is a chronicle of the short-lived media frenzy
surrounding the Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion experiments of 1989. (from- http://www.gary Taubes.com/bio)
Gary Taubes at the Walnut Creek Library on 4/2/11 - about his book "Good calories Bad calories" (Obesity, heart disease).
Gary Taubes at OSUMC
