Clean Eating
Clean Eating
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Save money and eat healthy!
Save Money and Eat Healthy I’ve discovered how to make $4.99 previously frozen wild caught cod taste like fresh wild caught cod that sells for $10.99 or more! Interested? Read on… It’s simple, and I wanted to be sure it wasn’t a fluke one-time thing before I shared it with you. I’ve now done it a few times and am ready to pass on the info and recipe! Here are your ingredients and your instructions: Previously frozen wild caught cod White wine – I typically use a chardonnay Salt – I like pink Himalayan salt Garlic powder Put the cod on a plate. and pierce it throughout with a fork.…
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Healthy Eating
What is Healthy Eating, and Why is It Important? There’s a quick, simple answer and a much more complicated answer to this very important and potentially life changing question. The simple answer is that healthy eating is a diet that is as pure and clean as you can manage that supports a healthier happier you with more energy and more ability to focus and function in your daily life. The more detailed answer is that healthy eating begins with a pure, clean diet and then is customized by you as you learn more about your body and how it responds to different foods as you continue along this amazing journey…
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Water bottles…is your drinking water safe?
Safe Water Bottles…do you know what you’re drinking? These water bottles are so cool! Two years ago, I was at an online marketing conference in Las Vegas. One of the people attending had a water bottle that just looked different. I saw the man pouring the water the rest of us were drinking from the pitcher into the bottle, so I asked him about it. He said it had a built in filter that took toxins out of the water. At that time, I was well into my new eating adventure, and was becoming aware of the dangers presented by our water supply. Additives like chlorine and fluoride were not…
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Supplements
Supplements…which are the best to buy without spending a fortune? Do you know how difficult it is to find really good vitamins and supplements that don’t cost a fortune? I do ! It’s a long hard task, with lots of research involved, and frankly, it’s very confusing! I’ve done the hard work so you won’t have to! Vitamins often have ingredients like soybean or corn oil (which are most likely GMO these days); magnesium stearate; magnesium silicate, mannitol, sorbital, gelatin, etc. While using products that contain animal gelatin is a choice, the rest of the ingredients listed, and sooo many more, are just plain bad for you! Check the labels on the…
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Hunger Hormones – Leptin
Leptin and Obesity Leptin is what some experts refer to as the “master” hormone for regulating weight loss and controlling obesity. This hormone was only discovered in 1994; in fact, you may not have even heard of it until now. The Role of Leptin in the Body Leptin is responsible for regulating energy intake and expenditure, but it also controls appetite and hunger! Leptin travels through your bloodstream in order to reach the hypothalamus in your brain. It then tells your hypothalamus how much fat you already have in your body, and it sends messages when you are full and it wants you to stop eating. Balanced leptin levels are…
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Hunger Hormones, Leptin Resistance and Weight Loss
Your Hunger Hormones & Sugar How Leptin is Connected To Insulin Insulin levels increase within our body to some extent when we eat any kind of food. Whenever we consume simple sugars or refined carbohydrates (which are converted into sugar by the body), insulin levels rise significantly and much more quickly. Protein and complex carbohydrates in your diet help to ensure insulin levels rise in a more controlled and much slower manner. Whenever we consume a large meal, the body responds by releasing a large amount of insulin. How much insulin is released depends upon the quantity of food ingested and more specifically, what kind of food has been eaten. Eating large amounts…
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Hunger Hormones…and Weight Loss…
Hunger Hormones and Weight Loss Leptin Hormone and Weight Loss Have you tried a lot of restrictive diets in order to lose weight but still can’t seem to make the scale move downwards? You’re probably aware that an effective weight loss plan is more than just knowing about what calories are being taken in minus the amount of calories being used. Certainly exercise is a component, but there is one more thing in the weight loss equation you need to understand: that one more thing is your Leptin hormone. How Does Leptin Help With Weight Loss? Many people believe that not being able to lose weight is caused by…
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Hunger Hormones – How do they affect your metabolism?
Hunger Hormones and Your Metabolism This post contains basic information on your metabolism. It’s a complex subject, and not everything can be included here. I highly recommend the book The Hormone Reset Diet by Sara Gottfried, M.D. if you want to explore this subject more fully. Leptin and ghrelin are our hunger hormones, and we know they affect our metabolism. If your hormone levels are out of whack, so is your metabolism. It’s pretty simple: as your leptin levels increase, so does your metabolic rate. Leptin is the hunger hormone responsible for making us feel full while ghrelin is the hormone that tells us we are hungry, and it’s time to…
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Magnesium and Leg cramps
Leg Cramps are So Painful! A while ago, I began waking up in the night with really bad foot and leg cramps. I’d have to jump out of bed and walk around until they subsided. They hurt! As I eat very carefully and take supplements as well, I was baffled. They continued, and I also had some bouts of restless legs. The twitching drove me nuts. I started doing some research into what causes them, and found a really interesting article by Dr. Mark Sircus, AC., OMD, DM. Magnesium is a critical mineral, and most of us are magnesium deficient because of our Western diet. In addition, magnesium deficiency is often misdiagnosed because it…
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Hunger Hormones – What are some appetite suppressing foods?
Fight Hunger Hormones with Appetite Suppressing Foods It has been determined that it’s actually our hunger hormones that are responsible for our food cravings. Hormones are the messengers of the body, and they all play different roles. There are some that influence how quickly fat is stored in our body, others determine what we want to eat (or crave) and still others determine how we feel (how up or down or level our mood is). Ghrelin is one of our hunger hormones and is produced when the stomach is empty. Its main purpose is to make us feel hunger so we feed our body fuel. The only way to satisfy…
