Clean Eating
Clean Eating
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Hunger Hormones – Ghrelin…How Managing This Hormone Can Help You Lose Weight!
Hunger Hormones – Keeping Your Ghrelin Levels in Check We have all experienced a growling stomach prior to meal time. When our stomach is empty, the hormone ghrelin, also known as the “hunger hormone”, is released. This signals to the body that we are hungry, and it’s time to eat! In order to keep our hunger levels in check, it’s important to keep our ghrelin levels low during the day. There is a variety of factors that comes into play which can raise our ghrelin levels. For example, consuming high-fat, greasy foods, drinking alcohol or not consuming enough calories can adversely affect the correct brain and body response to our…
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Hunger Hormones – Fixing Your Leptin Levels
Hunger Hormones Fixing Your Leptin Levels Once we understand how the hunger hormones work; Ghrelin the hunger hormone and Leptin the satiety hormone, we can begin to understand if our body is in balance. Your Leptin levels are more than likely out of whack if you’re someone who eats all day long and never seems to feel full. There is good news though; with some changes to your lifestyle, you will be able to re-balance your hormones and get them back to healthier levels. How Cravings Are Related To Leptin Levels Craving certain foods or wanting to eat at certain times may indicate the Leptin in your body is…
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Did you know you have two hunger hormones? Leptin is the second…
Hunger Hormones What Is Leptin? Leptin is a protein comprised of 167 amino acids. The word “leptin” originates from the Greek word “Leptos” which translates to “thin.” Leptin plays a huge role within the body in regards to hunger and appetite. Leptin is know as the second of the hunger hormones and is essential in behavior, metabolism, and energy expenditure and intake. All this makes it one of the most vital hormones derived from adipose tissue (one of the main types of connective tissue or body fat). Leptin has been given credit as the first fat cell-derived hormone to be discovered. What Does Leptin Do? In simple terms, leptin is the hormone…
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Hunger Hormones… How Do They Affect You?
What is a Hunger Hormone, and How Does It Affect You? What Is Ghrelin? In 1999 ghrelin was discovered by Masayasu Kojima. The name was chosen based on it being a “growth hormone-releasing peptide”. “Ghre”, as the Proto-Indo-European root, translates as “to grow”. Ghrelin is known as the hunger stimulator. It is a 28-amino acid hunger stimulating hormone and peptide. The levels of ghrelin decrease after eating and increase before meals. Even though it has various functions within the body, it has been isolated and recognized as the first circulating hunger hormone. There are some bariatric operations to treat obesity in which the level of ghrelin is reduced in patients.…
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Hunger Hormones… did you even know you have them?
Understanding Hunger Hormones Hunger hormones… did you know that we actually have hunger hormones? One hormone’s purpose is to increase our appetite and make us eat, while another hormone primarily works to decrease our appetite. Would you like to be ‘ordering’ a few more of those? Our hunger hormones are Ghrelin and Leptin, and the majority of us have never even heard of these little ‘critters’. What follows is designed to give you a better understanding of your body’s hunger hormones which will actually help you better manage your weight. Leptin and Ghrelin Ghrelin Ghrelin is a hormone that increases your appetite. It’s released in the stomach and has the…
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I’m Planning to Go Off My Healthy Diet… (find out why)
I’m planning to go completely off my healthy diet. Rob and I are planning a trip to Italy for fall, 2016. It will be exactly 20 years since we’ve been there. We were supposed to go back in 2001, but we were scheduled to fly out of Boston September 11th, 2001. Needless to say, we did not go. Everyone who knows me is aware that I eat really carefully. Part of the reason for my healthy diet is to stay healthy, and part of the reason is that eating the way I do cured what for me was a long battle with chronic depression. When I hit Italy next…
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The Truth About Eggs
How are the chickens who produce your eggs treated? I love eggs. Because I eat a largely vegetarian diet and have been doing so for nearly 30 years, I have always relied on eggs for a go-to source of protein. Poached eggs are my favorite for breakfast. Did you know that when eating eggs, it’s actually healthier to cook them without breaking the eggs, such as scrambling them? This is because the yolks contain most of the egg’s cholesterol. Breaking and scrambling them can cause the cholesterol in the broken yoke to oxidize by exposure to air and to the heat of cooking, and this can potentially contribute to atherosclerosis.…
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Your Brain on Sugar… Hint: It’s not good…
Your Brain On Sugar… I want to share a really important video with you. Please believe me when I say you want to watch this to learn what happens to your brain when you eat sugar. It’s very short (only 5 minutes) and so worthwhile. I hope you’ll take a few minutes and watch it! Make Major Improvements in Your Life! Cheryl A Major, CNWC
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Getting a thicker skin to help you win the battle for a healthy diet!
Getting a thicker skin to help you win the battle for a healthy diet! The more I put myself out in the world with my views on health and healthy eating, the more feedback I get from people. While this is great, and quite frankly absolutely is my goal, sometimes the feedback is not what I want to hear. Recently, I posted on Facebook, or actually reposted, about how 700 McDonald’s restaurants were closing and about how great I thought that was. Many responses were in line with my take on it, but a couple of people disagreed with me rather strongly. They felt eating at McDonald’s was a choice,…
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Simple Steps to Embrace an Alkaline Diet
Simple Steps to Embrace an Alkaline Diet The alkaline diet is a lifestyle diet, meaning that it’s not a crash diet or a diet which ends in a month or two. The alkaline diet is a way of eating for life. It has changed the lives of thousands. The diet is designed to give you more energy, help you lose weight and keep it off, and to significantly reduce your risk of diseases like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Because it’s a lifestyle diet, it generally requires most people to make significant changes to the way they think about food and how they eat on a regular basis. The following…
