Health Matters

Grateful for food on the table is an awesome feeling isn’t it? We, in America, have so much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving day and for all of the year, don’t we?

I would like to offer you some tips for health in the busy time of the year with the holidays and our jobs, our families activities and traveling that we do. Number one on this list: Please leave the sugar-loaded desserts alone, sugar-loaded drinks, sugar-loaded snacks and all table sugars. Did you know that just one piece of pecan pie carried a whopping 500 calories, 65 carbohydrates and 32 grams of sugar? Do you realize that eating 100 grams of sugar can reduce your immune systems ability to fight off infections, induces cancers or feeds them, and encourages fat to build up into your system? Is it any wonder that colds, flu and other nasty infections get their foot-hold on us at this time of year and yes, sugar could be the reason.

Other culprits affecting our immune systems are loss of sleep, stress, lack of sunshine and of course sugar in our foods.

How about some good news health tips in our busy season of which I am thankful for:
Vitamin C that is found in fresh fruits, fresh raw vegetables, organic nuts and seeds, organic lean meats and the very powerful, nutrition sweet potato.

Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin that is great when able to obtain it from the great outdoors. Vitamin D is also available in our health food stores for us to use also. This vitamin is valuable in our defense of cancers, diabetes and and heart disease, so take Vitamin D serious. Only 15 to 20 minutes a day in the sunshine is sufficient for most of us.

Selenium and folate help defend our bodies also against cancers and other diseases as a supplement and also in our raw foods that we eat.

Garlic, the most amazing herb is another protector for our immune systems. It is a protector of our white bloods cells-the infection fighters in our bodies.

Zinc is also a strong defender for our bodies and aids our immune system in its fight against infections during this time of year.

Be grateful for food this Thanksgiving Day and indulge a bit but always remember that You are what you eat. Your thoughts create your reality. Have fun. Be grateful. Be Joy. Laughter is wonderful for the body and soul.

Grateful for healthy juice, now isn’t all juice healthy? Sorry, but the answer to that is absolutely not, especially when it is loaded with sugars and corn syrups. A healthy juice needs to be freshly squeezed and this can be done with a purchased juicer, and used within 6 to 8 hours when it is saved into a glass container with a sealed lid or cap.

Vegetable juices are among the most healthy and nutritious for our bodies to heal and repair itself. Fruits juices are healthy also and nutritious but have quite a bit more sugars of which are natural.

Let’s talk about some healthy vegetable juices today such as beet juice. Did you know that is one of the traditionally used one to support and cleanse our liver? One of its amazing qualities is to reverse and prevent radiation induced cancers. We hear alot of people going through awful treatments for this type of cancers.

Carrot juice is another one of the best juices with its rich source of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is a wonderful cancer fighter also. Carrot juice is a sweeter juice and also a great additive to our smoothies.

Cabbage juice is also another power-house when it comes to helping discourage cancers as it is high in enzymes that protect our bodies. Add a little cabbage to that juicer and put into your green smoothie for that extra boost of protection.

Tomato juice that is freshly squeezed, another one for our team fighter, is especially great for those trying to prevent those prostate cancers. Tomatoes have a rich p-coumaric and chlorogenic acid to help block formation of highly carcinogenic nitrosomine compounds within our bodies. A fresh tomato is also a great addition to our fruit smoothies or to our green smoothies.

Green juices like spinach, kale, chard, mustard greens, parsley, barley and wheat grasses are rich sources of chlorphyll and that has been found to help block major changes that those carcinogenic substances that are produced in our cells. These greens juice quite nicely in our juicers. These green juices can me mixed with any and all of our vegetables to make our smoothies rich and delicious.

Don’t forget the amazing fresh garlic, a number one fighter of tumor growth and also a natural antibiotic for our bodies. Use fresh garlic daily and you will notice a much healthier body and it will also help keep in-check our cholesterol levels and keep our immune systems operating at a much higher level. Add a clove of fresh garlic to all your fruit smoothies and your green smoothies daily and see the results for yourself. Garlic is amazing as it can kill molds, viruses and bacteria that is camping-out in our bodies.

I hope you enjoy a few of these suggestions to keep our bodies healthier as we enter the winter season and the more confined areas where disease and viruses love to attack our systems. Add fresh organic healthy juice to your families diets and yours. Protection is the best policy, keep disease out of the picture and be grateful for the healthy body that we were all born with.

Grateful for liquid  nutritional’s  ?? What is that, you say?  Liquid nutritional’s are organic raw food smoothies, liquid nutritional supplements instead of taking capsules, which by the way can pass through our systems without ever being digested, so therefore are wasted nutritional’s.

What can you put into a liquid nutritional? Do you have a blender and a juicer? These are 2 pieces of necessary equipment to keep our cells fed and healthy so it can heal and repair itself on a daily basis. I have a Vita-mix brand blender and it uses the whole fruit and whole vegetable and can crush a few ice cubes to make the smoothest smoothie that you ever tasted.

Here is a tasty receipe that I use: peeled banana, apple, fresh pineaple, carrot un-peeled, handful of spinach leaves, 5 or 6 ice cubes and blend, then eat. Some variations of this can be a 1/3 cup of organic oatmeal, tablespoon of organic peanut butter, tablespoon of ground flax seeds, 1/4 cup of walnuts. I use all of this most of the time as it makes a great filling meal and so healthy also.

On days that I do not do this, I use a purchased liquid nutritional that is truly tasty and has lots of nutritional supplements of vitamins and minerals:  included in it of acai berry, amalaki fruit, pure aloe concentrate and other needed ingredients for my body. I for one, want to maintain optimum health, have that great cellular support, age defying nutrients to fight all of those free radicals and replenish my cells on a daily basis. You know what…If you don’t take care of your body where will you Live?