Health Matters

Lower your cholesterol by starting your day eating a healthy breakfast using low glycemic foods such as the Mediterranean style of foods. Eating a healthy breakfast will manage those hunger pangs, keep your sugar levels optimized and will help you control hunger binges through the day.

Did you know that we need to be eating 5 to 6 small-low glycemic meals a day to lose weight, balance our blood sugar levels and keep disease away from us?

Always make high fiber foods a priority for intestinal health, reducing risks of cancers, lowering your cholesterol, reducing risks of coronary diseases, diabetes and keeping the pounds off. We need approximately 28 to 30 grams of fiber daily. Write all the foods you eat down in a day and then check the fiber content you are eating and then you will know for yourself.

Add the healthy fats such as fats from fish, flax seed oil, walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts and organic eggs, extra virgin olive oils and nut butters. When you eat health fats you can reduce inflammation, improve blood clotthing and this will feed our cell membranes, lower the bad lipids and it will decrease artery thickening, help reduce the risk of obesity and it will slow or inhibit cancen cell to grow wild.

Leave all white foods off the menu! These include all those bleached flours, sugars, white pastas, all candy as they increase our calorie intakes and add weight gain.

Take good qualtiy supplements as so much or our foods don’t have the proper amounts of necessary nutrition we need. Some recommeded supplements include magnesium, potassium, Vitamin D, Vitamin C and Vitamin E and then zinc. Adults will need to supplement with folate and possibly calcium.

Get a good night’s rest so the body can heal and repair itself. Suggested is 7 to 8 hours in a day. When we don’t get enough sleep it shows in our bodies as disease of heart, weight gain, immune diseases, and this will help lower your cholesterol. Add some mediation to your schedule to reduce stress and this will help with heart health.