The FDA requires that manufacturers put food labels on the foods that they produce. However, if you do not take the time to educate yourself on how to read the labels then you have no way to really understand whether or not something is actually good for your consumption. Take the time to educate yourself about the proper nutrients that you need for optimum health. Check out Dr. Weil's book.
Each one of us requires different amount of calories and other nutrients in our food intake program. It is up to you to educate yourself. Unfortunately, in my opinion, not all of manufacturers make their labels straight forward and easy to understand. I am not saying that they are lying, but what I am saying is that it is up to you to make sure that you truly understand how the information is derived.
I do not believe in counting every percentage, gram, or calorie. That is not what I believe reading labels is all about. However, you do need to be able to look at a label and decide if it is something healthy or not. Unless your doctor, nutritionist, or other health care professional has given you specific guidelines on what numbers you can have then I don't think you need to count.
Just use common sense, for example if you know your blood pressure is high, then you know that you need to be careful of your sodium intake. If you get too caught up in watching every number for every time you eat something, it can become very cumbersome and time consuming. Then it makes it possible for frustration to come in and cause you to stop.
Here is a short video to teach you how to read labels.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
10 Rules That You Must Break for Success
I am so unbelieveably tired of hearing everyone give a bunch of sop stories about why they can not maintain a healthy lifestyle. There are some very basic rules that you must not only break, but that you must bury deep into the grounds in order for you to succeed. Rule#
1. Follow diet trends. Do not, I said do not attempt every diet that you see or hear about from mass media, friends, or who ever and what ever else. Stop! Most of the time they are lies, upon lies. Diets change like the weather. Do not fall for them! R
2. Think that you only have to eat healthy without exercising. Do not think that you can get away without exercising. Even if you eat healthy and do not exercise. You will not, I repeat not get lasting results!
3. I can eat at anytime I want to. Do not eat after a certain time prior to bed. This should be a minimum of 2 hours. If possible it should be 2 1/2 hours prior to bed. When you are sleeping, your metabolism slows and any extra calories that have not been burned will turn into fat.
4. Believe that you can lose weight quickly Think that lasting results will happen in 2 weeks. You put it on over time, so therefore it will take time to take it off. You should only be losing 1 to 1 1/2lbs per week.
5. I just won't eat. Do not starve yourself. For Heaven's sake we all need food to survive and to have energy. When you starve yourself, you are depriving yourself of necessary nutrients and vitamins. Then when you eat normally again, you blow up twice as much because it's too much of a shock to your body.
6. I will just go have surgery. Do not run to the plastic surgeon's office for gastric bypass. Have you seen the sagging skin that results from this? In order to get rid of it is extremely costly then you have to get more surgery to make yourself look somewhat normal again.
7. I can learn from the mass media. Do not believe the mass media. They are actors that use trick photography and airbrushing. Stop trying to look like something or someone that is not real.
8. Allow others to dictate what you should look like. Do not let other people dictate what you should look like. God made each of us the way that He wanted to be in life. You, not your spouse, children, family, society or anyone else has the right to negate how God has intended you to be. You are to be who God created and absolutely nothing else.
9. I eat for other emotions. Do not substitute food for other emotions. Do not eat when you are sad, depressed, bored, lonely etc. You are only to eat when you are hungry for food.
10. It really doesn't matter if I pay attention to my health. This one probably bothers me the most. We were created in the likeness and image of Jesus Christ. God saved His best for last when he created us. We are to give God our absolute best, just as He did. Please stop believing all of these so called rules that have been placed on us. Live your best life.
1. Follow diet trends. Do not, I said do not attempt every diet that you see or hear about from mass media, friends, or who ever and what ever else. Stop! Most of the time they are lies, upon lies. Diets change like the weather. Do not fall for them! R
2. Think that you only have to eat healthy without exercising. Do not think that you can get away without exercising. Even if you eat healthy and do not exercise. You will not, I repeat not get lasting results!
3. I can eat at anytime I want to. Do not eat after a certain time prior to bed. This should be a minimum of 2 hours. If possible it should be 2 1/2 hours prior to bed. When you are sleeping, your metabolism slows and any extra calories that have not been burned will turn into fat.
4. Believe that you can lose weight quickly Think that lasting results will happen in 2 weeks. You put it on over time, so therefore it will take time to take it off. You should only be losing 1 to 1 1/2lbs per week.
5. I just won't eat. Do not starve yourself. For Heaven's sake we all need food to survive and to have energy. When you starve yourself, you are depriving yourself of necessary nutrients and vitamins. Then when you eat normally again, you blow up twice as much because it's too much of a shock to your body.
6. I will just go have surgery. Do not run to the plastic surgeon's office for gastric bypass. Have you seen the sagging skin that results from this? In order to get rid of it is extremely costly then you have to get more surgery to make yourself look somewhat normal again.
7. I can learn from the mass media. Do not believe the mass media. They are actors that use trick photography and airbrushing. Stop trying to look like something or someone that is not real.
8. Allow others to dictate what you should look like. Do not let other people dictate what you should look like. God made each of us the way that He wanted to be in life. You, not your spouse, children, family, society or anyone else has the right to negate how God has intended you to be. You are to be who God created and absolutely nothing else.
9. I eat for other emotions. Do not substitute food for other emotions. Do not eat when you are sad, depressed, bored, lonely etc. You are only to eat when you are hungry for food.
10. It really doesn't matter if I pay attention to my health. This one probably bothers me the most. We were created in the likeness and image of Jesus Christ. God saved His best for last when he created us. We are to give God our absolute best, just as He did. Please stop believing all of these so called rules that have been placed on us. Live your best life.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Diet Rules
I am not a nutritionist so these rules are just common sense. I do not know anything about specific foods or calories. I do however know I have told others these same rules and they have succeeded in losing weight. Check out this book by Dr. Weil for more information Guide To Optimim Health another awesome book is by Dr. Oz You: On A Diet
• Do not eat anything more than a small snack 2 hours before bed. A small snack may be a handful of grapes or carrots. When I say before bed, I mean when you are down for the night not standing.
• Eat a well balanced diet. For this it is important that you converse with your doctor, nutritionist and/or other health care professional(s). Although you can follow the obvious rules, such as limiting anything high in fat, or refined sugar, eating high fiber, taking a multi-vitamin etc.
• To avoid the feeling of deprivation, replace the bad with something better.
• When we say that we are going to do something “cold turkey” it hardly ever works. Do it gradually and then you won’t notice when it is gone. For example, if you normally drink 3 pops a day you can cut it down to two pops and water, and then down to 1 pop and 2 waters until you are no longer drinking pop. This is when it becomes important to track your eating in a journal to know where you are doing well and where you need to make improvements. Once you have eaten a well balanced diet for quite some time you will no longer need to maintain a journal.
• Remember that calories, sugar, nutrients, vitamins etc also come in beverage form.
• Eat several smaller meals throughout the day. It keeps your metabolism working faster and you will lose weight faster. Do not starve all day and then eat a huge dinner. It causes your metabolism to slow down making it harder to lose weight. It also makes it harder when you try to fit an entire balanced meal into one meal.
• Make your plate and then put up the rest of the food, before you sit down to eat. You will not be as tempted for seconds if they are not right in your face.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Eat before you go to the grocery store. You will be less likely to buy on impulse and more likely to purchase what you need.
• Take your lunch to work, rather trying to eat out every day. Be sure to include snacks to eat throughout the day.
• Eat a decent breakfast every morning.
• Remember well for you does not have to mean taste bad. Foods that are good for you can taste delicious with the proper seasonings etc.
If you think about it, GOD created foods that are meant to be healthy for us. In the book, “Health Through GOD’S Pharmacy,” author Maria Treben does a good job of showing how GOD created food so that we could know what was considered healthy.(Pslams 22:26)
“It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh,
made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... all before
making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born.
These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow
learners...
God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!
God's Pharmacy! Amazing!
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating
lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows
carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and
is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and
are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape
looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are
also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere,
upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the
nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than
three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes,
they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These
foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods
are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body
pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish
the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb
and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's
research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances
hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers.
And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an
avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic
chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern
science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase
the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to
overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic
index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary
glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and
the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help
clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce
tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion,
Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals
from the body.”
Look at and answer the following questions.
Right now my diet consists of the following. List what you eat and drink on a normal day. Be honest. What, if anything, is correct?
What is the most detrimental aspect of my diet?
What should I add to my diet?
What should I delete from my diet?
. Here is a excellent video from Natalie about the healthiest foods that you can eat from around the world and how to incorporate them into your daily diet.
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• Do not eat anything more than a small snack 2 hours before bed. A small snack may be a handful of grapes or carrots. When I say before bed, I mean when you are down for the night not standing.
• Eat a well balanced diet. For this it is important that you converse with your doctor, nutritionist and/or other health care professional(s). Although you can follow the obvious rules, such as limiting anything high in fat, or refined sugar, eating high fiber, taking a multi-vitamin etc.
• To avoid the feeling of deprivation, replace the bad with something better.
• When we say that we are going to do something “cold turkey” it hardly ever works. Do it gradually and then you won’t notice when it is gone. For example, if you normally drink 3 pops a day you can cut it down to two pops and water, and then down to 1 pop and 2 waters until you are no longer drinking pop. This is when it becomes important to track your eating in a journal to know where you are doing well and where you need to make improvements. Once you have eaten a well balanced diet for quite some time you will no longer need to maintain a journal.
• Remember that calories, sugar, nutrients, vitamins etc also come in beverage form.
• Eat several smaller meals throughout the day. It keeps your metabolism working faster and you will lose weight faster. Do not starve all day and then eat a huge dinner. It causes your metabolism to slow down making it harder to lose weight. It also makes it harder when you try to fit an entire balanced meal into one meal.
• Make your plate and then put up the rest of the food, before you sit down to eat. You will not be as tempted for seconds if they are not right in your face.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Eat before you go to the grocery store. You will be less likely to buy on impulse and more likely to purchase what you need.
• Take your lunch to work, rather trying to eat out every day. Be sure to include snacks to eat throughout the day.
• Eat a decent breakfast every morning.
• Remember well for you does not have to mean taste bad. Foods that are good for you can taste delicious with the proper seasonings etc.
If you think about it, GOD created foods that are meant to be healthy for us. In the book, “Health Through GOD’S Pharmacy,” author Maria Treben does a good job of showing how GOD created food so that we could know what was considered healthy.(Pslams 22:26)
“It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh,
made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... all before
making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born.
These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow
learners...
God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!
God's Pharmacy! Amazing!
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating
lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows
carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and
is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and
are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape
looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are
also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere,
upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the
nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than
three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes,
they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These
foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods
are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body
pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish
the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb
and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's
research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances
hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers.
And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an
avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic
chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern
science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase
the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to
overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic
index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary
glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and
the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help
clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce
tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion,
Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals
from the body.”
Look at and answer the following questions.
Right now my diet consists of the following. List what you eat and drink on a normal day. Be honest. What, if anything, is correct?
What is the most detrimental aspect of my diet?
What should I add to my diet?
What should I delete from my diet?
. Here is a excellent video from Natalie about the healthiest foods that you can eat from around the world and how to incorporate them into your daily diet.
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