Dehydrate Your Fresh Fruits and Veggies to Last Longer

Newly-Designed-5-Tray-font-b-Food-b-font-font-b-Dehydrator-b-font-font-bThe “raw” food diet (the “living” foods diet) that many people have adopted or are considering has lasted long enough to no longer be considered a fad.

The basic premise of using a raw food diet is that cooking on high heats destroys many of the precious vitamins and minerals that you paid a good price for. And, if that’s not enough, it also destroys the enzymes that are important to our health.

When foods reach a temperature beyond 118 degrees F they are no longer considered raw because the foods’ nutrition has been diminished.

A popular trend that many raw food enthusiasts have adopted in order to keep their diets from getting boring is the use of dehydrators which add important crisp texture to foods like seeded crackers and vegetable chips as well as enjoying them as snacks. [Read more…]

Live Foods and Enzymes

raw foodWe all know we should be eating more raw foods. Raw foods retains the enzymes that are needed to digest food properly.

When we cook foods, these enzymes are destroyed which in the end makes our bodies work harder because the body has to tap emergency enzyme supplies in the pancreas to digest the cooked food which makes one feel tired and less energetic after eating.

Enzymes act as catalysts in hundreds of thousands of chemical reactions that take place throughout your body. They are essential for digesting, absorbing and converting food into energy at cellular level and are critical for most of the metabolic activities taking place in your body every second of every day. [Read more…]

Your Daily Habits May Be Causing Your Weight-loss Resistance

lack of sleepIf you’ve hit what seems to be a “weight-loss plateau” where your weight stalls and no matter what you do you can’t budge the scale down, you need to reflect on the type of lifestyle you are following.

Although it seems as though it’s a mystery you’ll never solve, there are a few important culprits that could be stalling the whole operation.

Funny thing is these culprits for the most part are not unusual and mysterious…they are obvious and right in front of us (things we do everyday)…if we know where to look. [Read more…]

Basics Rules for Conquering Weight Loss Resistance

weight resistanceHumans are rather comical. It’s hard for us to believe that achieving success with most things is done in the most simple ways…and this rule carries through to health and weight loss.

Most people who experience weight-loss resistance perceive food as their enemy. But that’s the very thing that is causing issues with their weight loss.

If you really want to get past the weight-loss plateau, you must learn how to make food your friend…you must get food on your side and working with you not against you. [Read more…]

You Can’t Out-Exercise a Bad Diet

How-To-Eat-With-AbandonThe study of how nutrients interact with our human genes is called Nutrigenonmics and is a blossoming new field. It studies the genes associated with health and disease as well as obesity. We already know that certain foods contain information and instructions for cells and hormones along with nutrients and calories. The are not trying to find out how this information can turn on or off the expression of certain genes.

One of the side effects of this is that it turns up the dial on your hunger thermostat which reprograms you level of hunger upwards. You’ll also experience increased cravings as well as increased hunger. [Read more…]

Exercise Helps Diminish Cellulite

celluliteOur bodies consist of primarily water, fat, muscle and bone. When we alter the amount of muscle and fat in our bodies we can alter its shape and appearance.

Fat loves to accumulate in the hip/butt/thigh area on females due to the physiology and anatomy of the female body and the biology of pregnancy and childbirth that nature plans for. It seems nature was not too into vanity when creating us but rather was more focused on safety, comfort and function. [Read more…]

Is Your Hunger Disguised or is it Real?

hungry3Hunger is a far more complex physiological state than we give it credit for.

We all recognize the familiar pangs of hunger when we have not eaten for an extended period of time. It presents itself as a low-grade discomfort in the stomach that is just strong enough for us to notice.

For most of us, the first irritating feelings of discomfort caused from hunger are easy to ignore, they can be put aside for a short while. But, eventually those feelings become more intense as the body tries to grab out attention. The brain sends signals for the release of acid in the stomach in preparation for the intake and digestion of food. This is what we feel as emptiness, or the uncomfortable feeling in our stomach. [Read more…]

Proper pH for Proper Weight Loss

acid-alkalinephdietMany people who struggle taking weight off do not understand how blood pH affects weight loss.

The important property of blood is its degree of acidity or alkalinity. This is referred to as the acid-base balance. Blood pH, or the acid base balance of your blood play an important role in weight loss. It regulates how your burn fat. If you upset your pH balance, weight loss can be very difficult if you achieve it at all.

Acidity and alkalinity are expressed on the pH scale which ranges from 0 which is strongly acidic to 14 which is strongly alkaline. A pH of 7.0 is neutral. Normal blood is slightly alkaline with a pH ranging from 7.35 to 7.45. [Read more…]

Late Night Snacking Does Effect Weight

night snackingAre you guilty of snacking heavily at night? You know…are you someone who after dinner continues to eat…sometimes taking in nearly half of your calories after dinner?

Understand that it may not be all your fault…after all, we as humans are sort of programmed that way. Originally we were conditioned to eat after sunset in order to have enough energy to get through the night and why many scientists and researchers believe that’s why many people’s hunger still peaks around 8 at night.

However most diets of today cause even more issues because daytime dieting causes people to give in and binge at night. [Read more…]

SMART Goals Can Help You Lose Weight

SMART GoalsIf you struggle to keep weight off possibly you struggle to take it off…it may very well benefit you to explore using SMART goals.

SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound in relation to accomplishing your goals and is the perfect process to use when trying to lose weight.

Let’s break down the process into measurable and doable steps:

Specific: The first step in the process of SMART goals is to be specific. So, for example if your goal is to “lose weight” then be more specific about your results and imagine yourself having accomplished the goal already. How do you feel at this new weight? What are some of the benefits you are enjoying after reaching your weight threshold?

Create positive affirmation such as “I feel vital and strong…so full of natural energy now that I’ve lost weight by paying attention to what I am eating and counting the calories I consume, eating smaller healthier portions and adhering to an exercise program. [Read more…]