Do You Know If Your Diet is Nutrient Dense?

micronutrientMost mainstream diets base their strategies on eating in an unhealthy manner. They try to manipulate the amount of macronutrients; proteins, carbohydrates, fats and calories to try and get you to eat less. However, if what they did worked, we would all be slim and trim but the obvious truth is we are far from it. [Read more…]

Start Your Day the Super Health Shake Way

health shakeIf you are not yet eating a nutrient-rich healthy way and need to speed up the detoxification process to lose weight naturally you need to maximize your micro-nutrient consumption.

Health shakes are the ticket to the fastest ride to not only losing weight but feeling fantastic as well. When food cravings kick in they are cravings.usually so intense and persistent that it will send the most avid dieter into the kitchen in a quest for something to eat. Most times this ends up being something with no nutritional value whatsoever that simply fuels your cravings even more.

This is why most mainstream diets fail miserably. They are based around processed foods that are not going to help you achieve your weight loss goals. If you are still eating the same things that threw your hormones out of whack you are going to have a very hard time losing that excess weight.

There is one thing you can do that will dramatically and effectively help you to lose weight while providing super nutrition; the Health Shake. Without a doubt, the Health Shake is the most efficient way to immediately get on the nutrition-dense eating track, get healthier and quell those 

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Toxins Can Cause Your Body to Be Weight Resistant

toxic chemicalsThere are a few very important issues that cause people to be “weight loss resistant”, one of the prominent reasons is that our bodies become overburdened with toxins and our health suffers.

The level of pollution that we are exposed to compared to our ancient ancestors is like night and day. They experienced an occasional run-in with an odd toxic plant but today it’s hard to escape being exposed to these toxic substances on a daily basis…they are everywhere. [Read more…]

Leptin Resistance and Weight Loss

leptinYour body needs two important hormones functioning properly if you hope to lose that excess weight you might be carrying around. These two important weight loss hormones are insulin and leptin.

Insulin’s job is to control sugar and fat levels in the body, while leptin’s job is to burn fat. Leptin is one of the many hormones that regulate energy in your body…it also tells you when you’re full. As you gain more weight, you produce more leptin which is supposed to tell you to when to “stop eating”. [Read more…]

12 Weight Loss Tips to Taking It Off and Keeping It Off

12 tips to weight lossThere are no magic bullets to weight loss but here are 12 steps you can follow that will help you to lose the weight, keep it off and feel good doing it.

12 tips to help you curb your appetite take weight off and keep it off… [Read more…]

Health Benefits of Flax Seed and Chia Seed; Ancient Super Foods

super seedsMeet your two next best friends…two little seeds – chia and flax; ‘Ancient Super Foods of The Future’.  If you replaced 50% of the processed or refined foods that you are now eating with these two types of foods, you would experience unbelievable good health, energy and easy and effortless weight loss.

Some people call flax seeds the new wonder food and consider it the most powerful food on the planet.  Studies show that flax seed helps to fight everything from heart disease to diabetes to breast cancer.

This tiny little seed carries one of the biggest nutrient payloads for your body. Even though you can’t technically call it a grain, it has a similar vitamin and mineral profile to grains. But that’s where the difference ends. [Read more…]

Cut Out Sugar to Manage Your Blood Sugar Levels and Control Weight

sugar freeThe first thing that we need to get under control when trying to manage weight is blood sugar levels. Yep, that means cutting out sugar in all its forms. Let’s face the facts, sugar is destructive and most people eat far too much of it. And there is no substituting with artificial sweeteners. They will not work either as they can damage your health even more quickly than fructose.

It is recommended that you keep your fructose consumption below 25 grams a day. This includes all sources, from beverages to condiments, including the fructose you get from whole fruits. [Read more…]

The Importance of a Nutrient – Dense Diet

nutrient-dense foodsIt’s not about eating less but better – what we need is nutrient-dense foods.

What are nutrient dense foods? They are foods that have a ratio of high nutrient to calorie value as opposed to empty calorie, nutrient – poor foods that are common place in our modern world.

Refining and processing foods removes nutrients. Once these processes are applied to fresh foods, you no longer receive nutritional benefit out of them (very little at best). [Read more…]