Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Why Fast Food is not Good ?
Written by: Gunborg Palme
Answer:
It is important to eat nutritious food in order to keep the body healthy. Food to Eat, Food to Avoid; Healthy Food Diet List.
It is harmful to live on a diet which consists mainly of pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs, buns, sweets, soft drinks and chips.
It is not unusual that people have extremely bad eating habits. If you want to lose weight or liberate yourself from an eating disorder, all you need to do is to learn to eat properly. Examples of nutritious foods are: vegetables, root vegetables, potatoes, lettuce, fruits, berries, fish, porridge and lean dairy products.
If you are doubtful whether you should regularly eat a certain type of food, check if it causes compulsive eating or makes you want to eat even when you don't need more. Avoid all food which has this kind of effect.
Labels: Fast Food, Healthy recipes
Friday, February 22, 2008
How The Miracle Of Juice Fasting Heals The Body
written by Guest Writer, Bob Davis.
Irritating substances
Our internal body passages are lined with mucous which is a protective barrier between our sensitive cells and the 'outside' world. Our air passages and our digestive tract are really external to our bodies, making us subject to whatever elements may be present. The consistency and thickness of this coating varies according to the challenge. In normal times, the mucous remains as a thin protective barrier. In times of distress, such as with a head cold or with the ingestion of irritating foods, additional mucous will be formed as an additional barrier between the body and the irritating substance and also as a vehicle to flush out the irritant from the body. We are aware of this action with a head cold and a productive cough. We may be less aware of this action in our digestive tract.Swallowed mucus from an abnormal sinus discharge presents a challenge to the digestive tract. The stomach and intestines have a protective layer of mucous which is a barrier against our own digestive juices. Quantities of mucous in our digestive system are dealt with by increasing acid production in an attempt to remove it by digestion. This causes the litany of heartburn, acid reflux, and esophageal corrosion.
Chronic conditions can leave a perpetual build up of mucous which clogs our system, contributing to our depressed health. This acts as a trap for the waste products, such as dead cells that would ordinarily have long passed out of our system.
Juice fasting eliminates certain foods
Juice fasting eliminates the usual mucous forming foods from our diet, such as refined flour, and stimulates the digestive tract to be normally active, further reducing the presence of the irritating substances and the excess mucus that results. Juice fasting accomplishes the task of removing excess mucous, dead cells, and other entrapped foreign material and also supplies an abundant supply of nutrients which the body, in its renewed energy level, immediately utilizes to heal. This is a powerful regeneration process, and you have it in your own hands to accomplish. You don't need to go anywhere. You don't need to have this procedure performed upon you. You can accomplish it yourself. This is nothing but good news!
Labels: Healthy recipes, Nutrition, Weight Loss
What is Juice Fasting?
written by Guest Writer, Bob Davis.
Juice fasting for health
There are several kinds of fasts, from those for religious reasons that fast until sundown to those who take nothing but water for long periods. If the juice fasting is for health purposes, it makes sense to support your body's needs while you reduce or remove some necessary elements from your diet.The basic elements that we need to remove from our diet for the sake of our health are cooked food and animal products. This includes the denatured packaged products such as white flour, refined sugar etc. and all animal products such as red meat, poultry, fish and eggs. The only animal product that is usually allowed is a little honey for sweetening purposes. The best single method to accomplish these ends is to juice fast.
In order to do this properly, you will need a juicer which is a machine specifically made for this purpose, It is nor a mixer or a blender. It is not a citrus juicer. it is a device that is made to deliver vegetable juice out of a spout while the fiber is deposited another way.
Juice fasting for weight loss
Some people may enter a juice fast as a way to address some disease condition. Others may use a fast in order to detoxify their body or to lose weight. For whatever reason you may chose to juice fast, one dramatic element is the immediate and dramatic loss of stored body fat. This has multiple health benefits.
Much of the toxins stored in our body are in our body fat. Metabolizing the fat forces the toxins into the blood stream where the body processes them to be eliminated. This elimination is not entirely done through the alimentary canal and the urinary tract. A major organ of elimination is the lungs. We will breathe out some toxins in our breath.
Toxins in the body
Another major organ of elimination is the skin. We will not only exude toxins from the surface of our skin, causing people to bathe frequently every day, but the skin may erupt in boils as the toxins, especially petro-chemicals accumulate in boils.
As we realize the great load of poisons we have carried by the amount of toxins that are being discharged, we can wonder how we survived at all. One lady of my acquaintance was so severely involved by the heavy discharge of chemotherapy chemicals from her skin that she constantly showered. Also, her breath was foul and her mouth had a chronic horrible taste.
This was all accomplished by juice fasting.
On the other hand, I also know a man who was only slightly affected by the discharge of toxins from his body, as he lost a pound a day for 28 days.
It all depends upon what is the challenge to your body to detoxify and how your body, in its own wisdom, 'decides' to lose the stored poisons.
How long to stay on a juice fast
The 'rule of thumb' is to stay on the juice fast until you have been free of detoxification symptoms for two days. These symptoms can be rather severe, making one to believe that 'the cure is worse than the disease.' However, this is certainly not true in the long run.
It is possible, during an extended fast, that a person may have more than healing crisis. You know that you are succeeding when you have a healing crisis. In cases of severe illness, some practitioners provide a juice fasting program for, perhaps, three days a week and the rest of the time the patient eats normally of selected fresh fruits and vegetables.
Meat in the diet
Meats are not a part of a recovering patient's diet, especially during the critical detoxification period. After that, some practitioners allow the patient to have small amounts of animal protein sources such as two ounces of white fish or an egg a week. Other practitioners do not allow their patients to eat any animal products during their recovery or sustaining periods.The prohibited foods include all animal flesh of any kind, including fish, poultry, eggs and dairy products. The only exception for some is the inclusion of a tablespoon of honey once a day for sweetening.
A strict juice fast is necessary until a good recovery is established. This may take from several days to three weeks or more. Almost always, there is immediate evidence of the success of the fast. The patient will know the next day, the family will know in two or three days and the doctor will see measurable results within a week or so.
Labels: Healthy recipes, Nutrition, Weight Loss
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