Add Magnesium to Your Diet

Posted on 11/09/2015 by Cheryl Hanson

A very important metabolic element that leads us toward good health, try adding magnesium to your diet.  Why would one sip of milk of magnesia cause you to lose weight?  One reason is that it allows your liver to fight fat by removing it from your blood stream, and allows the liver not to have to fight toxic elements that exist near the fat.  Magnesium does a good job of surrounding the toxic sugars, starches, unhealthy carbs and chemicals that we ingest, and ridding them in the digestive system.  Often a diet rich in magnesium is one that creates good health effects as well.

Time to Take Magnesium

Spelt with Pesto

Spelt with Pesto

Take Magnesium before bed, as it will allow you to calm your body, and prepare you for excellent rest.  With the quiet of the sleep cycle, Magnesium will search through your toxic substances in your blood, and surround them very efficiently.  The result will be an increase in resilience during times of toxic overload, fat removal by your liver, and lowering of your blood pressure.  It will allow you find your most comfortable restful state, by lowering your heart rate, and your blood pressure.  When toxicity is lowered, all other organs will work better.

Irritability and Fear

Often the most common symptom of low magnesium levels is an increase of anger and fear within your day.  It is a trigger as your body is truly struggling to survive; overwhelmed by toxicity and being over worked.  If you feel uncertain, struggle to maintain your polite edge with strangers, and are often fighting back the little fearful voice in your mind, allowing some magnesium into your body will help a great deal.  Do not overlook how powerful fat and toxic chemicals can be in your life; they will completely ruin your positive progress in your mind, as you move forward.

Why Magnesium Builds Towards Great Digestion

Removing toxic elements, minerals, chemicals and sugars from your blood will improve your digestion immensely.  There are great advantages to letting your liver combat the fat and the fat alone each day.  Imagine your liver has to work on the priorities of removing first the toxins, and then the fat.  When your body needs fat, removes the value of Omega 3, 6, and 9 from the fat you consume, and all the lipids that come with its benefit, there is simple cellulose to store or rid.  Let the liver work on rid vs store in your day.

This process of binding to toxins, with the building blocks of magnesium, can bring you good success with your general health and well being.  That means too, you will see better mineral absorption, and vitamin acceptance as you move forward. Naturally, you can find Magnesium in Oat bran, dark rice, seeds, beans that are dried, spinach, some broccoli, and dark potatoes with the skin.  The spelt grain with pesto dish pictured,  is an excellent source of magnesium, as the grain is often less processed than other whole grains.  Be sure to review your food for terms like artificial flavors, guar gum, calcium carbonate, niacinamide, or vitamin b or folic acid.  This is a sure sign that your product has been extracted and processed to remove and extract most of the magnesium; some may even be added back to ensure a percentage.  With many ingredients, you can be sure that this is a product that could create some nitrosamines in your gut, and will not offer you the right kind of magnesium.

Some products, if commercially produced, will be devoid of this important mineral.  In case you cannot eat organically and with confidence of Non-GMO foods, be sure to add supplements to your food, of 400mg or less.

 

 

 

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Citrus and Lemon can Lower Sodium Intake

Posted on 08/23/2014 by Cheryl Hanson

There is new research to show that citrus and lemon in particular are good helpers for your simple healthy eating regimen.  We are very lucky to have so many new studies that are showing us actual truth about safe and efficient ways to eat healthy.  Lately, the scientists are broadcasting this information with no corporate or political support guiding the message.  It is just science for health and health alone.  Citrus and lemon are showing great promise, as they seem to assist very tempted taste buds to continue a healthy food choice option.

Salt and Citrus and Lemon

citrus in waterToday’s taste buds are looking for salts and sweets.  We are not a vegetable society at this time, but this will evolve as we become more health conscious.  We are all used to eating over the recommended limit of 1500mg of sodium each day, sometimes upwards into a limit of 4500 mg of sodium is easy to do!  When you look at everything you eat, there is a lot of sodium in most our food and drinks.  Even juice today has sodium!  Here is a list of items that have sodium from labels:

  • Hershey Special Dark Chocolate 0 mg(nice to have a happy bit of news!)
  • Cottage Bread one slice 180 mg
  • Orange Juice Trop 50 10 mg
  • Diet Coke 30 mg
  • Turkey Slice 110mg per slice
  • Bag of 8oz potato chips 149 mg
  • Bowl of Raisin Bran 1 cup 303 mg
  • peanut butter 1tbsp 73 mg
  • grape jelly 15 mg
  • little caesars sausage pizza 520 mg
  • yoplait yogurt strawberry banana 80 mg per container
  • 1 cup of skim milk 127 mg
  • bagel no cream cheese 470 mg
  • cream cheese for bagel 1tbsp 43 mg
  • hard boiled egg 139 mg
  • bacon slice 160 mg
  • chicken soup 1106 mg
  • small single patty hamburger on bun 369 mg
  • order of french fries 160 mg

These are just beginning thoughts to a usual American Diet, but if you consider drinks, coffee, teas and sodas, you will see how quickly you can get to the 1500 mg requirement of sodium intake.  If more food companies used citrus and lemon to create the same taste as sodium, our health would improve in many ways!

Citrus and Lemon In Recent Studies

Taste testers approve of salted food and similar food with citrus and lemon sprinkled on top.  Two different and very easy ways to eat the same bitter veggies, often made the veggies more appealing for flavor, but citrus and lemon is better for you.  The reasons are salt and sodium are acceptable and needed, however, just in lower quantities.  And, by the list that we have seen above, there is a lot of sodium in many things we didn’t consider before.  So to be healthy, and to continue to eat nutritional foods like vegetables and fibers, salt is not the best option.  Adding a sprinkle of citrus and lemon is the right choice, because all tasters said it was more flavorful, and tasted even better than adding salt.  With the addition of citrus and lemon, you are receiving needed vitamin C, and a better way to keep your salt intake down.  The sprinkle should be done right before you eat, and can be put on pretty much anything you like with salt.  Even popcorn is a great way to get the salty taste, without all the extra mineral that is so often giving you the bad health consequences.

Why Citrus and Lemon is Better than Salt

With added drain on your heart, liver, and kidneys, salt adds a much needed mineral up to 1500 mg a day.  Even that amount however, is very high in most countries, where the population sees a salt intake around 1000mg.  Depending on your exercise level of the day, and your perspiration, you may need far less than you are getting. With a current American style meal plan, a day can consist of over 4500 to 5000 mg of sodium a day.  Even coffee and tea bottled drinks have sodium.  It has nothing needed to make the product taste good, but it adds a bit of a taste or tongue “remembrance” or taste memory to most western diets.  The same can be said of citrus and lemon.  The memory of the acid or mineral gain is equal or even more powerful in the taste receptors of the human brain.  Not all animals enjoy salt, and cats do not have any sugar receptors in their tongue.  They do have salt receptors, which shows that the protein diet and the addition of salt makes for a native or a strong taste memory for most predatory mammals.  If the commercial food company system keeps using salt, there will be many large consequences on our health care system.  There are brain studies that show the receptors and the brain transit the memory to the most ancestral parts of our brain.  This means, we all see or taste the mineral the same.

With a simple way to drop sodium levels by 5% each year, and adding citrus and lemon to each needed meal, we can evolve to a better memory on our plates.  Stop sending salt to your plate with a little citrus and lemon and see how your general health improves!

 

 

 

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Lemon in Hot Water in the Morning

Posted on 11/05/2013 by Cheryl Hanson

Why is lemon such a great thing to add to your healthy food choices each and every day?  For one, lemon in a cup of luke warm water, will give you great hydration each morning, that you are surely missing.  In the developed world, each person is ingesting more sodium and preservatives than they can remove from their daily diet.   Water and being hydrated is the best way to keep your kidneys and liver healthy, and allow all the sodium and toxins to be removed easily and effectively.  The connection between soda and kidney dialysis is strong, as when you drink lots of soda, you are drinking lots of toxins and sodium that contribute towards difficult kidney cleansing.   With a lemon in your warm cup each morning, you are getting more than just some hydration.

Lemon in Warm Water : Here’s Why

A warm water cup with the juice and fiber from half of an organic lemon will bring you so much health, each and every day.  This is a sure fire way to get your vitamin C each day.  Lemon has more vitamin C than most oranges, as they are very small and not as diluted as an orange.  And, with a luke warm heated cup of water, you are not destroying the vitamins and minerals from the lemon, but you are giving yourself a treat that is easier than cold water.  It is true as well, that cold crisp water, is hard for your stomach to handle.  When you give a nice introduction of warm but not scalding water, you are ingesting the right connection of temperature for your digestion.  A lemon too, offers more than just vitamin C, as it gives you great fiber for just a little bit of effort.

Lemon offers an Acid Reduction

citrus in waterEach day, with the removal of toxins and sugars, your liver creates a busy time, where it actually brings you an over production of acid.  Food and preserved foods are often acidic in nature, and this overly acidic state is difficult for hormone constancy.  Uneven levels of acids, little base to your diet, creates a very high level of stomach digestive juices, heart burn, and acid production in your stomach and digestion lining.  Waste is difficult to remove, and you develop skin problems and sometimes even headaches and nervous anxiety.  The best thing about a lemon to your morning, is that it gives you an instant base to your diet, as the addition of water which is warm, to your stomach lining turns naturally base in your stomach.  It might not seem like it, but if you add some lemon to your warm cup in the morning, you are giving your diet a base or a neutrality instead of an acid.

Lemon is Helpful for On Going Metabolism

Keeping your body able to process sugars, salts and toxins easily, lemon does all of these benefits with the ability to remove your acid levels, and keep you alkaline.  Asparagus is another natural way to find a base or alkaline diet trigger, and allow you to digest proteins, sugars, and other toxins more easily.    This, with constant presentation, each and every morning, will boost your metabolism slowly.  Each morning, do yourself a favor, and warm your water, cut a lemon in half, and squeeze it into the water for a gulp of great health.  It will be a great way to remove any of the previous day’s problems.  And a lemon in the morning will begin your new metabolism that very instant.

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How Whey Protein Packs a Weight Loss Punch

Posted on 03/12/2013 by Cheryl Hanson

Weight loss is often discussed with low calorie, high exercise agenda items, and this will produce even more results when adding whey protein to your diet. Not only does whey protein taste great, but it makes you feel full, will keep you on the right path with your diet, and will turn your workout of any duration into a powerful effect.  One reason that whey protein drinks cause you to lose weight, is it adds another dimension to your body chemistry.

Whey Protein and Lactic Acid Production

One of my favorite shows is Stan Lee’s Super Humans where they showcase amazing human feats and activities from normal everyday people. Everyone has something that is super amazing, from having very long legs, to being able to withstand large amounts of sleep deprivation, to my favorite, being able to run, and run and run!

The episode where Dean Karnazes shows his super human strength, explains a lot about weight loss and exercise.  The truthful nuggets are everywhere, you just have to equate them to your goals in life.  Mr. Karnazes is an amazing human, because he can run for hours to days to weeks, with no fatigue, or injury.  He is a runner, a biker, and an ultra marathon man.  With his ability, he can produce great time on his runs, and do it again the very next day.

Testing his abilities is where the show really brought home some truth to our problems in weight loss.  Mr. Kanazes does not produce lactic acid in his muscles, and if he does, it is very mild.

Every human being produces lactic acid after a run, walk or a sprint at the gym.  This toxic after effect, is created by the destruction of muscles during your workout.  We experience lactic acid in our bodies when we quickly burn glucose to create the energy needed to perform sports and exercise activities.  When we burn glucose, and oxidized to a new compound called pyruvate, lactate is often produced faster that our bodies can remove the lactic acid.  That is why, often a trainer or an exercise regime will allow you to slowly walk for a certain amount of time, based on how you present at the time of exercise.  You are showing signs of lactic acid overload or Acidosis.

Why Whey Protein Works to Fight Acidosis

Body builders, triathletes and mom’s who love to exercise know, drinking a whey protein drink after an exercise routine, will be a great idea.  Your muscle mass will increase, your total body fat will decrease, and your weight will drop with each week of workout.  This is a great way to reward yourself too, because the whey protein drinks taste great!  This works because it fights the after effects of acidosis, or large deposits of lactic acid in your body.  One sign that you are fighting acidosis, or lactic acid levels, is that you have pain in your body after a work out, and aches and pains the next day too.

Whey protein has a magic effect on acid, as it brings down the acid to a base in your the muscle cells.  With a nice boost of protein to bind to those torn and affected cells, you will not feel tired and worn from your beneficial workout.  As well, you won’t lose muscle mass over time.  Whey protein benefits offer a low calorie option that we can see a muscle benefit over time.  The use of this type of drink is beneficial for every human, as the tear and replace of muscles is something every human is constantly enduring.

Acidosis is describes your body is in an acid state; eating asparagus, which is a baseline food, will increase your body’s resistance to acidosis.  Whey protein is another way to control this effect.

Other beneficial foods include lactic acid.  Sour milk food items contain lactic acid, and these include curdled dairy like sour creme, yogurt, cottage cheese and kefir.  Other foods that contain lactic acid, are sourdough breads, beer and sometimes wine when the vintage requires a higher pH.  But wait!  Weren’t we trying to remove lactic acids from our body?  Why would you eat or consume these items?

Why Consumption of Whey Protein and Sour Milk Foods Result in Positive Gains

Every blue zone on the planet finds a population of elder humans consuming lactic acid rich dairy drinks.  These pockets of yogurt eating and kefir drinking humans outlive many societies who divulge in red meat, starches and low vegetable and fruit consumption.  One reason could be that lactic acid is often craved by neuron cells in the brain.  This is one case where you may produce lactic acid in your muscles, and that same acidosis is threatening for your muscle cells, but great and a solid food of sorts for your brain.

This explains how complex and wonderful the body is, but creating a great food for the brain from the destruction of the muscle cells.  This is why you receive a bit of adrenaline after a run, and your body is spent, but your mind is ready to go, go, go.  Creating the perfect environment for your brain and body requires whey protein to salve your worn muscles, and lactic acid drinks to boost your neuron cells.

 

 

 

 

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Weight Statistics : How to Wrap Your Mind Around the Weight of the Nation

Posted on 06/06/2012 by Cheryl Hanson

While relaxing with my TV, after a particularly crazy week at work, I stumbled on HBO’s newest documentary, The Weight of the Nation. This great show on America’s Weight problem, and how it is going to seriously affect the way our country prospers, or results in failure was full of shocking statistics.  We are all part of a collective group of over 300 million American’s and the weight of the nation can influence our bottom line, as well as our constitutional right for health and happiness.

The Weight of the Nation will Prove to Be Our Greatest Failure or Success

With over 311,591,917 Americans on the planet, over 20 million of these Americans diagnosed with Diabetes, and over 79 million Americans now are pre-diabetic, we are at a critical stage in our history as a county.  So far, from 1970 on, we have been steady climbing a very steep staircase to a result of either great accomplishment or ultimate failure.  If our population of Americans increases to this forecast of 34% of our population living with diabetes- we are going to have an increased struggle of keeping our position as an economic powerhouse.  Already, the costs of the 20 million diabetic individuals, has seen a health care crisis in parts of America, and the weight of the nation is becoming a factor in our ability to create a valued economy.

Not only does this stunning fact create a drain on our country’s resources, but it will impact the entire global community as well.  The diabetic surge is being seen in other developing countries, where processed food, sugary drinks, and low exercise lifestyles have been encountered.  The health of America is influencing other cultures, and this could be a very dangerous result for us all.

Simply stated, the weight of the nation, is not just something we can dismiss, as it will impact us all.  The best way to contain this flood of diabetes, and overweight health issues, is to improve our communication with everyone we know.  It is truly important we all place a higher goal for our family and friends, and find out how we can help to curb being overweight with important statistics.  Knowledge is power, and getting the word out is key to us all being a solution to finding health and happiness.

Weight Statistics from The Weight of the Nation

  • Over 2/3 of America is Overweight, Obese or Morbidly Obese
  • 1/3 of the weight of the nation is Obese
  • Only 1% of America’s Population Performs the 6 Items each Day for Healthy Living
  • From 1970 to Present, 36% of the Population grew to be Pre-Diabetic compared to 7%
  • 17% of American Kids are Obese
  • To Burn off a serving of French Fries, a 200 lb American must walk 2 Hours and 24 minutes
  • Your Liver Can become Diseased with Fat simply by being overweight
  • That same liver, with a day of exercise and low fat eating, will remove all forms of fatty liver damage, in 24 hours
  • Most Diet Programs are Built to Allow you to Lose Weight, but Gain it back once again
  • The Best Diet Program is not a diet but a lifestyle change
  • Sugary Drinks are a Key Cause to the Overweight Population of 64% of America
  • The Weight of the Nation will Impact our Ability to Be a Nation of Economic Powerhouses
  • Workers will be limited to the healthy 36% to carry the burden of the 64% of sick Americans
  • The American Healthcare System cannot handle the wave of sick American’s that Obesity will provide

A Bright Side to The Weight of the Nation

The treatments and news from this shocking amount of data does have a cheery side, and that is, you can lose weight, and the key here, and you can keep it off.  The most inspired overweight Americans in The Weight of the Nation, fought weight by doing small steps, and doing it to keep their lives moving forward.  Some simple steps, that do not cost you anything, and are not going to be offered by any weight loss program that does cost money are:

  • Stop drinking sugary or sugar like drinks
  • Adopt an exercise program that ensures you walk one hour a day
  • Manage your portions
  • Find out how many calories are in your favorite foods
  • Empower your mind by starting a new life

If you are interested in the most fascinating news from this great program, I found it thrilling to learn that if you fast and eat very low fat, only veggies and fruit for 24 hours, and no chemical drinks or sugar, your liver can actually remove every speck of fat from itself.  Many people have a fatty liver, and do not even know it.  This used to be a common disease with alcoholics, but now with all the chemicals in our food and drinks, it is now a common problem for most Americans.

Just by a simple diet, full of great nutrition, and low chemicals, your liver will be brand new in 24 hours!  That to me is very amazing, and hopeful.  Let your mind search through the videos of the Weight of the Nation, and learn more to be inspired.

 

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HBOs documentary, The Weight of the Nation is a valuable resource for any member of your family, your friends or your fellow American’s who are struggling with their weight.

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