HEALTHY BREAKFAST

Feel Good and Control Your Weight

CARBS-BASED BREAKFAST (BAD)
In the morning, simple carbohydrates (e.g.,
sugary refined cereals, white breads, toasts, etc.)
cause an immediate surge of blood sugar levels,
which results in the release of a substantial
amount of insulin. The insulin removes sugar from
the blood and puts it into storage, primarily in fat
tissue. The result is a decreased level of blood
sugar and a thirst for more carbs. This cycle repeats itself two to three more times during the day. When
blood sugars drop quickly, we often look for something sweet to bring the levels back up. If this happens
enough times during the day, we could end up snacking too much and taking in too many calories.

SKIPPING BREAKFAST (BAD)
When you skip breakfast, blood sugar drops
below the normal level, and you experience
cravings and a drop in energy. You again revert to
simple carbohydrates to achieve a quick surge of
blood sugar and to overcome hunger and a drop
in energy. Simple carbohydrates will cause an
immediate surge of blood sugar levels and a
substantial insulin emission. The insulin removes sugar from blood turning its excess into fat. Then this
cycle repeats itself two to three more times during the day. This vicious cycle constitutes one of the major
reasons for diabetes, high blood pressure and extra weight.

BALANCED PROTEIN-BASED  (GOOD)
BREAKFAST
Such a breakfast supplies our body with all vital
nutrients and energy without increasing blood
sugar and insulin levels. It helps to avoid
dependence on carbs during the day. In this way,
appetite stays under control, cravings for carbs
(e.g., snacks, chocolate, pastry, soft drinks, etc.)
diminish, and the body uses its own stored fats to get more energy.

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Best in Health

Jim                  

LOOK AT THE LABEL

One of the most important skills you can master is
being able to read a food label in order to figure out
exactly what you are getting from your foods.

Let’s look at the example below and take the
information from top to bottom…

CHUNKY, CHEESY, RICH AND
CREAMY BROCCOLI SOUP
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 cup (250 g)
Servings per Container 2
Calories 250
Calories from Fat 135
% Daily Value
Total Fat 15 g 25%
Saturated fat 3 gm 15%
Trans Fat 0 gm
Cholesterol 30 mg 10%
Sodium 750 mg 30%
Potassium 200 mg 5%
Total Carbohydrate 34 gm 11%
Dietary Fiber 2 g 10%
Sugars 2 g
Other Carbohydrate 30 gm
Protein 5 g 10%

Serving Size and Servings per Container:
Pay attention to this closely. Many people assume
that small packages of cookies or crackers, or
medium-sized beverage containers are single
servings. But this may not be the case. An “official”
serving of a beverage is 8 ounces, but many drinks
are packaged in 16 oz. containers or larger. All the
nutrition facts on the label are for one serving. If you
drink a 16 oz. beverage, you will be drinking twice
the number of calories on the nutrition facts panel,
since you’ll be taking in two servings. You will need
to double all the information on the label to
determine exactly what you are taking in.

Calories, Fat, Carbohydrate and Protein:As with all the other nutrients, these are the amounts per serving. In the example to the left, one cup of Chunky, Cheesy, Rich and Creamy Broccoli Soup has 250 calories. But if you consume the whole package
(two servings), you will have taken in 500 calories. In addition to the total fat per serving, the label also tells you the calories from fat, so you can do a quick calculation in your head of what percentage of calories you are eating from fat. In the example, there are 135 calories from fat out of a total of 250 calories. You can see right away that more than half the calories in the soup come from fat. The label also tells you how much of the fat is saturated fat or trans fat.

“Total Carbohydrate” tells you, again, how much carbohydrate per serving. Keep in mind that this includes natural sources, such as the natural sugars in milk or fruit, so it’s not always easy to tell from the line labeled “Sugars” where the sugar is coming from without looking at the ingredients list. If a cereal has little
added sugar–but contains raisins–the sugar content may look high, but it’s just from the natural fruit sugar.

Look at the ingredients list for sugar: sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, beet sugar, corn syrup, corn syrup
solids, brown rice syrup, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, high fructose corn syrup, honey, invert
sugar, maltodextrin, molasses, raw sugar, turbinado sugar and sucrose are all added sugars. Sometimes
food manufacturers use a number of sweeteners in a product–each in small amounts–so the ingredients
are “sprinkled” throughout the ingredients list, but taken together they can sometimes add up significantly.

Fiber and sugars are part of the total carbohydrate count. A food with 5 grams or more of fiber per serving
is a good source of fiber.

% Daily Value:
Daily Values are standard values developed by the Food and Drug Administration for use on food labels.
They are standards used to compare the amount of a nutrient in a food to the amount that is
recommended per day, but is based on a 2,000 calorie diet that may not apply to everyone. Even if you
know that you don’t require that many calories, you can still look at these values to see if a particular food
is high or low in a nutrient that you are interested in. In the example above, one serving of the soup provides
30 percent of the Daily Value for calcium, which is quite a bit. But it also has 25 percent of the Daily Value
for fat–that means that one-fourth of the recommended fat for the day is packed into 1 cup of soup–that’s
a lot of fat per serving!

Here are some things to visualize when you are looking at a food label:
Every 5 grams of fat is a teaspoon of fat (or a pat of butter). In the example above, each cup serving
of soup has 15 grams of fat–that’s three teaspoons (or one tablespoon), or three pats of butter per
serving! If you consume the whole can (two servings), then you are consuming six pats of butter!
Every 4 grams of sugar is a teaspoon. The soup above has very little sugar–only 2 grams per
serving, or about a half a teaspoon. But a 16 oz. bottle of sweetened tea might have 30 grams per
serving (and remember, the bottle is two servings of 8 ounces each). If you drink the whole bottle,
you’ll be drinking 60 grams of sugar–that’s 15 teaspoons, or five tablespoons, or just under 1/3 cup!

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Best in Health

Jim

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Jim

Take This Quiz

These days everyone is in a hurry so I’ll make this quiz short and you don’t have to share your answers with anyone so be honest;

1. How many servings of vegetables did you have today?

2. How much fruit did you eat today?

3. How many servings of fruits and vegetables do you average a day?

4. How much fiber do you consume on an average day? Do you know or are you guessing?

5. How much water do you drink every day?

6. How many medications do you take daily?

7. How much exercise do you do each week?

8. Do you see the connection between your health and your nutrition?

See; that wasn’t so hard now was it? That is a basic wellness evaluation and it is designed to be a wake up call. Some people wait until they have a stroke, heart attack or cancer before they consider those questions. Now you don’t have to wait. If you are ready to get serious about your nutrition, visit my website and get registered today!

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Jim

Minerals are required

Like vitamins, minerals work with enzymes as coenzymes, allowing all activities in your body to take place efficiently.

Minerals are required for all metabolic processes, as well as proper composition of your body fluids, the formation of your blood & bones, and they are critically important for healthy nerve function.

Our civilization is starving for nutrients that are lacking in our food chain. Now more than ever, supplementation is crucial for health, because minerals have been depleted from our soils, and other nutrients are destroyed in the processing & cooking of almost all the foods we eat. This type of malnutrition is often the cause of pain and chronic degenerative diseases.

Have you heard the phrase "over-fed but under-nourished"? Even though caloric intake is abundant, many bodies lack proper nourishment.

Minerals are naturally occurring elements found in rocks on the earth. As rocks erode over millions of years, they break down into tiny fragments of dust and sand. This mineral powders accumulate to form the basis of soil, which is teeming with microbes that help plants utilize the minerals. These minerals are taken up into plants, then eaten by animals, both of which are consumed by humans. In nature, this is how we ingest minerals.

Minerals belong to two groups: major (or bulk) minerals and trace minerals.

Bulk minerals include calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and phosphorus. These are needed in larger amounts than trace minerals, and their deficiencies & imbalances will quickly cause illness.

Trace minerals include zinc, iron, copper, manganese, chromium, selenium, and iodine, among others. Although very small amounts of trace minerals are required, they are just as important for good health as bulk minerals.

Because minerals are stored primarily in the body's bone and muscle tissue, overdose is possible. But toxic amounts accumulate only with extremely large doses taken for prolonged periods of time.

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Jim

Diets Don’t Work---Or Do They?

There is a well known company that runs ads using the tag line that diets don’t work. Is this a true statement? Yes… and no. By the strictest definition of the word, diet is what you eat. But we have altered the meaning to refer to weight loss or weight management. In my humble opinion, most peoples diets do not work. And I am referring to diet as what you eat. If our diet worked then people would not crave foods. People would not have skin conditions, Migraines would not be so common and nobody would care about an energy drink or an antacid.Diabetes would not be at epidemic levels nor would high blood pressure. The simple fact of the matter is that our diets generally do not work. The reason that most diets do not work is ignorance of the facts about nutrition and misunderstanding about how and what to eat.

And as far as weight loss goes. Most weight loss diets don’t work either. The majority are usually not balanced, not nutritious and not sustainable. So some people lose weight while they stick to the weight loss diet but gain it all back (and sometimes more) after they resume their normal diet.

So what is a person to do? It starts with understanding what your body needs on a daily basis and evaluating what you usually feed yourself. You also need to understand the laws concerning food labeling. How many times have you heard things like zero transfats on the label don’t necessarily mean zero transfats in the product? Where do you go for information? Either find a good nutritionist (but remember they will likely want to get paid) or visit our website and sign up for our free nutrition seminars.

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Best in Health

Jim

Functional Foods?????

I was amazed when I read that functional foods and beverages are the latest megatrend in food, nutrition and health. I believe that in fact, that trend started years ago but only in the last few years are we seeing it show up in our supermarkets. The information I was reading said that people are buying products that have a measurable effect for them.

For me that was sad because the article said that people aren’t buying as much omega 3 as they should because they don’t notice if they don’t take it. Nutrition is long term not short term. Think of it this way; if an apple a day keeps the doctor away, if you miss a day will you have to go see a doctor? Probably not, but if you think that means that you never need to eat apples again you are probably going to be going to see your doctor-often. If you put fertilizer on your lawn or flowers you are not going to see a result immediately but if you never put fertilizer on your lawn or flowers can you really be surprised if your lawn or flowers do not flourish? No, not if you think it through.

What was also interesting about what I read about megatrends was that people are buying digestive health products and energy drinks. A major reason for the need for digestive health products is the overuse of antibiotics, which kill bacteria including the good bacteria in our bodies. Yogurt with active cultures has always be a digestive aid but now even yogurt makers are jumping on board the trend.

So what is a smart person to do if they want to have good health? Educate yourself about your nutrition. Visit our website and sign up for a free wellness evaluation and get invited to our webinars! Learn the facts and improve your life.

Diet Write

If you're trying to lose weight, (and who isn't these days?) keep a food diary. In it, write down every morsel that goes in your mouth each day. You'll be surprised at how much more you eat than you think you do. It also makes you aware of your eating. Being aware is key to losing weight. Do this for a week to become aware of what you may not have realized goes into your mouth. Then modify your portions and think twice before taking "just one bite".

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Best in Health

Jim