Healthy Foods For Best Brain Health: Whole Grains, Green Leafy Vegetables And Fruits

The formula that improves brain health is the same as that for the body. There is nothing more basic and simple than feeding on whole grains, green leafy vegetables and fruits.

Whole Grain Foods

Truly, not very many foods do compare with a hearty whole grain bread by Liesbeth Smit. Besides the unsaturated fats, this bread is loaded with good carbohydrates, protein and fiber from 4 different types of whole grain flour: buckwheat, barley, rye and wheat; 3 types of seeds: flax seeds, sunflower, pumpkin and 2 other ingredients like rolled oats and wheat bran.

Since there are no hard and fast rules in making this bread, why not replace familiar grains with some ancient heritage ones for novelty and variety in your diet at the same time? Continue reading “Healthy Foods For Best Brain Health: Whole Grains, Green Leafy Vegetables And Fruits”

Healthy Food – Eating For Life – 6 Simple Rules

Finding healthy food, eating it, and living a long life because of doing so isn’t science fiction. It is, however, science. Everyone tries to give you advice on how to eat right, but the simple fact is that almost no-one understands what happens inside your body when you buy healthy food and eat it. Detail on the subject is available for the people who have to know. Those of you who want the simple rules with no fluff or details, read on.

1) Eat whole foods. People say “whole foods” all the time, but no one stops to think what that means about healthy food. Eating foods that weren’t grown in a lab and haven’t been taken apart and put back together, that’s what it means. So no dehydrated-rehydrated potatoes, no homogenized milk, no flour, no sugar, and absolutely no corn syrup, high-fructose or otherwise. Continue reading “Healthy Food – Eating For Life – 6 Simple Rules”

Healthy Foods to Eat on a Budget

If you are on a tight budget, finding healthy foods at the grocery store may seem like a challenge, but there are healthy and economical choices in every aisle of the store. As tempting as all that junk food out there may sound, it really can be cheaper to eat food prepared at home. And with a little imagination and experimenting with herbs and spices in the kitchen, it will taste better as well. The first key to healthier eating is to have more healthy foods available to eat at home. So stop going to the drive-through and don’t buy any more pre-packaged, over processed foods that you probably have in your kitchen now. Get yourself organized by creating a meal plan and a grocery list for the foods you need to prepare those meals. The next step is to go to your local grocery store and start buying whole foods that you can prepare at home with whatever kitchen resources you have there. Continue reading “Healthy Foods to Eat on a Budget”

Try a Slow-Carb Habit

Carbohydrates – found in grains, breads, pasta, and sugar, as well as vegetables, fruit, tofu, beans, and dairy – provide the body with the most efficient fuel for energy production and brain activity. They’re nutritionally essential, a principle currently downplayed by the “low-carb craze”.

What is important to understand is that not all carbohydrates have the same “fuel efficiency”. Many carbohydrates – termed “refined” or “simple” – cause blood sugar highs and lows which can result in a period of high energy followed by a period of extremely low energy, often leaving the person craving more of the simple quick release carbs.

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Splendiferous Whole Grain Foods: Whole Rice, Bamboo Rice, Foxtail Millet And Sorghum

Grains should be handled naturally and not tampered with so much as in processes like milling, par boiling, drying and re-parboiling to shorten cooking time. As it is, over-refinement of grains makes them lose much of their nutritive value.

Whole Grain Rice

You may wonder why most Asians never tire of eating the rice staple day in, day out. This is because the little grains can easily catch on to and off-set the flavors of vegetable side dishes, having little or a neutral taste of their own. Though they are very tiny, they contribute immensely to your satisfaction of what really makes a balanced meal. In other words, the teeny weeny grains will go down very well with whatever accompanying foods you choose to eat. Somehow, rice promotes healthy eating in harmony with all kinds of whole foods. Continue reading “Splendiferous Whole Grain Foods: Whole Rice, Bamboo Rice, Foxtail Millet And Sorghum”

Chemistry, Nutritional Supplements Or Whole Foods – To Maintain the Health Tripod, Body-Mind-Spirit

Increasingly, as if there is a “new” discovery parade for the latest cure-all, probiotics have come again to the forefront. As I read the varying articles and studies, I am struck by how far afield we have come from normal, common sense.

In order to maintain a healthy body, there is a tripod of health: body, mind, and spirit. Knock out one leg of that stool, and the stool topples over. Probiotics, diet, dietary supplements address only the “body” leg of the health tripod. So let’s start there.
Anything taken externally, whether it is natural or medical (chemical or surgical) in support of the physical, has only ever been intended as temporary support until we have regained or achieved the necessary consciousness to support complete and perfect health; much as you might use a crutch to recover from a broken leg. When the leg is healed, we throw the crutch away as we should throw the supplements and medications away. Continue reading “Chemistry, Nutritional Supplements Or Whole Foods – To Maintain the Health Tripod, Body-Mind-Spirit”

Are Vitamin Supplements Better Than Whole Foods?

At the end of World War II, chemical companies started selling nitrate/ phosphate/ potassium (NPK) fertilizers that made using traditional farming methods unprofitable. By the 1960’s, 97% of American farms were recorded to have become fully dependent on NPK fertilizers to grow cash crops. Plants need the constituents of an NPK fertilizer to grow; however, humans need much more than Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium to grow.

Due to the fact that the NPK fertilizers are replacing only Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium other soil nutrients (like selenium, magnesium, boron, chromium) necessary for a balanced nutrition will become deficient and plants grown on that soil are deficient of them. If these nutrients are not present in the soil, we cannot get them when eating crops grown on those soils. Even if we eat a lot of fruits, these fruits are also deficient of these nutrients.

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Why Whole Foods Can Help Your Child Avoid Childhood Obesity

You’ve heard it before – you are what you eat. And while this is just a statement, it is surprisingly true. What we feed our children will impact them for the rest of their lives. If we feed our children healthy foods, they will grow to be healthy. If, however, we feed our children fatty foods, they will grow to be obese. If your child is on their way to childhood obesity, start changing the way they eat now! A whole foods diet can help your child to avoid childhood obesity. To find out how, continue reading this article. Throughout the article we will discuss the many ways that a whole foods diet can keep your child at a healthy weight and in a healthy state.

If we want to know how a whole foods diet can help prevent childhood obesity, we must first understand what factors contribute to weight gain. Let’s speak about some of these factors, beginning with calories. Continue reading “Why Whole Foods Can Help Your Child Avoid Childhood Obesity”

Find Out Why A Gluten Free Whole Foods Diet Is Better For You

A whole foods diet does not mean a diet of foods from Whole Foods Market.

A gluten free diet of whole foods means that you eat a diet that consists of only the complete food. No food isolates or foods that are refined, diluted, rearranged or manipulated by man (or woman).

Whole foods means you eat food in the form that mother natures delivers it. Your grains are whole not refined and processed into a different substance with the same name.

There is a huge body of evidence that eating a whole foods diet is the healthiest way to eat. If you are eliminating gluten but you still eat the same foods just not any that contain gluten, you may not be able to reach any new levels in your health. Continue reading “Find Out Why A Gluten Free Whole Foods Diet Is Better For You”

What Are the Pros and Cons of Whole Foods?

Some say eating whole foods is an entire lifestyle. It’s not just about eating raw foods or eating unprocessed meals. It is about so much more. It’s about bringing environmentally-conscious reusable tote bags to pack your groceries in; it’s about riding your bike instead of driving to work; it’s about dyeing your hair with henna rather than chemicals; it’s about wearing clothes made of hemp; it’s about solar panels, reducing our carbon footprint and backyard composting. Others say the offerings at Whole Foods Market stores are overpriced and overrated.

There are many benefits to eating whole and natural foods. As Whole Foods Market chairman John Mackey says, “There’s no inherent reason why business cannot be ethical, socially responsible, and profitable.” Shoppers can pat themselves on the back for helping the small organic farmer in America, versus foreign workers across the country.

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