Weight Loss Pt 1 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

HEALTHY SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT LOSS - PT 1

Today I'd like to start a whole series on healthy weight loss.

I will be sharing practical things you can do

to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight.

The information I'll be sharing comes from years of my own personal research, as well as from my own experience.

Several years ago I was about 25 pounds overweight, and I came home from the doctor with a bad report. I went in for a simple physical exam, and came out realizing that I had high cholesterol and triglycerides, and that I was 25 pounds overweight. The photo here is after I had lost 23 pounds and no longer fit in my pants. That's actually a big heavy bag of sugar tucked into my pants to show you just how much extra room I had created in my pants by losing so much weight. I must have dropped from about waist size of 36 down to around a 32. I literally had to buy some new pants to wear. It was a great experience!

After hearing the doctor's report, and after getting rejected by a health insurance company for medical insurance, I realized that I needed to make serious changes to my lifestyle. There were three things that I needed to change.

First, I had to start eating right, again. I had eaten right for years, but then got into some bad habits and ended up eating all kinds of unhealthy things.

Second, I had to start exercising, again. I had stopped after we had two babies.

Third, I had to put together a plan to lose 25 pounds.

In this series, I will be sharing how I completely changed my diet, added exercise to my daily life, lost those 25 pounds, and reclaimed my inheritance of good health.

KEY #1 - PRACTICE SYSTEMATIC UNDEREATING - STOP OVEREATING

This is one of the most important things you can do to begin to lose weight and take charge of your health. A myriad of illness plague Americans because we are so prone to overeat. We are raised in a culture that says, "Big is better," and this translates into eating bigger and bigger portions. Just look at the size of soft drinks or burgers at your local fast food joint. It's absurd!

If you will start to systematically undereat and resist the temptation to overeat, you will automatically start eating less and start losing some weight. This simple step will help you take back control of your eating habits and your health. Who is in control - you or your stomach? It's really all up to you. It's your choice and decision. No one is there forcing you to eat more and more food at every meal and between meals. It's time to take responsibility for your health and to start undereating. I promise you - you'll feel a whole lot better after each meal if you undereat rather than overeat. This is the first step to better health and nutrition and to losing weight and keeping it off.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

Doctrine of Signatures - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy with Organic Whole Food Feast

What Part of the Human Body
Does a Pair of Hanging Figs Look Like?

Today I'd like to share a very interesting article with you by Robin Plan that I found on her website. She actually found this great information on another site: Just A List

"I came across an amazing post on Just A List that I have to pass along.

The doctrine of signatures is an ancient European philosophy that held that plants bearing parts that resembled human body parts, animals, or other objects, had useful relevancy to those parts, animals or objects.

Susan put a lot of time into the her post so look at the samples here and then jump over to
Just A List to view the rest. It's fun and educational.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Eggplant, Avocadoes and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? .... It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Thanks Susan." - by Robin Plan
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Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables every day, and the best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh super juice powder drink by Yuri.

For more information, click here:
Get your fresh fruits and vegetables in a convenient, delicious, lifestyle-friendly powdered drink in 30 seconds - http://www.UriLife.net/jfriberg

To your health, longevity, and prosperity,

Josiah Friberg, Husband, Father, and Naked Nutrition Knight

More on Super Juices - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy with Uri's Feast & Beyond Berries

Today I'd like to follow up my previous posting about super juices with some additional information. I'm going to be comparing URI International's Beyond Berries supreme fruit and berry blend with some of its competitors on the market today.

MORE PROBLEMS OF LIQUID SUPER JUICES

1. INGREDIENT QUALITY - Liquid berry products typically contain ingredients from a "juice concentrate" or "puree concentrate." Both are created through the use of head and/or vacuum. This denatures and compromises the nutritional integrity of the fruit or berry. In addition, these products may contain as little as 10% of the actual ingredient that the product is being marketed for.

2. EXPENSE - Liquid products are more expensive, particularly when you compare the nutrient content and serving size to Uri's Beyond Berries and the Feast products.

For example, one jar of Beyond Berries powder makes 180 ounces of reconstituted liquid juice, which equals 4-5 jars of any of our competitor's liquid products. The recommended daily serving for Beyond Berries powder is 10 grams mixed in 6 ounces of water. At this serving size, a jar of Beyond Berries powder lasts 30 days and is truly a month's supply.

Most liquid juice products suggest only 1 ounce of their product per day to create a 30-day supply. Did you catch that? Their serving size is ONLY ONE OUNCE!

According to information on the internet, here's how the other super juice products compare.

Monavie, MangoXan, Thai-Go, & Xango only have 24-25 ounces per bottle, all with a suggested serving size of only 1 ounce, providing 24-25 one-ounce servings per bottle.

Berry Young, Himalayan Goji, and Tahitian Noni only have 32-33 ounces per bottle, all with a suggested serving size of only 1 ounce, providing 33 one-ounce servings per bottle.

Now, compare the above numbers with Beyond Berries, which provides 180 ounces of super juice per bottle (300 grams of powder), with a suggested serving size of 6 ounces, providing 30 six-ounce servings per bottle.

In other words,

Beyond Berries supplies SIX to SEVEN TIMES as much juice as its competitors per serving size and per bottle!

Beyond Berries is not only nutritionally superior and more cost effective ounce per ounce, but it supplies an adequate amount of each ingredient and recommends an appropriate suggested serving size to allow you to experience supreme health benefits.

3. PASTEURIZATION - Did you know that 98% of the liquid nutritional juice products on the market today are pasteurized? The pasteurization process uses high heat to kill bacteria and harmful microorganisms that create food-borne illness. While pasteurization appears to be a good thing, in reality it is not. The pasteurization heating process not only kills the bad bacteria, but it substantially alters or deactivates the majority of good, naturally occurring live nutrients that we consume the fruit or berry for in the first place!

Don't be fooled by terms such as "flash pasteurization." Pasteurization is just that - a process that always requires heat at a temperature higher than what the majority of live nutrients and enzymes can withstand. Many companies try to smooth over the pasteurization process by saying that their product has been "fermented," but in the end, after the fermentation process, pasteurization still must occur.

4. PRESERVATIVES - Many liquid super juice products contain preservatives such as sodium benzoate and/or potassium sorbate. Without such preservatives, these liquid juices could grow bacteria, naturaly decompose, and become rancid. While it is true that preservatives help prolong the shelf life of a liquid product, they are also known to cause a myriad of "mysterious" health problems. The FDA considers these preservatives "safe" in small amounts, yet anything more than a "small amount" is considered "unsafe and unhealthy." Because the majority of the processed foods we eat contain these same preservatives, it is not "safe" to say that we are getting "small amounts" when you take into consideration the fact that we are consuming these same preservatives on a daily basis throughout our entire lives.

Another commonly used preservative is Ascorbic Acid. Many companies use ascorbic acid in their liquid juice supplement to artificially and inexpensively increase ORAC values and vitamin C label claims, to preserve the product, and to try and compensate for the loss of nutrients due to pasteurization. This is known as "overdosing." You need to know that ascorbic acid is a synthetic, man-made version of vitamin C, and it is a poor substitute for vitamin C from natural whole food sources.

The addition of artificial preservatives and/or synthetic nutrients defeats the purpose of consuming an "all natural health product" in the first place. Our modern diet is already filled with depleted, over-processed foods. URI International believes that a natural food product should be just that - natural. Beyond Berries and the Feast both contain all natural, non-pasteurized berry and fruit powders from the whole food, without any preservatives or synthetic additives.


I hope that the above information will enlighten you and help you make the wisest and healthiest choice when it comes to buying and consuming a super juice product.

Choosing the healthiest and best whole food based super juice is one of the keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy.

If you would like more information on Uri International's Beyond Berries and/or The Feast, click on the following link.

Click Here: Uri's Nutritional Product Info: The Feast and Beyond Berries

Josiah Friberg
Health and Nutrition Educator

Meal Preparation for Busy People - Keys to Good Nutrition and Eating Healthy

Here's an excellent article on how to prepare whole food meals for those of us who live busy lives. As you know, many people don't cook at home any more because they think it is just too time consuming for their busy lifestyles. They start eating out most of the time at fast food restaurants and normal restaurants, both of which are not good for their health.

Busy people need to know that they can cook healthy whole food meals at home if they do a little planning ahead of time. This is just one more of the keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy shared with you by the Naked Nutrition Knight.

Read this article; you'll be glad you did.

Whole Food Meal Preparation

Why Live Whole Foods Are a Key to Eating Healthy and to Good Nutrition

"We aspire to positively empower and improve the quality of every individual's health and life we come in contact with by educating and sharing the value of live, whole food nutrition with the world. By embracing nature, we help others embrace health and vitality." - David Uri LeBaron

WHY LIVE WHOLE FOODS?

I would like to introduce you to a whole food nutritional company that I discovered about six months ago that has an amazing array of fresh, live whole food supplements that my family and I take every day - URI International. Their whole food products, such as "The Feast," are simply amazing and are the single most nutritional experience of our lives! I share them with you because I know that they will provide your body with the complete nutrition that it needs to function efficiently with optimal health.

Fresh, live whole foods are the number one source of nutrition for our bodies because they offer nutrients that are in their optimal, natural state that the body can immediately recognize and utilize. Most people are not experiencing the extraordinary benefits of fresh, live whole foods in their daily diet, however, because it is almost impossible these days to consume an adequate quantity and quality of these whole foods. With their Live Whole Food Nutritional Product line, URI International has made it easy and more cost effective for people to consume these whole foods.

At URI International, they understand that God has provided through nature the perfect, natural and optimally balanced form of nutrition needed for optimal health in whole foods. There are literally thousands of naturally occurring nutritional compounds, minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, amino acids, live enzymes, and phytonutrients in their natural, synergistic state that can only be obtained from these foods. These nutrients cannot be isolated and placed into a synthetic vitamin or mineral supplement.

Through their proprietary drying process, URI International provides a variety of live whole food nutritional supplements. The URI International Live Whole Food Nutritional Line provides the most balanced, nutrient dense, health boosting, natural form of nutrition available through products that feed every cell and every tissue in the body with natural, earth grown nutrients that are far superior to synthetic, isolated, fragmented nutritional supplements. Their whole food nutritional products are provided to the consumer complete, just as nature intended, with the maximum quantity of original, natural nutrients, in the proper proportions. Most importantly, the valuable nutrients contained in the fresh ingredients are still alive and are very bioavailable. By providing each ingredient in its most natural and bioavailable form, all of the natural plant enzymes and phospholipids necessary for enhanced nutrient absorption and effectiveness are present.

URI International pledges to continue developing, researching, marketing, and manufacturing the most advanced, live whole food nutritional products on the market.

WHAT NATURE INTENDED... B A C K T O B A S I C S

Get "BACK TO BASICS" with naturally powerful, naturally pure, naturally complete LIVE WHOLE FOOD NUTRITION...only from URI International. I strongly encourage you to use this key to eating healthy and to good nutrition that URI International provides in their live whole food supplements to open the door to optimum health.

If you would like to see all the live, whole food supplements available in the URI International product catalog, please click on the link below.

Uri Product Catalog

Then click on the tab at the top that says, "Links." There you will find a PDF file of the product catalog with all of Uri's incredible products.

If you would like to hear Uri LeBaron, the founder of URI International, describe his flagship product, "The Feast," please call the following phone number and listen to this powerful 3-minute audio presentation. 1-732-463-6339