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.

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Healthiest Cultures - Keys to Good Nutrition and to Eating Healthy with the Feast

I've got a health and nutrition project for you that I'm sure you'll enjoy and learn a lot from.

Take the time to do a bit of research on the internet on some of the healthiest cultures of the world. By doing so, you will learn more of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy, and you'll understand why drinking the Feast, a whole food based InstaFresh drink powder nutritional supplement, is so important.

Here are a few leads for you...

1. The HUNZA people of the Himalayan Mountains:


The Hunza people's health, nutrition, longevity, and endurance are legendary. They live up to 90 and 100 years of age and are strong and active even in old age. One thing you'll notice about them is that they eat a high natural carbohydrate, low animal protein diet. Their food staples are barley, buckwheat, wheat, assorted vegetables, various kinds of fruits, mostly apricots, apples, and grapes. The most amazing thing is that they have none of modern man's dreaded illnesses.


2. The BULGARIANS of Eastern Europe:

There are actually more centenarians in Bulgaria than in any other country in the world. Don't you think it would be worth it to check out the reasons for their exceptionally great health and longevity? Their diet consists of largely black bread (most whole rye and barley), vegetables, and soured milk in the form of yogurt and kefir. In addition, Bulgarians eat very little meat. In fact, most of the centenarians in Bulgaria are vegetarian.

3. The RUSSIANS:

Russian has seven times more centenarians per million than America has. They are known for their good health, longevity, and endurance. They are a low protein people. Surprisingly, a great number of Russia's centenarians are total vegetarians.

4. The JAPANESE OF THE FAR EAST:

Japanese people have traditionally had a very healthy diet. Some of the keys to their longevity include eating lots of fresh vegetables, fish, fermented foods like miso soup and natto, and plenty of grains and rice. Unfortunately, white rice is now the norm in Japan, but it wasn't always so. Nevertheless, the Japanese live longer than most people in Western countries.

To your health, The Naked Nutrition Knight

Author of "Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to "Eating Healthy with "the Feast"

3 Reasons Whole Food Nutritional Supplements Are Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy

"Nutrition directly affects growth, development, reproduction, well-being of an individual's physical and mental condition. Health depends upon nutrition more than any other single factor." - Dr. W. H. Sebrell, Jr.

Whole food nutritional supplements are one of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy. I would like to share three prime purposes for taking whole food nutritional supplements.

Purpose #1 - To fill in the nutritional gaps created by poor eating habits.

Most people do not eat the way they should. In fact, if you're completely honest, you'd probably agree that you don't eat the way that you should either. Even if you're quite the healthy eater, there are still gaps in your diet that need to be filled in with good nutrition. We all have a few poor eating habits and vices that leave holes in our nutrition armor. One of the best way to fill in these nutritional gaps is to take live whole food nutritional supplements on a daily basis.

Purpose #2- To compensate and fill in the nutritional gaps created by nutritionally inferior foods.

As you may know, food today is not what it was 100 or 200 years ago. Our soil has been depleted, and so even our fresh produce has only a fraction of the nutrition it had 100 years ago. For this reason it is important to compensate for this factor by taking live whole food based nutritional supplements every day.

Purpose #3 - To protect your body from toxic factors and to help your body detoxify from all of the environmental poisons that you are exposed to today.

Many of the nutrients in whole food nutritional supplements have protective properties against many of today's toxic environmental factors. The whole food based antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and phytonutrients in a high quality supplement can help protect you from the damaging effects of poisonous additives and residues in your water, food, air, clothing, cosmetics, household items, etc. In fact, some of the whole food nutrients not only protect but also help your body detoxify and get rid of the toxins in your body. This is one more major reason why it's so important to take a whole food based nutritional supplement on a daily basis.

I've been taking an incredibly healthy live whole food based nutritional supplement called, "The Feast," made by Uri International. I was introduced to this amazing product by a friend of mine named Brett Rademacher of Urilife. If you would like more information on this InstaFresh juice powder, otherwise known as a super juice, click on the link at the top left of this blog. This is simply the best product I could find on the market today that is made with the highest quality whole food ingredients, most of which are organic. To your health, the Naked Nutrition Knight

Keys to Eating Healthy and Good Nutrition Begin With the PROCESS of Eliminating Bad "Foods"

Welcome to my blog today. I would like to encourage you today after giving you five days of "bad news" about what things you should never eat. I imagine that someone who is new to healthy eating and good nutrition would be quite overwhelmed with my list of 20 things you should never eat.

Therefore, let me encourage you today with some good news about making healthy changes to your diet. One of the keys to eating healthy is taking it one step at a time. In other words, I recommend that you eliminate one or two things at a time from your diet so that your body can adjust gradually. Now, there are some people who are extremists, like me, who can make huge sudden changes to their diet, and be just fine. On the other hand, there are many people who feel overwhelmed with eliminating 20 bad things from their diet all at once. If you are one of these kinds of people, then today's blog entry is just for you.

Start by eliminating one or two of the 20 bad "foods" each week so that you can gradually banish them from your diet and start replacing them with good healthy nutritious foods such as fresh organic fruits, vegetables, greens, grains, beans, seeds, nuts, sprouts, etc.

The question arises: "Which bad foods should I eliminate first?"

Here are my suggestions - I would start by eliminating all pork and pork products from your diet because they are so extremely toxic to your whole system. The next major thing I would banish from your diet is all shellfish scavengers such as crabs, lobsters, clams, oysters, scallops, shrimp, etc. The third thing to eliminate could be "farm-raised" fish.

The fourth thing could be all white artificial sweeteners such as aspartame, Nutrasweet, Equal, Sucrulose, Splenda, and Saacharin. The fifth thing you could eliminate is all deep-fried foods. The sixth thing you could get out of your diet is all products containing hydrogenated oil (trans fat), partially hydrogenated oils, margarine, shortening, Crisco, cottonseed oil, and palm oil.

The seventh thing I would suggest removing would be all fast food and junk food. The eighth thing could be all products containing MSG. Ninth, you could eliminate all refined, bleached, denatured products that have white sugar, white flour, "enriched" wheat flour, white rice, and white processed table salt. The tenth thing I would banish would be all pasteurized and homogenized milk and dairy products. The other 10 things you could progressively eliminate in whatever order you like.

One thing to keep in mind is that as you eliminate these bad "foods" from your diet, you will need to replace them with good healthy nutritious alternatives.

Tomorrow's blog will focus on what those healthy alternatives are.

Daily Quote: "If you think about it for a moment, nutrition isn't the alternative healing system. Drugs are the alternative system - far from natural." - Linda Page

Learning What Animals & Seafood NOT to Eat Is a Key to Good Nutrition and Eating Healthy

Okay, my friends, today I'm going to talk about what "foods" you should avoid. I hope that I don't lose your friendship today or your faithful readership because I'm going to be talking about some foods that you probably love and can't imagine living without. Nonetheless, I am compelled to share the truth with you, in love, because I believe that knowing the truth will set you free from a whole host of physical health problems that have been causing you to be predisposed to ill-health.

One of the KEYS to good nutrition and eating healthy is to learn what NOT to eat. Simply put, knowing what not to eat is just as important as knowing what to eat. I'm going to begin by discussing what animals, fish, and birds we should avoid eating. What I am going to share with you comes from two valuable sources. First, I would like to reference the Bible and what God says about what not to eat. Secondly, I will reference what history, science and research has taught us about what not to eat. Believe it or not, they actually agree.

First, I want to share about the Creator's dietary guidelines as found in the Bible. Doesn't it make sense that after God created man He would teach him how to nourish himself according to healthy dietary instructions? These dietary guidelines are not some form of outdated legalism from Judaism, but rather they were given by a loving Creator to save His people from physical devastation long before modern scientific principles of bacterial infection, hygiene, viral transmission, or molecular cell physiology were understood. In the same way that the moral guidelines preserved the culture of Israel, so these dietary guidelines preserved and protected their physical health.

In the Garden of Eden, God gave mankind every seed-bearing plant and every tree that has fruit with seed in it to be his food (Genesis 1:29). We learn from this that man's first diet was vegetarian and consisted of a combination of fruits, vegetables, greens, seeds, nuts, herbs, lentils, and whole grains. However, after man's fall things started to change. Eventually, God prescribed a broader diet for mankind just after the flood which included specific meat, fish, and dairy products (Genesis 9:1-4; Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14).

This divine dietary revision clearly identified which animals were to be eaten and which animals were to be avoided. The animals that were permitted were: animals with a cloven or split hoof that also chew the cud (such as cows, goats, sheep, oxen, deer, buffalo, etc.); any fish with fins and scales; and any birds that live primarily on insects, grubs, or grains.

The animals that were NOT to be eaten included camels, horses, rats, skunks, dogs, cats, squirrels, possums, etc. Pigs were also forbidden and considered unclean animals. In fact, pigs are so unclean and polluted that God warned people not to even touch the body, meat, or carcass of a pig. According to many authorities today, eating the flesh of pigs (pork & pork products) is a prime cause of much of our American ill health. In addition, fish or water creatures that don't have fins and scales and all shellfish were considered unclean and forbidden, including catfish, eel, crabs, lobsters, shrimp, oysters, and clams. These hard-shelled crustaceans are the scavengers and garbage containers of the waters and the seas. Modern scientists actually gauge the contamination of our lakes, rivers, bays, and oceans by measuring the mercury and biological toxin levels in the flesh of crabs, clams, oysters, and lobsters. The last category to avoid eating is birds or fowl that eat flesh (whether caught live or as carrion). These birds are unclean and are considered "scavengers" because they eat anything that is left dead in the fields. Scavengers such as shellfish and pigs were never created by God for human consumption.

The second source for my information is what history, science, and research has taught us about what we should NOT be eating. I encourage you to do some basic research using Google to search for more information on this topic. Type in some key words like "the dangers of eating pork or pork products," "the dangers of eating shellfish," "the dangers of eating unclean animals, etc. Look into what scientists and nutritionists have discovered about the dangers of eating the "foods" listed above such as pork products and shellfish. Also, investigate how generations of Jewish families followed God's dietary and hygiene guidelines and enjoyed remarkable resistance to illness and plagues, which devastated neighboring ethnic groups with no such guidelines. Study how the bubonic plague wiped out one quarter of Europe's population in just one year during the mid-fourteenth century, and how the Jewish people somehow escaped its death grip.

Sadly, and to our own detriment, pork and pork products top the list of favorite foods for many Americans. Many don't even realize how much of their food items come from swine. Pork products include the following: bacon, sausage, ham, pepperoni, hot dogs, salami, pork chops, pork ribs, etc. Pigs are considered "unclean" animals for very good scientific reasons. They never limit their diet to vegetation, but rather they will eat anything they can find. A pig's single stomach is very simple in design and function and it is combined with a limited excretory organ system. Only four hours after a pig has eaten his polluted swill and other putrid matter, many may eat the same swill second handed off of the ribs of the pig at a barbecue. Clean animals, on the other hand, have an alimentary canal and a secondary cud receptacle. They basically have three stomachs available to process and refine their clean, vegetarian-based food into "meat flesh" in a process that that generally takes about 24 hours. Another reason not to eat "unclean" animals is that the meat of such animals is about 10 times more perishable and more difficult to preserve than that of "clean" animals. People often don't realize that a piece of meat is already poisonously spoiled until they start experiencing the toxic symptoms and have already eaten it. One more reason is that th by-products that originate from digesting such scavenger meat are very poisonous. These are the "death enzymes" such as putrescine and cadaverine that are useful in breaking down a corpse, but do terrible damage to a living person's body.

In summary, we need to pay attention to our Creator's dietary principles and what modern science, nutrition, and history have discovered about what "foods" NOT to eat. "FOODS" to AVOID include, but are not limited to: pig & all pork products (bacon, sausage, ham, pork ribs, etc.) and all shellfish scavengers such as shrimp, lobster, crab, clams, oysters, scallops, etc. Be careful also to avoid luncheon deli meat that often is made with pork products and are loaded with sodium nitrates. Finally, avoid all "farm-raised" fish which are very unhealthy for you. Remember this simple saying: "If you want to look like a pig, eat a pig."

Tomorrow I will share more about what other non-animal food products to avoid. I hope you're still my friend when tomorrow rolls around. Some of the information in this posting came from Dr. Jordan Rubin's book, "The Maker's Diet," which I recommend. I also recommend Ted Broer's book, "Maximum Energy."

Daily Quote: "Diet remains the single most influential factor in overall human health." - Dr. Jordan Rubin

Nutrition Food Group Keys to Eating a Good Healthy Diet

According to Dr. Paavo Airola, world-renown nutritionist, the optimum diet for superior health should be made up primarily of three basic whole food groups. These foods are universally adaptable and will supply adequate amounts of all the nutrients required for the maintenance of optimum health, including high-quality proteins in sufficient amounts. It is important to eat healthy and create your daily menu from foods of these three key food groups that are indigenous to your area and grown locally (on organic farms whenever possible). Make sure that your diet is composed of a variety of fresh whole foods from these three food groups.

#1. Grains, Legumes, Beans, Seeds, and Nuts - This is the most important and potent health-building food group of all. The good nutrition of these foods is unsurpassed because they contain the secret of life itself - the germ! The germ is the reproductive power and spark of life in all seeds, and it is essential to life, health, and reproductive ability. This food group contains all of the essential nutrients for human growth and maintenance of health. Even though all grains and seeds are beneficial, it is best to predominantly eat those that your ancestors ate and those that are grown locally.

Contrary to what you may have heard, buckwheat, almonds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and peanuts all contain complete proteins, which are comparable in biological quality value to animal proteins. This food group is also the best natural source of essential unsaturated fatty acids, which are necessary to maintain health. The vitamin content (especially vitamin E and the B-complex vitamins) of this food group is unsurpassed. Grains, nuts, and seeds are also a treasure chest of minerals and trace elements. Minerals also help balance the body chemistry, especially regarding alkalinity and acidity. This group also contains pacifarins, which increase the body's natural resistance to physical ailments. And finally, whole grains, legumes, beans, and seeds provide the body with necessary fiber and roughage content. This is critical to avoiding all kinds of colon and intestinal tract problems that currently plague our nation as a result of refined and processed foods.

The best grains to eat are buckwheat, oats, millet, and brown rice. Most other grains are beneficial, but be careful with wheat because it is one of the most common allergens today. These grains can be eaten daily in the form of cereal, porridge, breads, pancakes, soups, etc. or sprouted. Cooking grains or sprouting them actually helps release the vital minerals by breaking down the mineral-phytin bond so that minerals can be assimilated in the intestinal tract. The best seeds are flax seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds, and pumpkin seeds. Beware of sunflower seeds because they are extremely vulnerable to rancidity. The best nuts are almonds and hazelnuts. Do NOT buy roasted nuts and seeds because the high heat renders them carcinogenic. Always and only eat fresh raw nuts and seeds, including raw almond butter and raw peanut butter.

#2. Vegetables - This is the next most important food group to incorporate into your daily diet. Vegetables are a rich source of minerals, vitamins, and enzymes. Most green leafy vegetables also contain the highest quality complete proteins. Some vegetables, such as green beans, squash, yams, and potatoes, should be steamed or baked. However, most vegetables should be eaten RAW in the form of a daily salad. A few exceptions would be spinach and chard, which contain too much toxic oxalic acid, and asparagus. Cabbage-family vegetables should be either cooked or prepared in lactic-acid-fermented form. Garlic and onions are powerful health-promoting vegetables and should be part of your diet. Other excellent vegetables are Jerusalem artichokes, horse radish, black radish, celery root, and parsley. Be sure to also include root vegetables in your diet such as carrots, potatoes, beets, turnips, parsnips, and yams. Potatoes are extremely nutritious and are best baked or steamed. Keep in mind that potatoes must be kept in dark storage because a highly toxic chemical, solanine, develops when they are exposed to light. Also, be sure to remove the "eyes" (sprouts) of the potatoe before cooking.

#3. Fruits - Fruits are a powerful source of vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, as well as easily digestible fruit sugars. In addition, they are an excellent cleansing food for breakfast, and they can be eaten between meals, but not with meals. It is best to eat fruits RAW, fresh, and in season, because they lose their vitamin content quickly. It is also beneficial to eat sun-dried fruits, but they must be unsulfured and preferably organically grown. Avoid all dried fruits with sulfur preservatives. The best sun-dried fruits to eat are raisins, figs, apricots, and currants. Now, two cautions about eating fruit: eat fruit in moderation and eat fruit on an empty stomach, by itself. Eating too much fruit will put too much sugar into your blood stream, and eating fruit with other foods will cause them to putrefy in your system and lead to poor digestion.

Daily Quote: "There is a great deal of truth in the saying that man becomes what he eats. Healthy foods = healthy body. Unhealthy foods = unhealthy body." - Gandhi