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

Choosing a SuperJuice - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy with Uri Feast

QUESTION: HOW DO YOU CHOOSE A SUPER JUICE NUTRITIONAL PRODUCT FROM AMONG SO MANY IN THE MARKETPLACE?

There are sooooooo many products and companies out there now selling healthy nutritional products, supplements, and super juice. I'm sure you've heard of many of them such as Xango, Himalayan Goji, MonaVie, Noni-Juice, Juice Plus, Mango-Xan, Thai-Go, etc.

My friend, if you're trying to decide which product is best for you, I'd like to share with you some insight that could help you make the wisest decision.

SEVEN THINGS YOU NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHEN CHOOSING A SUPER JUICE PRODUCT

The biggest nutritional problems I've found with most of these products and companies include the following 7 issues:

1. Most of them are selling a liquid "super juice" that has been pasteurized and treated with preservatives to keep the product from becoming moldy on the shelf. By law, the FDA requires all liquid "juice" products to be pasteurized, which means that the fruit and/or berry juice has been processed by heating it to high temperatures to kill all bacteria. The process of pasteurization not only kills all of the bad bacteria, but it also kills most of the good bacteria and good nutritional compounds found in the juice. The original raw fruit and/or berry (such as mangosteen, wolfberry-goji, noni fruit, acai berry, etc.)certainly has a lot of powerful nutritive compounds in it, including antioxidants, vitamins, phytonutrients, etc. However, after undergoing the intense heating involved in pasteurization, the value of those fruits and/or berries have been greatly diminished and destroyed.

Now, let me ask you a question. Do you really want to be drinking a liquid super juice product that has been pasteurized with high heat, that has lost most of its nutritional value, and that has added chemical preservatives? I DON't.

2. Most liquid "super juices" sell you their product in a flashy heavy glass bottle that makes it look very appealing, but is very expensive to ship. However, the down side of this is that if you become a distributor for that product, you will end up having to pay a considerable amount on shipping and handling fees because, as everyone knows, glass is very heavy and expensive to ship. Can you imagine ordering a whole case and the exhorbinant cost of shipping? Even if the company doesn't use glass bottles, and instead uses plastic bottles, every one knows that shipping a heavy liquid product is much more expensive than shipping a light powdered product. Question: Do you really want to be buying and shipping heavy liquid products all over the country? Someone's going to be paying for that expensive shipping - either you or your poor customers.

3. Most liquid "super juices" are centered around one dominant super fruit or super berry. For example, whole companies have been built around noni fruit, or goji juice, or mangosteen, or acai berry. Granted, each one of these are truly "super" fruits or berries, but one super fruit/berry can't possibly have all of the 1,000s of nutritive compounds that a person needs in their diet. Yes, it's a great fruit or berry, but it's not enough. It's just one good food element. What about the many others that we need? Some of these companies have realized this point, and they have recently added additional fruits and/or berries to their formulas for this very reason. Now, instead of having just one "super" fruit or berry, they added 3 or 5 or 9 more to give them a more balanced and rounded product. Good for them, but it's still not enough. Question: Would you prefer getting the nutritional health benefits of 15 or 30 fruits and berries, or benefit only from 5 or 9? How important to you is variety and diversity in your super juice?

4. Most liquid "super juices" offer their customers a daily serving size of only 2 fluid ounces. In other words, a bottle of their super juice is a month's supply, and the daily serving size is only 1 fluid ounce. In my opinion, that is a very very tiny serving size that can't possibly have very much nutritional value over the course of a whole day. Question: Wouldn't you prefer having a daily serving size of 6-8 fluid ounces of your super juice? Wouldn't you feel like you were getting more nutrition from 6-8 ounces versus 1 ounce?

5. Most liquid "super juices" have compromised on the quality of their ingredients. As you're doing your research on various products and companies, make sure that they use all natural live whole food ingredients that are certified organic and/or are free of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. Also, make sure that they use NO PRESERVATIVES, NO FILLERS, NO EXCIPIENTS, NO ADDITIVES, NO DAIRY, NO GMO (genetically modified foods), NO PASTEURIZATION, and NO IRRADIATION. When it comes to your buying and consuming a super juice product, it's extremely important to make sure that you know what you're getting and where you're getting it from. You need to know what's in it and how it was processed. Ask lots of questions until you uncover the truth and the facts. Question: What's really in the product you're buying and drinking? Do you know all the ingredient and quality facts?

6. Some liquid "super juices" use processed sugars and/or artificial sweeteners that are unhealthy and cause all kinds of health problems. I was shocked to find that one very popular company puts high fructose corn syrup in their children's products. The only sweeteners that should be used in a super juice are raw honey, stevia, agave nectar, and naturally sweet fruit juices. Some of these companies actually put cheap "fillers" in their products in order to save money, resulting in the customer getting an inferior and less healthy product, so beware. Question: Are there artificial sweeteners and fillers in your super juice?

7. Most "super juices" only include fruits and/or berries, with very few if any vegetables and greens. Why is this? I don't know, but I can't see any reason for it. Question: Wouldn't you prefer getting fruits, berries, vegetables, and greens all mixed in your super juice for you and your children's nutritional health if it tasted good?

At this point, I'd like to share with you the facts about URI International's flagship "super juice" products, The Feast and Beyond Berries. These two products are keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy.


The FEAST- Live Whole Food Based InstaFresh Super Juice

The Feast is the one and only live whole food based InstaFresh juice on the planet that delivers a full, synergistic spectrum of:
30 antioxidant rich fruits and berries, 30 powerful greens and vegetables, 11 nutrient dense seeds, nuts, and sprouts; 83+ active enzymes and fulvic minerals, and 22 strains of resilient living probiotics.

It has more variety, quality, and quantity of ingredients than any other live whole food supplement with over 70 live fruit, berries, vegetables, and greens. It's 100% natural live whole food nutrition. It is super nutritious and tastes delicious. It has no artificial sweeteners, and is sweetened by a natural mixed berry flavor and stevia.

The Feast has been dried using a proprietary low-temperature drying process that never exceeds 99 degrees and turns the fresh live whole foods into a powder in less than 30 seconds. The InstaFresh juice powder is shelf stable without the use of preservatives or pasteurization, and the process does not harm the nutritive value of the whole food. In addition, since it is in a powder form, it is much cheaper to ship the product to customers.

It does NOT contain isolated or synthetic vitamins or minerals. It is NOT pasteurized. It is preservative free. It has no fillers, no excipients, no additives, no dairy, no GMO foods, and has not been irradiated.

All the ingredients are certified organic and/or free of sythetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers. They are all 100% vegetarian and naturally alkaline.

The recommended serving size is 6 fluid ounces. Taking 2 scoops provides over 70 nutrient dense live whole foods and the nutritiional equivalent of 8 servings of fresh live whole foods, as well as 1000's of naturally occurring nutritional compounds from live whole foods. Each serving contains naturally occurring vitamins, minerals, antioxidant compounds, amino acids, enzymes, essential fatty acids, fiber, and phytonutrients. The typical ORAC Value (Antioxidant Value) per 2 scoops is 3,980 and per 300 gram jar is 59,700.

BEYOND BERRIES - Live Whole Food Super Juice

Each serving of Beyond Berries contains juice and whole food concentrates from:

15 antioxidant rich fruits and berries: noni fruit, mangosteen, wolfberry-goji, acai berry, black currant, blueberry, pomegranate, cranberry, blackberry, bilberry, raspberry, whole purple grape, elderberry, and strawberry in a base of apple and purple grape.

83+ active enzymes and fulvic mineral blend

22 resilient living probiotics

One jar of Beyond Berries makes approximately 180 fluid ounces of live whole food based InstaFresh juice. The daily serving size is 6 fluid ounces. The typical ORAC Value (Antioxidant Value) per scoop is 4,140 and per 300 gram jar is 124,200.

The Beyond Berries juice is made by the same low-heat proprietary process as the Feast, with equally high quality ingredients, and without preservatives, fillers, pasteurization, irradiation, dairy, excipients, additives, or GMO.

I hope this information will help you compare URI International's flagship products, the Feast, and Beyond Berries, with the many other products and companies out there.

If you would like more information on The Feast and Beyond Berries, please click on this link:

CLICK HERE: Product and Ordering Information on The FEAST and Beyond BERRIES

Take the 90-Day URI challenge -Backed by My IRON-CLAD Guarantee!

“I am so confident that you will be absolutely amazed with my nutrient dense, live, Whole Food products, that I back them up with my unconditional, iron-clad 90-day money back guarantee! Try Uri's Live Whole Food Based InstaFresh Juice for 90 days. And if you are not 100% satisfied for ANY reason you will be refunded 100% of the purchase price minus shipping and handling fees. With my 90-Day Money Back Guarantee, you have absolutely nothing to lose and only real nutrition to gain! You have my word on it!”

- Uri LeBaron, Founder and President of Uri International

Taking an energizing live whole food nutritional product like The Feast is one of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy with the Feast. Remember, good nutrition always begins with eating 5-12 servings of fresh organic vegetables and fruits every day, and taking the Feast is a way of helping you reach that goal.

And remember, we are looking for distributors in your area. We would love to have you join our UriLife team building your own URI International extra income network marketing home business with the marketing genius of Brett Rademacher.

Josiah Friberg

Health and Nutrition Educator

Coconut Oil - Keys to Eating Healthy and to Good Nutrition with the Feast

Greetings health conscious friends.

Today I'd like to share an article I found on NewsTarget.com that I think you will benefit from.

"The Great Fat Debate:
Why Virgin Coconut Oil is Best"

It's quite a lengthy in-depth article, so I've included the link for you to click on if you'd like to read it. It is loaded with useful information and research findings on virgin coconut oil.

Incorporating virgin coconut oil into your diet is another one of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy with the Feast.

Before I forget, I wanted to let you know that URI International sells an excellent Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil called "Coconut Pure."

Prices are: 18 fluid oz. $18.95, 32 fluid oz. $29.95, and 128 fluid oz. $72.95.

If you'd like to order some of this amazing coconut oil, click on the following link:

Coconut Pure by URI: Organic Virgin Coconut Oil

Below the link I will post a few of the most important points that I believe are worth remembering.

ARTICLE LINK: The Great Fat Debate - Why Virgin Coconut Oil Is Best

Summary of the most important points from the article:

1. Coconut oil is made up of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA’s).

2. MCFA’s actually helps us to lose weight, lower cholesterol, improve diabetic conditions and reduce the risk of heart troubles.

3. One of the most outstanding benefits of consuming MCFA’s is that they do not require the liver to digest and emulsify them. This means instant energy and increased thermogenesis (increased metabolic rate in the body) which leads to more heat production as well as improved circulation.

4. For anyone with impaired fat digestion or a removed gallbladder, coconut oil is the only oil to consume as it is very easily digested.

5. MCFA’s are also known for having antimicrobial and anti-fungal properties, so they are beneficial to our immune system.

6. In addition, coconut oil assists people with under-active thyroids by increasing the metabolic rate of the body and creating more energy.

Ray Peat Ph.D., a physiologist who has worked with progesterone and related hormones since 1968, says that the sudden surge of polyunsaturated oils in the food chain post World War II has caused many changes in hormones.

He writes: "Their [polyunsaturated oils] best understood effect is their interference with the function of the thyroid gland. Polyunsaturated oils block thyroid hormone secretion, its movement in the circulatory system, and the response of tissues to the hormone. When the thyroid hormone is deficient, the body is generally exposed to increased levels of oestrogen. The thyroid hormone is essential for making the ‘protective hormones’ progesterone and pregnenolone, so these hormones are lowered when anything interferes with the function of the thyroid. The thyroid hormone is required for using and eliminating cholesterol, so cholesterol is likely to be raised by anything that blocks the thyroid function. It is very interesting to note that high cholesterol is not a sign of eating too much saturated fat. High cholesterol in a lot of the cases is due to an under-active thyroid which affects the liver as well as the many loops and feedback systems within the endocrine system. Stress and the over consumption of carbohydrates/sugars also form high levels of cholesterol."

Remember that good nutrition and eating healthy begin with eating 5-12 servings of fresh organic vegetables and fruits daily, and taking the Feast by URI is one of the best ways to get that nutrition in a convenient, lifestlye-friendly, economical way.

Feast Supercharged - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy

THE FEAST SuperCharged™

One Source for Complete Nutrition™Powder Drink Mix Natural Mixed Berry Flavor

"The Feast SuperCharged – All Natural Coffee, Tea, Caffeinated Energy Drink Alternative"

An all natural energizing formula with the same blend of superior ingredients as The Feast with the addition of 6 Energizing Berries, Seeds, and Leaves. Much healthier and more invigorating replacement for coffee, tea and sugar laden sports, energy drinks.

The Feast Super Charged and the Feast are the only products on the market that provide a synergistically complete, nutritionally balanced combination of natures MOST beneficial live whole foods. The Feast Super Charged is a convenient all-in-one live whole food based supplement for today’s active and demanding lifestyles! Feed your body the feast it deserves!

Listen to this Feast Overview Audio NOW! Simply call: 1-732-463-6339

The Feast Super Charged is the one and only live whole food based product on the planet that delivers a full, synergistic spectrum of:

6 Energizing Berries, Seeds and Leaves
30 Antioxidant Rich Fruits and Berries
30 Powerful Greens and Vegetables
11 Nutrient Dense Seeds, Nuts and Sprouts
83+ Active Enzymes and Fulvic Minerals
22 Strains of Resilient Living Probiotics

The Feast Super Charged:

More variety, quality and quantity of ingredients than any other live whole food based supplement.
Easily assimilated and absorbed.
100% natural Live Whole Foodbased nutrition.
Nutritious and Delicious!
Does not contain synthetic or isolated vitamins and minerals.
Non-pasteurized. Preservative free.
Dried at temperatures below 100°F.
The most powerful, nutrient dense nutritional product on the market.
Fresh live whole foods to powder in seconds.
Naturally alkaline ingredients.

Every 2 Scoops Provide:
70+ nutrient dense live whole foods.
4 servings of concentrated, fresh live whole foods.
Nutritional equivalent of 8 servings of fresh live whole foods.
1000’s of naturally occurring nutritional compounds from live whole foods.

All of this in ONE power packed, nutrient dense, complete whole food formula for the ultimate in whole food nutrition!†

THE FEAST SUPERCHARGED Powder Drink Mix is a supreme blend of nature's most nutrient dense, live whole foods. This carefully selected combination works together synergistically, providing greater nutritional benefits than when consumed individually. The Feast SuperCharged Powder is the most powerful and nutritionally sound powder drink mix product on the market!

This whole food powder is far superior and many times more powerful than any liquid fruit or berry product or green drink powder drink mix on the market.

Fruits, berries, greens, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouts are the most nutrient dense foods available. They provide a variety of health advantages that go far beyond the scope of basic nutrition and have tremendous benefits throughout the entire human body. Studies have shown that the significant phytonutrient and antioxidant content of these live whole foods has a profound and positive effect on health.

These live whole foods each possess particular health promoting qualities and contains thousands of naturally occurring vitamins, minerals, antioxidant compounds, amino acids, enzymes, essential fatty acids, fiber and phytonutrients.

Because these live whole foods are not consumed on a regular basis, most people are not experiencing the extraordinary health benefits they provide. The Feast SuperCharged provides an optimal amount of each of these in synergistic combination.

Most importantly, the crucial nutrients contained in The Feast SuperCharged are still alive and are very bioavailable. These live nutrients are necessary for optimal assimilation, proper uptake of nutrients to the body and to maximize bioavailability and effectiveness. By providing each ingredient in its most natural form, all of the natural plant enzymes and phosolipids necessary for enhanced nutrient absorption are present.

Take the 90-Day URI challenge -Backed by My IRON-CLAD Guarantee!

“I am so confident that you will be absolutely amazed with my nutrient dense, live, Whole Food products, that I back them up with my unconditional, iron-clad 90-day money back guarantee! Try Uri's Live Whole Food Based InstaFresh Juice for 90 days. And if you are not 100% satisfied for ANY reason you will be refunded 100% of the purchase price minus shipping and handling fees. With my 90-Day Money Back Guarantee, you have absolutely nothing to lose and only real nutrition to gain! You have my word on it!”

- Uri LeBaron, Founder and President of Uri International

Taking an energizing live whole food nutritional product like The Feast Supercharged is one of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy with the Feast. Remember, good nutrition always begins with eating 5-12 servings of fresh organic vegetables and fruits every day, and taking the Feast is a way of helping you reach that goal.

Avoiding Luncheon Meats - Keys to Good Nutrition and to Eating Healthy with the Feast

Hi friends,

Today I'd like to share an article compiled by a friend of mine, Merry K., and then share a few of my own comments about it at the end.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

Is "Lunch Meat" On Your Menu To Be Included In Eating Healthy Nutritious Food?

Many Americans every day enjoy sandwiches for lunch or dinner. Our sandwiches usually include some sort of processed meat product ranging from bologna to roast beef. But here's the latest on those beloved lunch meats.

Hundreds of cancer researchers took part in a five-year project spanning more than 7,000 clinical studies and designed to document the links between diet and cancer. Their conclusion, published in the World Cancer Research Fund's report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective (2007), has rocked the health world with a declaration that all people should immediately stop buying and eating processed meat products and that all processed meat should be avoided for life!

FOR LIFE? Wow, this is really something to take notice of.

Processed meats, the report explains, are simply too dangerous for human consumption. And why? Because they contain chemical additives that are known to greatly increase the risk of various cancers, including colonrectal cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, leukemia, brain tumors, pancreatic cancer and many more.

The report, published at this DietAndCancerReport.org website also recommends that consumers:
• Avoid all sugary soft drinks for life.
• Exercise at least 30 minutes a day.
• Get lean and fit, without becoming underweight.
• Limit consumption of ALL meats (even fresh meat).
• Breastfeed all infants for their first six months, avoiding infant formula.

The findings of this research group are really nothing new. But it certainly lends credence to what I, and multitudes of others, adhere to in our daily lives and philosophy. The truth is that whole, live foods are what keep YOU whole and live! Without that we are simply toxifying ourselves with slow killers (the chemical additives in our "foods")

What exactly IS the difference between just "meat" and the processed type? Fresh meat usually has only one ingredient: the meat! Fresh meat is refrigerated and has a very short shelf life (just a few days, usually). It's usually packaged in simple wrappers, with no fancy logos or color printing. Processed meat has many ingredients and is usually packaged for long-term shelf life. These products almost always contain sodium nitrite, the cancer-causing chemical additive that meat companies use as a color fixer to turn their meat products a bright red "fresh-looking" color.

Processed meat products include:• Bacon• Sausage• Pepperoni• Beef jerky• Deli slices• Hot dogs• Sandwich meat (including those served at restaurants)• Ham• Meat "gift" products like Christmas sausages• Meat used in canned soups• Meat used in frozen pizza• Meat used in kid's lunch products• Meat used in ravioli, spaghetti or Italian pasta products... and many more meat products.Unless it says "NITRITE FREE" on the front label, you can bet it's made with cancer-causing sodium nitrite! You see, eating healthy nutritious food is more than just limiting your trans fat intake or increasing your daily fiber allowance and filling in the gaps with chemically made vitamin supplements. It is a true shift from darkness to light. So, the next time you want to have a sandwich, try making it VEGGIE. You will enjoy the freshness of it and keep peace of mind knowing that you are not giving yourself known carcinogens to ingest.

{special thanks to http://www.newstarget.com/ and their coverage of this story, whom I've gleaned much knowledge and information from for this post} Merry K.
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My commentary:
This article tells it like it really is: the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Now, I can hear someone you saying under your breath, "But some of my favorite foods/meats are in that list of meats to avoid. This is just going way too far!"

My friend, if you can't believe this research because it contradicts your tastes and lifestyles, then you are avoiding the truth because it is just too inconvenient for you to live with. You'd rather just eat whatever the hell you want to, and leave the results to God. Right? You're rather live with the lie prefabricated by the food manufacturers and their advertisers than face the hard straight truth of proven research of hundreds of cancer researchers and 7,000 clinical studies.

Well, you do have the right to choose what you believe. However, my friend, you will have to live with the consequences of your beliefs and actions. If you continue to eat this "food" that is not fit for human consumption and is toxic and dangerous to your body's health, then you will have to accept the inevitable life-threatening health problems and illness related to eating this kind of man-made and man-poisoned junk. It's really up to you, but you will bear the responsibility alone for the consequences of the way that you eat. I encourage you; no, I beg you, to reconsider the facts and proven clinical research of thousands of experts, and make the wise decision to give up these C-causing "foods/meats." And remember, drinking the Feast every day and avoiding these kinds of health-destroying luncheon meats are keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy.

Commentary by the Naked Nutrition Knight, author of the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy with the Feast.

Fruits & Vegetables - Keys to Good Nutrition and to Eating Healthy With the Feast

HAVE YOU HAD YOUR 5-12 SERVINGS OF FRESH VEGETABLES AND FRUIT TODAY?

HOW ABOUT YOUR KIDS?

According to current nutritional research, you and I are supposed to be eating 5-12 servings of fresh vegetables and fruit every day to achieve optimal health and to protect our bodies from free radicals and various serious illnesses.

Now, let me ask you: How many people do you know who do this on a daily basis?

I bet that if you took a poll today, you'd find that only about 5 people out of a 100 actually eat 5-12 servings of vegetables and fruit every day. And this "guesstimate" is probably high; it's probably more like 2% of the population.

Why is this the case here in America and the Western world?

I would suggest that there are several reasons. First, we are no longer an agricultural-based society, so we are much removed from the farm and growing crops and having our own gardens and fruit trees. This means that we are almost entirely dependent upon supermarkets to provide us with vegetables and fruits. Here the problem gets more complicated because the vegetables and fruits sold in supermarkets often comes from thousands of miles away and are picked way before they are ripe. In addition, most of the produce is grown with pesticides and herbicides, which means our bodies are getting a toxic overload when we eat this supermarket produce. Furthermore, most supermarkets charge a lot of money for fresh fruit and berries, and even vegetables are getting pricier these days. In other words, it's not cheap to buy plenty of good quality produce.

Secondly, buying,washing, and storing vegetables and fruit is just too time-consuming for many people's fast-paced lifestyles. They may try buying it, but they get tired of having to wash it and prepare it for meals, so a lot of it goes to waste. As a result of this problem, some people resort to eating only frozen or canned vegetables and fruit (which is not healthy), or they just stop eating fruits and vegetables altogether.

The end result is that most people are not eating 5-12 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables every day...they're not even coming close. On a good day, they may eat 1 or 2 servings, and on their best day, maybe 3 or 4 servings. On an average day, none or maybe 1.

SO... WHAT'S THE SOLUTION TO THEIR PROBLEM?
What's the answer to this situation?

Here's what I would recommend to you and your family.

#1 - Make a commitment to start buying and eating fresh produce again. Learn to put up with the inconvenience of it for the sake of your health. Look for produce markets that carry fresh organic vegetables and fruit, and do your shopping there and not at your local supermarket.

#2 - Start taking the Feast every day, both you and your family. The Feast is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder that you simply add to water, mix, and drink. It's made by URI International, and it's loaded with the most nutritionally powerful greens and vegetables, fruits and berries, on the earth.

Why should you be taking this whole food nutritional supplement?

Simply because it's a way for you and your family to fill in the nutritional gaps in your diet and to help you get the 5-12 servings of vegetables and fruit into your body every day. It's like having the whole produce aisle in a glass that you can drink in 20 seconds. It's convenient, lifestyle friendly, and extremely nutritious. In addition, it actually tastes great; your kids will love it too!

What's in the Feast?

The Feast is the one and only live whole food supplement on the planet that delivers a full, synergistic spectrum of:

* 30 antioxidant rich fruits and berries * 30 powerful greens and vegetables * 11 nutrient dense seeds, nuts, and sprouts * 83+ active enzymes and fulvic minerals * 22 strains of resilient living probiotics

In conclusion, let me ask you again: HAVE YOU HAD YOUR 5-12 SERVINGS OF FRESH VEGETABLES AND FRUITS TODAY?

I have, and I drink them every day in the form of the Feast, and you can too.

For more information on the Feast, call and listen to this pre-recorded audio overview of the Feast by Uri LeBaron: 1-732-463-6339

Or click here for more information: The Feast by URI

Taking the Feast daily is one of the keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy. Once you start taking it, your body will be getting the nutrition that it currently lacks, and you'll feel the difference. I personally feel much more energetic, I feel full for a long time and have fewer junk food cravings, and I feel much more alive putting live whole food into my body.

Holiday Wisdom - Keys to Good Nutrition and Eating Healthy with the Feast

I would like to encourage you to watch what you eat over the holidays.

Most people eat poorly all year long and suffer the consequences. However, some people, like myself and maybe you, eat nutritious healthy food all year, except when it comes to the year end holidays. Make a point this year to EAT WISELY during the holiday season.

Wisdom Key #1 - Avoid the unhealthy refined processed holiday foods and treats

There's always an abundance of food, many sweets and desserts, and lots of specialty foods such as cookies, cakes, pies, muffins, etc. If you think about it, most of these holiday foods are not good for you. They're made with a lot of sugar, white processed flour, butter, and other non-nutritious ingredients. These are the foods that will contribute to your gaining weight over the holidays, as well make you sluggish and more vulnerable to sickness and long-term illness.

Plain and simple, it's just not worth it. Your health is valuable, and you must take charge of it and protect it, especially during the holiday season.

Wisdom Key #2 - Avoid processed meats and pork products

Recent research findings have proven over and over again that processed meats, which are often abundant at holiday times, are dangerous for your health and contribute to serious long-term illnesses, including the big-"C". To protect your health, you really need to make a commitment to yourself that you're going to avoid all processed meats and pork products such as sausage, bacon, ham, hot dogs, bologna, salami, etc. When these are offered to you, simply say, "No thank you."

Wisdom Key #3 - Don't overeat during the holidays; exercise moderation

This is one of the worst things you can do for your body. Overeating is one of the major causes of ill health in America. When you overeat, you overload your body and its systems in such a way that puts a tremendous stress on your vital organs and cells. THINK M-O-D-E-R-A-T-I-O-N this holiday season. Enjoy the good and healthy food, but eat it with a sense of moderation.

Wisdom Key #4 - Keep exercising during the holidays

This is very important and shouldn't be neglected just because it's the holidays. If you can't stick to your normal routine because you're at a relative's home or because you have a lot of guests, then at the very least be sure to take a 30-60 minute walk every day. This will provide you with good exercise and give you a break from all the hustle and bustle of the holidays.

Wisdom Key #5 - Take some time to relax during the holidays

Now by that I don't mean to sit around and watch TV and football. What I mean is for you to do some relaxing things that you normally don't get to do during normal busy working life. For example, take a long soothing bath by candle light, read a novel, sit with your spouse and listen to Christmas music, take a long afternoon nap, etc. You get the idea.

Wisdom Key #6 - Remember to continue taking your nutritional supplements

Your body needs the added nutrition of a live whole food based supplement, so be sure to continue to take this during the holidays. I personally take "The Feast," which is a live whole food based InstaFresh powder drink mix (loaded with greens, vegetables, fruits, berries, seeds, nuts, and sprouts) that I mix in with other ingredients to create the most delicious and nutritious smoothie ever. I add a few frozen strawberries or blueberries, some fresh cranberries, some Himalayan Krystal saline solution, fresh ground flax seeds, extra virgin coconut oil, some pure barley grass powder, some cayenne pepper, half a fresh lemon, and a lot of purpose when I create one of these smoothie masterpieces. If you'd like information about the Feast made by Uri International and what's in it, go to: http://www.LiveSuperJuice.com OR click here: The FEAST by Uri International

Well, my friends, there you have it: 6 wisdom keys for the holidays. I trust that these six keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy will help you avoid the pitfalls of unhealthy eating and encourage you to watch what you eat during this holiday season. Remember, good nutrition and healthy eating will lead you down the road to health, vitality, and longevity.

Thanksgiving is a Key to Good Nutrition and to Eating Healthy with the Feast

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!

On this special long weekend celebrating Thanksgiving Day, I wanted to wish you a very warm thanksgiving and many loving memories with your family.

I hope you enjoyed the Feast with your family as a part of your Thanksgiving meal.

Remember that taking a live whole food based nutritional supplement like the Feast is one of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy.

I hope you enjoy this photograph that I took at Stone Mountain State Park in the mountains of North Carolina a few weeks ago.

From the author of: "keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy with the Feast"

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"

Dangers of Plastic Bottles - Keys to Good Nutrition & Eating Healthy with The Feast

Health Question: What kind of plastic bottles do you use to carry and store your drinking water in?

My wife and I drink a lot of natural spring water every day. Of course we mix it in with the Feast, which is a whole food based InstaFresh juice powder that we prepare in the form of a smoothie every morning. Drinking plenty of natural spring water every day, as well as drinking the Feast, are two of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy that we practice every day. I'm sure you can imagine, as a result we go through a lot of water every week.

We get out drinking water from a friend's well, so once a week we have to drive over there and fill up our water bottles. In the beginning, we were reusing the light weight thin plastic bottles that we bought at Walmart with bottled water. Then we also started reusing the thicker Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice bottles. Finally, we got tired of filling up so many bottles, so we started using a large 5-gallon hard plastic bottle that you get when you sign up for home delivered bottled water.

Along this water bottle journey, I kept hearing bits and pieces about the dangers of plastic water bottles and how certain toxic substances in the plastic will actually leach into the water itself causing various types of health problems.

Today I decided to do some research on this plastic bottle issue and I discovered some very helpful information that I'd like to share with you.

There's quite a bit of information out there based on various scientific studies. However, I'm going to cut to the chase and only share the most critical information. In other words, I'm going to share with you which plastic bottles to use and which to avoid.

THE WORST AND MOST UNHEALTHY PLASTIC BOTTLES TO AVOID

Most of these plastics come with a number and a name and an abbreviation for the name because they're difficult to say and to spell.

BEWARE of #7 POLYCARBONATE (Lexan) plastic bottles (including sippy cups and baby bottles). For a while people thought these bottles were safe, but recent research has proven that this plastic leaches Bisphenol A (BPA), which causes various health problems.

BEWARE of #1 PET (polyethylenene terephthalate) plastic bottles. Very unhealthy.

BEWARE of #3 PVC (polyvinyl chloride; aka vinyl) plastic bottles. Very unhealthy.

BEWARE of #6 POLYSTYRENE plastic bottles. You don't want this in contact with your water, drinks, or food. Very unhealthy.

THE BEST AND SAFEST MATERIALS FOR PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES (and FOOD STORAGE)

#5 PP - PolyPropylene.

#2 HDPE - High Density Polyethylene

#4 LDPE - Low Density Polyethylene

You can go on line and do a search for companies that make water bottles with these safe materials.

OTHER WATER STORAGE AND CARRYING SUGGESTIONS

GLASS - Is a very healthy and safe material for storing your water in. Just make sure you don't take it with you when you travel for obvious reasons.

STAINLESS STEEL - This is another good option, especially for traveling, camping, biking, skiing, etc. I would recommend a product I found called Klean Kanteen.

Finally, when buying water storage containers, be sure to buy bottles that have wide mouth openings so that you can do a much better job cleaning them periodically. When you have a bottle with a narrow opening, it's nearly impossible to clean it thoroughly, and you end up with bacteria growing inside the container that you can't get rid of.

Josiah Friberg, the Naked Nutrition Knight

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

Part 2 Reading Food Labels - Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy

DEVELOPING THE VALUABLE HABIT OF
READING FOOD LABELS

This is PART 2 of reading food labels and ingredients lists on food.

Part 1 focused on the bad, unhealthy food ingredients to look for and avoid, as well as some general guidelines regarding reading food labels and how food manufacturers often deceive the consumer in their labels. You can look back at Part 1 in my blog archives dated November 8th, 2007.

In case you missed the first posting, I will review some of the introductory comments before sharing what good whole food ingredients to look for when you're out shopping.

When it comes to keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy,what could be more important than always reading food labels before you buy something to eat?!

This is one of those valuable health habits that you should be practicing every day without even thinking about it.

Good nutrition and healthy eating begin with carefully reading the LIST OF INGREDIENTS on all the food items you're considering purchasing.

GOOD WHOLE FOOD INGREDIENTS TO LOOK FOR

1. Look for "ORGANIC" whole food ingredients. These are the healthiest foods to eat because they are grown without the use of chemical pesticides and herbicides. They are natural organic whole foods that your body can use for life and energy.

2. Look for "NON-GM" OR "NON-GE" (non-genetically modified or non-genetically engineered) food ingredients. These are natural whole foods that haven't been genetically engineered in some lab. Avoid GE and GM products like the plague! Today these GM food ingredients are in over 70% of the products in your local supermarket. If a label says, "corn," then it is most probably genetically modified corn, and it is not good for you. If a label says, "organic stone ground corn," then it is a natural whole food and is good for you. Probably the best way to avoid GM or GE foods is to buy organic labeled foods. In America, you've got to be very careful about the source and type of corn, soy, and wheat, because these are the three biggest GM or GE products out there, and they are making their way into most of the food products in your local supermarket.

3. Look for products made with "100% WHOLE WHEAT" which has the germ and the bran and all of the vitamins and minerals that come with a whole food grain. Don't be fooled by the similar looking terms, "whole wheat" or "enriched wheat."

4. Pay attention to the oils that are put in your food. Look for good oils such as extra virgin olive oil, raw coconut oil, flaxseed oil, high oleic expeller-pressed safflower oil and sunflower oil, sesame oil, and avocado oil. These are the best natural and healthy oils out there.

5. Look for healthy sweeteners such as raw, unfiltered, unheated honey, raw agave nectar, maple syrup, and Stevia (a natural sweet herb/leaf).

6. Pay attention to the amount of salt in the product, as well as the kind of salt. The best salt is Himalayan crystal salt, followed by sea salt. Avoid all table salt.

7. Look for organic meats such as grass-fed beef, lamb and poultry. For seafood, look for freshly caught deep ocean fish that have fins and scales.

I encourage you to take these keys to good nutrition and apply these tips to eating healthy as you go out and shop for the healthiest, most life-giving food you can find. Practice this critical healthy habit of reading food labels to protect your health and to ensure that you're getting food that is truly healthy.

5 Tips to Improving Digestion - Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy

I would like to share an article I found on Newstarget.com about DIGESTION.

Learning how to improve your digestion is one more of the keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy.

To improve your digestion, you've got to improve your eating habits. In other words, by changing the way you eat, you can actually improve your digestion.

Click on the link below to read this practical article.

Five Tips For Improving Digestion

Knowing Dangers of Doctors - Keys to Good Nutrition and to Eating Healthy

Hi friends,

Today I'd like to share an article I found on Mercola.com entitled, "Doctors Are the Third Leading Cause of Death," that discusses some of the dangers of doctors to your health. This article was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

"Doctors Are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. Causing 225,000 Deaths Every Year" - Article Title

Normally, people don't think of doctors as a danger to their health, but rather as an asset to their health. However, doctors are human and they make mistakes which can adversely affect your health.

In addition, they have not been trained in nutrition, healthy eating, and true health. Instead, they have been trained in disease, surgery, medicine and drugs as a way of dealing with people's symptoms. They actually know very little about true health, proper nutrition, health maintenance, and illness prevention. Most of their solutions to your physical problems involve surgery and medical drugs, both of which are very expensive, and both of which are often or usually totally unecessary.


You, my friend, must take responsibility for your own health and the health of your family. You can no longer afford to leave this responsibility to your doctor or to anyone else. You must educate yourself about health, nutrition, eating healthy, and living a healthy lifestyle. You must also learn the truths of prevention of illness.

I do believe there is a place for doctors in our lives; namely, to provide emergency treatment after accidents. For example, when you are in a car accident or when you fall and break your leg, a doctor is a good person to have around to help fix you up.

However, for other purposes such as prevention of illness or treatment of ailments, I no longer believe that a doctor is my or your best choice. If you took a survey of the physical health and habits of medical doctors, I believe that you would find that they are some of the least healthy people you know. In fact, I've heard that many doctors die prematurely of all kinds of ailments that are a result of their unhealthy and stressful lifestyles, including very poor eating habits.

Knowing the dangers of doctors is one more of the keys to good health, to good nutrition, and to healthy eating.

I encourage you to read this article with an open mind.

Click below to read the article and see the complete list of references by the author:

"Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. Causing 225,000 Deaths Every Year"

http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/30/doctors_death.htm

May you prosper and be in optimum health, even as your soul prospers.

The Naked Nutrition Knight

Avoiding Trans-Fat - Keys to Good Nutrition and To Eating Healthy

Greetings health-conscious friends who value your health,

Today I'd like to share an article with you that I found on NewsTarget about trans-fats and the American diet. I want you to understand why trans-fats are so dangerous to your health so that you will have good reasons to avoid them in your food. Simply put: avoiding trans-fats is one more of the important keys to good nutrition and a major tip to eating healthy.

Trans-fats are hidden in lots of food products in your local supermarket, and they are also prevalent in fast food and restaurant food. This is one more major reason to avoid eating at fast food restaurants that care little about your health and actually serve food that is destructive to your health. It's time to take responsibility for your own health and start avoiding this health-destroying man-made food product everywhere you find it. To your health, the Naked Nutrition Knight.

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(NewsTarget) All fat is not equal. Most of us are aware that there are good fats and bad fats. But the difference between the two can be confusing. For many years, we were told that unsaturated fat is better than saturated fat. We were also led to believe that if we avoid all animal fat, we are safe and that any vegetable fat is fine. Many of the country’s professional medical associations have even promoted a “healthy” diet that is low in saturated fat for many years.

In reality, it is not that simple. As Enig and Fallon (1998, 1999) point out in their article “The Oiling of America” the American diet before 1910 was largely based on animal fats like butter, eggs, lard and meats, and coronary heart disease and heart attacks were rare. Americans also were less sedentary and often ate locally produced food during those years. There was no refrigerated, cross-country trucking of foods in those days.

The American diet began to change toward one that included more industrially produced options, such as margarines, factory baked goods and vegetable oils in place of lard. Even though research in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s pointed to the fact that were fewer instances of coronary heart disease prior to the dietary changes, American companies were promoting their cereals, corn oil and margarines as beneficial to health and good for lowering cholesterol. It was around that time that the American Heart Association began a campaign (based on research done on rabbits, which are vegetarian animals) to change America’s diet to a “Prudent Diet” where butter was replaced by margarine, breakfast cereals replaced eggs and chicken and fish in place of beef. The familiar food pyramid was created and even taught in public schools.

None of the research supported that dietary model. In fact, there were many published research reports that indicated that the opposite was true. Enig and Fallow write that “in 1961 the AHA published its first dietary guidelines aimed at the public. The authors, Irving Page, Ancel Keys, Jeremiah Stamler and Frederick Stare, called for the substitution of polyunsaturates for saturated fat, even though Keys, Stare and Page had all previously noted in published papers that the increase in CHD was paralleled by increasing consumption of vegetable oils. In fact, in a 1956 paper, Keys had suggested that the increasing use of hydrogenated vegetable oils might be the underlying cause of the CHD epidemic.”

Now, more and more research is indicating that Keys was right in 1956. Trans-fats (hydrogenated vegetable oils) are dangerous to health and still in wide use. While most animal fat sources are saturated, which just means they are made of straight chains of carbon and hydrogen that pack together easily and are relatively solid at room temperature, most vegetable sources are unsaturated. They are formed by more crooked chains of atoms and since they don’t pack together easily are more likely to be liquid at room temperature (or even below that).

In order to take a vegetable source and make it into a butter-like substance, you have to modify its structure. This process is called “hydrogenation” and was discovered and patented by a French scientist. Later, Proctor and Gamble obtained the rights to that patented process for use in the United States. Crisco Oil™ soon became the shortening of choice in American kitchens.

The problem with hydrogenation is that the process turns a healthy fat into a dangerous fat. According to Enig and Fallow’s article, this process turns the vegetable-sourced unsaturated oils into straight “packable” molecules, by changing the placement of the hydrogen atoms at the location of their double bonds. In nature, most double bonds occur in the “cis” configuration, which means that both hydrogen atoms are on the same side of the carbon chain in the place on the chain where there is a double bond.

In the cis configuration, fats bend or kink at the double bond, preventing them from packing together easily. Hydrogenation moves one hydrogen atom across to the other side of the carbon chain at the point of the double bond allowing the chain to straighten out and become a “plastic” fat that can have a much higher melting temperature. In its normal state, unsaturated fats have that double bond site where vital chemical reactions take place. These reactions are critical to the ability of living cells to do their duties. When you create the trans-fat, you make a molecule that is similar enough to natural (saturated) fats that the body takes them in. Once they have been ingested, their altered chemical structure creates havoc with thousands of necessary chemical reactions—everything from energy production to synthesis of prostaglandins, which are critical to many body functions. Overall adverse effects are seen even when consumed in small amounts: 1% to 3% of total energy intake, or approximately 20 to 60 calories (2g to 7 g) for a person consuming 2,000 calories per day, according to the investigators. "Thus complete or near-complete avoidance of industrially produced trans fats may be necessary to avoid adverse effects and would be prudent to minimize health risks," said Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., at the Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues including Walter Willett, M.D., and Meir Stampfer, M.D.

The current research is so definitive about the harmful effects of trans-fat consumption, that many states have banned the use of trans-fats in public restaurants (like New York) and the Centers for Science in the Public Interest has filed a lawsuit against fast-good giant Burger King.

Trans-fats can hide in many food ingredients. In the CSPI news release they state that “Numerous fried and non-fried foods at Burger King have alarming levels of trans fat, according to CSPI. A King-size Onion Rings has 6 grams of trans-fat. A regular-size order of Chicken Tenders with a large order of French fries has 8 grams of trans-fat. A Sausage Biscuit with a large order of Hash Browns has an astounding 18 grams of trans-fat—more than someone should consume in 9 days.” Another disturbing fact is that, even though most companies that label their food include the amount of trans-fat present, they are not require to report any amount less than one gram. So, if a serving has half of that, they don’t have to report it. Eating several servings could, in fact, put someone over their daily safe consumption without knowing it.

Written by Amy Daniels of NewsTarget

Pt 1 Reading Food Labels - Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy

THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF
READING FOOD LABELS

When it comes to keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy, what could be more important than always reading food labels before you buy something to eat?!

This is one of those life-long wise habits that you should be practicing every day without even thinking about it.

Good nutrition and healthy eating begin with carefully reading the LIST OF INGREDIENTS on all the food items you're considering purchasing.

A short lesson on reading the list of ingredients for food:

A. The list of ingredients is in order of the largest ingredients to the smallest. In other words, the first ingredient is the biggest ingredient in the product.

B. The most important ingredients in the list are the first three or four ingredients which make up the bulk of the product.

C. Food manufacturers can often be quite deceptive in the way they list their ingredients. For example, if the biggest ingredient is sugar, they will often break it into different kinds of sugar in smaller amounts so that sugar doesn't end up being the number one ingredient on the label. They might use Aspartame, maltodextrin, sucrulose, high-fructose corn syrup, etc. to hide the fact that the biggest ingredient is sugar, so beware of this deceptive trick.

D. Food manufacturers often disguise unhealthy and often dangerous ingredients like mono-sodium glutamate (MSG) under more innocent sounding titles such as hydrolized yeast, natural flavors, etc. Do a google search on "The dangers of MSG" for a more complete list of deceptive titles for MSG.

I encourage you to check out one of my earlier postings, September 11, 2007, entitled: "8 Deceptions of Food Manufacturers' Ingredients Lists..."

When you're reading food labels, you need to look for the good, the bad, and the ugly! You need to train yourself to notice the good quality ingredients, while at the same time to be able to sniff out the bad, dangerous, and toxic ingredients to avoid. Here's a little help for you regarding reading food ingredients lists.

BAD, UNHEALTHY, AND TOXIC INGREDIENTS TO WATCH OUT FOR AND AVOID

1. Avoid all products with dangerous and toxic sweeteners that include the following: High-fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, Aspartame, Splenda, Sucrulose, white refined sugar, brown sugar, sucrose, fructose, saacharin, Sweet 'N Low, dextrose, maltodextrin, NatraTaste, etc. These artificial man-made sweeteners have all been proven to be dangerous to your health, toxic to your body, and cause all kinds of health problems. Avoid them at all costs. Beware, they are hiding in most food products, but especially in soda, fruit juice, ice cream, desserts, pastries, cookies, candy, cakes, gum, etc.

2. Avoid all products with hydrogenated and partially-hydrogenated oils, also known as "trans fats." These are put in most foods to make them taste richer and smoother to your tongue. These are unnatural, man-made, highly processed oils that are extremely unhealthy and detrimental to your health. Avoid all products with them. Also, avoid all products made with cottonseed oil, palm oil, soybean oil, and Canola oil (which is a genetically modified oil). These are the worst oils for your body. Also avoid all margarine products, Crisco, Olestra, and Olean; these are extremely toxic and destructive to your health.

3. Avoid all products with mono-sodium glutamate (MSG), soy sauce, and teriyaki sauce. This is an excito-toxin that actually kills brain cells by overstimulating them. This toxic ingredients is added to all kinds of foods in the supermarket and in restaurants to make food taste better and to make you fat. When something has MSG added to it, it over-excites your taste buds, making you think that the food is very delicious. The end result is that you keep eating more and more of that food, you eventually start getting fat, and you become addicted to the MSG in that food. This happened to me with "Chinese Orange Chicken" at a popular fast food restaurant; I became addicted to it and gained a lot of weight. You'll also notice that most potato chips and other salty snacks are spiked with MSG to make them taste so good. You may not know this, but soy sauce and teriyaki sauce have naturally occurRing MSG in them, so you will want to avoid products with these ingredients as well.

4. Avoid all products with white processed flour (aka, enriched wheat flour), white processed rice, pasteurized and homogenized milk and dairy products, artificial colors and flavors (which are nothing more than toxic chemicals), and anything labeled "fat free" or "sugar free" or "low carbs" or "net carbs" or "diet."

5. Avoid all products that are labeled as having shellfish scavengers such as shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, scallops, oysters, etc. and avoid all "farm-raised" fish products. All of these are unhealthy and have toxic chemicals in them.

6. Finally, avoid all pork and pork products, as well as all luncheon deli meats which are loaded sodium nitrates. Pork products are among the very worst that you can ever eat because they are so loaded with toxic substances that harm your body.

A SAD SKIPPY EXAMPLE
Here's an example of a food that appears healthy, but when you read the ingredients list, you find that it is very unhealthy. "Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter - Ingredients: roasted peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oils (cottonseed, soybean and rapeseed) to prevent separation, salt." The whole food peanuts are healthy, but everything else added is not healthy at all and should be avoided. Instead, look for all natural peanut butter made with just peanuts and sea salt.

In my next posting, I'll share what the "GOOD FOOD INGREDIENTS" are that you should be looking for when you are reading food labels. It's not enough to just avoid the bad and ugly stuff; you also need to be looking for the good and healthy ingredients that will truly feed your body and provide it with the good nutrition it needs. Until then...