Enzymes and Your Health, Nutritional Dietary SupplementWritten by Loring A. Windblad
This compilation of information is Copyright 2005 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. The references for this series of articles is author’s personal knowledge and experience, book “Enzymes for Autism and other Nurological Conditions. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text, including this header, intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.Why would you want an enzyme product as a nutritional dietary supplement? There are many reasons for wanting and seeking an enzyme supplement. These include restoration of proper enzyme balance in our “gut” to ensure proper digestion, vitamin and mineral supplement for our health, and insuring proper nutrition to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Proper and complete digestion is essential for good health. Digestive enzymes, used properly, can provide a substantial benefit to most everyone, especially those consuming a great deal of cooked or processed food. Enzymes may ease bloating, gas and heaviness with meals. Proteases may be beneficial between meals if you have an autoimmune condition or are recovering from an injury or illness. Enzyme-based products are one of least utilized dietary aids, despite fact that their use dates back thousands of years. Many manufacturers may avoid use of enzyme products because their mode of action can be complex, and requires specific scientific knowledge and expertise. Such is actually case in manufacture of Bio88+ (Plus), produced in a government controlled laboratory, under stringent conditions, and using a “double fermentation” process that takes four months from start to finished product. There are other If I can just eat raw foods to replenish my stomach enzymes, why would I want to take an enzyme supplement? You could, except that raw food diets are difficult to maintain. Eating raw meat, with danger of bacterial toxins, is not advisable as a means of obtaining food enzymes. Also, amount of enzymes present in raw food is such that it would take many hours to adequately digest food, and raw food does not necessarily contain all enzymes needed. Enzyme supplements are a concentrated form of food enzymes that you may add to any diet so breakdown of food will occur at a faster rate.
| | The Macronutrient Balancing ActWritten by Protica Research
Finally, dieters and healthy eaters everywhere have reason to rejoice, for there is a clear understanding of which fats, and which carbohydrates should be eaten for optimal health. For too long, healthy eaters with a range of diet or weight loss goals were provided with confusing, sometimes counterproductive information with respect to carbohydrates and fats. For example, one one hand, many eaters were told that carbohydrates were unhealthy causes of weight-gain, and should be avoided. Yet on other hand, these same people were provided with carbohydrate-laden nutritional supplements, or worse, nutritional supplements that were little more than containers for low quality, incomplete protein. And as for fats… fats were seen as enemy and to be avoided at all costs; this despite fact that unsaturated fat is required by body for optimal health. But now, finally, there is clear and consistent scientific research that concludes carbohydrates and fats are essential parts of a healthy diet. After all, carbohydrates and fats are fully-fledged macronutrients, and along with protein provide foundation for optimal body system functioning. With respect to carbohydrates, researchers have discovered that low glycemic carbohydrates are exceptional sources of body fuel. Low glycemic carbohydrates do not cause blood sugar to rise. Instead, body gradually releases insulin to absorb these carbohydrates and transform them into useable energy. Dieters who have been convinced to give up carbohydrates entirely have been provided with wrong information. Low glycemic carbohydrates provide body with an excellent energy source without causing an insulin spike and subsequent creation of permanent fat cells. Speaking of fat cells, eaters around globe have come to dread word fat, and have been told to only choose foods that are “low in fat”. Yet while it’s generally wise to eat low-fat foods, there is a massive difference – one might even say a life altering difference -- between unsaturated fats and saturated fats. Further, there are some highly nutritious unsaturated fats made up of Medium Chain Triglycerides or “MCTs”, which are shorter fatty acid chains; and as such, absorb and digest much more easily than longer chain saturated and unsaturated fats. This is an important distinction because just as how carbohydrates are essential for a healthy diet, so are fats.
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