MAKE FOOD YOUR FRIENDWritten by Jane Kriese
The food you choose to eat, can be your answer to a healthy vibrant body or it can be cause of your sick body. The fact is we need good nutrition for good health. Good nutrition can be broken into four categories: water, carbohydrates, protein and fat. WATER; water is an essential nutrient involved in every function of body. It helps transport nutrients and waste products in and out of cells. We need to drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of filtered water each day. CARBOHYDRATES; carbohydrates supply body with energy. The best carbohydrates are from plants and include: fruits, vegetables, legumes (peas, beans) or milk and milk products. Young children need higher amounts of dairy products as they grow. Adults should refrain from too many dairy products, because they are acid forming foods. To learn more about acid forming foods and how it relates to our health, refer to; www.herbs4health.net and read article called “The Fountain Of Youth”. PROTEIN; Protein is essential for growth and development, it provides energy and is required to manufacture hormones, antibodies, enzymes and tissue. The correct proteins also help maintain proper acid-alkaline balance in body. Protein can be found in meat, fish, poultry, eggs, hemp hearts, grains, legumes, leafy green vegetables, beans, brown rice, some nuts, milk and dairy products. FATS; fat is most concentrated source of energy. Children require more fat for normal brain development. All humans need fat to provide energy to body.We get our fat from animal and dairy products, as well as different types of oil such as; olive oil, coconut oil, hemp oil, vegetable shortening and many other types of commercially prepared oils. Some fats are good for us and others are not. It is important for a person to research information on good fats versus bad fats.
| | Researching Glyconutritionals (a.k.a. Glyconutrients)? Written by George Satovich
The Greek word "Glyco" means, "Sugar". Most people think of sugar as being bad for you. However, there are actually TWO kinds of sugars. One is refined or "extracellular" sugars which have been long associated with human disease. The other sugars are "intracellular" which can be found in fruits and vegetables and provide body with nutrition it needs. These sugars, also known as complex carbohydrates, have been studied for years. However, only recently have we begun discovering their purpose in body. An increasing number of scientists believe that certain carbohydrates represent next frontier in search for non-toxic treatments for various degenerative conditions. Even though we have just begun to scratch surface in understanding full potential of these carbohydrates, research being reported in just last decade has ignited a new level of hope and optimism with some of world's leading immunologists. One of world's most renowned veterinary immunologists, Dr. Ian R. Tizard, writes in a published paper entitled Carbohydrates, Immune Stimulating, "there has long been a tradition in folk medicine that extracts of certain fungi and plants may be of assistance in treatment of cancer. On investigation, many of these extracts have been found to possess potent immune- stimulating activity. In many cases, this activity is attributable to complex carbohydrates." Healthy bodies are comprised of many components working together in sophisticated harmony, and must have accurate internal communication to function correctly. In it's most basic form, this communication occurs at cellular level. To maintain a healthy body, cells must "talk" to each other. Their language is one of touch, written in saccharides (or simple sugars) on cell surfaces. These simple sugars combine with other molecules to make glycoforms such as glycoproteins when combined with proteins or glycolipids when combined with fat. Of 200 monosaccharides (glyconutrients) that occur naturally in plants, 8 have been discovered to be components in cell surface glycoforms (see Harper's Textbook of Biochemistry--1996). Like thousands of different "keys" projecting from cell surface, they will either unlock required functions of adjoining cell or not. If right keys are available, body functions smoothly. If not, it doesn't. Acta Anatomica, which is a European journal, states that these simple sugars have a coding capacity that surpasses that of amino acids!!
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