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Rejuvenation and Protein Revolution in Your Kitchen©2003 Marilyn Diamond

If you’re like me, you want to see some serious rejuvenation when you look in mirror. But you’re not interested in Botox, chemical peels, micro-dermabrasion, lypo-suction, jaw and cheek implants and all other pricey, temporary, somewhat invasive “solutions.”

If you’re like me, I’m sure you spend at least a few minutes everyday making sure you’re getting your protein. Who isn’t focused on protein these days?

There’s a protein revolution going on. It’s happening in chic restaurants in Santa Monica, California, where diet revolutions take birth. Hollywood stars with prettiest skin and most slender, taut-muscled bodies are into it. Celebrity chefs are racing to master it. And web commerce businesses that push it are thriving.

It’s rage in Boston, buzz in Miami, and it’s spreading like wildfire from San Diego to Wichita to Philadelphia, PA.

You may as well jump on bandwagon. It’s going to overtake everything else in diet world in months and years to come. Why wait?

Why not be first in your group to look like you just came from one of those $25,000 health spa experiences that took twenty-five pounds and twenty-five years off your life?

If you’re worn out from struggle to lose those annoying bulges, this is your kind of revolution. If you want to go to jean size you wore when you know you looked your best, now’s time.

All you have to do is eat sprouts for protein.

Sprouts for protein? Who ever heard of that?

It’s not a fad, really. Before we had fire, we knew value of sprouting grains, legumes and seeds. We knew instinctively that Nature had created them as potent nutritional bundles of health and energy. Without science at our disposal to tell us what we needed, we automatically germinated and sprouted these concentrated natural sources of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and amino acids. We built our bodies on them.

Hung up on protein?

Amino acids are proteins in their most digestible form. Pound for pound, lentils and other sprouted beans give you as much protein as red meat, chicken or fish, with none of fat, cholesterol, hormones, anti-biotics, and dangerous rendered feed residues found in animal proteins today.

Not to mention cost.

The lentils and other beans you sprout in your kitchen cost just pennies per pound. Think about this next time you pull $10.00 out your wallet for a small package of skinless, boneless chicken breasts or fish fillets.

Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to rejuvenate?

Just this month, try something different. Grow fresh protein in your kitchen.

Your diet doesn't impact your cholesterol levels as much as you think it does.

It doesn't increase it as much as you've been led to believe and it certainly doesn't help to lower cholesterol like so- called diet experts tell you.

It's not that extra egg you have for breakfast that raises your cholesterol appreciably. This is because around 80% of your blood cholesterol is manufactured by your liver.

To lower cholesterol levels, you must both slow down manufacture of cholesterol, and reduce oxidation of LDL while raising your HDL.

Apart from normal, sensible lifestyle improvements such as better nutrition and more exercise, there are a couple of proven strategies to return lower cholesterol to its optimal level.

Option 1: Prescription Drugs

A range of drugs known as "statins" are widely used in U.S. and other Western countries. In fact, they are currently most prescribed medicine in world.

These drugs work by blocking an enzyme that liver needs for manufacture of cholesterol. They have been proven effective in reducing levels of LDL, but unfortunately they will not raise levels of HDL (the good cholesterol).

The downside is that there are a large number of negative side effects such as liver damage, fatigue, upset stomach, abdominal pains and cramps, gas and constipation, and, in case of a statin drug called Baycol, a large numbers of deaths.

An investigation into side effect of statin drugs is being conducted by National Institutes of Health.

Discuss pros and cons of this medication very carefully with your physician in event that a statin drug is prescribed to you.

There Is Another Treatment Very Beneficial With Only Positive Effects...

Option 2: Natural Treatments

Even though general public hears very little about them, there are effective natural alternatives to lowering one's cholesterol, and such therapies exhibit no side effects.