Importance Of Health & Fitness

By: Kari Farmer Category: Nutrition The Master Cleanse program came from Stanley Burroughs in 1941. He also promoted pressure points and color therapy which has become more mainstream in natural therapy now. The Master Cleanse keeps becoming more and more popular as more people see the positive effects from it. Our bodies are full of toxins that we obtain through the over consumption of food and the unhealthy eating habits we have pertaining to the type of food we are eating. Because of this ...

By: Michelle L. Rodriguez Category: Nutrition Raw milk. Many people hear that and immediately associate it with bacteria. The fact is raw organic milk not only supplies you with the calcium and vitamin D that your body needs, it even acts as a medicine to cure many ailments. Those of you who have labeled yourself as “lactose intolerant” can now take those words out of your vocabulary. I always labeled myself as having this problem until I started making healthier ...

By: Michelle L. Rodriguez Category: Nutrition Raw milk. Many people hear that and immediately associate it with bacteria. The fact is raw organic milk not only supplies you with the calcium and vitamin D that your body needs, it even acts as a medicine to cure many ailments. Those of you who have labeled yourself as “lactose intolerant” can now take those words out of your vocabulary. I always labeled myself as having this problem until I started making healthier ...

By: Kari Farmer Category: Nutrition I first heard about eating raw when I read ‘Never Be Sick Again’ by Raymond Francis. This was a guy who was on his death bed and decided to do something about it. So he learned about healthy eating and living by researching every piece of information he could find. I highly recommend that book by the way. It has undeniable reasons for why you shouldn't eat certain foods and why you should eat others. Now he ...

By: Jonathan Gonzales Category: Nutrition Eating raw foods is a way to give your body some of the nutrition it desperately needs. Many of us are at least slightly overweight, and even the morbidly obese are starving for essential proteins and amino acids. All the processed, cooked foods we eat give us only a small percentage of what we need. Consequently, we eat and eat and yet we’re still not nourished. Psychologists try to tell us we’re eating to make up for an emptiness ...

By: Gerald Fitz Category: Nutrition Many people get excited to lose weight, and jump onto the latest trendy fad diet. South Beach, Atkins, Flat Belly, Juice Diet, Chocolate Diet; fad diets often don’t work! They all sound good in theory, but in practice it can be very difficult to follow their prescribed foods. The main reason is that fad diets set people up to consume the same or very similar foods day after day. How boring could that possibly be? ...

By: Kari Farmer Category: Nutrition Before all this processed and convenient food people used to just eat plain old food like potatoes and vegetables. Now we barely ever get potatoes and vegetables unless it comes out of a can, bag or container. Just because it is more convenient for us to rip open a bag and dump our food into the pot doesn’t mean it’s good for us. In fact it’s just the opposite. I once heard a guy say something that I’ve never stopped ...

By: Gerald Fitz Category: Nutrition Think back to a time when it was snowing and family and friends are gathered around the table. There are cookies, cakes, pies, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls, ham, and turkey to feast on. You are so excited because these are some of your favorite comfort foods. Now the weather is changing and the sun is shining. It is bikini season and you want that toned, leaned body. But wait…isn’t it too late? No! ...

By: Kari Farmer Category: Nutrition I’ve been a vegetarian since my early teens. During that time my reasoning was because I didn’t like the taste, texture, or smell of meat. I never had a problem with other people eating it around me though and I still don’t; however, now I have better reasons for not eating the meat. Reason number one – It’s bad for the environment. This article by the UN news center, titled Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, ...

By: Gerald Fitz Category: Nutrition B-complex vitamins, what are they? These are the vitamins that are an essential part of our diet. We need these for breaking down carbohydrates to give us energy, breaking down fats and proteins, muscle tone, skin, hair, and eyes. They also help with our growth and development. If we don’t get enough B vitamins, serious health problems can occur. There are eight vitamins in this group. But the common three are thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), ...