TUTTI FRUTTI…OH ROOTIE!!! February 2, 2010

Fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach.

Eating fruit on an empty stomach will detoxify your system, supplying energy for weight loss and other life activities.

Let’s say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so.

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In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

So eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals! You have heard people complaining – “every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat an orange, my stomach bloats up, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the bathroom,” etc. All this will not happen if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach.

All fruits become alkaline in our body. Once you master the correct way of eating fruits, you have the secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.

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When you need to drink fruit juice – drink only fresh fruit juice, not from cans. Don’t eat cooked fruits because cooking destroys all the vitamins.

Food and liquids, eaten slowly, mix with the saliva and enzymes present in our mouths, and absorption takes place through the mouth, getting the nutrients into your blood stream faster and preventing loss of nutrients as they go though the normal digestive processes.

Try eatingonly fruits and drinking fruit juice for 3 days …see how CLEANSED you willfeel…look and BE.

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GREAT FRUITS;

APPLES: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

ORANGES: The sweetest medicine. Eating 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher.. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene – the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

ACAI: A study conducted by researchers from the US Department of Agriculture, the University of Arkansas, Brunswick Laboratories and the University of California found that the ORAC value of Acai is the “highest of any fruit or vegetable tested to date”.  Researchers reported “the implications for prevention of diseases involving free-radicals, in addition to acai’s benefits in slowing the rate of age related markers, could be profound.”

QNCenter recommends organic Acai Fruit Powder.

DON’T FORGET…when you buy a GOTTA RED DAWG CD…YOU SAVE LIVES!!!!!!!

BRRRRRRR!!!!!! January 18, 2010

KNOW…you missed me! Back from the cold… it’s SNOW WHITE and the 7 things you “DON’T” want to do…followed by their 7 counter “DO” want to dos. You may be making a New Year’s Resolution to diet in 2010.  Let me stop you there.  If you are planning on losing weight in 2010, save your money and time, and instead, resolve NOT to diet. Diet is truly a “four letter word”.BASTA! ( that means STOP! FINISH! ONLY! in Italian) Dieting doesn’t work. After a dieter stops dieting, they most likely put back on some, if not all of the weight. Many folks gain more weight after dieting, since dieting slows the metabolism and puts the body in a “starvation mode” which causes the body to put on extra fat! In 2010, I’d like you to resolve not to diet.  Here’s why they don’t work and what are better solutions for 2010:

1. Malnutrition: Contrary to popular belief, most diets are not healthy and may actually border on malnutrition. Many urge us to do extreme things, forgo our favorite foods or cut major food groups in order to lose weight.  Healthy eating requires ALL nutrients (carbs, fats and protein) and a minimum number of calories in order to maintain health and proper body function. FOR 2010: Eat foods that are nutrient rich and provide balance to keep you feeling satisfied.
2. It is Unsustainable: Depriving your body shocks your body into losing weight, but once it gets over that shock, it adapts.  How?  By slowing down your metabolism and going into unhealthy physical states, such as starvation. Even if you have the mental willpower to diet forever, your body doesn’t.  FOR 2010: Eat healthy as a lifestyle, not as dieting.  This will help you to lose excess pounds and maintain a healthy weight for a lifetime…not just for bikini season.
3. The Pendulum Factor: When you deprive yourself to an extreme, you end up craving to an extreme.  The pendulum swings from “being extremely good” to “being extremely bad” to compensate.  You may have heard this called “yo-yo dieting.”  FOR 2010: Indulge in moderation.  Enjoying the foods you love and the treats you crave once in awhile will help you to crave foods less overall.
4. Life Happens: Diets often require us to change our eating habits in such a way, that normal life gets in the way.  Eating out, going over to friend’s houses for dinner, special occasions all become “problems.”  These things, however, are the very things that make life worth living!  Further, most of us are busy and may not always have the time to shop, cook and calorie-count the way many diets require.  FOR 2010: Fit healthy eating into every day life so that you can enjoy life AND be healthy.
5. Energy Loss and Metabolism: Dramatically reducing your calorie intake can result in reduced energy levels and fatigue.  Instead, it is important to understand which foods provide you with quality nutrition.  FOR 2010: Eat small meals often which will stimulate weight loss, keep you satisfied and make you feel energetic.
6. Quantitative versus Qualitative: Dieting doesn’t really teach you how to eat for the long term.  You may be counting calories while eating foods that actually make you hungrier or cause you to crave more.  It is a proven fact that diet sodas make you hungrier and cause you to overeat! FOR 2010: Learn what foods are the most satisfying and most nutritious.  The more nutritious the food you eat, the less hungry you will be.
7. One Dimensional: In order to truly lose weight, you have to eat well AND be active.  I’m not saying you have to run a marathon, but as we get older, our metabolisms NATURALLY slow down.  The more active you are, the more calories you burn and the higher your metabolism will stay.  FOR 2010: Be active.  Even if it means taking stairs instead of the elevator, walking at lunch hour, walking to work instead of taking the train…just move.

Get real in 2010!  Change your life by changing your mentality towards health, nutrition and wellness.  Stop dieting, start eating nutritionally and start seeing the results that you want…for the long term! WHEN YOU ARE HEALTHY…THE WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE! HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS TO YOU ALL!

EAT RAW

It’s ALL ABOUT THE SLIME! November 23, 2009

SLIME AND SPORTSSLIME AND SPORTS

OXYGEN

 

Hey all you out there!!!  It’s been too long since my last letter and I DO apologize.  It was quite an eventful summer…AFRICA in the mix.  That’s an entire other email…but…I’d just like to say…a few of the “outbreaks” IN AFRICA TODAY…are as follows:

measles

polio

tetanus

yellow fever

rabies

meningitis

malaria

leprosy

and yes…swine flu…

So…as much as I do strongly advise that you research the vaccines you choose for your children…and I mean THOROUGHLY research them….be thankful we are not faced with epidemics such as these.

What’s going on in PANAMA…you ask????

Panama Prospecting – Going for the Green

This native San Franciscan is a prospector, but not for GOLD…he’s goin’ for the SLIME!!! ALGAE!!!

What Dr. William Gerwick has been doing for a decade is “mining” the pristine waters off the coast of Panama for potential cancer cures.  That’s RIGHT…cancer cures!!! Anti-cancer activity found in this special green slime. At the same time, he and his team of researchers are helping Panamanians preserve one of the world’s last unspoiled refuges for plant and marine life.

The medicinal gold they are seeking is green. Actually blue-green, as in the algae species Leptolyngbyasp. that is being analyzed by the Fogarty-run International Cooperative Biodiversity Group (ICBG) working on and near Coiba Island. The island lies off the Pacific Coast of Panama, cut off from the outside world…maybe why there was a prison there up until 2004.

Gerwick, an oceanographer at the University of California, and Kerry McPhail, a former postdoctoral student of his from Oregon State University and now a National Cancer Institute grantee, discovered the potent new cancer toxin last year.

After scooping up the blue green algae and extracting its oil, they were left with what Gerwick calls “green goo” that turned out to contain “phenomenal anticancer activity.”

Gerwick, rather than considering himself a bioprospector, says, “We are builders, not destroyers. We are attaching value to these life forms” for the benefit of science as well as the economy and biodiversity of Panama.

While the species of Blue Green Algae being investigated near Panama is only in the research phase, you can join one of the oldest life forms on earth by ingesting it…kelp, edible seaweed, wakame, arame, dulse, hijiki, nori and kombu…and freshwater algae called Spirulina and Chlorella....which all contain an abundance of vitamins and minerals and can be a valuable source of iron, iodine and calcium in ANY diet.

An algae a day keeps the DR away.

NOW…on a VERY SERIOUS NOTE: Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Athletes

I live in a community where sports can sometimes be the begin all and end all of every school day….especially during sports season…which is basically…ALL school year.  I support the team spirit…don’t get me wrong…but I don’t support anything that puts a child/teen at risk because of irresponsibility on the part of the “ADULTS”.

Please read this and ask YOUR (OUR) Coaches what they think about these findings.

Young athletes should be tested for heart abnormalities to prevent sudden cardiac death triggered by vigorous exercise, new Dutch research suggests. Sudden cardiac death is the leading cause of death in young athletes. The findings of the study were published in September in the first of a series of quarterly partnership issues between the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the International Olympic Committee.

The researchers screened 371 athletes between the ages of 12 and 35 over two years. EKG found heart problems in 10 athletes, four of whom were restricted from further participation in sports. In another review of the available evidence, researchers found that trying to pick up potentially fatal heart abnormalities through questionnaires and physical exams alone is ineffective. And, because the survival rate is so low, relying on the use of defibrillators at an event is not considered a viable alternative.

“Health-care governing bodies need to be convinced that now is the time for universal [EKG] screening of all young athletes and make the necessary provisions for nationwide screening programs to commence,” the study authors concluded.

We screen for all kinds of things AND EVEN BUILD pretty stadiums while doing so…Let’s make sure we screen for this…like we do for building codes.

Until next time…KWAHERI…RAFIKI MUSURI!!!

ELIZABETH LEE

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Elizabeth Lee

 

It’s about HEALTH…and happiNESS!!! November 17, 2009

 

 

 

"you ARE what you EAT!!!"

JAMBO JAMBO RAFIKI MUSURI!!! bUON gIORNO BUON GIORNO!!!

“Nothing can be more important or necessary to know than the science of nutrition, so let your medicine be your food and your food your medicine”. - Hippocrates.

Healthier Eating in 2010

 

 

 

Most Americans don’t eat the recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables.  It’s a FACT.

The goal for the Healthy People 2010 program was to get at least 75 percent of Americans to eat the recommended two or more daily servings of fruit and for at least 50 percent of Americans to consume three or more daily servings of vegetables. This program has now been renamed “Healthy People 2020″, since we have gone backward, rather than forward, on the proposed national health objectives. ( did someone say…“EAT LOCAL…EAT ORGANIC” ? THAT would be a GREAT STARTING LINE on the road to over-LIVING instead of over-MEDICATING.(I know one right here in WIMBERLEY…EIEIO ORGANIC FARMS…www.eieiotx.com)

“A diet high in fruits and vegetables is important for optimal child growth, maintaining a healthy weight, and prevention of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and some cancers, all of which currently contribute (contribute!? HA!) to health care costs in the United States,” Dr. William H. Dietz, director of the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, said in a CDC news release.

And just an FYI…fruits and vegetables don’t mean…candied dried FRUIT in a bag from SAM’s…or fried VEGETABLE chips from CENTRAL MARKET.

The report found that only 21 percent of U.S. middle schools and high schools offer fruits and non-fried vegetables. Fewer than half the states (21) have policies to support farm-to-school (I know one right here in WIMBERLEY…EIEIO ORGANIC FARMS…www.eieiotx.com) programs that can increase access to fruits and vegetables and teach students about nutrition and agriculture. (Kathleen Mooney, owner of EIEIO Organic Farms, does just that…teaches a class at KATHERINE ANNE PORTER CHARTER SCHOOL on agriculture and farming and the class in turn, works the farm and enjoys the “fruits and vegetables” of their labor EACH HARVEST.

“We have seen the tremendous benefit of state and local officials, health professionals, nutritionists, employers, food store owners, farmers, school staff, and community members working together on food and nutrition issues,” CDC epidemiologist Heidi Michels Blanck said in the news release. “Their efforts can help to increase the availability of affordable healthier food choices.”

I’d like to introduce you to:QUANTUM NUTRITION CENTER

www.qncenter.com

I recommend as a TOP “online source to HEALTH AND HAPPINESS“

Ted Nelson QRACN, RMT,  Head Nutritionist and Clinic Director of QN CENTER, teaches his new way of getting daily nutrition is to prepare a simple drink:

½ teaspoon of Sweet Wheat Grass with 1 or 2 droppers of Mineral Drops in water and, if you desire, add a tablespoon of Black Cherry Concentrate for flavoring, or add the Sweet Wheat and Mineral Drops to your favorite juice. “This gives you your vitamins and minerals in a great, easy to make drink. It is much better for the body to eat and drink living source super foods, instead of taking a handful of pills for your daily nutrition,” says Ted

We believe in eating and drinking your nutrition, rather than ONLY TAKING your nutrition. This concept is designed to move QN Center into the “Food” category with the FDA, instead of the “Supplement” category..

Read more about these new products from QNCenter:

• QNCenter’s Sweet Wheat Grass
• QNCenter’s Concentrated Mineral Drops

coming soon!!!
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Elizabeth Lee