Redirecting Your Budget Toward Health

  Seriously think about your weekly shopping costs. It’s time to do some figuring and serious thinking about what’s important to your health, life, future, and your children.  Can you cut back on any of these things and redirect this money to healthier choices?  Do your current choices support your number one priority for you…

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Do You Need To Take Supplements?

     If you don’t want to take supplements, that’s fine, as long as you . . . *Drink 6-8 cups of purified water every day, *Eat enough high-quality protein with all 8 essential amino acids every day, *Eat a minimum of 8-10 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables every day, *Eat at least 50% of…

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Nutritional Supplementation

     Are nutritional supplements necessary?  Does our food give us the nutrients we need to live?  What about all the pesticides, fertilizers, chemicals and food additives?  Does the food on store shelves feed and fortify us?  Do any of us get even the bare minimums of the Recommended Daily Allowances of vitamins and minerals?  Do…

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Body Building

   Let’s pretend that we are working at a construction site.  Building requires 3 main things: 1.  The basic building materials (brick, wood, shingles, etc.) 2.  Something that holds the building materials together (mortar, nails, glue, etc.) 3.  Someone with the correct tools and knowledge to put it all together (bricklayer, carpenter, roofer, etc.) Possible…

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Essential Fatty Acids

Essential Fatty Acids    Why are “good” fats and Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) needed in our diet? 1.  Your body needs healthy fat for: *Hormones *Cushioning body organs and keeping you warm *Energy (energy value of fat is actually double that of carbohydrates or protein) *Healthy brain, heart, nerve tissues *Healthy skin, nails, hair, bones…

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Trans Fats

   The hydrogenation process creates a very toxic product that wreaks havoc without our bodies: *The molecular structure of the fat is changed from a naturally occurring formation to a formation that is rarely found in nature called a “trans” formation, hence, the name “trans fats” or “trans fatty acids”. *Trans fats look similar enough…

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