Drink This Every Evening and Lose Weight Extremely Fast

You won’t look “baggy” any more after drinking this juice. Take my word for it!

You are probably out of your mind when you can’t fit into your favorite clothes. I perfectly understand that because it happens to everyone once in a while.

How can i loose weight fast! 

Well, let me see: You can do sports, you can visit a beauty salon, you can cut down on your meals… or you can find a healthy way to lose weight extremely fast. 

The healthiest way to shed extra pounds and stop worrying about your looks is this one: 

FIND THE PERFECT JUICE FOR YOU!

Why juice is great for people who cannot follow complicated diets?

Recently, the National Cancer Institute began a campaign to get people to do one simple thing – EAT MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Specifically, the recommendation was to eat five servings of fruit and three servings of vegetables a day, and their reasoning was simple:

A diet high in fruits and vegetables will prevent or cure a wide range of ailments! 

Here are several tips that will quickly persuade you to go “juice-addicted”:

1. It’s an easy way to get more fruits and veggies into your diet, especially if you are not big into fruits and vegetables. A diet rich in organic and raw foods will bring the best health benefits for you!

2. Fresh juices are a tremendous source of enzymes. In fact, the “freshness” of juice is one of their key features. If the food is cooked at temperatures above 114 degrees, the enzymes have been destroyed by the heat. Since produce is juiced raw, the enzymes are still viable when you drink the juice.

3. When you go to bed and fall asleep, the metabolism slows down. That is the reason why I suggest drinking juice in the evening: it will boost your metabolism while you are sleeping and help you burn calories. Juiced fruits and vegies increase your metabolism real fast, so you won’t even notice how you lose unnecessary fat. 

Now, are you ready to give juicing a whirl?

Juice recipe:

Ingredients:

• 2 glasses of water
• 1 lemon (squeezed)
• 1 tsp. ginger (grated)
• 2 tbsp. parsley (chopped)
• a handful of spinach

Directions:

Put the ingredients in a juicer and let it do the work. Once your juice is ready, it’s best to drink it the same day you make it, for food safety. Yet, don’t drink immediately the whole amount, but consume it in a period of 2 hours.

Drinking this juice every evening will help you get rid of the unwanted toxins in your body, will prevent water retention, will control food cravings of all kinds, will suppress appetite and will keep you safe from constipation which is one of the main reasons for gaining extra weight.

Instead of falling into the trap of disappointment, i.e. thinking that you can never be attractive again, you can simply juice your dinner or supper!

See more at: http://www.dietoflife.com

14 Fruits to Eat if You’re Cutting Back on Sugar

We’ve been told for decades to eat our fruits and vegetables. Government guidelines recommend five to nine servings a day because these foods are full of nutrients, fiber, and phytochemicals critical for optimal health.

But lately, some of that advice has been questioned—particularly the advice on fruit.

A lot of our favorites, including grapes and bananas, are high in sugar. It’s natural sugar, and it’s combined with fiber and other nutrients, but still, it’s sugar. And we’re eating more sugar today than ever before.

While we’re cutting back on sugary treats and snacks, should we be limiting our intake of certain fruits, too?

The Health Benefits of Fruit

Eat whole fruit, and you get a lot of healthy things:

• Fiber that fills you up, keeps you satisfied, and eases digestion.
• Vitamins like vitamin A, B, C, E, and K—all critical for good health
• Minerals like potassium, calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, phosphorus, and more—often 10 or more minerals in one piece of fruit!
• Antioxidants like vitamins A, C, and E, plus flavonoids like quercetin, catechin, epicatechin, and anthocyanidin—all nutrients known to fight disease and keep you healthy.
• Healthy fats: Some fruits, like avocados, have healthy monounsaturated fats that can help lower cholesterol levels and even support healthy skin.
• Disease-fighting factors: All fruits have been linked with reducing risk of disease. Blackberries, for example, because of their powerful antioxidants, have been linked to a reduced risk of stroke and cancer. Apples may help reduce risk of diabetes, and blueberries may help you retain your memory as you age. Cantaloupe, because of its high levels of beta-carotene, may help reduce the risk of developing cataracts. And the list goes on an on.

Still, all these fruits have natural sugars, too. Could they cancel out the health benefits?

Stick to Eating Whole Fruit

Most experts say that as long as you eat the whole fruit, you’re getting three key things:

1. fiber,
2. water content,
3. and what they call “chewing resistance.”

These three things combine to slow down digestion. That means the natural sugars will slowly enter your system, which is important when we’re talking about disease.

We raise our risk for diabetes and heart disease and obesity when we eat those sugars that spike blood sugar levels. In other words, they digest quickly and go straight to the bloodstream, forcing the body to release more insulin to process them. This describes the action of all added sugars.

Natural sugars in whole fruits, however, because of all the other nutrients in them, don’t cause the same type of blood sugar ups and downs. An apple has fiber and water, which fill you up and slow digestion. Soda runs right through you, spikes blood sugar levels, and leaves you still feeling hungry.

In addition, you get significantly less fructose (the disease-causing sugar) from fruit than you would from a food with added sugars. One apple, for example, contains about 23 grams of sugar, of which 13 are fructose. A can of soda, on the other hand, contains about 52 grams of sugar, about 30 of which are fructose.

But of course, there are limits to how fruit we should be consuming, and it differs according to our individual needs and activity levels.

If you want to cut back on sugar and continue to enjoy fruit, opt for low sugar fruits.

Fruits to Choose if You Want to Cut Back on Sugar

In general, dried fruits (like raisins, dried currants, and dried apricots) are high in sugar. Similarly, most juices on the market are full of added sugars. Even if you get an organic variety that’s 100 percent fruit juice, you’re getting a product that will spike your blood sugar levels, as there’s nothing in it to slow down the digestion of the sugars.

We have the two lists here for you—10 fruits lower in sugar, and 10 that have higher levels. (Based on raw and frozen samples.) Keep in mind that sugar content varies, even among fruits of the same type, depending on how long they were allowed to ripen, as well as on the variety of the fruit.
(Source: USDA Database for Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods)

Low Sugar Fruit (8 grams or lower)

• Avocado
• Rhubarb
• Lemon and lime
• Cranberry
• Raspberry
• Papaya
• Watermelon
• Blackberry
• Strawberry
• Grapefruit
• Loganberries
• Boysenberries
• Currants
• Mulberries

High Sugar Fruits (12 grams or higher)

• Raisin
• Date
• Fig
• Pomegranate
• Grape
• Mango
• Cherry (sweet)
• Banana
• Persimmon
• Plaintain

Fruits That Land Somewhere in the Middle (between 8 and 12 grams)

• Nectarine
• Peach
• Cantaloupe
• Honeydew
• Blueberry
• Kumquat
• Orange
• Pear
• Plum
• Apple
• Apricot
• Guava
• Pineapple
• Sour cherries

Are you concerned about the sugar in fruits? Please share your thoughts.

Sources:

R. Bethene Ervin, and Cynthia L. Ogden, “Consumption of Added Sugars Among U.S. Adults, 2005-2010,” NCHS Data Brief, No. 122, May 2013, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db122.pdf.

USDA – Profiling Food Consumption in America

Nanci Hellmich, “Adults consume 13% of calories from added sugars,” USA Today, May 1, 2013, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/01/sugar-calories-soda-food/2121743/.

Quanhe Yang, et al., “Added Sugar Intake and Cardiovascular Diseases Mortality Among US Adults,” JAMA Intern Med., 2014; 174(4):516-524, http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1819573.

Sanjay Basu, et al., “The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data,” PLoS One, February 27, 2013; 8(2):e57873, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23460912.

Stanhope KL, et al., “Adverse metabolic effects of dietary fructose: results from the recent epidemiological, clinical, and mechanistic studies,” Curr Opin Lipidol., June 2013; 24(3):198-206, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23594708.

Kimber L. Stanhope, et al., “Consuming fructose-sweetened, not glucose-sweetened, beverages increases visceral adiposity and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese humans,” J Clin Invest., May 1, 2009; 119(5):1322-1334, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673878/.

New York Times – Making the Case for Eating Fruit

Healthy Eating Guide – Fruits with the Highest and Lower Sugar Content

The Fruit Pages – Fruit Nutrition Facts

USDA Database for Added Sugars Content of Selected Foods

Estrogen-Boosting Crackers [oven method]

Two tablespoons of flaxseed or pumpkin seeds per day have shown to help boost estrogen production. Pumpkin seeds are also known to be phytoestrogenic.

This can be equally valuable for menstruating women in the first part of the cycle (day 1 to 15, refer to the chart) as well as women going through peri- and menopause who would benefit from an estrogen boost.

This recipe is using an oven. If you have a dehydrator, feel free too use it and set it to 115F for 8 hours.

Time to prepare: 20 minutes
Time to soak: 12 hours
Time to bake: 6 hours
Serves: 20 servings
Equipment: thermometer, parchment paper and 18’ x 13’ baking tray

Ingredients:

• 1 cup almonds
• 1 cup flaxseed
• 1 cup pumpkin seeds
• 1 cup dried apples, roughly chopped
• 1 cup roasted coconut flakes
• 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 1 teaspoon sea salt

Directions:

1. Soak almonds for 12 hours.
2. Soak flaxseed and pumpkin seeds in 3 cups of water for 2 hours.
3. Preheat the oven to 150F or the lowest temperature your oven allows. The trick to keeping the temperature low (ideally in the range of 120 to 150F) is to leave the oven door ajar. This will prevent the crackers from burning and will create air circulation to dry the crackers.
4. Strain all the excess water from the almonds and combine with all the remaining ingredients. Toss to mix them well.
5. Line the baking tray with parchment paper and spread the mixture evenly.
6. Bake for 6 hours or until fully dried. It’s recommended to check your crackers regularly using the thermometer to be sure they are getting dried but not burned. If the oven gets too hot, just open the oven door slightly wider. I use a metal tool (like a can opener) to keep the oven door ajar. The second batch will be easier to make as you will know how to keep the oven temperature in the 120-150F range.
7. These crackers store well for two weeks in an air-tight container.

Progesterone-Boosting Crackers [dehydrator method]

This cracker is an ideal daily snack for women in the luteal phase (second part of the menstrual cycle which is about day 15 to 30) when progesterone production is essential to feeling healthy and calm.

These crackers help mitigate PMS which can often be caused by excessive estrogen as compared to progesterone levels.

Time to prepare: 20 minutes
Time to soak: 12 hours
Time to dehydrate: 8 hours
Serves: 20 servings
Equipment: dehydrator and parchment paper.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup almonds
• ¾ cup sunflower seeds
• 1 cup sesame seeds
• 1/3 cup chia seeds
• ¾ cup goji berries
• ½ cup pomegranate syrup (you can get it from Middle Eastern stores, Wholefoods or Amazon)
• 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
• ½ teaspoon sea salt

Directions:

1. Soak almonds for 12 hours.
2. Soak sunflower and sesame seeds for 4 hours.
3. Soak chia seeds in 2 warm cups of water for 3-4 hours in a In a separate bowl.
4. Strain all the excess water from the almonds and combine with in all the remaining ingredients. Toss to mix them well.
5. Line the dehydrator trays with parchment paper and spread the mixture evenly to 1/3 of an inch in thickness.
6. Set the dehydrator to 115F, for 8 hours.

These crackers store well for two weeks in an air-tight container.

As you can see, food can also be used to rebalance our hormonal health and help us feel balanced and nourished. Hormonal imbalances in women are often times the underlying cause of weight struggles, depression, anxiety, infertility, miscarriages, hair loss and more.

This article was contributed by Magdalena Wszelaki, a nutritional coach, hormone specialist and a chef. She has a long history of hormonal challenges herself; from Hashimoto’s, adrenal exhaustion to estrogen dominance. She is in a full remission today and lives a symptoms-free life.

Sources:

European Society of Endocrinology

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry

Nutrition and Cancer, Taylor Francis Group

European Journal of Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

The Seed Rotation Diet: How to Regulate Your Menstrual Cycle with Food

(Source: http://www.annmariegianni.com/the-seed-rotation-diet/)

Not often do we read about food helping hormonal imbalances. In fact, when we hear the word “hormonal problems”, we are conditioned to think of solutions going no further than birth control pills, hormone creams and pallots.

Supporting the old mantra of “food is your medicine,” this article shows how innocent seeds can help regulate and support our menstrual cycle.

The technique is called “seed rotation.” The seed rotation diet can be used to boost our estrogen levels in the first part of our cycle and progesterone levels in the second part. This technique can be used by anyone who is either having irregular periods, periods that are heavy, experiencing heavy PMS and even women going through peri-menopause and menopause.

The technique described here is based on a 30-day cycle, though most women’s cycle tends to be between 25 to 36 days. Only 10 to 15% of women have cycles that are exactly 28 to 30 days. Day 1 is counted as the first day of a period.

As an example, this article is based on a 30-day cycle. It comes from Magdalena Wszelaki, a nutritional coach, hormone specialist and a chef. 

Which Seeds to Use in What Part of the Cycle?

From Day 1 to Day 15 (or the middle of your cycle), we need more estrogen in order to build up our endometrium (uterus lining). This is called the follicular phase. With seeds such as flaxseed and pumpkin seeds, we can naturally increase our estrogen levels.

On Day 15 to Day 30, or the second part of the cycle also known as the luteal phase, we see the corpus luteum releasing progesterone. This sex hormone will help thicken the uterus lining and get it ready for implantation.

The high content of zinc found in sesame seeds and vitamin E in sunflower seeds have shown to stimulate progesterone production (see references below). By adding two tablespoons of sesame and sunflower seeds per day in the luteal phase, we can naturally support the body to produce more progesterone (many women are low in this sex hormone).

Click here to download the Seed Rotation Guide that illustrates this method.

What Does a Balanced Cycle Look Like?

Of course, being regular is one thing but there is more. So many of us are accustomed to feeling terrible before our period (and some women in the mid-cycle or during ovulation as well) that we assume it is “normal.” It is not.

High estrogen (or estrogen metabolites) can be the cause of tender breasts, mood swings, hair loss, weight gain, fibroids, endometriosis, breast and ovarian cysts and even breast and ovarian cancer.

Low progesterone levels can manifest in ways similar to the above (high estrogen) and also: feeling anxious, not being able to fall or stay asleep and menstrual headaches.

Rebalancing your cycle using a simple and food-based technique like the seed rotation diet can help alleviate many of the symptoms in a matter of a few months.

In a perfectly healthy woman, the menstrual cycle and the estrogen/progesterone production will happen naturally with no help or intervention.

This is unfortunately not the case for many women today. Excessive stress (with excessive cortisol release), environmental toxins, poor diet, food sensitivities, digestive issues, high coffee or alcohol consumption – can contribute to irregular or painful periods and even infertility.

Supporting the body with food that will help produce sufficient amount of estrogen and progesterone is not only easy and cheap but also non-invasive. This is why this form of healing is preferred by practitioners who work with food as medicine – this method simply works.

Why Add More Estrogens to Our Diet?

Many women worry that they are already experiencing estrogen dominance, so why add more estrogen in the form of phytoestrogens such as the flaxseed?

For this to be fully understood, we first need to establish that not all estrogens are “bad” and the one that tends to be high in estrogen-dominant women is estradiol, also known as E2. Excessive levels of E2 have been linked to breast and prostate cancer. Here is a fascinating data point: flaxseed does not only suppress estradiol production but it also nudges estradiol metabolism into a positive direction by generating a higher ratio of the protective metabolite 2-hydroxy-estrone versus the more harmful 16-hydroxy-estrone.

Easy Ways of Adding Seed Rotation to Your Diet

One way to incorporate seed rotation on a regular basis is by making snacks out of seed crackers. They store well for a few weeks, are easy to make and come in super handy as travel food.

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