EAT Your Way to Lower Blood Pressure

Eat Your Way to Lower Blood Pressure

One of the best ways to prevent heart attacks and strokes is to keep your blood pressure in check.  If your doctor says your numbers and creeping up, one or more of these clever new strategies could correct the problem - fast!

Relax Arteries With Hot Peppers
Biting into a hot pepper - like a jalapeno, habanero, serrano, or fresno - can open your arteries!  So say Asian researchers who discovered that eating 2 tsp of spicy peppers daily switches on genes that keep blood vessels relaxed and open, so pressure surges don't occur.

Reduce Inflammation With Aloe
Simply drinking a daily 2-oz glass of aloe vera juice (sold in health food stores) can lower blood pressure for 9 out of 10 people within two weeks, British researchers report.  Aloe is packed with compounds that control inflammation, a major high blood pressure trigger, explains Mark Stengler, N.D. author of The Natural Physician's Healing Therapies.
TIP: Mix Aloe with a little grape or orange juice to jazz up the flavor.

Flush Out Trapped Fluids With Onions
Eating 1/3 cup of onions daily (any kind, cooked or raw) can cut blood pressure as much as 21% in five weeks, a recent Spanish study reveals.  Onions are rich in quercetin, a natural diuretic that lowers pressure by speeding excess fluids and salt out of your body.
Don't like onions? Taking a 1,000-mg quercetin supplement daily can lower your blood pressure seven points in one month.

Steady Your Pressure With Milk
Milk's calcium and whey work as a team to relax your nervous system, preventing pressure spikes during high-stress times.  And University of Tennessee research shows it only takes two 8-oz glasses daily (whole, low-fat or non-fat) to lower your blood pressure in eight weeks.

Source:  "Woman's World" July 9, 2012

Self Respect

Where you can be in just 12 short weeks....
Here are just a few of the benefits of exercise:
• Reduces the risk of dying prematurely from heart disease.
• Reduces the risk of developing diabetes.
• Reduces the risk of developing high blood pressure.
• Helps reduce blood pressure in people who already have high blood pressure.
• Reduces the risk of developing colon cancer.
• Reduces feelings of depression and anxiety.
• Helps control weight.
• Helps build and maintain healthy bones, muscles, and joints.
• Helps older adults become stronger and better able to move about without falling.
• Promotes psychological well-being.

http://www.nutristrategy.com/health.htm

Top 4 Dieting Myths of All Time

Over the years, we’re exposed to countless tips, tricks and supposed “rules” regarding dieting. Can you separate fact from fiction?

We all know a few hard-and-fast rules when it comes to eating right and staying in shape: Eat lots of fruits and veggies. Cut back on red meat, fast food, and sodas. Exercise regularly. But you may be surprised to learn that many of the so-called “facts” you swear by aren’t true at all! Here, Dr. Oz busts the top 4 dieting myths.

Dieting Myth 1: Eating Fat Makes You Fat
The name says it all: Fat makes you fat, right? Wrong! Eating a small amount of fat actually helps you feel fuller faster as it triggers satiety (or fullness) signals, causing you to eat less overall. Not only that, eating the right fats aids in the absorption of healthy vitamins. Seek out the polyunsaturated fats you’ll find in liquid oils, like canola and safflower oil. Unlike saturated fats, they won’t raise bad blood cholesterol levels and may even reduce the risk of a heart attack. To get your healthy fat fix, also look for omega-3 oils from fish, krill, seafood, algae, flaxseeds and/or walnuts, and olive oil, which is a source of both monounsaturated fats and omega-3s.

Dieting Myth 2: You Burn Fat Faster by Exercising on an Empty Stomach
Starving yourself before you exercise isn’t only ineffective, it may be harmful. A report published this year concluded that your body burns roughly the same amount of fat regardless of whether you eat before a workout, but you’re likely to lose strength-building muscles by exercising on an empty stomach. Not only that, without food to fuel your workout, exercise intensity and overall calorie burn are reduced. On the other hand, when you exercise with some food in your stomach, you’re burning fat instead of muscle, leaving you with more energy and a higher calorie burn. Be sure to eat 30 minutes before exercise, preferably a liquid-like yogurt or a protein shake so your body can make nutrients readily available for your workout.

Dieting Myth 3: It’s Harder for Women to Lose Weight
Men may appear to lose weight faster than women at first, over the long run things balance out. Men tend to have more muscle mass and undergo fewer hormonal changes, which allows for an easier burn-off of those first few pounds. Research shows, however, that, over time, weight loss evens out between the sexes so long as you stick to a healthy diet and exercise routine. Remember, healthy results don’t matter over a week or even a month – they really add up and matter over the years.

Dieting Myth 4: All Calories Are Created Equally
A calorie does not automatically equal a calorie! Some calories are more filling, leaving you feeling full faster so your appetite is gone in a flash. Other calories are less filling, keeping your appetite going and going and going. You want to seek out the first type of calories, so be sure to replace the less-filling saturated fats that you’ll find in butter and fatty meats with the more-filling, polyunsaturated fats found in sources like avocados and nuts. You’ll get the rich, delicious flavors you crave without packing on unwanted pounds.

Borrowed from http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/top-4-dieting-myths-all-time#copy

Why Drink Lemon Water?

Why drink lemon water?
Lemons are packed with natural vitamins and minerals that are key to your inner and outer beauty!
It’s a natural energizer!
It quenches thirst, cleanses,hydrates and oxygenates the body so it feels revitalized and refreshed.
The citric acid in lemons helps maximize enzyme function, which stimulates the liver and aids in detoxification.
It aids in digestion.
Not only will this killer combination relive indigestion, it will also help flush you out and it makes the body alkaline (oxygen enriched!!)

So, what'll ya have?

 

 

HOW MUCH SUGAR ARE YOU CONSUMING? Dr. Tim Mathew, Kidney Health Australia's Medi...cal Director, said research in the US had shown that one soft drink or sweet juice each day AT ANY AGE was associated with an 80% increase in the risk of acquiring diabetes in females. It's really all about choices.

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"The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison." - Dr. Ann Wigmore, ND

 

What is your "WHY" in life? Is it driving you everyday to be the best you and to live by utilizing every second of time you are blessed to have? Are you doing what you truly love? Why Not? Are you sacrificing your own personal health to help others? Are you aware that if you take better care of your health, you can be there for and help more people if that is what drives you

 

Without your health you have nothing and you miss out on so much, by creating the wrong memories spent in hospital and ER's when you should be living life and creating memories that make other realize that they want that too!!!

 

WAKE UP, stop feeling sorry for yourself, because at some point others will stop feeling sorry for you to. Start living the life you were truly meant for. You can't get yesterday back, you can damn well make toady spectacular with the amazing people that love you for you and how they feel having you in their lives and make tomorrow EPIC!

By: Laura Farago

Butter or Margerine?

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.
It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings....

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine..
Very High in Trans fatty acids.
Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT

These facts alone should be enough to have us avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro-organisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')!

Chinese Proverb:

When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

Pass the BUTTER PLEASE