How important is diet when it comes to teeth health?

This is part four in a continuing series of an interview I had with OraWellness.

Part One: Why is gum disease prevalent even though we brush regularly?
Part Two: Is it possible to remineralize our teeth? And a word on oil pulling…
Part Three: What causes bad breath, and how do I get rid of it?

Today we discuss the importance of diet when it comes to teeth health. Continue reading

Eight Low-Carb Fruits for Diabetics

I am pleased to share with you a link to my guest post over at Delicious Obsessions: Eight Excellent Low-Carb Fruits.

I think it’s important to realize that just because God made fruit, does not mean it is okay to eat as many as we want. Fruit sugar (fructose), is still sugar, and it will affect blood sugar levels just like any other sugar and should be limited. Continue reading

Five Fruits with the Highest Sugar Load

I recently shared my article, Reasons to Limit Fructose Consumption on my Facebook page, and I had someone ask me a really good question:

What fruits have less fructose because I like to have smoothies?

So, Suzanne - this post is for you! Continue reading

You Call That Healthy? Ha ha! - Carnation Instant Breakfast LIED!

Well I don’t know about you, but I have been thoroughly amused - it not somewhat disgusted - at the lies that are being told in advertisements. Marketers are trying to pass of their garbage as good for us!

I am insulted!

How dare they think we are so gullible as to fall for their marketing tricks.

Here are two more for this week… Continue reading

Everything You Need to Know About Long-Term Food Storage

Wheat (Wheat Berries)- Flour will go rancid after a few months; wheat berries store for decades. You will need a wheat grinder to turn these into flour; I’d recommend a hand grinder in case you are without electricity. Continue reading

Everything You Need to Know About Colds, Part 3

Dietary Strategies to Kick a Cold

If you feel yourself coming down with a cold or flu, this is NOT the time to be eating ANY sugar, artificial sweeteners or processed foods. Sugar is particularly damaging to your immune system — which needs to be ramped up, not suppressed, in order to combat an emerging infection.

So if you are fighting a cold, you’ll want to avoid all sugar like the plague, and this includes sugar in the form of fruit juice and even grains (which break down as sugar in your body).

Ideally, you must address nutrition, sleep, exercise and stress issues the moment you first feel yourself getting a bug. This is when immune-enhancing strategies will be most effective. Continue reading

Feeding the Young (comic)

http://www.newstarget.com/021731.html

Commentary by Mike Adams, the creator of this cartoon:

Humans are the only species on the planet who actually go out of their way to feed their children crap. All other animals instinctly seek out the best nutrition they can find. Birds find grubs, worms and insects to feed their young, honeybees painstakingly collect pollen and create a nutrient-rich superfood that gives rise to a living queen bee, and even dogs, cats and cows try to find the most nutrient-rich foods to offer their offspring.

But humans? Most of them “reward” their children with junk food, sugary sodas, candy laced with petrochemical coloring additives and refined sugars that promote obesity and diabetes. Most parents don’t even make any real effort to follow nutritional discipline at home — they simply buy whatever their children saw advertised on television, caving in to the all-powerful “nag factor” that junk food companies fully exploit when marketing to children. Continue reading