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June 8, 2010

Would a List of High Fiber Foods Motivate You To Eat Better?

That list of high fiber foods is the all star lineup for your healthy diet plan!

High fiber foods can help you to lose weight, prevent constipation, diabetes, and heart disease, help reduce your risk of high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, obesity, hemorrhoids, some cancers, high blood sugar, and it keeps your digestive system working properly.

Awesome foods, wouldn’t you say?

All plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seeds and beans, have fiber. But all fiber is not the same. Fiber can be divided into two categories and they have different effects on your body.

Soluble fiber is found in dried beans, peas, oats and oat bran, flaxseed and psyllium husks. It’s also found in fruits such as oranges and apples and vegetables like carrots.

Soluble fiber binds with fatty acids in your stomach and prolongs digestion time, helping to regulate blood sugar.

Studies also show that soluble fiber can help reduce your overall cholesterol count. But what’s even more important, soluble fiber lowers your LDL, which is considered to be bad cholesterol.

Insoluble fiber is found in whole wheat, wheat bran, vegetables such as cauliflower and green beans and the skins of fruits and root vegetables.

Insoluble fiber helps remove toxins from your colon and balance intestinal acidity. It also helps move waste through your bowel.

The recommended total daily fiber intake for adults is 30 to 40 grams. But most Americans get only about 10 grams of fiber a day.

Print this page out and post it on your refrigerator, or go grab a pen and paper! You’ll want to refer to this list until you have memorized your go-to foods.

Your Health Building Super Fiber Foods! Continue reading article →

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June 3, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

Why Do You Need A Goal Setting Worksheet?

Do you recognize your greatness?

Erica Jong, an American author and teacher said,

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place it leads.”

I’m not exactly sure what she means by that, but I have an idea.

What’s your passion? Have you found something that drives you past your normal limits? Something that makes the hours seem like minutes? When you live with purpose you are possessed with drive and inspiration that will definitely push you past your limits towards your full potential!

When you set goals and work towards achieving them, you access your ideals. When that conflicts with what you see in your life now …

it causes all those limiting beliefs that are holding you back to rise to the surface.

Do you believe that you have it in you to succeed in life?
Do you believe it is within your power to beat heart disease?
Do you believe you can survive grief and loss?
Can you finally lose weight even though you have tried a thousand times?
Is physical fitness still within your grasp? Can you enjoy playing with your grand-children?
Will you leave a legacy when you are gone?
Do you believe you deserve happiness?

Realizing your greatness starts by setting goals and gathering with like minded people to over come obstacles. The secret is Continue reading article →

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February 17, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

Why Worry About Cholesterol? An Anti Inflammation Diet Can Change Your Life!

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Are you concerned about cholesterol?

Dr. Dwight Lundell’s book The Cholesterol Lie will help you understand why you should be more concerned about inflammation!

Instead of a cholesterol lowering diet, you should focus on an anti inflammation diet. Lowering your cholesterol will not reduce your risk of having a heart attack, but reducing the inflammation in your body just might.

Inflammation has everything to do with what you eat, so you are wise to carefully choose your diet.

Inflammation also has everything to do with with inactivity, so you are wise to get moving any way you can.

Inflammation has everything to do with stress, so you are wise to nurture stillness and peace in your life.

Inflammation is also a natural stage of the healing process.

There are 7 stages that disease will follow unless measures are taken to nurture yourself and restore balance.

You can argue family history and genes, but the fact is that disease begins as your body’s attempt to heal itself. Each phase of the disease process is more effort to restore balance.

Cancer is the final stage of disease, when the cells of the body litterally turn on you as enemy invaders. Up until that point, all the cells of your body are working in harmony to restore balance … to heal.

Your uncomfortable symptoms of inflammation cause you to stop and really notice what is going on in your body.

If you will spend quiet time with yourself each day, you will notice what your needs are and how to meet them BEFORE you create a crisis that manifests into physical or emotional suffering.

All of your complaints fall somewhere on the list below.

The 7 Stages of Disease Continue reading article →

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January 31, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

Do You Understand What Causes Diabetes?

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Something you learned 30 years ago may very well be responsible for your suffering.

Do you think that purchasing products that are “low-fat” and “no-fat” are helping you to lose weight and avoid heart disease? That information is in your brain because of a study done by Ancel Keys. That study has laid the foundation for three decades of nutrition science, education and public policy. The problem is that the study comes to conclusions that are just plain wrong.

If the label on that can or box says low or no fat, you can bet that the product tastes like cardboard without lots of extra sugar. That sugar is doing more than just making you fat. It is poisoning you.

Thanks to Richard Nixon’s war on poverty and his partnership with the USDA to bring down the price of food, High Fructose Corn Syrup was introduced in 1975 to replace sugar because it was cheap and readily available.

Fructose is even more poisonous to your body than sugar is. Your body does not secrete insulin to digest fructose, because it is not recognized as a food. Fructose has to be processed by your liver.

Bio-chemists know that the way your body reacts to fructose is all the evidence needed to prove that fructose is a poison rather than a food.

“Hey wait, the commercials on television say that moderate use of fructose is ok!”

I’ve seen that commercial. You need to be aware that it is not safe. It has never been tested safe. There is no evidence that it is in fact safe. As well, since it is in EVERYTHING you are using it more than moderately.

Fructose contributes to insulin resistance and weight gain. That is why diabetes is SO much more prevalent today than it was 30 years ago. The way fructose is metabolized, a high fructose diet is worse than a high fat diet.

Chemicals disguised as foods just do not nurture you.

So What Causes Diabetes? Continue reading article →

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January 17, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

Does Lowering Your Bad Cholesterol Levels Eliminate Your Heart Disease Concerns?

Dr. Dwight Lundell is a heart surgeon who has seen more than his fair share of heart disease. He knows plenty about the patients he cuts open, and he says that cholesterol is not the concern.

If Dr. Lundell says that lowering cholesterol is NOT your answer, you owe it to yourself to find out why.

Over 25% of the population is taking statin medications because they are VERY concerned about the health of their heart due to bad cholesterol numbers. There is also a push to begin prescribing these drugs to otherwise healthy people without elevated cholesterol levels.

If statins prevent heart disease, why is heart disease increasing year after year and kills more people than every other cause of death combined? Continue reading article →

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January 1, 2010

| by Carrie Tucker

What Do You Plan To Do About the Heart Failure Epidemic?

Heart failure is increasing at an alarming rate in the US and around the world.

You should be MUCH more concerned about heart disease than any other health issue, because you are more likely to die of heart disease than any other health concern you may have!

Having said that, I want to STRESS the following FACTS:

diabetes and sugar intake significantly increase your chance of succumbing to heart disease and heart failure!
high blood pressure is a paved road to heart failure!
highly processed foods lead to heart failure through weight gain, mal-nutrition, and water retention.
inactivity will drain the strength of your muscles, including your HEART MUSCLE. (So will Statins!)
your inability to process your emotions in a healthy way contributes to heart failure as much as every point listed above.
sometimes the first sign of heart disease is a HEART ATTACK!
most women who have a heart attack succumb to heart failure within one year.
heart failure is very difficult to diagnose, so you may not even hear the term until you are fighting for your life in intensive care.
the CDC says that 20% of patients die within one year of a heart failure diagnosis, and 50% die within five years.
young people are also succumbing to heart disease, including heart failure.

Are you going to wait for your doctor to sound the alarm about heart disease and heart failure? Continue reading article →