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Drink More Water 

Do you feel tired much of the time? Do you suffer dry skin and mood shifts? 

It could be, like an estimated 80% of the population, that you are chronically dehydrated. You know you should drink plenty of water but you end of forgetting. Or the prospect just isn't as exciting as a coffee or soda. 

You know you should drink up to eight glasses of water a day but you've found it hard to keep up the motivation. 

 Water thieves We are all largely made up of water-two thirds of our weight is made up of water. Consider this: Blood is around 83% water. Your muscles consist of 75% water. Your brain is 74% water And your bone is 22% water. 

No wonder drinking plenty of water makes you think more clearly keeps your blood and blood pressure healthy and makes your muscles and bones work better. But being chronically dehydrated isn't just a question of not drinking enough water but also consuming to many substances that actually steal your precious water.

Teenage girls live on junk food

Teenage girls live on junk food.

(NaturalNews) Teenage girls eat substantially worse than teenage boys and older women, according to the preliminary results of the United Kingdom's National Diet and Nutrition Survey. 

The average teenage girl consumed 54 grams (1.9 ounces) of French fries or other fried potatoes per day, in comparison with only 40 grams per day among women between the ages of 19 and 65. 

Teenage girls consumed 14 grams of potato chips and other salty snacks each day, 22 grams of chocolate and candy, and 37 grams of cakes and cookies. 

In contrast, adult women consumed only 6 grams, 10 grams and 27 grams of these foods per day, respectively.

The right chocolate equals super nutrition

Nicknamed "black gold" by the Spanish, the bean-shaped pod is a food that has also been considered a highly beneficial medicine because it contains over 300 identifiable chemical compounds. Unfortunately, many of those properties are destroyed by cooking, processing, and refining. Studies have shown that dairy products actually block the absorption of antioxidants in chocolate. Yet most commercially produced candy and chocolate bars contain low levels of cacao bean compared to other ingredients such as sugars, milk fat, hydrogenated oils, and artificial flavorings.

In comparison by weight, cacao has more antioxidant flavonoids than blueberries, red wine, or black and green teas. In fact, it has up to four times the quantity of antioxidants found in green tea. The Aztecs called the cacao "yollotl eztli," which literally means "heart blood;" they understood the benefit this truly powerful superfood has on the cardiovascular system.

Pure, raw cacao also has extraordinary potential for helping to support weight loss - quite the opposite from the everyday chocolate bar!

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Sugar the Bitter Truth

If you have been following my blog for any time you will know that I report back on any information about the poisonous effect of HFCS  High Fructose Corn Syrup.  

Well, the film Food Inc. explains the politics of cheap food and especially HFCS but this video from Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. 

He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Well worth the watch for those of us concerned about health.

Xmas is over. Time to shed those pounds

I keep coming across the acai berry in the press and during my research have discovered that it can help you lose weight.  So I thought I would look further.  

The acai berry (ah-sigh-ee) grows in the Amazon Rainforest on acai palm trees and looks like a purple marble or purple grape. The Acaí berry (fruit) is 90% seed pit and 10% acaí pulp and must be carefully handled before it can be consumed. During the process the acaí berries with water are put into a machine and are agitated against one another. This process separates the acaí pulp from the seed to produce a thick acaí fruit pulp puree.

Acaí berry has a unique tropical fruit flavor and provides a high level nutritional benefits. The acaí berry contains high levels of antioxidants also known as anthocyanins. It also contains Omega Fatty Acids (healthy fats), Amino Acids, Fiber, Iron, along with many other vitamins and minerals (Nutritional Value of the Acai Berry and Acai Berry Juice). An amazonian traditional recipe mixes acaí fruit pulp and natural guarana seed, which gives energy and heighten mental clarity that has caffeine like effects when combined with guarana.

Natives living in the Amazon river region in Northern Brazil, have had as part of their diet the acai berry for hundreds of years for it's nutritional value. It's healing and wellness powers are legendary throughout the area. The popularity of the acai berry is starting to spread from Brazil to the rest of the Americas.

Acai Berry has the following nutritional, health and wellness properties:

* Antioxidant
* Antibacterial
* Anti-inflammatory
* Antimutagenic
* Cardiovascular System

Acai berries contain very high amounts of essential fatty acid & omegas proven to lower LDL & maintain HDL cholesterol levels. They also have a remarkable concentration of antioxidants to help combat free radicals and premature aging. Acai Berry is a source of a particular class of flavonoids called anthocyanins. The ORAC value of Acai Berry is higher than any other edible berry in the world! Acai Berry is also an excellent source of dietary fiber!

Acai is extremely rich in organic vegetable protein which does not generate cholesterol during its digestion and is easier processed and transported to your muscles than animal protein (such as in milk or meat). 

Besides its outstanding content of protein and unsaturated lipids, acai is also rich in carbohydrates which provide your body with the necessary energy while working or practicing any kind of sport. That is why acai is served in most gyms, sport clubs and beaches all over Brazil.

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Overeating Beats Inactivity as Cause of Obesity

From an original article by Jon Barron | July 5, 2008

Couch potatoes and French-fried potatoes -- these are the things we commonly blame for the obesity epidemic. But now, a new analysis indicates that it's the potatoes more than the sofa making people fat. According to researchers in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, people today are no less active than they were 20 years ago. In fact, the researchers found that subjects in the US and Europe burned an equivalent number of calories on a daily basis when compared to subjects in non-industrialized, developing countries and even when compared to wild animals.

"We found that people have not reduced their energy expenditure over the same period that obesity rates have increased enormously," says Professor John Speakman from the University of Aberdeen. His co-author, Klaas Westerterp, from the University of Maastricht, illuminates the point: "Because we found no evidence for declines in energy expenditure over the last two decades, this work suggests that the obesity epidemic has been largely driven by increases in food intake."

This doesn't mean .....

Drug Companies Wish to Control Your Choices

There is an attack on the dietary supplements weight loss industry. The attack is coming from the drug industry. The drug industry is trying to reduce all competition in the weight loss industry. If they accomplish what they're trying to accomplish, they will be the only ones to be able to claim they can help someone lose weight.

In Tim Sales' view, one of the greatest deceptions of the 20th century is the trick the drug industry played by controlling the word "disease." If they can get some ailment named a disease, the FDA will ONLY allow the drug industry to claim they can help that disease.

Legally (not logically), heart "disease" can only be cured with a drug. No drug actually cures or prevents heart disease, but that doesn't seem to matter to the FDA. A healthy diet does cure and prevent heart disease, but no one can claim this because LEGALLY the drug industry owns the word "heart disease."

We must act now to prevent the drug industry from owning the words "obesity disease." If they succeed at this, no one selling dietary supplements will be able to state that their supplements can help one lose weight because being overweight will be considered a disease.

At the very minimum... click on this link and read it (it's not long). Then, using the example letter, send your comments to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) using the link on this site. If you can, also send a written letter.

Or... (and this is what I prefer) you can become fire spitting mad and email everyone you know and use whatever means or techniques necessary to get them to engage and fight with us. Simply send your friends to this weblog.

Making people's lives better - who might not even know we made their life better. :)

Tim Sales

Killer Sugar! Suicide With A Spoon

Killer Sugar! Suicide With A Spoon by Bill Misner, Ph.D.

Sugar, an aldehyde or ketone derivative of polyhydric alcohol, mostly shows up as either disaccarhides(C12H22O11), or monosaccharides(C6H12O6) found in foods such as candy, fruit, salt, peanut butter, canned vegetables, bouillon cubes, medicines, toothpaste, vitamins, and almost all processed "fat-free" products.

The health dangers ingested sugar creates when habitually imposed upon human physiology are certain. Simple sugars have been observed to aggravate asthma, muster mental illness, move mood swings, provoke personality changes, nourish nervous disorders, hurry heart disease, deliver diabetes, grow gallstones, hasten hypertension, add arthritis, and on top of all of that...It will kill you!

Certain harmful refined dietary sugars (which are specifically discussed below) almost always turn directly into fat! Glucose, Fructose, Sucrose, Galactose, Maltose, and Lactose are digested and absorbed with such speed that the body must convert them into saturated fats. Saturated Fatty Acids are "sticky" by nature, and, when introduced into the vascular system, clog arteries, increase the chance of stroke, diabetes, and definitively decrease athletic performance.

Check out Dr Mecola's views on Video on artificial sweeteners including Splenda, Nutrasweet and Aspartamine.

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