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Why Your Kids Should Never Eat French Fries |
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Diet and Nutrition
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 14:17 |
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As Americans and as parents are we willing to trade the health of our children for the convenience that fast food offers? Are the lives of our children worth the crayons and color-your-own placemats? Perhaps you believe that reports of fast and fatty foods being unhealthy is an over statement and meant only for those who indulge in such a lifestyle. Are you willing to gamble the health of your children?
I will tell you what I believe and you can make up your own mind, but just remember the health of your children rests on the decisions you make. |
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Overcome Old Habits: Direct Your Focus on What You Want |
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Motivation
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 13:45 |
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Research suggests that we are always focusing on something whether we are aware of it or not. That may be part of the problem— focus is usually not conscious but automatic. We tend to unconsciously focus on something we don’t want and then when we get it we feel like a victim. We don’t stop to consider that we may have created it in the first place. The irony is that we don’t realize we could choose to create something completely different if we could only start “consciously” focusing on what we want. If we can consciously focus on what we want, we can make it happen. According to Bill Harris, Director of the Centerpoint Research Institute, the mind is a goal-seeking mechanism and an extremely effective one at that. It is constantly creating exactly what we focus on. When you focus on something, your mind says, “Okay, I can do that,” and starts figuring out how to do it. Yes, that’s right! You start seeing how to do it on your own. The more frequent and the more intense the focus, the faster and more effectively we will create what we have focused on. |
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Toxic Foods: The Obesity Connection |
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Diet and Nutrition
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 13:44 |
Increasingly over the past few years, more and more medical and fitness experts alike are openly voicing their concerns about the connection between processed foods and obesity in America. In 2006, Dr. Robert Lustig, of the University of California San Francisco took it one step further when he wrote in the Nature Clinical Practice: Endocrinology and Metabolism journal that processed food were loaded with sugars that altered the body's hormonal balance, creating a "toxic environment" and an "addiction" to food.
These were strong words that suggested that maybe those who struggled with extreme weight gain were not entirely to blame for their obesity. True, there is no disputing that individually you do have personal responsibility for your body and what you put into it. However, does the processed food industry bear some responsibility for offering foods to consumers that are loaded in sugars? Are they knowingly creating food products that are addictive in nature?
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Better Health With Organic Wine |
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Diet and Nutrition
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 13:36 |
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“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s
sake and thine often infirmities.”
~1 Timothy, 5:23 All right, so the first Epistle of Paul the Apostle probably was not advocating the health benefits of drinking wine in this Bible passage, but he may have ultimately been on to something. Wine has been around for centuries, and as early as 450 B.C. it has been used for various “medicinal” purposes. For example, Hippocrates recommended specific wines to flush out fever, sterilize and dress wounds, act as a diuretic, and perform as a nutritional supplement. The earliest known physicians appear to have also advocated drinking wine over water prior to the 18th century as well, simply because the acids and alcohols in wine were able to kill those pathogens considered harmful to humans. Unfortunately, the same could not be said about the water supply of that time. Today, over 400 significant long-term studies have been conducted worldwide regarding the health benefits of drinking wine regularly and in moderation. |
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The Important Role of Natural Foods |
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Diet and Nutrition
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Written by Dave DePew
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Sunday, 13 April 2008 13:34 |
Time and time again you have heard nutritional experts tell you just how important raw and/or unprocessed natural foods are to your diet. While you probably know they play a role in maintaining your overall good health, you may not be as familiar with just how significant a role they play.
There is a particular body of research by two nutritional pioneers which provides some amazing insight into just how import raw, unprocessed foods are to our overall health. Additionally, it offers solid research findings regarding just how detrimental substituting raw foods with refined, processed food products can be to our general health and well-being.
Dr. Weston A. Price was a dentist in the early 1900s that made a startling discovery. After years of research and touring the world studying the eating habits of indigenous populations, he was able to conclude that as processed foods were introduced into a particular culture, general health began to deteriorate.
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