In general, most protein powders readily available to consumers are filled with unnecessary sugars and even artificial sweeteners. Essentially, most are packaged foods and contain a lot of junk – including ingredients that you wouldn’t find in your grandmother’s pantry, can’t pronounce and wouldn’t grow in your own garden.
Look for the following qualities in your protein powder:
Wishing you health and happiness,
Mark Hyman, MD.
New Year, New Goals! Start where you are and proceed step by step. Follow these simple guidelines to help you on the way:
6. Eat 4-5 servings of non-starchy vegetables daily. Best bets are cruciferous vegetables, like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and leafy greens.
7. “Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself, ” If you have to peel, chop and deep fry potatoes every time you wanted French fries then you might not eat them very often. Eating “junk food” such as cakes, sweets, and fried foods only as often as you are willing to make them yourself will automatically reduce your consumption.
Be Healthy!
WHO recommends that we eat 9 to 13 servings of vegetables and fruit daily. A serving equals 1/2 cup, cooked, or 1 cup uncooked. A cup being 250ml capacity. Another blogpost, ‘What should I eat’ explains serving size with illustrations.
Why should we eat so much of vegetables – preferably organic?
Simple, because we can avoid the following chronic illnesses. That’s it. No medicines, no costly investigations, no fear of illness. Safe and low cost, low maintenance.
Let’s start with a biggie, shall we? Plant-based nutrition is now something the American Cancer Society promotes as the smart way to go. A whole foods, plant-based diet is full of all the right foods to fight cancer right where it starts: at the cellular process where what you eat is literally what you become.
Another biggie to tackle is Type 2 diabetes. That doesn’t mean those with Type 1 should ignore the research either. A plant-based diet can normalize blood sugar levels due to the high amounts of fiber and reduce inflammation, weight gain, and arterial plaque that comes from diabetes and is now promoted as the way to eat by many medical organizations.
Plants like whole grains, beans, greens, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and fruits all promote a healthy waistline, heart, and fill you up so you’re never hungry and resort to unhealthy eating patterns. A plant-based diet has helped people all over the world lose weight, and has been shown to be the most effective at helping individuals overcome food addictions and overeating.
Whole grains lower cholesterol and clear the arteries, beans and legumes do the same while providing protein and antioxidants, and veggies, leafy greens, and fruits all contain powerful antioxidants such as vitamins and minerals for the heart. Nuts and seeds also contain healthy fats that happen to be free of cholesterol and that are also rich in anti-inflammatory protein and beneficial omega 3 fatty acids. Studies have confirmed that a diet high in whole foods, plant-based fibers reduces cardiovascular disease and has even been found to completely prevent and reverse heart disease.
Greens,vegetables, herbs, seaweeds, some fruits and grains, and raw nuts and seeds are some of the best foods to eat to combat inflammation.
Stay Healthy!
I have been involved with Integrative Medicine (IM) since 8 years now, including it in my Gynecology practice, and since almost a year now I am practicing it full time. I have given away my laparoscopy equipment, since I am thoroughly convinced about the potential, the results and the logic of an Integrative approach to healing.
Anyone who is following my blog, or has knowledge about the subject, knows that the approach is very simple – get the body into balance so that it can heal itself.
Once the body is in balance, it can recover. Illness can recede, paving the way to good health. Without any side effects. Contrast with the traditional approach, which I practised for 30 years. Never could we claim to reverse chronic conditions, only control them, often at the cost of possible damage to other organs from side effects of the synthetic medicines.
It is self evident that, even someone who chooses to follow the traditional route to treating illness, will benefit from adopting IM principles. After all, we are what we eat so it follows that if we eat well, our nutritional status and therefore our immune status, is optimum. And if immune status is optimum, no illness can come close, be it a respiratory infection, or diabetes, or even cancer.
That is the reason everyone – ‘normal healthy’ individuals, or persons taking traditional treatment for any illness – cardiovascular disease, acne, cancer, anything – will always benefit from following IM principles. It can only help faster and more complete recovery. There is NO downside.
Just BeHealthy. And StayHealthy!
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