Chocolate Cookies for Breakfast?
Did I really eat chocolate cookies for breakfast? Find out why this was not such an unhealthy choice when you discover my simple system for eating for optimal health.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Thursday, July 08, 2010
How to Start Your Own Garden
Would you like to save money on your next grocery store bill? Staring your own garden is the best way to do that. Not only will it save you money but it will reconnect you and your family back to your relationship to food. Say goodbye to diabetes and obesity when you discover the pure joy of eating nutrient rich local food from your own garden!
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
DAY 16 - Power of Food 40 Day Cleanse
What did I eat that went against my cleanse?
DAY 16
It’s all about taking small, simple actions steps and not biting off more then you can chew. I had many restrictions on this cleanse and it proved to be just a bit too much for me to handle. Watch to find out what happens when you have too many restrictions in your life.
No Restrictions is the only way to succeed with a health lifestyle for life!
Thursday, July 01, 2010
DAY 10 - Power of Food 40 Day Cleanse
DAY 10
What did I put in my smoothie today that provided me with 100% of my daily IRON and 90% of my daily CALCIUM? Watch Day 10 to find out!
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Day 7 - Power of Food 40 Day Cleanse
Want to see what’s in my kitchen? Watch Day 7 to find out what 8 different recipes I created that you can do yourself, TODAY!
DAY 7
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Day 2 - Power of Food 40 Day Cleanse
DAY 2
Have you ever wondered what it takes to get healthy without much effort? I promise you that by the time you are finished watching all 40 days of my Power of Food Cleanse, you will have all the skills, tools and secrets you need to easily take back control over your own health.
Watch and enjoy!
Monday, June 21, 2010
DAY 1 - Power of Food 40 Day Cleanse
IT HAS BEGUN. Have you ever wondered what it takes to get healthy without much effort? I promise you that by the time you are finished watching all 40 days of my Power of Food Cleanse, you will have all the skills, tools and secrets you need to easily take back control over your own health.
Watch and enjoy!
Monday, June 14, 2010
How to Open A Coconut
If I told you that coconut water is one of the healthiest sources of electrolytes, would you want to know an inexpensive way to reap its benefits?
Why spend lots of money on store bottle coconut water when you can buy a coconut at the fraction of the price and do it yourself. Watch this video to learn how to SAFELY open a coconut.
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Food Allergies Be Gone
Do you suffer from food allergies? I HAD fresh fruit syndrome for many years. What is fresh fruit syndrome? Did you ask yourself that question? I did too when I first was told about it. I had food allergies to apples, peaches, pears, plums, carrots, celery, mixed nuts. Not anymore!
Did you know that allergies are an autoimmune dysfunction. The stronger your immune system is the less likely you are of attracting allergies as well as strengthening your ability to eliminate your allergies. I don’t mean to simplify the subject becuase there are many forms of allergies and varying degrees on which many people suffer, but the bottom line is, how strong is your immune system?
When I discovered that over 70% of my immune system was in my digestive system, YES OVER 70%, I knew I had to start looking for higher, nutrient rich foods, to help fill my body. For years I had lived on processed foods, void of essential nutrients. My body had been starving for health for far too long. Can you relate to eating processed foods?
Once I introduced more plant based foods, nuts, seeds, grains, legumes, fruits and vegetable, and avoiding refined foods as well as reducing my intake of commercial meat and dairy products, my body started to respond in a very positive way. Not only did my food allergies begin to subside, but my energy levels went up, my weight came down and my stress levels became more manageable.
It all starts with your diet! It does not have to be difficult to overcome your allergies, you just need a starting point and then a system to begin experiencing a shift in your health. I would like to help you if you are ready.
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For more information on living with allergies, visit my good friends at Allergy Sense
Thursday, May 27, 2010
What’s in Your Calories?
A good friend of mine recently shared a story with me that had him overly frustrated.
Reaching into the mini-bar fridge in his hotel room, he was hoping to find something to ease his starvation. Still dripping sweat from his 20 minutes of running on the hotel treadmill, his hunger pangs were melting away his desire to avoid putting back on all the calories he had just lost. As he surveyed his options, salted peanuts, a mixed bag of nuts and dried fruit, he felt compelled to take a look at the nutritional label to find out how many calories he was about to ingest. Thinking about all the effort he had just put into his workout, he felt completely frustrated not wanting to risk jeopardizing his potential long term results.
Not too long ago I was that same guy trying to loose weight and increase my energy levels. I was frustrated because I knew exactly where he was coming from, looking for healthier calories, but having no clue how to find them or what options were the best. I wanted so badly to tell him everything I knew about calories, but instead provided him with a few simple options he could take with him on his next road trip to avoid the mini-bar blues.
Anybody who spends a lot of time on the road would benefit from creating their very own travel bag of mixed nuts and seeds including almonds, hemp seeds and some dried unsulphered fruits. Take along a box of whole grain crackers, especially my favorite, Mary’s Crackers.
Pack some homemade power bars on your trip. Making you own bars is easy and takes less then 10 minutes. Watch my video below to learn how.
Now that I have revealed some tips on avoiding the mini-bar blues, I would like to share with you what I learned about calories while regaining control over my pre-diabetic state.
First off, not all calories are created equal. It’s great that you might be trying to loose a few pounds and therefore are counting your calorie intake. But to succeed with your health goals it is crucial to be aware that not all calories are created equal. In order to explain this better, let’s take a quick look at calories.
Each calorie is defined as a unit of energy and your body needs a certain amount of calories each day to maintain essential body function. With every bite you take, the food you eat is providing you with the energy you need to perform daily actions. If you go over your needed amount of calories each day, and you’re not a very active person, you will eventually gain weight.
The number of calories you should eat daily varies depending on your activity levels, gender, age, weight and height. The minimum suggested daily calorie intake for women is 1200 and 1500 for men.
But in North America we tend to eat on the opposite end of the scale, somewhere in the range of 3000 to 5000 calories daily. That’s a lot of extra calories being stored in your body and the leading cause of weight gain.
The average adult should look to consume 2000 to 2500 calories per day. These calories should be made up foods that offer superior nutrition, but this is where we get into a problem.
Most of the calories we consume are heavily refined, over processed and void of essential nutrients. This means that when we reach for the salted peanuts or a bag of chips we are fueling our bodies far differently than if we were to reach for hemp seeds, or a bag of almonds.
Energy is supplied through the foods you eat and are made up of the essential building blocks of all life. These essential building blocks are fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
The more you eat whole foods, foods that have not been broken down, altered or transformed in any way - such as nuts, seeds, grains, beans, fruits and vegetables - the more your calories will supply you with quality protein, essential fatty acids and complex carbohydrates. With so many diets focused on calorie counting it’s no wonder so many people are confused as to why they keep failing when trying to achieve their desired health goals.
The more you eat over processed, refined foods, you can be sure your calorie intake will be comprised of simple sugars which will only leave you weak, tired, and susceptible to weight gain.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Going Gluten Free
About 30 days ago I made the personal decision to go gluten free. Since then I have had many people ask me why?
At first I decided to cut out gluten because I discovered that I had several bad habits that effected me mentally and physically. As much as I follow what I teach, specifically the 80/20 Rule of eating, where 80% of my diet is made up of whole foods and the other 20% I eat what I want when I want, I often find myself challenged to maintain my course. For the past year I have found myself including beer into my 80% as well as sugary baked goods from local coffee shops (preparing my e3 for LIFE book for publication). These two bad habits, beer & baked goods, on their own and within the 20% would be fine, but increasingly they have become a daily occurrence and for me that is unacceptable.
Going gluten free has been on my mind for some time, but mentally, I have viewed as too painful to try.
It’s too difficult
I won’t be able to eat much
I don’t really want to
Now that I have a few bad habits I want to eliminate, going gluten free was the logical choice. By focusing on gluten, not only do I eliminate the unhealthy attributes associated with a gluten diet, but it also allows me to remove my two biggest junk habits, beer and baked goods.
Now I don’t need to single out beer or baked goods, which would double the pain. I just focus on gluten free and in one swoop I have eliminated many of my bad habits.
So why go gluten free? It was easier on my mind to remove two of my biggest bad habits by going gluten free and not having to focus on each one individually. Does this make sense? The health benefits are a bonus because when you remove gluten from your diet you also remove an enormous amount of health issues.
According to a review in The New England Journal of Medicine, consuming gluten can cause at least 55 illnesses including: chronic reoccurring canker sores, fatigue, anemia, cancer, irritable bowel syndrome, lupus, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, and many other autoimmune diseases.
Gluten is also linked to a number of psychiatric and neurological conditions, including anxiety, autism, dementia, depression, epilepsy, migraines, and neuropathy.
We all experience some health issues related to our consumption of gluten. To what extent? the only way to know is to remove it from your diet or reduce it to the 20% mark. You may even eliminate some of your bad habits you no longer want at the same time, BONUS!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Smoothie Your Way to Better Health
If I told you all you needed to eat in the morning was a smoothie no bigger then a 1/4 cup and you would have abundant energy all day, would you believe me? The truth is many North Americans tend to consume all the wrong types of nutrients before they begin their day. Not only are our portions sizes too big, but we don’t tend to chew our food either. So now you walk out your door to begin your day and all your energy is going to digestion and most of the food you just ate has very little nutrients to be absorbed.
Ideally you would start each day with a 1/4 cup smoothie with hemp seeds, quinoa, rice milk, spinach, ground flax seeds and ground unhulled sesame seeds. Talk about a boost in nutrition. By consuming your breakfast in a smoothie form you are easily making the nutrients available for digestion leaving you with extra energy to go about your daily routine. If you are tired of the mid afternoon crashes, GET ON THE SMOOTHIES!
There is a video of me preparing my smoothie under the recipe section.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Do you know what a dehydrator is?
I just ordered a new dehydrator from Excalibur. This is something I would never have owned 10 years ago, but now I can’t live without one.
I am so stoked!
Do you own a dehydrator? If you don’t own one, are not familiar with what they are or what to do with one, let me know and I will share with you a world of raw food that will improve your health forever!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Create Your Own Recipe Book
NEW WEBSITE FEATURE
Press print on any one of my recipes and create your very own recipe book!
SUPER COOL
Tell me what you think of this new feature.
