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Raw Food and Skin Health by Kevin Angileri

December 3, 2016
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Raw Food and Skin Health

What’s the largest organ in your body? It’s your skin! It provides a protective covering for the other organs of the body. It changes to regulate your internal body temperature. And it’s a good indicator of overall health and well-being.

People spend thousands of dollars on skin preparations  to make your skin look vibrant and glowing. They’re all topical products – products that we put on top of our skin. But if we spent just a fraction of the money we spend on these preparations on RAW FOODS, we’d begin to see an immediate change in the texture of our skin.

When you eat raw foods, you put more of the essential vitamins and amino acids your body needs into it. You’re also adding moisture – naturally. Raw foods have a much higher moisture content than cooked foods, simply because the cooking process takes out so much essential moisture.

Your skin is a mirror of what’s going on in the rest of your body. And when your organs and blood are fed the nutrition they need to function properly, that shows in your skin. Get your vitamins and moisture from foods like apples and carrots. When you do, then phrases like “inner beauty” and “inner glow” will be applied to YOU. Your skin is what’s presented to the rest of the world and healthy, glowing skin makes the best first impression.

When you start adding raw foods to your diet, things will just naturally fall into place. You’ll feel better. You’ll look better. People will react to you more positively. You’ll have so much more energy for your work, your friends, and your family. And this kind of energy is a self-perpetuating thing. You don’t need self-help books and expensive moisturizers and plastic surgery. When your body and skin are getting their essential nutrition with raw, uncooked foods, you’ll look and feel your best, NATURALLY!

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Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure by Kevin Angileri

November 28, 2016
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Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

It seems like everywhere you look, there’s a new pill or medicine that will ‘instantly cure’ your sickness, disease or health issue.  And while taking a pill to cure what ails you might be convenient and simple, maybe it’s really time to sit down and take a good, long look at what you’re feeding your body, or as it might be, not feeding your body.  Are you truly giving your body the nutrients it needs to take care of itself?  Most of us find when we take a look at what we’ve been eating that the choices we’ve been making in the name of convenience, simplicity, or saving time have actually been detrimental to our overall health – body, mind and spirit.

Our modern day diet largely consists of excessive consumption of starch, sugar, fried and fatty foods. As a result, diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and some cancers are becoming more and more common.

Healthy foods and good nutrition can not only help keep you fit, but treat disease as well. You may not even have to go to a health food store. You can purchase them right at your grocery store, or make a trip to your local farmer’s market. And if you focus on basing a healthy, well-balanced diet on the 14 “Superfoods,” the detrimental effects of these diseases can be slowed, stopped or even reversed.

And when you nourish your body physically with these nutrient-dense foods, your mental capacities increase, and your spiritual wellness is enhanced as well.  In addition, since your spiritual health is optimal, it will shine through to the outside, and people will notice you’re happy, calm, and that your stress levels have decreased dramatically.

So look for ways to cut the junk out of your daily eating and replace it with members of the Superfoods group.  Your body, mind and spirit will all be healthier as a direct result. by Kevin Angileri

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You Really Are What You Eat by Kevin Angileri

November 26, 2016
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You Really Are What You Eat

Recent dietary research has uncovered 14 different nutrient-dense foods that time and again promote good overall health.  Coined “superfoods,” they tend to have fewer calories, higher levels of vitamins and minerals, and many disease-fighting antioxidants.

Beans (legumes), berries (especially blueberries), broccoli, green tea, nuts (especially walnuts), oranges, pumpkin, salmon. soy, spinach, tomatoes, turkey, whole grains and oats, and yogurt can all help stop and even reverse diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and some forms of cancer. And where one might have an effect on a certain part of the body, it can also affect the health of other body functions and performance, since the whole body is connected.  With these 14 foods as the base of a balanced, solid diet, weight loss gimmicks and other fly-by-night programs can become a thing of the past in your life.

Conversely, the ill-effects of an unbalanced diet are several and varied. Low energy levels, mood swings, tired all the time, weight change, uncomfortable with body are just a few signs that your diet is unbalanced.  An unbalanced diet can cause problems with maintenance of body tissues, growth and development, brain and nervous system function, as well as problems with bone and muscle systems.

Symptoms of malnutrition include lack of energy, irritability, a weakened immune system leading to frequent colds or allergies, and mineral depletion that can trigger a variety of health concerns including anemia.

And since the body is connected, realizing that an unhealthy body will result in an unhealthy spirit only makes sense.  When we nourish our body with these superfoods and complement them with other nutrient-dense and healthy fresh foods, our spirit will be vitalized and healthy as a direct result.

Many modern diets based on prepackaged convenience foods are sorely lacking in many vitamins and minerals, which can affect our mental capacities as well, and cause irritability, confusion, and the feeling of ‘being in a fog’ all the time.

Superfoods can be the basis of a sound, healthy, nutritious solution to curing many of these ailments and more.

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What is the Raw Food Diet by Kevin Angileri

November 24, 2016
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What is the Raw Food Diet?

 

 

Have you started hearing about the Raw Food Diet? It’s gaining popularity and buzz, not just as a diet to lose weight, but a diet for a long and healthy life. We eat so much in the way of processed food that we don’t even stop to think about what we’re putting into our bodies, and how far we’ve come nutritionally from our ancestral, agrarian roots.

 

A raw food diet means consuming food in its natural, unprocessed form. There are several common-sense rationales for why this is a good idea. Processing and cooking food can take so much of the basic nutritional value away. Think of some of the conventional wisdom you’ve heard about for years, such as: If you cook pasta just to the al dente (or medium) stage, it will have more calories, yes, but it will have more the nutritional value in it than if you cooked it to a well-done stage. Or you probably remember hearing not to peel carrots or potatoes too deeply, because most of the nutrients and values are just under the surface.

 

The raw food diet means eating unprocessed, uncooked, organic, whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, dried fruits, seaweeds, etc. It means a diet that is at least 75% uncooked! Cooking takes out flavor and nutrition from vegetables and fruits. A raw food diet means eating more the way our ancient ancestors did. Our healthier, more fit ancestors. They cooked very little, and certainly didn’t cook or process fruits and vegetables. They ate them RAW. Their water wasn’t from a tap; it was natural, spring water. Maybe they drank some coconut milk on occasion.

 

Doesn’t it just make sense that this is how our bodies were meant to eat? It’s a way of eating that’s in harmony with the planet and in harmony with our own metabolisms. Our bodies were meant to work, and need to work to be efficient. That means exercise, certainly, but it also means eating natural, raw foods that require more energy to digest them.

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How Much Protein Should You Consume A Day by Kevin Angileri

November 16, 2016
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How Much Protein Should You Consume A Day

 

Protein is a crucial factor when it comes to human nutrition; an absolute essentiality for maintaining good health. Protein is required for healthy hair, making blood, connective tissues, and it’s also needed to make enzymes, antibodies and much more.

 

Although we commonly see athletes and body builders eat healthy foods containing extra protein; the message being passed around is that our protein intake is too much.

 

The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) in relation to protein intake is about 0.8 grams for every kilogram of body weight. The RDA is the basic nutritional requirement for any particular nutrient; the smallest quantity you need to prevent you from becoming sick. This has got nothing to do with how much you should eat every day.

 

Our muscles consist of 25% protein, 75% water and stored glycogen (in the form of carbohydrates). Many people have the well-formed opinion that eating enough protein is essential for the maintenance of lean mass and to support muscle growth. The question is: how much is the right amount?

 

Recommended Daily Protein Intake

 

A few of the best recommendations would be:

 

  • The American Dietetic Association (ADA) gives an RDA level of 0.36g for every pound of body weight. This means that an 180lb male would only require a daily intake of 65grams of protein. It should be noted that the ADA’s recommendations are referring to sedentary individuals and not the active ones who will obviously require a higher protein RDA.

 

  • According to the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), people who are physically active should have a daily intake of about 0.4 to 0.6g for every pound of their bodyweight with competitive athletes requiring as much as 0.8g. The overall reasoning being that the more active you are the more protein requirement you will have.

 

  • However, Dr. Donald Layman of the University of Illinois states that there is no harm in adults increasing the daily recommended protein intake of 56 grams as apart from acting as a muscle supplement, protein reduces hunger and therefore safeguards against problems leading to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.

 

  • Dr. Tarnopolsky of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario is of the opinion that strong athletes live on 0.77 grams for every pound of body weight. This represents 139 grams for a man of 180lb.

 

  • Men who are exercising for 5 days or more on a weekly basis for about an hour or so would require 0.55grams per pound; whereas those who exercise for less than that would need about 0.45 grams per pound.

 

  • However, it is still believed that the exact amount for anyone will depend on that person’s goals, genetics, and diet; aiming for the specified targets should be adequate for most people.

 

An 180lb man is considered relatively fit to have a daily protein intake of between 108g and 198g for muscle build-up.

 

  • If you consider yourself too bulky and are trying to reduce your body fat, it is advisable to achieve your target bodyweight in protein intake grams. This means that for a man who weighs 225lbs and wants to go down to 180lbs through proper workout and diet; he should have a daily intake of 180 grams of protein. In addition to this, you should aim to reduce the intake of carbohydrates and fats in your diet.

 

  • In order to gain weight, it would be advisable increase your protein intake (as well as fats and carbohydrates) to boost up your calories. Although it is a common opinion that eating extra protein leads to a waste as our body stores in the form of fat and excretes what is not useful; for trying to increase our size and weight, we simply need to have extra calories. Don’t worry, just go ahead and eat!

 

Protein Equality in Your Diet

 

What’s the best way of protein consumption? Natural protein comes in two types: complete proteins (consisting of all necessary amino acids) and incomplete proteins (comprising of some of the important amino acids). We get our complete proteins mainly from animal sources (food like chicken, turkey, beef, fish and seafood, etc) as well as hemp seeds, soy, dairy products, etc. we get our incomplete protein basically from plant sources: vegetables, fruit, legumes, nuts, grains, seeds, etc.

 

It is generally believed that building muscle is easier done by eating more meat; you can easily fulfill your protein requirements as a vegetarian too. All you have to do is to make sure you’re consuming enough calories and eating a variety of foods every day. Good sources of proteins for vegetarians include legumes such as lentils and beans.

 

It is generally believed that it’s important to mix various plant foods in order to attain a complete protein. There’s no need to be overly conscious about this if you’re managing to eat different types of food on a daily basis. The reason for this is that the human body already has a quantity of amino acids which it uses to improve dietary proteins.

 

So, it doesn’t matter if you’re aiming to build muscle, lose weight, or working to become an athlete; your daily protein intake in grams should be in accordance to your bodyweight in order to fulfill your bases. Don’t believe this to be an exact science; consuming a little more or a little less can’t be harmful to your health. In fact, it would be better to eat a little more than less to aid in muscle growth, recovering from over-exercising and hunger satisfaction.

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