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WHAT-A-MELON! What is the secret to eating a satisfying meal while controlling calories and meeting nutrient requirements? Satiety is the feeling of fullness at the end of a meal, the feeling that you are no longer hungry. The more satiety you feel after a meal, the less you’ll eat at the next one.
Did you know that water melon, 92% water, is one of the world's healthiest foods?
Following the Doctrine of Signatures, the watermelon's Valentine pink color indicates a seductive fruit. Watermelon’s flesh is an emblem of summer, hot days in the sun and lots of skin. The citrulline relaxes blood vessels and boosts mood.
If you carefully dissect a seed away from the melon, you may find that it has a little tail, just like a little sperm cell. ~o
Water melon is also a fabulous detoxifier, watermelon is low calorie, filling, satisfying, thirst quenching, and with a nice dose of vitamin A and carotenoids, including cancer-fighting lycopene (more than tomato).
The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth
It's all about volumetrics...
VOLUMETRICS
It's volumetrics, a sensible way of considering the food you eat, and it's a lifestyle. Once you understand the key concepts of volumetrics, it's a simple philosophy to follow. The basic concepts are satiety, food water content, and energy density.
Foods with high water content have a big impact on satiety. Think fruits and vegetables. Ingredients of high water content dilute the calories in a given amount of food. You would have to eat an awful lot of salad greens to gain weight.
Dilution in turn reduces the overall energy density of a satisfying meal. HIgh in energy density, nuts and dried fruit are perfect for backpacking - good food to store when you have a small amount of storage space. The trick with nuts is trying to keep yourself from eating a whole can all at once, which you can do by repacking the nuts into rationed serving sizes.
The one dietary action that will both increase your fiber intake and lower the energy density of your diet is to increase the amount and variety of vegetables and fruit. Rather than 2 cups of pasta mixed with ½ cup of vegetables, combine ½ cup of pasta with 2 cups of vegetables, dropping the energy density of your meal by more than half.
Refer to Volumetric charts to learn more.
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My main source for nutritional information is a fabulous book titled The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth by Jonny Bowden, Ph.D. C.N.S. This is the perfect reference to complement your cookbook collection.
WHAT'S ON THE WAKE UP MENU?
And why? Learn through the Doctrine of Signatures and through scientific research why these foods are so fabulous, and what you can cook up with them. Click on any item below or
check out some ideas through the Power Lunch page.
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Organics
NATURAL FOODS
FOR OPTIMUM HEALTH
Did you know that in less than a year's time, you consume enough food, water, and air to replace roughly 98 percent of the molecules in your body's general assembly? That's good news!
By making improvements to the quantity, quality, and nutritional value of your intake, you can make advances in your state of wellness. You are what you eat, quite literally. The key to good health is to go back to basics - natural food.
Organically grown foods promote a disease-free state of being - man's original form of existence.
As you begin to make the right choices and shift into a nutritional diet of authentic foods, you will detoxify and gradually boost your energy levels - mentally, physically, and spiritually. You will find yourself on the beautiful path to becoming a WHOLE NEW YOU. Quite literally.
OF ESSENTIAL OILS
Omega oils are essential to good nutrition. Every cell, tissue, and organ depends on the presence of fatty acids, the main structural component of cell membranes and a requirement for cell growth.
- Living Harvest Organic Hemp Oil has the perfect 3:1 Omega 6: Omega 3 ratio
- Udo's OIl 3-6-9 Blend (organic flax, sesame, and sunflower seed oils) is also the ideal and has a rich nutty flavor.
- Olive Oil, while not containing Omega oils, contains phytosterols, chlorophyll, magnesium, vitamin E, and carotene. It also has components with healing and anti-inflammatory effects, and
others that are helpful in lowering LDL cholesterol, increasing HDL levels, cleansing the liver, and increasing the flow of bile..
Note that essential Omega oils are not meant for cooking, which depletes their nutritional value and creates carcinogins. Rather, add these oils to finish off cooked pasta or steamed vegetables dishes OR try drizzling essential oil over salad or cereal.
For cooking, I use Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, because it has one of the higest smoking points, 450'F and low oxidation. If cooking with olive oil, blend wine or water with olive oil and cook the dish on a slow simmer.
For additional Omega Oil information and recipes, visit http://www.Omega3Cuisine.com where you will find more information and find out about the book OMEGA 3 CUISINE by Alan Roettinger with Udo Erasmus.
MULTIPLE HEALTH BENEFITS
DERIVED FROM OMEGA-3's
With over 12520 scientific articles on Omega-3 and their effects on health it is clear that Omega-3's promote health in every body system.
They help prevent dementia, promote essential neural and retinal development before birth, improve mood, focus, reading and math scores in children and adults, help in depression, bipolar disorder, ADD, recovery from stroke and brain trauma. Omega-3's prevent heart disease and help decrease risk of first heart attack, cut the risk of sudden death in half, decrease risk of embolic stroke, lower triglycerides and help with hypertension, helps with Arthritis, Chrohn's disease, inflammatory conditions, all are affected by Omega-3. Omega-3's regulate the cytokine cascade and even decrease death from severe infections called sepsis. The list of scientific studies grows every day.
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