Say good-bye to calories because the new key word when it comes to nutrition is ELECTRICITY. We are electrical beings, conductors of energy, and if we want to change the way we eat, we need to start by changing the way we see food with relation to our bodies. Our brain, our nerve center, tells our entire body what to do through electrical impulses. It uses electricity to communicate through our nervous system, controlling a whole bunch of functions like movement, digestion, and the production of substances that keep us balanced, basically dictating the processing speed of our human computer. Energy, electricity, electromagnetism – this is what keeps us alive. To what degree we have these factors is what defines our health – or lack of it.
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I come across a lot of people who want to lose weight and feel great. It’s mostly a looks-driven focus, without a clue that overall health is the key to both. In this mentality, people think that being skinny will automatically make them feel better about who they are. I disagree. Read More…
Your family wants the best for you. Their intentions are good. But, how do they react when you decide to make healthy food choices in your life, which includes not eating their staple cultural family fare? Read More…
Nutrition: Drinking tart cherry juice daily could help reduce the severity of insomnia and time spent awake after going to sleep, according to a new study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food. In an experiment, adults who drank eight ounces of tart cherry juice in the morning and evening for two weeks reported significant reductions in insomnia severity and saved about 17 minutes of wake time after going to sleep on average. The researchers suspect tart cherries’ natural benefits could be due in part to their relatively high content of melatonin – a natural antioxidant in cherries with established ability to help moderate the body’s sleep-wake cycle. Melatonin is produced naturally by the body in small amounts and it plays a role in inducing sleepiness at night and wakefulness during the day. Cherries may help boost the body’s own supply of melatonin and increase sleep efficiency. Read More…
Psychology: Looks like Trevor McKinney was right – paying it forward does work. Much in like the 2000 film with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, a study done by UC San Diego and Harvard has now provided laboratory evidence that cooperative behavior is contagious and that it spreads from person to person. As illustrated by the experiment where strangers played a game, when people benefit from kindness, they “pay it forward” by helping others who were not originally involved, and this creates a cascade of cooperation that influences dozens more in a social network. “The flow of good and desirable properties like ideas, love and kindness is required for human social networks to endure,” said Nicholas Christakis, co-author of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “In turn, networks are required for such properties to spread. Humans form social networks because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs.” Read More…
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All food is not created equal. As you read in our post Why Organic?, buying organic means no genetically modified organisms (“frankenfoods”,) synthetic pesticides or herbicides in your fruits and vegetables, among other benefits (check out the video below.) Still, organic food is not readily available everywhere the way it is here in Los Angeles. So, for those of you who can’t always buy organic but wish to give your liver a break and avoid eating as many pesticides as you can, here is a wonderful tool: The Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides. Read More…
