Post by Val Young on Mar 31, 2009 16:47:27 GMT
What’s on the menu today? You know I don’t read newspapers, but an article was pointed out to me this morning. There allegedly is a woman aged 130 years old who lives in Kazakhstan. And she is quoted to have said “I don’t have any special secret (wait for it!), I’ve never taken pills and I’ve never eaten sweets – I don’t like them, but I love cottage cheese” Beautiful and there’s some wisdom in her statement.
Sarah has done an excellent job at designing our new website. Please check it out www.kendalhealth.co.uk You might recognise a few of the beautiful characters on various pages too! We’d love feedback. And you’ll find a link for “health Tips” if you’d like to be reminded about how to empower your day and life.
I was reminded recently by a man called Raymond Frances who wrote: “Never be fat again” and “Never be sick again”. “If pharmaceutical drugs make well people sick, how can they possibly make sick people well?” Interesting quote.
Today’s special topic is all about breakfast. Below I will share with you some new ideas and recipes, for those of you that wish to take control of your health. It’s always a choice to be healthy.
Too many people, particularly women, tend to skip breakfast, using a variety of excuses ranging from, "I have no time for breakfast" to "I'm on a diet, and I'm trying not to eat too much." Unfortunately, for the dieters, research shows that people who skip breakfast tend to pack on body fat more readily than those who start their day with a healthy breakfast. Those people who claim to have no time for breakfast, they usually DO find time for coffee and a doughnut/piece of toast, (or what ever sweets they can get their hands on), at their desk around 10:00 a.m.
There is a physiological reason for the sugar cravings of breakfast skippers. When you get up in the morning your body is low on glucose, the fuel for your cells, and your body will replenish this resource any way it can. The easiest way is to crave high glycaemic foods which contain sugar. These convert to glucose quickly to keep feeding your brain, the main ‘super computer’ of the body.
If however, one chooses to skip breakfast, the body will revert to an alternative method of providing glucose to the brain by breaking down your muscle tissue. This is not a good choice for anyone - especially not someone who is trying to lose body fat, since the more muscle you have the more calories you burn just to stay alive.
This conversion of muscle to glucose is triggered by the hormone adrenaline, which is secreted by the adrenal glands about an hour after rising if the body is not supplied with proper nutrition. As our regular readers of my newsletter know, no one needs to further tax the adrenal glands, which for most people are already burned out and causing a laundry list of fatigue-related symptoms.
Trying to function without eating breakfast is like trying to start your car without sufficient petrol in the tank! You'll be low on energy, won't be able to think clearly, and a lot of people get down right grouchy too! This is because of their low blood sugar. Low blood sugar will send you running to the kitchen/cafeteria room for whatever sweets you can find, OR, if you DO make it to lunch, to the nearest buffet where you play the game of "how much food can I pile on one plate."
Why put yourself through that when the solution is SO easy - eat breakfast. Yes, there is a catch: it needs to be the right kind of breakfast. Ideally you want a protein, healthy fat, non-starchy vegetable and a real carbohydrate. For example: scrambled eggs with spinach and bell peppers, one slice of rice bread with organic butter, or a nut butter, and organic fruit. Another choice would be organic oatmeal with raisins and walnuts (sprouted if possible), sweetened with raw Manuka honey, sliced tomatoes and a slice of nitrate free organic bacon. Even leftovers from the night before would work as long as they include all the macronutrients. You’ve heard me say this before. “If it wasn’t on the Human Being menu 10,000 years ago, you have a better choice to make!”
I hate to break it to all of you cereal lovers, but cereal is NOT a poor choice. Boxed cereals (Kellogg’s, Nestle and the like) are processed grains (gluten, sugar, salt, fortified vitamins and minerals that your body won’t recognise - carbohydrates), and the pasteurised milk you drink is mostly sugary water (due to all the fat being taken out of it), because the pasteurisation process kills all the nutrients. So, what you have is a meal of high glycaemic carbohydrates that quickly raise your blood sugar followed by a sharp drop in your energy level just 30 mins/hour or two later.
If you remember me sharing with you the research done by Weston A Price (Dentist) and Major General McCarrison, all Westerner’s dis-eases are related to malnutrition. The top 6 cardinal sins with reference to products are: Gluten, sugar, salt, pasteurisation, soy/a & sweeteners. If you remove these from your diet, you’ll have increased improved energy instantly and you won’t create cancer, IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s, CHD, diabetes, osteoporosis, stroke, etc in your life, according to Dr R Blaylock a neurosurgeon.
Charles Poliquin, the Olympic strength coach, is equally adamant about the importance of a good breakfast. He says that the first 40 grams of protein you eat every day goes to rebuild your immune system. If you are not rebuilding your immune system, you are not rebuilding your muscle tissue or your brain chemistry. He wants all his clients to eat at least 40 grams of protein every day before lunch so this important rebuilding process can take place. When you consider that one egg has just 7 grams of protein, you will see what an effort the average person has to make.
It is not always easy to make healthy choices for breakfast - or at any other meal for that matter. However, eating a healthy breakfast is vital for your well-being. At Kendal Health we help you plan healthy and balanced meals based on their specific metabolism and goals. If you need help getting started or staying on a meal plan, please make a consultation and take the DIE out of DIET.
Please remember that if 99% of the population is addicted to sugar, then your taste buds may not initially like what I’m going to remind you to consume, however, like all ‘addictions’ in our lives they can change, if we want them too and if we are COMMITTED & CONSISTENT. Trust me I’m NOT a Dr your taste buds will change and you will start to like WHOLE ALIVE FOODS!
Small bowl of fruit salad (e.g. chopped apple, pear, grapes, blue berries and pineapple) and 2-4 ounces of smoked salmon
Full fat Greek or goats yoghurt (chop up some fruit as above) + either Xylitol or Manuka honey
2-4 rice cakes (brown is best) with butter and raw cheese (try Allerdale – goats)
Omelette, containing vegetables of your choice, e.g. chopped spinach, onion, peppers, tomato, mushrooms, etc
Foragers (gluten free) sausages and any bacon that doesn’t contain NITRATES, with salsa & salad
Any NITRATE FREE bacon & boiled eggs with buttered rice cakes
Oats with sprouted nuts & Manuka Honey or syrup + chopped fruit
Instead of Oats, try Quinoa or amaranth or millet flakes. Add full fat goats or Greek yoghurt. Ensure that the yoghurt you buy don’t contain any sugar. If they contain fruit then, get this… they also add sugar! As I’ve said before about sugar “As well as it being a CLASS 1 Drug, it is as addictive, if not more so than nicotine”
Breakfast burrito: hard boiled egg slices, onion, avocado slices, chopped tomato wrapped in a corn tortilla.
Eggs + avocado I believe everyone would benefit for eating an avocado a day. It contains all the right fats and NO it doesn’t make you fat!!
Scrambled eggs, with onion and spinach, and or mushrooms and or green, yellow or orange peppers.
Turkey burger, topped with slices of hard boiled eggs & olive oil + a cup of fruit salad.
Rice cakes with butter and houmous + tomato
And the list goes on. My favourite breakfast is finishing my evening meal. That could look like Chicken/Turkey/Wild Alaskan Salmon/Beef/Lamb mince with vegetables and some Houmous. Usually cooked in Coconut oil with added spices like either turmeric, ginger, mixed herbs inc oregano.
If like some people you “Don’t have the time!” Then prepare your breakfast the night before! Simple and you’ll be making a statement that your health is important to you. According to Dr Joal Fuhrman "If you don't make time now, make time to be disabled"! He was actually referring to patients he's had that are too busy 'working' to make their health a priority.
If you are 5Lbs or more over weight then according to Dr Blaylock you’re classed as Pre-diabetic! There was a 74% increase in type II diabetes from 1997-2003! Wow. It’s all about our lifestyles!
“The bottom line is that Dr Wrangham theorises that the main cause of the modern epidemic of obesity is not overeating but the rise of processed foods -- which packs on more weight than raw food on a calorie by calorie basis. I would say that it's a combination of both. Studies have already shown that we're consuming some 523 calories more per day than we did just 30 years ago. Combine that with 30% more weight gain from the same calories because our diets have shifted overwhelmingly to cooked and processed foods, and you have the makings of an obesity epidemic.”
Create a great healthy life. With love and Qi Magnus Mulliner
Sarah has done an excellent job at designing our new website. Please check it out www.kendalhealth.co.uk You might recognise a few of the beautiful characters on various pages too! We’d love feedback. And you’ll find a link for “health Tips” if you’d like to be reminded about how to empower your day and life.
I was reminded recently by a man called Raymond Frances who wrote: “Never be fat again” and “Never be sick again”. “If pharmaceutical drugs make well people sick, how can they possibly make sick people well?” Interesting quote.
Today’s special topic is all about breakfast. Below I will share with you some new ideas and recipes, for those of you that wish to take control of your health. It’s always a choice to be healthy.
Too many people, particularly women, tend to skip breakfast, using a variety of excuses ranging from, "I have no time for breakfast" to "I'm on a diet, and I'm trying not to eat too much." Unfortunately, for the dieters, research shows that people who skip breakfast tend to pack on body fat more readily than those who start their day with a healthy breakfast. Those people who claim to have no time for breakfast, they usually DO find time for coffee and a doughnut/piece of toast, (or what ever sweets they can get their hands on), at their desk around 10:00 a.m.
There is a physiological reason for the sugar cravings of breakfast skippers. When you get up in the morning your body is low on glucose, the fuel for your cells, and your body will replenish this resource any way it can. The easiest way is to crave high glycaemic foods which contain sugar. These convert to glucose quickly to keep feeding your brain, the main ‘super computer’ of the body.
If however, one chooses to skip breakfast, the body will revert to an alternative method of providing glucose to the brain by breaking down your muscle tissue. This is not a good choice for anyone - especially not someone who is trying to lose body fat, since the more muscle you have the more calories you burn just to stay alive.
This conversion of muscle to glucose is triggered by the hormone adrenaline, which is secreted by the adrenal glands about an hour after rising if the body is not supplied with proper nutrition. As our regular readers of my newsletter know, no one needs to further tax the adrenal glands, which for most people are already burned out and causing a laundry list of fatigue-related symptoms.
Trying to function without eating breakfast is like trying to start your car without sufficient petrol in the tank! You'll be low on energy, won't be able to think clearly, and a lot of people get down right grouchy too! This is because of their low blood sugar. Low blood sugar will send you running to the kitchen/cafeteria room for whatever sweets you can find, OR, if you DO make it to lunch, to the nearest buffet where you play the game of "how much food can I pile on one plate."
Why put yourself through that when the solution is SO easy - eat breakfast. Yes, there is a catch: it needs to be the right kind of breakfast. Ideally you want a protein, healthy fat, non-starchy vegetable and a real carbohydrate. For example: scrambled eggs with spinach and bell peppers, one slice of rice bread with organic butter, or a nut butter, and organic fruit. Another choice would be organic oatmeal with raisins and walnuts (sprouted if possible), sweetened with raw Manuka honey, sliced tomatoes and a slice of nitrate free organic bacon. Even leftovers from the night before would work as long as they include all the macronutrients. You’ve heard me say this before. “If it wasn’t on the Human Being menu 10,000 years ago, you have a better choice to make!”
I hate to break it to all of you cereal lovers, but cereal is NOT a poor choice. Boxed cereals (Kellogg’s, Nestle and the like) are processed grains (gluten, sugar, salt, fortified vitamins and minerals that your body won’t recognise - carbohydrates), and the pasteurised milk you drink is mostly sugary water (due to all the fat being taken out of it), because the pasteurisation process kills all the nutrients. So, what you have is a meal of high glycaemic carbohydrates that quickly raise your blood sugar followed by a sharp drop in your energy level just 30 mins/hour or two later.
If you remember me sharing with you the research done by Weston A Price (Dentist) and Major General McCarrison, all Westerner’s dis-eases are related to malnutrition. The top 6 cardinal sins with reference to products are: Gluten, sugar, salt, pasteurisation, soy/a & sweeteners. If you remove these from your diet, you’ll have increased improved energy instantly and you won’t create cancer, IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s, CHD, diabetes, osteoporosis, stroke, etc in your life, according to Dr R Blaylock a neurosurgeon.
Charles Poliquin, the Olympic strength coach, is equally adamant about the importance of a good breakfast. He says that the first 40 grams of protein you eat every day goes to rebuild your immune system. If you are not rebuilding your immune system, you are not rebuilding your muscle tissue or your brain chemistry. He wants all his clients to eat at least 40 grams of protein every day before lunch so this important rebuilding process can take place. When you consider that one egg has just 7 grams of protein, you will see what an effort the average person has to make.
It is not always easy to make healthy choices for breakfast - or at any other meal for that matter. However, eating a healthy breakfast is vital for your well-being. At Kendal Health we help you plan healthy and balanced meals based on their specific metabolism and goals. If you need help getting started or staying on a meal plan, please make a consultation and take the DIE out of DIET.
Please remember that if 99% of the population is addicted to sugar, then your taste buds may not initially like what I’m going to remind you to consume, however, like all ‘addictions’ in our lives they can change, if we want them too and if we are COMMITTED & CONSISTENT. Trust me I’m NOT a Dr your taste buds will change and you will start to like WHOLE ALIVE FOODS!
Small bowl of fruit salad (e.g. chopped apple, pear, grapes, blue berries and pineapple) and 2-4 ounces of smoked salmon
Full fat Greek or goats yoghurt (chop up some fruit as above) + either Xylitol or Manuka honey
2-4 rice cakes (brown is best) with butter and raw cheese (try Allerdale – goats)
Omelette, containing vegetables of your choice, e.g. chopped spinach, onion, peppers, tomato, mushrooms, etc
Foragers (gluten free) sausages and any bacon that doesn’t contain NITRATES, with salsa & salad
Any NITRATE FREE bacon & boiled eggs with buttered rice cakes
Oats with sprouted nuts & Manuka Honey or syrup + chopped fruit
Instead of Oats, try Quinoa or amaranth or millet flakes. Add full fat goats or Greek yoghurt. Ensure that the yoghurt you buy don’t contain any sugar. If they contain fruit then, get this… they also add sugar! As I’ve said before about sugar “As well as it being a CLASS 1 Drug, it is as addictive, if not more so than nicotine”
Breakfast burrito: hard boiled egg slices, onion, avocado slices, chopped tomato wrapped in a corn tortilla.
Eggs + avocado I believe everyone would benefit for eating an avocado a day. It contains all the right fats and NO it doesn’t make you fat!!
Scrambled eggs, with onion and spinach, and or mushrooms and or green, yellow or orange peppers.
Turkey burger, topped with slices of hard boiled eggs & olive oil + a cup of fruit salad.
Rice cakes with butter and houmous + tomato
And the list goes on. My favourite breakfast is finishing my evening meal. That could look like Chicken/Turkey/Wild Alaskan Salmon/Beef/Lamb mince with vegetables and some Houmous. Usually cooked in Coconut oil with added spices like either turmeric, ginger, mixed herbs inc oregano.
If like some people you “Don’t have the time!” Then prepare your breakfast the night before! Simple and you’ll be making a statement that your health is important to you. According to Dr Joal Fuhrman "If you don't make time now, make time to be disabled"! He was actually referring to patients he's had that are too busy 'working' to make their health a priority.
If you are 5Lbs or more over weight then according to Dr Blaylock you’re classed as Pre-diabetic! There was a 74% increase in type II diabetes from 1997-2003! Wow. It’s all about our lifestyles!
“The bottom line is that Dr Wrangham theorises that the main cause of the modern epidemic of obesity is not overeating but the rise of processed foods -- which packs on more weight than raw food on a calorie by calorie basis. I would say that it's a combination of both. Studies have already shown that we're consuming some 523 calories more per day than we did just 30 years ago. Combine that with 30% more weight gain from the same calories because our diets have shifted overwhelmingly to cooked and processed foods, and you have the makings of an obesity epidemic.”
Create a great healthy life. With love and Qi Magnus Mulliner