There are foods renowned for their ability to help protect you against smoking-related diseases, including heart disease, cancer, stroke, even lung cancer. It you or anyone you love is or has been a smoker ---or work with anyone who smokes and are forced to breathe in foul, cancer-causing secondhand smoke...you can rebuild your health, fend off disease.
In The Doctors Book of Food Remedies, based on thousands of scientific studies, 'A major study found that smokers who eat watercress are able to reduce their lung cancer risks by 50%. Many other foods can help cleanse and protect the lungs as well.'
Mannatech Inc. and founder Sam Caster, with their cutting-edge scientists have given their plant-based glyconutrient products to the world. Complete and balanced glyconutrient complex has been shown to be an immune modulator, giving optimal health and wellness.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Low-fat Sweet Dessert
A special dessert for a special occasion is a must for most people.
Here is one that is not excessive and will give some anti-oxidants as well.
For this Black and Blue Trifle about 10 sponge finger boudoir biscuits are broken into pieces and arranged into the base of a trifle dish. Make up 1 packet of blackcurrant jelly, and cut into cubes. Pour a layer of jelly over the sponge finger pieces and chill to set slightly. Add 300g of mixed blackberries, blackcurrants and blueberries to the remaining jelly and pour into the trifle dish. Again leave to chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
Whip 300ml (1/2 pint) whipping cream with caster sugar to taste, and spread over the top of the set jelly. You can also add a layer of low-fat custard beneath the whipped cream for a more conventional trifle.
GlycoScience is designed to provide information on nutritional saccharides - glyconutrients - that form the scientific underpinnings for Mannatech Inc and founder Sam Caster's product line. Mannatech includes anti-oxidants in their products. Glyconutrients are essential for optimal health and wellbeing, however they are mostly missing from the modern diet.
Here is one that is not excessive and will give some anti-oxidants as well.
For this Black and Blue Trifle about 10 sponge finger boudoir biscuits are broken into pieces and arranged into the base of a trifle dish. Make up 1 packet of blackcurrant jelly, and cut into cubes. Pour a layer of jelly over the sponge finger pieces and chill to set slightly. Add 300g of mixed blackberries, blackcurrants and blueberries to the remaining jelly and pour into the trifle dish. Again leave to chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
Whip 300ml (1/2 pint) whipping cream with caster sugar to taste, and spread over the top of the set jelly. You can also add a layer of low-fat custard beneath the whipped cream for a more conventional trifle.
GlycoScience is designed to provide information on nutritional saccharides - glyconutrients - that form the scientific underpinnings for Mannatech Inc and founder Sam Caster's product line. Mannatech includes anti-oxidants in their products. Glyconutrients are essential for optimal health and wellbeing, however they are mostly missing from the modern diet.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Music Therapy
Taken from 'Keys to Extraordinary Longevity' by Dr. J.P. Willem.
'Music itself, which is used as a support for sound stimulation, calms and makes the subject feel secure and relaxed. It can induce hope, joy, nostalgia, affection, strength, a feeling of power, aesthetic appreciation, etc.
At home, each of us can use the immense resources of music, on the basis of some simple principles I summarise below.
- Organic life is based on rhythms, which means that music can calm or stimulate, harmonise or provoke stress.
- Predominantly rhythmic music stimulates the senses and the physiology, the mode of 'doing', making the body more dynamic (dance music:...)
- Predominantly melodic music stimulates the emotional life and the way of 'feeling' (Romantics; Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, etc)
- Predominantly harmonic music stimulates intellectual life and the way of 'thinking' (classical period: Handel, Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Haydn).
- Polyphonic music stimulates fraternal and collective sentiments (popular songs, Basque music, Corsican and Verdi choirs) up to very high-flown sentiments of light, love and joy (Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, etc).
Music is used for relaxation: Moonlight Sonata - promote sleep: Reverie by Schumann....'
Glyconutrients and their corresponding proteins, are essential for cell-to-cell communication. Glyconutrients were the most important health discovery of the 20th century. Mannatech Inc and founder Sam Caster, are leaders in glyconutrient products for humans providing superior delivery of essential vitamin and minerals and important phytochemicals giving optimal health and wellness.
'Music itself, which is used as a support for sound stimulation, calms and makes the subject feel secure and relaxed. It can induce hope, joy, nostalgia, affection, strength, a feeling of power, aesthetic appreciation, etc.
At home, each of us can use the immense resources of music, on the basis of some simple principles I summarise below.
- Organic life is based on rhythms, which means that music can calm or stimulate, harmonise or provoke stress.
- Predominantly rhythmic music stimulates the senses and the physiology, the mode of 'doing', making the body more dynamic (dance music:...)
- Predominantly melodic music stimulates the emotional life and the way of 'feeling' (Romantics; Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, etc)
- Predominantly harmonic music stimulates intellectual life and the way of 'thinking' (classical period: Handel, Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, Haydn).
- Polyphonic music stimulates fraternal and collective sentiments (popular songs, Basque music, Corsican and Verdi choirs) up to very high-flown sentiments of light, love and joy (Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, etc).
Music is used for relaxation: Moonlight Sonata - promote sleep: Reverie by Schumann....'
Glyconutrients and their corresponding proteins, are essential for cell-to-cell communication. Glyconutrients were the most important health discovery of the 20th century. Mannatech Inc and founder Sam Caster, are leaders in glyconutrient products for humans providing superior delivery of essential vitamin and minerals and important phytochemicals giving optimal health and wellness.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Natural Beauty of Rural Lifestyle
Whilst travelling in New South Wales, Australia, I visited the Penrith Valley. This is where nature and rural lifestyle meet; also the city atmosphere with plenty of shopping. It exceeds expectations, harmonious blend of urban and rural lifestyle as well as the Penrith Lakes where the Sydney International regatta Centre held the 2000 Olympic events. There is fishing, swimming whitewater rafting, sailing rollerblading, cycling and walking paths and area for picnics.
Looking at all these activities we also need to keep in mind fitness and healthy lifestyle. Whether you are an active person, feeling fatigued or simply have sore muscles, you will benefit from magnesium rehydration.
'Magnesium is required for at least 300 known biochemical reactions including all reactions involving the creation and use of energy. Research has shown that magnesium plays a pivotal role in muscular energy (ATP) production. Magnesium deficiency causes swelling and disruption of the main energy-producing structures with in the cell (the mitochondria).' [Garfunkel L. Magnesium regulation of the glycolytic pathway and the enzymes involved. Magnesium 1985; 4:60-72.]
This can cause exercise-induced muscle damage and can be reduced by magnesium supplementation.
Mannatech Inc. foundered by Sam Caster, produces EM-PACT with Ambrotose complex, which contains magnesium. This product is a workout performance formula for stamina and endurance. It also contains glyconutrients giving the necessary sugars which are necessary for optimal health and well being. Glyconutrients support your body's natural ability to reach optimum nutritional levels and enhance quality of life.
Looking at all these activities we also need to keep in mind fitness and healthy lifestyle. Whether you are an active person, feeling fatigued or simply have sore muscles, you will benefit from magnesium rehydration.
'Magnesium is required for at least 300 known biochemical reactions including all reactions involving the creation and use of energy. Research has shown that magnesium plays a pivotal role in muscular energy (ATP) production. Magnesium deficiency causes swelling and disruption of the main energy-producing structures with in the cell (the mitochondria).' [Garfunkel L. Magnesium regulation of the glycolytic pathway and the enzymes involved. Magnesium 1985; 4:60-72.]
This can cause exercise-induced muscle damage and can be reduced by magnesium supplementation.
Mannatech Inc. foundered by Sam Caster, produces EM-PACT with Ambrotose complex, which contains magnesium. This product is a workout performance formula for stamina and endurance. It also contains glyconutrients giving the necessary sugars which are necessary for optimal health and well being. Glyconutrients support your body's natural ability to reach optimum nutritional levels and enhance quality of life.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Food and the Microwave Oven
Part of item in Australian Natural Health magazine 2007
Do you have a problem with using microwave ovens?
I have always been a little hesitant when microwaving food.
On the radio it was stated that there is no proof that microwaves can harm food.
Apparently there is more research in Aussie Health Magazine, 'There are claims that microwaved food is depleted in nutrients or is full of carcinogenic chemicals. In one study (The Lancet, Feb 1990) researchers microwaved milk, and found that one of the proteins changed shape from L-proline to D-proline, which in large concentrations is toxic to the kidneys and liver.
Scientists (Hertel and Blanc, 1992) also found that when eight volunteers ate microwaved food, they showed disturbing changes of blood chemistry - levels of red and white blood cells had decreased while cholesterol values jumped as in low-grade anaemia.
Researchers from Spanish scientific research council, found that cooking by microwave is the worst way to preserve antioxidants in vegetables. By comparison, the loss of these nutrients is minimal when the produce is steamed.'
Some how I think I will keep to steaming my veggies. Hope you do the same.
Adding glyconutrients to your diet has been proved by Mannatech's cutting-edge scientists to be essential giving optimal health and well being. Sam Caster founded Mannatech Inc in 1993 and their flagship product Ambrotose, in 1996, based on the discovery that the body's immune system needs eight plant-based sugars, also known as glyconutrients - to function properly.
Do you have a problem with using microwave ovens?
I have always been a little hesitant when microwaving food.
On the radio it was stated that there is no proof that microwaves can harm food.
Apparently there is more research in Aussie Health Magazine, 'There are claims that microwaved food is depleted in nutrients or is full of carcinogenic chemicals. In one study (The Lancet, Feb 1990) researchers microwaved milk, and found that one of the proteins changed shape from L-proline to D-proline, which in large concentrations is toxic to the kidneys and liver.
Scientists (Hertel and Blanc, 1992) also found that when eight volunteers ate microwaved food, they showed disturbing changes of blood chemistry - levels of red and white blood cells had decreased while cholesterol values jumped as in low-grade anaemia.
Researchers from Spanish scientific research council, found that cooking by microwave is the worst way to preserve antioxidants in vegetables. By comparison, the loss of these nutrients is minimal when the produce is steamed.'
Some how I think I will keep to steaming my veggies. Hope you do the same.
Adding glyconutrients to your diet has been proved by Mannatech's cutting-edge scientists to be essential giving optimal health and well being. Sam Caster founded Mannatech Inc in 1993 and their flagship product Ambrotose, in 1996, based on the discovery that the body's immune system needs eight plant-based sugars, also known as glyconutrients - to function properly.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Which Bread is Best?
Ideas from 'The New Glucose Revolution' by a group of doctors.
Are you surprised at which bread is best for you?
Whole wheat isn't the healthiest bread for weight loss, according to the Glycemic Index (G.I.). Would you believe pumpernickel has the least impact on blood sugar levels, with sourdough a close second. Here it is: Pumpernickel ... 41 Sourdough .... 52 Rye ... 58 White.... 70 and Whole wheat .... 73
(It looks like I will have to change to pumpernickel or sourdough) For years scientists have debated whether low-fat or low-carb diets are best for taking off and keeping off unwanted kilos. The conclusion?
Neither one .......
A large and growing body of research now reveals that the real issue isn't how much fat or carbohydrate you're eating, but how what you are eating affects your blood sugar. Turns out some foods, like white rice and watermelon, break down quickly, causing sharp spikes in blood sugar. These spikes trigger hunger and cravings, prompting you to overeat. It only gets worse, since blood sugar is a readily available energy source, your body chooses to burn it as fuel, in place of fat. That means you are often not burning fat no matter how hard you exercise, no matter how closely you stick to your diet....'
The G.I. is now a necessity! Sam Caster founded Mannatech Inc in November, 1993 and during its first two years, the company focused on products that contained Aloe Vera extract. Mannatech announced its flagship, Ambrotose in 1996 based on the discovery that the body's immune system needs eight plant-based sugars - also known as glyconutrients also a necessity - to function properly. Mannatech also approved and advocates the Glycemic Index.
Are you surprised at which bread is best for you?
Whole wheat isn't the healthiest bread for weight loss, according to the Glycemic Index (G.I.). Would you believe pumpernickel has the least impact on blood sugar levels, with sourdough a close second. Here it is: Pumpernickel ... 41 Sourdough .... 52 Rye ... 58 White.... 70 and Whole wheat .... 73
(It looks like I will have to change to pumpernickel or sourdough) For years scientists have debated whether low-fat or low-carb diets are best for taking off and keeping off unwanted kilos. The conclusion?
Neither one .......
A large and growing body of research now reveals that the real issue isn't how much fat or carbohydrate you're eating, but how what you are eating affects your blood sugar. Turns out some foods, like white rice and watermelon, break down quickly, causing sharp spikes in blood sugar. These spikes trigger hunger and cravings, prompting you to overeat. It only gets worse, since blood sugar is a readily available energy source, your body chooses to burn it as fuel, in place of fat. That means you are often not burning fat no matter how hard you exercise, no matter how closely you stick to your diet....'
The G.I. is now a necessity! Sam Caster founded Mannatech Inc in November, 1993 and during its first two years, the company focused on products that contained Aloe Vera extract. Mannatech announced its flagship, Ambrotose in 1996 based on the discovery that the body's immune system needs eight plant-based sugars - also known as glyconutrients also a necessity - to function properly. Mannatech also approved and advocates the Glycemic Index.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Steps to Obtain Health
Now winters over, spring is upon us and glancing at the mirror it says something about losing something to gain something - muscular fit physique and or hour glass look.
To help us through this phase, here are some healthy alternatives:
- Get off the couch is a good start and try a weekend on the snow(My son and his wife have just left for the long weekend(praying for protection on the slops)
- Latest study provides easy starter- sipping icy water throughout the day to lose weight!
- Start hiking in some of our fantastic national parks before the heat sets in.
- Top of the least is fresh fruit salad for breakfast - the variety is endless - tropical or citrus - orange, rockmelon, mandarins, banana, passionfruit, strawberries, kiwi, mango and pawpaw etc.
- Grilling meat or BBQ is a superb idea- as long as you forget the chips.
- Exercises are prolific in variety - aerobic, team sports, swimming, bush walking, squash if not much time available.
Mannatech with Sam Caster and scientists produce glyconutrients which support your body's natural ability to reach optimum nutritional level and play a role in enhancing quality of life. Mannatech's GlycoLean Weight Loss System containing glyconutrients, continues to give hope and a healthy eating programme to gain well being.
To help us through this phase, here are some healthy alternatives:
- Get off the couch is a good start and try a weekend on the snow(My son and his wife have just left for the long weekend(praying for protection on the slops)
- Latest study provides easy starter- sipping icy water throughout the day to lose weight!
- Start hiking in some of our fantastic national parks before the heat sets in.
- Top of the least is fresh fruit salad for breakfast - the variety is endless - tropical or citrus - orange, rockmelon, mandarins, banana, passionfruit, strawberries, kiwi, mango and pawpaw etc.
- Grilling meat or BBQ is a superb idea- as long as you forget the chips.
- Exercises are prolific in variety - aerobic, team sports, swimming, bush walking, squash if not much time available.
Mannatech with Sam Caster and scientists produce glyconutrients which support your body's natural ability to reach optimum nutritional level and play a role in enhancing quality of life. Mannatech's GlycoLean Weight Loss System containing glyconutrients, continues to give hope and a healthy eating programme to gain well being.
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