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Eating Super Foods Can Improve Health

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! (function() { var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0]; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js'; s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1); })(); Tweet (function() { var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0]; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js'; s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1); })(); TweetTweet By Sherry Lynn Frewerd Recently, research in nutrition and health has found several highly nutritious foods that over and over again have demonstrated the ability to improve a person’s general health and well being. Given the name ‘super foods,’ they not only are good for the body, but have less calories, are loaded with vitamins and anti-oxidants but are delicious as well. What are Some Super Foods? Some of the tasty powerhouses are foods such as legumes, broccoli, blueberries, walnuts, green tea, pumpkin, soy, oranges, spinach, whole grains, oats, tomatoes, turkey and plain yogurt. Each of these food items may assist to slow and perhaps even stop several ailments and diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and some cancers. Consuming nutritious foods as part of a regular diet can improve health and promote weight loss without the need of fad diets or other unhealthy measures. Detrimental Effects of Poor Nutrition Just as eating good foods can create positive effects, eating junk food can have detrimental effects on the body. People who regularly consume processed and fast foods often suffer from low energy and fatigue, bad moods and weight gain. Over time, the body shows signs of malnutrition due to the lack of vitamins and minerals that are needed to maintain healthy tissue growth and a strong immune system. Feel Better Inside and Out Eating super foods not only helps the physical body improve and function more effectively, but also improves the mental and psychological well being. When these tasty foods are introduced to the system they work throughout the body to make a person simply feel better inside and out. Avoid Processed Foods In this day and age, fast and convenient is sadly the norm. Processed foods which are now a part of the average daily diet are less than healthy and affect not only the physcial body but mental abilities as well. Many people feel moody and simply in a mental fog during the day. Eating a healthy diet full of super foods may improve feelings of wellbeing and increase personal productivity. Superfoods such as berries, whole grains and nuts, as part of a regular meal plan, can improve overall health, increase feelings of wellbeing while helping to prevent tissue damange and deter various illnesses and diseases. Adding these foods into the daily diet is not only smart but delicious as well. Therefore, discover ways to take the junk from the daily food consumption and replace it with some of the Superfoods mentioned above. The body, mind and spirit will all be healthier as a result. Find out more about how eating super foods can increase your overall health and wellbeing from our Free Report ‘Super Foods for Superior Health’. Includes superfoods list and easy super foods recipes.http://familylivingideas.com/super-foods-recipes-and-food-list/ If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

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A Smaller Waist Makes You Live Longer?

Posted by free1blog2 | Posted in Exercise, Healthy Eating | Posted on 19-07-2011

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By Andrew Ekman

Belly fat is embarrassing, let’s face it. And it puts a crimp on your confidence. (Hesitant to peel your shirt of at the beach recently?)

Well, recent research has uncovered that when it comes to belly fat, vanity should be the least of your worries. Too much abdominal fat is outright dangerous to your health.

If you are a woman and your waistline is more than 35 inches around, your risk of getting heart disease goes up dramatically. If your waist is less than 35 inches, your risk of heart disease is significantly less.

If you are a man, have 40+ inches on the waist, same deal. Get your waist below 40 inches, your risk for heart disease goes down significantly.

A research paper titled “The Ratio of Waist-to-Hip Circumference, Plasma Insulin Level, and Glucose Intolerance as Independent Predictors of the HDL2 Cholesterol Level in Older Adults” published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that people with smaller waists produced higher levels of HDL cholesterol compared to those with larger waistlines.

HDL cholesterol is the healthy kind of cholesterol to have in your body. It takes LDL cholesterol (the unhealthy one) and transports it to the liver where the LDL is processed and then excreted out of the body.

So the higher the levels of HDL cholesterol in your body, the more LDL cholesterol is cleared from your bloodstream and the less it can reach high levels in your body.

When LDL cholesterol reaches high levels it gets the ball rolling in the process that leads to heart disease.

LDL cholesterol gets lodged in small cracks in the lining of arteries, whereupon it becomes oxidized. Once oxidized the LDL becomes a more dangerous form a lipid and damages surrounding cells. White blood cells come running to the rescue to try and stop the damage … and this is the beginning of what becomes a plaque, a crusty swelling on the lining of the artery. Plaques eventually calcify and become hard and brittle.

The proliferation of plaques along artery walls around the heart is the basic condition of atherosclerosis. When left unaddressed, this condition usually culminates in a heart attack.

Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in Western countries.

By identifying that “the level of HDL2 cholesterol was inversely correlated with the ratio of the waist-to-hip circumference” this research paper has shown us a tangible thing that we can do to improve our health, and live longer.

Losing belly fat and reducing your waistline (35 inches or less for women, 40 inches or less for men) helps your body produce higher levels of HDL cholesterol, which in turn reduces LDL cholesterol levels, and risk of heart attack.

If you could extend your lifespan a decade or two by slimming down and losing a bit of fat … would you?

I think it’s a fair trade. Go on. Make the change today.

Andrew Ekman is a stay at home father of three who is always looking for ways middle aged men and women can maintain their health and vitality as they grow older. Andrew is author of the magnificently informative and extremely popular Fat Loss Over 50 Report. To get your free copy of this amazing report, go to www.fatlossover50.com.

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