Health food scene in New York

Gingersnaps Organics

The East-Village cafe is Jamie Graber’s vision of good for you food for life on the GO (read: Gingersnap’s Organic.) The cafe is the new neighborhood hot spot, even if nothing is ever heated above 108 degrees.

GO is offering a made-to-order 2012 cleanse featuring three gourmet, healthy meals a day (dessert included) that rotate according to the chef’s whims and are delivered to your door in GO’s signature — and recyclable — brown bags. Or, bring your laptop to take advantage of the unlimited wifi as you sit in chairs made of sustainable wood while you devour guilt-free comfort food like guacamole and chips, pizza, tacos and pasta puttanesca.

Make sure to try GO’s signature Portobello Reuben wrap and Ramen noodles and take a slice of the constantly changing daily pies for a sweet treat for the road. Plus, GO is open until midnight for a late-night detox-friendly feast. (Brown bag cleanse $50 per day.)

How You Can Treat ADHD Naturally – Video

Health Videos – How You Can Treat ADHD Naturally

Dr. Bob recommends a few different ways to combat ADHD without the use of prescription drugs.

How does wheat make us fat, exactly?

How does Wheat Make me Fat?

Losing Weight

Losing Weight

Losing weight is simple but not easy. You can, however, make any weight loss program much easier to follow if you muster will power, courage, imagination, resolve, and a sincere desire to change to a way of life that is specifically suited for you. That is, coordinate all spiritual, mental and physical resources to achieve your goal of finding and keeping a healthy lifestyle. Write down weight loss goals and work for them. You will get there. You can overcome any problem in which your own choice and decisions are the key to its solution.

Animals in nature eat whole, pure, natural foods and they get plenty of exercise as they search for their food.

Man dries, cans and preserves his fruits in sugar and chemical additives, refines his sugar and flour and packages them so they are high in calories and low in food value.

All diets are made up of protein, carbohydrates and fats, from meat, fish, poultry, dairy vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts seeds and legumes.

Amaranth

Amaranth

For centuries, the Aztecs and American Indians have known the benefits and diverse uses for amaranth
Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of herbs. Read the rest of this entry »

The Trouble with Fructose: a Darwinian Perspective” by Robert Lustig, MD

“The Trouble with Fructose: a Darwinian Perspective” by Robert Lustig, MD from Ancestry on Vimeo.

ABSTRACT: Rates of fructose consumption continue to rise worldwide, and have been linked to rising rates of obesity, type-2 diabetes mellitus, and metabolic syndrome. Elucidation of fructose metabolism in liver and fructose action in brain demonstrate three parallelisms with ethanol. First, hepatic fructose metabolism is similar to ethanol in that by accelerating the process of de novo lipogenesis, both promote hepatic insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hepatic steatosis. Second, fructosylation of proteins with resultant superoxide formation can result in inflammation similar to acetaldehyde, an intermediary metabolite of ethanol. Lastly, by stimulating the “hedonic pathway” of the brain both directly and indirectly, fructose creates habituation, and possibly dependence; also paralleling ethanol. On a societal level, the treatment of fructose as a commodity on the open market exhibits similarities to ethanol. Fructose induces alterations in both hepatic metabolism and central nervous system energy signaling, leading to a “vicious cycle” of excessive consumption and disease consistent with metabolic syndrome. These dose-dependent actions of fructose on the liver and on the hedonic pathway of the brain recapitulate the effects of ethanol.

You can view the slides to Dr. Lustig’s excellent presentation BELOW.

Second Brain – Manage your gut and gut flora

Nutrition Can Save America

But from what, exactly?

Every day, it seems, there are more signs of the accelerating decline of the American Empire. The economy is tanking, the currency is being abandoned by other nations, health care remains a disastrous failure, unemployment is atrociously high, prisons are filled to capacity, public education is failing yet another generation of children, and the population seems to be getting more diseased with each generation.

The question, though, is why?
Why is our population so diseased? Why is unemployment so high? Why can’t our kids learn well in school? Why is America losing its leadership position in the world? Why are so many jobs being offshored to other countries?

What if there were a single underlying reason that answered all these questions? As you may have guessed, there is:

Nutrition

Poor nutrition destroys any nation. Good nutrition saves it. And in this NaturalNews special report, you’ll learn why nutrition plays such a powerful role in the rise or fall of any nation.

It’s also a warning message for America: If we don’t make immediate, radical changes in the available food supply — and the marketing of foods to consumers — we won’t survive much longer as a nation. America will fall, brought down by the inevitable consequences of a nutritionally deficient, chronically diseased population.

But to understand why this is the case, you first have to see why food has such a powerful impact on everything that matters in society: Health, happiness, employment, productivity, education and even freedom. To explain all that, let’s start with a lesson on poor nutrition.

Next: The consequences of poor nutrition…

Learn more: COMPLETE ARTICLE PROVIDED BY NATURAL NEWS Nutrition Can Save America!

Oil Pulling

The ancient act of oil pulling has been used by other cultures for literally centuries. It simply instructs you to use a small amount of pure and organic oil to wash out your mouth. The purpose is to remove toxins, bacteria, infections, fungus, and other unwanted organisms that invade our mouths daily.

The recommended oil, according to experts, is pure organic cold pressed sesame oil but I prefer coconut oil. Others oils that will work, are olive oil, coconut oil, and sunflower oil, all cold pressed and always extra virgin.

Here’s how it works. It’s called ‘oil pulling’ and the function of the oil is clear. It grabs and removes the unwanted toxins from your mouth. The oil only needs a few moments in the mouth to do the job. Then you’ll spit out the oil, in the garbage can and not the sink as it will clog up the pipes.

Take a tablespoon of oil (whichever you choose) and place it into your mouth. Swish it around for 15 minutes. Spit it out. It’s that simple, yet it performs a very important function. The oils mix together with your saliva and turn thin and white. The lipids contained in the oil pull the toxins from your saliva. The oil then turns thicker and whiter. When it has reached this point, spit the oil out before they are reabsorbed into your body.

Oil pulling has many benefits. It has been known to strengthen the jaw and the teeth and gums. It aids in the prevention of disease, such as gingivitis. Tooth decay is slowed. Bad breath is cut down and lips, mouth, and throat dryness is remedied. Sore jaws and gums from such conditions as TMJ can be relieved by oil pulling. That’s just what it does for the mouth. In the rest of the body there are also benefits to be found. Migraines can find relief; hormonal imbalances, arthritis, and eczema find relief. Sinus congestion and bronchitis have been known to be reduced or relieved by oil pulling. I would highly recommend reading this book as there can many lots of information on the internet about oil pulling.

Oil Pulling with Coconut oil

“Oil Pulling Therapy” Interview with Bruce Fife
A 4-part audiovisual interview featuring Dr. Bruce Fife, author of Oil Pulling Therapy: Detoxifying and Healing the Body Through Oral Cleansing. In this interview Joyce Riley of The Power Hour radio broadcast interviews Dr. Fife who discusses the many benefits of oil pulling therapy, as well as the correct methods for oil pulling. Includes live testimonials.

OIL PULLING THERAPY PART 1

OIL PULLING THERAPY PART 2

OIL PULLING THERAPY PART 3

OIL PULLING THERAPY PART 4

The Colon

The colon has several parts:

•Ascending colon – Beginning in the lower right abdomen and continuing up the right side.
•Transverse colon – Beginning at the upper right side of the abdomen and continuing across to the left side of the abdomen.
•Descending colon – From the left upper abdomen straight down to the left lower side.
•Sigmoid colon – An S-shaped section that leads downward into the pelvic cavity.
•Rectum – The last six or so inches of the colon, ending at the anus.

Your colon has two primary jobs. One is to absorb the fluids out of the colon and any nutritional value that maybe left in the digestive waste before it leaves your body. Your colon reabsorbs 8 to 10 times every 30 minutes. This is how your body hydrates itself.

The second job is called peristalsis this is a wavelike muscular contraction of the large intestinal track which forces the feces along your colon wall as the fecal matter moves out of your body. You call this a bowel movement.

When our diet is heavy in grains, cheese and then we don’t drink our daily requirement of water peristalsis can’t perform. As time goes by we start to notice we are having less and less bowel movements, we also notice our waistline is growing, and we have this constant full feeling. This would be an indication of constipation. If your colon is sluggish (very slow peristalsis) and your colon is still doing its other job, absorbing like clockwork, you are going to end up with hard feces. We call this constipation.

Sometimes we forget about all the medications, and the artificial sweeteners, additives, preservatives, pesticides, flavor enhancers, etc, in our foods. The more time digestive waste spends in the colon, the greater your chances are of reabsorbing these toxins. To the degree your colon is clean, is to the degree your blood stream is clean. No matter how sluggish your colon may be, it’s right there doing its other job reabsorbing while dehydrating your digestive waste. Pulling the waste back into your body’s system through the blood stream. Doing a liver, gall bladder, kidney flush, etc., is really hard on the body.

Water is very important. “Clean filtered water.” Your body requires ½ oz. of water per pound of body weight per day. WATER IS NOT AN OPTION. Water is a MUST!
Namaste