The best medicine in the world for almost everything

What is the best medicine in the world? If you expect me to tell you that it is a certain pill or powder, you are wrong. It is much more difficult than just taking a pill to stay healthy. The pills are just one of the last options before everything falls apart. So what is it than? It is a calorie restriction, or better said - eating less and better. And it is closely fallowed by regular exercise – cardiovascular and strength.

People who eat good diet less food, are generally healthy. But the healthiest ones are those who are actually sometimes hungry and starve because they don’t have enough food.

I am not saying that you should be hungry and starve for days. What I am trying to say is that not having enough to eat could be a great thing for your health.

Calorie restriction works as a certain defensive mechanism. When your body senses that it is not having plenty of food, it fires up the immunity system in your body to maximum levels. That’s why certain very skinny people who eat very little get rarely sick on flu season. Cancer risks drop exponentially in people who take less calories, the most in people who literally starve.

But you also need to be careful about this. You don’t want to deprive your body for everything. There is certainly a borderline of how far to go and some people go too far and than danger can outweigh the benefits. Before you really try this, you have to make sure, that your body is getting enough of minimum it needs like its protein requirement, vitamins, minerals like calcium and magnesium. Having enough protein in your diet adding 7 – 10 servings of fruits and vegetables and adding some, not too much of nuts and olive oil will do it. And of course drinking plenty of plain clean  water. And nothing else if you are brave enough and you are up for a challenge.

It’s so easy to say, but very hard to do. There are a lot of traps out there and you know it. However the fantastic benefit of this kind of eating is huge and really worth doing it. Would you like to be a person in your sixties and not needing to visit a doctor at all for 10 years except for just the general check up, when he is blown away of the fantastic results you are showing?

When your diet is clean from processed foods like sweets, deserts, white flour products, processed meats, bad oils and sweetened drinks and others, as I said your immunity system, is fired to the maximum.

Remember this: Whenever you are putting processed, sweetened stuff into your mouth, you are decreasing this immunity system, exposing your body to outside and certain inside dangerous forces. Do it for a long enough and some serious health condition emerge. Than you visit your doctor, who diagnoses your disease and prescribes some poisonous pills that fight the disease, but also are damaging your body at the same time. Do you really want that? I don’t think so.

By avoiding these calorie dense foods, mainly sugar and flour, you are keeping your immunity system alert and ready to fight whatever comes effectively and you  rarely get sick.

Of course there is more to do than just to eat perfectly little. Adding regular exercise increases this magical medicine to the next level. Keeping you skeletal system strong and resistant helps to avoid injuries and than you can really and certainly live without doctor and all pharmaceutical companies.

Don’t become a human living zombie that is alive only because some chemical is keeping you alive. Prevent that disease with calorie restriction, perfect simple diet and regular exercise and enjoy long, healthy and happy life.

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Organic terrible diet

I know people who think, that their organic diet is the healthiest diet in the world. It is pure organic and you can’t go wrong with that, can you? 

Organic terrible foods

That sounds like a very healthy diet to a lot of people, but if you ask them what specifically they eat you get something like this: I usually eat organic cereal for breakfast with organic milk and organic chocolate syrup on it. The organic cereals are made with all organic ingredients, including sugar.

Organic sugar? It maybe is organic sugar, but there is not a major difference between organic sugar and sugar that is not labeled organic. They are both terrible for your health. 

 Anyway, this kind of  superhealthy organic breakfast contains 60 grams of sugar and every other scary ingredient in  is organic, like for example:

Organic brown rice syrup. What kind of crap is that? Yes it sounds very healthy because it is probably made from brown rice. But everything good for our health was already taken from it and all that is left is sugar. Plain, maybe little brown, body poisoning sugar.

The other common organic super healthy ingredients as many energy bars, like Cliff bar,  and cereal manufacturers claim are: Organic soy protein isolate - most probably bad for you, Organic rice flour – bad for you, Organic barley malt extract – sugar – bad for you, Organic date paste – sugar – bad for you, inulin-chicory extract – probably bad for you, Organic evaporated cane juice – sugar – bad for you and many, many others. And the average folk is blown away by these “incredibly healthy stuff.”

If you are one of those people who get very impressed by these kind of exotic organic ingredients, than your diet is probably terrible. And it doesn’t matter, that it is organic. It is highly processed, loaded with 5 kinds of sugar and it is messing up with your natural biochemistry, making you fat and sick at the same time.

Another common healthy organic stuff you can see in stores and people eating for lunch or diner are packaged organic turkey or tuna wraps, pizzas,whole organic packaged meals and others. It will say something like this: Made from organic flour, or used only organic ingredients. But they won’t tell you that, the organic ingredient is some kind of sweet conservative, that keeps that sandwich sitting in the store for a month without getting bad. Or that it is a processed ingredient for a better flavor.

Organic terible drinks

It’s very similar with drinks. All natural drink I saw in the store the other day claims to have the best organic stuff on earth! Suddenly, you think you are about to drink the healthiest drink in the world. It contains a huge amount of sugar – 67 grams per 20 oz size bottle. But hey it is organic sugar and not high fructose corn syrup, like there is really much of a difference. And it also has – grape juice concentrate! While it sounds great it is just another kind of sugar.

67 grams of sugar is what you shouldn’t consume in 4 days and here you have it – one little bottle that people enjoy after their lunch.

Don’t get confused by organic healthy – organic unhealthy diet

The point here is, that some people, majority in fact eat these kind of healthy organic, packaged, sugar loaded diet and they really think it’s good for them. Not realizing, that the  amounts of toxins and sugar in these products is strongly, terribly messing up with their body’s biochemistry.

These people and you might be one of them, need to be educated about this stuff. Because if nobody tells them, they will keep eating these “healthy organic foods” and one day their doctor will tell them, that they have a cancer or diabetes or high cholesterol and heart disease. Yes, sugar, not surprisingly even organic causes all of these.

Healthy diet

I don’t care if it is organic or not. I don’t eat pure organic diet. And I think that, if you want to eat super healthy diet it doesn’t have to be organic.

I believe, that even when the plant is treated with some protective chemical, it is still a plant that’s taken straight from the earth. It is a fresh plant. A plant that’s going to get bad soon if you don’t eat it within certain time. An that is healthy stuff in my world.  It is not a processed granola bar. I comes straight from nature and not from the factory.

There is some evidence, that organic produce doesn’t contain more vitamins, fiber and minerals than not organic one. And if you wash it, the not organic one doesn’t contain any chemicals at all.

The perfect diet doesn’t have to be organic. It has to be based on a huge amounts of fresh fruits and vegetables. It has to be free of sugar, processed foods and white flour. It must be rich in mainly vegetable protein like beans, tofu and grains supplemented with eggs, fish and lean chicken. Also some dairy sugar free products should be added to it.

If you want to eat healthy, eat these kind of diet. Normal is just fine. Don’t worry about it being organic. But if it is organic, than watch out!

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17 healthiest breakfast choices

Why are these the healthiest breakfast choices?

Because they are:

• Low in simple sugar
• High in fiber
• Rich in protein
• Loaded with vitamins and antioxidants

Here they are and try to rotate them:

1. One banana + 2 tablespoons of peanut butter
2. Low fat plain yogurt with fresh berries in it – strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or whatever you have
3. 2 – 3 eggs – fried in some olive oil and have 1-2 apples after
4. Low fat plain yogurt + ground flax seed meal and berries in it + have a tablespoon of peanut butter with it
5. 3 eggs omelet with fresh mushrooms and some greens in it + orange
6. 2 eggs + 2 oz of lean ground turkey omelet with green vegetables + 1 slice of real whole grain bread
7. Cooked steel cut oats wit low fat milk and lots of ground unsweetened cinnamon in it +roasted almonds
8. Apple and banana with 3 spoons of almond butter
9. Cottage cheese with 100% whole grain toast
10. 2 hard boiled eggs + some olive oil and 2 whole raw tomatoes
11. Pear with cinnamon + apple with almond butter
12. Plain low fat yogurt with banana + flax seed meal + raw cashews

 Very healthy unconventional breakfast choices – highly recommended :

1. Can of sardines + apple + orange – disgusting but incredibly great for you
2. Canned mackerel + raw cucumbers
3. Sardine plain whole grain sandwich with greens, olive oil and vinegar
4. Wild canned salmon with cinnamon on it + Raw baby Brussels sprouts
5. Sardines from can +2 eggs omelet with garlic and onion in it – bad breath weekend option.

Result:

• High energy
• No hungry feel for long time
• High creativity
• Great mood
• No sugar crush

Best drinks with it:

1. Black coffee with ground cinamon 
2. Green tea
3. Earl grey tea
4. Mint tea
5. Chamomile tea
6. Water

Of course without sugar, all of them!

Your shoppinglist for week-long of healthy nutritious breakfasts:

1. Eggs – 1 box
2. Lean ground turkey
3. Baby spinach and other greens
4. Low fat cottage cheese
5. 3 Low fat yogurts
6. Berries – strawberries, raspberries, blueberries
7. 3 cans of sardines in water
8. ground cinnamon
9. 2 cans of wild red or pink salmon
10. 1 can of mackerel
11. Roasted almonds + Raw almonds
12. Raw cashews
13. Unsalted unbleached peanut butter
14. Unsalted unbleached almond butter
15. Ground flax-seed meal
16. 2 pounds of apples
17. 2 pounds of pears
18. 2 pounds of oranges
19. 2 pounds of tomatoes

Go! Start your day right! Eat healthy nutritious breakfast.

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Madonna knows something many of us don’t

If you have seen Madonna recently, you noticed how very skinny she is.

I think, she is too skinny and she would look much better with little extra meat on herself.

But, Madonna knows exactly what she’s doing.

At her age of 52, she is super active, working out everyday for several hours. She is calling her gym a church, where she prays everyday for 2 hours – with strength, endurance and flexibility exercises.

She is creative and aggressive as ever before. She is dating young men. She looks great, she dances like a Olympic gymnast and she is a superstar with a huge amount of energy.

She is 52 and she is 25 at the same time.

What does Madonna know, lots of us don’t?

Madonna knows what many recent researches show: Calorie restriction leads to longevity, slow aging, great health and energy.

Many researches show, that starving rats lived 2-3 times longer as those who had plenty of food available. They were super healthy all their life’s, they rested less, moved more. I am convinced and certainly Madonna too, that this applies to humans as well.

Madonna practices her calorie restriction with pro biotic diet, which actually means just the normal diet, free of sugar, processed foods, and excess fat.

In an interview with CNN’s Larry King she described her typical dinner as fish, some kind of grains and some kind of cooked vegetable and salad.

I think her diet is more extreme than that. As everything what Madonna does.

I am sure, she gets everything she needs – vitamins, minerals, enough protein and other nutrients. But nothing, absolutely nothing extra.

And it works!

You will never see Madonna with a coke in her hand.

I will bet you a lot of money anytime, that Madonna haven’t have a Coke last 10 years. I wouldn’t be surprised, if she didn’t even know how the Coke testes anymore.

Calorie restriction works for Madonna. In fact that and a diligent, religious exercise will keep her performing, staying healthy, full of energy and creative for many many more years.

You too can apply what Madonna knows and applies on herself.

You will need a lot of discipline, but it is easily possible to copy her diet very closely. And this is not just a celebrity thing, that lots of people are using for excuse.

You don’t need  expensive trainer to snatch that sprite out of your hand or to take away that piece of cake you wanted to have after dinner. I doubt, Madonna has somebody walking with her all the time and telling her what  not to eat.

No, you don’t need Madonnas money or time or trainers.

What you really need is Madonnas discipline.

Hey, she has all the money and time in the world. She should be enjoying life, enjoying all different kinds of restaurants, going to clubs, trying all kinds of expensive drinks, watching  movies all the time and having fun and eating popcorn and generally “enjoying life!”

But instead of that, her grocery bill is probably much lover than yours and mine, because the healthiest stuff out there is cheep and prepared by yourself.  And even that preparation is pretty quick, so you don’t need a personal chef.

OK, Madonna maybe has a chef, but I doubt he or she is preparing some complicated meals for her and her family that take too much time.

Her chef is probably some buddy from the childhood, she just wants to keep around and put him on the payroll. You can easily prepare same kind and tasty meals, and probably even better than him.

Healthy meals are usually prepared very quickly and most of the time they are just eaten raw to preserve all the nutrients.

Alright, so now, when you don’t have any celebrity excuse to use, you can start.

Don’t eat anything, that tastes good because it is sweetened with sugar or processed and loaded with chemicals. Eat only the foods that come straight from the nature and not from the factory.

I know. That sounds brutal, but nothing worthwhile is easy.

And being healthy and staying young long time after fifty is worth deleting some lame ass foods from your diet like: soda, candy, processed foods, alcohol, and other.

Are you overweight? Would you like to loose few pounds, but you can’t?

You are not disciplined enough! Madonna is! That’s the only real difference between you and her.

Don’t look for a shortcut.

Regular intensive physical exercise and diet based on calorie restriction is the answer!

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Good antioxidants, bad antioxidants – it’s in the form, not the kind

Lots of people I know are taking big amounts of antioxidant supplements like vitamin  C and E. They are mistakenly known as cancer fighters, free radicals killers.

The problem is, that these people really think they are protected. And they think, they don’t have to eat any fruits and vegetables, because they already have enough antioxidants in their diet through supplements.

Several studies were made on antioxidants.

Most of them showing no benefit at all for humans when taken as a supplement (pill).

Few studies shoved, that antioxidants in concentrated form as the ones in the form of a pill can act as strong pro-oxidants – that means, that they can be harmful.

The chemistry of the body can be quite complex and some free radicals are beneficial.

If you want to be completely safe, get all your antioxidants from fresh fruits and vegetables and stay away from antioxidant supplements.

Eat apples, pears, berries, plums, salads and other fruits and vegetables as much as you want to, because they already have the right balance of antioxidants created by nature, not by laboratory.

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Can you guess the unhealthiest beverage in the world?

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