Fri
9:34 pm / 2010
Food, Inc.
If you haven’t seen this movie, go see it. Then decide, for the health of the planet and ourselves, to make a change. Remember, we vote with each beep at the checkout scanner…
Posts tagged "food"
Thu
3:28 pm / 2010
Healing foods reference database
Mike Adams has done it again! His new site is a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their health through better nutrition. It helps to remove the fog of war when battling any of the common health conditions listed on the site.
Trying to determine what to eat to best promote healing has been a big source of confusion for me. Not that I’ve been sick, but I like to be prepared. Now I know a great resource to turn to should I need it, and I will be using it to help prevent disease as well: healingfoodreference.com
I also follow the happenings at Mike Adam’s other great sites:
I don’t mind that some of his posts are a bit paranoid and obsessing, because buried in the paranoia I come away with some really great knowledge. Just remember, reality is typically a shade of gray.Nature’s foods contain powerful medicine in the form of phytonutrients, and knowing how to use those natural medicines empowers people with the information they need to be healthier, happier and free from the ravages of chronic disease.
Sat
5:20 pm / 2009
Living Fuel achieves new superfood milestone
(NaturalNews) If you follow the news on superfoods, you’re probably familiar with the term “ORAC” — Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. It’s a measure of the antioxidant power of a food or substance. You may not be aware that there’s a new, more advanced ORAC test available today: ORACFN.
ORACFN measures the food’s ability to protect against oxidative damage caused by five common radicals: hydroxyl, peroxyl, peroxynitrite, singlet oxygen, and superoxide anion. This is designed to provide a more accurate assessment on how the substance being tested might function in the human body.
I’ve been a customer and an advocate of Living Fuel products for many years (www.LivingFuel.com), and I’ve always known they offered potent antioxidant protection, but I didn’t know exactly how much until recently, when Living Fuel ran the ORACFN tests on their superfood products.
The results? Quite impressive.
LivingFuel Superberry (my favorite product in their lineup) scored an astonishing 119,200 on the ORACFN test. By comparison, Goji Berries score 25,300, and raw elderberries are 14,697. Apples score 6,681 on the ORAC scale, and raw blueberries score 6,552. (Source: ORACvalues.com)
The highest ORAC value on record for a common food is cloves, which score an amazing 314,446 (cloves are also an ingredient used in Traditional Chinese Medicine formulas, as is cinnamon, another high scorer on the ORAC scale).
In terms of superfoods, it’s very rare to find a complete product measuring over 50,000 on the ORAC scale. Here’s what KC Craichy, the founder of Living Fuel, had to say about the test results:
“This new level of broad-spectrum antioxidant testing confirms what we have known for years about our leading-edge, high impact superfoods. Living Fuel products provide broad-spectrum antioxidant protection which is dramatically more antioxidant protection than any of the wine-bottle antioxidant products, grape juice, vegetable juice, green tea, and grape seed extract can provide.”
What’s truly impressive about all this is that Living Fuel tastes fantastic, too. The Super Berry formula remains one of my favorite superfood products to this day. I take it with me to Ecuador every chance I get in order to have some “fuel” to enhance my diet there. It provides more than just antioxidants, too, because it contains complete plant-based proteins, omega-3s and thousands of different phytonutrients not even mentioned on the label.
What’s in Living Fuel
Check out the Super Berry Ultimate product here: http://www.livingfuel-ultimate.comThe first four ingredients are:
Non-GMO brown rice and non-GMO yellow pea protein, Freeze-rried Organic SuperBerry complex (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and cranberries), Stabilized rice bran and Whole raw chia seeds.
The rest of the product is made with sea vegetables, enzymes, probiotics, amino acids, herbs, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other ingredients. The vitamins are found in extremely h igh-end forms: The Vitamin B12, for example, is methylcobalamin, which is far superior and roughly ten times more expensive than the cheaper cyanocobalamin found in more common nutritional products.
via naturalnews.com
I can’t wait to try this stuff! Living Fuel products support The Four Corners for healthy nutrition rather than the traditional, and incorrect, food pyramid approach.
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Wed
2:32 pm / 2009
Avoid processed foods
It’s so hard to avoid processed foods, but MSG and Aspartame are two big reasons to start trying!
Other names for MSG: http://bit.ly/12gz5J
Wed
11:40 am / 2009
Grow your own food indoors!
The more I learn about the world of processed foods, the more I want to cut them out of my diet completely. The FDA isn’t doing their job to protect us adequately. The unfortunate truth is when profits are involved, contamination of our food can happen and does get overlooked by the FDA. Example: http://bit.ly/OPU1s
What can we do about it?
I first started researching if it’s possible to grow plants indoors. We live in a condo so having a garden is not an option. What I found was an excellent TED talk about how a company in India has so many plants growing in their large office building they could seal it up and would have their own oxygen supply!
The way they do this with relative ease, compared to potted plants with soil, is by utilizing hydroponics. This technology has been improving and coming down in cost over the years. Now it is cheap and easy to implement even in our condo! http://bit.ly/16KAfT
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