Sorry Soy

Soy is one of those deceptive foods like sugar that is not likely to be harmful in small amounts but will contribute to a variety of health problems when consumed in excess over time. Traditionally, soy has been eaten in small amounts and only in fermented form in Asia for many hundreds and possibly a few thousand years. In small amounts, fermented soy does not appear to be detrimental to health. The modern problem is that most soy in foods today is not properly fermented and is added in abundance to so many foods that it is easy to get too much. It is also processed in ways that create additional hazardous chemicals that end up in soy products.

Proponents of soy tout it as a "health food" and laud the high protein and isoflavane content. But most of this propaganda is coming from those who are selling soy for a profit. A closer look reveals that yes, soy is high in protein and nutrients, but these nutrients are not very bioavailable because of the abundant enzyme inhibitors and anti-nutrients that are also in soy. Soy contains trypsin inhibitors and haemagglutinin which are growth inhibitors, isoflavones that are both goitrogens and phytoestrogens which interfere with the endrocrine system, and phytic acid which binds to minerals to make them undigestible. These compounds are found in other legumes and grains, but soy has much higher concentrations and that's bad news for health.

Cooking helps to slightly reduce some of the detrimental compounds, but fermentation is required to achieve the greatest reductions. Even fermentation does not eliminate them and that is why fermented soy should only be consumed in small amounts.

Long-term excess consumption of soy increases risk of thyroid problems, reduces male fertility, causes premature female sexual development, and increases risk of endrocrine related cancers including breast cancer and prostate cancer. These problems are seen not only in humans, but also in animal models.

As if these problems are not enough, also consider that most soy is now genetically modified to withstand massive amounts of toxic herbicide, which can also contaminate the soy products. Yet another reason to avoid soy!

Further Reading

Newest Research On Why You Should Avoid Soy

Soy: The Dark Side of America's Favorite "Health" Food

The Ploy of Soy

Soybean Negative Impact

More soybean, worse mood


Soybean Negative Impact

Soybean



More soybean, worse mood
About the negative impact of soybean on the body also reported Japanese scientists. They have found that excessive consumption of soy can have a negative impact on the normal functioning of thyroid, which can lead to problems with obesity; soybean should also affect on the mood. Those who regular enjoy soybeans will have more problems associated with fluctuations in mood; more often would also suffer from fatigue.
Major in vegetarians food
Although soybean was initially applied to the more exotic food, it now can be found everywhere. The defenders of a healthy diet won,soybean is one of the main food of vegetarians, soybean meal we can get in restaurants, but it also contains the number of prepared meals, especially those labeled as healthy foods. Did you know that that 60 percent of all the foods we can get on the shelves, contains extracts of soybeans? This has long been known as super-healthy food for women, since it would facilitate the ailments of menopause, strengthen bones, and to assist in preventing the occurrence of certain cancers.


Soybean Negative Impact

Keep Your Love Relationship Alive, Hot and Fun!

My book, “Love From Both Sides – A True Story of Soul Survival and Sacred Sexuality,” tells the story of my husband dying in my arms and “coming back” to chat. Now you may be wondering, and how does that relate to “Rituals for Healthy Living?”

It does, because during my own marriage, I insisted on creating lots of simple rituals. For instance, even though my husband and I were both busy, (Dan was a lawyer and I was a screenwriter), we tried to eat dinner together whenever we could. I cooked, set the table and lit candles. I insisted that we enjoy the small moments. I also insisted that we actually set aside time to “be together.” We made dates to sit on the couch, light a fire, share a glass of wine. We talked, sometimes we even read poetry. In those quiet moments, we remembered why we got married.

And if I was lucky? I got a massage from his wonderful, blacksmith hands, and then we’d make love. And taking time to make “love” a ritual, rather than something that happened at the end of an exhausting day, or worse… something that didn’t happen because we just had no energy left, kept our love alive and the sex hot!

And what was amazing? Even though Dan would sometimes make fun of my fussiness, after he died, he thanked me for insisting that we “honor” what we had together. So ladies? You’ll love my book, because I got an apology! And appreciation. Better late, than never, right?

Creating a sacred ritual of your own might help to keep your love relationship alive, hot and fun! And that in turn will help your own health. (And it might help you lose weight, because you need high levels serotonin to lose weight, and sex is an easy way to get it!) Also according to the new brain research, the more sex you have, the better your brain functions! That’s good news, yes?

So why not start thinking about fun, sexy rituals? According to a wonderful article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, (1/25/09), what really excites women (and creates lots of beneficial chemicals in her brain) … is being desired by her lover. So maybe dance for your lover… become a goddess, and create a fun sexy ritual that will help you live a healthy life!

~ Stephanie Riseley
www.stephanieriseley.com

Stephanie is participating in the WOW! Women On Writing Blog Tour for her book Love From Both Sides – A True Story of Soul Survival and Sacred Sexuality

Best Diet Food-Don't Skip Breakfast

Best Diet Food-Don't Skip Breakfast




Best Diet Food-Don't Skip Breakfast

Eat at the table!
Giving a more effective, but not too greasy dinner, you can afford without bad conscience. Long prohibited dinner is permitted only think that the daily intake of adequate calories. In eat dinner at the table, as you on the couch before the television the way forget what you've already eaten. In the morning, although the dinner, do not skip breakfast! All this is nothing new, you say? For many, probably not true, but nutritionists officially breaking another myth associated with a healthy diet.


Best Diet Food-Don't Skip Breakfast

Best Diet Food-Light Dinner

Best Diet Food-Light Dinner

On what and how to eat to stay healthy just rolls the hot discusses every day. Also about when to eat.
Top remains the breakfast, the most in the coup, however, before long time is dinner. Experts (again) come to the conclusion that it is much more important what we eat for dinner, like when to eat dinner. Even the large dinner, but should nevertheless not to eat too late, got the green light. A warning! Large hot dinners will not have consequences in the form of extra kilograms, but only if you watch for the fat and sugar intake. Light vegetable soup, baked and with a drop of olive oil seasoned vegetables, salad or fish are the smart decision for the evening.


Best Diet Food-Light Dinner

If you are due over employment starve all day, you can eat anything more. Even the pasta is allowed - evening dish with spaghetti (or rice, couscous, potatoes ...) does not mean that you have stepped on the path to death kilogram. Most important is that a bunch of greasy sauce and Parmesan cheese sauce may replace the small cup parmesan. Those, who swear to the fruit, do not forget that the consumption of fruit does not mean that you lost weight overnight - the fruit is hidden fruit sugar.


Best Diet Food-Light Dinner

Soybean is not so healthy

Soybean is not so healthy

Although until recently considered to be super healthy food, experts warn that soy is not so healthy. Moreover, it advises against the consumption of boys and men.
Experts say that food made mainly from soybean, or such of its addition, in men lowers the level of testosterone prevents the normal functioning of thyroid, undermines the hormonal balance and even the culprit for the occurrence of obesity.
Soybean is inappropriate for the young boys?
The results of recently conducted research reports newspaper Journal of Nutrition, which is for soy, assigned a negative sign. A survey by the experts from the University of Edinburgh, made on the monkey offspring, showed that the preparations for children, which contain extracts of soybean, in boys can cause health problems related to hormones, which can subsequently also lead to infertility.


Soybean is not so healthy

Exercise and Hypertension

Exercise and Hypertension
Lifestyle plays a major role in the development of hypertension and any program to reduce blood pressure must take this into consideration.

Medical experts note that any changes that are implemented must be maintained if blood pressure is to be controlled in a long term basis.

Smoking should be moderated or preferably totally avoided and alcohol intake should be kept to a minimum.

Weight loss reduces blood pressure in this with and without hypertension and be primary goal for hypertensive who are obese or moderately overweight.

Other factors for reducing and controlling hypertension are increased exercise and stress management.

Regular exercise reduces stress and blood pressure, so it is highly recommended as an integral part of your life.

Consistent aerobic exercise can both prevent and lower hypertension.

Swimming, which is frequently prescribed as a non impact exercise to lower high blood pressure, can produce a significant decrease in resting heart rate (a sign of cardiovascular health) and systolic blood pressure in previously sedentary people with elevated blood pressure.
Exercise and Hypertension

Dangerous Diet-Beverly Hills Diet

Dangerous Diet-Beverly Hills Diet

How dangerous is the Hollywood diet?
Of all the Hollywood stars is expected to be lean. Slenderness is in cruel area of glamour desirable, even necessary on several occasions.
In the 80th years, Judy Mazel, who led the diet center, designed Beverly Hills diet. It is strict and cruel; it should be in five weeks lost seven pounds.
A diet based on this to make better use of enzymes, Judy Mazel, however, the diet also imagined that the meals as much as possible take advantage of enzymes and natural substances, which form the organism to facilitate digestion. Weight is less because the correct combination of foods.
A diet is effective because rapidly lose many kilograms, but they soon as you start to eat ordinary food, you can get it back. It is also not healthy, because it is a mild starvation, this way is probably true most suitable for the Hollywood players who have to quickly lose a few pounds for the role, or to grant Oscar. Experts choose diet wisely.


Dangerous Diet-Beverly Hills Diet

Savings with a Healthy Diet

Healthy Diet



Savings with a Healthy Diet

Savings with a Healthy Diet



Some welcome advice that will be familiar to your wallet
• Try to produce a lot of food by yourselves, of course, if you have this option.
• Wholemeal bread bakes at home.
• If you replace only a few foods, and add them to the menu, you have with this much done.
• Do not buy fast food.
• Food purchased from people who have a garden and grow their own meat, vegetables and fruit.
• Drink tap water, not bottled (if possible, rather buy a filter) - is the most common and cheapest drink.
• The less or no purchased juices and carbonated drinks (you'll also save the calories).
• Extrude the juice from the local fruit.
• Buy food in bulk (to save money on the quantity, gas, time).
• All buy in one shop; you'll save on petrol (even this is not a negligible cost for the purchase of food).
• Prepare the food for the service (you will be out to lunch), and in any case eat breakfast.
• Buy and eat seasonal fruits and vegetables - is cheaper and contains more vitamins.
• Eat more beans (a cheap and very useful food for cooking)
• Do not buy food, which you do not eat, look under cupboards and you’ll found out, how much money you have in the past, throw out the window.
• Follow the campaigns, where you can save a lot of things.

Obesity and Weight Loss

Obesity and Weight Loss
Obesity clearly poses a danger to health, have been associated with numerous health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and certain types of cancer.

However, diets for weight loss have been shown to be ineffective and even damaging to health.

A well balanced that avoids the wrong dietary fats, refined sugars, and excess calories (which all contribute to weight gain), regular exercise, drinking adequate amounts of pure water and stress reduction can help maintain a healthy weight.

Weight loss has become a national obsession in America. As many as 40% of women and 24% of men in the U.S are trying to loose weight at any given time through such diverse methods as diets, special dietary supplements, exercise, behavior modifications and drugs.

While this obsession is often fueled by psychological needs (the urge to conform to an artificial of beauty fostered by media, fashion and peer pressure) rather than physical needs, it is estimated that 97 millions Americans are overweight.

Excess weight has been linked to a number of health problems, including high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, gallbladder disease, respiratory conditions, as well as breast, endometrial and uterine cancers in women and cancer of the colon and rectum in men.

In fact, 85% of Type II diabetes cases are attributed to obesity, along with 45% of hypertension, 35% of heart disease and 18% of high cholesterol.

Obesity has also been shown to result in a decreased life span for both women and men and may be contributing factor in as many as 300,000 deaths each year.

The answers to weight gain and weight loss, though, are not always simple and easy.

Under controlled settings, most people trying to lose weight are usually able to lose about 10% of their total body weight, but up to two thirds of that weight is regained within a year.

To achieve significant and permanent weight loss, you need to come up with a plan – incorporating healthier eating, exercise, and stress reduction.
Obesity and Weight Loss

Healthy food for a little money

Healthy food for a little money

Many believe that only the rich one has quality and healthy eating, since food is expensive, that would also enjoy the other. This is not the case. Some food is for our pockets really unattainable, but fast food is unhealthy and in the long run, even more expensive. It contains a lot of calories, fat, salt and sugar. Even if it is cheap, this is not the best investment in our future. Eat less - and that should be healthier. The less you eat and your food will cost less. If you are too heavy, after six hours of the evening do not eat more. Mandatory is breakfast. Your current account will be grateful to you.
Healthy food reduces the risk of disease, increased productivity, improved well-being, gives us positive energy; enhance our mental and physical health.
What falls between healthy diets?
• Fat - Omega 3, 6 and 9 • vegetables - particularly seasonal, but the green and red • Fruit • Water - 1l to 1000 calories • all types of cereals • lean meat, fish


Healthy food for a little money

Transform Your Home into a Safe Haven

In these times of economic upheaval, it’s tough to keep stress levels down. Most of us know some ways to keep stress in control; eat right, get plenty of sleep, exercise, meditate. But, did you know that making your home a safe haven can also be extremely beneficial?

The other day, Oprah had Peter Walsh, the organizational expert on her show. The segment was about clutter and how it’s the last thing we need in troubled times, as clutter makes us feel unsafe and anxious.

As an eco-friendly interior designer and Feng Shui expert, I have had the honor of helping many clients transform their lives by changing their homes. Living in a home filled with positive energy, with beauty, a home that is clean, organized and clutter-free makes the occupants feel safe. In safety comes freedom; freedom to be creative, to be motivated and energetic.

Best of all, it doesn’t need to cost a fortune to create your sanctuary. I recommend the following steps to create your safe haven:

• Eliminate harmful products and replace them with eco-friendly ones. This step will improve your health and the health of the planet.


• Clean your home well and get rid of clutter! This is huge and you can even make money by selling your stuff! A clean home is a healthier home and just feels good. Clutter, as mentioned previously, causes stress, confusion, depression and lethargy. Get rid of anything you don’t love, need or have used for over a year.


• Clear your home of negative energy with smudging or dowsing. See a previous post of mine on smudging.


• Get rid of processed food and eat wholesome and organic.


• Allow energy, or chi, to flow unobstructed throughout your home. Don’t crowd furniture.


• Use color to your benefit. The cool colors, like blue and purple, are great in the bedroom because they lower blood pressure and help us relax. Social rooms, like the kitchen and living room, benefit from the warm, expansive colors like yellow, red, and orange.


• Place objects in the Bagua to attract whatever you want—love, money, fame.


• Balance each room with all four elements—earth, air, fire, and water.


• Houseplants add great energy and suck up indoor air pollution.


• Treat yourself to flowers every week—simply my favorite way to make my home feel like a sanctuary.


• Learn to decorate with confidence! Don’t worry about what’s in style—decorate to please your unique style.

One last suggestion--have fun while doing this! Transforming your home into a sanctuary is really enjoyable—something we all need a bit of now.

~ Norma Lehmeier Hartie
photo from here