The word protein comes from the Greek term meaning “of prime importance”, which indicates its role in nutrition. Protein is the body’s primary building material, making up nearly one fifth of it’s structure. Since, as part of normal life, body tissue is constantly being lost and damaged (like skin and hair for example), we need a constant supply of protein in our diet to replace this loss. Protein is essential to the metabolic activities of every cell.
There are many popular misconceptions about protein. For example, many people believe that excess protein will not make them fat. In reality a gram of protein contains four calories (the same as carbohydrates or starches) and any excess calories from protein are converted to fat and stored. Read more on Importance of Protein in Nutrition…
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Cholesterol is a fatty substance that is found naturally in all human and animal tissues. It is part of normal cell structure and is essential to a number of body processes, such as the formation of certain hormones.
Cholesterol is an important ingredient of bile, which is made in the liver and released into the duodenum via the gall bladder. Bile aids the digestion of fatty foods. Cholesterol is carried in the blood stream linked to special proteins known as lipoproteins.
Much of the cholesterol present in the diet is absorbed for the body to utilise. However since the body can synthesise all the cholesterol it needs in the liver and other cells, a dietary intake of cholesterol is not needed.
“Although cholesterol is essential to sustain life, too much cholesterol in the blood can cause serious health problems”
HOW TO REDUCE YOUR BLOOD CHOLESTEROL LEVEL.
Filed under Heart & Circulation on Feb 18th, 2010. 2 Comments.
1. BACKACHE: Research demonstrates that for most cases of lower back pain, chiropractic orosteopathy works far better than any medicine has to offer.
2. EARACHE: In most cases, time, mullein oil, urine therapy, a wooly hat or a hot water bottle works far better than any antibiotics in curing earache, according to numerous studies.
3. FEVER: Fever is your body’s extremely clever method of killing foreign bugs of all kinds and shouldn’t be suppressed. Rather than worrying about the exact degrees, it is more important to determine whether the problem is serious, like meningitis. Fevers for ordinary viral and bacterial infections won’t exceed 105 degrees, which isn’t dangerous.
4. INFECTION: For common or garden infections, first try working with a herbalist, who will prescribe echinacea, colloidal silver, or berberies rather than antibiotics. Read more on 10 Things You Don’t Need To See A Doctor For…
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No more being a couch potato – get up and take part in life.
A great diet begins with great digestion.
When it comes to your health do you believe you deserve the best? We want you to take control of your health, life can be stressful, de-stress by deciding to help yourself. What can the medical system offer you when you know that you need to loose weight? There is a growing problem with obesity. Read more on Are you a couch potato?…
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The human blood stream, in medical physiology is recognised as a biochemical balance. pH is the acronym for “potential hydrogen.” It’s the concentration of hydrogen ions in the solution or the substance.
The measurement is on a logarthitmic scale 0 to 14. When the number is high its means the substance is more alkaline. When the number is low its means the substance is more acidic, which makes it less potential for absorbing hydrogen ions.
Electrical and biochemical reactions are under pH control. If say something has a low acid pH we say it is hot and fast. Let’s take a car battery, its acid when the days are cold. You want the battery to be hot and ready because you want the car to start straight away. Read more on The body’s ph regulating system…
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There is a large problem facing most of the population today – mineral deficiency. This relates to the quantity of energy on the electrical charge in our bodies. The flow at which other electricity flows is controlled by the body’s pH balance.
Food today – our local grocery store is not what it used to be. From around 1960s the iron in spinach has dropped so drastically you would have to eat at least 76 bowlfuls of spinach to get the same amount of iron as one bowlful would have given you back in 1948. Hence the need for supplementation has increased.
Agriculture has changed – minerals and nutrients are taken out of the soil. This in turn affects the yield of the crop. Fertilisers were developed which helped to get the crop yields back up. Read more on The Minerals and our Electrical Body…
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If you are serious about your health – then this retreat is for you.
The 7 day liver cleanse will take you to the next level.
The teaching on our programme will give you life long knowledge that will help you and your family to maintain better health through informed choices.
Our aim is to empower you and teach you on how to help yourself with better understanding of just how powerful you are and to free you from limiting belief patterns.
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The first bite that starts the journey
When you put food on your fork (you actually start eating with your eyes before your mouth) you smell the lovely aroma, you then put the food in your mouth. During this very pleasant process your mouth begins to salivate. The salivary glands draw on the bloods alkaline reserves to bring your pH up to 7.0 – 7.2 ranges. This is the optimum performance for the enzyme amylase in the saliva. This enzyme begins digesting starch (if the body’s and livers alkaline reserves are low, you may find saliva pH staying below the 7.0 mark – this is even while eating. This is key to your ph status.)
The journey continues…
Filed under Stomach/Digestion Health on Jan 20th, 2010. Comment.
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I watched the living matrix last night and it was just refreshing to have this information, showing us how (like the law of attraction) we can use this same method to heal our bodies. This informaiton has been a long time comming. I will definitely be using it in my work and on my retreats, passing the information to my patients, friends and family.
It’s so inspiring to have this information so that people realise that we have this natural process which we can use to heal our bodies. The priority in our lives should not be about getting the red car or the money but to spend a little more time on our health. My lifes work is based on this principle, thats why I am so exicted to share this video with others. The video is put in a coherent way that is easy for the lay person to understand.
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This video you are about to watch I am really proud of the individuals who have given permission for you and the world to see their process so that others would be inspired and benefit from it.
My lifes work and my dedication to health is to get individuals to a stage where they become empowered and confident to help themselves to better health.
My retreats empower you to be what you want to be and go where you want to go in life.
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As seeing is believing, I’ve made this video below.
Filed under Gallstones, Liver on Jan 12th, 2010. 2 Comments.
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