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…
Filed under Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2010. Comment. 
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.
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.
The Mayr Treatment is health through inner body cleansing as taught by the great physician and researcher Dr F X Mayr 1875-1965. Dr Mayr referred to biological strength of digestive organs as the root system of the human body. He explains how the digestive organs process the ingested food, extract vital nutrients from it by means of root like projections and then deliver these to the entire organism.
As stated in Dr Mayr’s introduction to ‘Health through inner body cleansing’ by Erich Rauch, MD “it is surprising how rarely todays medicine pays attention to these connections”.
Dr Mayr, known as the ‘old master’, was immensely vigorous and active up to his death in his 90th year. He would have been so pleased with the widespread distribution of his teachings.
Filed under Liver on Jan 21st, 2009. Comment.
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