by Kami | Aug 12, 2013 | Healthy Eating Tips, Healthy Foods, Healthy Substitutes, Snacks (Kid AND Inner-Kid friendly)
You need to eat more FAT! No, no… don’t go run to McDonald’s for a cheeseburger. Try eating these healthy fatty foods. They help fight off cancer, stabilize cholesterol levels, burn fat, enhance your bodies ability to absorb nutrients, decrease heart disease, and improve memory and ‘brain’ health. If that isn’t motivation enough, they are also mouthwatering and scrumptious. 1. Avocados Avocados are nature’s power food. They’re very low in fructose and provide close to 20 essential health-boosting nutrients. Avocados are one of the safest fruits. Most experts believe you do not need to purchase organic ones because of their thick skin which protects against pesticides. They are great for sandwiches (try mashed avocado instead of mayonnaise), smoothies, salads, soups, guacamole, dips, and toppings for about anything. 2. Coconut Milk Coconut Milk contains mostly medium chain fatty acids which are more easily burned as energy which makes it a great option for a ‘good’ fat. It almost maximizes calcium absorption. This is a great substitute for heavy whipping cream in soups, milk in oatmeal, and many other recipes. Lots of people have commented they don’t like coconut. It actually DOES NOT taste ‘coconutty’ at all. Trust me. You won’t taste the coconut. 3. Coconut Oil Coconut Oil, just like coconut milk, have lots of health benefits. It’s packed with anti-oxidants and medium-chain triglycerides which help with skin and hair care, stress relief, weight loss, immunity, digestion, diabetes management, and heart health. Instead of butter or other oils, try using coconut oil! Just like coconut milk, you WILL NOT taste the coconut. Promise. Also,...
by Kami | May 28, 2013 | Excuses and Myths, Health Myths, Healthy Eating Tips, Healthy Substitutes, Unhealthy Foods
Got Milk? Almost every celebrity, athlete, politician, musician, and public figure has displayed the ‘white mustache’. After all, drinking milk only makes you healthy and strong, right? 10 reasons why you’ve been deceived! 1) Most milk goes through some type of processing or alteration such as homogenization or pasteurization. These processes compromise the milk’s quality and interfere with calcium absorption. 2) When homogenized, milk becomes very powerful and efficient at bypassing normal digestive processes and delivering steroid and protein hormones to the human body (both your hormones and the cow’s natural hormones and the ones they may have been injected with to produce more milk). Check out this link to learn more! 3) Humans are the only species to frequently continue drinking milk after infancy. 4) 60% of adults can’t digest milk. The enzyme lactase which breaks down the main sugar in milk, lactose, usually stops being produced between the ages of two and five. This leaves the undigested sugars to ferment in the colon creating very unpleasant symptoms such as gas, cramping, bloating, nausea, constipation and/or diarrhea. 5) Countries with the highest milk consumption are the countries with the highest levels of osteoporosis. 6) There are plenty of plant-based foods—including green leafy vegetables (like broccoli, kale and collards) and beans—that are excellent sources of calcium which the body is much better equipped to absorb. 7) Chronic constipation in children is related to milk consumption. 8) The most popular form of calcium found in milk, calcium carbonate, which is not even absorbed well. Calcium citrate is the best absorbed supplemental form of calcium. 9) I lived in Hong Kong for 3...
