Daily Bites: Nonorganic Potatoes

It’s important to note that eating a low glycemic diet benefits you as described below and more.  Eating what are considered high glycemic foods, meaning it is absorbed into the blood stream quickly and can spike your blood sugar levels and put you on the glycemic roller coaster of spiking then dropping your sugar levels to low throughout the day.  This repeated process daily, 24/7, 365 days a year can lead to food cravings, irritability, depression, insulin resistance (inevitably to type 1 or type 2 diabetes), weight gain (primarily belly fat), cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, cancer, fatigue, and many other chronic diseases.  Eating a low glycemic diet is highly recommended. Learn more at www.livewellintl.com/jackiebennett and watch the online nutrition seminar located in the left hand column.  Contact me at jackiegemstar@yahoo.com to get started on your healthy new lifestyle.


Nonorganic Potatoes
The expert: Jeffrey Moyer, chair of the National Organic Standards Board

The problem: Root vegetables absorb herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil. In the case of potatoes—the nation's most popular vegetable—they're treated with fungicides during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the fibrous vines before harvesting. After they're dug up, the potatoes are treated yet again to prevent them from sprouting. "Try this experiment: Buy a conventional potato in a store, and try to get it to sprout. It won't," says Moyer, who is also farm director of the Rodale Institute (also owned by Rodale Inc., the publisher of Prevention). "I've talked with potato growers who say point-blank they would never eat the potatoes they sell. They have separate plots where they grow potatoes for themselves without all the chemicals."
 

The solution: Buy organic potatoes. Washing isn't good enough if you're trying to remove chemicals that have been absorbed into the flesh.

Heat Disease is not a disease of cholesterol, it’s An Inflammatory Disease!

What is heart disease?

We have all been told and marketed to for years that heart disease, strokes and heart attacks are a result of too much cholesterol causing a blockage or partial blockage to our arteries.  We have been told to change our diets to a low cholesterol diet and have of course been give the all-powerful prescription for cholesterol lowering drugs.  As a matter of fact this has been an incredible windfall for the pharmaceutical companies.  What most people don’t know is that studies have shown that most people, who have a heart attack, over 50%, have normal cholesterol levels.  Of course, now that this information is finally getting out and people are finally realizing that the cholesterol medications do not solve the problem we will of course get the new scripts for new anti-inflammatory drugs.  Well it’s time to get the truth about cholesterol and the truth behind what is the leading cause of heart disease, stroke and heart attacks.  No script required.

How to lower low grade inflammation

Heart disease is an inflammatory disease of the fine lining of the arteries called the endothelium.  You see insulin resistance begins in the smallest arteries of the muscle called the capillaries.  The low grade inflammation that starts here is the beginning process of high blood pressure, central weight gain, elevated cholesterol, elevated triglyceride levels, low HDL or good cholesterol levels.  This inflammation can cause damage to the DNA of the nucleus and lead to cancer.  So, the question we should all be asking is what causes the inflammation in the first place and how can we control it.  It’s really quite simple and most people can put into place the simple lifestyle changes needed to live a healthy life.  The underlying cause of this inflammation is oxidative stress which causes excessive free radicals in our bodies, triggering our immune systems to go into overdrive to stop the oxidative stress and eliminate the free radicals which in turn causes low grade chronic inflammation of our cells, the lining of our arteries, and the DNA nucleus of the cell.  I encourage you to watch a short video on Oxidative Stress and what it is and what causes it.  I will give you a short summarization of what are some of the causes of the free radicals which by the way is the result of Oxidative Stress.    

• High blood pressure 
• Diabetes
• Cigarette Smoking (primary and second hand smoke)
• Elevated Homocysteine level
• Oxidized or modified LDL level
• High Fatty Meal
• High glycemic meals (meals that spike your sugar)

This list of causes of inflammation is not all inclusive and the point here for your to notice is that all of these conditions can be reversed or eliminated with a diet made up of good fat, good proteins, good carbohydrates, modest exercise program and nutritional supplementation.  I have also written a note on Why Take Nutritional Supplement so please read this post. Additionally, there are other causes of oxidative stress like pollutants in our air, food, water, excessive stress, excessive exercise, radiation, sunlight, and most medication.  I invite you to learn a little bit more on what you can do to stop this process.  Please visit and watch my online nutrition seminar at www.livewellintl.com/jackiebennett which is located on the left hand side.  I invite you to contact me with any questions on how to get started with a Healthy Simple New Lifestyle.

God Bless,

                         

Jackie Bennett

Live Well Certified Coach

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