Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy Organic Whole Food

Nutritious God-Made Foods Vs. Unhealthy Man-Made Products

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:41:00 +0000

This is a reprint of an article I wrote in September of 2007. It was the second highest ranked article on this blog site based on the second most views by my readers.

"If it wasn't a food 100 years ago, it's a man-made product."

I'd like to give you a standard by which you can measure all food products to know if they are healthy or not. Use these keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy when you're out food shopping or eating in a restaurant. Simply ask yourself these two questions:

Question #1 - "Was this a food 100 years ago?"

Question #2 - "Is this a God-made food or a man-made product?"

If the food product you are considering eating or drinking WAS a food 100 years ago, then it is most probably a whole food and healthy for you. In other words, it is probably a GOD-MADE FOOD that was designed by God to meet the nutritional needs of your body. Therefore, it is a good whole food and should be eaten and enjoyed.

However, if you're considering a food product that WAS NOT a food 100 years ago, then it is most definitely a MAN-MADE PRODUCT and is NOT healthy for your body. Don't eat it or drink it! It is simply not good for your health and will put a toxic stress on your organs.

Let's look at a couple of examples and see if this measuring rod holds true.

1. An Organic Apple - This was a food 100 years ago, and it is a God-made food that is healthy to eat today.

2. High Fructose Corn Sweetener - This was not a food 100 years ago, and it is a man-made product that is NOT healthy to eat. Unfortunately, man (food manufacturers) has found a way to put this unhealthy man-made toxic sweetener in most of the products in the supermarket, often without the consumer even knowing it's there, and usually without the consumer knowing how dangerously unhealthy it is for his health.

3. An Organic Carrot - This was a food 100 years ago, and it is a God-made food that provides good nutrition to your body.

4. Hydrogenated Oils (Trans Fats) - This was not a food 100 years ago, and it is a man-made product that is very UN-healthy for your body. Unfortunately, this toxic form of oil is found in many man-made food products in the supermarket and in restaurants.

5. Artificial Sweeteners - These are obviously man-made products and were NOT a food 100 years ago. They are extremely toxic to your body and cause all kinds of terrible physical health problems. Therefore, never use Aspartame, NutraSweet, Splenda, and Saacharin.

6. MSG (monosodium glutamate) - This was not a food 100 years ago, and it is a man-made food additive that is very UN-healthy for your body. Unfortunately, food manufacturers and restaurant owners have found hundreds of ways to sneak it into their man-made food products without the consumer even knowing it's there. Avoid this excito-toxin at all costs.

7. Organic 100% Whole Wheat Flour - This was a food 100 years ago, and it still is because it was made by God. This is the only kind of wheat flour to bake with and eat.

8. "Enriched" Wheat Flour - This was NOT a food 100 years ago, and it is a man-made product that is very UN-healthy for your body. Most of the good nutrition has been bleached out and stripped out, with a few synthetic vitamins and minerals added back in that your body cannot even use. Unfortunately, this is the most common kind of flour that food manufacturers put into their hundreds of baked goods. Another danger with eating this man-made product is that it is most probably a genetically modified (GM) product that is very UN-healthy for you.

I could go on and on with a ton of examples, but I hope you see my point. Most foods fit into one of these two categories: God-made foods and man-made foods. Most food products can be classified into one of these categories, which will help you choose what to eat and what to avoid.

There are a few things that do not easily fit into these two categories, and if you ask if they were a food 100 years ago, some people might say "Yes," while others would say "No." These are special cases that you need to look deeper at in order to make a wise decision. For example, what about pork products and shellfish?

The truth is that God did not create pigs and shellfish to be eaten by man. They are God-made creatures, but they are NOT God-made foods. Let me explain.

God created certain creatures to be scavengers on the earth and to eat nasty things like the decomposing flesh of other animals. Pigs, shrimp, lobsters, crabs, clams, scallops, and vultures are all scavengers that God designed to eat rubbish and garbage and other scum on the ground and ocean seafloor. When you study the dietary restrictions that God gave His people in the Bible, you will find all of these scavengers prohibited for health reasons. When man does not abide by these dietary restrictions that God set up for our good, he starts consuming a whole host of toxins that accumulate in his body and eventually lead to all kinds of terrible physical health problems and illnesses. If you don't believe me, ask any marine biologist about the levels of mercury and other poisons found in clams and scallops. In summary, certain creatures that God made were strictly forbidden to be eaten because God did not make them to be food for mankind. Pigs, shellfish, birds of prey, and the like are not to be eaten by man, and if they are, they will cause him to become sick and loaded with toxins that are destructive to the body. They are God-made creatures, but they are not God-made foods.

In conclusion, when you're out shopping for food or eating at a restaurant, always ask yourself these two questions.

1. Is this a God-made food or a man-made food?

2. Was this a food 100 years ago?

If the answer to both of these questions is "YES" - then eat it and enjoy it.

If the answer to either of these questions is "NO" - then do NOT eat it because it is not healthy for your body and will cause you many health problems.

Learning Nutrition from the Healthiest Cultures in the World

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 02:46:00 +0000

I was just studying the statistics on my nutrition and health blog and I discovered that this article from 2007 was the most popular blog post of all. Therefore, I've decided to republish it so that others can benefit from it.

Please also note that I now have new blog entitled:

"Christian Parents Educating their Children God's Way Vs Public School Indocrination"

Click here to visit: AllEducationIsReligious.blogspot.com

Now, here is the original article I wrote on learning nutrition from the healthiest cultures in the world.

I've got a health and nutrition project for you that I'm sure you'll enjoy and learn a lot from.

Take the time to do a bit of research on the internet on some of the healthiest cultures of the world. By doing so, you will learn more of the keys to good nutrition and to eating healthy, and you'll understand why drinking the Feast, a whole food based InstaFresh drink powder nutritional supplement, is so important.

Here are a few leads for you...

1. The HUNZA people of the Himalayan Mountains:

The Hunza people's health, nutrition, longevity, and endurance are legendary. They live up to 90 and 100 years of age and are strong and active even in old age. One thing you'll notice about them is that they eat a high natural carbohydrate, low animal protein diet. Their food staples are barley, buckwheat, wheat, assorted vegetables, various kinds of fruits, mostly apricots, apples, and grapes. The most amazing thing is that they have none of modern man's dreaded illnesses.

2. The BULGARIANS of Eastern Europe:

There are actually more centenarians in Bulgaria than in any other country in the world. Don't you think it would be worth it to check out the reasons for their exceptionally great health and longevity? Their diet consists of largely black bread (most whole rye and barley), vegetables, and soured milk in the form of yogurt and kefir. In addition, Bulgarians eat very little meat. In fact, most of the centenarians in Bulgaria are vegetarian.

3. The RUSSIANS:

Russian has seven times more centenarians per million than America has. They are known for their good health, longevity, and endurance. They are a low protein people. Surprisingly, a great number of Russia's centenarians are total vegetarians.

4. The JAPANESE OF THE FAR EAST:

Japanese people have traditionally had a very healthy diet. Some of the keys to their longevity include eating lots of fresh vegetables, fish, fermented foods like miso soup and natto, and plenty of grains and rice. Unfortunately, white rice is now the norm in Japan, but it wasn't always so. Nevertheless, the Japanese live longer than most people in Western countries.

To your health, Josiah Friberg

Author of "Educating Christian Children God's Way from my education blog: http://alleducationisreligious.blogspot.com

Christian Parents Educating Children God's Way

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:14:00 +0000

I'm launching a new BLOG on Christian education, homeschooling, and the dangers of public schooling.

Please take a few minutes and check it out:

AllEducationIsReligious.blogspot.com

God bless you!

Dangerous Ingredients - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:12:00 +0000

DANGEROUS INGREDIENTS
Secretly Lurking in Our Foods Today

Here are some examples of what is in many of our foods today - unknown and unseen by the general public.

Hormones, Steroids, Antibiotics found in animal products

Research shows these compounds can be absorbed by fruits and vegetables grown in soil treated with manure from animals fed antibiotics.

Toxins and Pollutants from contaminated soil and water

These can stay in our environment years after they've been banned, such as DDT.

Pesticides, Fertilizers, and Fumigants - These are all unnatural compounds.

MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) - MSG is a neurotoxic flavor enhancer that's hidden in many of our foods under a long list of deceiving names.

Partially Hydrogenated Oil - Gives baked goods and snacks longer shelf life but contains high levels of dangerous trans fat.

High Fructose Corn Syrup

With a high glycemic index, it converts to fat more than any other sugar. Usually made with genetically modified corn and genetically modified enzymes.

Genes from Bacteria, Viruses, Plants, Animals, and even Humans inserted into plants like soybeans, corn, canola, and cotton

Unlike traditional breeding, genetic engineering can create life forms that would normally never exist in nature. Shockingly, U.S. food manufacturers are NOT required to put "genetically modified" on any food labels! This leaves us in the dark.

Artificial Colors and Flavorings

Artificial colors are chemical compounds made mainly from coal-tar; artificial flavors are cheaply produced chemical mixtures that mimic natural flavors.

Artificial Sweeteners

Despite claims that these are "safe" food additives, remember, they are NOT natural. For example, aspartame is made up of three chemicals. These sweeteners are often toxic to the body and cause all kinds of serious health problems.

Benzoate Preservatives

These are phenolic compounds often added to food to preserve fats and prevent fats from becoming rancid; these preservatives produce low levels of hormones.

SO... What's the RESULT of all of these dangerous ingredients in our food?

Food that's been denatured, stripped of much of its nutritional value and integrity, and food that could potentially cause serious health issues.

But with THE FEAST, you get REAL NUTRITION.
Pure, concentrated,
unadulterated,
live,
whole food-based nutrition.

The Feast, by Uri International, is pure nutrition, free of dangerous ingredients.

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Junk Food Americans - Keys to Good Nutrition & Eating Healthy on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:42:00 +0000

WHAT ARE AMERICANS EATING?

TOO MUCH JUNK FOOD!

An analysis of the diet of Americans reveals that sugary snacks and sodas are consumed more readily than fruits and vegetables.

Researcher Gladys Block, PhD. and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered that at least 30 percent of the total calorie intake of Americans surveyed was from sweets, desserts, salty snacks, fruit-flavored drinks and alcoholic beverages. [ UC Berkeley Press Release by Sarah Yang, June 1, 2004]

The result?

JUNK FOOD that provides calories but not vitamins and minerals - in other words, "EMPTY CALORIES."

Did you know this shocking fact:

89% of Americans DO NOT eat enough fruits and vegetables;

they'd rather eat fast foods or processed foods.

The American Heart Association, World Health Organization, American Cancer Society, and the USDA all agree - everyone needs to EAT MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Click on the link below to find out how David Uri LeBaron, the pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition, can help you and your family get your 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.

Uri's revolutionary InstaFresh drying process turns freshly juiced fruits and vegetables into a powder in thirty seconds, without every going over 99 degrees F., as crazy as that sounds.

Getting your and your kids their 5-9 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables a day - ONCE DIFFICULT, NOW EASY!

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Ultimate Nutrition - Keys to Good Nutrition & Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:53:00 +0000

INTRODUCING THE BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY THAT LOCKS IN THE REAL NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF FRESH ORGANIC FRUITS AND VEGETABLES - GUARANTEED!

This article was written by David Uri LeBaron,
pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition,
expert with over 30 years of experience in whole foods, herbs, and nutrition,
developer of the proprietary Insta-Fresh Drying Process that preserves higher nutritional qualities than any other drying process in the world,
and founder and CEO of Uri International, a leading company in the development of whole food-based nutrition.

"Today I'd like to share with you another reason why The Feast gives you REAL nutrition as only whole food-based nutrition can. It's your most convenient source of REAL whole food-based nutrition that's

An unparalleled quality, quantity, variety, and value
of live whole foods and fresh raw juice concentrates.

The Feast gives you a quality, quantity, variety, and value of REAL whole food-based nutrition found nowhere else.

It's the one and only live whole food-based nutritional product on the planet that delivers a full, synergistic spectrum of over 176 all natural ingredients, including:

30 antioxidant rich fruits and berries

30 powerful greens and vegetables

11 nutrient dense seeds, nuts, and sprouts

83 plus active enzymes and full spectrum fulvic mineral blend

22 resilient living, beneficial probiotics

All in ONE concentrated whole food-based supplement for today's active and demanding lifestyles. Feed your body the feast it deserves!

But there's even more.

This unique breakthrough gives you more REAL whole food-based nutrition than any other supplement, formula, or green food or drink I've ever seen because...

It locks in the nutritional INTEGRITY of these fruits, vegetables and whole foods, so you get the nutritional benefits as Nature intended!

As soon as a fruit or vegetable is picked off the vine, it begins to die. So if you eat an apple or a tomato that's been picked days or weeks ago, you don't get all of its nutritional benefits. You may only get a fraction.

But not so with the fruits, vegetables, and whole foods found in the Feast. Many are locally grown, on our own certified organic farmland or on our network of partner farms that produce organic and/or natural crops, so we can control the freshness of the harvest.

This farmland is some of the most nutrient rich soil on earth! This fertile land began as a prehistoric lakebed, layered with deep soil, created and kept rich by volcanic ash, mountain run off, and organic matter.

It's absolutely laden with selenium, friendly and beneficial organisms, fulvic acid, rare earth and vital plant micronutrients necessary for optimal plant growth.

Combine this with clean air, sunshine, elevation, low humidity, proper crop rotation, and continued re-mineralization from surrounding snow capped mountains, and you get SUPERIOR, NUTRIENT DENSE, ORGANIC CROPS!

What's more, I even have samples of the fruits and vegetables delivered to me so I can check if they're ready for harvest. If they are not ready for harvest, we wait. If so, we pick...then quickly wash them, turn them into juice, and use the InstaFresh Drying Process to "lock in" the nutritional value and integrity of these fruits and vegetables.

The result?
A synergistic, all natural, nutritionally balanced combination of Nature's most beneficial whole food concentrates, minerals, enzymes, and probiotics.
All in a delicious, easy-to-use drink!"

This article was written by David Uri LeBaron and first appeared in print in the REAL Nutrition News Special 2008 Issue.

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Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com

Not Your Grandma's Tomato Part III - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:58:00 +0000

I'd like to share an article written
by David Uri LeBaron,
pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition.

"THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S TOMATO! - Part III"

"After more than 30 years of 'hands-on' organic farming
and continuous nutritional research, let me explain why...

this is NOT your grandmother's tomato!

We ended Part II by describing the unhealthy energy drinks
and all that is put into them that is not good for you.
Then I introduced my best creation called, "The FEAST,"
and today I'd like to share with you the origin of the Feast.

Introducing the Breakthrough Technology That Locks in the REAL NUTRITION Value of Fresh Organic Fruits and Vegetables - Guaranteed!

The origin of the Feast begins back in the late 1970s when my family began a small herb harvesting business in the southwestern desert regions of the United States.

When I was seven years old, I began helping in the family business by harvesting wild herbs...and at that time, my lifelong interest in nutrition was sparked. The business flourished, and soon we were providing wildcrafted herb powders to some of the biggest nutritional companies in America.

In the mid 1980s, we began looking for a superior way to preserve the nutritional integrity of whole foods in order to provide a much higher form of quality nutrients than found in typical nutritional supplements. During this time, we began developing a proprietary process for drying live whole foods and fresh raw juices into powder. We began with cereal grasses and herbs.

We discovered that the best way to preserve the nutritional integrity of these grasses and herbs was to dry them using LOW heat and QUICKLY turn them into powder in seconds at very low temperatures. As our processing technology evolved and continually improved, we then turned to processing organic and naturally grown fruits and vegetables.

I knew that if I could make this drying process work for fresh, organic produce, I would be onto something big. The quality of the nutrient dense products resulting from our proprietary process was far superior to anything produced by other nutritional supplement processing techniques. We realized that our proprietary process could revolutionize how we take, absorb, and benefit from vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients naturally found abundantly in organic produce.

It took years for me to perfect it, but now I'm excited to tell you all about...the PROPRIETARY INSTAFRESH DRYING PROCESS.
In PART IV, I'll share with you the NEW secret behind REAL whole food-based nutrition.
Until then, keep checking back for the next part...

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Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com

Not Your Grandma's Tomato Part 2 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:20:00 +0000

I'd like to share an article written
by David Uri LeBaron,
pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition.

"THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S TOMATO! - Part II"

"After more than 30 years of 'hands-on' organic farming
and continuous nutritional research, let me explain why...

this is NOT your grandmother's tomato!

We ended Part I of this article with the question:

Why such poor nutritional content in our produce today?

The main culprit is "modern agriculture." Today, most farmers and big food conglomerates use any eans to squeeze as much produce out of an acre of land as they can. Chemical fertilizers. Herbicides. Manipulation of soil and seeds. Genetic engineering. Pesticides. And they've violated time-honored holistic farming methods such as crop rotation and natural pest control and fertilization.

So, over time, our soil gets stripped of nutrients, minerals, and living organisms. No wonder most fruits and vegetables in America are nutritionally deficient.

As I'll explain, The Feast addresses this problem head on. How? With a proprietary drying system that locks in the nutritional content of organic and naturally-grown fruits and vegetables without synthetic vitamins, pasteurization, and preservatives.

The result? You get a vast spectrum of naturally occurring live whole food-based vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and antioxidants your body needs and deserves.

Still, there another reason why you can't rely on today's common fruits and vegetables to give you real nutrition like you could in the past.

SOME OF OUR MOST TRUSTED FOOD SOURCES MAY BE "TAINTED"

Today, our typical food sources, especially fruits and vegetables, are sprayed with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals on a regular basis. Just consider these eye-opening facts...

* Pesticide use in agriculture and for home and industrial purposes has increased a whopping 50 percent within just the past three decades.

* Vegetables such as corn, lettuce, and potatoes absorb antibiotics when they're grown in soil spread with manure containing antibiotics.

* Since World War II, more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals have been created and released into the environment, as many as 1,500 new ones each year! These chemicals, even after they're banned, can last a long time in the environment. For example, DDT was banned over 30 years ago, but it can still be found in the breast milk of women all over the world. And DDT can make its way back into our food supply through foods imported from countries where this pesticide is still used.

*High levels of nutrient pollution used in farming and ranching activities are found in lakes and streams. Is it any wonder there are populations of frogs living in these waters with deformities?

Is it any wonder that according to a recent study, 70 percent of consumers buy organic foods to avoid pesticides.

But as I'll explain later, The Feast takes all the worry out of the quality and purity of fruits and vegetables. You get the finest quality organic and naturally grown produce free of pesticides and toxins - in a unique, easy to take, delicious form that you'll love.

If that's not enough, even...

"NATURAL" JUICES AND ENERGY DRINKS ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK

Still other folks hope to get some or most of the fruits and vegetables they need from so-called "natural" juices. Not so fast!

Did you know that 98 percent of liquid nutritional products on the market are pasteurized? PASTEURIZATION uses high heat to kill bacteria and harmful microorganisms, but at the same time substantially alters or deactivates the majority of good, naturally occurring "live" nutrients and enzymes!

What's more, many of these so-called "natural" juices contain ingredients from "juice concentrates" or "puree concentrates" using heat or a vacuum, which also denatures the nutritional integrity of a fruit or berry. And some of these juices contain ONLY TEN PERCENT OR LESS of the actual key ingredient promised on the label.

What about hot selling ENERGY DRINKS?

The truth is most of them are absolutely loaded with high fructose corn syrup and synthetic caffeine - and there's not much "natural" about these ingredients.

SPECIAL WARNING: A new study at Wayne State University reveals that healthy adults who drank two energy drinks a day saw blood pressure and heart rate levels increase.

As you're about to see, The Feast retains a high content of naturally occurring live nutrients found in fresh produce - giving you whole food-based nutrition unlike any so-called "healthy' super juice or green food drink that I've ever seen.

How is that possible? Let me explain, starting with a little known story that began more than 25 years ago...

NOTE: I will continue this article in PART 3 in a few days.

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Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com

Not Your Grandma's Tomato Part 1 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Sun, 25 May 2008 18:49:00 +0000

I'd like to share an article written
by David Uri LeBaron,
pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition.

"THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER'S TOMATO! - Part I"

"After more than 30 years of 'hands-on' organic farming
and continuous nutritional research, let me explain why...

this is NOT your grandmother's tomato!

You've heard 'An apple a day keeps the doctor away'...
but not today's apple. Today's apple is not your grandmother's apple.
Neither is a tomato, nor lettuce, or carrot - you name it.

And in many cases, even what's advertised as a 'natural' food
may not really be what you think it is. That's because you're being sold a bill of goods by the big food manufacturers when it comes to conventionally grown fruits, vegetables, and other so-called 'healthy' foods today.

The Truth: Beware of the 'Toxic Buffet'
Why have so many of our food sources been altered? Why are our foods no longer delivering the kind of nutrition they've provided us in the past? And what are the potential risks from these foods?

Here are the startling answers, starting with these facts:

Did you know that over 70 percent of processed foods in U.S. grocery stores contain genetically modified ingredients? And more than half of the corn grown in the U.S. is genetically engineered? This means foods are being altered by scientists in ways our forefathers never imagined. Just consider these shocking examples...

1. Many prematurely picked tomatoes are artificially ripened with hormones.

Take a tomato. The longer it stays on the vine, the higher its sugar level, better its taste, and higher its nutrient content. Just think about how good a home-grown tomato tastes. Yum! But out-of-season produce in the U.S. is often shipped up to 2,500 miles before being sold - so you can't pick a fully ripened tomato and expect to sell it cross country.

This is why many farmers in Florida, California, and Mexico pick tomatoes at 'mature green' state and artificially ripen them with ethylene. Ethylene is a hormone derived from petroleum and natural gas. The problem is, these tomatoes are deprived of optimum nutrient content.

2. Apples are treated with radioactive gamma rays to appear fresher.
Today, some conventionally grown apples are treated with radioactive gamma rays (yes, low levels of radiation) to extend shelf life and make them appear fresher than they really are. [Business News, 6/1/2005]

In fact, irradiation destroys up to 80 percent of an apple's essential vitamins A, B2, B3, B6, C, E, and K, as well as thiamin, folic acid, and even essential fatty acids and amino acids.

3. Crops are 'genetically-modified' (GM) to grow better.

To create more drought-and pest-resistant crops, engineers insert bacteria, viruses, plant or animal cells and even human genes into seeds...but at what risk? [truefoodnetwork.com]

For example, GM crops are designed to withstand herbicides...so farmers growing GM soybeans are using 2-5 times more herbicides than growers of natural varieties. GM crops easily pollinate with related weeds, creating 'super weeds' that are resistant to top-seling herbicides...forcing farmers to use more toxic herbicides.

Shockingly, U.S. food manufacturers are NOT required to put "genetically modified" on any food labels! This leave us in the dark. In fact, according to the International Food Information Council, 62 percent of Americans surveyed said they knew 'a little or nothing at all' about genetic engineering of foods.

But as you'll see in a moment, 'the Feast' gives you REAL whole food-based nutrition from organic and naturally grown fruits, berries, greens, vegetables, seeds, nuts, and sprouts, just as Nature intended - free of the dangers of biotech engineering and genetic modification.

Another reason why today's common fruits and vegetables are nowhere near the quality of your grandmother's is the shockingly poor vitamin and mineral content found in today's conventionally grown produce. Since the late 1950's, the nutritional content of America's conventionally grown fruits and vegetables has declined, often significantly.

Dr. Donald Davis, a biochemist at the University of Texas, noted that the USDA tracked 13 major nutrients in garden crops from 1950 to 1999 and found six with noticeable declines. Of these, a 38 percent drop in riboflavin...a 15 percent drop in iron...and a 20 percent drop in vitamin C stand out.

Nutritionist Alex Jack found even more shocking evidence when he compared USDA food tables from 1963 to those of 2000, as reported in Life Extension [March 2001]. He found the following: 50% less calcium in broccoli and carrots, 88% less iron in watercress, 45% less vitamin C in spinach, 51.5% less potassium in collard greens, and 66% less iron in apples, oranges, and apricots. SHOCKING!

WHY such poor nutritional content in our produce today?"

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I will continue this article in Part 2 by David Uri LeBaron in my next posting.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com

Weight Loss 4 Carb Addicts Pt 15 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:36:00 +0000

Weight Loss for Carb Addicts Pt 15

There's a lot of us out there,

CARBOHYDRATE ADDICTS, that is,

and losing weight is always a challenge for us.

Here's a secret I'd like to share with you that I used
when I lost my 23+ pounds and no longer fit into my pants.

CARB ADDICT WEIGHT LOSS SECRET:

When you sit down to eat a meal,
divide your plate into thirds.

One third, your favorite third, will of course,
be CARBS! I'm talking starchy carbohydrates like
pasta, brown rice, whole grain bread, potatoes, etc.
Enjoy that one third of your plate
because that's all the starchy carbs you'll get for the meal.

One third will be a protein food
such as a healthy organic natural meat,
organic raw cheese, peanut butter, etc.

One third of your plate will be fresh organic vegetables
such as green beans, corn, broccoli, peas, etc.
Remember, the best way to eat your vegetables is raw.
However, if you feel you need to cook them,
then the best way is to lightly steam them in spring water.
No canned vegetables are allowed (they're dead food).

In addition to the three thirds on your plate,
you also get to eat a fresh salad with each lunch and dinner made from fresh, organic, raw greens and vegetables
with a big squeeze of fresh lemon for your dressing
(avoid salad dressings that are loaded with carbs)
or you can make your own home made dressing
with apple cider vinegar, virgin olive oil, and spring water.

Eating your meal in this way will help balance out the carbs you're eating and keep your blood sugar from spiking. In other words, the veggies, salad, and protein will help to offset the effects of 1/3 of your plate being carbs. In this way you will learn to limit your starchy carbs to just one third of your meal, which in turn will help you to lose weight.

No more sitting down to a huge bowl of pasta or rice
or potatoes and pigging out on carbs. That will (or should I say
"has" made) make you fat.

Carbs are good for your body IN MODERATION!

Carbs are good for your body when properly balanced out
with equal amounts of greens, vegetables, protein, and salad.

Carbs are good for your body when you eat
small portions of the right kinds of healthy whole food carbs
such as brown rice, whole grain breads, organic potatoes, etc.

IF you will learn to apply this secret to your eating habits,
no matter if you're eating at home or at a restaurant,

THEN you will enjoy the benefits of being able to enjoy
at least a small portion of your favorite carbs each meal,
while at the same time losing weight because you're
eating them in the right proportions and amounts.

When I first learned this secret,
I started planning ahead and looking forward to
upcoming meals just to be able to enjoy my favorite carbs.
For example, I planned on 1/3 plate of pasta on Monday,
with the rest of my meal of course,
and 1/3 plate of my favorite Persian rice on Tuesday,
and 1/3 plate of my wife's homemade mashed potatoes on Wed.,
and 1/3 plate of fresh organic whole grain bread on Thurs.

In this way, I was not completely depriving myself of
all of my favorite and beloved carbs.
Instead, I was learning to space them out,
eat them in proportion to vegetables and proteins,
and keep everything in balance.

One final secret to remember:

Eat your whole meal in one hour or less.
Don't let your meal continue on past an hour
because if you do, a second round of insulin
will kick in to your system and spike your blood sugar.

Carb addicts have a way of eating way too many carbs
in one meal, at one sitting,
which tends to kick in too much insulin,
which in turn spikes their blood sugar,
all of which eventually will start to
set them up for some kind of diabetes condition.

My philosophy is this:

YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CARBS, AND EAT YOUR PROTEIN & VEGETABLES TOO! ALONG WITH A GOOD SIZE SALAD.

One final note.
You can have as much salad as you want.

Also, if you're really still hungry after
eating your complete meal and salad,
you can have more carbs at that point,
AS LONG AS you also eat equal size portions of more protein and more vegetables.
In this way, everything is kept in proper proportion
and nutritional balance that protects your health
and your waist line.

Now that you know these secrets,
GO AND PRACTICE THEM!

I learned these secrets from two carb addicts who were both
grossly overweight and learned how to overcome their addiction.
Their book is entitled,

"The Carbohydrate Addict's Lifespan Program,"
by Dr. Richard Heller and Dr. Rachael Heller.

I would recommend this book to all carb addicts
who want to learn how to lose weight
and take control of their health and weight
and overcome their carbohydrate addiction.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com

GTF Chromium & Weight Loss Pt 14 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:52:00 +0000

GTF CHROMIUM Supplement

One of the things that I did when I was changing my diet and losing a lot of weight was to add GTF Chromium to my daily supplements.

Chromium is something that we all need in our diet, but unfortunately,
it is usually greatly lacking given the way people eat today
and given the poor soil that most of our produce is grown in.

CHROMIUM is an essential nutrient that provides
nutritional support for normal, healthy insulin action
and glucose utilization.

The Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF) is a biological test
of this ability.

Chromium is an essential mineral that your body needs
but can't produce.

Chromium works with insulin to improve the transportation
of glucose out of the blood and into the cell.

This function improves health in many ways, including:

1. Decreasing blood sugar - Chromium may reduce the amount of sugar
circulating in your blood, thereby decreasing your risk of diabetes
and metabolic syndrome.

2. Decreasing LDL (bad cholesterol)
3. Increasing the good HDL cholesterol

4. Decreasing blood pressure
5. Decreasing the risk of heart disease and stroke

6. Decreasing body fat - Chromium may improve your body's insulin
sensitivity, helping to reduce body fat.

7. Increasing lean body mass

I would personally recommend taking 200 mcg per day.

I only recommend "GTF CHROMIUM" that is biologically active.

I DO NOT recommend Chromium Picolinate because it has not
stood the test of time and has not been proven to be as effective
as the GTF Chromium.

I would recommend that you first consult your physician or other
health or nutritional professional before adding this to your diet.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com/

MSG & Weight Loss Pt 13 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:19:00 +0000

Healthy Weight Loss Pt 13

ELIMINATE ALL SOURCES OF M.S.G.

You've probably heard of "MSG," which stands for

Mono Sodium Glutamate.

MSG is an "EXCITO-TOXIN" that is added to food in order to make it taste better AND in order to make you eat more of that food.

In other words, MSG is added to MAKE YOU FAT

by getting you to CRAVE the food and eat MORE.

The way the food companies increase their profits

is to sell more food, and they've found one of

the best ways to sell more food is

to get you to crave it and eat more by adding MSG.

Do a little research on your own by Googling

"The Dangers of MSG."

You'll be shocked at what you discover.

You'll find that this food additive

actually KILLS BRAIN CELLS.

This is NOT something you want in your food,

and yet it's literally everywhere.

MSG has found its way into many of the foods

that you buy in the supermarket

and into most of the snack food that you eat.

The food manufacturers are using DECEPTIVE METHODS

TO HIDE the presence of MSG in their foods

so that consumers don't know it's even there.

They use a myriad of other "names" for MSG

including such misleading titles as

"natural flavors," "autolyzed yeast extract," etc.

For the latest list of these deceptive names for MSG,

just do a Google search such as "names for MSG."

Most potato chips and similar snacks

are loaded with MSG.

No wonder it's hard to stop eating them!

Lots of pre-packaged, canned, and frozen food

also have plenty of MSG in them.

Many foods in local and chain restaurants

are also loaded with MSG.

This is no longer simply a "Chinese Restaurant" syndrome,

but it now is a problem with most restaurants.

Once you discover all of the deceptive names for MSG,

you too will be shocked at how many foods contain

this dangerous neuro-toxin.

If you're concerned about losing weight,

you'll want to make sure that you AVOID THIS TOXIN

at all costs and in all of the hidden places in your diet.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com/

Rest & Weight Loss Pt 12 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:32:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 12
REST from Friday evening to Saturday evening and let your Body, Mind, and Spirit Rejuvenate Itself

Today let's continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, healthy weight loss, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.

By way of review, here are the keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY - Take a daily walk, use a rebounder, and sexercise.

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Key # 7 - DRINK NATURAL SPRING WATER (HALF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN OUNCES) EVERY DAY, AND START YOUR DAY WITH A LARGE GLASS OF WATER WITH SOME LEMON AND SOME ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Key # 8 - Make Sure You've Got Plenty of Healthy FIBER in your Diet to help your body in the ELIMINATION Process

Key # 9 - Do a JUICE FAST to help Cleanse Your Body of Toxins

Key # 10 - Eat the Right Kinds of HEALTHY MEAT

Key # 11 - Stop eating all JUNK FOOD and FAST FOOD

Key # 12 - Give your Body the REST it Needs to Rejuvenate Itself

Give your body the Sabbath day of rest that your Creator created for your rejuvenation.

Set aside Friday evening to Saturday evening each week for rest.

Get 8 or 9 hours of sleep, preferably going to bed by 10 pm.

Fast once a week on natural spring water to give your body

the time it needs to rest from digesting & processing food

and to heal itself.

When possible, take a 3-minute "siesta" after lunch

to give your mind and body a short rest.

Learn how to manage stress and how to take better care of your body.

Daily exercise is an important part of reducing stress

in your body and mind.

Believe it or not,

one study I read about found that

Friday evening to Saturday evening

was the most restful period of the whole week.

Do you think it could be because

our Creator designed it that way

when He gave us the Sabbath day to rest?

STOP WORKING ONE DAY A WEEK!

Stop doing all the normal things that you do every day

for one full day.

Do something restful, relaxing, fun, spiritual, and rejuvenating.

Spend more time on that special day

with God in prayer and meditation, worship and praise,

and more time with your family

doing fun things together and enjoying each other's company.

And spend more time with close friends

with whom you can relax and truly be yourself.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com/

Junk Food Fast Food & Weight Loss Pt 11 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:55:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 11
Stop Eating Junk Food & Fast Food

Today I'd like to continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, healthy weight loss, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.
By way of review, here are the keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY - Take a daily walk, use a rebounder, and sexercise.

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Key # 7 - DRINK NATURAL SPRING WATER (HALF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN OUNCES) EVERY DAY, AND START YOUR DAY WITH A LARGE GLASS OF WATER WITH SOME LEMON AND SOME ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Key # 8 - Make Sure You've Got Plenty of Healthy FIBER in your Diet to help your body in the ELIMINATION Process

Key # 9 - Do a JUICE FAST to help Cleanse Your Body of Toxins

Key # 10 - Eat the Right Kinds of HEALTHY MEAT

Key # 11 - Stop eating all JUNK FOOD and FAST FOOD

We all know that "junk food" is not good for us.

Most of us also know that "fast food" is also not healthy for us.

The truth is that

JUNK FOOD and FAST FOOD are VERY FATTENING

and are very unhealthy!

If you're concerned about your health and your weight,

this is one of the most important steps that you can

start taking right away.

Make a decision to STOP

eating junk food and fast food.

Start now by REPLACING junk food with healthy nutritious food

and snacks such as fresh organic fruit, organic dried fruit,

fresh organic berries, fresh organic vegetables,

and organic popcorn cooked in virgin coconut oil.

Believe it or not, there are healthy alternatives to

eating fattening and unhealthy junk food and fast food.

If you really want to lose weight and to regain your health

before it's too late,

take this first step and make some changes about

what you eat when you're out and when you're home.

Eating Meat & Weight Loss Pt 10 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:01:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 10
Eating the Right Kinds of Healthy Meat

Today I'd like to continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, healthy weight loss, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.
By way of review, here are the keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY - Take a daily walk, use a rebounder, and sexercise.

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Key # 7 - DRINK NATURAL SPRING WATER (HALF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN OUNCES) EVERY DAY, AND START YOUR DAY WITH A LARGE GLASS OF WATER WITH SOME LEMON AND SOME ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Key # 8 - Make Sure You've Got Plenty of Healthy FIBER in your Diet to help your body in the ELIMINATION Process

Key # 9 - Do a JUICE FAST to help Cleanse Your Body of Toxins

Key # 10 - Eat the Right Kinds of HEALTHY MEAT

Did you know that there are healthy and unhealthy kinds of meat out there?

The UNHEALTHY OR HEALTH-DESTROYING MEATS include the following which you should purge from your diet and avoid at all costs:

Stop eating all PORK and pork products,

including ham, bacom, sausage, pepperoni, balogna, salami, etc.

Pork and pork products are the most unhealthy and dangerous "meats"

that you can possibly eat. In addition,

eating pork and pork products will make you fat and fatter.

If you're concerned about your health and want to lose weight,

please, stop eating this fattening and extremely unhealthy meat

which is loaded with toxins.

Stop eating all SHELLFISH ocean scavengers,

including shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, scallops, etc.

These have all been proven to be very unhealthy for your body

and carry all kinds of dangerous toxins in them.

Avoid all "FARM-RAISED FISH" which are also very unhealthy.

Stop eating all DELI LUNCHEON MEATS

which are loaded with sodium nitrates and many other kinds

of unhealthy toxins. These "meats" look nice in the package,

and may taste good, but they are highly processed with

dangerous toxic chemicals and are destructive to your health.

In addition, they're often loaded with MSG and other

excitotoxins.

OKAY, THEN WHAT KINDS OF MEAT ARE HEALTHY?

First, make the decision to stop buying and eating the unhealthy meats

mentioned above.

Then, start buying and eating the right kind of healthy meats.

These include the following:

1. Wild deep-water ocean fish that have scales and fins.

2. Organic natural-fed kosher lamb, beef, and poultry.

What's most important in choosing a healthy meat is

what the animals are fed and how they are raised.

You want animals raised on natural feed such as

grass-fed beef.

You want to avoid all meat that comes from animals that

were fed GMO corn and soy products,

that were given hormones and anti-biotics, etc.

ORGANIC natural-fed animals are the best and most

healthy way to go.

In addition, you'll be better able to lose weight

by eating these lean meats.

Juice Fasting & Weight Loss Pt 9 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:03:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 9
WHY YOU NEED TO DO A

"JUICE FAST"

Today I'd like to continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, healthy weight loss, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.

By way of review, here are the keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY - Take a daily walk, use a rebounder, and sexercise.

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Key # 7 - DRINK NATURAL SPRING WATER (HALF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN OUNCES) EVERY DAY, AND START YOUR DAY WITH A LARGE GLASS OF WATER WITH SOME LEMON AND SOME ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Key # 8 - Make Sure You've Got Plenty of Healthy FIBER in your Diet to help your body in the ELIMINATION Process

Key # 9 - Do a JUICE FAST to help Cleanse Your Body of Toxins

Juice fasting is a key part of the weight loss picture. In fact, in my opinion,

juice fasting should be the very first step in any weight loss program.

I've written extensively on "Juice Fasting" in this blog several months ago.

I highly recommend that you go back and read some of my earlier postings on this important topic. You'll find a lot of very useful information, including why you should do a juice fast, why a juice fast is better than a water fast, how to properly do a juice fast, how to get started, how to take enemas during your juice fast and the health reasons to do so, what kind of juices and vegetable broths to drink during your fast, and lastly, how to wisely and carefully break a juice fast.

One of the biggest reasons to do a juice fast is that you give your body a chance to purify itself and cleanse itself from all of the toxins that have built up in your system and in your cells. This is critical to detoxifying your body and resetting your metabolism.

Please go back and read my February 3, 2008, posting on Juice Fasting.

I did an 8-day juice fast for rejuvenation and health reasons, and in the process I lost 12 pounds and lost 4 inches off of my waist. I went from a size 36 waist down to a size 32. I saw all kinds of awful things come out of me and I completely lost my belly. It was the best fast I've ever done because I did it correctly. Take a few minutes and go back and read about it to inspire you to do the same.

FIBER & Weight Loss Pt 8 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:42:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 8
FIBER & ELIMINATION & COLON CLEANSING

Today I'd like to continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, healthy weight loss, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.

By way of review, here are the keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY - Take a daily walk, use a rebounder, and sexercise.

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Key # 7 - DRINK NATURAL SPRING WATER (HALF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN OUNCES) EVERY DAY, AND START YOUR DAY WITH A LARGE GLASS OF WATER WITH SOME LEMON AND SOME ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Key # 8 - Make Sure You've Got Plenty of Healthy FIBER in your Diet to help your body in the ELIMINATION Process

Daily Quote: "I believe that no single factor plays a more significant role in the origin of disease - or in its cure or prevention - than obtaining sufficient dietary FIBER." - Ted Broer

One of the most important keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy is getting enough dietary fiber in your foods every day. Your digestive system, especially the colon and large intestine, become constipated when too little water and dietary fiber are consumed. The U.S. Public Health Service has stated that approximately 90% of all Americans have a clogged colon to some degree. It is sad but true that Americans are one of the most constipated people in the whole world. We should be eating at least 25-30 grams of fiber a day, but shockingly, many Americans have a hard time consuming 30 grams of fiber a week!

According to licensed nutritionist and exercise physiologist, Ted Broer, "I am also convinced that no other single health condition plays so great a role in the development of disease as does constipation. Constipation has been shown to have a role in the development of hemorrhoids, heart disease, artherosclerosis, cancer (too many types to mention), diabetes, gall bladder disease, kidney stones and ulcers - just to name a few."

WHAT IS FIBER & WHAT DOES IT DO FOR YOUR BODY?
What is fiber? Simply put, fiber is the part of your food that cannot break down or be digested by your digestive system. Dietary fiber, or "roughage," is found abundantly in living plant foods such as vegetables, fruits, and grains. Fiber comes in two forms - soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber easily dissolves in water, so it can be easily absorbed in the intestine and circulated in the blood stream. Soluble fiber, such as pectin found in most fruits, in the blood can attach itself to blood fats and create a complex that removes these fats from the blood system, which in turn lowers cholesterol.

Insoluble fiber also absorbs water, but it remains in the intestine and forms the majority of the bulk necessary to collect and push bodily wastes through the intestine and out of the body. Food waste and bodily processes more very slowly, if at all, through the colon without the assistance of insoluble fiber. In this unhealthy case, the slow-moving mass can putrefy or rot right in the body causing the body to start poisoning itself. As you can see, insoluble fiber is critical to healthy functioning of the bowels and the whole elimination process.

THREE MAIN CAUSES OF CONSTIPATION
What's causing so much constipation (and all of its related illnesses) in America and the Western world? There are three main causes that need to be addressed and resolved. The first and foremost cause is our unhealthy low-fiber diet. This consists of denatured, bleached, refined, processed foods and flours, as well as a lack of fresh vegetables and fruit. When our wheat flour is refined, they take out over 50 healthy nutrients, and then add 12 synthetic vitamins that are totally indigestible. Then they put it on the supermarket shelves and advertise it as "enriched" wheat flour or bread. The food manufacturers basically throw away the good nutrition and leave Americans with an unhealthy malnutrition processed "food." No wonder almost everyone in America is constipated! And don't forget, most Americans don't even come close to eating the recommended 5-13 servings of vegetables and fruit per day.

The second cause of constipation is not drinking enough water every day. Water is an essential element to the whole digestion, assimilation, and elimination process. Without enough water, food that is digested slows down or comes to a stop. Think of water being like the oil in your car's engine. Without oil, the moving parts would wear each other down and the engine would quickly "freeze" up and break down completely. Likewise, without enough water, your body will become dehydrated and will start to "freeze" up and break down. It won't be able to process food properly or eliminate the waste properly.

The third cause of constipation is a lack of exercise. When your body does not get enough physical activity, food in your intestines and colon starts to slow down. For this reason alone, everyone should go for a 30-60 minute walk every day.

How do you know if you're "regular" enough? The basic guideline to use is this: everyone should have two or three bowel movements a day. This helps all waste matter move quickly through the large intestine and colon. This transit time should ideally be less than eighteen hours, and no more than twenty-four hours.

DO THESE 3 THINGS TO STAY "REGULAR"
1. Drink plenty of natural spring water every day. You should be drinking half your weight in ounces daily. In other words, if you're 160 pounds, you need to drink 80 ounces of water throughout the day.
2. Go for a daily walk to get the regular exercise your body needs.
3. Eat lots of dietary fiber every day and make significant changes to your create a healthy optimum diet. Your body needs at least 25-30 grams of fiber a day. It would also greatly help your system if you eliminated constipation-causing foods such as processed "enriched" wheat flour (white four) and other highly refined, denatured, bleached, processed flour.

GREAT SOURCES OF DIETARY FIBER FOR SUPER HEALTH
1. Fresh, organic vegetables, greens, fruits, and berries - These are all excellent sources of fiber. Aim at eating 75% of your vegetables and greens raw in the form of a healthy vegetable salad every day. Aim at eating 100% of your fruits & berries raw.
2. Beans and legumes. Learn how to soak and cook these yourself, and freeze portions for later use. These are probably the best source of fiber.
3. Brown rice. It has all the fiber and minerals that white rice lacks.
4. 100% whole wheat bread and flour, as well as 100% whole grain breads and flours such as rye, buckwheat, etc. Use these in all of your baking and cooking.
5. Whole grain cereals. These can be hot porridge-type cereals or cold cereal made from 100% whole grains.
6. Eat the skins of potatoes and of other organic fruits & vegetables.
7. Add oat bran, wheat bran, and wheatgerm to your meals.
8. Snack on sun-dried fruit - Enjoy apricots, dates, prunes, raisins, etc., which are all concentrated sources of fiber and nutrients.
9. Instead of drinking fruit juice and vegetable juice, eat the fruit and vegetables themselves so that you get all that healthy dietary fiber.
10. Eat flaxseed and chia seeds. These are a very healthy source of mucilaginous fiber that help relieve constipation and speed up the transit time for elimination.

Here's what Thomas Edison had to say about the future of health.

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

Water & Weight Loss Pt 7 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:59:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 7

Let me begin by apologizing for not posting for about a week. I've been under a lot of stress moving my family into a new home, and with all the packing and setting up of our new home, I haven't had any time to write for my blog readers. Beginning next week I should be able to get back on track with this series on weight loss.

Today I'd like to continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other three keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Key # 7 - DRINK NATURAL SPRING WATER (HALF YOUR BODY WEIGHT IN OUNCES) EVERY DAY, AND START YOUR DAY WITH A LARGE GLASS OF WATER WITH SOME LEMON AND SOME ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Starting your day with a large glass of natural spring water with some lemon squeezed in and some organic apple cider vinegar will help kick start your body's natural metabolism and cleansing. DO NOT DRINK TAP WATER! Tap water is loaded with all kinds of toxic chemicals that will harm your body. If you are overweight, you need to drink plenty of good natural spring water throughout the day to help your body flush out toxins and cleanse itself. Apple cider vinegar has been shown to be effective in helping people lose weight. I recommend putting one tablespoon of Bragg's Organic Apple Cider Vinegar into a glass of water with some lemon and if needed, a teaspoon of natural unheated raw honey.

If you really want to go all the way, you will also want to add a shake of cayenne pepper into your glass of water because it will help increase your metabolism and make you burn fat quicker. As you can imagine, drinking a large glass of water, cayenne pepper, organic apple cider vinegar, a big squeeze of lemon, and possibly some raw honey, is not going to be easy to do because of the taste. However, if you get into the habit of doing this every morning, it will become a regular part of your morning routine and you won't mind doing it.

One other idea is to make yourself a morning smoothie with some fresh or frozen organic fruit and berries, add some live whole food like The Feast (by Uri International), and then put in your lemon, apple cider vinegar, honey, and cayenne pepper, along with a banana to thicken it. This, in fact, is what I do every morning myself. This has been my daily morning routine for a year now, and I love making this smoothie every morning. Of course, I also add a few other things such as some Himalayan Crystal Salt, some freshly ground up flax seed, some fiber, and some coconut oil. It tastes great, is very filling, gives me plenty of energy, keeps me going until around 12 or 1 pm, is very healthy for me, and helps cleanse my body of toxins and set my metabolism to burn fat efficiently.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

Coconut Oil & Weight Loss Pt 6 - Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:32:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 6

I'd like to continue this series on successful healthy weight loss. I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other three keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.
Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity.
Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

Key # 6 - ADD ORGANIC VIRGIN COCONUT OIL TO YOUR DIET

Adding organic virgin coconut oil to your diet will help you lose weight. If you're interested in all of the details about this amazing natural oil, I've included a link to an excellent article.

"The Great Fat Debate:
Why Virgin Coconut Oil is Best"

It's quite a lengthy in-depth article, so I've included the link for you to click on if you'd like to read it. It is loaded with useful information and research findings on virgin coconut oil.

Before I forget, I wanted to let you know that URI International sells an excellent Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil called "Coconut Pure."
Prices are: 18 fluid oz. $18.95, 32 fluid oz. $29.95, and 128 fluid oz. $72.95.

If you'd like to order some of this amazing coconut oil, click on the following link:
Coconut Pure by URI: Organic Virgin Coconut Oil
Below the link I will post a few of the most important points that I believe are worth remembering.

ARTICLE LINK: The Great Fat Debate - Why Virgin Coconut Oil Is Best

Summary of the most important points from the article:

1. Coconut oil is made up of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA’s).

2. MCFA’s actually helps us to lose weight, lower cholesterol, improve diabetic conditions and reduce the risk of heart troubles.

3. One of the most outstanding benefits of consuming MCFA’s is that they do not require the liver to digest and emulsify them. This means instant energy and increased thermogenesis (increased metabolic rate in the body) which leads to more heat production as well as improved circulation.

4. For anyone with impaired fat digestion or a removed gallbladder, coconut oil is the only oil to consume as it is very easily digested.

5. MCFA’s are also known for having antimicrobial and anti-fungal properties, so they are beneficial to our immune system.

6. In addition, coconut oil assists people with under-active thyroids by increasing the metabolic rate of the body and creating more energy.

Ray Peat Ph.D., a physiologist who has worked with progesterone and related hormones since 1968, says that the sudden surge of polyunsaturated oils in the food chain post World War II has caused many changes in hormones. He writes:

"Their [polyunsaturated oils] best understood effect is their interference with the function of the thyroid gland. Polyunsaturated oils block thyroid hormone secretion, its movement in the circulatory system, and the response of tissues to the hormone. When the thyroid hormone is deficient, the body is generally exposed to increased levels of oestrogen. The thyroid hormone is essential for making the ‘protective hormones’ progesterone and pregnenolone, so these hormones are lowered when anything interferes with the function of the thyroid. The thyroid hormone is required for using and eliminating cholesterol, so cholesterol is likely to be raised by anything that blocks the thyroid function. It is very interesting to note that high cholesterol is not a sign of eating too much saturated fat. High cholesterol in a lot of the cases is due to an under-active thyroid which affects the liver as well as the many loops and feedback systems within the endocrine system. Stress and the over consumption of carbohydrates/sugars also form high levels of cholesterol."

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

Healthy Weight Loss Pt 5 Sweeteners - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:25:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 5

Let's continue this series on healthy weight loss.

Today I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other three keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.

Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity. Here's the next key to add to your lifestyle.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY

Key #5 - ELIMINATE ALL ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, AND WHITE SUGAR

To put it rather bluntly, all artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, and white sugar will make you fat. They will mess up your metabolism. They will trigger insulin overproduction.

Do NOT believe what you're being told by food manufacturers and their slick advertisements! They are simply lying to you about their artificial sweeteners in order to cause you to choose their products and to keep you fat.

AVOID ASPARTAME, NUTRASWEET, SPLENDA, SAACHARIN, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, and all other types and kinds of artificial sweeteners. If it's a "Man-Made Sweetener," then you want to avoid it. All of these artificial sweeteners are DANGEROUS to your health and are not good for your waistline. There is a TON of EVIDENCE out there that proves just how dangerous these poisons are to your body and how they have caused so much illness to millions of Americans.

I have written several posts all about the dangers of these artificial sweeteners and why you should avoid them at all costs. Please take some time to look back at my earlier posts and read what I have already written. I do not want to repeat myself in this posting, except to give you this very important WARNING: ELIMINATE ALL THESE WHITE ARTIFICIAL MAN-MADE SWEETENERS from your diet and AVOID ALL PRODUCTS MADE WITH THEM.

Let me give you a clear warning. These artificial sweeteners are just about in everything. You've got to start READING LABELS when you're out shopping for your groceries, and you've got to start avoiding all products that contain these dangerous, unhealthy, and fattening ingredients. Be particularly careful to avoid these artificial sweeteners in the following products:

Diet Soda, gum, candy, fruit juices, ice cream, cake, cookies, pastries, jam, etc.

And finally, don't be suckered in by terms like "diet," "fat-free," "sugar-free," "calorie-free," "carb-free," "no net carbs," etc. These are terms advertisers use to get you to buy their junky, unhealthy, fattening foods. For example, when something says that it is "sugar-free" or "diet," it usually means that it's loaded with artificial sweeteners like Aspartame that will poison your system, cause you all kinds of long-term health problems, and make you fat as well.

QUESTION: WHAT SWEETENERS ARE HEALTHY?

Good question.

STEVIA
ORGANIC AGAVE NECTAR
ORGANIC UNHEATED, UNFILTERED NATURAL HONEY

These are the three best natural "God-made" sweeteners
that are good for your health and that won't make you fat
if you use them in moderation.

Healthy Weight Loss Pt 4 - Exercise Sexercise Keys to Good Nutrition & to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:48:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 4

Today I'll continue this series on healthy weight loss.

I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other three keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.

Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity. Here's the next key to add to your lifestyle.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Okay, I hope you're still with me. In this series I'm going to cover all of the most important aspects of losing weight and keeping it off. For that reason, please stay tuned and follow with me as I proceed over the next few weeks to give you all the pieces to the puzzle.

Key #4 - EXERCISE DAILY

I know most people don't want to hear about this "Key" to losing weight, but deep down in their hearts, they know that daily exercise is fundamental to losing weight and to fitness. I'm not going to go into all of the reasons that it's important to exercise daily because I believe you already know most of them. Most people don't need more knowledge about exercise and why they need to do it. Instead, they just need a firm "kick in the pants" to get them out the door until it becomes a daily habit and part of their daily routine.

The best kind of exercise that I can recommend is first of all - WALKING.

Walking is free; it doesn't cost you anything to do and you don't need to go out and buy any special equipment to do it. It's relaxing to your mind and invigorating to your body. You can do it before work, during your lunch break, or after work.

Here are a few guidelines. First, make sure you walk fast and make your time a "power walk" rather than a gentle stroll. Second, don't do your exercise walking in congested streets full of automobiles and toxic gases! Go and find a quiet, beautiful, scenic place to walk where the air is clean. Third, try to walk for at least 30-60 minutes a day. If you don't have that much time at one time, then break it up. Walk for 15 minutes in the morning, and then 30 after work. Wear good walking shoes or running sneakers.

I also recommend using a MINI-TRAMPOLINE, also known as a "REBOUNDER." This looks like a small trampoline, and all you do is jump up and down on it. To increase your work out, you can have small weights in your hands that you pump up and down or curl with your arms. Work out on your rebounder for 5-10 minutes a day. It sounds easy, but it's not at first. You'll have to build up to 10 minutes. However, this simple work out will work and energize every cell in your body, so it's actually very effective in weight loss and helping with your metabolism. In fact, most exercise will help increase your metabolism.

The third type of exercise I would like to recommend is SEXERCISE!

Let me qualify that statement a bit. By "sexercise," I mean having vigorous sex with your spouse. If you're not married, then this recommendation is not for you at this time (wait till you have found the right one and entered the covenant of marriage). In order to do this type of exercise, of course you'll need the cooperation of your spouse. Here's what I suggest. Sit down with your spouse some quiet evening, look him or her directly in the eyes, and share your heart with them. Tell him/her that you are very serious about losing weight, that you're starting to apply what you're learning in this blog (elaborate for their benefit), and that you're now ready to start adding exercise to your daily routine. Explain my recommendations about walking, and ask him or her if they'd like to join you in your daily walk. Then explain about the rebounder and that you're going to go out and buy one and start using it. Finally, explain that you'd also like to do the third type of exercise that I recommend, which is called "sexercise." After he or she stops laughing, ask them if they would be willing to help you out with this third type of daily exercise and when you can schedule it into your busy lives. If daily sexercise is just too much for your spouse, then seek to compromise and do it every other day. Remind them how much you love them, how much fun sex is, that it's free, that it's a gift of God for married couples to enjoy, that it has been proven to be very good for your health, and that you'd like to share this intimate time with them every day or every other day. * Who ever said losing weight couldn't be fun!!

There are lots of other forms of exercise that you can also choose to do, but the most important thing is to choose something that you like doing, that is fun for you, and that you enjoy. That will give you the highest chance of sticking with it and doing it every day. Of course, it's okay to take one day off a week from your exercise.

Here are some other good forms of exercise to consider.

Swimming, bicycling, hiking, running/jogging, rowing, skiing, rollerskating, volleyball, tennis, raquetball, soccer, etc.

I encourage you to start exercising daily right away and add this "key" to your weight loss program and new healthy lifestyle.

Healthy Weight Loss Pt 3 - Keys to Good Nutrition and to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:03:00 +0000

HEALTHY WEIGHT LOSS - PT 3

Today let's continue this series on healthy weight loss.

I'll be sharing practical things you can do to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight for your height and body shape.

By way of review,
here are the other two keys that we've covered so far.

Key #1 - Stop overeating and practice systematic undereating.

Key #2 - Eat for nutrition, for energy, for life.

Listen, seek, research, learn, study, and understand that there are keys of knowledge that will help you unlock the secrets to a long, healthy life and successful weight loss and weight management. These keys to good nutrition and tips to healthy eating will open a whole new world of health, life, and vitality to you. I believe you were created by God and destined to a life of health and prosperity. Here's the next key to add to your lifestyle.

Key #3 - EAT ONLY HEALTHY ORGANIC NATURAL WHOLE FOODS

Eat foods that are grown organically, not with chemical pesticides and herbicides. Eat live whole foods, not processed foods. Eat natural foods, not artificial foods and additives. Eat foods that are grown naturally, without hormones and antibiotics. Eat raw foods. Try to eat at least 75% of your foods raw in their natural whole food state. Eat a lot of vegetables and greens, organic of course. Also eat plenty of fruits and berries. Eat non-GM (genetically modified) foods; avoid all genetically modified and genetically engineered foods. Eat whole food grains, legumes, beans, seeds, and nuts. Eat only organically grown and grass fed natural chicken, turkey, lamb, bison, and beef. Eat only wild ocean fish with fins and scales, and avoid all farm raised fish and seafood scavengers. Eat only full spectrum Himalayan crystal salt, avoiding all table salt (sodium chloride). Eat traditionally fermented lactic acid foods like sauerkraut, sour pickles, miso, raw yogurt, raw kefir, apple cider vinegar, etc.

One of the biggest reasons that people become overweight is they are eating the wrong kinds of food. Therefore, one of the first steps to correct the situation is to stop eating the wrong kinds of food and to start eating the right kind of nutritious foods that the body needs to function properly.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

Weight Loss Pt 2 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:45:00 +0000

HEALTHY SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT LOSS - PT 2

Today let's continue this series on healthy weight loss.

I will be sharing practical things you can do
to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight.

"EAT TO LIVE - DON'T LIVE TO EAT."

One of the keys to good nutrition and tips to eating healthy is to eat for the right reasons. Have you ever thought of that? Have you ever asked yourself why you eat every day? It seems, on the surface, like a simple question with an obvious answer. However, when you understand the deeper ramifications of this question, you will realize that it is really quite a profound question.

Key #2 - EAT FOR NUTRITION, FOR ENERGY, FOR LIFE

Some people eat as though they were going to go out and do the hardest kind of physical labor! They sit down at the table, for example, and eat a large heavy breakfast loaded with protein, carbohydrates, fats, and sugars. And yet the truth is that they are very sedentary people who eat out of habit and conditioning. These same people often work in an office or in a store where they sit or stand around all day doing very little physical labor at all. They will usually eat a quite unhealthy snack in the morning. Around noon they will eat a heavy meal, followed a little later by an afternoon snack. After work, they come home and have the biggest meal of the day consisting of meat, potatoes, bread, dessert, and a beverage. Typically they watch TV after dinner while eating yet another fattening snack.

The person living the average, inactive and sedentary life can't possibly burn up these large amounts of food! What happens to people who eat this way? They end up being overweight or obese, they feel tired or exhausted most of the time, and they live their entire lives being sick. They fill the doctors' offices, pharmacies, and hospitals with all the health problems brought on by their unhealthy eating habits.

This kind of daily compulsive over-eating is making millions of people exhausted, fat, and sick. This habitual over-eating is sending them to doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and too many to an early grave! As the Roman philosopher, Seneca, once said,
"Men do not die; they kill themselves."
This tragic story is being played out all across the Western world. Millions of people are grossly overweight and sick due to unhealthy lifestyles and poor eating habits.

Not only do millions of people overeat or overfuel their bodies, but they also overfuel on the wrong kinds of food. The food that they consume is generally not nutritious and is loaded with toxins and other substances that make their bodies fatter and sicker and more tired. Because their bodies are truly malnourished from bad nutrition, they constantly feel hungry because their bodies are not getting the nutrients that they need. In addition, overeating puts a severe strain on the body's organs and the digestive tract to try to keep up with all of that food. By overeating they are stressing out the machinery of their entire body because they never give their body time to rest and repair itself. What they really need to do is to get into the habit of fasting one day a week to help their system unclog and cleanse itself.

Why Do You EAT?

Many people eat three large meals a day because they were told at a young age that they should. They have been conditioned to eating not only three large daily meals, but also to eating snacks throughout the day. I believe that most people eat this way out of habit and conditioning, and for the wrong reasons. A lot of times people eat because it meets some deep emotional need in their souls such as comfort, which is why we call some foods, "comfort foods." Some people overeat because they are lonely and eating food makes them feel better. Some people overeat simply because they are bored. Other people overeat because they are simply gluttens, meaning they have an unhealthy kind of "lust" for food that gives them a lot of pleasure and a physical high. All of these reasons are not good or healthy reasons to eat or to overeat.

EAT FOR NUTRITION AND ENERGY AND LIFE

I would like to suggest that the best reasons to eat (not overeat) are to feed your body the good nutrition it needs, to provide your body the energy it needs to work and live, and to give your body the life that it needs to be happy and productive. In other words, "eat to live!" Think of food as fuel for your body. You can put in good high-quality fuel that will energize your body and help you accomplish what you need to every day, or you can put in bad poor-quality fuel that will cause your body to feel tired, weak, and sickly and will prevent you from accomplishing what you need to do.

Finally, there is a time and a place to enjoy the pleasure of eating good food. God created us to enjoy great variety of foods that He put on the earth. Enjoying good healthy food is a blessing from God that we should be thankful for. However, we do need to protect our hearts from gluttony and overeating by practicing moderation in our eating habits. My advice to you is to reflect a while on why you eat, and then make some healthy changes. Start thinking differently about food and eating. Discipline your body and make it your servant, rather than your body being the master and you being the slave to its appetite. Take control of your appetite and eating habits, and learn the healthy habit of eating to live.

And always remember, the secret to losing weight and keeping it off, is to make nutritious and healthy LIFESTYLE CHANGES that become positive healthy habits in your daily routine. Systematic undereating and resisting the temptation to overeat is the first step to change.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

Weight Loss Pt 1 - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:34:00 +0000

HEALTHY SUCCESSFUL WEIGHT LOSS - PT 1

Today I'd like to start a whole series on healthy weight loss.

I will be sharing practical things you can do

to lose weight and to maintain a healthy weight.

The information I'll be sharing comes from years of my own personal research, as well as from my own experience.

Several years ago I was about 25 pounds overweight, and I came home from the doctor with a bad report. I went in for a simple physical exam, and came out realizing that I had high cholesterol and triglycerides, and that I was 25 pounds overweight. The photo here is after I had lost 23 pounds and no longer fit in my pants. That's actually a big heavy bag of sugar tucked into my pants to show you just how much extra room I had created in my pants by losing so much weight. I must have dropped from about waist size of 36 down to around a 32. I literally had to buy some new pants to wear. It was a great experience!

After hearing the doctor's report, and after getting rejected by a health insurance company for medical insurance, I realized that I needed to make serious changes to my lifestyle. There were three things that I needed to change.

First, I had to start eating right, again. I had eaten right for years, but then got into some bad habits and ended up eating all kinds of unhealthy things.

Second, I had to start exercising, again. I had stopped after we had two babies.

Third, I had to put together a plan to lose 25 pounds.

In this series, I will be sharing how I completely changed my diet, added exercise to my daily life, lost those 25 pounds, and reclaimed my inheritance of good health.

KEY #1 - PRACTICE SYSTEMATIC UNDEREATING - STOP OVEREATING

This is one of the most important things you can do to begin to lose weight and take charge of your health. A myriad of illness plague Americans because we are so prone to overeat. We are raised in a culture that says, "Big is better," and this translates into eating bigger and bigger portions. Just look at the size of soft drinks or burgers at your local fast food joint. It's absurd!

If you will start to systematically undereat and resist the temptation to overeat, you will automatically start eating less and start losing some weight. This simple step will help you take back control of your eating habits and your health. Who is in control - you or your stomach? It's really all up to you. It's your choice and decision. No one is there forcing you to eat more and more food at every meal and between meals. It's time to take responsibility for your health and to start undereating. I promise you - you'll feel a whole lot better after each meal if you undereat rather than overeat. This is the first step to better health and nutrition and to losing weight and keeping it off.

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here:

Real Nutrition News - Keys to Good Nutrition & Tips to Eating Healthy Feast on Organic Whole Food

noreply@blogger.com (Josiah Friberg) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:16:00 +0000

SNEAK PREVIEW OF
AMAZING and POWERFUL
URI FEAST "MAGALOG"

REAL NUTRITION NEWS

Here is a note from Brett Rademacher about the just released "MAGALOG" and how powerful a marketing tool this will be.

To get a sneak preview of the Real Nutrition News Magalog,

Click Here: REAL NUTRITION NEWS - MAGALOG

"This is the culmination of a year of very hard work by a lot of people. It is the foundation of all our future marketing efforts. It is a demonstration on Uri Lebaron’s commitment to creating powerful marketing tools that... do NOT make unsubstantiated health claims like so many other nutritional companies do, therefore jeopardizing the long term success of their company and opportunity.

I would like to present to you:

The Uri International Magalog – The first edition of the Real Nutrition News

In my opinion, I believe this is one of the most phenomenal marketing pieces that has ever been created for a network marketing nutritional product. This is a MUCH smaller version of the actual size of what the printed version of Real Nutrition News will be, but it will give you a basic idea of what it will look like. However, it is NOTHING compared to holding the ACTUAL size printed version in your hands. The actual printed Magalog is a HUGE (10 x 12) full 4 color, 24 page attention grabbing direct marketing masterpiece.This online flash based page viewer of the Magalog does NO justice to the actual printed Magalog piece.

The copy was written by one of the top nutritional copywriters in the country. The design was done by one of the top direct response graphic copywriters in the country.

You will notice on page 23 there is a special offer for first time customers.

Special Magalog Offer Includes:
* 1 300G can of The Feast
* 1 RED Shaker Cup FREE
* 2 Beyond Berries Samples FREE
* 2 The Feast Supercharged Samples FREE

Only $43.95, which is the normal price of just the FEAST canister alone. New customers will save $12. And remember, this offer is for "1st time Customer purchases ONLY."

Prospective retail customers have 3 options for
ordering this special offer.

1) Contact the distributor who gave them the Magalog
and they can take their order and forward it to the
company.

2) Call the company 800 order number and give the
customer service rep the special offer code.
Is that awesome or what?

3) And the third option is they can go online and
order at special offer order site (to be set up shortly)

Here are some of the topics covered in this Real Nutrition News Magalog:

• Real Nutrition News! Get your FREE copy
• The Future of Real Nutrition is Here Now
• The Secret Code of Real Nutrition Now Unlocked
• Special Warning to all health conscious Americans
• The shocking truth about “Healthy Foods” Today
• Why Cooking kills or destroys most nutrients
• The Great Synthetic Vitamin Hoax
• US Food Industry Has a Shameful Secret
• Shocking Decline of Vitamins in Produce Today
• The BEST way to get Vitamins and Minerals
• New Cutting Edge Breakthrough in REAL Nutrition
• Hidden Health Risks of Genetically Modified Foods
• Dangerous Ingredients Secretly Lurking in our Foods
• Uri International – World Leader in Real Nutrition
• Natural Juices and Energy Drinks are NOT what you think
• Breakthrough Technology delivers REAL nutrition
• Special Alert: Why most grocery story vitamins are junk
• 10 dangerous ingredients secretly lurking in our foods
• Most “green” drinks taste like licking a lawner. Not this one!
• New, Cutting Edge Nutritional Delivery System
• The Feast Real Whole Food- Based Nutrition as Nature Intended
• The Ultimate Whole Food Based Nutritional Product
• What gives you more REAL nutrition?
• It is EASY to double your antioxidants. Find out how
• Get REAL, whole food based Nutrition in Just Seconds a Day
• The Best Nutritional Product on the Planet

We have an incredible product, and a huge opportunity.
People desperately need quality whole food nutrition.
And we have it.
We offer nutrient dense, convenient, great tasting,
live whole food based nutrition.

We are on the cutting edge of where nutrition is going.
We are the future NOW.
We are the world leader in real nutrition!"

- Written by Brett Rademacher

Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I'm also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri.For more information, click here: