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ANNOUNCEMENT: New website is comming

2015-07-13T01:34:00.000-07:00

My dear readers, The post that I have scheduled is late because I'm in preparation of a web site. The website name will be wellness-nexus.com. The website will be online in 2 weeks, and the next post will be in the part for blog on wellness-nexus.com . Thank you for your understanding. On the website thee will be more stuff for everyone, and it will be better to interact with you, my valued readers.
See you in 2 weeks with lot of new stuff and new information about wellness, sport, and everything that will make your life more happier.
For every other information be free to contact me sasko.postolovski@wellness-nexus.com

WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION THAT EVERY PERSON SHOULD ASK THEMSELVES

2015-06-17T05:57:00.000-07:00

My dear readers, first I want to thank you for following me and I see great interest from many of you to change the current situation, and how to live more fulfilled lives . I apologize for my bad English, so I can fully convey my thoughts precisely, and sometimes can lose the significance. I hope I will help you in every possible way to improve your life, and if you succeed, even by one percent to make you feel better, happier and fulfilled, that for me is a huge success. Therefore I will continue with perseverance to try helping all who so wish from me, while I will enjoy it helping everyone becoming happy.

But move on. The first and main thing to know is your starting point, from where to start the changes in your lives. How will you determine the starting point? What you are lacking in life? What can I change,while it will improve all other aspects of my life? Do you live your life the way you want? Have you fulfilled your dreams? Why every morning I find it difficult to get up and start the day? And at the end the most important question, which you should asking yourself daily, just to know whether it is the right path, and that question is: AM I HAPPY.

It is the first and the only step you need to do for start, if you plan to make a better life All the other steps and things that you should take to improve some aspect of your life will be easier if you are honest with yourself about this issue. 3 years ago I wrote a post "How to be happy," seeing from the current point of view, is too superficial and the problems were touched superficially, while not giving guidance on how to correct them,I apologize for that and now I will fix it. Really would like to help any who would like to be happier, it will be a great pleasure to me.
What does it mean AM I HAPPY?
Each my day starts with a song, there is nothing difficult for me today and with ease I finish everything required of me today. To live my dream. Every thing I am doing, I'm doing with love. I have impeccable health. I am enjoying in the nature that surrounds me.To love yourself. To love all people that are around me. Helping others that need help. With excitement to wait any moment of the day and to expect wonderful moments throughout all day. Spend a wonderful time with the family and friends. At night I go to sleep excited about what awaits me tomorrow and falling asleep quickly with a smile on my face. Shortly so is felt happy man.

Most of you, my dear readers, will say, what is he speaking about, it's a nonsense? How can something to excites me in this fast and stressful world? How I can find time to enjoy in the nature when we do not have time to had a decent meal? How to enjoy with the family, when hardly you can see them? How to fall asleep with a smile, when I struggle with my bills, problems at work and restless sleep, or even worse I have no time to sleep.

How do I know this? Because I was at your place, without time, with health ruined , I looked 20 years older , I had no time to spend with my family, I hated myself for all that I become.,I hated my responsibilities, in one word I felt miserable.

How I changed all that?

First I felt a huge void in me, and did not know with what to fill that void, so I looked quick formula for happiness , which made me even more wretched. But I didn't quit. I started to read a lot, especially books on motivation, books on success. Although I read a lot, I applied little of what I have learned, so it does not get to the desired change. The biggest change in my life happened when I touched the very bottom, when I was left alone, penniless and unhappy. From that day I made some decisions which today I adhere to.

And because I have come to that point, I opened this blog so that others do not have to pass that way. My life was literally "Per aspera ad astra" Through thorns to the stars. Follow the examples of those who did something, because it is wise, but there are people who do not want to learn from the examples of others, and consider true only the that has happened to them and only thus developed, and they are people who want through blood and pain to develop, which is much slower and more painful than to learn from someone who has survived it. Believe me I do not want anyone in the world to experience the things that have happened to me. However the decision is yours, but you are smart people and know what is best for you, and therefore act, and when you will, no one will condemn anyone for whatever you decide.

Since we learned what is the most important issue in life, we know the foundation from which we should start.

In my next post I will write about how to start practically applying things for being happier and how to change your life forever.

Greetings and have a wonderful day.

DETOXIFICATION OF THE BODY 2

2015-06-03T05:05:00.000-07:00

Good day my readers, today I will write about the diet which will help you to faster detoxify your body. In a previous post I wrote about the most common ways of detoxification used today, and today at the end of the post I will write the way that I use to detoxify my body.
How should look the meal schedule for everyone who wants to detoxify their body.

There are some rules we must follow for our body to function optimally. We must eat every 3 hours, since any food we eat stay in the stomach for 3 hours. In time, if you are eating this way, the need for quantities of food will be reduced, since our body uses less energy for digestion. Our body with ease will meet the daily needs of proteins, sugars, fats, vitamins and minerals. The body has need of little food, if the quality of the food is met. With this diet, our body is not overloaded , nutrients are entered all the time and there is no shortage of any of them. Daily needs depend on many factors, age, fitness, lifestyle, physical activity and many others. If someone wants to know what is their daily needs, depending on lifestyle, be free to contact me on sasko.postolovski@gmail.com and I will calculate the daily needs of nutrients.

Meals schedule throughout the day:
Breakfast - Immediately after getting up drink about half a liter of water, and breakfast should be eaten no later than 1 hour after getting out of bed.
1st Snack - 3 hours after breakfast, I recommend fruit for this snack.Then, depending on your obligations, you can have lunch or snacks again.
2nd snack - 3 hours after the first snack or after lunch, I recommend a salad with yogurt to satisfies need of proteins that your body has
Lunch - 3 hours after the first or second snack. No restrictions
Dinner - 3 hours after lunch or snacks after the second. Lighter foods that digest easily and that will not overload your body during sleep.
The most important thing is to drink water, 1 liter of water per 25 kg of body weight per day.

I start my day with a half liter of water. In the first hour after getting up I drink meal replacement - Herbalife shake.
In 3 hours I have my first snack, I eat fruit as much as I can till satiety.
Because of my obligations, always after the first snack I have second snack, 3 hours after the first, half a liter of semi skimmed yogurt with a salad without limitation till satiety .
In 3 hours I have lunch, and I eat everything that we are having for lunch.
Here I've noticed the biggest difference, respectively, with this way of eating my needs for large quantity of food is reduced, so I eat less food, and I don't feel need for overeating.
Lastly 3 hours after lunch I eat another meal replacement from Herbalife for dinner.The whole process of feeding from breakfast to dinner should last 12 hours. This is the optimal time for food intake and our body is always engaged in digestion and therefore consumes the least energy for it, we do not feel the need for overeating because the glycemic index is normal and there is no jumps in insulin secretion, also this is the best way for detoxification of the body, by my opinion.

Dear readers, feel free to ask me about everything that interest you, it will be my pleasure to help you. Contact me sasko.postolovski@gmail.com

DETOXIFICATION OF THE BODY 1

2015-05-13T01:33:00.002-07:00

Good day my dear readers, today I will write about the ways of detoxification of the body. Due to the the size of the topic, I will divide this post in 2 parts.In previous post I wrote it about the impact of the high energy food to our body and the symptoms of the overeating with it.

Because the accumulation of large amounts of toxins in the liver, our body turns into stage of cleansing. During the stage of cleansing of our body, the liver and kidneys perform most of the work. While the time of the duration of the stage of cleansing, we have to use food rich in cellulose or plant fibers, such as salads, fruits, and we should avoid foods with high amounts of fat and sugars . Why we have to avoid foods high in fat and sugars? Because we have to consider to help our body to finish out the detoxification completely. It is known that fat and sugar are primarily metabolized and all other processes are left on hold. Therefore the intake of larger amounts of fats and sugars stops the process of detoxification, since the primary function of the liver is to metabolize the food.All other processes are left on hold until the completing the metabolism of the new nutrients. Solution, we take food rich in cellulose and plant fibers during detoxification, to help our body to faster get rid of the toxins.
How many ways of detoxification we know?

A classic way of detoxification, where we don't care too much about the needs of our body. This method of detoxification is the slowest and most energy consuming for our body. Time to dispose of the excess toxins, during this classic method are the longest, and also needs long time to get the organism back in order.
There are also some variations on this subject, which is not about detoxification, but for loosing weight. The body is loaded with a lot of protein and fat of animal origin. In these so-called protein diets, the body needs a huge amount of energy for metabolizing nutrients, during that process the toxins are not removed from our body.

People who use these diets lose weight, but inflict enormous damage on their bodies. Loss of weight is caused by the exhaustion of our body energy to digest the high nutrient supply. So you get the effect, eat large amounts of fatty foods and foods high in animal protein and lose weight faster. In this way of weight loss, our body is not performing detoxification, instead the body is filling up with large amounts of toxins. Due to the inability to flush out the toxins from the body, it begins to emerge lot health problems like high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides and cholesterol levels, atherosclerosis, and finally, heart attacks and strokes.
But to get on the track here, and to tell you about the ways of detoxification of our body. As far as the types of diets and their effects on your health, I will write it in another post.
Other types of detoxification are food-borne, using large amounts of fruits and vegetables and large amounts of water, Filled by large amounts of vitamins and minerals that are added in addition to the diet.
And detoxification through food-borne diet and physical exercises which help rapid removal of toxins from the body.
In general, these two ways of detoxification are very similar and give excellent results,which way your going to use is determined depending on yourself and your available time.Most important thing in the detoxification process is that intake of food must be every 3 hours, quantity of the food must not be limited, or you eat until you are satiated. In order everything to be OK and you to not feeling hungry, during the process of detoxification, there is only one condition to met, and this is a protein factor or daily protein intake. Proteins in foods give us the feeling of satiety. Because each person is different, so the coefficient is different for everyone. If you want to know your protein factor, you can always contact me sasko.postolovski@gmail.com, so I will calculate it for you.
Which foods should be consumed:All kinds of fresh fruits without limitation, but only till 12 at noon.All kinds of fresh vegetables that you can find on the market or in shopping centers. You can eat them all day without any restriction.Meat: turkey meat, fish(freshwater and sea), low fat beef meat, seafood, use it 2-3 times a week, cooked on steam, by boiling, or baking but without cooking oil.Oil which you can use for eating are cold pressed oils that are not heat-treated and refined in any way.To meet the protein factor you can also include milk and dairy products such as yogurt, without any additives and with reduced fat.And for the last the one of the most important things that if you do not practice, detoxification can not be performed, is drinking water, plain water, not soda, not sweetened or juices or cold tea, nothing but fresh water in quantities of 1 liter of water per 25 kg body weight per day.

For the exercises I will write whole post and then I will suggest where you can merge it with the food for better detoxification.
In the next post I will write about the schedule of meals throughout the day and my choice of detoxification that I'm doing my own. Thank you for your attention and please contact me at sasko.postolovski@gmail.com if you have any questions.

HAVE YOU RECOVERED FROM OVEREATING ON HOLIDAYS?

2015-04-27T13:28:00.000-07:00

It has been almost a month from the last big holidays. Holidays are known for the family gatherings, meetings with relatives that we have not been seen for a long time, short break from work and work commitments, and finally eating large quantities of homemade food.

     We all know how we feel day or week after the holidays. Depends on the amount of food that we have eaten and its energy value, some people also feel the effects today: fatigue, drowsiness, nausea, heart palpitations, irregular stools, insomnia, loss of concentration, restless sleep, etc.
     How to remove the effects of overeating, what should I do to return the body to a normally functioning? What causes high energy food in our body, why these problems occur and finally the most important how to solve these problems.
High energy food, supplies the body with too much energy, and our body uses a lot of energy to digest the high energy food. So after heavy meals, we always get sleepy, because the blood is rushing to the intestines for faster digest. First, we are feel sleepy, and when we sleep we have restless sleep, because for the processes of digestion, the energy consumption in our body is high.
      The nutrients have to be processed. Nutrients,in order to be consumed by our cells, and to be embedded in the cell, first he nutrients must be broken down to its basic building blocks, and it is going like this: proteins decompose to amino acids, sugars to simple sugars, and fats to fatty acids. All these processes take place in the liver, and in the process they spent an enormous amount of energy and time. The fastest metabolizing nutrients are sugars, then the proteins, and the longest time in metabolizing are taken by the fat.

So when you wake up the morning, after consuming large amounts of high-energy food, everybody feels like you have worked hard physical work for a whole night . During the metabolizing in the liver, liver creates a lot of waste, also known as toxins, and they are stored in the liver, which is then gradually discharged through the urine, the sweat and the feces.
The duration of the holidays is a very big problem for our body, because the overeating is not limited to one meal, overeating happens it all day, and last 3-4 days. After such a long time consumption of high energy food rich in fat, especially unsaturated fat, the body absorbs a large quantity of toxins. Since the large quantities of food we put into our body, our body is exhausted and all supplies of vitamins, minerals and enzymes are completely spent. That also creates another problem, which is larger than the previous one. In general, our body is very economical "machine", so it doesn't spending anything that can be used later on, but it turns it into a fat and it is stored in the subcutaneous tissue and around the internal organs. But this will be the topic for another post, since it will take too much time and space.

If the food isn't digested completely, unmetabolized nutrients due to the inability to process completely is converted to fat. Also, extra nutrients that can't be used at the same time also are converted into fat and they are stored. We will need a lot of storage place, is it true? Yes, that storage place or body warehouse for fat is under the skin and around internal organs like we have said upper in the post.

      The conclusion is when our body get extra energy it convert it from one to other type, that can be stored, simple and efficient, but in this days of abundant life, this is one of the largest problems of the mankind.
      All these things together, and use of excess amounts of alcohol, do enormous damage to our metabolism.     Our body needs to return to normal, and those processes sometimes take from 2 to 4 months, and if you are not careful about what we eat and put into our bodies, it will only get worse further, until compensating mechanisms of our body begin to give up. This is the first step toward the diseases.     In the next post I will write how to perform the detoxification of our body, the fastest time needed to restore all reserves of vitamins, minerals and enzymes that are essential for our daily processes in our body, and how to restore the necessary balance of our body.

   Dear friends, if you have any question, don't hesitate ask me and I will be very pleased to answer about anything concerning your health. My e-mail is sasko.postolovski@gmail.com

LONG TIME SINCE OUR LAST POST

2015-04-24T12:10:00.003-07:00

Dear readers, after a long absence, I've decided to write to you. I have been disabled to write for a longer time, because, I have other duties. I hope that I will have more time to communicate with my valued readers. If you have any suggestions about what do you want to read, related with wellness, please contact me on sasko.postolovski@gmail.com .
I'm preparing the new posts, with a lot of new information from the newest trends in Wellness.

WELLNESS-NEXUS IS HERE TO HELP YOU TO MAKE YOUR LIFE MORE EASIER AND HEALTHIER.

I'm here for you. Thank you for the trust

Joy or sorrow

2012-10-17T13:14:00.002-07:00

My friends, you are choosing what and how is going to be yours life. To be filled with joy or to be empty and filled with sorrow for missed chances. For every closed door new one is opening, but if you are regretting for the closed one, even the new one may be closed. I met lot of people that has nothing in their lives, but still they don't do anything to change it, quite contrary, they blame it everyone for their condition. When you give them a chance to change something in their lives, they began to justify that this is not for me, I couldn't do it, everybody is against me and they will do anything to stop me to progress, and much more. You can't imagine what kind of excuses they are making just not to start.

That is all result of fear, fear from changes, fear from success, fear that others will laugh at you, fear of rejection, fear of failure. All that fear is reason to people to find all those silly excuses. 75% of the people wont do anything if you offer them a chance. They are willing to do nothing, and for their condition they will blame everybody. Why is that? Because they never took the responsibilities for their life, and they never make a step for better or for worse, because if they make a decision, than they can't blame others for their misery. They have a flock mentality, and do the things that others only do.
I always find a way to make my life more beautiful and better, I always jump on any chance that is good for me and for the others around me. My surrounding always have an opinion and always try to discourage me in any way. That is also flock mentality, because if someone is trying to get out from the flock, other members will do anything to get it back. When they can't do it, and if you make some success, they never going to congratulate you, just opposite, they want to disdain your success, and they will talk that luck, or help from some force is helping you to achieve your goals. They are doing that, just to justify their fear. They want to be rich, but with luck or even with a fraud.
That kind of people are better in misery. If by some chance they get a big amount of money, they will destroy their lives, because they are programed only to be miserable.
They can start changing n better only something bad or shocking hit them.
I'm writing this, because, I know that this blog read only people that want to make their life better, and want to change something in their lives. You are on the right place, where you can learn a better way of living and success.

I'm writing this to encourage you not to quit, because from 100 people that surounds you, 75% will try to kill your enthusiasm and they will feel better because it will show to them that you are same as they.
I knew a people that started to change their lives, but after lot of effort and rejection has quit, but I have also know a people that succeed, because they persisted in their efforts. They have fulfilled their goals and now they are living their dreams.
I know that we can together achieve a lot, I will be your strength, your supporter, your guide true the forest of problems and obstacles, and together we are going to touch the stars.
Joy or sorrow is you choice, if you are going to be successful or failure is depending only on you. Grab your life, and don't let others to tell you how to live your life.

Why we must use dietary supplements

2012-10-12T03:44:00.000-07:00

Supplements is becoming very important feature in modern man diet. First to know why we need supplements, we have to look in our food, and availability of the nutrients in that food.

For example, in 1985 the levels of vitamin C in apple was enough for our daily needs, but only 10 years later in 1995 the amount of apples that we have to eat to take the same amount of vitamin C was 5. Now we must eat at least 10 apples to take the right amount of the vitamin C for our daily needs.

Even the World Health Organization ( WHO ) announced that if we want with our food to take all the needed nutrients, we have to consume over 5000 calories of food. And we know that, 1 kilo of fat is 7500 calories. Results are displayed on us very quick. Overweight and Obesity is result of malnutrition and starving of our bodies for the right nutrients. If our body don't take all the nutrients, it is feeling hungry. That is also why the meal portions are becoming bigger every year.

The soil is poorer every year with the nutrition elements that the plants need for the creation of the nutrients that we need. Something is back via artificial fertilizers, but the deficiency of micronutrients and big yields that is needed for growing population of the earth is even more impoverishes the poor soil. That is why the nutrition of our grandparents are more richer and less demanding. Also the quick way of life and the stress are destroying the low level nutrients.

That is why we need dietary supplements to be taken daily.

Lot of people, including me till the last december, are strictly against the supplements. Why???

Because they are saying that with the food that we are eating we can take all the nutrients that our body needs, and the pills are creates resentment to them, like it was to me till the last december. I was the first against the supplements in pills, and I have a lot of health problems, like increased cholesterol and fat in the blood, high blood pressure, chronic gastritis, lack of energy, sleepiness, I ate big amounts of food and I had 135 kilograms, and lot more. But I was convinced that the supplements are bad for our health. In december, when I couldn't tie my shoes, and I had pains in my chest, I realized that I had to change something in my eating habits, and to change my life completely. When I start to use Herbalife I didn't realize that is going to change my life and my health. In 3 months, all of the symptoms have been gone, and I feel excellent, and never going to stop using the dietary supplements, because from december, I even haven't catch a cold in this 10 months. My blood is in great condition and my body too.

I am using 12 products from the Herbalife, and every month I add new.

Why we have to be sick to start using something that is good for us, why we have to be on the rock bottom to start changing something? If we accept the changes it will be more easier for us.

I am now the greater promotor of the dietary supplements, because it saved my life.

Change your life before it is too late, we have new body every 11 months, so what we have ruined with bad nutrition during the years, we can change in 1 year, and it is short time, and it is going to prolong your life, it will bring happiness in your life and it is going to change everything on better.

Everybody need quality nutrition. The most needed category is our children, because they are growing, for healthy growing, and to increase their immunity.

So not only our health is on stake, also the health of our dearest and their future.

The decision is yours, I have made may decision and i know that is right for me and for my family.

Importance of eating habits 5

2012-10-08T11:22:00.000-07:00

Dear friends, this is the last post from this series. In previous posts, I've been writing you about the importance of every meal in the day, and why is that important for us. Today we are going to write about the flexibility of the meals and how we can change some meals with others.
Why is this important?
Because with the flexibility of our daily plan we can achieve more. Only fixed meals in the day are the breakfast and the first snack or like others call it brunch.

Other meals can be eaten according to your schedule.
If you have lunch brake during the day, than you can organize your plan like this:
1 hour after getting up: breakfast
3hours after breakfast : brunch (first snack)
3 hours after brunch : lunch
3 hours after lunch: second snack
3 hours after second snack: dinner

Dependently if you don't have lunch brake than the schedule can be organized like this:

1 hour after getting up: breakfast
3hours after breakfast : brunch (first snack)
3 hours after brunch : second snack
3 hours after lunch: lunch
3 hours after second snack: dinner

Flexibility of the meal is important for our freedom to decide what is better for us. Because lot of people are quitting from healthy way of life exactly for the reason that they think that the schedule for them is hard. Only thing that you need for starting the life and changing the way of living is decision and will to change something in your life.

Before I started to live the way I live now, I had only one meal during the day, and it was usually after work around 17 o'clock. I was 135 kilograms, and I get to the point where I could't tie my shoe-ties, because my stomach was all in body fat, and I was also with 13 % of visceral fat. I have 35 % of body fat, and my cholesterol and fat in the blood was increased. My blood pressure was high, also because of the way of life I had chronic gastritis. I ate once a day, a big quantities of food, I could't sleep well. If I haven't changed my way of life I would be ill, and it was only matter of time when I would had some serious health disorders.
My friends please, think for your health, thing about your future, think about your family, because, your children are doing the same things that you are doing, so if you are eating healthy, your children will follow your habits, so if you want your children to be healthy first you must eat healthy, than the children will follow your steps.
Your decisions are changing your life, but more important, you will change also the lives of the people that surrounds you.

Importance of eating habits 4

2012-10-03T13:31:00.000-07:00

In previous 3 posts I wrote about the right eating habits, starting with breakfast, and today in this post, I'm going to write about the importance of the dinner.

In the first post from this series, I wrote that there is a 2 kind of people. Kind of people that love to eat, and the people that are skipping meals. But one thing that this kinds of people are sharing, is the dinner.
The first kind of people have rich dinner with lots of fats, proteins and sugar, but with low nutrients.

Usually it is some pizza, or something fried. It is very heavy meal, and it makes a big problems to those people. Because they have overeaten, they have difficulties in processing the food. Their body is processing the food all night, and it is using all the energy that has left after the daily obligations. In the morning they are feeling very tired, and their energy level is low, so to boost little energy in their tired bodies, first thing that they are using in the morning is big amount of coffee or some strong tea, or with one word stimulants. Their usual excuse for that morning rite is that without coffee they can not function, and that is the right answer, they can't function because they energy is drained for processing the dinner, and the body has no time to replenish the energy in the muscles, and all other tissues that are needing reloading of the lost nutrients the day before.
Other kind of people that are thinking that they eat healthy, they are eating some light dinner.

This is usually some pasta with the some salad, but not enough for the body needs. They are thinking that they eat healthy, but they are wrong. Why??? Why is this wrong?
Let me tell you why this kind of food is not good for our bodies. First it is rich in carbs, but poor in all other nutrients. The body needs all 117 nutrients, so it can replenish the nutrients used during the day, but we are giving to our body only pasta or salads, that has low or none nutrients in it. Our body then is using the sugar from the dinner to store fat, because it is starving, and after that it will try to process it to others nutrients that it need. But in this process of building of the nutrients that our body needs, our body is using the energy. The result is same like in the first case, our body is tired and without energy.
So what we have to eat for dinner.

Importance of healthy dinner

Let me tell you what is the right dinner for everybody.

First, it is the end of feeding cycle and our body needs lot of nutrients. The dinner must be easy processable. Why? Because our body needs energy to be stored for the next day, and needs a easy accessible nutrients, that can easily be stored in to the places where it is needed.

You can choose big varieties of foods, like vegetables, fish and you must prefer it boiled or baked, not fried. Our body needs proteins, carbs, fats, minerals and vitamins. If we want to kept all those nutrients in the food intact, the food must be light processed or raw. It quantity must not be big, because, big quantities of food is our first enemy.

In the morning you will be up with no problems and your energy levels will be high. The need for stimulants in the morning is going to be obsolete. Why is that? Because, during the night, our body is reloading the nutrients where they have been spent, the body is rebuilding the sarcoplasm in the muscles, adding the glycogen in the muscles, rebuilding damaged myofibrils also in the muscles, adding the vitamins and minerals in the liver, the pancreas, the spleen, rebuilding the mucosa in the intestines and the stomach, rebuilding the blood cells, and for lot of processes that our body need to maintain our health.

I will tell you about the dinner I take. I take a Herbalife F1 shake, because it has all the 117 nutrients that my body needs, and it has only 220 calories, and it has only 1,5 grams of fat and 18 grams of protein from vegetable origin, that is easy processed in the body . My body in the morning is rested, and I have energy for the whole day. I use Herballife shake for 10 months and I've lost 12 kilograms of weight, and I have lost over 18 kilograms of fat. I gained 6 kilos of muscle without training, and I have solved my problem with the chronic gastritis, I have lot of energy, I don't sleep after the lunch etc. And I use it only for breakfast and for dinner.

The last post it will be for the flexibility of the meals and I'm going to explain more about it.

Importance of eating habits 3

2012-09-30T04:22:00.000-07:00

In the previous 2 posts I wrote about the importance of the breakfast and of the snacks. Our way of feeding is very important for our health. We should have 5 meals during a day. Quantity of the meal is very important, because, if we intake a lot of food, that food in our body is using a lot of energy to be processed, so we are feeling with a little energy, and we are feeling heaviness in our stomach. Lack of energy combined with stomach problems, reduce our our ability for fulfilling our working obligations, so it make us lazy, and sleepy. The problem is not only ours, but also our coworkers and bosses is seeing us like incapable for our responsibilities. Overeating is becoming a big social problem and the root for disagreements between the colleagues.
Today I am going to write about the:

Importance of lunch

In this stressful times, where everybody is speeding everywhere, and do not have time for normal meal, usually they eat something quick and prepared like fast food, pizzas, meals with lot of grease and calories, but with low nutrients.

Our bodies, because the lack of nutrients, is wanting more food to satisfy the hunger of the cells for the right nutrients. That is the initial spark that is starting the fire of overweight. When the fire of overeating is big, then we realize that something is wrong with us, because all the clothes that we where wearing is becoming too small for us. We are realizing that something is very wrong with us, but we can not determine what. Than we are starting skipping the meals, and we make the situation more worse. The lack of nutrients is becoming the thing that is destroying our body. Because we are skipping the meals, our body is taking so needing nutrients from our muscles, and it is deposing as fat, because every skipped meal, our body is determining as starvation. So that is why after every reduction diet, our body composition is changing to worse, or in simple words, the muscle tissue our body is transferring into a fat tissue. That is why after all reduction diets, our weight is coming on the last weight, and it is gaining more weight, also called yo-yo effect.

So to stop the circle of gaining the weight, we must balance the meals and we must take all the nutrients with the meals, so our body can redistribute the right nutrients to the parts of the body that is needed.

Every cell in our body is replaced by the new one, dependently on the tissue, from 3 month till 11 month, except the bone and cartilages, that are replaced in 7 years. So we are getting new body every 11 months, so can some changes be undone? For sure, every change that we made with a bad nutrition can be undone with right nutrition for the 12 months. So if we start to eat the right way, we can not expect that the changes will be made over night. Every process in the body is taking much time, like for the worst or for the better. Every condition of the body is reparable, only we need the right decision, and the right way of feeding.

Every meal in the day is important. The lunch is the meal that we intake the biggest amount of food in our body, and it is important, because, the energy from the lunch, and from the dinner is depositing for night redistribution of the energy, and the energy need for the daily needs.

The needs for the nutrients, are satisfied with small amounts of the right food.

The lunch must be 3 hours after the brunch(first snack). The stomach is empty, and it is prepared for the food intake. Then, our body with the least energy is processing the food, and it is distributed through the body with the optimum energy needed for it. Then the energy levels in the body is high, and we do not feel the sleepiness, or fatigue, and we can continue with the normal obligations.

The work time of the modern man is changed, and it is usually, from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m., and the meals are usually skipped. But with the right plan, and the right planning, we don't take the meals as obligation, but we consume it in the right time, and with the right quantities.

The last post from this series is going to be about the flexibility of the meals, and how can you adjust it to your needs.

Next post is going to be for the dinner and its importance.

Everything is in our rich, only we need to rich it for.

Importance of eating habits 2

2012-09-26T13:05:00.002-07:00

Like I've said in the previous post, most important thing that we must do if we want to make our life healthier, is making our biorhythm precise and predictable. When we take the meals every day in the same time, then, our body is processing the food with less loses.
Last post we explained why the breakfast is one of the most important meals. But if we have breakfast, and do not eat right during the day, every good think that the breakfast will do to us, we can destroy it with bad choice for the next meals.

Importance of the snacks

The brunch is next meal that must be taken 3 hours after the breakfast.
Why the brunch must be 3 hours after the breakfast? Because, our body is made in that way, that the food is passing from the stomach to the intestines in 3 hours, so if we take the right food for breakfast, our stomach is ready for the next meal.
So what we have to take for the brunch or the first snack.
IMPORTANT: Snacks are not meant to be regular meal, but to satisfy our hanger till the lunch.
Lot of people after the breakfast, and depending from the time that the persons has, took something quick, like chocolate, or chips, or even some sandwich. This food is also rich in carbs and salt, so that kind of food is with high insulin coefficient, so it triggers the insulin reaction. Like we have said in the previous post everything that have over 200 calories is count like meal, and if the calories count is below 200 calories is snack or brunch. Because the energy must be balanced during the day, for our body to be in the right condition, every energetic food that is rich in simple carbs, is destroying the balance. When the energy balance is impaired, than we are feeling fatigue and sleepiness, we are losing concentration and we are feeling nervous.
For the morning snack or brunch best food is fruit. Few fruits is going to keep the appetite under control, not too much, because, the fruits contain sugar. So the conclusion is that for the snack we take food only to kill our appetite, and to maintain the energy levels on the desirable level.
People that have weight problems, may include also and protein in their snacks, because, the protein will quicken the loss of fat.
I am using yoghurt or protein bars from Herbalife in combination with one fruit. Skimmed yoghurt 250 ml and the protein bar are containing 10 grams of protein and their energetic value is around 130 calories, for the bar, and 160 calories for the yoghurt.

3 hours after the brunch or the first snack, you can take a lunch, or if your lunch is later, you can replace it with second snack.
Second snack is having the same purpose like the first, to kill the appetite till the next meal ( lunch or dinner ).
Second snack should be some vegetables or salad. The fruits should not be used because it can cause bloating. This snack should be below 200 calories.
Also like the first snack, if you want to lose more fat, you can take some food that is containing proteins.
I'm using the Gourmet tomato soup from Herbalife with salad, and this completely satisfying my appetite.
Im changing my life for the better, and together we can change yours life, because, if you want to change the world we should first change us.

For the next post I am going to write for the importance of lunch and what kind of lunch we should have.
Even the trip from 1000 miles is starting with the first step, so what are you waiting for.

Importance of eating habits1

2012-09-23T06:28:00.004-07:00

Everybody is talking about healthy living and lot of people think that they are living healthy. They eat lot of vegetables and fruits, do not eat red meat, eat lot of food that is rich in essential amino acids, do not consume saturated and trans fats, but their health is not improving, just opposite it is getting worse.

Why is that? That is because they do not have steady eating habits, and because they are jumping meals. First and most significant part of human feeding is that we have to have 5 - 6 meals a day. Our body is designed like a machine, and it has its own biological clock. We make habits, and that habits we are repeating every day. When we want to make a habit, we repeat it on long enough that is becoming thing that we are doing it without thinking, every day in the same time. That is the same also with feeding habits. We must settle habits for our sake, and we have to do them without thinking. What is important for everyone of us is that we must eat every day in the same time, if it is possible, or to make such a biorhythm that we are doing the things the same way no matter when we had up in the morning. It is the schedule that is going like this:
- Breakfast: 1 hour after waking up.
- Brunch: 3 hours after breakfast
- Lunch : 3 hours after the brunch
- Snack : 3 hours after the lunch
- Dinner : 3 hours after the snack

Every meal we are going to explain in the next post. Today the most importance we are going to give to the breakfast.

Let me tell you what kind of people are surrounding us.
There is a 2 kind of people. First one are those, that are enjoying in the food, and consume a lot of food with lots of calories, but poor in nutrients. They have a rich breakfast with lot of proteins, carbs and fat, especially saturated fats.

For snacks they also have rich meals with a lot of fats and carbs, and with soft drinks, like chips, pies, chocolate, cakes, cola etc.
Lunches and dinners are also rich in proteins with lot of fats.
Main characteristics of this food is that is with lots of calories but little nutrients, and that is why they are filling hungry. Their body wants vitamins, minerals, fiber, for that, they are eating more, and they are making their condition worse, because they can enter in their bodies up to 5000 calories a day. We all know that to gain 1 kilo of fat we have to take 7500 calories, and the need of our body is: for women 1000-1200 calories, and for man 1500-2000 calories a day.
They are usually fat and with almost no recreation at all, and they develop lots of diseases that are connected with bad nutrition.
Other kind of people are opposite form the first one.

They are usually skipping meals, they don't have any breakfast, first meal is some kind of fruit 4-5 hours after getting up, after that they eat some salad, and they have dinner usually rich in carbs like pasta. They daily intake of calories is from 500-700 calories, with small amounts that is not enough for daily needs of the body of proteins,carbs and fats. They look slim, but their body composition is very bad. Because they do not take enough food their body is starving, and that is why, their bodies every food that they take, is transferring in to fat. They are loosing their muscles and their metabolism is slowing, that's why they do not have energy for they daily obligations.
These people has one mutual feature, they are destroying their bodies, and their bodies are warned out before their time.
So how we have to eat to make our body healthier???

Importance of healthy breakfast

Why the breakfast is so important for us?
Because the breakfast is fueling up our body for the next day, and it is main source of energy for our body. During the night, our body is rebuilding the energy that has been used the day before. Also is building the muscles for more efficient functioning, and it feel up the sarcoplasm with glycogen, the sugar, that muscles are using for their functioning.

So in the morning our body is all fueled out. If we do not enter the energy that it needs, the body will begin to use up the muscles.
Do you know that if your breakfast is missing, the body is beginning to store fats, because absence of breakfast our body is look on like starving, so it has to storage energy for morning needs. That is why our body every next meal is storing it like a fat.
Breakfast is important for normal functioning of our body, and fat building is determined by the breakfast and its quality.

This chart is showing how the breakfast is stabilizing, or destabilizing our body energy.
Have you noticed that when you have rich breakfast, 1 hour after you have taken the breakfast, your energy is dropped down, and you must take a coffee or other stimulant that will "wake you up". That is because the heavy breakfast is making big insulin reaction. The sugar level is getting very high, and the insulin is used to quickly drop the sugar levels down. That is very demanding process and it is use energy. That is why we are experiencing big energy drop.
But this is rising the question, what we should eat for breakfast?
First we have to get know what is meal, and what is a snack?
Meal is from 200 calories and up, and everything that is below 200 calories is known as a snack.

Best breakfast that I use, and never going to quit is Formula 1 Shake from Herbalife. It is most optimized breakfast with 117 nutrients that is feeding up my body with all the important nutrients that I need, and it have only 220 calories. It gives me the energy that I need, and don't make insulins reaction, because is rich in complex carbs, without presence of simple carbs, that is triggering the insulin reaction. It has 17,5 grams of proteins and only 1,5 grams of fat. It has 95-98% consumption rate and it is the only food, together with the mothers milk, with that consumption rate.

This is the most perfect and balanced breakfast that you are going need, ever. I'm using it and my life has changed since then, because, I don't lose energy, I feel great, it is light meal and its processing is quick, and my body is energized for the rest of the day.
I have witnessed how lot of people have changed their lives, with only changing their breakfast habits.
I want to help people, and I'm helping them by improving their nutrition and their lifestyle.
If you want to change something, first you have to start changing is you.

I am ba-ack

2012-09-20T10:54:00.001-07:00

My dear friends, finally I've came back home from longer vacation. Sorry for leaving you without posts, but I hope that I will satisfy you hunger for the news about healthy nutrition.

Let me tell you about my vacation.
Like usual I've used the Herbalife products, but only for breakfast, and my results were stunning, I have lost 6% of fat and gain a 4% of muscle, only in 10 days, and that is excellent. Now, when I have back to my normal life, I'm using the products twice a day, for breakfast and dinner, and I'm using 15 products, that have changed my body and my health.
These 2 months I have learned that most of the people don't know about Herbalife products, and for that they are trying to eat healthy. They are eat more fruits and vegetables, and lot of thinks that a wide number of nutritionists are recommending, and they have good results, but with a lot of effort. When I introduced to them the Herbalife products, they gladly began using them, and they have a great results. Lot of people want to live healthy life, with a healthy nutrition but they are wandering around the green markets, and they are buying a lot of health products. You, who are reading this post, are in better position from them, because you know that the Herbalife products exist and that the results from using them is great. This summer I have introduced the Herbalife products to many people and they started to eat healthy. When others has seen the changes they have made in their lives, they also wanted to start with that kind of nutrition, so my team has been growing with great speed, and I've become friends with the people that I never known till they decided to start living healthy.
I'm proud that I am helping others to make their health better, and to achieve lifestyle they always wanted.

My new goals are to help as many people I can and to help them to achieve their dreams.
I hope that I have helped you also, and if you are seeing different after visiting my blog, then you are the person that are looking ahead and you never quit until you accomplish your dreams and goals.
My wish for you is to have a great autumn and to start living your dreams.

Helping others for better lifestyle

2012-07-18T14:41:00.005-07:00

Why we should help others?

Why we should look after others?

Why we have to educate others about things that we have learned?

Because we have pass that lesions, and we are teaching others not to repeat our mistakes and to make it easier for others to fulfill their goals and dreams.

What is the meaning of this poster, and what is the purpose of it?

Let me start with the beginning. No I don't mean with "First, there was nothing....." It is too far away from us. I'm Sasko as may know me from the posts from my blog. I'm 37 years old. My life till now was pretty interesting, with lot of ups and downs. My goal is that the line of my life not to be in the flat line, but to have ups and downs, because if it is flat lined than it mean that I'm dead, or like others are death in the spirit from within, and when our soul is dead then it is just matter of time when your body will follow the spirit.

I want to learn others how to wake up, that their lives are unique and that they are rich in every way, only they have to learn how to use their wealth, how to become leaders.

So how can we help others.

We can help others in lot of ways, like, finding a better way of earning, managing their problems, relations with others, how to make a better health, and finding the real values of the life and the real friends.

So everyone need to start. When we are presented with some opportunity, we are looking it from all sides.

First, we are taking the positive income from that opportunity, second, the negative consequences from it, and the most critical part from the decision making process is that you can see you implementing the new opportunity in your life or you will be just watcher from aside.

That is the trickier part. On this part 75% of the people fail. WHY???

Because they are all cowards!!! That is why! They are trapped in their comfort zone or also called zone of false security zone.

This zone is made by our inner mechanism and it is used as shield against all new opportunities. When something new is on the table, then the first thing we are thinking this is not for me. When we are seeing that others people are earning big money from that opportunity, than most of the people are talking to them that they are lucky and they are there by the chances that has been offered before us. But that all is wrong and it is no truth, that is only the excuses that we are using not to start nothing new. After all the picture is telling all, that all the thing that matter and that counts are outside our comfort zone. So we must exit our comfort zone if we want to change something. the majority of the people don't want to make any changes even if you are growing this to them. That is why they are cowards, because they will start nothing new even if their life is depending on it, but they will start only when bigger number of people that they know will start. The cowards are also known as players on secure things, or they will not start if they know that there is even slightest chance for failure. So the 75% of the people are in that group, if you met 10 people 7 of them will talk with you about everything and he will giving you the advices for it but it will never start nothing.

We can try help this people but it will be in vain, because they think that they do not need any help and they have perfect life, even if they only speak how everything is hard and you are looking that they hardly making true the month.

If you try to help to the cowards you will be like Don Kihote fighting the windmills.

The effort put in the helping the cowards will make you only frustrated and you will lose the enthusiasm.

You are obligated to help everybody, but you will estimate who will deserve your attention.

The most attention that will be needing from us, are the weak. They are not very certain in their abilities, and every failure is getting them closer to giving up, so they need us to make them certain that they can do it anything. It is hard but the end result will bring you great satisfaction. 20% of all the people are in this group. Most of the time that you are going to spend it will be helping them, or 80% of time you are going to helping them.

The best group for working is the group of the winners, because they will never give up. They are only 5 percents. They are winners and they will be accepting everything that you will be learning them, and they will be first that will use the learned things. They will be using only 20% of your time, but you will be having the best feedback from them. In the work this people will bring you the 80% of the income, with 20% of wasted time. The leaders are also made from this group of people.

Helping others is not easy task, but it is most fulfilling and it is very satisfying. Everyone is deserving to have all the informations and to be well equipped for every obstacle in their life.

I WILL BE HELPING OTHERS NO MATTER WHAT AND MY GOAL IS EVERYONE TO ACHIEVE THEIR GOAL.

What right food can do

2012-07-06T12:47:00.001-07:00

In this post I will show you the results when yoga are using the right food, combined with the exercise. When you have a goal and you have the right tools and with the food that can make you more focused and ready, then the results are excellent.

ENJOY!!!

What is going to be your next step is one that will determine your future. Everything is in your hands.

SPORTS NUTRITION

2012-06-29T16:38:00.002-07:00

Proper feeding is not responsible only for the health of athletes, but also and the results they are achieving in the competitions. Improper diet is not only reducing the competitive ability, but also can, according the given effort that the organism does during the training, is leading to the diseases, especially when it comes to young people, who have not yet reached its full development.
There are three basic characteristics that are common to all athletes that should be taken into account when planning a diet for them:

- energy needs of the athlete are greater than the needs of persons of the same age, weight and height, which is not involved in sports;
- due to the intense accumulation of muscle metabolic products, acidic reaction leads to decreasing of the alkaline reserve in the blood and the tissues, and is leading to decreasing of the functional abilities of the organism.
- The competition and the active training is followed by a big loss of water and minerals, particularly sodium chloride, and vitamins, therefore is required hydration of the organism with water, minerals and vitamins in the stage of active training and competition.

That is why the nutrition of the athletes is very demanding.
When we are preparing meals for athletes we should be avoiding foods that are hard to weld, as well as the foods that are producing large quantities of gas in the intestines, such as: pork, bacon, ham, pâté, hot bread, mayonnaise, nuts and legumes, etc. Other kinds of meat, eggs, grain products and cereals provide ashes acid reaction, and should be kept to minimum. Also the alcohol, coffee and strong spices should be taken to the minimum even it is good to be prohibited.
Milk, milk products and fruit, especially fruit juices, should be taken in big quantities. Milk has a big advantage over other foods, not only for increasing of the alkaline reaction, but also it compensates the biologically valuable proteins, minerals and water. Fruits, fruit juices (orange and lemon) and fresh fruit, especially one that can be eaten as raw (lettuce, carrots, kohlrabi) have a very favorable effect on physical fitness. Between the competitions, it should be given certain amount inactive yeast, that is an natural concentrate of vitamins from the group of B-complex and simple sugars that are easily and quickly proceed. It is recommended that honey or glucose should be given 20-30 minutes before the competition or active training, to make a reserve of sugar in the blood and muscles, which will be for quick restoration of energy, and as reserve for the muscle cells. This measure is necessary for long-distance runners and marathon runners.

During the period of resting, the daily amount of food that should be used, should be divided in three to five meals. In the active period, the foods must provide not only the necessary amount of energy, building blocks and protective substances and water, but must be so selected and prepared to avoid the interference in the digestive organs, like foods that are easily digestible and does not create gas during the processing. It is essential that on the day of the contest, the food intake should be at least 2-3 hours before the competition, and is recommended to be only one meal with a higher calorific value but less volume and weight, 4-5 hours before competition.

Aggressive reducing of the body weight through the limitation or even excluding or reduction of the food and water, combined with enhanced sweating in the sauna, or violent increasing in weight gaining by increasing of the intake of salt and water in the body, are measures that are applied in a sport where is essential the weight of the athlete, for the classification according the body weight, for example in boxing. However, these violent measures are affecting negatively for the functional and competitive ability, so they shouldn't be applied.

In young athletes, in which the process of growth and development is not completed, one of the best indicators of the validity of nutrition is constantly increasing of the body weight and proper height growth, the healthy organism and optimal functional ability. However, in mature athletes, the proper nutrition is reflecting as constancy of body weight, normal health and the normal function. These are the signs that balance is achieved between energy demand and quantity and biological value of food they consume.

We can say that during the making of the athletes diet we should be looking for the next food properties:

- virtually none of the foods are or would be contraindicated, and none of the foods are with great beneficial effect on the ability of the competitors.

- If the food is properly balanced, and all the nutrients are taken by the food, then, the athletes do not have the need for intake of the synthetic nutrients and vitamins.

- Drinks that increase physical activity and are stimulating the brain centers (coffee, tea, cocoa), can be taken in moderate quantities. All other chemical stimulators are prohibited.

The next post will be for the Herbalife Sport line food supplements H24 and the testimonials of the worldwide athletes which are using the H24.

CHANGES

2012-06-26T13:46:00.003-07:00

Change your life and start living. I've changed my life the moment I've released that I don't like the way my life is taking so I have analyzed what I have done, and what I wanted to do. When I saw that I have lost my direction in my life and I've started to live someone else's life, I've stopped. I took all the things in my hands and made all the things as I wanted.
People from my surroundings wanted to take me back on my old tracks, not because they envy me, but from fear that I will start to liv my life, and for once in my life to be happy. They wanted me to be unhappy, because, if I will become happy, it mean that they also can be happy. But they are living in their comfort zone of false happiness, and they are afraid if they do something they will lost their comfort zone, but they don't want to see that in that comfort zone they do not live. So everyone that is trying to do something with their life is a danger to them, because their picture for the comfort zone will collapse.
When you begin with something that will make big leap in your life, everyone, even the close ones is talking to you that this is not for you, you have not the capability for that thing, you will be losing all the money that you have invested etc. They are thinking that they are helping you, but they will never know that they need your help, and they also need to change.
When I've started to work with herbalife, many people wanted to give me an "good" advice, to work my job and to be secured with job that have future. I've tried to tell them that I can make better business with herbalife, but they are telling me that I have gone mad, that I will lose everything, not to full around because others will be making jokes with me and lot of things. I have learned that you must listen to the people that had succeeded to fulfill their dreams, not the people that has stopped chasing their dreams.

So I have started to live my life the way I liked, and to work the work that I wanted to work. I want to live my life the way that I will help others to make their health better, and to help others to earn the amount of money they want.
So if someone want to enter in herbalife for health or for money, I will tell them it is the right choice and its going to be unbelievable, together with me, we are going to be winners, I'm going to show everyone and I'm going to train everybody to become leader, and help to fulfill their dreams and goals.

How to be in great health

2012-06-21T15:50:00.000-07:00

The road toward great health

After decades of researches, modern medicine has came to an conclusion that the cause of 70% of diseases of modern man are food related. Improper diets, especially, the wrong choices and wrong combination of foods, are causing in the human body processes that affect the physical and spiritual health of man. Many diseases are caused by deficient nutrition, and inadequate intake of essential nutrients, mainly vitamins and minerals.

It is necessary for us to take more than 114 nutrients daily for normal functioning of our organism and for good health: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals, water.

The food groups in which most of the nutrients are found are found in fruits and vegetables, bread and cereals, milk and milk products, meat and fats, and legumes.

In a completely useless and even harmful foods are all sweetened carbonated drinks or soft drinks, especially coca cola, then chips, all artificial sweets and similar products.

The greatest problem of modern mankind is in its improper diet and its excessive intake of sugar, using to fat and salty food, not enough time for preparing of food, especially cooking, and lack of quality meals made of vegetables, that are used for intake of complex carbohydrate, neglect and ignorance about the value and necessity of consuming and using of the food as raw, especially fruits and vegetables, consuming of white flour that with poor nutrient content, using of white sugar instead of natural sweeteners, insufficient intake of seeds - almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, sunflower, tickles, sesame, peanuts with which we take the essential fats etc. Production of artificial food, chemical and pesticide usage in particular contribute to the emergence and development of diseases of modern times.

Fats and grease are securing the necessary fatty acids for growth and calories that provide energy for our body. However, excessive intake of fats creates excess calories that the body is depositing in the form of fat - the fat is causing obesity, cardiovascular problems, stroke and cancer.

It is important to know that 1 g of fat = 7,5 calories, and usually says:

- Fat remains on the plate for 3 seconds,

- In the mouth for 30 seconds,

- In the stomach 30 minutes

- In the arteries for 30 years.

According to the regulations of the World Health Organization, fat in the children diet for the daily use must not exceed 30%. In adults, especially the older one, the percentages of the fat should be reduced to a minimum, and to take the foods that provide normal functioning of the organism and minimum intake of trans fats . The especially harmful fats are the fats of animal origin.

Foods containing a high percentage of fat: butter, cheese, mayonnaise, fried potatoes, oil, drinks, whole milk, salad dressing, chocolate, ice cream, nuts, sweets.

It is recommended to take a GI, purified butter, vegetable fat in moderate quantities and food which does not contain fat, but it the provides the body with protein, energy and calories needed: leguminous vegetables, corn, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, apples , pears, rice, bread, wholemeal pasta, skim milk, yogurt.

Besides the choices that we are making for the foods, also it is important how the food is prepared: Instead of fried and baked on grease and oil, it is better the food to be stewed, cook and cook on the GI or the cold pressed oil, with a little water. The meal will be healthier and tastier, not just in terms of our habits, but also by the awareness and attitude towards the food and the health of our body.

Sugars are used by the body for fast production of energy, and if it is large quantities our bodies produce fat. In most of the times with the so called junk food we are taking simple carbohydrates, that are quickly absorbed and they increase the amount of sugar in the blood, and they are triggering the mechanism of quick insulin reaction, and the amounts that can not be used as energy, are immediately deposed as fats, and this sugars do not stay long in the blood, so this is the energy of short duration, and we again are filling the hunger, and for that reason we are taking all day mainly sugar, and we are filling so tired and exhausted. This is the main reason for the occurrence of obesity (because the excess sugar in the body turns to fat), then, tooth decay, high blood pressure, leading to the destruction of calcium (disability and deformities) and other diseases.
1 g of sugar = 4 calories.
In order to prevent excessive intake of sugar, we should avoid sweets, canned fruit, ice cream, jelly, chocolate and creams, pudding, cakes, pies, bread and pasta. We should be taking a fresh fruit (before meals), unsweetened natural juices and natural unsweetened jams and compotes. It is important to reduce the amount of sugar in recipes, and completely exclude the white sugar. As a replacement to use malt (barley malt), natural honey, dried fruit (grapes, plums, figs, apricots, dates), carob and brown sugar and yellow sugar.
It is especially important to avoid food that contains "hidden sugar", which are primarily sweetened carbonated drinks with Coca-wheel in the first place, then, chocolate milk, cream, candy, various pastries, pies etc.
Excessive intake of sugar leads to an imbalance in the body, inertia, apathy and constant need for sugar.

Salt is regulating the fluids in the body, more precisely, in the cells and around them or it is regulating the exchange of the nutrients and waste.

Salt should be taken in moderate quantities, not more than 3 grams daily. Recommended taking the soy sauce, sea salt or Himalayan.
Excessive amounts of salt causes high blood pressure, stroke, heart problems, kidney disease and swelling of the whole organism, because it binds with water.
All natural food contains a certain amount of salt, and if it is prepared properly, the meal can retains the salt, minerals and vitamins. Because of that we do not need to add additional salt to the food. The salt is hidden and it is found in many products.
The hidden sources of salt are: soup cubes, spices, sauces ready meal, pickles and other pickle vegetables, olives, salted biscuits, peanut butter, baking soda, baking powder, medicines.
In order to avoid excessive intake of the salt, it is necessary to accustom the body to small amounts. Reduce salt added during food preparation, minimize the use of semi-finished and finished food and feed, reduce the amount of spices, cheese, we should be using raw foods or frozen vegetables, which in itself already contains some quantities of salt and minerals.

Maybe I'm repeating some facts, but I must tell them because those are very important facts, and those are life changing facts. If everyone is knowing how easy is to live healthy, and how easy is to change your life, you will be everyday looking for some new way to improve your life and your habits. I'm changing my life on everyday basis and I'm trying to improve the lives of the people that are around me,
I want to give others the filling of joy and the happiness, and my wish for everyone is that we are going together to change our lives, to find the way for growing, and not to be limited by anything or anyone. We together are going to make a success, who wants to be on the top, join me, and we are going to touch the skies.

Story of my life

2012-06-20T04:59:00.002-07:00

I am normal man with normal needs. I'm working in my family business well over 12 years. My life was mess and I couldn't know how to make things better.

Last year in August I touched the bottom of all bottoms. I've spending a lot of money and I don't have money to buy anything for my children, because all the money where going for food, my weight was "huge" like I knew to say, I even can not tie the shoe ties, I was eating once a day, starting in the morning and finishing in the evening. I become 125 kilograms, and everything around me was falling apart. Then in my life entered Herbalife and changed everything. I started to feed properly. That was the beginning, with healthy nutrition along side name and my psychological change, I've stopped to be selfish and I have start to look after others. Little by little, with Herbalife I have known positive people that have told their stories, and those stories started to change me deep inside and to motivate me. The beginning of this year is very good, but the situation has not been changed a lot, and the main reason that I was feeling great was that I have changed, and I am not longer the person from 6 months ago. I've lost weight. For 1 month I have lost 3 kilos, and 4 kilos of fat. I've met lot of positive people and also started to help others. Everyone has noticed that I was changing, and the changes was going on the fast lane. Everyone wanted to know my secret. Than, trying to help others, Herbalife start to pay me for helping others, and for talking to other people about the products.

My first month I earned about 50 euros, second month I earned 50 euros in one day, and today I'm earning around 3000 euros a month. My goal till the end of this year is to earn 10000 euros a month, and I know that is going to be, just like I projected. I have learn lessons for the life on harder way, and I know that when I could do this everyone can. I've lost 14 kilos and 18 kilos of fat, I dropped 4 numbers, and now I can wear my cloths from 10 years ago, and I have solved my problem with high blood pressure and chronic gastritis.
This is good for my health and it is not the main reason that I have changed. The greatest changes of all was that I become better person, caring, loving, stopped to look only for me, helping other. If I have not changed my character, everything would be in vain and every change that I had made would last until I lost interest or I have to do something "better". I found something that I going to work all my life, and I'm going to learn my 3 children how to be better persons, not to be just man who is fighting to live this cruel world. I will show them the right way, only thing they need to do is, to start living their lives the best way for them, and to peruse only their dreams, and their wishes and I will give them the right tool for that HERBLIFE the greatest opportunity in the world for healthy live and for business.

I hope that this my story will give the bust to someone else to start changing their life too, or just to make it better, I'm always here for everyone, and I will help to anyone who is wanting help. I will be here .
My wish for you is to start to live your life the way you want, not the way others are telling you, and to be brave and to have the strength to challenge all the problems on the way toward your dreams.

START LIVING YOUR DREAMS,AND NEVER GIVE UP UNTILL YOU FULFILL THEM.

Healing powers of the vegetables

2012-06-17T00:30:00.000-07:00

Vegetables are the base of the food that we must intake in our body. From to amounts of the vegetables that is taken with every meal, is determining the condition of our body to oppose the diseases. The vegetables are rich in the nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, also called the helping nutrients. Yes this nutrients help our body to fulfill it functions, and they help the body to finish the chemical processes, but without them the body will not be able to make the processes and it would be manifested as an a disease. The immunity of the body will be compromised and it would not be capable to endure the infectious attacks, from the viruses, bacterias and parasites.
The modern man quick and stressful life is more worsening the situation, because they do not eat vegetables enough, and the stress is destroying the vitamins more, so our organism is more susceptible
for any outer impact.

Immune system is depending from vitamins and minerals

A high percentage of complex carbohydrates in vegetables are classifying the vegetables as energy-high quality food, full with an enzymes, vitamins, minerals, proteins, and vegetables are builders of cells responsible for the body's metabolism.

Vegetables have a therapeutic effect and it is important that you consume it on a daily bases. It is best to be taken raw, in the form of salads, squeezed vegetables as mushy or juice, then gently steamed in the small amount of water and boiled not long, just to retain all the nutrients.

Vegetables are good to be combined with all other foods (grains, proteins, fats, etc.) except with the fruit, so it is advisable not to mix the fruits and vegetables when we are preparing foods, especially fruit juices. The exceptions from this rule are tomatoes and cucumbers, due to its high water content, and can be taken with fruit.

Tomatoes arrived in Europe after the discovery of America. Tomatoes are among the biologically most valuable vegetables. It has an extremely high percentage of water, vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin C (such as lemon and orange) and carotene that produces vitamin A, and vitamin B, E, K, PP. It is rich in minerals and consisted of potassium (250-300 mg), sodium, magnesium, calcium and iron. Known for its low calorific value, can be taken at any time and combined with each food.

Therapeutic properties of tomato: strengthens resistance and immunity, cough and lung diseases, urinary tract, lowers high blood pressure, good for improving digestion, treated diabetes, liver disease, rheumatism, helps expel fluid from the body.

Cucumber was used in the Himalayas 5000 years ago. It is extremely rich in vitamins and minerals (400 mg), in particular, contains potassium (141 mg), then, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, iodine, manganese and iron.

It has extremely high water composition (95%) and therefore cucumber belongs to the food with minimum energy value, but because of the minerals and vitamins which are in high amounts, it is with curable effect for the body.

Healing properties of cucumber: It is used in diseases of the stomach and intestines, skin inflammation, skin rashes, insect bites, blood purification, for improving kidney function and treatment of urinary tract, ulcers and hemorrhoids. In particular it is widely used in cosmetics, for beautification and refreshing of the skin.

Cabbage is very important ingredients in the diet. Harvesting time is from May to November. Grown as a white cabbage and red cabbage, which is better. It is extremely rich in minerals (800 mg), a special contain potassium (266 mg) calcium, iron, magnesium, sulfur, copper and phosphorus and is rich in vitamins, especially vitamin C, the amount is the same as in lemon and orange, also is present and vitamin U, vitamin B, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, provitamin A.

It is best to be used raw or like sauerkraut , because, during cooking it is losing its most valuable nutrients. And can be harmful for us if it is fried or fry in fat or oil.

The curative properties of cabbage: it is used for curing stomach ulcers (squeeze the juice and drink), and ulcers in the duodenum. It prevents scurvy, cures chronic constipation, strengthens the body's defense mechanism, cure rheumatism, anemia, lung disease, arthritis, varicose veins, acting antiseptic. It is very effective, the lining of heated cabbage leaves for relieving headaches, sciatica, wounds, ulcers, inflammation, burns, rheumatism, insect bites. Brine is used as a remedy for chronic coughs, and as a preventative for the lack of acid in the stomach, as well as for better hearing.

Also in the family of cabbage are also the broccoli,cauliflower, romanesco broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Savoy cabbage etc. And it is known that this family of vegetables also contain a great amounts of antioxidants, so they are also good to be included in our food for preventing from cancers.

Pepper came to Europe from South America, and because of its remarkable properties is also known as food, and as medicine,and it is used widely as a spice. Red pepper is richer in nutrients than green peppers. Besides the high mineral content (700 mg) and vitamins, it is also rich in carbohydrates (8%), proteins and fats.

The most important ingredient of pepper is vitamin C (up to 400 mg), which is two times more than in lemons and oranges, and is placed at the top of the list for the groceries with high content of vitamin C, immediately behind the groceries like (pomegranate, blueberry and parsley). The peppers are important for their content of other vitamins, like vitamin B1, vitamin B2 and provitamin A. It is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium (212 mg).

Therapeutic properties of pepper: it is used against atherosclerosis (especially the hot peppers, because capsicin, the alkaloid that is give the pepper its hotness, is destroying the cholesterol and fat deposits on the blood vessels wall ), sore throat and inflammation of the skin, hair loss, fevers, improves digestion, expanding capillaries, stimulates the appetite and relieves hangovers.

Carrots belong to the group of vegetables with the higher curable potential, and it known also as a little natural pharmacy. The most valuable ingredient in the carrot is carotene, which is precursor of provitamin A. All red fruits and vegetables is containing the carotene, but most known is carrot. Besides carotene, carrot is rich in minerals and vitamins, and its composition is essential oils, proteins, cellulose, starch and sugar, pectin, mucilage, glutamine, inositol, potassium and other minerals. From vitamins, most present vitamins are of B complex vitamins, vitamin D, vitamin PP vitamin and vitamin E and H.

Therapeutic properties of carrot: It is known that regular intake of carrots can prevent occurrence of many diseases and number of diseases that can be cured by carrots is over 30. It contains the basic ingredients needed for growth, development, and strengthening the body, protects and improves the eyesight, prevents anemia, heartburn, swelling with dropsy, improves digestion, eases urination, prevents hair loss, it can cure diabetes, rheumatism, gout, inflammation of the tonsils , respiratory diseases, wounds and burns, purifies blood and removes toxic substances from the body, combined with beetroot, helps in the treatment of cancer in the initial stages, removes fatigue from mental work, can significantly increase the concentration.

In order to preserve all the nutritious ingredients we do not need to peel it, but just we have to brush it good and to wash the carrots.

Parsley is used as a medicinal herb in folk medicine and also is used as a spice and food, because we can use the roots and the leaves. Extremely rich in minerals and vitamins, which is ranked as the most curable plants. According to the content of vitamin C, it content is far more exceeds the levels of vitamin C in lemon and orange - in 100g of parsley leaf has 166 mg. It contains lots of vitamin C, provitamin A and group B vitamins, even the vitamin B12. Minerals are in big quantities also, in 100 g of parsley leaf has 1630 mg of minerals, most of this amount go to potassium (1000 mg), iron (8 mg), calcium (245 mg), phosphorus (128 mg), magnesium, manganese and copper.

Healing properties of parsley: Used to improve circulation to the problems of the urinary tract (tea) for sedation of nerves, to eliminate bloated, pain reliever, for the purification of blood, and helps produce red blood cells, is beneficial for the elimination of fever, sore eyes, kidney disease, sun spots and liver spots on the skin, for insect bites, stings and heart problems.

Beetroots origin is from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is believed that one of the most useful and most curable foods. It is rich in carbohydrates, proteins and fats, and contains almost all minerals: potassium (336 mg), calcium, sodium (86 mg), magnesium, betaine and betanin, phosphorus, iron, copper, manganese, bromine, sulfur, iodine ... and vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin BI2, vitamin C and vitamin A.

Therapeutic properties of beetroot: basic curative properties of this plant are betanin and betaine, which jointly responsible for accelerating the exchange of elements, maintenance of blood vessels, regulating blood pressure, reduce cholesterol, stimulation of the liver. Due to its composition, beetroot is acting as anticancer element, and it is also beneficial for the prevention of cancer and leukemia, atherosclerosis, its curing flue, low blood pressure, lowers cholesterol, affects the nerves and brain, beetroot purifies the blood and affects the formation of red blood cells, its use slows down aging and it is excellent in protection against radioactivity and radiation.

Beetroot is healthier when it is taken as a juice. From 1 kg of beetroot it is obtained 700 gr. of juice. It is delicious when it is combined with carrots, celery, parsley and lemon.

Celery has been used in ancient Egypt. Today is known as food, spice and medicine.We use the root and the leaf. It is very rich because it contains limonene, essential oils, fatty oils, as well as apina, asparagine, choline, tyrosine, pentosan, sugars and fats. In addition, it contains proteins, carbohydrates, cellulose, calcium, sodium (77 mg), potassium (321 mg), phosphorus (80 mg).

Therapeutic properties of celery: It is using as a cure for asthma, for nerves, for urinary tract, catarrh, for lung, kidney remedy, remedy for rheumatism and cure for gout. It prevents indigestion, stimulates the exchange of matter, improves the appetite, strengthens the stomach, regulates digestion, it is used also as a diuretic (tea).

Onions is originating from Asia and is widespread throughout the world. In addition to the vitamins and minerals, it is extremely rich in carbohydrates (9.6 g). Between the minerals that are most contained is the potassium (175 mg), and sulfur, and the vitamins B1, B2, C, E, H, K, P, carotene (provitamin A). In addition, it contains glycosides, essential oils, and it provides plant hormones like insulin and bacteriostatics.

Medicinal properties of onion: Lowers high blood pressure, strengthens the heart, regulate blood sugar, relieves anxiety and insomnia, eases cough, helps with digestion, a remedy for tonsillitis and hoarseness, prevents blood clotting, hair loss, lowers fever, is acting as a diuretic.

Garlic comes from central Asia. For the ancient Egyptians garlic was the sacred plant, the Chinese use it as a medicinal herb, and Persians are recommending it as a remedy for improving circulation. Rich in minerals (calcium, sulfur, phosphorus, iron), carbohydrates (27.5 g), contains sulfuric essential oils, allicin, nitrogenous matter, Alina, ferments and vitamins contributes to the popular name of garlic as an "natural antibiotic".

Medicinal properties of garlic: cure high blood pressure, is used to break down fats in the blood, cure atherosclerosis, diabetes, heart disease, rheumatism, headaches, neurosis, fatigue, bronchitis, whooping cough, asthma, tuberculosis, typhoid, cholera, rabies, helps to treat fever and malaria, for the removal of toxins from the body, bowel cleansing and treatment of intestinal worms, as well as improving circulation.

The onion and the garlic is used less today, because they have strong smell, so modern people do not eat it because they will be smelling bad. I'm using it and a lot, and I feel great. Use the onion and the garlic if you want to use less medicines and to be healthier.

Radishes originating from Asia and it is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world. It is located on the drawings and in the tombs of the ancient Egyptians, who has counted that the radish is an miraculous herb and medicinal plant. It is widely used as a salad, spice or medicine. It is breed as a white radish and black radish. There is no special nutritional value, but there are important gourmet and medicinal properties. Hot- bitter taste, which is resulted from the bitter oil. In addition, it contains sodium, potassium, magnesium, vitamins, nigrosin, rafanol, sulfuric heterozid, bitter and sour substances. It is best to consume as radish juice or in small pieces as a salad.

Therapeutic properties of radish: beneficial effect on the digestive organs, increases the secretion in the stomach, stimulates the appetite, invigorates, promotes work of the respiratory bronchi, cure the disease of the gallbladder or the bile tract, it is used against the occurrence of sand and stones in the gall bladder, kidney disease, for the liver with reduced function, eject stones from the urinary bladders, treated intestinal catarrh, diarrhea, scurvy, rheumatism, sciatica, hoarseness, cough, worms, hair loss, is used for cleaning wounds and as a diuretic.

Potatoes are originating from Peru and Chile, and it is widespread throughout the world, and now is mostly is grown in Europe. By its bioenergetic values fall within most nutrient foods. Wealth of the potatoes are carbohydrate (19 g), specifically includes starches, proteins, fats, vitamins (C, B1, B2) and minerals, especially potassium (523 mg).

Therapeutic properties of potato: prevents scurvy, relieve pain from catarrh of the stomach, cure stomach ulcers and ulcers in the duodenum, treat blisters, removes headache and fever, excess gastric acid, stimulates the heart, helps with acute arthritis, rheumatism, bronchitis, frostbite , burns, eczema, acts as a diuretic.

Bean origins originally from America. There is a remarkable biological and calorific value. Carbohydrates (52%), proteins (26%) and fat (2.1%) and contains important amino acids, lecithin, pectin, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron. 100 g of beans has 143 calories. Bean is hard for processing, so it needs to be soaked overnight and to boil in water once, than drain the first water, and then cook. It can be added a few leaves of fresh or dried mint, instead of the usual soda, that destroys the vitamins and minerals in beans. People who have gastric, or similar problems, is recommended that the intake of beans to be passed out or mashed beans in a soup or porridge.

Therapeutic properties of beans: it helps in the treatment of diabetes, kidney infections, urinary tract infections, infections of the ear, headaches, ulcers, bleeding from the nose, rabies and scabies.

There are lot of vegetables that are used as cure in traditional medicine, and if you want to know more you can contact me for more informations.

The proper fruit and vegetables preparation

2012-06-14T02:56:00.000-07:00

In order to maintain the maximum amounts of nutrients in the food, it's important that during the preparation of food you preserve certain rules:
Fruits and vegetables should be washed thoroughly before approaching further processes - peeling, cutting, cooking and more.

If you want to retain vitamins B and C, the food must not be sinked in the water. The vegetables and fruits should be washed, before peeling in order to eliminate vibration and dirt, that would otherwise be transferred to the part that is eaten, and then peel, cleaned and re-washed. Since the vitamins are also found under the bark, so peel it only if it is necessary, and you will not lose the valuable vitamins from the vegetable or the fruit, and if you need to peel, then peel it very careful, and peel only thin crust. Potato peeling is best done with fine wire ware (which is only used for cleaning vegetables and fruits) or cook and bake with shell. Carrots, too, should not be peeled, but gently scrubbed with wire brush for vegetables.

When we cut and peel the fruits and vegetables, we need to use sharp knife, because, if we work with blunt knife during the peeling or cutting, we are shatter the tissue, which leads to destruction of vitamin A and C. Fruits and vegetables should be taken raw, as a salad, or you should prepared it just before eating, because, the cut fruits and vegetables lose vitamins with standing. Do not throw out the outer, rough, leaves of lettuce, because, it's richer in vitamins, calcium and iron than the inside leaves.

Parsley and celery leafs are added to the meal (especially the soups and chowder) only when the boil has stopped, and when the meal is removed from the heat, because we don't want to destroy vitamins. Before stewing the onion, we put it in the cold oil and little water, and we are adding the water gradually until the onion is softened. Fruits and vegetables should be stored immediately upon purchase in the refrigerator, because the heat dehydrate it and the vegetables and fruits lost their freshness.
Freezing of the vegetables and fruits is better than using a canned or withered fruit and vegetables. Freezing it retains the nutrients and energy value that existed at the time of cooking and freezing. During the processing of the frozen food we do not need to defrost the ingredients previously, but they must be putted in cold water and gradually heated.

When cooking use less water, lower heat and cook food as short as possible. It is recommended to use the dishes made of stainless steel or enamel with double bottom. Cooking on teflon, copper and iron pots destroys certain vitamins and minerals. Do not throw the water in which vegetables are cooked, use it for making soups, sauces, beverages. Using of baking soda during the cooking of the vegetables it's not desirable, because it destroys the vitamin B1 and vitamin C.
Prepare and cook the meals for the day, because after 48 hours, cooked food loses its bioenergetic value. While preparing food, be in the mood and happy, and love the things you do, because you will add big amount of love in the food you make. It is said - Love is the most important spice and seasoning, without it the meal does not taste good.

I hope that this post will guide you more in the healthier way of life and it will open your mind to think about your health and the health of your close ones. My life has been changed a lot during the last year. I'm not the same selfish and arrogant man, that I have been, and I know that have saved my self. My wish for everyone in the world is to make the changes in their life and to start to live the life like it should be lived. I started this blog to help others to se the light in this world, and I'm glad that every day more and more people is reading my blog, and if my writing is changing someones life, it is worthy for everything, and thank you for reading the posts that has been made in my soul, and my wish for everyone is to start living and loving, because if you do not love you are not living.
What to love?
Love everything and everyone, because when I started to love the live has started for me.

Thank you again to everybody for everything.
This is my gift for you, from deepest part of my soul and heart.

Vitamins and Minerals

2012-06-11T06:47:00.000-07:00

Vitamins are organic substances necessary for normal functioning of our bodies. Every process in the body like growth, regulation of metabolism, vigor, activity and good health is directly connected and led by the vitamins. The vitamins are the main catalysts of the processes that our body is constantly doing for normal functioning. The lack of even one vitamin can endanger the entire human body. Vitamins are one of the six basic nutrients, such as the carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals and water. These substances are essential for energy, functioning of the organs and tissues, feed utilization and proper cell growth.
Vitamins are labeled from A to U, and their assimilation and effect in the body is directly linked to a specific minerals. Six basic minerals that our body needs and it is necessary for normal functioning are: calcium, iodine, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and zinc, and essential minerals are: biotin, chlorine, chromium, copper, potassium, niacin, selenium. Vitamins and minerals act combined, and without the minerals the body can't use any vitamin. Vitamins are natural substances that are naturally found in different kind of foods. The needs of our bodies for each of the vitamins are different,so we need to take a diverse kind of food, to fulfill our needs for vitamins and minerals, or like it is said lately we have to eat food full of colors.

The following table provides an overview of the foods which contain certain vitamins and minerals, as well as the conditions that may occur from the lack of these nutrients in the body:

name Located in It is good for treatment of
Vitamin A Carrots, green and yellow vegetables, Poor vision, ocular discomfort, and
eggs, yellow fruits, milk and milk night blindness, respiratory
products compliance, poor immunity

Vitamin B1 Dry yeast, rice bran, whole wheat, Problems with the nerves, heart
peanuts, vegetables, wheat bran, milk problems

Vitamin B2 Milk, yeast, cheese, leafy green Poor quality of hair, nails and bad
vegetables, eggs eyesight

Vitamin B6 Brewer's yeast, bran, wheat germ, Anemia, nervous disorders, leg
cantaloupe, cabbage, milk, cramps, night cramps
eggs (thermally unstable)

Vitamin B12 Eggs, milk, cheese Nerves, poor concentration, balance
disorders

Biotin Nuts, fruits, brewer's yeast, egg yolk, Muscular problems, baldness, white
wholemeal rice, milk hair

Copper Beans, peas, prunes, whole wheat Anemia, tumor

Vitamin C Citrus fruits, berries, and leafy green Makes collagen which restores body
vegetables, tomatoes, cauliflower, potatoes, tissue, gums, blood vessels,
honey (thermally unstable and bones, teeth,
reacting to light) heals wounds, burns, lowers
cholesterol, helps iron
absorption

Zinc Wheat germ, seeds, eggs, mustard, Nails, spots
milk powder

Vitamin D Milk and milk products Rickets, softening of bones,
conjunctivitis, bleeding teeth

Vitamin E Soybeans, wheat germ, vegetable oils, Slows cell aging, durability,
cake, green spinach, whole grains, relieves fatigue, dissolves
eggs, (sensitive to low temperatures) blood clots, cure burns,
relieves spasms in the legs and
muscles

Vitamin F Vegetable oils, flax, sunflower, soy, The skin, hair
peanuts, walnuts, almonds, avocados

Phosphorus Whole grains, eggs, seeds, nuts Energy and power, gums, teeth

Folic acid Carrots, yeast, egg yolks, melon, Makes red blood cells, protects
apricots, pumpkin, beans, avocado, against food poisoning,
whole wheat, black rye flour relieves pain, increases appetite,
prevents anemia, seems
beneficial to the skin

Iron Yolk, nuts, beans, oats, dried peaches Resistance to diseases , fatigue,
anemia

Chlorine olives Welding, flexibility, hair loss, loss of
teeth

Lame corn oil Lowers Blood Pressure

Iodine onions Hair, teeth, skin, mental activity,
thyroid gland

Vitamin K Yogurt, alfalfa, egg yolk, soybean oil, Prevents internal bleeding,
leafy green vegetables blood clots

Calcium Whole grains, bran, wheat sprouts, The construction of cells, bones,
green vegetables, nuts, milk and teeth, nervous system,
dairy products, nuts, sunflower, sesame, heals wounds, builds antibodies
soybeans, peanuts prevents fatigue

Potassium Citrus fruits, melons, tomatoes, Allergies, regulates blood pressure
apple vinegar, lettuce, mint, sunflower,
dried apricots, bananas, potatoes

Magnesium Figs, lemons, grapefruit, corn, almonds, Nerves, muscles, converts
apples, seeds, nuts, dark green vegetables blood sugar into energy, heart,
teeth

Selenium Bran, wheat germ, onion, tomato, cake, Tissue
Brazil nut

This are the foods and the vitamins and minerals that are found in them. In the next post I will be writing how the vegetables and fruits should be processed to keep all the nutrients in it.

Contact me if you want to know more about how to live healthy.

IMPROPER DIET AND DISEASES

2012-06-08T01:46:00.000-07:00

Diseases caused by improper diet

Along coming with the stress, with what has modern humanity faced last decades, one of the main causes of the extremely large number of diseases are, above all, improper diet. Among the most widespread disease of modern times are:

- Obesity

- Diabetes

- High blood pressure

- Atherosclerosis

- Heart attack

- Stroke

- Caries

- Allergies

- Anemia

- Degenerative Diseases

- The acidity of the body

In addition with the improper nutrition, the occurrence and development of these diseases also is affected by both excessive and uncontrolled chemicals, that is used in the process of growing and processing food.

Obesity is defined as the increase in body weight in relation to ideal weight by 15%. That means, if the ideal weight is 50 kg, and a person has a body weight of 57.5 kg, this person is considered obese. Working abilities of an obese person is decreased from 20-60%, with what it becomes a problem with great significance for the society.

Diabetes mellitus - Diabetes occurs due to lack of insulin in the body, which is produced in the pancreas gland. Insulin ensures that the sugar, as nutrient, is reaching every cell in the body, and the cells gain the energy needed for the functioning of the organism. As the main causes of diabetes are considered as stress and obesity.

High blood pressure - hypertension occurs when the heart is unable to carry out the normal functioning of blood and oxygen to the tissues and organs, due to obstacles that arise in the arteries. Overcoming the resistance, the heart due to narrowness of the blood vessels, brittleness, stiffness and reduced elasticity of veins and arteries, stress the heart and eventually lead to a weakening of the ebbing of the heart muscle. Hypertension is the cause for many diseases of modern mankind, which shorten human life, and high blood pressure also got the name "silent killer". The main causes of these diseases are obesity (conditioned by improper diet), smoking, alcohol and coffee, psychic tension, lack of movement and physical activity, occupational overwork, worry, conflict, lack of rest, and genetic factors. The most common symptoms are headaches in the region of the neck, restlessness, drowsiness, dizziness, tinnitus, and a loss of sight.

This are the changes on some organs that are caused by high blood pressure

Atherosclerosis is one of the most common consequence of high blood pressure, and occurs when high blood pressure is not treated, so it is resulting with a loss of elasticity of the walls of arteries. Fat that normally circulate in the body, more quickly is pushed into the blood vessel walls and can be compared with rust formed on the iron. Fats, especially by animal origin, and other external factors, is affecting the formation rate of these deposits.

Heart attack occurs when there is a blockage of arteries supplying the heart with blood and no blood flow in to the heart muscle. When it comes to a complete stop of blood flow to the heart or its individual parts, then the results is damage or complete destruction of heart muscle.

Stroke is also a consequence of high blood pressure, because there losing of the elasticity and a hardening of cerebral vessels. This is most common at men between the 46th and 55 year. First, it is manifested as dull pain in the head, then dizziness, and even insomnia, general malaise, the emergence of pessimism and depression.From ten thousand people between 45 and 46 years of age that had stroke, 1000 die, or 10%.

Cancer occurs when normal cell division stops, and the cells are dividing without pattern, and the whole cell change it structure and functionality that the cells are not longer capable to do their normal function. It is important to detect disease at an early stage of formation, while the changes are not extended to the other parts or the body. There is a very large number of different types of cancer. Some researchers believe that cancer occurs due to large intake of protein in the body by the food, and that it is made so called body in to the body, that is using all the food only for the growing of the cancer, so the health part of the body is having troubles to maintain the functionality due the increased nutrient usage by the fast growing cancer cells. Proper nutrition has a major impact on reducing the incidence of this disease.

Cancer cells, you can see the difference between the healthy cells( green ) and the cells that has lost their structure and are growing fast ( the red cells )

Caries occurs primarily as a result of excessive sugar intake. The carbohydrates, bacteria and plaque deposits, attack tooth enamel and cause cavities. It is also important to know that taking sugar and carbohydrates accelerates the changes of the tooth enamel, and that is why we should not give to the children sweets and artificial drinks. Tooth brushing and oral hygiene reduces the risk of caries.

Allergies occur as a result of embrittlement of the body and inability to confront the modern pollutants, chemicals, artificial production in all spheres of life. They are very widespread and common in all age groups and age categories. Especially is increased in children. Also its relation with diet is significant, because of the level of immunity of the organism following the malnutrition, is very big. When with the food we take all the nutrients that our body needs, there is a lot of cases that the allergies where cured. Also the disease that is widely spreading among the children, and the people that have a long history of allergies is ASTHMA or bronchial allergic asthma.

Anemia occurs due to the reduced number of red blood cells or the number of molecules of hemoglobin. Usually it is as a consequences due to a lack of iron or folic acid in the body, and also vitamins B6 and B12 and copper can cause it, but less often. Common symptoms are: fatigue, malaise, lack of energy, trouble concentrating, no ability to warm their hands and feet, susceptibility to infection and disease development due to embrittlement of the organism. More common in women than in men, particularly in the transitional era.

Degenerative diseases like allergies, are diseases caused by excessive use of the chemicals and pollution of the environment, the food, air and etc. Significant increase of these diseases are noticeable the places where is used the chemicals for food production and processing. The degenerative diseases are more expressed in younger children and children of school age.

Acidity levels of our bodies (pH factor) is one of the most widespread, little known, hidden diseases of the modern mankind, which causes increases, and many of the above mentioned problems. Particularly affects of the occurrence of persistent and very durable - Candida albicans. The concept of pH factor has been known for thousands of years, and it is based on the theory that human health is directly related to and it depends on the level of acidity - alkalinity to the body. If the body is too acidic, or there is no balance, then there is a disorders that are manifested in the form of a large number of diseases. In determining the state of the body, urine saliva and blood is being tested. The optimum pH of the morning urine and saliva is 7.0, while of the blood is from 7.3 to 7.4. Everything below that point is considered as a metabolic acidity. If the urinary pH value is below 6.4, then the body can not use the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. The most common symptoms of acidity of the body are: acne, muscle aches, fatigue, joint pain, anxiety and depression, constipation, a strong smell of urine, white tongue, difficulties in the morning and feeling tired. Stronger symptoms are: depression, memory loss, loss of concentration, sweating, susceptibility to an bacterial infection (staphylococcus and streptococcus), sinusitis, fungal infections (Candida, athlete's foot), cystitis, stronger hair fall, Diarrhea, Allergies, spinal pain, a strong need for sweets, inability to lose excess pounds.

Foods that cause the increase of alkalinity in the body (must be represented with 80% of food intake of the daily diet): water, vegetables - cabbage, celery, potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, beets, broccoli, beans, onions, spinach, lettuce, green beans, peas, fruit - apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, strawberries, tangerines, pears, peaches, lemons, melons, oranges, pineapple, grapes, grapefruit, raspberry, then, almonds, millet, malteks, dried figs, urme, raisins.

Foods that cause the increase in acidity of the body: all kinds of meat and fish, all kinds of bread and flour, all kinds of spaghetti and macaroni, milk products (butter, yogurt, cheese), all types of grains except millet, all types of lenses, dry peas, all types of seeds except almonds and tickles, all kinds of sugar, chocolate, biscuits, honey, eggs, yeast, plums, pumpkins, olive oil, all kinds of rice, all kinds of soft and alcoholic drinks, all kinds of corn chips and snacks.

If any of the symptoms mentioned above are more pronounced, it is necessary to immediately begin with the choosing of foods, solely with alkaline effects, and after two weeks, the effects are visible, which is manifested by the weakening or even disappearance of some symptoms. Most of the people who have the disorder, and most of the symptoms are present, therefore it is necessary quickly to consult with your nutritionist or wellness coach to give the treatment, or to contact the doctor if the symptoms are more severe, in order to prevent the occurrence of serious disorders: cancer, chronic illness, disease, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis, leukemia and lot of other diseases.

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Water and its importance

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There is one ingredient that we take for granted, but it importance transcends the importance of all others. It is simple, pure water. We know that, the man can starve 40 days, and also there were even experiments where people were put 100 days of starvation, but without a water we can not withstand even 10 days. Insufficient intake of water, slowly and unnoticeably change physiology of the organism and leads us to a number of chronic degenerative changes of tissues and organs. Believe it or not, stomach ulcers, high blood pressure, cholesterol, arthritis, allergies and asthma may be due to constant dehydration.

Modern man lives under the illusion that he can not dehydrate, because the water is always at his hand - enough to turn the tap. However, the neglecting the pure water, and our replacing it with "liquid" as we like to call coffee, alcohol, various "colas" and juices, inevitably leads to dehydration, because, this so called drinks or liquids can't replace clean water in that our body needs for everyday processes. And consummation of the "replacements" for water that we use are constantly using, unfortunately, at the end it leads toward the loss of sense of thirst, and then we are mixing it with the a sense of hunger, and instead of drinking water we eat - which is disastrous for our organism. To avoid these troubles, it is necessary to establish a conscious discipline to drink 1 liter of water per 25 kilograms of your weight a day, even if we think that we are not thirsty.
For example, my weight is 100 kilos, and I use a 4 litters of water a day.

We are also asking ourselves what kind of water we are using and we are always wondering about the quality so the main question is asked:

WHAT KIND OF WATER WE DRINK???

Pure spring water would be the best choice - if it is available. Unfortunately, in modern conditions, and the place of living in the cities, where we are far away from the springs, it is not possible .

Bottled water, even if it comes from the cleanest sources, has artificial flavor, which gives it the packaging itself. Not only the taste is changed, unfortunately, the plastic is releasing the macromolecules in the water, and they are also acting in negative manner and is affecting our health. So I recommend that you do use water from the tap, if it is possible, or filtered, but structured in such a way that makes it much healthier. One of the ways of structuring the water is freezing and thawing again the water, with trowing the portions of the water in which is retaining harmful substances, that precipitate on the bottom of the bottle where we have freeze the water. Another way that you might prefer the mentality of modern man who still does not have time to implement long-term procedure is used impulsed magnetic filter , it is put on water tap, and works the same way as it was frozen and then thawed. We have to look for the quality of the water that we are drinking, because, it responsibility is to make a an ambient for the chemical processes that are making non stop in our body, and if we don't use clean water ( chemically clean ) the processes could be disturbed or even changed, and that is acting very bad for our health.

KIND OF FOOD WITH BIG AMOUNTS OF WATER

Like we have said in the upper part of the post, for optimal functioning of the organism it is necessary that we must have proper fluid intake, especially water. It is known that the earth surface is 70% of water, and that the human body is also made of 75% water. To maintain your health, it is logical that we should take products that contain a big percentage of water (70%), and those products are fruit and vegetables. Scientifically proven that a man is a omnivore. This mean that we must eat everything, and our diet must be mainly from plants, and smaller portion must be from the animal products, because, we must take essential vitamins and amino acids that can not be found in plant product food.

As I have said in this post, man needs a litter of water for every 25kilos.

Water should be taken between meals, after the meal is the best time for it, but if it is necessary you may take it before , and during the meals. If we take the water during the meals, the processes for processing the food is weakened, because, it dilutes gastric acid, witch is necessary for proper digestion of food. However, if during the day we take enough food with a high levels of water, beverages will not be needed at all. 2.2 L of water per day we excreted through the kidneys. Also important for the regulation of body water is taking sufficient amount of salt, because, salt binds water in the body. Adult man with average weight is necessary to take a 3.5 g of salt per day. Proper and healthy diet includes a limited, and preferably complete renunciation of beverages such as coffee, strong tea, alcoholic beverages, rarely we can take the milk, chocolate, ice cream and candy. If someone is drinking coffee, it should be drink only in the afternoon, teas should be herbal, and milk, chocolate, ice cream and sweets need to be taken on empty stomach.
The Vedas (ancient Indian scriptures) say: "Food is the breath we exhales; food is the breath of life that we breathe." Therefore, the relationship and attitude with the food and awareness of the inseparability of the food with us is very important. The way of thinking and awareness that in your body we are taking the life, energy, vitality and positive vibrations, and we will depend on our choice of food products. The idea that we are healthy, consciously avoiding stress and enjoying the food, it affects the whole health. Respect for food and performing prayers or meditation, or whatever anti stress program you are using, before each meal will help to balance our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual dimensions. Aesthetic served food and cozy ambiance also contribute to the overall positive effect that food has in our lives.

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