Health
"Most people want to change or make improvements to their family or personal life, yet more often than not they ignore their health"
Would you like to have more energy?
Would you like to be thinner or more toned?
Would you like to reduce the amount of stress you feel?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions then we can help.
Every successful person that has ever made a lasting change in their life has always listed their health at the top of their priority list, so why don't most of the population. Its simple in today's modern world we are continually sent messages of buy this product, buy that product either through the TV, magazines, newspapers, bill boards or radio. Every food manufacturer wants us to believe that their product is the best for our health and well being. We are told to eat less fat and should live a low calorie diet, yet most of the foods we are told to eat are full of sugar, most processed foods are full of trans-fats and heavily process fats which have no nutritional value what so ever.
I know I do and when I ask them if they are happy with their weight they no and want to loose weight, then when you explain to them that all they have to do is some exercise and eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains and healthy fats and I don't mean beasting yourself at the gym everyday or just living on salad, they say no thanks I like what I eat it tastes good or I haven't got time to exercise.
I have listed a copy of an article I found recently regarding the carbohydrate fat cycle and some information of good fats.
Health and the Carbohydrate-Fat Cycle
Fatty Acids:
What are Essential Fats?
Scientists have given essential fats (a.ka. essential fatty acids or EFAs) their name because the body must have them to survive, but cannot synthesize them from any other substance we eat, so a direct food source is required. Hence, the name essential. There are many kinds of fats, but only two kinds of essential fats: omega 3 (n-3 or w3) and omega 6 (n-6 or w6), both of which are unsaturated fats.
Why do we need Essential Fats?
Just as a member of a large family has many roles, essential fats serve many functions in the complex workings of the human body. Taken in the right amounts and ratios, and taken from the right sources, essential fats help establish and maintain health as follows:
Increase energy, performance, and stamina. EFAs enhance thermogenesis, help build muscle, prevent muscle break down, and speed recovery from fatigue Strengthen the immune system. EFAs make hormone-like eicosanoids that regulate immune and inflammatory responses. N-3s have anti-inflammatory effects and can slow autoimmune damage
Lower most risk factors for cardiovascular disease. EFAs (especially n3s) lower abnormally high levels of blood pressure, triglycerides, Lp(a), fibrinogen, tendency to clot formation, and inflammation
Improve brain function: mood, intelligence , behavior, and vision. Our brain is over 60% fat. EFAs are important components of the entire nervous system. They are necessary to make the neurotransmitter serotonin. Depression and other brain diseases show decreased levels of n-3
Aid in weight reduction. EFAs help keep mood and energy up and suppress appetite, thereby aiding in weight loss. More recently, they have been found to block the genes that produce fat in the body (saturated and Trans Fat do not have this same effect) and increase thermogenesis
Regulate organs and glands. Liver and kidneys, adrenal and thyroid glands, and the production of male and female hormones need EFAs
Speed recovery and healing. EFAs are necessary for cell growth and division. They form all cell membranes and regulate vital cell activity
Support healthy child development. For nervous system development, a growing fetus needs optimum EFAs from the mother's body. Mothers become depleted of EFAs during pregnancy, and need optimal EFA intake for their health and their children's optimum development
Improve digestion. Poorly digested foods tie up the immune system and can cause gut inflammation, leaky gut, and allergies. N-3s improve gut integrity, and decrease inflammation and "leaky gut"
Decrease infection. EFAs have anti-fungal, anti-yeast, and anti-microbial properties, helping to protect against infections
Keep bones strong. EFAs aid in the transport of minerals that keep bones and teeth strong, helping to prevent osteoporosis
Protect genetic material. EFAs regulate gene expression, and n-3s inhibit tumor growth
Ease PMS. Studies indicate that n-6 (GLA) intake was voted, by women, among the top three most effective PMS treatments. N-3s may be even more effective
Produce beautiful skin, hair, and nails. Some of the first signs of EFA deficiency are dry, flaky skin, dull hair, and brittle nails. N-3s can help skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and acne. Also, GLA (n-6 derivative) administration is useful for some patients with atopic eczema.
Udo's Choice Ultimate Oil Blend is also:
The Carbohydrate-Fat Cycle
When a person eats carbohydrate foods (sweets and starches), digestion turns all these carbohydrates into glucose.
Glucose is sugar, whose main function is to act as fuel. The glucose is absorbed rapidly into the blood stream, for delivery to the cells that need it. All of this is the normal course of events in the body.
However, if glucose is absorbed faster than the body burns it, high blood sugar results. Sweet foods are more likely to lead to high blood sugar than white flour products, which in turn are more likely to lead to high blood sugar than whole grains like brown rice. But any source of carbohydrates will result in high blood sugar if more is absorbed from the gut than is being burned by the body. How much is burned depends on the level of physical activity.
High blood sugar is a very toxic condition. It is the fundamental problem in diabetes. High blood sugar can lead to coma and death. Because this condition is so toxic, the body has a protective mechanism for reducing high blood sugar. Insulin drives glucose into our cells, where it is supposed to be burned for energy.
But, if the cells already have enough fuel and don't need the extra glucose, then glucose acts like a hormone and turns on a gene, a copy of which is present in every one of everyone's 60 trillion body cells. The gene, called fatty acid synthase, has only one function. It turns excess glucose into fat. At the same time, glucose turns off the genes for fat burning. The result of eating more carbs than we burn, then, is to make fat production in the body easier, and fat burning in the body more difficult or impossible. Carbs speed fat production and slow down fat burning. I use a slogan for this situation: "When you eat carbs, either you burn them or you will wear them - as fat."
Insulin, involved in this sequence of events, is super-effective in its action and overshoots its goal of normalizing blood sugar. The result is increased body fat and blood sugar that is now too low. Starvation from low blood sugar leads to craving leads to gorging leads to high blood sugar again. Carbohydrate craving leads to another round of eating, and the cycle repeats itself. This is the basis of carbohydrate addiction. Let me repeat the process in more detail. The low, blood sugar-induced craving leads to 'gorging' which lasts until blood sugar is normal again. That takes about 30 minutes, because digestion of carbs into glucose and absorption of glucose take time. By the time blood sugar is back to normal, and the craving and gorging is over, more has been eaten than necessary.
Low blood sugar also leads to depression.
This is the reason why carbohydrates are many people's 'comfort' foods.
The summary on carbohydrates goes like this:
The body turns carbohydrates into glucose.
While glucose is clean-burning, good fuel, it turns off fat burning and turns on fat production.
Glucose not needed for fuel turns into fat.
Our slogan about carbohydrates: "Burn them, or wear them-as fat". The biochemistry and genetics of carbohydrates is completely different from what we've been told. 65% of the population (those who are overweight) are following that inaccurate advice in practice.
The truth is the opposite from what we have been led to believe. Now doesn't that make you mad?
Note: There are a few other reasons for overweight:
Drug side effects. Look for natural alternatives. Lack of iodine due to low salt diets. Optimize iodine intake.
Water retention from inflammation that is usually due to allergic reactions, poor lymph drainage, lack of exercise, or heart failure. Take enzymes or eat less protein.
Carbohydrates: the LEAST Important Food
Let me make one more point about carbohydrates. They are fuels that the body burns for energy. They are good fuels if you burn them. They are bad for you if you don't!
But, and this is the key point to understand about carbohydrates, there are no nutrients in carbohydrates that you cannot get elsewhere. The body can use proteins and fats for fuel, and sufficient carbohydrates (too little to make you fat) are also present in green vegetables, which is where most of us should be getting them.
In other words, carbohydrates are the least important of all of the food groups. Essential fats are required in the diet because the body cannot make them, and therefore are more important than carbohydrates. Proteins provide essential amino acids that the body cannot make but must have to live and be healthy, and therefore proteins are also more important than carbohydrates. Green foods are more important than carbohydrates because they make and supply us with most of the essential components of health. Minerals and vitamins are essential and must therefore be provided from outside by foods or supplements. But there are no essential carbohydrates. This means that your body does not need them. You do not have to eat them. You can live perfectly well without them. Even your brain does not require sugar. It can breakdown fat products as fuel. You do not need sugar and starch. They are not essential.
We can live without carbohydrates, because the body can make them from scratch.
The Truth about Food Fats and Body Fat The first truth about fats is that they do not make us fat. This is because they suppress appetite, and because eating fats does not produce the blood sugar swings, the insulin spiking, the fat production, the inhibition of fat burning, the craving, and the bingeing cycles produced by carbohydrates.
The second truth about fats is that certain fats, especially those too low in 99% of the population(called n-3, or "omega-3" essential fats) will help us lose body fat. Did you read that right? Yes, you did. Good fats help to make and keep us slim.
How can they do that? After all, all fats, good or bad, contain 9 calories per gram, whereas carbohydrates contain only 4 calories per gram. That was the old argument against eating fats.
As with carbohydrates, the answer lies in our genes, in the way the human body works.
Slimming Fats
Research has established that n-3 (greatly) and n-6 (slightly) essential fatty acids, but not monounsaturated, saturated, or trans- fatty acids play a major role in the body's ability to burn fat. N-3 does it better than n-6. N-3 is inadequately supplied in the diets of 99% of affluent populations worldwide. In fact, our intake of n-3 today is only 1/6th of that found in diets
In 1850, and already at that time, diets did not supply optimum amounts of n-3. Our n-3 intake has declined to unprecedented lows. N-3 deficiency is the single, most widespread essential nutrient deficiency of our time.
N-6 intake, on the other hand, has doubled in the past 100 years for people who eat the diets common in affluent populations. People on low fat, no fat, fake fat, fat blocker, fat substitute, and fat remover diets are likely to get too little n-6 as well as too little n-3.
The ratio between n-3 and n-6 is far out of line with what it ought to be for good health and normal weight, and this has implications, both for health in general and for body fat and fat burning in particular. How do essential fats help burn body fat and make us slim? The answer has several parts.
All fats including essential fats suppress appetite.
Unlike carbohydrates, fats keep blood sugar and insulin levels stable, and prevent the high/low blood sugar cycle.
Essential fats improve thyroid function, and normalize metabolic rate and energy levels provided enough iodine is present in the diet.
N-3 essential fats decrease inflammation and water retention in tissues, (which is a large part of some people's overweight), and cause the release of water held in inflamed tissues by means of the kidneys.
N-3 essential fats improve kidney function, making removal of excess water more efficient.
N-3 essential fats increase energy production, making it more likely that a person will be physically active. This, in turn, leads to more calories being burned, and increased muscle mass as a result of increased physical activity.
N-3 essential fats elevate mood and lift depression. Depressed people often experience loss of interest in life, and then sit around being inactive.
The better the mood, the less likely people are to eat more calories than they burn, and the more active they tend to be.
Genes, Fats, and Healthy Weight Management
Most important, n-3 essential fats affect the function of genes1,2. They turn up several genes that increase fat burning, turn down the gene that leads to fat production, and turn on a gene that increases heat production in the body. Specifically, n-3 essential fats:
Decrease fat production, by turning down the gene responsible for fat production (fatty acid synthase)
Increase fat burning, by turning up at least 9 genes required for burning fats in the body
Shift the body from using carbohydrates as fuel to using fats as fuel instead (fuel partitioning)
Turn on a gene (uncoupling protein) that is responsible for thermogenesis. Thermogenesis is the process by which fats are burned off as heat, without work being done.
So you can see that n-3 fats, which are especially lacking in the fat-phobic, carbohydrate junkie diets eaten by overweight people, are a major key for reducing body fat, and many different weight normalization mechanisms in the body are turned up by n-3 fats.
Remember, however, that n-6 essential fats are also essential for building health and that the ratio between n-3 and n-6 must be right. Too much n-3 can lead to many health problems due to n-6 deficiency. Too much n-6 can lead to many health problems due to n-3 deficiency. Over the years, I have found that a ratio of 2: 1 of n-3 to n-6 in the diet gives optimum benefits in weight management without producing deficiency of either of the essential
Would you like to have more energy?
Would you like to be thinner or more toned?
Would you like to reduce the amount of stress you feel?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions then we can help.
- Health and the Carbohydrate-Fat Cycle
- The Carbohydrate-Fat Cycle
- Low blood sugar also leads to depression.
- Slimming Fats
- Genes, Fats, and Healthy Weight Management
Every successful person that has ever made a lasting change in their life has always listed their health at the top of their priority list, so why don't most of the population. Its simple in today's modern world we are continually sent messages of buy this product, buy that product either through the TV, magazines, newspapers, bill boards or radio. Every food manufacturer wants us to believe that their product is the best for our health and well being. We are told to eat less fat and should live a low calorie diet, yet most of the foods we are told to eat are full of sugar, most processed foods are full of trans-fats and heavily process fats which have no nutritional value what so ever.
- As an example if you eat 100 grams of potatoes it's the equivalent of eating 70 spoon falls of sugar
- Eating 100 grams of breakfast cereal is the equivalent to eating 40 spoon falls of sugar
I know I do and when I ask them if they are happy with their weight they no and want to loose weight, then when you explain to them that all they have to do is some exercise and eat more vegetables, fruits, whole grains and healthy fats and I don't mean beasting yourself at the gym everyday or just living on salad, they say no thanks I like what I eat it tastes good or I haven't got time to exercise.
I have listed a copy of an article I found recently regarding the carbohydrate fat cycle and some information of good fats.
Health and the Carbohydrate-Fat Cycle
Fatty Acids:
What are Essential Fats?
Scientists have given essential fats (a.ka. essential fatty acids or EFAs) their name because the body must have them to survive, but cannot synthesize them from any other substance we eat, so a direct food source is required. Hence, the name essential. There are many kinds of fats, but only two kinds of essential fats: omega 3 (n-3 or w3) and omega 6 (n-6 or w6), both of which are unsaturated fats.
Why do we need Essential Fats?
Just as a member of a large family has many roles, essential fats serve many functions in the complex workings of the human body. Taken in the right amounts and ratios, and taken from the right sources, essential fats help establish and maintain health as follows:
Increase energy, performance, and stamina. EFAs enhance thermogenesis, help build muscle, prevent muscle break down, and speed recovery from fatigue Strengthen the immune system. EFAs make hormone-like eicosanoids that regulate immune and inflammatory responses. N-3s have anti-inflammatory effects and can slow autoimmune damage
Lower most risk factors for cardiovascular disease. EFAs (especially n3s) lower abnormally high levels of blood pressure, triglycerides, Lp(a), fibrinogen, tendency to clot formation, and inflammation
Improve brain function: mood, intelligence , behavior, and vision. Our brain is over 60% fat. EFAs are important components of the entire nervous system. They are necessary to make the neurotransmitter serotonin. Depression and other brain diseases show decreased levels of n-3
Aid in weight reduction. EFAs help keep mood and energy up and suppress appetite, thereby aiding in weight loss. More recently, they have been found to block the genes that produce fat in the body (saturated and Trans Fat do not have this same effect) and increase thermogenesis
Regulate organs and glands. Liver and kidneys, adrenal and thyroid glands, and the production of male and female hormones need EFAs
Speed recovery and healing. EFAs are necessary for cell growth and division. They form all cell membranes and regulate vital cell activity
Support healthy child development. For nervous system development, a growing fetus needs optimum EFAs from the mother's body. Mothers become depleted of EFAs during pregnancy, and need optimal EFA intake for their health and their children's optimum development
Improve digestion. Poorly digested foods tie up the immune system and can cause gut inflammation, leaky gut, and allergies. N-3s improve gut integrity, and decrease inflammation and "leaky gut"
Decrease infection. EFAs have anti-fungal, anti-yeast, and anti-microbial properties, helping to protect against infections
Keep bones strong. EFAs aid in the transport of minerals that keep bones and teeth strong, helping to prevent osteoporosis
Protect genetic material. EFAs regulate gene expression, and n-3s inhibit tumor growth
Ease PMS. Studies indicate that n-6 (GLA) intake was voted, by women, among the top three most effective PMS treatments. N-3s may be even more effective
Produce beautiful skin, hair, and nails. Some of the first signs of EFA deficiency are dry, flaky skin, dull hair, and brittle nails. N-3s can help skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and acne. Also, GLA (n-6 derivative) administration is useful for some patients with atopic eczema.
Udo's Choice Ultimate Oil Blend is also:
The Carbohydrate-Fat Cycle
When a person eats carbohydrate foods (sweets and starches), digestion turns all these carbohydrates into glucose.
Glucose is sugar, whose main function is to act as fuel. The glucose is absorbed rapidly into the blood stream, for delivery to the cells that need it. All of this is the normal course of events in the body.
However, if glucose is absorbed faster than the body burns it, high blood sugar results. Sweet foods are more likely to lead to high blood sugar than white flour products, which in turn are more likely to lead to high blood sugar than whole grains like brown rice. But any source of carbohydrates will result in high blood sugar if more is absorbed from the gut than is being burned by the body. How much is burned depends on the level of physical activity.
High blood sugar is a very toxic condition. It is the fundamental problem in diabetes. High blood sugar can lead to coma and death. Because this condition is so toxic, the body has a protective mechanism for reducing high blood sugar. Insulin drives glucose into our cells, where it is supposed to be burned for energy.
But, if the cells already have enough fuel and don't need the extra glucose, then glucose acts like a hormone and turns on a gene, a copy of which is present in every one of everyone's 60 trillion body cells. The gene, called fatty acid synthase, has only one function. It turns excess glucose into fat. At the same time, glucose turns off the genes for fat burning. The result of eating more carbs than we burn, then, is to make fat production in the body easier, and fat burning in the body more difficult or impossible. Carbs speed fat production and slow down fat burning. I use a slogan for this situation: "When you eat carbs, either you burn them or you will wear them - as fat."
Insulin, involved in this sequence of events, is super-effective in its action and overshoots its goal of normalizing blood sugar. The result is increased body fat and blood sugar that is now too low. Starvation from low blood sugar leads to craving leads to gorging leads to high blood sugar again. Carbohydrate craving leads to another round of eating, and the cycle repeats itself. This is the basis of carbohydrate addiction. Let me repeat the process in more detail. The low, blood sugar-induced craving leads to 'gorging' which lasts until blood sugar is normal again. That takes about 30 minutes, because digestion of carbs into glucose and absorption of glucose take time. By the time blood sugar is back to normal, and the craving and gorging is over, more has been eaten than necessary.
Low blood sugar also leads to depression.
This is the reason why carbohydrates are many people's 'comfort' foods.
The summary on carbohydrates goes like this:
The body turns carbohydrates into glucose.
While glucose is clean-burning, good fuel, it turns off fat burning and turns on fat production.
Glucose not needed for fuel turns into fat.
Our slogan about carbohydrates: "Burn them, or wear them-as fat". The biochemistry and genetics of carbohydrates is completely different from what we've been told. 65% of the population (those who are overweight) are following that inaccurate advice in practice.
The truth is the opposite from what we have been led to believe. Now doesn't that make you mad?
Note: There are a few other reasons for overweight:
Drug side effects. Look for natural alternatives. Lack of iodine due to low salt diets. Optimize iodine intake.
Water retention from inflammation that is usually due to allergic reactions, poor lymph drainage, lack of exercise, or heart failure. Take enzymes or eat less protein.
Carbohydrates: the LEAST Important Food
Let me make one more point about carbohydrates. They are fuels that the body burns for energy. They are good fuels if you burn them. They are bad for you if you don't!
But, and this is the key point to understand about carbohydrates, there are no nutrients in carbohydrates that you cannot get elsewhere. The body can use proteins and fats for fuel, and sufficient carbohydrates (too little to make you fat) are also present in green vegetables, which is where most of us should be getting them.
In other words, carbohydrates are the least important of all of the food groups. Essential fats are required in the diet because the body cannot make them, and therefore are more important than carbohydrates. Proteins provide essential amino acids that the body cannot make but must have to live and be healthy, and therefore proteins are also more important than carbohydrates. Green foods are more important than carbohydrates because they make and supply us with most of the essential components of health. Minerals and vitamins are essential and must therefore be provided from outside by foods or supplements. But there are no essential carbohydrates. This means that your body does not need them. You do not have to eat them. You can live perfectly well without them. Even your brain does not require sugar. It can breakdown fat products as fuel. You do not need sugar and starch. They are not essential.
We can live without carbohydrates, because the body can make them from scratch.
The Truth about Food Fats and Body Fat The first truth about fats is that they do not make us fat. This is because they suppress appetite, and because eating fats does not produce the blood sugar swings, the insulin spiking, the fat production, the inhibition of fat burning, the craving, and the bingeing cycles produced by carbohydrates.
The second truth about fats is that certain fats, especially those too low in 99% of the population(called n-3, or "omega-3" essential fats) will help us lose body fat. Did you read that right? Yes, you did. Good fats help to make and keep us slim.
How can they do that? After all, all fats, good or bad, contain 9 calories per gram, whereas carbohydrates contain only 4 calories per gram. That was the old argument against eating fats.
As with carbohydrates, the answer lies in our genes, in the way the human body works.
Slimming Fats
Research has established that n-3 (greatly) and n-6 (slightly) essential fatty acids, but not monounsaturated, saturated, or trans- fatty acids play a major role in the body's ability to burn fat. N-3 does it better than n-6. N-3 is inadequately supplied in the diets of 99% of affluent populations worldwide. In fact, our intake of n-3 today is only 1/6th of that found in diets
In 1850, and already at that time, diets did not supply optimum amounts of n-3. Our n-3 intake has declined to unprecedented lows. N-3 deficiency is the single, most widespread essential nutrient deficiency of our time.
N-6 intake, on the other hand, has doubled in the past 100 years for people who eat the diets common in affluent populations. People on low fat, no fat, fake fat, fat blocker, fat substitute, and fat remover diets are likely to get too little n-6 as well as too little n-3.
The ratio between n-3 and n-6 is far out of line with what it ought to be for good health and normal weight, and this has implications, both for health in general and for body fat and fat burning in particular. How do essential fats help burn body fat and make us slim? The answer has several parts.
All fats including essential fats suppress appetite.
Unlike carbohydrates, fats keep blood sugar and insulin levels stable, and prevent the high/low blood sugar cycle.
Essential fats improve thyroid function, and normalize metabolic rate and energy levels provided enough iodine is present in the diet.
N-3 essential fats decrease inflammation and water retention in tissues, (which is a large part of some people's overweight), and cause the release of water held in inflamed tissues by means of the kidneys.
N-3 essential fats improve kidney function, making removal of excess water more efficient.
N-3 essential fats increase energy production, making it more likely that a person will be physically active. This, in turn, leads to more calories being burned, and increased muscle mass as a result of increased physical activity.
N-3 essential fats elevate mood and lift depression. Depressed people often experience loss of interest in life, and then sit around being inactive.
The better the mood, the less likely people are to eat more calories than they burn, and the more active they tend to be.
Genes, Fats, and Healthy Weight Management
Most important, n-3 essential fats affect the function of genes1,2. They turn up several genes that increase fat burning, turn down the gene that leads to fat production, and turn on a gene that increases heat production in the body. Specifically, n-3 essential fats:
Decrease fat production, by turning down the gene responsible for fat production (fatty acid synthase)
Increase fat burning, by turning up at least 9 genes required for burning fats in the body
Shift the body from using carbohydrates as fuel to using fats as fuel instead (fuel partitioning)
Turn on a gene (uncoupling protein) that is responsible for thermogenesis. Thermogenesis is the process by which fats are burned off as heat, without work being done.
So you can see that n-3 fats, which are especially lacking in the fat-phobic, carbohydrate junkie diets eaten by overweight people, are a major key for reducing body fat, and many different weight normalization mechanisms in the body are turned up by n-3 fats.
Remember, however, that n-6 essential fats are also essential for building health and that the ratio between n-3 and n-6 must be right. Too much n-3 can lead to many health problems due to n-6 deficiency. Too much n-6 can lead to many health problems due to n-3 deficiency. Over the years, I have found that a ratio of 2: 1 of n-3 to n-6 in the diet gives optimum benefits in weight management without producing deficiency of either of the essential