500 Delicious Diabetic Recipes

  

Having Diabetes does not mean that you can’t enjoy your food or eat nice things; it just means that you must put them together differently.

 

My digital book 500 Delicious Diabetic Recipes has easy mouth watering recipes that even non – diabetics would die for.

Energy makes the world go around

Hi there, health conscious friends.

 

This site is more than a site for health issues; in fact it is more about a healthy lifestyle, living in harmony with yourself and nature, I believe that if you are not feeling good about one aspect of your life, it affects many other aspects indirectly. You must be at peace and accept who you are, like yourself, your surroundings and your situation, change negative phases to the positive and attract good energies to yourself.

 

The world is made up of energies, you, your dog, your car and your luck. We are all attracted to certain things and situations and likewise things are attracted to us, this is not by chance, most of what we bring upon ourselves was wished for, whether we realize it or not.

 

Remove the negative out of your mind completely (easier said than done – there I have just done it, thinking in the negative) – what I should say is;

 

Think positive – it’s easy.

 

Take all negative words out of your vocabulary, can’t, don’t, won’t, haven’t etc, and replace them with can, do, will, have etc, you will notice you will have to change the whole sentence, – yes, into the positive, in fact you will have to change your thought pattern to see a positive angle of that particular situation.

 

To live a “positive” life we must be in harmony with the positive energies that surround us, your health, home, spouse, friends, work and so on, be happy with where you are now, take it as a starting block, or a challenge, one of life’s hurdles thrown in to test our character, forgive and forget, move on, as old hurts and scars are baggage and to move on you need to attract “good luck”, which is only possible if you dump the bad and negative things obstructing your path, if you are not happy, shuffle your life, after all, change only comes about once you are out of your comfort zone.

 

This site is about living in harmony with ourselves and Mother Earth, where you can use herbs instead of antibiotics, natural diets to loose weight, achievable exercise programs, create a worm farm from kitchen scraps for natural compost and fertilizer to optimize your garden, saving a lot of waste removal, attract birds and butterflies to your home, a real alternative lifestyle, making us truly balanced beings

 

These subjects amongst others will be explored, making our stay on this planet, a pleasant one,  When we leave this world, (and I don’t mean like Mark Shuttleworth or Neil Armstrong) I am sure we would all like to be remembered for being an asset to this world, leaving a trail of positive experiences and energies and whether we like it or not, WE are the foundation and inspiration for the next generation.

 

Hope you enjoy the site

 

Trevor Williams

How to Read Food Labels

You cannot measure every morsel that passes your lips, but it is a good idea to measure most foods and beverages until you get a feel for portion sizes.

It is a supersized world out there, and most people are surprised to find that their idea of a single serving is actually two or three.

If you are into bells and whistles, there are food scales that are preprogrammed with nutritional information, as well as scales that will keep a running total of your daily food and nutrient intake for you. The only tools you really need, however, are a simple and inexpensive gram scale, dry and liquid measuring cups, and idea on reading food labels.

Among all of the mentioned tools, reading food labels seem to be the most effective way of determining the right kind of food to be bought in the supermarket. It lets you make sensible food selections. Through the “Nutrition Facts” section in a particular item in the grocery, you can identify the amount of serving sizes provided in that product.

With food labels, you can clearly understand the amount and kinds of nutrients that are provided in the item. Usually, it contains the information on saturated fat, sodium, total fat, fiber, and cholesterol amount “per serving.”

However, understanding and reading these food labels can be very perplexing. A typical consumer would definitely ask what those numbers mean and how it will affect her diet intake if ever she will religiously follow the serving guide as stipulated on the food label.

To further have a clear and more comprehensive understanding of the items stated in the food label, here is a list of things that you need to know:

1. Serving size

This is the primary item you will see in a food label.

The amount of servings stated in the food label refers to the quantity of food people usually consume. However, this does not necessarily mean that it reflects your very own amount of food intake.

Moreover, serving size determines the amount of nutrients that enters the body. This means that if you will follow strictly what the serving size is, you will obtain the same amount of nutrients according to the serving size that was given in the label.

For instance, if the serving size says one serving size is equal to 54 grams, that would mean you have to measure 54 grams and eat that and you have just eaten one serving. So to speak, the amount of nutrients stated in the food label is the same amount that has entered your body considering the fact that you have just eaten 54 grams.

However, if you have eaten everything, and the food label says that each pack is equivalent to 4 servings, you have to calculate the amount of nutrients that have entered your body. This means that if the food label says 250 calories per serving that means you have to multiply it to four to get the total amount of calories you have taken.

2. Nutrients

This refers to the list of available nutrients in a particular item. It is also where the nutritional claims of the product based on the recommended daily dietary allowance are stated. Usually, the nutritional amounts are based on both the 2,500-calorie diets and the 2,000 recommended dietary allowances.

In order to understand the numeric value of each item, you should know that the “% daily value” that the food label indicates is actually based on how a particular food corresponds to the recommended daily dietary allowance for a 2,000 calorie.

If in the event that you have purchased an item that has a dietary allowance different from the 2,000-calorie diet, you just have to divide the stipulated amount by 2,000 and you will be able to identify the “%daily value” for the nutrients.

3. Ingredients

This refers to the list of the ingredients that were used to manufacture the product. The listing is usually arranged from the main ingredients that have the greater amount by weight up to the smallest quantity. This simply means that the actual quantity of the food includes the biggest quantity of the main ingredient or the first item and the minimum amount of the very last ingredient.

4. Label claim

This refers to the kinds of nutritional claims of a particular food item. For instance, if an item says it is sodium-free, it has less than 5 milligrams per serving or a low fat item actually contains 3 grams of fat or less.

Indeed, reading food labels can be very tedious and confusing. Nevertheless, once you get the hang of it, it would be easier for you to watch your diet because you can already control the amount of food that you take.

Staying Motivated to Exercise

Exercise is always a do-it-yourself venture. No other person and no machine can do it for you. Hence, it is important to have those motivating factors so that a person who is into exercise in order to lose weight will hang about.

This is what people who are overweight should learn to understand. However, even if it so easy to set for instructions and easy to follow, this is not the same case for almost 35% of Americans who are unable to prevent being overweight.

Of course, once we are overweight, we usually want to trim down for a whole lot of reasons, some related to physical condition and fitness, while others would want to enhance their physique and appearance. And it is never too late to be fit.

In the past 50 to 75 years, physical activity has become the exception rather than the rule, both at home and on the job. People tend to drive where others once walked. People tend to flick a switch and machines do the hauling, lifting, pushing, and pulling for them.

However, people who try to lose weight tend to believe that weight gain is likely to happen if they will not take forward-looking steps to stop it.

The point here is that health experts believe that people lose their way, especially when it comes to dieting. They tend to go back to their old eating habits even after they learn to enjoy low-fat eating. They tend to return to sedentary ways even though they enjoy exercising.

But despite the momentum toward weight gain, you can stop it from happening, experts say. And there are plenty of good reasons to avoid excess pounds, reasons that go beyond vanity or social appearance. There are many reasons in order to keep you motivated to exercise and stay healthy for the rest of your life.

Ways to Lose Big

1. Have an explicit goal

A simple statement like, “I want to lose some weight,” is an ambiguous and an indefinite statement. It will not the least motivate you to start doing exercises right away.

What is important is to be precise on your goals. It would be better if you will set some detailed amount of pounds that you really want to lose. Envisage yourself what you will look like after reaching your desired weight. Doing this will inspire you to lose weight. In fact, maybe even more than what you have planned in mind. The idea is to use that figure to assist you to remain resilient and dedicated.

2. Develop a strategy

Strength of will does not work alone! To lose weight and stay with it, your strategy must comprise of both exercise and diet, and not either of the two.

Try to start motivating yourself by throwing away your clothes that have bigger sizes. This will put you in a situation where you only have your sexy clothes and that you have to make a choice by staying motivated to exercise or not wear any clothes at all. Which do you prefer?

3. Make out little, calculable measures

Put into practice actions that will suit your lifestyle. This means you have to implement moves that you and you alone will benefit from it and not somebody else.

The idea here is to opt for a more positive and attainable goal and not just to shun away from being plump and chubby.

4. Produce monitoring that has an important effect

It would be better to have somebody willing to take note of your progress or development. This will inspire you to keep on doing what you have started. Having somebody to listen to your achievements is definitely a better prize than just achieving your goal alone.

Besides, having an extra hand to support you and cheer for you when things start to fall short. It is that simple way of hearing somebody believing on what you do is one of the greatest motivations to keep you exercising for more.

5. Construct a vigorous, sensible timeline

What do you plan to achieve in a year? Try to suit your objectives to your calendar, and do not look forward to see the results in just a snap.

The bottom line is that in order to stay motivated to exercise entails a lot of hard work, which is contrary to what most people tend to think. The main idea is to let people change their lifestyle because it is only through this way that they will absolutely change their weight…for the better.

Happy exercising

Trev

Your Thyroid and Weight loss – The Connection is Real

Your thyroid dictates much of your metabolism, any malfunction or disease afflicting this area may cause you to have problems in metabolism leading to a drastic problem with your weight – you may either gain weight, lose weight, or may find that losing weight is harder than usual.

Those that plan diets do not take into consideration how their thyroids and metabolism may affect their weight loss program. Most experts and even the media pitch in and recommend that the best way to lose weight is cut calories.

Those with a condition called hyperthyroidism suffer from an overactive thyroid leading to one having his or her metabolism skyrocket. If this is the case, then you will probably lose weight fast. This is a nice proposition for some who wish to lose weight. However, this is actually hazardous to the health.

Aside from the medical difficulties such a disease brings, one will also notice weight problems as a result. These people have trouble keeping on weight and may notice weakness and bulging of the eyes. This disease may need special treatment from doctors.

Hypothyroidism on the other hand works in the other direction – slowing metabolism until the body gains weight at an incredible rate. Like hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism causes a general weakness in the body. It too may need special treatment and may cause serious health problems if left unattended.

While cutting calories in itself can be very hard for most people – imagine, the people involved in life and death struggles at the supermarket regarding whether to buy that extra box of sweets, some have exactly the opposite problem.

Instead of eating too much calories – which is a problem in itself, they eat too little calories instead.

Problem? What Problem
The problem with some is that they believe that since the experts say that they have to cut calories, cutting calories to an inordinate amount will reap greater results. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. While cutting calories helps diets, consuming too little calories pushed the body into a hoard mode, the body’s metabolism slow to adapt to the lesser amount of available energy.

If your body enters this mode, your body will work at such slow metabolism that losing weight becomes impossible.  The technique here should be to reduce calories without the body slowing its metabolism. Only then can losing weight become easier.

Another problem that can arise from decreased metabolism is that when your metabolism slows due to a drastic reduction in metabolism, and then you suddenly eat a good, hearty, calorie-filled meal, you are bound to gain more weight owing to the increased surplus of energy.

This is why an imbalanced meal is highly discouraged among those that seek to lose weight. The sudden loss and increase of calories will cause an imbalance in one’s energy consumption directly affecting fat deposit.

Here is a simple computation to help you get to the right amount of calories you will need per day so that you get your nutrients in the right balance.

First of all, multiply your weight in kilograms by 30. If you only know your weight in pounds, divide it by 2.2 to get to its English equivalent. We divide this number by 30 because that is the number of calories you need to maintain your weight per pound of weight.

For example if your weight in pounds is 150, divide it by 2.2. That will give you a figure of 68.18. This is your weight in kilograms. Multiply this by 30 and you will arrive at the amount of calories you will need per day to maintain 150 lbs.

You may consult a nutritionist to help you come lose weight. In the end it all comes down to math. If you consume more that your body needs, it stores it as fat. Now is probably a good time to start studying the back of those grocery cartons.

Try to keep your diet at a 40% protein, 25% fat, and 35% carbohydrate meals at 300 calories per meal. Spread out these meals in a day for optimum results.

While it may be simple computation to get at numbers, do not forget the earlier mentioned fact that the body adapts to its condition. Expose it to extreme ones and you may find yourself getting results you never wanted. Consult a nutritionist for more advice.

Till next time

Trev

Cayenne Tincture

Cayenne Tincture
Formula

The best Cayenne Tincture is made, using Dr Schulze method:

1. Start to make this and any Tincture, if possible, on a new Moon.
2. (First mixture) Take a Quart Canning Jar and fill it 1/4 full with DRIED Cayenne Peppers, getting the hottest ones (i.e. – Habanero, African Bird, Serrano, Jalapeno – 90,000+ Heat Units) that you can obtain.
3. Add enough 50% Grain Alcohol (100 Proof Vodka) to the Cayenne Peppers (powdered, using a Blender or Grinder) to just cover them.
4. (Second mixture) Use enough FRESH Cayenne Peppers, that you can blend with 50% Grain Alcohol (100 Proof Vodka) to turn the Mixture into an Apple Sauce-Like Consistency.
5. Add the second Mixture to the 1st Mixture, filling up the Canning Jar 3/4 FULL.
6. Fill up the rest of the Canning Jar with 50% Grain Alcohol (100 Proof Vodka).
7. Shake it as many times as possible, during the Day.
8. Let this Mixture sit, until the following full Moon (15-16 Days), but optimally until the following NEW Moon (28-29 Days)!
9. Strain this Mixture through an unbleached Coffee Filter.
10. Bottle the resulting Tincture.

NOTE: Part = Volume, not Weight in this Tincture Method. Modify this procedure by using DRIED Herbs ONLY, if FRESH Herbs are NOT AVAILABLE, and when making other Herbal Tinctures also. If you want to make a SUPER-POTENT Tincture (i.e. – Cayenne Pepper & Lobelia Seed Pod), then allow the Mixture to sit for a full 3 Months!

Colon Cleansing Drinks

If the thought of tubes wandering around your rectum makes you cringe but you still want to enjoy the benefits of colon cleansing, then drinks intended for colon cleansing might be your cup of tea. Before focusing on the colon cleansing drinks, it would be wise to bid goodbye to your favorite aerated water, coffee, and chocolates.
Besides doing the job of quenching our thirst, did you know that water has healing properties as well? Water can do wonder for the health of your colon as it helps in having trouble free bowel movements. So treat water as a medicine and drink it even when you are not thirsty.
You would be thrilled to know that lemonades can act as colons cleanse drink too. Just take two tablespoon each of organic lime juice and maple syrup, then add a tinge of cayenne pepper, and mix these ingredients with 250 ml of spring water and your colon cleanse drink is ready. Organic lemon is chosen as it is devoid of any fertilizers and lemon has the ability to liquefy toxins which are fat soluble in nature. And the maple syrup would sweeten your lemonade! The lemonade drink tastes good and you do your colon a favor by consuming it.
After the sweet lemonade drink, let us move on to the salt water colon cleanse drink. Yes I agree it will not satisfy your taste buds but say cheers to the good health of your colon. Arrange two tablespoons of sea salt which is not iodized and add 250 ml of tepid water to it and drink it. This drink would help you to get rid of all the plaque and waste materials accumulated on the wall of your colon. And as a result the parasites will have to leave your colon as their habitat.
A bentonite clay drink can find a place in your colon cleanse drinks menu. Bentonite clay is known for its therapeutic properties. The minerals found in the bentonite clay contain positively charged ions and the minerals found in the toxins of our body have negatively charged ions. And hence there is a definite attraction between the two which eventually prompts the toxins to leave the colon. A bentonite clay drink can be prepared by mixing one tablespoon of bentonite clay with 250ml of spring water. It is simple to prepare and effective in nature.
When Apple cider vinegar is guzzled with one tablespoon honey and 250 ml of spring water, our colon gets blessed with certain benefits. Apple cider vinegar is prepared from fresh organic apples (which do not consist of any fertilizers) and it acts a detoxifying agent for the colon. Apple cider vinegar contains certain vitamins and minerals which facilitates the process of detoxification.
Get more information about:
· Easy Colon Cleanse for Beginners.
· Oxygen Colon Cleansing – One of the safest colon cleansing options.

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Cross Training for Fitness and Fat loss

The numbers on your scale do not indicate whether you are fit or fat. Far more significant than your total body weight is the composition of your body tissue. If a man’s fatty tissue is bigger than 14% up to 15% of his body mass, or if a woman’s is more than 20% to 22%, he or she is overweight, or more precisely, over fat.

A small amount of fat is needed for padding the internal organs and as insulation under the skin. Excess fat leads to such diseases as diabetes, gout, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and gallbladder problems. There are very few, very fat persons. The reason is that the fittest, not the fattest survive.

The problem now is focused on how to resolve the problem. The problem with most people who want to lose weight is that they have the propensity to concentrate more on getting those numbers lower than what they are seeing now. What happens next is that they strive harder to achieve a lower weight, according to the “ever reliable” result of the weighing scale.

It would be more important to think of the human body as a heat-exchange engine that works on the basic principles of energy physics. The caloric balance equals the total calorie intake minus the total calorie expenditure.

Some of the calories people ingest are used for basal metabolism. As people get old, their bodies require fewer calories for this basic upkeep. Some calories are excreted as waste products. Some go into “work metabolism,” the energy expenditure required for any physical activity.

Hence, if people take in more calories than are used by these functions, there is definite caloric excess. By the laws of physics, energy is transformed rather than destroyed. In this case, each excess of 3,500 calories is changed into a pound of fat. If people want to reverse this process, they have to burn up 3,500 calories to lose a single pound.

Winning the War Against Fat

When you think of fighting fat with exercise, you probably think of hours of hard, sweaty exertion. If this is the case, then, you will not get any farther. This is because people who are so much into losing more by exerting more effort tend to get bored easily.

Why? Because experts contend that when people exert more effort than what they are capable of doing creates a tendency to develop weariness and ennui. Hence, they give up, stop doing their routine exercises, and end up sulking in the corner with a bag of chips that seems to have all the bad calories in this world.

Now, you might ask, “What should be done instead?” The answer: cross training.After some intensive studies and experimentations, health experts were able to come up with the concept of incorporating cross training in order to overcome or break the monotony or dullness in an exercise program.

Cross training refers to the integration of diverse movements or activities into a person’s conventional exercise routine. The main purpose of incorporating cross training into an exercise program is to avoid overdoing excess muscle damages and to put a stop to an imminent boredom.

Three of the most commonly used activities whenever a person decides to engage into cross training are swimming, running, and cycling.

In cross training, distance is one way to extend your activity as your condition improves. For this reason, you need to traverse a measured distance.

If possible, swim the course and measure the distance. If you will be using a running track, such courses usually are a quarter-mile per lap for a complete circuit.

Cross training offers a variety of benefits for fitness and fatloss. It builds up the strength and endurance of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels. It has also some tranquilizing effect on the nerves, and it burns up calories as much as it makes your “losing weight” more bearable.

Cross training has three basic components:

1. Endurance exercises to condition the heart, lungs, and blood vessels and to induce relaxation. These begin with a careful planned walking and jogging regimen, depending on fitness level.

2. Exercises to strengthen the muscles, particularly those important to good posture. These include some activities that are selected to encourage some people who are already burnt out with a particular routine.

3. Exercises to improve joint mobility and prevent or relieve aches and pains. These consist of a series of static stretching positions that are safe and effective for most of the people who wish to try to lose some fat.

Indeed, cross training is a great way to modify the concept of exercising and losing fat without having to endure monotonous activities. In fact, the idea of exercising is to like what you are doing, hence, if you engage into cross training, you will be aware of it that you have already achieve your desired weight.

Boiled down, cross training is, certainly, one way of having fun.

Speak to you soon

Trevor

Cayenne Pepper – Nature’s Gift

Cayenne is a natural herb, containing an ingredient called Capsicum, used for centuries in food and remedies alike.

Cayenne pepper has no ill side effects, only a sting, which is nature’s cure or relief for many ailments. 

Have you stopped to think lately, how many new diseases there are or how the old ones seem to be spreading and getting worse? How many people can you think of that have recently been diagnosed with; high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, high cholesterol, diabetes, ulcers and stomach problems, rheumatism, arthritis, leg and muscle cramps, bad circulation, etc, etc, etc.

With our technology of today this seems to be going the wrong way, we should be ridding the world of these persistent bugs and ailments, not creating super bugs, able to withstand the “antibiotic age” which in fact become immune to our onslaught of drugs and create even worse havoc in our lives than in our ancestors day, when in fact, they had minimum medical technology to fall back on.

I feel, it has a lot to do with our new age methods of food production and storage, mass producing vegetables and meat, using pesticides and preservatives, making the most amount of money off of a piece of land, whether for crops or livestock, we are raping the lands of nutrients, ending up with tasteless vegetables and fruit, with very little goodness left in them.

Even health conscious people, eating daily portions of vegetables and fruit bought from the local supermarket, are not getting the vitamins they think they are, allowing our vitamin deficient bodies to succumb to disease.

The method in which we cook our food is also a factor as we boil the goodness out of the vegetables and then throw the most nutritious part down the sink, or we use oils and fats to fry our food, bombarding the body with excess fats that our organs have difficulty in managing.

I always look back to the laws of nature, when trying to solve a problem, and in nature, near every poison there is a cure, admittedly, our “poisons” stem from years of deterioration, but there is no better time than now to turn that around.

Herbs are nature’s cure, and none better than Cayenne Pepper, also known as, chili, red chili and capsicum.

Dr John Christopher, one of the greatest herbalists of the 20th century researched and used Cayenne Pepper, he took a spoonful of Cayenne in hot water, three times a day for years and cured his hardening of the arteries, enabling him to even get a clean bill of health at the at the age of 45, when being examined for an insurance policy.
Sprinkled on food, drunk with warm water, mixed with oils for topical rubs, Cayenne Pepper has numerous uses in alleviating pain, you might think that sounds ironic, how can something that burns your mouth or skin, reduce pain. Cayenne has an ingredient called capsicum that creates heat, which increases blood flow. It is simple, any ailment in the body needs blood flow to heal, weather it is a sore stomach or wound on the arm, the quicker and the more good blood that gets to an infected area of the body, the faster the body is able to heal itself.

Cayenne Pepper is the most efficient blood-moving herb on the planet; so if there is a life or death situation, know your Cayenne Pepper’s potential for stopping heart attacks, strokes and profuse bleeding. Cayenne balances the blood pressure in the body, equalizing and restoring balance of circulation, saving lives when at risk of bleeding out due to severe injury, stopping the flow of blood in seconds.

A Cayenne tincture, taken regularly can help to rebuild the heart, or in the case of a heart attack, a few dropperfuls of the Cayenne heart tincture, directly under the tongue or in the mouth can kick start the heart.

It is an antiseptic, killing Pathogens, it is also a counter irritant, helping to relieve pain, Cayenne is a Stomachic, which helps to digest foods, being a carminative, helps to expel gas.

The stronger the cayenne the better, when starting to use cayenne, use it with caution, start with small amounts and build up to spoonfuls, letting your body get accustomed to the burning and slowly increase amounts.

The Cayenne Pepper we find in the supermarkets are usually 30 000 – 40 000 Scoville heat units (SHU – a measure used to rate the heat of Cayenne), which is not advisable to use for the above remedies as it is weak and often has carrier and other impurities or additives. Look for pure Cayenne, with a SHU (Scoville Heat Unit) of  90 000 and up, there are numerous chili’s that can be used but the hotter ones being African Bird Eye (100 000 –200 000 SHU) and Habanera chili (300 000 and up).

These are good to use in the tinctures along with Hawthorn Berry for heart and Lobelia Seed Pod for breathing problems.

Much relief has been obtained using Cayenne Pepper oil for sprains, bruises, muscle aches and pains, bone pain and even Osteo and Rheumatoid arthritis, and many more aches and pains. Each Cayenne remedy is adjusted slightly for different ailments, I will be posting these different tincture formulas and methods on the blog from time to time, trying to help individual and specific needs.

Speak to you soon

Trevor