Why diet products and sugar-free products can make you fat and stressed
| 10 December 2009
Sitting done at one of the beachside cafes I can´t resist looking at what other people eat. At the table next to me the waiter came out and politely asked what drinks they would like. "I´ll have a Coke. No you better make it a Diet Coke. I´ve got to start watching what I eat and drink, " she confessed to her friend and the waiter.
"Yeah, you better make mine a Diet one as well," added her friend with a touch of guilt.
Many of us are opting for various diet products and artificial sweeteners because we think that they are a healthier alternative for a snack or treat. It definitely is beneficial to reduce the amount of processed sugar in your diet; however concern is mounting over the side effects from these artificial sweeteners. They may be doing you more harm than good.
Pay Attention To How You Eat…It’s As Important As What You Eat
| 26 November 2009
Many of our meals today are eaten on the run as we try to multi-task in the belief that we are getting more out of our day. Many benefits of the nutritious meals that we eat on the go are wasted because of one fact that busy people tend to ignore...
… We are not what we eat. We are what we absorb from what we eat.
Before you start to slam-dunk a tuna and salad sandwich down your throat while running around like a chicken with its head cut off, please consider this:
How your diet may be causing a lot of your aches and pains
| 01 November 2009
Robert came into my office in intense pain. “I had just been doing a bit of painting the day before and I woke up this morning and could hardly move. My back is killing me.”
“Have you had this before,” I asked.
“Oh, yes,” he replied in a rather matter-of-fact manner. “I seem to have a very sensitive body. This seems to happen every couple of months. Nothing much has to happen to trigger it. If it’s not my back, next time it could be my shoulder or knee.”
Apart from the obvious physical signs I found in his examination, his medical history gave me an indication as to why his body was so sensitive to recurrent aches and pains… He had a history of asthma.
Now many of you may ask why is a history of asthma an indication of why his body is so sensitive to aches and pains.
It is because like aches and pains, asthma is an inflammatory condition. If you have more than inflammatory condition it could mean that you have a pro-inflammatory diet … a diet that encourages inflammation.
Here is a list of other inflammatory conditions that could indicate that you have a pro- inflammatory diet: