Sugar Can Paralyze You

…..Sugar can assist you in murdering yourself….sounds bananas right?

Not really…..

Synthetic sugar can paralyze the immune system for four hours.  Is that cool? No it isn’t.  Being that we as humans encounter toxic environments, whether it’s our water supply, polluted cities, or the relationships we engage in, we cannot afford to lose FOUR hours of immunity shut down.  Finding this out has got me to thinking, the typical Standard American Diet (SAD), how ironic, is mostly composed of sugar from when you wake up to when you go to sleep. Let’s look at a realistic example:

You have the typical child in your community who wakes up eating a sugary cereal that claims to give more calcium (we’ll get on calcium on a later day), that’s immunity shutdown from 7-11 a.m.  The child’s immunity system, hopefully, will get back rolling at 11 a.m. How exciting is that? It gets an hour to regenerate! NOT REALLY, when 12 p.m. rolls around aka LUNCH TIME the child consumes some unidentified food on a tray accompanied with a cookie or some candy. (Let’s not even get on the snacking in between meals).  More immunity shutdown from 12-4 p.m.  FOUR MORE HOURS!  Between dinner and lunch there is maybe four to six hours to do homework, extracurricular, or chores.  This is another time where major snacking takes place, with the snacks from the corner store or neighborhood fast food restaurant.  MORE IMMUNITY SHUT DOWN from 2-6 p.m. Do we notice a trend?  Last but not least the child’s favorite meal of the day, dinner is followed up more cakes and candies at the child’s discretion.  Sugar consumption may last until the child hits the pillow.  The precious immune system is probably damn near in a coma-state and will regenerate around 2 a.m. while the child is sleeping.  With all that was consumed throughout the day, the child has a properly functioning immune system between 2-6 a.m. THERE IS 24 HOURS IN A DAY THOUGH!  That’s not cool.  We need to cut back.

Nonfunctional immune system can open our bodies to host dis-ease and prevent us from fighting the free radicals that we may encounter, leaving us with illnesses and a frequent trips to the doctor with the “I don’t how I got this!” face, and taking medications unnecessarily.

I gave the child example because children usually eat what their adult influence is consuming.  Let’s try to incorporate more vegetables and fruits as snacks as oppose to the corner store favorites.  This is just a minor adjustment that can be made to builder our immune system.

Peace.

 

Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor, I like to read.

Recipe: Spicy Kale Salad

Eating healthy is fun.  A key thing to remember when preparing food is color.  Making salads are a healthy way to get creative with combining different color vegetables and creating your dressing.

 

Spicy Kale Salad

**You will need a simple blender to prepare this meal.

 

Ingredients:

Kale

Mushrooms

Red Bell Pepper

Orange Bell Pepper

Cucumbers

Squash

Raw Sunflower Seeds

Yellow Squash

 

Salad Dressing

8-10  Brown Tomatoes

3 Cloves of Garlic

Cayenne Pepper

Curry Powder

2 tbsp. of water

Lemon

 

Directions:

1.  Cut up vegetables to desired size and arrange to your liking onto your favorite plate.

2.  Prepare spicy tomato dressing:

• Scoop out the juice from the middle of 8-16 brown tomatoes.
• Pour tomato juice into the blender.
• Add three cloves of chopped garlic.
• Squeeze the juice from one lemon.
• Add three pinches of your favorite curry powder.
• Add 2 tbsp. of water.
• Add four pinches of cayenne pepper.

BLEND to your desired texture. (Note: the less water used the thicker consistency of the dressing)

3.  Pour dressing lightly over vegetables.

4.  Sprinkle handful of raw sunflower seeds over vegetables.

Enjoy

…..Herbs from A to Z, Spotlight: Cayenne

Herb of the Day: Cayenne

Latin Name: Capsicum

A.K.A.>>>> Cayenne Pepper, Red Pepper, Capsicum, Chilli Pepper, African Pepper, Bird Pepper, Spur Pepper

Benefits of Cayenne:

-Builds up resistance at the beginning of a cold

-Helpful in stomach and lower bowel pains

-Improves circulation to extremities

-Good for rheumatism and arthritis

-Provides protection against stomach ulcers

-Helps boost metabolism

-Stimulates blood flow

-Aid in clearing the sinuses

-Causes sweating

-Equalizes blood pressure

-Boosts vitamin C levels

-Prevents cancers and ulcers

-Heals gall bladders

-Shrinks Hemorrhoids

-Has antifungal properties

Cayenne is available as an:

>Over the counter capsule

>Ointment

>Tincture

***Be careful not to overdose, too much cayenne pepper can cause vomiting and stomach pains.

Peace~

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, I just use common sense.

Hi My Name is ***** and I eat f*^*@d up! Realization and Accountability

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, I just share information.

Who is responsible for you health?

Is it really your doctor’s duty to make sure that you’re healthy?

Let’s start this post with some truth.  You are responsible for health. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR HEALTH. Es responsable de su salud! Three times a charm!

Before any changes can occur, we as individuals have to admit that we are accountable for our health.  There may be some governmental underlying factors that can inhibit our health but other than that SELF is responsible for HEALTH.  Health is a vital component to our well-being , a component that often gets put on the back burner.  The crazy part is individuals aren’t even aware that they need to take care of their health.  Health is one of those things that’ll get taken care of when the first diagnosis of high blood pressure, diabetes, or cancer happens. Excuse the bluntness, but it’s true.

So what’s with the delay?

As a people, we invest hundreds and thousands of dollars into clothes, shoes, electronics, silly fetishes but when it comes to our health we give the famous excuse “so-and-so that cause too much”.  What is a $320 organic grocery bill compared to $10,000′s of cancer treatment? You do the math and tell me what you find.

Yes, eating healthy is a discipline.  Just like we’re conditioned to eat cheetos, doritos, little debbie snacks, and arizona juices, we have to re-train our taste buds to consume fresh fruits and vegetables.

But the first step is to admit, “Damn I eat kind of f****d up!” Once you admit that, then start to take those beginning steps to transition into a more healthy lifetyle.

Let’s take this as FA (Food Anonymous), repeat after me:

“My name is ______________and I eat f****d up!”

The first step is admitting you have a problem and realizing that you need to be responsible for your health.

Peace~

Hello Beautiful Spirits

Prepare for this journey.