Vegetarian Information

It is well established that soy is one of the healthiest foods around and an important part of every healthy person’s diet. So now many people want to know how to eat it. Soy is available in so many different forms that people can surely find many tasty ways to incorporate it into their diet. Try these ideas.

Adding soybeans in the form of edamame into your diet will be easy. Buy frozen edamame and instead of steaming green beans or broccoli, steam edamame. Then serve it hot and lightly salted as an appetizer before the meal, or as a side dish with the main meal.

Soy nuts can be mixed with other nuts, like pistachios or peanuts, to eat accompanied by a nice fruit drink, cocktail, or a beer. Offer it to your friends when they come over to play cards or before a nice a meal.

Soy milk can replace cow’s milk to pour over your cereal in the morning or to complete any recipe that requires milk, like pancakes. Soy milk is delicious to drink alone or to pour over a bowl of strawberries.

Tofu comes in soft or firm textures. The softest form blends nicely into a homemade fruit smoothie, instantly improving the nutritional value of the smoothie by adding protein and calcium. Tofu can be added to all stir fry recipes, either in addition to meat or replacing the meat.

At restaurants, choosing the vegetarian burger is an easy way to get soy, as they are made from some form of soybeans, often tofu.

Maybe the simplest way to eat soy products is to simply purchase soy protein powder, soy meal replacement bars, soy shakes or soy supplements. Take them to work to eat with lunch or a snack. It’s worth the effort and your body will thank you if you use these easy ways to incorporate soy into your diet.

About the author:
Fabien Ponson invites you to read some more articles about soy products on the website All Soy Products.

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Axiom Number One - Nourish your body.

Probably the most important and least understood axiom of
successful weight loss is that you have to nourish your body.
The main reason why most people are overweight is that they are
malnourished. In our modern grocery stores are all kinds of
processed and packaged foods. The nutritional value of any
food substance is inversely proportional to the amount of processing. The more a food is processed, the less nutrition
is present.

Trace minerals and elements

Food grown by today’s commercial methods are not grown in
healthy soil. The soil is essentially dead and there is no
life (nitrogen)sources in that soil. The nitrogen is added
to the soil as liquid fertilizer along with a lot of not so
good for your health -pesticides. This approach to farming
may produce some great harvests, by weight, but not by
nutrition standards. A lot of what the human body needs
is lost in this type of food production.

Incomplete foods

When you eat a lot of heavily processed food grown in dead
soil you do not get all the nutrients that the human body
needs. You end up hungry all the time so you eat more of
the same foods. In addition to being incomplete foods, they
more often than not have added sweeteners and sometimes
even added chemicals like aspartame (Nutrasweet). The body
has to do something with all the added incomplete calories
so it turns them into fat.

Nutritional density

When you eat whole foods that have been grown in soil that
has not been depleted by the commercial farming process, you
are getting all the nutrients that you need. You finish a
meal and feel satisfied. Often when you finish a really
whole and complete meal you end up feeling like you don’t need
to eat for a week or so. On the other hand, when you eat
incomplete foods, you are usually hungry as soon as your
stomach empties, about thirty minutes.

Why organic is cheaper

While good organic produce may cost more than the non-organic
variety, it is still cheaper to eat organic. This is because
the organic foods actually satisfy you and will turn off your
hunger. The non-organic foods do not turn off your hunger
and usually you end up eating a lot more of them, and seem to
be always hungry. This is not to mention all the pesticides
that are included in the non-organic foods. Chemotherapy is
not cheap these days.

The wrong kind of weight loss

Promises of lost pounds in weeks are rampant. The
problem with all of these is that the biochemistry of the
human takes time to put weight on -and to take it off. You
may drop a few pounds on some low “carbohydrate diet” but
you are only losing water and lean muscle mass, exactly
what you don’t want to lose. While the scale may be
important, your health and nutrition are much more important.
A diet consisting of whole organic fruits, vegetables and
complex carbohydrates with no added sweeteners will nourish
your body while you lose weight without hunger.

Summary

The mainstay of any successful diet program has to be feeding
the human body what it needs. In order to accomplish that
today, you have to eat organic whole foods, preferably one
good meal a day. This will go a long way to slow down your
appetite and make it easier to resist all those tempting
nutritionally bereft hollow calories out there.

The MericleDiet … Is your clear and easy path to whole food
organic meals on short notice. To visit the MericleDiet
follow the link below:

http://www.DrMericle.com

Please stay tuned for the next installment in this
series -Control Your Hunger.

Thanks for your time.

Copyright © John Mericle 2005 All Rights Reserved

DrMericle.com is devoted to achieving optimal health and peak performance through diet and lifestyle change. Dr. Mericle brings together a unique blend of formal training in organic chemistry and biochemistry, medical education, 29 marathons, 3 Hawaii Ironman competitions and a lot of practical real life experience.

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Arthritis treatment using diet is one of the most popular and successful types of arthritis treatment.

Here I describe 6 types of arthritis diets that are effective as arthritis treatment strategies.

1. The underlying causes of arthritis for many people is food sensitivities. If you are one of these people, finding out your exact food sensitivities and eliminating these problem foods from your diet can work miracles. The ALCAT blood test is one way to discover if you have any food sensitivities and if so, exactly what they are. Selectively eliminating any suspected problem foods from your diet for a week and then systematically reintroducing them, with at least 24 hours between each reintroduction, is another.

2. Specific foods have anti-inflammatory properties. Including the spices tumeric, ginger, and cumin in your diet, for instance, calm inflammation without the negative side effects of many prescription arthritis drugs.

3. Poor digestion is another underlying cause of arthritis. Healing the digestive tract can often heal arthritis. The types of bacteria that flourish in a health digestive system are called probiotics. Taking probiotic pills or eating foods rich in probiotics (such as miso, homemade sauerkraut, live culture yogurt and kefir, and kim chi) are one way to bring the digestive tract into a state of greater health. This is especially true if you have ever taken antibiotics, even years ago.

4. Cabbage and cabbage juice contain a type of protein called mucins that coat the stomach and allow it to heal. Gelatin also has stomach healing properties, for the same reason.

5. A good broth made wine or vinegar in the broth to extract the gelatin and other joint building components of cartilage (such as chondroitin and glucosamine) from soup bones, is one cheap and very healing arthritis treatment. Sliced pork trotters, beef feet, rib bones, chicken carcasses and feet, and whole fish are all good starting materials for making arthritis treatment broths. Simmer the bones slowly for 4-24 hours to extract the maximum amount of arthritis healing nutrients. These broths are much cheaper and tastier than buying the same thing in pill form.

6. Arthritis is a disease of acidity. The body become acidic when we eat too much protein and carbohydrate, especially refined carbohydrates like sugar and white flour. Eating 80% of the diet as vegetables is a healthy way to bring the body back into the correct pH range. Once it comes back into the correct range, arthritis will often disappear.

If you are highly acidic, it may take several months or even a year or longer on an alkalizing diet (one high in vegetables, low in protein and carbohydrates) to reestablish a stable, healthy pH balance.

Substitute alfalfa and other teas which are alkalizing, for coffee and soft drinks which contribute to acidity.

It takes a while to neutralize all the excess acidity stored in the body. This is why some people have arthritis treatment success by going on a largely vegetarian diet for a year or more and resuming a vegetarian diet for a while whenever they feel like the arthritis might be starting to come back.

You can test your pH by swallowing several times first thing in the morning before you have eaten anything or had anything to drink. Then spit onto a piece of litmus paper. Ideally the pH of your saliva should be around 7 to 7.2. You can purchase litmus paper for testing the pH of saliva and/or urine in most health food stores.

CONCLUSION

Even if you are going the conventional arthritis treatment route, incorporating these arthritis treatment diet strategies can make a big difference in how well you feel.

Barbara Allan is publisher of the website ArthritisArticles.org where expert authors provide info on arthritis treatment and more. You can also get a free subscription to Barbara’s newsletter by clicking: arthritis treatment.

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