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In the fast pace world today most people have settled for fast food. Which in turn has put them on a fast pace to poor health like obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes and many more. I was a victim to congestive heart failure. Now I eat good nutritious food that is low in fat and sodium. I had a weight loss of 45 lbs just by changing my eating habits and now I feel great because of a low fat, low sodium diet.

The average American eats 6 to 18 grams of salt daily. Your body only needs a half gram or 500mg of salt each day. Here are some of the foods you should limit or stop eating. Ham, bacon, corned beef, luncheon meats, frozen, pre-breaded, pre-fried or smoked fish, canned foods, catsup, mayonnaise and store bought salad dressings.

Here are a few tips that will help. Avoid adding table salt to food. Use salt substitutes or herbs and spices. Eat fresh lean meats, poultry, fish, unsalted pork, egg whites and tuna canned in water. Choose unsalted nuts and use dried peas and beans. Use products made without added salt, rinse canned vegetables, beans and fish.

You also need to eat foods that are high in the good cholesterol or HDL. Foods like fresh fish, avocados, olive oil, soy beans, tofu, raw hazel nuts and almonds. These foods are high in good cholesterol HDL and help reduce bad cholesterol LDL. Also look for foods labeled organic for higher quality products.

Eating food that is low in cholesterol, fat and sodium dose not have to be boring. I have learned how to cook using various herbs and spices to liven up the flavor. When looking for new recipes I came across a great web site for cooking quick and easy foods. It also has links to other great web sites for recipes. Just go to http://www.quick-and-easyfoods.com on how to prepare great healthy and nutritious meals. You can even find vegetarian and low carb recipes to fit your needs.

Lawrence James has become an expert in healthy, nutritious foods out of necessity. He learned he had congestive heart failure after going to the hospital emergency room with swollen ankles and shortness of breath. After having a defibulator implanted he had to change his eating habits. At first the low fat low sodium meals he prepared lacked flavor and were not appealing. Over time, trial and error plus the help of the recipe web site http://www.quick-and-easyfoods.com he learned he could prepare delicious, healthy food. He now wants to help others continue or regain their health learning to prepare healthy, delicious and nutritious meals.

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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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