Also have you heard of all the great properties packed in the Acai berry that has now been classed as a SuperFood? And the many ways it can benefit you by adding it to your diet.

The little known Acai berry is jam packed with goodness and contains essential fatty acids, amino acids and the highest concentration of anti-oxidants than any other food.

No wonder that the Acai berry – (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) has been titled one of the most powerful and nutritious foods in the world – not bad for a small blue berry.

The Acai berry grows wild and abundantly at the top of the Euterpe Oleracea, a native tree of the Brazilian Amazon and Central American tropical forest in the flood plains.

The only draw back with the Acai berry that I can see is that it is not readily available in most supermarkets. This is wholly due to the fact that the Acai has a very short shelf life and also the period they are harvested in, keeping the price of the fresh berry quite high.

So with the Acai’s popularity increasing as its good health benefits become more widely known, other forms are easily obtainable from reputable health stores and chemists in freeze dried, capsules, tablets, juice and pulp form.

Anti-oxidants are renowned for combating the effects of premature ageing and with the Acai berry’s remarkable concentration, really does help. In fact the berry contains 10 times more anti-oxidants than red grapes and between 10 – 30 times more of the good anthocyanins contained in red wine.

The fatty acid in Acai is very rich in monounsaturated oleic acid and similar to that of olive oil. Oleic acid is beneficial and important for many reasons to the body.

Oleic acid in the Acai helps increase penetration of the cell membrane by omega-3 oils, making the membranes suppler, and together with the cell membrane being more supple aids the efficiency of neurotransmitters, hormones and insulin receptors.

High insulin levels are linked with ageing, as the higher levels of insulin creates an inflammatory state in the body and inflammation causes ageing, so the Acai can help combat this.

Not only is ageing affected by the Acai’s synergy of monounsaturated fats, but its dietary fibre and phytosterols also help to promote good health of the cardiovascular and digestive system.

The Acai also has a near perfect complex of essential amino acids and together with its valuable trace minerals are excellent and vital for proper muscle contraction and regeneration, this slows the effects of damage to the skin that cause the signs of ageing.

What more needs to be said about this fantastic berry, well as the Acai contains phytosterol – (Beta-sitosterol) that inhibits cholesterol absorption, allowing it to be naturally removed with bodily waste instead of being stored as fat, is yet another good health benefit.

So by adding Acai to your diet and eating a varied diet of nutritionally good food for good health is the main stay to keeping your skin supple and looking young, as with a varied diet you can obtain the many vitamins and nutrients needed for your body’s daily fight against ageing.

The acai berry contains a potent pack of goodness to fight not only against the ravages of ageing but many other conditions. So for your body’s whole wellbeing adding Acai to your daily diet can only benefit you.

Acai is the number one good food for good health.

Sandra & Ted

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Well ladies if you are like me, weight loss is one of the things that is always at the forefront of my mind.

Well at least the bikini season is over now – phew – but alas with good old Christmas just round the corner and all its rich food and trimmings, alarm bells are ringing that weight loss will be the New Years resolution – again.

I always eat a varied diet of good nutritional food, as you may know our family motto is ‘good food good health’ and Christmas is no exception, but this is the time of year that little lapses occur.

Well scientists have found that our modern way of eating is adding to our waistlines and that it is not what we eat but the way we eat it that is making us fatter.

I can remember by Grandma saying to me so many times – chew your food ten times before you swallow if you want to stay slim and slender – if only I had listened!

Apparently scientists have proven wolfing down your dinner can in fact treble the risk of being overweight, this factor is probably very significant in the current obesity epidemic here in the UK and America alike.

It was found that fast eating habits pile on the pounds at an accelerated rate, even when taken into account the type – either healthy good food or ‘junk foods’ – and amount of calories that were consumed, making weight loss difficult.

Well, I know for a fact my bad habits started at school, when the quicker you ate your dinner the more play time you had, but ok I am not that bad any more, but the pressure of having enough time to fit everything in of an evening after work means I am probably still eating faster than I should.

Our brains signals are impeded with the constant impact of fast eating until feeling full, overriding the brains normal signals which usually encourage self control.

Most of us are either trying to maintain or lose weight and are hopping from one weight loss programme to another with little success.

The stomach takes about 20 minutes for it to register being full, so by eating slower and slightly smaller portions can really help with weight loss.

Experts are saying chewing each mouthful up to 20 times really does work as the longer you chew your food for, the fuller you feel.

So just by eating slower you may not always need the dessert you normally have straight away, and it is generally much better to eat smaller meals more often anyway. You will still get the great feeling of having enjoyed a full meal but your stomach will be used to eating less, and will give you that full signal much earlier which aids weight loss.

Complete proper chewing of your food breaks down food molecules, making them more easily exposed to saliva that starts the process of digestion.

Other factors that also contribute to weight gain when eating is the couch potato effect, watching TV at the same time as eating stops the brain getting the signals about the food.

Talking and eating at the same time is definitely not only bad manners, but also makes digestion more difficult because of the air swallowed, again not helping with your weight loss

People who eat until full and eat quickly generally have a higher BMI – body mass index, this is the scoring system that measures levels of obesity, also they have a higher total energy intake than people who do not eat quickly and until full.

Eating slowly allows feedback from the brain saying ‘this is enough’ which helps us to stop eating before we are ‘literally full’. This is the same for men and women alike.

So all we need to do is to re-programme our brains and stomachs and then we should be able to attain some weight loss whilst being able to actually taste and savour the food we eat, instead of just shovelling food down our necks for the sake of it and still not getting the feel good factor that should come with all our meals.

What more I like about this is the fact that we do not need to go out and buy any new special cooking equipment or join any weight loss group, although using this in conjunction with a diet programme can only add benefits.

I admit meals that I eat out are often smaller portions and no better good food than ones I cook at home and yet I feel more satisfied after. This must be down to the more relaxed we are at eating with not having to rush as nobody pays a fortune for a meal to wolf it down and bolt out the door, we take our time and the feel good factor really does kick in, so that is another health benefit as well as the weight loss

This really is common sense that everybody seems to have lost since probably the 1960 / 70s. Family meals are the way to go with chatting in between eating, making it a pleasurable time.

As always a diet of good food for good health is best, as with a varied diet of good food enables your body to receive all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients needed for your good health of body and mind alike.

So the good advantages of a trained stomach not needing so much food to feel full not only make us lighter with the weight loss but should also make the weekly shop lighter on the bank balance.

So it’s thumbs up to slow eating of good food for good health.
Go and try these easy tips and I bet you will achieve some weight loss

Sandra & Ted

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One of the most important things we all have to do is to keep our cholesterol levels down and Policosanol is a highly recommended natural supplement that can help with this.

We should all try to eat a varied diet of nutritional good food for good health to naturally help keep cholesterol levels in check, but sometimes with our fast paced lives this gets overlooked and a little help is needed.

Firstly because of its effectiveness in lowering cholesterol in a natural way, lack of side effects and of course safety. Policosanol is an extraction from sugar cane and has been shown to lower LDL – low density lipoprotein – (the bad cholesterol) naturally.

Policosanol has also been shown to increase HDL – high density lipoprotein – (good cholesterol) while lowering triglyceride levels.

It can be devastating to find that you have high cholesterol. There must be a better way to lower your cholesterol, rather than turning to high doses of drugs!

Before looking at the natural ways to reduce cholesterol you must first understand exactly why reducing cholesterol is so important.

Firstly, when your cholesterol level is lowered you greatly reduce your overall risk of having serious cardiovascular conditions, such as a heart attack or stroke.

Also, lowering cholesterol reduces the formation of new plaque in your arteries as well as reducing the existing plaque you have.

Finally, the plaque build up in your arteries is in danger of rupturing causing serious problems but by lowering the overall cholesterol level helps prevent this complication.

The first thing to do to naturally improve your health by lowering cholesterol is to reduce the amount of calories that are in your diet from fat.  Eating a diet of good food for good health allows your body to receive all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals needed to keep cholesterol level in check, encouraging a flourishing digestive system for whole body well being.

Avoid over eating any form of food as your body turns unneeded food into fat that in turn raises your cholesterol rate, this fat is then stored and adds to weigh gain.

There are several holistic medications or herbal remedies you can take to lower the level of the “bad” LDL cholesterol in your body, but Policosanol is the number one herbal lowering cholesterol remedy.

Garlic and fish oil are two natural items you can take to improve your overall heart health. Fish oil contains helpful fats that lower cholesterol, particularly in women and also help prevent blood clots.

Exercise is the main key to overall heart health. While it may not have a direct correlation to cholesterol, exercise does help keep the body from building up too much fat which will eventually lower the level of LDL in your blood stream.

Studies seem to indicate that those who are smokers and quit the habit also see a lowered risk of cholesterol.

Cholesterol is the beginning stage of atherosclerosis where lipid [cholesterol] plaques build within the structure of arteries. The build up of this plaque narrows the vessel wall thereby limiting the flow of blood. The slower speed of blood flowing through the arteries helps lay down more plaque as well.

Help lower your cholesterol naturally by increasing your daily exercise. Exercise requires energy and energy comes from sugars, fats and proteins. When the sugars and proteins are burned, fats must be converted into useable forms of energy.

The liver steps up by making good cholesterol – HDL- which goes around and picks up bad cholesterol – LDL converting this into useable energy, by exercising your energy requirements increase thereby lowering cholesterol naturally.

Fruits and vegetables contain good amounts of soluble fibre, pectin and gums that actually binds to cholesterol removing it from your body. Ensuring you eat your five-a-day is a great way to increase your intake.

Limit your intake of animal fat foods as even Stedman’s Medical Dictionary said cholesterol is the most abundant steroid in animal tissues.

Policosanol is sugar wax that has been found to be a safe herbal supplement without the side effects of statin drugs. It does not turn off the cholesterol forming reaction as strongly as statin drugs.

Cholesterol is a waxy white substance found in blood plasma, our bodies do need a certain amount of cholesterol to be formed as it is essential to life especially HDL the good cholesterol. Policosanol has also been shown to increase the levels of this whereas statins do not.

One of the downsides of the Statin drug is that if a drug is lowering cholesterol without you doing anything why not keep chomping on fatty foods?  Yes Statin drugs limit the production of cholesterol but they do not limit the intake of cholesterol, this is where everyone needs to be re-educated on the good food for good health principles.

Also statin drugs seriously limit the production of the Coenzyme Q10, so if you are on statin drugs take CoQ10. Statin drugs are also believed to limit the conversion of active Vitamin D so increasing this is helpful.

So if you want to lower cholesterol naturally these healthy steps will no doubt help you, eating healthy alternatives when you need a quick fix instead of calorie loaded fast foods full of harmful sugars and fats will make a big difference.

Do not stop your statin drugs without consulting with your doctor.

So don’t forget that eating a varied diet of nutritional good food for good health benefits your whole well being of body and mind alike.

Sandra & Ted

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Today we are bombarded with everyday foods now being labelled ‘superfoods’ which is excellent for our good health, but Acai berries are not on the tip of most people’s tongue and yet are classed as having the highest amount of anti-oxidant properties currently.

Not only this but the Acai berry (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) is also claimed to be one of the most powerful and nutritious food in the world.

The Acai berry grows wild in the tropical forests in Central America and Brazilian Amazon, where it is abundantly found at the top of the native tree Euterpe Oleracea in the flood plains there.

The indigenous people of these areas have long known the many good health benefits of the Acai berry and as a good food have used it to treat and cure many ailments as well as using it as a good health enhancing food.

Acai berries are not found readily in your local supermarket although a few have stocked it, as the berries have a very short shelf life and harvest period, but can be purchased from reputable gourmet stores, chemists and good health food outlets in freeze dried, tablet, capsule, juice or fruit pulp form year round.

Obviously the best form of Acai is the fresh berry but this is very difficult to get hold of and expensive, the freeze dried is the next best thing but the pulp and juice is also excellent but be sure and only purchase 100% pure juice that contains no added sugar or artificial ingredients and preservatives.

By adding any form of Acai berry such as freeze dried Acai -  that is a good food for good health for you and your overall health, can only benefit your well being of body and mind alike with its fantastic amount of anti-oxidants that promote good health of your liver and immune system.

The flavour of the Acai berry is similar to the blueberry yet with a chocolate twist to it – that should suit many people although it can be quite bitter, so if you have a sweet tooth the capsule or tablet form may be better suited to you.

The Acai berry is also packed with fibre, in fact a total of 44% of the fruit mass is actually fibre, so not only does it have the highest anti-oxidant properties it also is one of the richest fruits in fibre as well, another good health benefit for you.

The high concentration of anti-oxidants in Acai berries are great for protecting cells from free radicals – these are then unstable molecules that cause damage in our bodies.

Being a by-product of normal bodily functions, free radicals are constantly being formed with antioxidants destroying them throughout our life span, a constant circle.

The problem with free radicals is that they can accumulate too much when our body’s are exposed to abnormal toxins such as smoking, pesticides, alcohol, pollution, radiation or just being low on anti-oxidants, greatly exceeding the ability the body has to fight then.

These free radicals then attack healthy cells and invade healthy tissues, our health then suffers as a result of this, so keeping a good diet rich in healthy anti-oxidants is key to good health, and the Acai berry is second to none for this.

Let’s hope that with more awareness of this super-food and its powerful properties, the little known Acai berry, whether it is freeze dried Acai or one of the other products forms, it will become a popular fruit to everyone, increasing the anti-oxidants in your every day diet.Take your acai berries today

Sandra & Ted

http://www.goodfoodgoodhealthforyou.com

http://www.thetalkingbooksite.com

Today we are bombarded with everyday foods now being labelled ‘superfoods’ which is excellent for our good health, but Acai berries are not on the tip of most people’s tongue and yet are classed as having the highest amount of anti-oxidant properties currently.

Not only this but the Acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) is also claimed to be one of the most powerful and nutritious food in the world.

The Acai grows wild in the tropical forests in Central America and Brazilian Amazon, where it is abundantly found at the top of the native tree Euterpe Oleracea in the flood plains there.

The indigenous people of these areas have long known the many good health benefits of the Acai and as a good food have used it to treat and cure many ailments as well as using it as a good health enhancing food.

Acai berries are not found readily in your local supermarket although a few have stocked it, as the berries have a very short shelf life and harvest period, but can be purchased from reputable gourmet stores, chemists and good health food outlets in freeze dried, tablet, capsule, juice or fruit pulp form year round.

Obviously the best form of Acai is the fresh berry but this is very difficult to get hold of and expensive, the freeze dried is the next best thing but the pulp and juice is also excellent but be sure and only purchase 100% pure juice that contains no added sugar or artificial ingredients and preservatives.

By adding any form of Acai berry such as freeze dried Acai -  that is a good food for good health for you and your overall health, can only benefit your well being of body and mind alike with its fantastic amount of anti-oxidants that promote good health of your liver and immune system.

The flavour of the Acai berry is similar to the blueberry yet with a chocolate twist to it – that should suit many people although it can be quite bitter, so if you have a sweet tooth the capsule or tablet form may be better suited to you.

The Acai berry is also packed with fibre, in fact a total of 44% of the fruit mass is actually fibre, so not only does it have the highest anti-oxidant properties it also is one of the richest fruits in fibre as well, another good health benefit for you.

The high concentration of anti-oxidants in Acai are great for protecting cells from free radicals – these are then unstable molecules that cause damage in our bodies.

Being a by-product of normal bodily functions, free radicals are constantly being formed with antioxidants destroying them throughout our life span, a constant circle.

The problem with free radicals is that they can accumulate too much when our body’s are exposed to abnormal toxins such as smoking, pesticides, alcohol, pollution, radiation or just being low on anti-oxidants, greatly exceeding the ability the body has to fight then.

These free radicals then attack healthy cells and invade healthy tissues, our health then suffers as a result of this, so keeping a good diet rich in healthy anti-oxidants is key to good health, and the Acai berry is second to none for this.

Let’s hope that with more awareness of this super-food and its powerful properties, the little known Acai berry, whether it is freeze dried Acai or one of the other products forms, it will become a popular fruit to everyone, increasing the anti-oxidants in your every day diet.

Take your acai berry today

Sandra & Ted

http://www.goodfoodgoodhealthforyou.com

http://www.thetalkingbooksite.com