Dailey Health Tip
If you live in Wisconsin, take an occasional Sunday off from watching Packer games to help lower your blood pressure. (just kidding)
Daily Health Tip
Not all vitamins are created equal! In fact many of the cheap “mega dose” vitamins
for sale over the counter in drugstores and other outlets are downright bad for
you due to use of dyes, fillers and other ingredients. A whole food vitamin, even small amounts, is
the best way to supplement the diet. When
in comes to supplements you are always better off getting a medium amount of
the good stuff than 8000% of some vitamin your body only needs a small amount
of at a time. For an excellent extended
version of this health tip check out this link…
Daily Health Tip
Several research papers have come out lately confirming
that a few cups of coffee a day is actually good for you! The primary benefits seem to be to the heart,
likely due to the high antioxidant levels in coffee, and the mind. Coffee consumption is being linked to Alzheimer’s
resistance and it seems that caffeine in small to moderate amounts may be
responsible for this and keeping the mind sharp. Keep in mind that while
some is good, a pot or two is likely still not the best thing for your health (and you would be horribly unproductive from all the bathroom breaks).
Daily Health Tip
Take a brisk 10-25 minute walk every day. Even this short period of exercise boosts
your mood, increases circulation and improves your heart function. Gather up a group at work or in your neighborhood
and challenge each other to walk every day.
Introducing the Dailey Health Tip!!
In addition to the tasty recipes and information provided
here we are also going to add a daily health tip. These are little things you can do each day
to improve your health. Too often we try
to change a lot of things at once (think New Year’s Resolutions) only to have
it all come crashing down several weeks later.
Look at it this way, if you made even a 1% change in your health a week
for a whole year how much healthier would you be in a year? That small stuff adds up. So with no further ado the first “Daily
Health Tip”!
Almond Flour Breading
This versatile recipe is a way to replace flour breading
when cooking chicken, frying fish or making anything that requires a
breading. Try adding various spices and
seasonings to mix it up a bit.
1 teaspoon of Himalayan sea salt
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon parmesan cheese
Organic Vs. Conventional
A new report summarizing numerous
studies done over the past several years came out yesterday with headlines
saying that, in effect, organic food is no better than conventional food. This argument is not new although the premise
is a little misguided. I want people to
know that regardless of how a food is produced there are 2 main considerations
that need to be made. The first is the
quality of the soil the food is grown in.
Health soil will make for healthy plants regardless if the seed used is “certified
organic” or not. Healthy soil is the key
to nutritious produce and always will be.
I prefer organic seeds and produce because you are then guaranteed that
the plant is not GMO but all things being equal soil quality, not the source of
the seed will determine most of all if the plant that grows contains many of
the nutrients the human body needs.
The second element that needs to be addressed is if synthetic
pesticides/herbicides have been used and if so how much? There is no argument that putting poisons in
our bodies is bad for us. I wouldn’t
take a sip of something designed to kill mass numbers of bugs and that is what
is sprayed on your food with conventional produce. Organic produce will almost always have significantly
less pesticide and herbicide residues on them and they should be of the non-synthetic
and less toxic variety or they will have none at all. To me
that means it’s healthier just because it is less toxic.
It is important to remember with our health, as with all
things in life, it is the little choices made day in and day out that
matter. Selecting organic vs
conventional produce may not make or break your health today. It may not even
matter in a year but over time those residues combined with the other stresses
put on your system add up. If I have the
choice I take the organic because I know it is more likely to have higher
levels of nutrients because it was raised on healthier soil and has less toxicity
from pesticide residues.
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