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Ingredients:

8 ounces frozen organic raspberries

8 ounces frozen organic blueberries

1 cup water

1/4 cup granulated sugar

Blend until blender noise changes (only a minute or so)

Serve immediately.

You can change the fruit to any type you prefer.

Ingredients:

2 orange peels quartered

2 Tablespoons granulated sugar

1 tablespoon orange zest

4 1/2 cups ice cubes 

Place in Vitamix in this order and in about 1 minute, the motor sound will change.

Stop machine and serve immediately.

Vitamix Blender Broccoli Soup

BROCCOLI SOUP

1 cup milk

1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen broccoli steamed

1-2 teaspoons diced onion

1/2 chicken or beef bouillon cube

I cook my onions a bit while the broccoli is steaming.

Add all ingredients to Vitamix blender.

Select low speed.

Turn machine on and then switch to high speed.

Blend for 6 minutes or until heavy steam escapes from the vented lid.

When removing the lid be very careful- steam is HOT.

Salt and pepper to taste.

SUGAR CONSUMPTION

cancer-loves-sugar   This is a You Tube video about Dr. Lustig and his findings about sugar and several studies on the impacts of sugar.

Video from Dr. Frank Lipman's website- about the addictive properties of sugar and how cancer loves sugar:

Dr. Lustig is a great advocate for healthier eating and consuming less sugar.  Why?  Sugar is often hidden in foods and HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) is just as bad as sugar.  Since the 70's sugar consumption has gone down but HFCS consumption has increased.  

We are hard wired to want fructose because cave men used to get fructose from small amounts of fruit, which contain fiber and slows metabolization of the fructose.

These sweetners are in everything!  HFCS has been shown to prove that sugar is linked to heart disease and stroke.  University of California Davis researchers have done nutrition studies on the impact of HFCS on blood.  Participants who ate HFCS (25% of their Calories) showed an increase in LDL cholesterol and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease.  The liver gets overloaded with fructose and converts the sugar to LDL cholesterol.  

Drinking sweetened drinks could be just as bad for the heart as is a fatty meal.  American diets reduced fats but metabolic syndrome, diabetes, cancer, heart disease have sky rocketed.  When fat is removed from food, it is replaced with sugar.

Other researchers at Harvard have proven that sugar is a catalyst for the growth of one third of common cancers.  Tumors have insulin receptors on them, which trigger the consumption of glucose and then glucose helps the tumor grow.  Scientists are working on creating medicines that block these receptors on tumors.

For now, the best thing to do is to reduce sugar.  Easy, right?  Hold on.....maybe not.  Sugar triggers dopamine in the brain and MRI's show areas in the brain have inceased blood supply and the reward or pleasure center in the brain is triggered in the same way that is when alcohol and drugs are consumed.  By scanning hundreds of volunteers, it has shown that the more sugar is eaten, the more it takes to trigger these reward centers.  More and more is consumed in order to get the same reward in the same way that people who are addicted to drugs need more and more to get the same impact.

The sugar industry says that eliminating sugar is not the solution.  They say eliminating Calories from other foods is the answer.  Dr. Lustig says that no more than 100 Calories of sugar a day is too much.  This is a public health crisis and sugar belongs in the same category as tobacco.  People need to limit their intake.

Eat Organic berries whenever possible.  They have a lot of nooks for pesticides to settle into and stay there.  90% of our strawberries come from non-organic farms in California.  In 2012, the EPA outlawed the use of methyl iodide in the U.S. but strawberries are not clear of other fumigants, which are linked to cancer.  Pesticide Action Network want California and federal officials to phase these chemicals out by 2020.  However, California Department of Pesticide Regulation says that a big shift will not happen unless strawberry growers have crop insurance or grants in case going to new forms of pesticide do not work for them.  Therefore, for now, stick to organic berries.

Foods You Should Never Eat

1- Aspartame

This artificial sweetner is thought by scientists to alter brain function.  

2- Food Dyes

Red 40, Yellow 6 and others (found in Sour Patch Kids for instance) have industrial chemicals in them and are known to cause cancer (development of tumors).

3- Nitrates

Synthetic nitrates (not those found naturally in foods) are used to prolong the life of food and is found in deli meats.  Nitrates can cause cancer and cause headaches and allergic reactions.  

4- Partially Hydrogenated Oil

This is a trans fat, which is an "ugly" fat.  It is in many processed foods to help prolong shelf life.  Buyer beware that if the label reads "0 trans fats," that does not mean that the food is trans fat free.  Legally speaking, food companies are permitted to list 0 grams as long as the food contains less than 0.5 grams.  Trans fats raises bad cholesterol or low-density lipo-proteins (LDL) and lowers the good cholesterol or high-density lipo-proteins (HDL) and it clogs arteries.

5- Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) and Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT)

BHA and BHT are used to preserve fats in foods and are synthetic antioxidants.  These chemicals are soluble in things such as methanol and ethanol.  They are also used to protect the fats found in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.  BHA is also found in petroleum products.  The chemical properties of BHA and BHT cause cancer.

6- Parabens

Parabens are found in baked goods, cosmetics, some processed meats, and cereals.  These are added to foods to prevent mold growth and are related to hormonal problems including breast cancers, and reduced testosterone levels in men.

Read your labels! 

SMOOTHIES

Chipotle Rocks!

Chipotle becomes first US restaurant chain to voluntarily label GMOs

Their ingredients statement shows which foods have GMOs in them.

ingredients statement

Chipotle has always been a healthy version of fast food.  They pride themselves on having eliminated the rBST's and they also source local ingredients as much as possible and they eliminate the toxins that other traditional fast foods typically have.

The only forms of corn or soy exist when there are no other commerically available non-GMO sources.

www.naturalnews.com Chipotle GMO labeling

Low Calorie and High Cardio - Not The Way to Go

If you workout to burn Calories and you do not lift weights, you will burn fat and drop weight.  However, you will just be the same shape (smaller version).  

People think that women should not lift weights because they will bulk up.  That is not the case.  Women just are not capable of building bulk like men are because women do not have enough testosterone.  Women can lift weights and they should lift weights.  

It is proven that muscle burns more than fat.  To burn more fat at rest, muscle is necessary.  You also need to feed the muscle so that you don't burn muscle instead of fat.

You need to fuel the muscles but the idea of eating MORE protein is a MYTH.  You do not need more protein.  You just need lean/low fat types of protein.  The muscles can only metabolize so much protein and then any extra is essentially wasted and too much will store as fat just as any excess number of Calories.

toning-myths-truths-to-lose-fat

Try a protein shake with healthy carbohydrates and sugars after a workout.  

I recommend:

Jay Robb protein powder, banana, milk or almond milk.  Make sure to eat within an hour after a hard workout.  

Workout each body part on separate days rather than doing an entire body workout everyday.  Concentrate on chest, back, legs, arms, abs on different days.

• “Superset” – two exercises back to back with no rest in between.
• “Dropset” – once the set is complete, immediately perform another set with the same amount of reps in order to exhaust the muscle.
• “Burn Out” – continually lifting the weight until the muscle is fatigued.
• “Run the Rack” – a dropset. Complete reps to failure of each weight along the length of the weight rack.  For example, lift a ten pound dumbell as many times as possible.  When too tired to continue, pick up the next highest dumbells and do it again.  Keep doing this until you reach a dumbell that you cannot lift.

Best Snack!

I tried this Fiber One Protein bar today and it was super yummy!  It was coconut almond flavor.  Now, I am not a huge coconut fan but it was goooooooooood.  

Calories= 140

Total Fat= 6g

Saturated Fat=4g (most people do not realize this but coconuts have saturated fats)

Trans Fats=0g

Cholesterol=0mg

Sodium=115mg

Total Carbs=17g (under 20 so I consider that good)

Dietary Fiber=5g (25-35 is the RDA)

Sugars=7g

Protein=6g

Now this does have sugar, corn syrup and fructose but the low carbs and the 6 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber should counterbalance that.

I recommend!

Fit Like A Queen

One of my science students created this blog.  Her name is Camille Schrier and she is a gorgeous beauty queen.  That is obvious.  She is the senior class president and intelligent- going to a great university to major in biochemical engineering.  I am so proud of her.  

Her blog Fit Like A Queen is full of advice on nutrition and healthy eating.  I am going to get some PB2 just based on her advice!  Follow her with me.

Love Mama McLaughlin and her blog!

http://www.mamalaughlin.com

This is her now but she has had quite the journey-

Her blog is real and funny and downright honest.  She talks about her weight loss and her workouts and I even love her make up tutorials and outfits!  

Here she is before and after her weight loss-

What a great inspiration!!!!

Trying this diet!

A friend of mine started this only a few months ago and he already lost 40 pounds!

I think the idea is to trick your metabolism so that it doesn't ever feel like you are starving yourself but that you are cutting back your Calories.  

Here is the link!  Good luck....let me know if it works for you!

http://www.cartercountymarket.com/html/cardiac.html

Healthy Snacks on the Go

100 Calorie almonds

One Small Apple = 100 Calories

VitaTops Muffins = 100 Calories (needs to be defrosted)

Half Cup Grapes (50 Calories) and Light Mozerella String Cheese (60 Calories) = 110 Calories

3 Tbsp. Hummus (80 Calories) and 1 Cup Sliced Cucumber With Skin (16 Calories) = 96 Calories

Snack Pack Low Fat Cottage Cheese  (102 Cal.) and 1/2 Cup Blueberries (41 Calories) = 143 Calories

Cherry Tomatoes (1 cup = 27 Calories), Basil and Special K Crackers (90 Cal. for 17) = 117 Calories

Having a healthy snack is about fresh real food and keeping the serving size small.  If trying to lose weight, keep snacks around 100-200 Calories.

Keeping a snack in your purse or in the car can help when you are stuck somewhere and are starving.  If you can grab something healthy then you might not reach for that unhealthy snack when you do eventually get to eat and you also might be less likely to overeat.

Drink plenty of water.  The signal that your brain sends to you that alerts you that you are hungry is the same signal that is sent when your body needs water.  You might feel hungry when all your body actually needs is water.

You are made of mostly water so stay ahead of thirst.  Once you are thirsty it is too late.  You are already dehydrated.

Water also helps you lose weight.  It is needed to filter out the waste (excess fats).

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