Category Archives: Food articles

This Is Your Body on Processed Food

This Is Your Body on Processed Food.

Artist Stefani Bardin, TEDxManhattan 2011 Fellow, shows us her latest project — using a “smartpill” to reveal how we digest differently processed foods.

Stefani produces videos and immersive, interactive installations that explores the influences of corporate culture and industrial food production. Her current project works with gastroenterologist Dr. Braden Kuo at Harvard University where they just completed the first ever clinical study to use the M2A™ and SmartPill devices that look at how the human body responds to processed versus whole foods. She is an Honorary Resident at Eyebeam Art +Technology Center in New York and teaches in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design and in the Food Studies Program at The New School for Public Engagement.

ref:  MindBodyGreen

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“GOD’S PHARMACY”

From Gabriel Sanders: Whether you are a believer in a single Creator or not, there is truth that the creation of all of the living things on Earth came from the Earth.  We: humans, animals, plants, and things, are all connected.  The following was sent to me via email.  If the word/term/name “God” bothers you, either let it go or fill in the blank, and pay attention to the amazing health facts of the foods that grow on Earth and how they connect to the parts of the body they support:

It’s been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish… All before making a human.  He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw.  We’re such slow learners…. God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body! God’s Pharmacy! Amazing!

A sliced carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopene and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celerybok choy, rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, eggplant and pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, grapefruits, and other citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

–Anonymous

5 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight

5 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight.

by Elizabeth Rider

“Our weight and overall health is an accumulation of everyday choices that add up over the years. Some of them are good, some maybe not-so-good, and some we don’t even think about at all.
If you’re on a constant quest to lose weight and just can’t seem to make it happen no matter how good of habits you’ve developed over the years, one of the following reasons could be to blame.”

Ref: mindbodygreen

Surprisingly Calcium-Rich Foods That Aren’t Milk

Surprisingly Calcium-Rich Foods That Aren’t Milk.

Written by: Laura Schocker; Associate Editor, Healthy Living

“The recommended daily intake of calcium for an adult between the ages of 19 and 50 is 1,000 mg a day. (Adolescents, the elderly and pregnant women need varying amounts — check out the full guidelines here)…. But whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, dairy-free or just don’t like the taste of milk, the truth is that it isn’t the only way to work toward your 1,000-a-day…. Which non-milk option is your favorite way to make sure you get enough calcium?” (slideshow)

Ref: The Huffington Post

From Gabriel Sanders: Finding this great article was perfect timing, as I just had a conversation yesterday with a student of a yoga class I taught.  This person was prescribed to take Tums every day to build up the intake of calcium (and to assist in a digestive issue).  Laura Schocker‘s advice is for all those who need to up their intake the natural way,  who do not like to take supplements, while being on the path of a healthy diet.

I had related to the Tums story because of those times when I had donated platelets, I would eat a handful of Tums prior and during the process to build up my calcium.  (My girlfriend, Carey Yaruss, and I donate whole blood ritually every 8 weeks followed by a burger).   

14 Mind-Blowing Facts About Sugar (Infographic)

14 Mind-Blowing Facts About Sugar (Infographic).

“Sugar is in the headlines a lot lately, with some experts even calling it toxic. Did you know that the average child consumes 32 teaspoons of sugar a day?! This is just one of the many mind-blowing facts in this infographic from TotalHealth.”

Ref: mindbodygreen

Ref: onlineschools.org