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By: Charlotte LeBlanc
"Let your food be your medicine
and your medicine your food" - Hippocrates
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  About Health & Personal Care

Health & Personal Care is written by New Brunswick’s Charlotte LeBlanc, a Holistic Nutritional Practitioner who offers commentary and current information on making healthy living choices. Nutritional and lifestyle choices are discussed as well as plain talk about you being healthy and wise, by living a wellness-based lifestyle using the four S’s: Staying positive, Sound nutrition, Stress management and Safe and natural options to build and maintain health.




Friday, July 27, 2007

You are what you eat !!

You are What you Eat!!!

The evidence supporting diet’s role in chronic degenerative diseases, including obesity is substantial.

Based on studies examining the rate of diseases in various populations these are some of the finding: (not surprising at all).

In cultures consuming a diet consisting of whole, unprocessed foods, the rate of chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer is quite low.
When commencing to eat more of a “Western” diet there was a sharp rise in the number of individuals with obesity and diabetes.
As more people abandoned the whole unprocessed food diet other conditions became quite common, examples: constipation, digestive and circulation problems.
With a full “Westernized” diet other chronic degenerative or potentially lethal diseases, including heart disease, cancer, osteo and rheumatoid arthritis, gout became extremely common.

Eating your veggies might not be such a bad idea after all, but make sure they are organic.

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Healthy Fats

HEALTHY FATS

Our bodies are made up of millions of cells that have different functions. According to studies of disease processes, an alteration in cell membrane function is the central factor in the development of virtually every disease.

Without a healthy membrane, cells lose their ability to hold water, vital nutrients, and electrolytes. Without the right type of fats cell membranes do not function properly and lose their ability to communicate with other cells that may have an impact in regulating hormones. Blood sugar irregularities as well as loss of sensitivity to the effects of insulin are linked to obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Clinical studies have shown that a diet that is high in saturated fat, animal fatty acids and trans fats (from margarine, shortening and other sources of hydrogenated oils or partially hydrogenated oils result in cell membranes that are much less fluid in nature than cell membranes found in a person who consumes monounsaturated fats (olive oil, nuts and nut oils) and omega oils (fish oils) improve insulin action and protect against the development of type 2 diabetes.

Similar health benefits are seen with heart disease, cancer, auto immune disease, inflammatory conditions just to name a few. Taking the time to educate yourself is an investment in your health.

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