Food Favorites to Avoid

Watch your diet; eat healthy foods, exercise and stay fit. We all want to live relatively free of physical problems like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, but we are not careful about prepared or packaged foods sold in supermarkets. Take for instance our love for ice cream. We think that the best is Haagen-Daz.  Nutritionists and scientists, according to a Nutrition Action Newsletter, an average half-cup serving squeezes half-a-day's saturated fat and a third-of-a-day's cholesterol into your artery walls and makes nearly 300-calories on your fat cells. That's of course assuming that you can stop after the first half cup of ice cream.
Whether or not you can believe this report, it is always a good idea to watch what you eat -- stay with healthy foods. More later on favorite foods to avoid.

Coffee Benefits and Pancreatic Cancer

Research now shows that coffee might decrease the risk of developing diabetes (or help diabetics?) by about 25 percent. But watch the sugar. Here's why.

Some coffee or tea drinkers like to add sugar to their coffee or tea. By doing so, according to the information, they don't get the protective blood sugar effect, and may run a higher risk of developing cancer of the pancreas. The risk of developing pancreatic cancer is related, in part, to the amount of sugar in the diet. 

People who drink soft drink or syrup-based sweet drinks twice a day or more have a 90 percent higher risk of getting cancer of the pancreas than those who never drink them. This information came from RealAge.com. The article also said that some people may be sensitive to caffeine's effects, so you may want to avoid it. But even if you aren't sensitive to caffeine, you may want to limit yourself to two or three cups of black coffee a day. At least that's what my doctor says.

Memory Problems

Unless someone else knows more than I could find in researching the Internet about Procera

 I am almost convinced it will help improve my memory. I started taking it three days ago, but it is too early to tell if there is any memory improvement. I have read glowing testimonials about it, so it must be good. I need it because I am becoming forgetful more and more. I hope Procera will help slow down, if not prevent, memory loss. I'll keep you posted.

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Know Your Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a type of fat found in your body. It is made up of LDL (low-density lipoprotein) and HDL (high-density lipoprotein), the two make up your total cholesterol.
LDL is “Bad” Cholesterol. It can build up in the wall of arteries causing a narrowing of the arteries slowing or blocking blood flow, thus increase your risk of heart disease. A major cause of heart disease is high LDL (Bad) Cholesterol..

HDL Cholesterol, called “Good” Cholesterol, helps remove the LDL (Bad) Cholesterol from arteries.
Triglycerides are another type of fat found in your blood. High levels of triglycerides are also unhealthy.


Keep in mind that LDL (Bad) Cholesterol is not totally to blame. There are certain risk factors that add to the effects of  LDL which put you at a greater risk of heart disease. Consult your doctor or health care professional for a more detailed explanation.

An alternative to drugs is explored in The Colin Carmichael program .  Colin Carmichael, cholesterol expert,  reveals the little known and seldom talked about secrets found in nature. This may work wonders for you in lowering cholesterol & triglycerides. Get cleaner arteries and kick start your heart health in lightning fast time. What have you got to lose except "Bad" cholesterol and triglycerides! 

      Here's an eBook you can download. It shows you how to control cholesterol naturally. You are given a list of heart friendly low cholesterol foods and recipes.  In any case, either the Colin Carmichael Program or the eBook  I would suggest to anyone concerned about heart health.

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Vitamin K2

I received a newsletter in which claim was made that Vitamin K2 will keep your blood pressure healthy. It outlined three steps to follow to keep blood pressure in the healthy range.

1. Remove calcium from arteries for optimum blood flow, presumably layers of calcium deposits narrow the blood vessels.
2. Relax your arteries. When relaxed, your blood vessels open up wider and allow blood flow easily through.
3. Ease blood vessel constriction by stopping Angiotensin II. It's been shown that blueberries help in inhibiting Angiotensin II enzyme. One study reported this in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

I would appreciate your comments on this report.