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Makes 4 Servings 1 pound Baby Bok Choy, trimmed & cut in quarters length wise 1 Cups of Shiitake Mushrooms, cut into quarters 3 Tablespoons Sesame oil 1 Tablespoons of garlic cloves, minced 1 Tablespoons of shallots, minced 1 Tablespoons of thinly, julienne fresh ginger 1 Tablespoons of Brags’s Organic Soy Sauce 1/8 Teaspoon of fine sea salt 1/8 Teaspoon freshly ground black pepper Pinch of crushed red pepper flakes (optional) Bring
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Viruses, interestingly, are not alive. They could be compared to a floppy disk with pre-programmed instructions. They lie dormant until they can be injected into the cell, like inserting a floppy disk into the computer drive. Viruses become alive or active when your cells allow them to come through the door. They can be inserted into your cells when your resistance to viruses becomes weakened. Viruses depend on your cells for their life force. They can only reproduce off your cellular
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There are a few key problems with the philosophy of a diet. To many, a diet tends to mean something they will do for a period of time, then stop—“I’ll go on a diet, lose the weight, and then go back to my original eating habits and somehow magically the weight will stay off.” Or, “Maybe if I lost the weight with a diet, then I’d be healthy enough and have sufficient energy to stick to a diet longer or to keep the weight off.” In essence, changing
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Did you know that consuming only 1½ cups of cruciferous vegetables per week can reduce cancer risk by 41 percent? There is good evidence that the cruciferous vegetable family has potent anticancer and cancer prevention properties. This family of foods also has been shown to balance estrogens in the body, promoting hormonal health. Cruciferous vegetables have natural plant chemicals, called phytochemicals, which assist the liver in its normal detoxification process. These foods are
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Many patients ask me what I eat, so here are some tips! There are several important food combinations that will greatly enhance your health. You probably know that I love the cruciferous-type vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, kale, etc.) due to their unique healing properties. Did you know that the combination of cruciferous vegetables with the spice turmeric not only has effective properties in preventing prostate cancer but can also inhibit the spread of established prostate cancers?
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I’d like to give you some natural solutions to ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). I’m always amazed to hear that while the origin is “unknown” and there is “no cure,” the only accepted treatments are drugs. If you don’t know what caused it and can’t fix it, then don’t mess with it! And then you hear “scientists speculate” that it’s genetics or a chemical imbalance, yet they have no proof.
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From a hormone point of view, insulin is the most important hormone to keep on the low side—for two reasons: 1. In the presence of insulin, the body cannot burn fat. 2. In the presence of insulin, the body goes into fat mode. This is a double-edged sword: insulin forces the body to burn only sugar fuel and changes this sugar into fat and cholesterol. So check this out. If you consume the juice from an apple, you’ll get a spike of insulin. But if you eat the
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If you have been doing your best to lose weight and have nothing to show for it, could be because you are taking the wrong steps towards weight loss. Not knowing the right tools that will help you shed the pounds is what will make you stay overweight and feeling miserable! Change your methods and start implementing the right steps towards losing weight. Turning to fad diets Though weight loss pills and “crash diets” are very attractive because they are advertised as being
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Your belly fat might not be coming from the food you eat. Not all fat is the same because certain body shapes come from different sources. When hormones get stressed a person can start to accumulate fat in the midsection as described in my new book called," The 7 Principles of Fat Burning ". The main reason why the body accumulates fat (or potential energy) in the stomach has to do with the body's survival mechanism reacting to stress. This is how it works:
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One of the biggest mistakes people can make when attempting to lose weight is counting calories without considering where those calories are coming from. A “CALORIE” is a unit of energy in food. People have been putting a huge importance on counting calories, thinking that if they eat food which is lower in calories, then somehow, this will lower their weight because more calories turn into fat. Let me explain something, though. Are you sitting down? This might surprise
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I’d like to discuss a very important hormone called “estrogen”. Estrogen gives the fat layer around a female body (just below the skin), it feminizes bodies, and it causes the development of the female sex organs—the breasts, uterus, fallopian tubes, and vagina. This hormone is produced mainly by the ovaries, but also by the adrenal glands and fat cells. Estrogen has bone-making qualities as well as an effect of connecting the ends of bones together. This is why women
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I frequently run into this situation: A person tries to lose weight after dieting, with very little result. Upon testing the individual, I often find that most of the weight is water weight. We have a machine to detect fluids inside the cells versus outside the cells. I recently had a guy come into the office who was 170 pounds overweight; we found it was mainly water, not fat. You can see it around the eyelids, fingers, arms, belly and especially the ankles. If your socks leave indentations
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There are six fat-burning hormones. Each hormone has the capacity to burn fat. One fat-burning hormone, called “growth hormone” (GH), is triggered by several amino acids (proteins). Arginine, glycine and tryptophan all trigger GH. The following foods are high in these amino acids: 1. Coconuts. 2. Walnuts. 3. Pine nuts. 4. Brazil nuts. 5. Hazelnuts. 6. Pecans. 7. Almonds. 8. Sesame seeds. 9. Pumpkin seeds. 10. Grapes. 11. Oranges. 12. Blueberries.
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In this article, I’d like to introduce you to another powerful fat-burning hormone called “glucagon”. People get this confused with glycogen. It has nothing to do with glycogen. Glycogen is stored sugar (glucose) in the muscles and liver. Glucagon is the opposing hormone to insulin. Insulin takes the sugar or carbohydrate you eat, and changes it into fat. Glucagon takes the stored fat and breaks it down into sugar—thus “fat burning.” In the
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This post is mainly for the person who is extremely busy and doesn’t like wasting time. In order to give you this advice, I first need to go over some minor background on how the body burns fat. In my book, and previous posts, I’ve talked about pulse rate, as it relates to energy production. To burn fat, you need a low pulse rate, between 125 and 129. When you go over that, your body starts burning more sugar and less fat. It’s just the way the metabolism is designed.
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Let’s get into why people gain weight or simply plateau. First of all, the maximum fluid weight loss a person can experience is almost unlimited. I have had people lose 10 pounds per day for many days. But the maximum fat loss is only 1 to 2 pounds per week. If your friend is losing 8 pounds per day and you are only losing 2, you might think you are doing badly, when in fact what you’re experiencing is normal. Not knowing this can cause you to give up. Another situation
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Most people who can’t lose weight lack one simple factor – education. That’s why I call education the missing link in weight loss. For instance, if you were to read only about Liver Enhancement in my book “The 7 Principles of Fat Burning“ and then change the way you live according to only what you read in that section of the book, you still wouldn’t be healthy. This is essentially what everyone else and nearly every diet book currently on the market is
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All the fat on your body has to go through the liver to come out. This is why we do the “Liver Enhancement” as a first action. Very important! If you just focused on healing your liver, you would lose so much fat that it wouldn’t be funny. If you have a goal to lose weight, instead, switch your goal to creating a healthy liver — you’ll end up with faster weight loss. Weight is just the symptom. What prevents the liver from working are mainly poisons,
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I’d like to give you some important information on potassium and sodium. There is a big push to lower sodium in the diet, in order to lower blood pressure. But what’s almost always missed is a discussion of potassium. Since an excess of sodium always means a deficiency of potassium, let’s take a closer look at the other mineral – potassium. With the exception of calcium and phosphorus, potassium is the most abundant mineral in the body. Most of the potassium
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Exercise does NOT burn fat directly at all. The way fat is melted is not through some heating of the body. Fat cannot be melted like butter. The fat cells are storage centers for energy as an energy reserve. Fat exists to help you survive. When the body goes out of balance with its energy consumption, it will then hold energy. Exercise has the ability to trigger hormones that then release the fat for energy 24 to 48 hours later. Here’s how it works. 1. You stress and tear
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