Phytonutrients: Paint your plate with the colors of the rainbow
Did you know that adding color to your meals will help you live a longer, healthier life? Colorful fruits and vegetables can paint a beautiful picture of health because they contain phytonutrients, compounds that give plants their rich colors as well as their distinctive tastes and aromas. Phytonutrients also strengthen a plant’s immune system. They protect the plant from threats in their natural environment such as disease and excessive sun.
When humans eat plant foods, phytonutrients protect us from chronic diseases. Phytonutrients have potent anti-cancer and anti-heart disease effects. And epidemiological research sug...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Fermented veggies
I’ve been discussing the role of fermented foods in preventing or treating dysbiosis and the more difficult condition small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO. While a high-potency probiotic supplement and prebiotic fibers continue to play important roles, I’d like to expand the conversation about the role of fermented foods.
First of all, there is no need to purchase fermented foods, as you can make them easily, with no special equipment, and at virtually no cost beyond, say, the beets, onions, or cucumbers you plan to ferment. (You will find the basics on how to ferment vegetables in the Wheat Belly Total ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 19, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune bowel flora dysbiosis grain-free Inflammation prebiotic probiotic small intestinal Source Type: blogs
What ’ s All the Hype About Fermentation?
Before there was refrigeration, there was fermentation. This was how our great grandparents managed to pick radishes, cucumbers, or asparagus in summer and then consume them throughout fall and winter. They’ve allowed foods to ferment, which is the process of degradation by bacteria and fungi. If you eat kosher pickles, prosciutto, salami, and yogurt, you are already consuming fermented foods, whether you know it or not.
Fermentation: The old way for humans to store food for more than a few days after picking or harvesting. – Tweet this!
Fermented foods are a source for lactate-fermenting organisms such as Lactobacillu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 4, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Dr. Davis Fermentation News & Updates Wheat Belly Lifestyle Wheat-elimination success stories Dr. William Davis Weight Loss Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - 4th week of January 2015
The cold of late January has been hard on our living things and we’ve sorted all our produce to eliminate cold damaged fruits/vegetables in the hoop house, root cellar, and forest. The apples from this year’s harvest are still fairing well. Empire, Macoun, Winesap, RedSpy, and Rome are still crisp. The Spencer apples have softened and are beginning to mold. We composted about half a bushel. The root vegetables - beets, daikon radish, and turnips were kept in soil until late December. At the moment, they are still crisp and fresh, ready to be turned into soups, salads, and canning.The sq...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 22, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of January 2015
The third week of January is generally the coldest, most bitter time in the New England winter season. Temperatures dip to the single digits, snow/ice/winter mix cover the barnyard, and shoveling manure requires an ice chipper. Eggs laid overnight in the chicken or duck pen crack when they freeze solid. Every creature gets extra food to keep their internal furnaces stoked.The ground is frozen and all the outbuildings are below freezing inside. Even the plants in the hoop house are need to be protected by row cover blankets. Nothing will germinate at below freezing temperatures.Much of the w...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - January 15, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of August 2014
As a doctor for over 20 years, I’ve learned how to treat critical healthcare issues. As a father, son, and husband I’ve learned how to support my own family through injury, sickness, and death.As a farmer responsible for over 100 animals, life and death are part of the daily experience.Sunny, our baby alpaca, is now doing extremely well. She did not successfully receive the immunoglobulin transfer that happens between mother and baby with consumption of colostrum, the first mother’s milk. Her tests revealed she had an incomplete immune system and was unlikely to survive an infection. She w...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 14, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Natural Products Really Can Work!
People think we’re opposed to natural ingredients because we’re in bed with the “Big Chemical Companies.” Just for the record, the Beauty Brains are independant-minded skeptics and we are NOT in bed with any chemical companies. (Except maybe for Sarah Bellum, I can’t keep track of everyone she’s been in bed with, but I digress…) All we require to believe a natural ingredient works is reasonable test data that proves its efficacy. Today’s example of a natural ingredient that has such test data is radish oil.
Radish oil really rocks!
Oil obtained from the Daikon radish (ak...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - February 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
