Healthy Lifestyle Newsletter

A new study tracked the diets of nearly 2,000 pregnant women and checked the lung health of 1,253 of their children at age five. Among a wide variety of foods eaten and recorded by the pregnant women, only apple consumption showed a consistent protective effect against childhood wheeze and asthma.

Children of mothers who ate more than four apples per week were 37 per cent less likely to have a history of wheezing and 53 per cent less likely to have doctor-confirmed asthma, compared to mothers who ate one or no apples per week while pregnant. The specific association found with apples, and not with the total amount of fruits eaten or with citrus, fruit juice or vegetable consumption, hints at an apple-specific effect, possibly because of its unique flavonoids, which have been shown to have beneficial effects on adult lung function. To maximize apple’s benefits why not think about adding apples to your daily juice regime.

Children eating diet foods instead of the full-calorie versions may lead to overeating and obesity when they grow up, according to a report from the University of Alberta, Canada.

In the study, young rats were fed either a regular diet or low-calorie substitutes. The low-calorie versions led the rats to overeat, whether they were lean or genetically predisposed to obesity. Adult rats, however, did not show the same tendency to overeat.

The researchers believe that diet foods with low calorie content disrupt the body’s ability to use taste to regulate caloric intake. This would explain why older animals did not overeat, as they, unlike the younger rats, were able to rely on taste-related cues to assess the energy value of their food correctly.

Lead researcher Professor David Pierce stated, “Based on what we’ve learned, it is better for children to eat healthy, well-balanced diets with sufficient calories for their daily activities rather than low-calorie snacks or meals.”

A diet based on living foods provides your child with the best foundation for health that you can provide.

One of the more powerful ways to assist your body to detox is to drink alkaline water

Water that is loaded with negative ions, turns into alkaline water which is has wide-reaching health benefits. Ionized or alkaline water is very beneficial and healthy for us because it assists our body’s pH to gradually move down to the optimal pH which is a little alkaline. Among many other benefits, increased alkalinity of the water assists the body to eliminate toxins that accumulate within our body.

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Many people are doing incredible harm to their health every morning, in just five minutes. Can you guess how?

The Shower!

Simply stated chlorine is a pesticide, the sole purpose of which is to kill living organisms. When we consume water-containing chlorine, it kills some part of us, destroying cells and tissue inside our body.

BUT, a warm shower opens up your pores, causing your skin to act like a sponge. As a result, you not only inhale the chlorine vapours, you also absorb them through your skin, directly into your bloodstream-at a rate that’s up to six times higher than drinking.

• Chlorine is cosmetically damaging to both hair and skin.
• It can irritate the eyes, nose, throat, lungs and mucous membranes.
• It causes asthma sinus conditions allergies skin rashes emphysema.
• Chlorine can cause hidden ailments, such as headaches and other neurotoxic reactions.
• It can strip the skin of its natural oils, leaving it dry, itchy, and prematurely aged.

Most importantly, studies show that cumulative exposure to chlorine significantly increases the rate of heart disease and both bladder and colon cancer.

So, tomorrow morning, if you don’t already have one of our shower filters, remember not to inhale !

“We are quite convinced, based on this study, that there is an association between cancer and chlorinated water.” - Medical College Of Wisconsin research team.

Did you know that the humble lemon has incredible healing properties for the body?

The medicinal value of the lemon is as an antiseptic. It is also anti-scorbutic, a term meaning a remedy which will prevent disease and assist in cleansing the system of impurities. Due to the digestive qualities of lemon juice, symptoms of indigestion such as heartburn, bloating and belching are relieved. By drinking lemon juice regularly, the bowels are aided in eliminating waste more efficiently thus controlling constipation and diarrhoea.

The energy you get from your food comes from the atoms and molecules of energy in your food. A reaction takes place as cationic food enters the digestive tract and encounters anionic digestive enzymes.

To explain further, an ion is part of a molecule con-atom or a group of atoms that carry an electrical charge. Ions which carry positive charges are “anions.” Lemons are considered to be anionic, having more anions (negatively charged ions) of energy as compared to cations (positively charged ions) in their atomic structure. Saliva, hydrochloric acid, bile and the stomach’s other digestive juices are also anionic.

Lemon is one of the only food on the planet that has more anions than cations in its atomic structure.

So, next time you are making up a juice, try and include at least a quarter of a lemon, and give yourself a fantastic start to the day!