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Food Ingredients to Avoid

Food Ingredients to Avoid

Sep 15, 2013 | Digestion

Sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite What: Food preservative; helps retain red colouring in processed meat products. Effects: Contains carcinogens that when accumulated in the body can lead to stomach, prostate, and breast cancers. Found to cause fetal deaths,... read more
Bad Food Habits

Bad Food Habits

Aug 21, 2013 | Digestion

Avoid trans-fatty, processed, hydrogenated oils. They are ubiquitous in fast and slow food restaurants. Don’t use them for cooking or salad dressings. Yes, they’re less expensive, but they’ve been processed only for creating a longer shelf life,... read more
Sprouts

Sprouts

May 26, 2013 | Digestion

The most powerful enzyme-rich foods are sprouts. Sprouting seeds, grains and legumes, increases their enzyme content as much as 43 times more than non-sprouted foods. The enzymes boost the life-giving activity in our body, while helping our body digest the nutrients... read more
Bromelain

Bromelain

Apr 22, 2013 | Digestion

Bromelain is a proteolytic (protein digesting) enzyme most concentrated within the core and stem of the pineapple. For centuries, people of South and Central America, where pineapples are native, have used the fruit to treat indigestion and inflammation. Bromelain... read more
Inappropriately Hungry?

Inappropriately Hungry?

Apr 19, 2013 | Digestion

If you feel hungry, even though you have had plenty to eat, it is probably because your body is starving – for the nutrients that you find in real foods. If you eat processed foods (foods that come in boxes, packets, cans, and jars and that you buy in... read more
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