that is surprisingly good for you. Coffee beans are actually berries and have more antioxidants than any other. Coffee is linked to lowering cancer risk, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Coffee also reduces the risk of headaches. Using skim milk reduces your risk of developing high blood pressure by up to 54%.
6. Apple pie is also beneficial. Eating apples reduces the risk of heart disease and helps keep your lungs working right. Apples have a high concentration of flavonoids, an antioxidant that destroys harmful free radical toxins around us.
7. Cinnamon, as I told you earlier, is an excellent, spice, both taste wise and health wise. Cinnamon both regulates insulin, and lowers blood choleterols levels by up to 26%. In addition, cinnamon is a potent natural antibiotic that kills viruses and harmful bacteria.
8. Chocolate covered strawberries, and dark chocolate in general, help you on two fronts. First, the strawberries contain fisetin, a natural substance that helps memory and prevents Alzheimer’s disease. Dark chocolate, like cinnamon, helps regulate insulin. I’ve also read it helps your libido, and is good for the heart, too.
9. Lastly, a great energy booster is the old favorite, cheese and crackers.
Cheese helps prevent tooth decay, and the protein and high fiber crackers mixed together gives you long lasting energy. In addition, the phytonutrients in flaxseed flour, if you can get it, lowers breast cancer by up to 55%.
If you have diabetes, two other findings may help you out. Cinnamon, again, lowers your need for insulin. You can add 1/2 teaspoon into your oatmeal coffee, tea, or orange juice, or a stick added to your tea 2 times per day.
The other thing you need to watch is starches and processed foods that make your blood sugar spiral upwards out of control, including the following foods:
sweet corn, potatoes, cereals, grapes, and bananas. On the minus diet, you would only need to cut out grapes. Bananas are too starchy to be a minus calorie food.
When Spring is here, use the following tips to reduce your allergy problems.
Enjoy nuts, fish, flaxseed and apples. The nuts, fish, and flaxseed are full of omega-3 fatty acids which keep your immune system strong and help it fight off viruses and bacteria while also protecting your system from reacting to pollen. The apples contain flavonoids as mentioned above, which destroy airway inflammation up to 32%. The other things you can do is find out what house plants are causing allergic reactions and eliminate them. You need to both take a shower and rinse off the pollen off your body and use saline nasal sprays to internally cleanse the nostrils, since researchers found that 84% of people who wash their nasal passages have fewer sinus problems.
Kathy Elliott, is a 6th degree black belt in hung gar, toy gar, and fut gar styles of Kung Fu. She has 40 years experience in martial arts and has training in judo, jiu jitsu, 7 star praying mantis, kenpo, and tai chi, and chi gong.
Kathy has lost over 100 lbs using this diet. Kathy can be found at www.minusdiet.com and www.yournewyou.net.
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