Every mouthful of fast food mealcontains a handful of chemicals thatraise ‘bad’ cholesterol levels,increase diabetes risk, lower immunity,and damage DNA. Just think, we paytwice: you pay for the junk and fast foodnow and then pay later with your health....
Our limbic brains love sugar, fat,salt.… so we formulate products todeliver these. Perhaps add low cost ingredientsto boost profit margins. Then “supersize” tosell more.… and advertise/promote to lock in “heavy users.” —Bob Drane, former vicepresident for new business strategy anddevelopment at Oscar Mayer, from SaltSugar Fat: How the Food Giants HookedUs (Random House, 2013)...
OUR THREE MAIN FACTORS TO WEIGHT GAIN: Genetic Factors: These are the forces inside each of us that make us gain weight and stay overweight. Personal Factors & Socio-cultural Factors: These are the outside forces that contribute to the overweight/obesity epidemic. These three factors are so intertwined that we have to discuss them as one....
An alarming global reality: we have more than 1 billion overweight adults, 530 million of them are obese! The EPIDEMIC...
Ahhh… hot, sizzling summer is here! This is our chance to lie on a beach, river, or lake listening to the murmur of water, watching the clouds float across the sky, and communing with nature. Because the kids are off from school, summer vacation is our chance to do all outdoor activities. Our one major concern is sunscreens or sun protection products. Everyone, including babies, generously slather up with sunscreen (that’s after you checked out the brand that is effective but safest). The skin is our largest organ. Think of it like a giant sponge absorbing any products we apply to...
I truly believe that the human body is God’s masterpiece. Everything in it has a specific purpose and function....
The best way to cleanse or detoxify is through “live “juice. It promotes healing by removing toxins while supplying the body with vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. Since 150 B.C., juicing has been widely recognized for its curative powers....
Another major part of spring cleaning and detoxification is spiritual: the greening of the spirit. Lent is the perfect time for spiritual detoxification. It gives us a wonderful opportunity for rebirth, hope, healing, and growth. With Lent, we are able to identify those areas of imbalance or stagnation, and now is the perfect time to get back on the right path, rediscover purpose in our direction, and allow God’s light to shine through and around us....
The Green Secret’s April articles will cover the complete spectrum of cleansing and detoxification. We will demystify the difference between cleanse and detox; the best ways to do it and the right equipment to use....
The current paradigm of health industry is sickness. The business of sickness is what hospitals, medical equipment makers, pharmaceutical companies, physicians and surgeons live on. However, focusing on sickness will never make for healthy citizens, businesses, communities or nations. We must create a new paradigm of disease prevention: diet and lifestyle changes that prevent illness before it starts and even reverse existing conditions....
