NUTRITION:

NUTRITION: Live to eat or eat to live?”

Food types we eat:
When choosing foods from each food type - the details matter
	Fruits / Veggies	Legumes
	Fats / Oils	Nuts / Seeds
	Meat	Grains
	Fish	Beverages
	Dairy	Sweeteners
	Eggs	Herbs, spices, salt

Nutrients we need:
	Glucose	Provided by carbohydrates; needed to produce cellular energy
	Amino acids	Protein building blocks
	Fatty Acids	Fat building blocks
	Fiber	Stool softener and intestinal sweeping brush
	Antioxidants / Vitamins	Neutralize oxidants. Vitamins (A, B, C, D, E ), phytonutrients(carotenoids, polyphenols), others (CoQ10)
	Minerals	~ 25 of the 92 naturally occurring major and trace mineral elements are essential for life. Magnesium, sulfur, selenium, zinc, manganese may not be sufficiently present in diet and may need to be supplemented.
	Enzymes	Make things happen! Composed of amino acid chains, enzymes act as catalysts to speed up biochemical reactions in our body.
	Probiotics – “For Life!”	More than 2/3 of your immune system is in your gut, dependent on a healthy presence of microflora.
	Food electrons	Needed for cellular energy production

Harmful Foods / Practices
	Genetically modified foods / GMOs	GM plant or animal foods having adverse health-effects. DNA molecules from bacteria, viruses, insects, plants, animals, humans are combined to form new genes to transfer to plants for herbal tolerance of weed-killer and / or insect-resistance, or animals / fish for selective breeding of desirable traits
	Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
	Aspartame	This sugar-free sweetener is a neurotoxin
	Sucralose	0 calorie sweetener is a harmful organochlorine
	Chlorination	Disease-causing disinfectant in your water
	Fluoridation	Mega health fraud
	Microwaved food - Not so convenient for your health
Harmful when eaten to excess
	High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
	Too much fructose
	Too much sugar
	Too much caffeine
	Antinutrients	Particularly lectins (e.g. prolamins, agglutinins) and phytate in IMPROPERLY prepared WHOLE grains, seeds, nuts and legumes. Lectins can cause a “leaky gut” inflammation leading to IBS, allergies, asthma, arthritis, anemia, obesity, +++ ; Phytate can cause malabsorption of magnesium, calcium, iron, copper, and zinc;
	Alcohol	Moderation is the key
Good general food choices
	Daily 'No-brainer' 💡 "Make-it-Happen" smoothie:	This daily drink with supporting supplements contains nutrients typically missing from our diet to restore / maintain physical and mental health. It includes the Rath-Pauling therapy at maintenance level providing important antioxidant vitamin C and amino acids for building collagen, also Omega-3 fats, magnesium, iodine, and vitamin D

	RECOMMENDED DAILY SUPPLEMENTS CHART
	Grown in your native environment	i.e. locally grown and in season
	Organic – What does that mean?	Natural, unprocessed and organic (chemical/GMO-free).
	Glycemic Index (GI) vs. Glycemic Load (GL)	A food's glycemic index indicates how much it raises blood sugar, but its glycemic load (GL) gives a gives a truer comparison between foods, since it accounts for typical serving size.
	What foods does the bible say are good to eat or not?
	Cooking to preserve nutrients	Aim for at least 1/3 raw. Raw food contains enzymes, which are destroyed by heat. Some nutrients are made more bioavailable by heating, some are destroyed.
	ACID / ALKALINE BALANCE
	ANTIOXIDANT / OXIDANT BALANCE

Harmful Foods / Practices
	Genetically modified foods / GMOs	GM plant or animal foods having adverse health-effects. DNA molecules from bacteria, viruses, insects, plants, animals, humans are combined to form new genes to transfer to plants for herbal tolerance of weed-killer and / or insect-resistance, or animals / fish for selective breeding of desirable traits
	Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
	Aspartame	This sugar-free sweetener is a neurotoxin
	Sucralose	0 calorie sweetener is a harmful organochlorine
	Chlorination	Disease-causing disinfectant in your water
	Fluoridation	Mega health fraud
	Microwaved food - Not so convenient for your health
Harmful when eaten to excess
	High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
	Too much fructose
	Too much sugar
	Too much caffeine
	Antinutrients	Particularly lectins (e.g. prolamins, agglutinins) and phytate in IMPROPERLY prepared WHOLE grains, seeds, nuts and legumes. Lectins can cause a “leaky gut” inflammation leading to IBS, allergies, asthma, arthritis, anemia, obesity, +++ ; Phytate can cause malabsorption of magnesium, calcium, iron, copper, and zinc;
	Alcohol	Moderation is the key

Good nutritional choices
	Daily 'No-brainer' 💡 "Make-it-Happen" smoothie:	This daily drink with supporting supplements contains nutrients typically missing from our diet to restore / maintain physical and mental health. It includes the Rath-Pauling therapy at maintenance level providing important antioxidant vitamin C and amino acids for building collagen, also Omega-3 fats, magnesium, iodine, and vitamin D

	RECOMMENDED DAILY SUPPLEMENTS CHART
	Grown in your native environment	i.e. locally grown and in season
	Organic – What does that mean?	Natural, unprocessed and organic (chemical/GMO-free).
	Glycemic Index (GI) vs. Glycemic Load (GL)	A food's glycemic index indicates how much it raises blood sugar, but its glycemic load (GL) gives a gives a truer comparison between foods, since it accounts for typical serving size.
	What foods does the bible say are good to eat or not?
	Cooking to preserve nutrients	Aim for at least 1/3 raw. Raw food contains enzymes, which are destroyed by heat. Some nutrients are made more bioavailable by heating, some are destroyed.
	ACID / ALKALINE BALANCE
	ANTIOXIDANT / OXIDANT BALANCE

Luo Han Guo (Monk Fruit) - A natural non-nutritive sweetener (NNS)

SWEETENERS:

What is it?

Luo han guo (aka. Monk Fruit /Luo han kuo / lo han kuo) is a very sweet green southern Asian fruit. Extracts (mogrosides) of luo han guo (called mogroside V or 5) are now being marketed in the West as a sweetener, although it has been around for some 800 years in China. Juice is extracted from crushed fruit using water and then filtered to obtain the mogroside V (1% of monk fruit).
Has 10-250 times the sweetness of sugar. Amounts used are too small to significantly effect human physiology.
This non-nutritive sweetener (NNS) sports 0 calories. In fact 0 anything nutritional.
Supposedly does not leave an after taste
Combined with non-GMO erythritol (a fermented sugar alcohol ) it is a remarkable replica of sugar. A patented process by Saraya, sold as Lakanto.
Similar to xylitol and stevia, it does not produce blood sugar spikes