Whats in your pantry

So not only is the liver one of the most important organs, it is also the one that gets abused all the time. Not only through drinking, and smoking, the liver is harmed everyday by toxins in the food we eat, processed foods that are full of artificial colours and ingredients. We abuse our liver until it can't handle it anymore and we end up with liver disease, fatty liver, toxic liver and so many more wonderful things (insert sarcasm here).

Read the labels of the products you are buying. don't just buy them because they are inexpensive, or have cool designs on the box, or are advertised as 100 calorie packs. Read the ingredients and see if the first three ingredients are Sugar based... anything ending in OSE.... see if there are words you cannot pronounce, or can pronounce but have no idea what they are. Why would you put a  foreign substance into your body? People are so paranoid about dirt on their fruit and vegetables and how many hands have touched it before they bought it, and yet will so happily buy a 100 calorie pack of little chocolate bars because they are only 100 calories! Have you ever looked at whats in your food? Perhaps you should make it a goal this week, to read the labels in all your favourite products... you'll be disgustingly surprised at what you find in the foods you eat and where else you can find that product and what it can and is used for.  

Healing From within

Sometimes we wake up still tired even after an 8 hour sleep, so we reach for the coffee a quick energy fix, that wears off and we realize that we haven't eaten breakfast yet because the coffee supressed our need for food. So we go to the break room grab a doughnut and another cup of coffee. Then the sugar high kicks in and then crash, down you come again...coffee with lunch or maybe just pasta... lunch sits heavily and doesn't give you that energy burst that you get from sugar, so you grab the chocolate at 3pm which helps you through until you get home and want nothing to do with anything.,, find yourself mad at everything and frustrated with simple things that typicall wouldn't bother you. This is a classic case of blood spikes. What you have done is caused a rush of insulin to be released and your body doesn\t know how to hadle the spikes, once the insulin has done its job and leveled your blood sugar you feel tired and low energy. The reason for this low is that your body is tired as it has yet to have any nutrients come in. Please respect your body, eat a nice healthy breakfast within an hour of waking up. Have oatmel with cinnamon and coconut oil, which gives you protien, fat and complex carbs which keep your body feeling fuller longer, the cinnamon keeps your blood sugar stable, and the coconut oil is amazing for all areas of your body.