The Lemon Diet
Did you know that in
traditional medicine the lemon
is widely known for it's healing
powers and used in many
different ways? In fact the
lemon is so powerful that it
was used by the Romans as
their cure for all types of
poisons.
Did you know that in
traditional medicine the lemon
is widely known for it's healing
powers and used in many
different ways? In fact the
lemon is so powerful that it
was used by the Romans as
their cure for all types of
poisons.
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The Overall Health Benefits of Protein
Unfortunately, the emphasis on zero fat diets has resulted in dietary protein getting a
bad rap. But does this mean that all proteins are bad for you? No! Protein is GOOD
for you. It is necessary for your body to repair, build, and preserve muscle tissue
(including your heart). In fact, protein can even help increase strength and
endurance, boost your immune system, and may even help support a reduced the
risk of cancer. Protein also may help benefit your body in multiple other ways—
helping you live a longer, more active, more enjoyable life when proteins are taken in
the right amounts, from the right sources.
What is protein?
Proteins are made up of amino acids, which are the building blocks of all proteins.
Moreover, proteins provide the basic structural properties of cells as well as being
important to all body tissues. According to Stanley Gershoff, Ph.D., Dean of the Tufts
University School of Nutrition, “Protein performs the most important jobs in the body:
1. It’s essential for growth and the repair and formation of new tissues. 2. It’s the
regulatory agent for our important body processes, since all enzymes and many
hormones are proteins. They transport nutrients and oxygen through our bodies, and
because antibodies and other components of our immune system are proteins, they
play a major role in fighting diseases.
Feed the muscle... starve the fat to a lean body.
Are you staying away from protein in hopes of losing weight or body fat? If so, you
may want to rethink your strategy. Studies prove that when you decrease your
protein intake and increase your carbohydrates you are not benefiting your body at
all (See “Study finds consuming more protein and less carbohydrates may be
healthier—for men and women!” sidebar). Carbohydrates give you quick energy, but
they won’t keep you full. In fact, carbohydrates may help stimulate your body’s fat
storage, which may cause you to gain weight. Carbohydrates increase your insulin
levels, which in turn shifts your metabolism into storage mode and uses glucose,
instead of fat, for energy. Plus, with protein, you stay fuller, longer.
Protein: An essential source for good health
The dietary protein can affect both the quality of your life and how long you live.
What you choose to eat largely determines whether your body wards off or becomes
vulnerable to a host of life-shortening diseases, such as cancer, stroke,
hypertension, and heart disease. By learning the facts about protein, and changing
your eating habits, your body will benefit in many ways—you’ll have more energy,
manage your weight better, and have a great head start on reducing your risks for
disease. The facts on protein speak for themselves. In the right amounts, from the
right sources—protein is good for you.
Unfortunately, the emphasis on zero fat diets has resulted in dietary protein getting a
bad rap. But does this mean that all proteins are bad for you? No! Protein is GOOD
for you. It is necessary for your body to repair, build, and preserve muscle tissue
(including your heart). In fact, protein can even help increase strength and
endurance, boost your immune system, and may even help support a reduced the
risk of cancer. Protein also may help benefit your body in multiple other ways—
helping you live a longer, more active, more enjoyable life when proteins are taken in
the right amounts, from the right sources.
What is protein?
Proteins are made up of amino acids, which are the building blocks of all proteins.
Moreover, proteins provide the basic structural properties of cells as well as being
important to all body tissues. According to Stanley Gershoff, Ph.D., Dean of the Tufts
University School of Nutrition, “Protein performs the most important jobs in the body:
1. It’s essential for growth and the repair and formation of new tissues. 2. It’s the
regulatory agent for our important body processes, since all enzymes and many
hormones are proteins. They transport nutrients and oxygen through our bodies, and
because antibodies and other components of our immune system are proteins, they
play a major role in fighting diseases.
Feed the muscle... starve the fat to a lean body.
Are you staying away from protein in hopes of losing weight or body fat? If so, you
may want to rethink your strategy. Studies prove that when you decrease your
protein intake and increase your carbohydrates you are not benefiting your body at
all (See “Study finds consuming more protein and less carbohydrates may be
healthier—for men and women!” sidebar). Carbohydrates give you quick energy, but
they won’t keep you full. In fact, carbohydrates may help stimulate your body’s fat
storage, which may cause you to gain weight. Carbohydrates increase your insulin
levels, which in turn shifts your metabolism into storage mode and uses glucose,
instead of fat, for energy. Plus, with protein, you stay fuller, longer.
Protein: An essential source for good health
The dietary protein can affect both the quality of your life and how long you live.
What you choose to eat largely determines whether your body wards off or becomes
vulnerable to a host of life-shortening diseases, such as cancer, stroke,
hypertension, and heart disease. By learning the facts about protein, and changing
your eating habits, your body will benefit in many ways—you’ll have more energy,
manage your weight better, and have a great head start on reducing your risks for
disease. The facts on protein speak for themselves. In the right amounts, from the
right sources—protein is good for you.
Fat in your Diet?
Dr. Mary G. Enig, of the Weston A. Price Foundation says: "There are many societies
where the populace consumes high levels of animal food and saturated fat but
remains free of heart disease.
Dr. George Mann, who studied the Masai cattle herding peoples in Africa, found no
heart disease, even though their diet consisted of meat, blood and rich milk. Butterfat
consumption among Masai warriors, who consider vegetable foods as fodder for
cattle, can reach one and one half pounds per day. Yet, he noted, these people did
not suffer from heart disease.
The legendary arctic explorer and Harvard graduate, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who
spent many years living with the Eskimos and Indians of Northern Canada, wrote that
"wild male ruminants like elk and caribou carry a large slab of back fat, weighing as
much as 40 to 50 pounds. The Indians and Eskimo hunted older male animals
preferentially because they wanted this backslab fat, as well as the highly saturated
fat found around the kidneys.
Stefansson was one of the first researchers to discover a connection between an
extremely low-fat diet and malnutrition. He states in his journal, "This trouble is worst,
so far as North America is concerned, among those forest Indians who depend at
times on rabbits, the leanest animal in the North, and who develop the extreme fat-
hunger known as rabbit-starvation. Rabbit eaters -- if they have no fat from another
source-beaver, moose, fish --will develop diarrhea in about a week, with headache,
lassitude, a vague discomfort. If there are enough rabbits, the people eat till their
stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied.
“Indeed, historians speculate that the Corps of Discovery, led by Lewis and Clark,
demonstrated symptoms of severe malnutrition and nearly died of rabbit starvation
(the lack of necessary fat), in the Bitterroot mountains of Idaho in 1805.”
Dr. Mary G. Enig, of the Weston A. Price Foundation says: "There are many societies
where the populace consumes high levels of animal food and saturated fat but
remains free of heart disease.
Dr. George Mann, who studied the Masai cattle herding peoples in Africa, found no
heart disease, even though their diet consisted of meat, blood and rich milk. Butterfat
consumption among Masai warriors, who consider vegetable foods as fodder for
cattle, can reach one and one half pounds per day. Yet, he noted, these people did
not suffer from heart disease.
The legendary arctic explorer and Harvard graduate, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who
spent many years living with the Eskimos and Indians of Northern Canada, wrote that
"wild male ruminants like elk and caribou carry a large slab of back fat, weighing as
much as 40 to 50 pounds. The Indians and Eskimo hunted older male animals
preferentially because they wanted this backslab fat, as well as the highly saturated
fat found around the kidneys.
Stefansson was one of the first researchers to discover a connection between an
extremely low-fat diet and malnutrition. He states in his journal, "This trouble is worst,
so far as North America is concerned, among those forest Indians who depend at
times on rabbits, the leanest animal in the North, and who develop the extreme fat-
hunger known as rabbit-starvation. Rabbit eaters -- if they have no fat from another
source-beaver, moose, fish --will develop diarrhea in about a week, with headache,
lassitude, a vague discomfort. If there are enough rabbits, the people eat till their
stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied.
“Indeed, historians speculate that the Corps of Discovery, led by Lewis and Clark,
demonstrated symptoms of severe malnutrition and nearly died of rabbit starvation
(the lack of necessary fat), in the Bitterroot mountains of Idaho in 1805.”