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Super-eating through
phyto-nutrition:
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by Hannah Kaye
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Picture getting a prescription from your doctor for broccoli, garlic and wheatgrass. This is the scenario that scientists are predicting, as more and more phytochemicals are found in food.
| Phytochemicals are lively compounds in food that prevent disease. Indoles, found in cabbage and Brussels sprouts, have anti-cancer properties. Chlorophyll, in green plants, helps oxygenate the blood and improve energy. Allicin, in garlic and spring onions, boosts the immune system. These are just three of hundreds of commonly occurring phytochemicals in nature’s pharmacy.
Many of these are not considered essential nutrients as our lives do not depend on them, yet they do impact on the chemistry of the body and our health as significantly as vitamins and minerals do. Many foods contain a combination of these health-promoting phytochemicals and essential nutrients. |
Instead of using pharmaceutical drugs with undesirable side-effects, the medicine of tomorrow is turning to nature’s pharmacy of nutrients - to correct the body’s chemistry and restore wellbeing. Every time you eat living foods, fruit and vegetables you take in a cocktail of essential vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, enzymes and phytochemicals that work together synergistically to advance your health. The idea of separating each ingredient and treating it like an individual drug to cure a specific illness is not only impractical, it is nonsensical.
Superfoods are superfoods by the virtue of their mineral, nutrient and energetic makeup. They are raw wholefoods, not fractionalised supplements. This means that the minerals, vitamins and nutrients are easily recognised, absorbed and utilised by the body. That’s what makes them super! They vibrate at a different and higher level altogether.
They are the power your body is looking for in food…the power you don’t always give it! Abundant health
Matthew Ballenden |
| By Hannah Kaye, Nutritional Therapist It's usually fairly obvious if a food item is healthy. | | What makes a
Superfood
SUPER?
They come from the world’s highest, most dense and most energetic places: the Amazon rainforest, the top of the Andes Mountains, the foothills of the Himalayas, the shores of beaches and island landscapes, and even sun-drenched African soils.
This is the treasured knowledge and these are the revered foods of many ancient cultures. In fact, within many of these cultures these foods are regarded as medicines –
Beryn Daniel Natural Medicine
July 2009
| An apple or a sprig of rocket: healthy.
A double bacon cheeseburger: not so much. What isn't so obvious, however, is if a food is exceptionally healthy. These foods have become known as "superfoods".
In his book, Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future, David Wolfe lists the top 10 superfoods as: 1. Goji berries 2. Cacao 3. Maca 4. Bee products 5. Spirulina 6. Blue-green algae 7. Marine Phytoplankton 8. Aloe Vera 9. Hempseed 10. Coconuts |
This is because all of the above are powerful sources of clean protein, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants, good fats and oils, essential fatty and amino acids, and other nutrients.
Click here to read the rest of the article about what makes superfoods work, which superfoods to look out for and what difference superfoods can make to your life.
Hannah Kaye, BSc (hons) NT, BJourn, is a certified Nutritional Therapist. She obtained her degree through the British College of Nutrition and Health and Greenwich University in London. She is also an active Member of the South African Association of Nutritional Therapists (SAANT). Hannah is passionate in her belief that a functional approach to health, good nutrition, and a more natural way of living can improve the quality of life of everyone. She treats all areas of health with a special interest in women's health and child nutrition.
Hannah practices in Hyde Park, Johannesburg & Kenilworth, Cape Town, contact her on: 083 6011 750 and hannah@hannahkaye.co.za |
| If you are suffering from arthritis and are looking for a treatment that does not maintain the continuous use of painkillers to cope with your pain, consider Biopuncture.
Dr Annelise Bunce, homeopathic doctor and Certified Clinical Metal Toxicologist uses Biopuncture in her practice. | Biopuncture can be seen as the bridge between natural and mainstream medicine with roots in both worlds. It is a modern medical technique because it uses a Western style diagnosis with products rigorously tested for safety and reliability. Biopuncture can also be considered natural medicine because the biotherapeutics used, have no major side effects since it stimulates natural healing instead of suppressing the symptoms.
Local injections are given to stimulate blood circulation and support the ongoing inflammatory/ healing process.
Contact Dr Bunce on annelise@custom-cut.co.za or 011 888 3018 | |
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Ingredients: - 200ml Freshly Made Organic Apple Juice
- 1 Handful Of Mixed and Frozen Organic Berries
- ½ Organic, Frozen Banana
- ½ tsp Ground Raw Organic Cashews
- 1 ½ tbsp Soya Milk Powder
- 1 tbsp Hemp Protein Powder
- 1 tsp Sprouted Flax Seed
- 1 tbsp Macca Powder
- 1 tsp Raw Honey (optional)
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Method:
Mix all ingredients together in the blender until you have a smooth texture.
Add the honey last.
Pour and enjoy!
(If you do not have frozen berries and banana, add half a cup of ice cubes) | | Nutritional
Cooking Classes: Want to make healthy changes in your own life?
Our Nutritional Cooking Classes will show you how to take advantage of the healing power of foods.
Designed by nutritional chef Matthew Ballenden, the class includes information about how certain foods and nutrients work to promote immune strength and inhibit disease progression along with cooking demonstrations of simple and healthy recipes that can easily be recreated at home.
Our goal is to show you how to prepare yummy meals from scratch without compromising on the nutritional value of the ingredients
2010 Classes will commence in February.
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Powders and supplement formulas with high concentrations of Superfoods can help meet your daily needs. We’ve got the latest Superfood solutions for making it easy to be good to your whole body. Below is a selection of our wide range, available online and in-store. | Pure Synergy® Superfood Formula
Pure Synergy® is the original superfood, with more than 25 years of research and use. In that time, Pure Synergy has earned a reputation as the most comprehensive, effective and respected superfood product in the world.
Containing more than 60 unique ingredients that include several varieties of algae, grass juices, green vegetables, enzymes, Chinese and Western herbs, Asian mushrooms and phytonutrient-rich fruits and berries, it is far superior to a mere green superfood. |
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| Soaring Free Foods Maca Powder
Maca is a powdered root herb from the Peruvian Andes, related to the radish family. Maca is called an adaptogen, meaning that it helps the body to adapt to increased stressors. Maca is well known as an amazing hormone balancer, and strength builder. Because of it’s oxygenating effect on the blood, Maca has also gained the reputation for being the best natural Viagra or aphrodisiac |
Acai Berry Powder
The acai berry (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) is a fruit that grows on the acai palm trees in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil. It is dark purple in color and about the size of a grape. It is extremely rich in nutrients. Natives of the Amazon region have made this berry a major part of their diet for hundreds of years. Approximately 10% of the berry contains edible pulp and skin and the remaining 90% is the seed or pit. Most of the nutrients come from the pulp and skin and the seed is normally not eaten. The fruit tastes like a vibrant mix of berries and chocolate. With rich nutrients and great taste, it is not surprising that this food is becoming extremely popular. |
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| Soaring Free Foods Cacao Powder
Chocolate is one of the worlds most well-loved foods. Yet very few have ever had the raw food that all chocolate comes from - cacao beans! All chocolate comes from cacao beans - the seeds of the cacao fruit - which grows on a jungle tree. Botanically, cacao is truly a nut. Cacao beans taste like dark chocolate, because they are dark chocolate! |
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