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Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you."
03/02/2025
Hello followers,
Due to a health crisis that was brought on and exacerbated by my plant-based lifestyle, I can no longer support or condone this way of life.
Severe eczema, histamine intolerance and leaky gut syndrome are all caused by this diet. I am under the care of a functional medicine doctor, and she immediately put me on a different diet. She also has prescribed supplements which all have me on the road to recovery.
If you are doing well on this diet, as many people do, please continue on that path. If, however, you have any of the symptoms I've mentioned above, please consider that they can be caused by your plant based diet.
This has been extremely hard for me to accept, but the more research I did, the more I found confirmation of my doctors diagnosis and treatment plan.
Take care and God bless.
06/27/2024
I finally got to the new Sprouts Farmers Market on Cottman Avenue today.
Very good selection of items, but I was appalled at the amount of items in a supposed "health store" that still contained questionable unhealthy ingredients like canola/rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, guar and other gums.
Read the labels and chose wisely.
At last there's a health food store in NE Philadelphia.
06/22/2024
"The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything you will find in your medicine cabinet." - Mark Hyman
03/31/2024
Happy Resurrection Day!
Luke 24:5-7, 9
"...as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.” and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest."
and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen. Remember how He spoke to yo
03/04/2024
Fresh growing in my back yard!
02/28/2024
For lunch, we're having a mixed green salad with leftovers from last night's dinner, shredded carrots, grated ginger, minced garlic, Veggie Ground, fresh steamed broccoli, all topped with Date Walnut Dressing.
02/24/2024
No, this isn't ground beef or fake meat! Recipe below!
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Focusing on fitness is better than focusing on weight loss
So many of us want to lose weight, don’t we? Yet, if we make that the focus, we actually make weight loss in the future all the more difficult. Here’s why:
In order to lose weight, most people go by the common prescribed method: decrease calories and do tons of cardio. And you are right; you will lose weight this way. Unfortunately, however, when you lose weight this way what you actually do is lose muscle, and this is the last thing you want to do. Many people, mostly women, also say, “I’ll lose weight first, then lift weights.” This is the opposite of what you want to do, especially if you are over 35 years old.
After the age of 35, unless you do some good resistance training, you will loss approximately 3% to 5% of muscle mass each decade. That means by the time you reach 50, you’ve lost 6 to 10% muscle. You may ask, “Then why haven’t I lost weight?” The answer is simple; your body has replaced that muscle with something else- FAT! That’s right! So if you are 45 and weigh the same as you did when you were 35, not only do you not look the same, it’s because you have swapped that muscle for fat!
This is bad for so many reasons, so I’m going to break them down.
You need muscle to burn fat. The more muscle you have, the more calories you burn at rest, when you’re not exercising! The less muscle you have, the easier it is to continue storing fat because you have nothing to burn it with.
Muscle is metabolically active. It works at keeping you trim even when you’re sleeping!
Have you ever heard the expression “muscle weighs more than fat”? Well, that’s a lie. Five pound of fat weighs the same as 5 pounds of muscle, but they look VERY different, as seen in the picture below:
If you do nothing to build muscle, what will naturally occur is that fat will eventually replace almost all your muscle. This will not only make you LOOK bad, but, even worse, you will become very weak, unable to do regular household chores and tasks like carrying groceries in and out of the house, taking out the trash, climbing stairs, opening jars, and much more.
In order to prevent this muscle loss, you MUST do muscle-building exercise. I know what you are thinking: “But if I build muscle, I’ll get big and bulky looking.” Nothing could be further from the truth, unless you actually train and diet to bulk up. Women especially will not get big because we don’t naturally have as much testosterone or muscle mass as men. When women lift weights, they firm and tighten up areas that tend to sag, like abdominals, thighs, hips and upper arms.
Another benefit of weight training is it prevents osteoporosis! Yes! Weight training helps you keep your bone density, as well! This is REALLY important, as most hip fractures don’t happen as a result of a fall, but are actually the CAUSE of the fall! When hips fracture, you can’t hold yourself up any more and down you go!
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU! It’s in your power to prevent these health problems, starting today!
Like, I said, if you do nothing, you WILL lose muscle and bone density as time goes on. The ONLY way to prevent this is to do weight bearing exercise. There is NO time like TODAY to get started!
