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Studies
have indicated that, today's women consume much more
sugar than their grandparents did 50 or 60 years ago.
This added sugar is mostly in the form of refined, white
sugar. It is high in calories and almost devoid of
nutrients. This week we draw your attention to Top 10
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Breakfast should be the largest meal of the day, yet people often skip it
completely. Eating breakfast gives you a head start on an energized and healthy
day. Also, not eating breakfast may cause your resting metabolic rate to dip by
5 percent - a small decline that may creep up to a 10-pound weight gain in a
year's time.
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Who is Holding You Back?
What if someone were to actively prevent you from achieving success? How would
you feel about that person? What if that person was constantly coming up with
reasons to discourage you, always talking you out of taking action? What if that
person was you? It very well may be. Quite possibly, you are your own worst
enemy, when it comes to pursuing success and achievement.
Do you ever catch yourself saying "I could never do that"? Does that little
voice inside you express disdain for your goals, and come up with dozens of
reasons why they can't be achieved? The limitations placed on you require your
cooperation if they're to hold you back. The good news is, you don't have to
cooperate with them. That little voice inside your head can say anything you
want it to say. Do you really want to be the primary advocate for your own
limitations? Of course not!
Just imagine what you could accomplish if you were one hundred percent
supportive of yourself. NOW, stop imagining and start living it. Your
limitations are powerless without your cooperation, so choose to leave them
behind in the dust as you reach for the stars.
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"It is wise
to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever
final."
- Roger Babson |
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Baked Breakfast Apples
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
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2 medium apples, cut into bite-size pieces
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2 tablespoons snipped, pitted whole dates
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1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1/2 cup apple juice
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1 tablespoon raspberry spreadable fruit
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1/4 cup low-fat granola cereal
Direction:
Combine apples and dates in two individual microwave-safe casseroles. Sprinkle
with the cinnamon. Reduce apple juice to 1/4 cup; divide evenly between
casseroles.
Micro-cook, covered, on 100 percent power (high) for 3 to 4 minutes or until
apples are slightly tender. Stir spreadable fruit; dollop on top of apples in
the casseroles; sprinkle with granola. Serve warm.
Nutritional Information: (per serving)
Calories: 188, total fat: 1g, saturated fat: 0g, cholesterol: 0mg, sodium: 15mg,
carbohydrate: 47g, fiber: 4g, protein: 1g, vitamin C: 11%
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Top 10 high sugar foods to avoid
When you eat food, your body changes the food you eat
into sugar and uses the sugar for energy. When you have
diabetes, your body is not able to use the sugar for
energy. The sugar floats around in your blood. That is
why people with diabetes have too much sugar in their
blood.
Too much sugar in your blood over the years can lead to
serious complications, like blindness, amputations, foot
problems, and kidney problems! That is why your health
care provider is always checking your blood sugar.
Regular exercise and eating less fat and less sugar will
lower your blood sugar and prevent or delay these bad
problems. It can also prevent or delay diabetes in our
family or friends.
We do not have to consume white, refined sugar to be
consuming sugar. Sugar includes glucose, fructose (as in
fruit sugar), lactose (as in milk), sucrose (as in table
sugar), maltose or malts (as in rice malt and honey),
jam (contains concentrated juice, which is high in fruit
sugar), maple syrup, corn syrup, palm sugar
(traditionally used in macrobiotic cooking), and the
very deceiving organic brown sugar, which is not all
that different from white sugar. Even alcohol is a
sugar. All of these sugars are problematic in many
different ways.
Here is a list of high sugar foods you need to take
control of.
1. White Flour
All the good substances (bran and germ) is removed
from flour during processing. Then it is bleached with a
deadly chemical called "alloxan", a bleaching agent
similar to Clorox. This compound destroys the beta-cells
of the pancreas, leading to type 2 diabetes. Finally,
some coal-tar-derived (carcinogenic – cancer causing)
vitamins are added and sold to the unsuspecting public
as “enriched”. White flour makes your blood sugar rise
almost as much as refined sugar. Intestinal infections
are a direct outcome of white flour consumption. It is
hard to chew, puts pressure on the digestive system and
is extremely low on fiber. Be wary of things made from
white flour, e.g. bread, cakes, pancakes, pasta, pies
etc. If you must eat them, eat them sparingly. Things
made of flour has no nutritional value at all, and cause
more harm to your body than any good. Combine this with
sugar and high heat baking, you have the perfect
combination to all kinds of degenerative diseases.
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