Don't Kill the Dream at the Dinner Table

When it comes to athletics, there are a few tips every parent of a young athlete should know. For starters, parents make sure your child is receiving proper training via a personal trainer or close supervision of their athletic coach. In addition young athletes should be aware of their nutrition and proper hydration in order to achieve peak performance. With any child that participates in athletics, breakfast is a necessary meal! Breakfast should be a healthy meal (heavy plant base, no dairy, no sugar) including at least 16 ounces of water. Follow-up training (i.e. practice) with proper refueling of the body through healthy meals (no breads, dairy or sugar) and hydration.

Training tips:

Eat healthy meals. A healthy meal includes lots of fresh vegetables, lean meats (free range poultry, wild caught fish, grass feed beef), fruits and other healthy proteins found in beans.

Avoid garbage foods. Products containing high fructose corn syrup, fried foods, and snack foods with more than six ingredients all qualify as garbage foods in my book.

Drink water, spring water. Young athletes should drink at least half their body weight in ounces of good clean water per day. An emphasis on clean water here because a majority of our tap water has large amounts of chlorine as well as drug byproducts which are not able to be filtered with current public works technology.

Avoid energy drinks. High sugar, high caffeine and carbonated drinks all take away from the body’s overall long-term function.

Be aware of sports drinks, they often contain high levels of sugar. If they must be consumed, pour out half of the drink and refill it with water, this brink the drink a little closer to beneficial electrolytes.

Avoid excessive amounts of dairy. Dairy and the typical athletic event do not go together well. Many people support dairy with the calcium argument, however, many sources of calcium may be reached through fresh vegetables and fruit.

My recommendation for a multivitamin is the organic sufficiency powder from Innate Choice. This powder can be used in a smoothie, or mixed with juice. Click here if you are interested in purchasing.

Avoid the “enhanced supplements”. Many of the have undetermined effects on the human body that have not yet been studied or research.

Get a good nights rest and sleep eight hours minimum for young athletes is best any less can show up over a long period of time it may not be immediate however it will display within a matter of weeks and decrease performance.

Stay balanced! Utilize chiropractic services to assist you in taking your athletic abilities to the next level.

THE CHALLENGE

For the next 7 days, only eat meals that do not contain any animal products or bread.

THE GIFT

(From Shawn Stevenson's The Key to Quantum Health)

Curry Soup

1 small organic cauliflower, cut into florets

1 red pepper, cored and deseeded

1 ripe avocado

2 garlic cloves, peeled

1/4 cup sweet onion, chopped

1/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice

2 heaping tbsp or raw sesame tahini

2 tbsp brown rice miso (or another kind)

1 tbsp turmeric

1/2 to 1 tbsp of curry powder (depending on how spicy you like it)

1 tbsp Coconut Amino's (or Noma Shoyu)

2 cups Almond Milk (add more to reach desired consistency)

You can use spring water in place of almond milk and add a tbsp or olive oil

-Blend all together in your VitaMixx Blender on high.

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Pass the Butter

This is a copy of an email that I received from a relative, very interesting.

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

• Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.
• Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
• Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
• Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!
• Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.
• Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years .

And now, for Margarine..

• Very High in Trans fatty acids.
• Triples risk of coronary heart disease .
• Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
• Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..
• Lowers quality of breast milk.
• Decreases immune response.
• Decreases insulin response. And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
• Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Share This With Your Friends.....(If you want to butter them up')!

Chinese Proverb: When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others.

Pass the BUTTER PLEASE