Apple Honey Iced Tea

This is a fabulous summer tea, and easy to make. This one is definitely a personal favorite!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups alkaline water, boiling
• 4 tea bags
• 1/3 cup honey
• 3 cups apple juice

Preparation:

Pour three cups of your alkaline water into a stove-top pot; Steep tea bags in hot water for 5 minutes. Strain out tea bags, and stir in honey and juice. Mix until honey is dissolved. Chill for two hours then serve over ice.
Serves 6-8

Saturated Fats...Watch Out!

Concentrated mostly in animal products, saturated fats are solid fats that raise harmful LDL cholesterol and increase cardiovascular disease risk. Foods high in saturated fats are damaging to your arteries, so as a result The American Heart Association advises limiting saturated fats to less than seven percent of total calories, which is equivocal to to about 15 grams for the average person intaking 2,000 calorie-a-day diet. It is easy to limit your saturated fat intake, just stay away from high fat content dairy products, limit your red meat intake and manage your meat portions. lastly, and this is a given, as much as possible stay away from fried and greasy foods, these are just swimming in saturated fats.

Acid Water: Don't Throw it Out!!

acid water is highly oxidative water, and therefore, acidic. acid water kills bacteria, viruses and fungi upon contact, in fact, Acid ionized water is destructive not only to bacteria but it is also an astringent. As a result it has found widespread application commercially in: nurseries, surgeries, food preparation areas, sprout and wheatgrass growers, florists, hospitals, etc. In the home it is an excellent cleansing and sterilizing agent, with uses in the kitchen, for hair and skin care, extending the life of flowers, promoting plant growth and many others. The acid water is excellent for all manner of skin complaint. you can use it as an astringent face wash last thing at night and it's excellent for acne, sores, bench top and more.

Health Tip Of The Day

The ABC's of Antioxidants:

Antioxidants are a great way to fight off the havoc wreaking free radicals that are no doubt running rampant in your system doing more damage than you realize. The question is how do you get the antioxidants you so sorely need to keep healthy and fight off sickness and disease? there are two sure fire ways to know your getting the antioxidants you need:

1. Eating specific foods that are high in antioxidants like carotenoids, flavonoids, selenium, sulfides, and organosulfurs all are food compounds that are high in antioxidants.

2. The second, and easily the best and most powerful way to get your antioxidants is by drinking alkaline water. alkaline water contains millions of free radical fighting oxidants in every glass; as well as being full of calcium and rich in oxygen. drinking alkaline water is a sure fire way to keep healthy

Ionized water can help you to lose weight

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center, states, "overweight and obesity are not fat problems; they are an over-acidic problem caused by lifestyle, diet and metabolic acids. If you need and want to lose acidic weight then you need to eliminate acidic lifestyle and dietary choice sand begins to alkalize and energize your body with the pH Miracle Living Lifestyle and Dietary Plan." There are many different avenues you can take in acidic fat prevention. When it comes to health, it’s a fact that all measures should be taken in ensuring your well being. One measure that can be taken to ensure good health and long life is by drinking ionized water. Drinking ionized water makes it easier for the body to dispose of acid wastes and, if consumed regularly, ionized water can reduce acid waste, allowing for a natural health improvement.

Drinking ionized water not only reduces the levels of un-wanted acids in your body. The accumulation of acidic wastes helps to accelerate the aging process; therefore, the reduction of acid wastes retards the aging process and perhaps - according to Sang Whang – “even reverses it.”

Supplementation

A strange as it may seem, a great deal of our aging and deterioration is actually due, in large part, to a deficiency of proper health and nutrients. As we age, our bodies are naturally going to slow down, thus making it more difficult to absorb the proper nutrient we need from our food, mainly due to weaker digestive system. Our immune system starts to weaken and slow, so as a result, we are not able to fight off sickness or rapid deterioration properly. So what are some of the avenues we can take to properly feed our bodies the nutrients they so richly desire? Here are a few options you can explore to implement health back into your diet:

Dark green vegetables- broccoli, spinach, blue algae, and kale are all vegetables rich in proteins, nutrients and calcium. These are a must have in your everyday diet.

Antioxidants- some people think taking vitamins is the best way to keep the antioxidants flowing, but actually a better way is by drinking ionized alkaline water. It is a fact that alkaline water provides your body and cells with much needed oxygen, which helps to boost immune system, keep you energized as well as helps detoxify your system.

Taking calcium and iron- calcium will help to strengthen your bone density while iron helps protect you from a protein deficiency.

Good exercise- it’s good to keep your calories and total acidic body fat down and your muscle mass up, and one of the best ways of doing this is through healthy exercise. Keeping your body in shape also helps to boost your immune system.

Take a multi-vitamin- you should really look into to this one, because there are a lot of vitamins out there that aren’t as nutritionally sound as many others. First, make sure it’s a vitamin that needs to be taken more than once a day, then find out the reputation of this vitamin. These multi-vitamins will help to supplement your body with a lot of much needed nutrients that you are missing in your everyday diet.

By Nedalee Ruiz

Nedalee is the author of The Desperate Parents Handbook http://www.desperateparent.com/
Nedalee recommends http://www.healingwatermachines.com/ for more articles on health and healing and http://HealingDiets.blogspot.com for articles on diet and nutrition.

Copyright © 2008 By Nedalee Ruiz Permission granted to reproduce in entirety only including links and author credits.

Avoiding Excess Weight in your Body

Obesity is running rampant throughout the U.S. population today. It is basically defined as being 20% over your normal body weight; normal weight is determined by your height, age, and build, and is referred to as your body mass index. Obesity is now the second leading cause of death in America right underneath smoking cigarettes.

There are several different avenues you can explore and take to avoid any extra weight gain and, if possible, lose some of those un-wanted pounds:

1. Cut empty calories. Empty calories are normally found in high energy foods with poor nutritional values and are prominent in processed foods high in fat and carbohydrates. Some examples of these foods are- Coffee, soda, potato chips, and candy. Cutting these foods out of your diet will keep you from adding that un-wanted weight and it will help you to drop some of those unnecessary pounds.

2. Detoxify your body. Your body needs to be cleansed and the best way to do this is by drinking alkaline water which is distributed through water ionizers. Alkaline water helps to oxygenate your cells, which helps to neutralize body acids and restore your pH balance.

3. Eat a good breakfast. Your metabolism doesn’t start running properly until you eat, so if you wake up nice and early and eat a healthy breakfast, your metabolism will work over time in between meals to help you burn calories.

4. Don’t eat late at night. Your metabolism starts working for the first time in the morning, after breakfast, so by the end of the day its pooped! Your metabolism slows at night, so you should pick a nice early dinner time, eat a sensible, low calorie meal and then put the fork down for the rest of the night. If you continue to much, your metabolism will not be able to process it as quickly and it will be stored as fat.

5. drink plenty of water. Drinking 8 10 oz glasses of water a day will not only keep you hydrated and cleansed, but it will also help to curb hunger.

6. Finally, exercise properly. You should be exercising at least twice a week to help to keep you in shape and burn some unwanted calories.

By Nedalee Ruiz
Nedalee is the author of The Desperate Parents Handbook http://www.desperateparent.com/
Nedalee recommends http://www.healingwatermachines.com/ for more articles on health and healing and http://HealingDiets.blogspot.com for articles on diet and nutrition.
Copyright © 2008 By Nedalee Ruiz Permission granted to reproduce in entirety only including links and author credits.