Health & Body

Detox your taste buds

Written by Mercedes on Monday, 19 March 2012. Posted in News, Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 527

MSG and Salad Dressings

Whether your starting a new lifestyle or keeping up with the current one i.e. keeping healthy, eating right, and exercising. Detoxing can keep your taste buds clean. What do I mean by clean? Well, some people do not know the difference between MSG seasoning, loads of artificial flavoring and colors in their food. In order to detect these chemicals in your food, you must have keen taste buds. Detoxing is the way to build super receptors on your tongue that will help you determine the quality and purity of your food. Just give it a try, its a very cool trick and you have nothing to lose.

# 1 How to get started

Eliminate eating all fast foods. Fast foods are the #1 carriers of MSG, artificial flavor and color. Check your cupboard or pantry for any products that have artificial flavoring, colors, and MSG. When you find them, throw them out. You can donate food but if I wouldn't personally eat these products I would not give them to anyone.

Grandma's home remedies

Written by Mercedes on Thursday, 23 February 2012. Posted in News, Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 563

Ginger Root

Remedies are very popular because they work. Best of all, you can relieve annoying symptoms such as runny nose and cough in a natural way. Most ingredients such as onions, vinegar and salt, we usually always have at home because they are the basic ingredients of everyday cooking. Why waste money on buying chemicals at the pharmacy, try it with the following home remedies:

Weight loss check in #1

Written by Mercedes on Thursday, 24 November 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 596

Weight loss check in #1

How is your week going so far?

Are you eating every two to three hours? Remember eating every two to three hours will help you burn calories faster and avoid feeding your body too many calories at once making you feel too full.

Eating small meals and snacks more frequently will keep you from feeling lethargic. I have written information that will help you accelerate your results in this Challenge.

Myths About Water & Health

Written by Mercedes on Thursday, 24 November 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 639

Spring Water
Myth #1: 2 Quarts of water daily (64oz) is all adults need to stay hydrated.

Actually, the current recommendation is 1/2oz per body weight. So if you are 150lbs, you would need 75oz of water a day to be adequately hydrated. The larger the person, the higher the metabolic load, and thus the more water is required.

 

 

Holidays and losing weight

Written by Mercedes on Friday, 11 November 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 733

Holidays and losing weight

So the holidays are coming up and I’m pushing for at least 10 pounds of weight loss. Here are some tips and tricks to get you ready for the holidays as well as fighting from picking up that last piece of pumpkin pie.

Meditation

Written by Mercedes on Wednesday, 28 September 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 464

Meditation

Meditation has been around for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations practice meditation. Researchers speculate that primitive hunter-gatherer societies may have discovered meditation and its altered states of consciousness while staring at the flames of their fires.

Cancer Preventive Vegetables

Written by Thomas on Thursday, 25 August 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 948

garlic glovesA very interesting study from Richard Béliveau, Ph.D, states that certain vegetables inhibit certain cancer by up to 90% (animal study).

34 vegetables were used on 8 different tumor cell lines derived from the stomach, kidneys, prostate, breast, brain, pancreatic and lung cancer.

Read the full study here.

Keep in mind, eat Organic & GMO Free. Vegetables that contain pesticides or herbicides may have the opposite effect.

Is Plastic Killing Us?

Written by Mercedes & Thomas on Monday, 15 August 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 802

Is Plastic Killing Us?

Water is a necessity for us humans. Today water is becoming increasingly scarce and if you haven't traveled outside of the U.S you will certainly find many countries who have unclean sources of water or little to no water because the water is being shipped here to the United States for us to drink.

Speaking of unsustainable ways to manufacture water, what about water in plastic bottles? Is water in plastic bottles safe to drink? Let's find out…

Hormones in plastic PET bottles

Written by Thomas on Wednesday, 03 August 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 975

Hormones in plastic PET bottles

It has been known of plastics with Bisphenol A (BPA) has hormone altering activities but now a new study confirms PET plastics to release endocrine interrupting chemicals. So the plastic bottle you are just sipping your water from most likely has some hormone altering properties.

Acidosis, Acidification the indirect base of all diseases

Written by Mercedes on Tuesday, 26 July 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 1074

Acidosis, Acidification the indirect base of all diseases
Took a visit to the Alternative Practitioner, Heilpraktiker. A quick check up was conducted, to find out I'm as healthy as they come with strong organs. What great news this is! Alexander then says; "wait, one moment, I see a little more acid that usual. In the back of my mind I am thinking; acid, what acid?. I eat right, exercise, laugh, sweat, have low stress, work, and surround my self in nature as often as possible.

What else am I possibly missing in my life?

Depletion of bitter compounds in the modern diet

Written by Mercedes on Monday, 07 March 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 762

Depletion of bitter compounds in the modern diet
Sweet, sour, and salty -- all wonderful traditional tastes we were given. These days our meals include sweet juices, sodas, and sauces. We even have sour and salty plates like vinegar and pickles. In the American diet we have the basic tastes of sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Other parts of the world have even more tastes including additional; pungent, and astringent. Pungent tastes are spicy and astringent reflects what a persimmon fruit would taste like. Your tastes guide you to proper nutrition.

Quality vs Quantity vs Health

Written by Thomas on Thursday, 13 January 2011. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 907

Quality vs Quantity vs Health
We all know quality is hard to come by in the United States and when it is found you pay a hefty price for it. Why is this?

Losing weight continues...

Written by Mercedes on Thursday, 02 September 2010. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 1052

Losing weight continues...
Certain foods can assist in fat burning. A number of vegetables and fruits for example can assist in burning fat by boosting the metabolism or helping to break down fat making it easier to burn off when exercising. Also eating more raw foods, fresh pressed juices, and drinking a variety of teas will help your body to burn fat faster. Eating a lot of processed foods will make your body work harder and will in the end slow down your metabolism.

Losing Weight? Try This Mixture of Herbs.

Written by Mercedes on Wednesday, 21 July 2010. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 1603

Losing Weight? Try This Mixture of Herbs.

Lose weight wishes are not on everyone's list but losing weight will often keep us away from diabetes, obesity, and in some cases heart disease. Maybe this is not your case and your looking to cut a couple of pounds and stay in shape.

Also, if coming from an injury, losing weight can mean less stress on your bones and joints. Whatever the case is, there are a number of herbs that can help you lose weight. There are different ways herbs can help us lose weight and below I will explain.

Birth control pills = poison

Written by Mercedes on Friday, 09 April 2010. Posted in Opas Blog, Health & Body - Viewed: 1487

Birth control pills = poison
The first birth control pill was released in 1957 after a chemist by the name of Frank Colton accidentally created a prototype of 10 milligrams. This same pill was scheduled to be released for gynecological disorders and shortly thereafter in 1960 became approved by the FDA. Between 1957 and 1963, just 7 years of exposure and already 1.2 million women were using the first contraceptive pill ever to be released. Releasing a prototype pill before even testing it doesn't make logical sense but soon the makers of the first contraceptive pill; Frank Colton, Margaret Sanger, and Katherine McCormick would first find out about the variety of side effects and reactions their pill had to offer.