If you guessed “Germs” you are incorrect. We are literally covered in trillions of germs both inside and out at all times regardless of being sick or healthy.
Taking a holistic approach to natural weight loss is not about going on a “diet”, it is about teaching your body mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually to be able to eat healthier and promote your optimal function.
Weight reducing diets and programs are short lived with mixed results. Even though they can help to lose weight, they do have a strong tendency to lose their credibility when it comes to maintaining the weight loss for good. In specific cases, weight reducing and obesity diets can actually cause new health and wellbeing problems. Eating correctly and modifying your lifestyle won’t just make you look and feel good, it will improve your immune system which will go on to improving your gut health, it will give you back hidden energy, it will reduce the effects of stress on your body, it will lead to natural weight loss. This is the holistic approach to achieving natural weight loss goals. Besides, through making these modifications you will lower your risk of disease and establish healthy routines that can be managed for life. Nutritional supplementation can also play a significant role in your weight loss journey to make sure your body is functioning as optimally as it can to achieve natural weight loss. B vitamins are known as energy vitamins which aid in combatting fatigue and improving metabolism. In preference to directly influencing weight loss, they help to support your body to promote its own fat burning ability. Like B vitamins Iron can also aid in combatting fatigue and improve your energy by carrying oxygen to all of your cells and muscles, this consecutively leads to promoting your body’s own fat burning ability. Vitamin D along with magnesium are both essential nutrients for supporting a healthy immune system, also they are very beneficial for having a positive mindset which is crucial for achieving natural weight loss and promoting your optimal function. We will support you and discover what you require to eat healthier to achieve natural weight loss and promote your optimal function. Book an appointment or contact Believe To Achieve Holistic Health for additional enquiries. The ultimate source of vitamin D comes from the sun, when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky. When the sun changes its tracks and clocks go back an hour the hours of sunlight become less and the decline in vitamin D uptake from the sun begins.
Did you get much sun over summer? If you didn’t and/or if you don’t eat many food sources of vitamin D such as cod liver oil, oily fish, eggs and sprouted seeds then you might benefit from some nutritional support. There are many conditions accompanied with vitamin D deficiency such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, psoriasis, osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, hormonal imbalance and many others. Who is at risk of vitamin D deficiency? Adults and children are both at risk of vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin but technically a hormone (vitamin D3) that is produced by the sun’s ultraviolet rays when your skin is exposed to it, then transported to your liver then to your kidneys to change it to active vitamin D. Vitamin D is a major anti-inflammatory hormone which assists in the absorption of calcium and phosphorus, re-absorption of calcium from your kidneys, removal of calcium and phosphorus from bone and helps to regulate your immunity. So it can lessen inflammation, pain and many other symptoms. Vitamin D deficiency is the cause of higher incidents of colds and flu during winter months! So as you can see vitamin D is of great importance when it comes to your health, so it’s worth considering a consultation with a clinical nutritionist (me) to find out whether you need nutritional support. Honey is a pure organic form of sugar which contains a highly complex mixture of carbohydrates, enzymes, amino acids, organic acids, minerals, vitamins, aromatic substances, pigments and waxes. It is a sweetener that is made naturally by bees for their own use, using nectar from flowers.
Honey has been used both as a food and as a medicine since the ancient times. The practice of beekeeping to make honey is known as “Apiculture”. It dates as far back to at least 700BC. Honey was praised for being wonderfully sweet and it was also a rarity. Some of it’s uses back then was for use in ceremonies and unusually embalming the deceased. Honey was also used for a variety of medicinal and cosmetic purposes. In the early days, honey’s use in cooking was considered only for the wealthy as it was an expense that only they could afford. Once refined sugar became more widely available, honey went out of favour, due to the fact that refined sugar was a relatively inexpensive form of sweetening. As the popularity grew with the refined sugars honey became displaced by sugar for culinary advantages. Since then, although honey still gets used for sweetening, much of its use has been used for medicinal purposes and its use in confectionary. The process of making honey starts as soon as the nectar is collected by bees from flowers. The nectar once it’s in the bees mouth combines with special enzymes in the bee’s saliva, which turns it into honey. The bees carry honey back to the hive, where they deposit it into the tiny cells of the hive’s walls. The flapping of their wings provides necessary air to limit the honeys moisture content, making it ready to eat. Before the turn of modern medicine, traditional methods of healing using foods and herbs were a big thing. In particular one remedy being the natural concoction of honey and lemon - a traditional mixture that is used to ease sore throats. The lemon juice in this combination makes sense as lemons contain vitamin C which is known to have immune stimulating and anti-infective effects in the body. When it comes to the honey side it is a known fact that it was used as a natural healing method dating back to ancient Egyptian times. Scientific research has found that the application of honey can aide in resolving a variety of wounds such as burns, the ability to starve off wound infections, reduce inflammation and healing. I like to use honey as it is a natural sweetener better for the body and is full of natural healing nutrients for both inside and outside of the body. Honey is also a natural source of energy for the whole body. If you want to improve your life mentally, physically, emotionally, socially environmentally and spiritually; It's important to understand how Nutrition plays a huge role in your life! Have you heard the saying, "You are what you eat"? You are what you Digest don’t forget to chew! You are what you absorb so don’t forget to say thank-you! When you eat a lot of junk food, what happens? You will feel like junk! You are not getting the nutrition you need and you feel tired and miserable! When you start adding fruits and vegetables to your diet, you feel better because you are eating high vibrational foods! When you eat a raw piece of fruit, the live enzymes are all going into your body and giving you the nutrition it needs! So how can you start changing your nutritional habits? Start by making an appointment to see a nutritionist like myself who can help you to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into your daily nutritional regimes and make small steps to start making your meals give you energy, motivation, happiness, and appreciation to achieve optimal health through nutrition! Remember, an apple a day or one serve of omega-3 fatty acids helps keep the doctor away! |
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