Analiza Mariano

22/02/2022

Let us build a community of Nutrivores today!
Who is in?

Better to not give names to our diet ...

Because as the saying goes: "There is no universal one-size-fit-for-all diet"

Just like the ketogenic diet doesn't work for some people ...

Take in what you love and enjoy eating as long as they are whole foods, nutrient-dense, low in sugar ...

If really feeling hungry and want some snacks, still choose nutrient-dense snacks like nuts, seeds, and fruits that are low in fructose …

Get enough sleep, some exercise, and what about stress? Do some stress management!

I am tweaking my own diet since I don't go to the market at all. I can’t simply have what I want all the time…

And always incorporate some fasting, (good for the repair of our immune system) https://news.usc.edu/63669/

21/02/2022

Are you confused? Or are you determined to stay on course on your diet?

I feel some frustration …

My bosses are back from a month-long vacation for a week now, and my diet has been on havoc! My lady boss can’t be convinced we have toxic cooking oil in our kitchen. Fortunately, she knows the diet I am in now which is low in carbohydrates, and hasn’t discouraged me except to say “you will become more skinny!”

On average, I cook 2 - 3 vegetables per meal (lunch and dinner) and I get to eat them all! But, now I just eat 1, which I stir-fried using the oil from the fatty pork itself. The other 2 vegetables are stir-fried in the toxic oil, I can’t bear to eat anymore since I started “eating healthy” before the Chinese New Year.

So, I am getting by, eating low glycemic index foods, avoiding processed food altogether, and incorporating tea in my afternoon break.

09/02/2022

INTERMITTENT FASTING by Dr. Jason Fung
FREE, FLEXIBLE & CONVENIENT
CHOOSE THE RIGHT FOOD - WHOLE FOODS not PROCESSED FOODS
AVOID SNACKING

Medicine, he says is ridiculous! I say, thank you to all doctors who are finding functional ways to help their patients get better without so much relying on conventional medications.

I am actually searching for a fasting process that won't let me lose weight. From 48 kgs last year, I am now down to 45 kgs and I don’t want to lose more weight!

I saw this video as about weight loss which is not what I am looking for. I watched it, nevertheless because my brother-in-law suggested I check out Dr. Jason Fung, and I am glad I did.

Dr. Fung was so honest to admit his inadequacies as a doctor, that in spite of being in the business of helping people to get better, he felt he was not doing enough back then 8 years ago or so, apart from giving conventional medications that he says don’t really work …

For Dr. Jason Fung, fasting is free, flexible, and convenient, and it is something completely different from the diet, whether you are a vegan or carnivore, keto, or low carb. But it is something that we can add to our diet of again, WHOLE FOODS, not PROCESSED FOODS! And in addition, STAY AWAY FROM SNACKING!

The video is quite long, with many graphs from studies and a Q&A portion at the end of it.

Dr. Jason Fung, MD, is a nephrologist and expert in the use of intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate diets for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. In this ...

08/02/2022

INTERMITTENT FASTING - Free, Flexible & Simple
RIGHT FOOD - whole foods, not processed foods

Is eating 3 times a day and also snacking 3 times a day (morning, afternoon and midnight)
a good eating habit?

How many times in a day should we eat?
Sharing here this TED TALK episode from May 2019 with 10M views by a functional nutritionist, Cynthia Thurlow.

She emphasized WHEN you eat is more important than WHAT you eat

If I think of the WHEN as more important, then i can have:
Breakfast at 6 am
Snacks at 9 am
Lunch at 12 noon
Snacks at 3 pm
Dinner at 6 pm
Snacks again at 9PM!

And if I think of the WHAT as not so important -
then I can just eat anything I want?
We all know by now the answer to that,
of course is NO!!!

Choose the right food ...
Whole foods and not processed foods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Dkt7zyImk

NOTE FROM TED: Please do not look to this talk for medical advice and consult a medical professional before adopting an intermittent fasting regiment. This t...

06/02/2022

One of the many things I had difficulty understanding in my ongoing study of the low-carb diet is about inflammation of the body. I was totally ignorant about this type of inflammation because I only know of inflammation like when I suffer from a sore throat. According to my research, this kind of inflammation is often hidden or silent, unlike sore throats that we can feel. But, it manifests itself as a chronic disease. In short, if we are suffering from any chronic illness then we may have inflammation in our body.

Some of the things that drive inflammation in our body are issues about our diet, issues causing our stress, and microbiome issues. And there are studies that show all these issues can be addressed by proper diet, that is, eliminating those foods that are inflammatory and adding those that can empower us to heal our body's inflammation.

How exactly does the body heal itself through all this good food???
From what I gathered, healing our bodies is a lot easier said than done.
It is a holistic approach. The science behind the healing mechanism of our bodies is not so hard to learn but the approach requires dedication, practice, and a correct mindset. And the best way to go is to be guided along the way especially for people with chronic illnesses.

According to doctors, our body has sophisticated health defense systems. Starting from our gastrointestinal tract, all the way inside our blood vessels, there are systems designed to protect us. Our DNA and stem cells and immune system are all in place to help our bodies heal. It is just a matter of establishing their current condition and resetting them so that they can be activated to perform what they were intended to do. And the most notable way of resetting our health defense systems is by choosing to eat the right foods!

Sharing here is a video clip of Dr. William W. Li, author of the book “Eat To Beat Disease”.
https://youtu.be/WUGMTxfcaXI

Forget everything you think you know about food and your health, and discover the new science of how the body heals itself. Learn how to identify the right f...

04/02/2022

Heart-to-heart talk this month of February!

Judging from the image, oh yes, you may say I am in love!
I am in love with my new diet, that's what it is!

For the longest time 120/80 used to be my blood pressure but, last year I suffered from weekly headaches that persisted for a month and so I went to see a doctor... 160/90! But blood glucose and blood lipids at least were ok.

It's been almost a month now since I had not eaten rice. I also stopped eating noodles, bread, corn, sweet potato, carrots which are the favorite food of my employers. I am now basically on a low-carb diet. To my surprise, I feel good!

And the matter of the heart is where I am getting good results so far. My blood pressure is getting lower and lower. My hair fall is also down 50 percent!

My research convinced me that eating the right foods and moving more frequently can contribute to a healthy heart. A big step for us to be free from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) or the ailments that affect our heart and the blood vessels connected to it.

Be motivated this February - Month of the Heart!

Be safe!

Eat smart - eat the right foods and eat at the right time!

03/02/2022

Two Olympics, One Covid

First, the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the Winter Olympics in China, opening today

China’s greatest fear: will the covid 19 outbreak occur as a result of the Winter Olympics?

Beijing is not taking any chances. It has basically designed an Olympic Games “under quarantine”. More popularly called a bubble “the closed-loop” stretches across a total of 161 kilometers.

CNN described the bubble “as the most ambitious quarantine attempted anywhere since the start of the pandemic”.

It's an ambitious system designed to keep the Olympics completely separate from the rest of the mostly Covid-free Chinese population.

No overseas fans are coming in to watch, only foreign journalists to cover the events.

Every day, everyone in the bubble will be tested for covid and their temperature uploaded to a special app.

And when the Games are over, all local staff and volunteers will be quarantined for 21 days before returning home.

This is how serious China is in its “zero covid” policy..

03/02/2022

Happy Chinese New Year!
2022 is here officially - the year of the TIGER. More specifically, WATER TIGER. Each animal year in the Gregorian Calendar is associated with one of five elements — wood, fire, earth, metal, or water. So more precisely, 2022 is the year of the water tiger.

The tradition of the Chinese New Year dates back as far as 4000 years. In the past century, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, and 2010 were all Tiger years.

The most famous legend on the origin of Chinese New Year is about the monster “NIAN”. In Chinese, “XIAN NIAN KUAI LE” or “XIAN NIAN HAO” is how they greet one another. The legend has it that the monster Nian comes out of the forest every New Year’s Eve to feast on animals and humans. But the people escaped every time. And they learned that monster Nian is afraid of the color red and loud noises. After that, the people would wear red clothes, put red papers up around their houses, red lanterns, and set up firecrackers to scare away NIAN. These traditions have then continued through this day.

It's more popular in China to call the Chinese New Year “Spring Festival”. It’s the time for family reunions. People always go home every year no matter how far they stay. They are able to observe their tradition by the books because their celebrations usually last for 15 days, though the public holiday is only 7 days beginning on new year’s eve. And actual celebrations often start the weekend before because there is so much to do! Things like:

Shopping for clothes, food, goodies, gifts, paper decorations, incense
Cleaning the house and putting red and gold decorations
Cleaning themselves like going for a haircut
Steaming the cakes
And many more ...

Come new years eve will become more busy with the annual family dinner, giving of red packets, lighting the fireworks and firecrackers at midnight to drive away the evil spirits and welcome the new year.

Beginning new years eve there are things they strictly follow like:

no more cleaning the house, doing the laundry, sweeping the floor, and taking out the garbage so as not to drive away fortune. It is considered bad luck, sweeping all your fortunes away!
Day 1: visit the husband family
Day 2: visit the wife family
Day 3: families stay at home or visit shrines, temples
Day 4: waiting for the arrival of the gods into their houses so they prepare food offerings and burn incense
Day 5: Garbage Day - keeping all the rubbish of the first four days means poor energy so they dumped all garbage this day and clean the house.
Day 6: Everyone's Birthday - ancient Chinese believe that on the 7th day at the beginning of time humans were created so they call it people’s day
Day 7: go back to work for those who are in the essential industries. Between here and the last day, most people are still on holiday and enjoying more festivities, visiting relatives and friends always bringing gifts with them all the time.

The last day of the celebrations for this year will be on February 15 which they call the Lantern Festival. Parades, dances, games, and fireworks mark the finale of the holiday.

More than just the beginning of a new calendar year, the Lunar New Year is seen as a time of reunion and rebirth, marking the end of winter and the start of spring. That is why the Chinese new year is aptly called the Spring Festival.

Again, Happy Chinese New Year! Safety and Health for the Whole Family🙏🙏🙏

21/11/2021

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