Tips for a healthy new you!
Thank you everyone who has
returned back to yoga for 2016, it's going be an amazing year at the
studio for us all! Here are some healthy tips to begin adding to your
lifestyle.
1. It is important to try and
identify food and chemical sensitivities. This is part of naturopathic
care. Avoiding foods and substances that are obstacles to health, the
body can focus its health restorative abilities where the problem
exists. I can help you look at your lifestyle/food/pills you take to
identify these 'intruders'.
2. Moderate foods with a high
saturated fat or oil content, limiting your intake to 30% of your total
diet daily, unless you are involved in heavy physical labor or demanding
athletics. Avoid fried food, hydrogenated oils and trans-fats. These
abnormal fats can get incorporated into cell membranes and disrupt
normal cell function and communication. Use Olive oil, coconut oil,
safflower or sunflower seed to cook with and use flax oil for salad
dressing. Canola oil has trans-fat and euric acid contents so avoid
this.
3. Avoid foods high in refined
carbohydrates and starch such as sugar, candy, white flour/rice, carrots
or white potato products. Sugar and simple carbohydrates are known to
have a negative effect on your immune system and support parasite and
yeast growth within the body if these imbalances exist. Use Whole
Grains!
4. High fiber foods matter!
fruits, oats, flax-seed or vegetables are recommended. Fiber 'cleanses'
the intestinal tract and aids in elimination of toxins. The liver
incorporates toxic waste into bile which is deposited into the small
intestines to bind fiber for elimination. 90% of the bile is reabsorbed
therefore a good bowel elimination pattern is of utmost importance!
5. Buy organic when possible.
6. Eat most of your food earlier
in the day and small at night. Proteins in the morning, salads and
carbs during day and light foods like soup and fruit at night. Protein
at night requires too much liver activity and the liver won't be able to
clear the toxins from the blood efficiently throughout the night as it
should.
7. Try to generate a relaxed atmosphere around meals and chew your food
well. Do not 'work' while eating. Give thanks, be grateful and affirm
that the food going into your body will be used as needed for fuel and
that which needs to be eliminated will do so peacefully. Do not drive
and eat. Do not drink during eating, wait until after (unless you are
having a glass of wine with dinner).
8. Read labels and avoid foods with artificial or synthetic ingredients.
9. Moderate your animal
protein but eat ample vegetable protein; ask me how! Tofu, Temp-eh, TVP,
whole grains, nuts, seeds and beans.
10. Be creative and experiment with a wide variety of foods and
spices. LEARN YOUR DOSHA and eat according to your body type; ask me
how!
11. WATER. Drink a minimum
amount equal to 1/2 your body weight in ounces per day. Body weight
120lbs. Divided by 2 = 60 ounces of water.
12. Attitude. Be positive,
take charge, be pro-active, have laughter and joy in your daily life!
Commit yourself to living well and healthy.
Lesli Kotloski
