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This instant salad dressing could help you lose weight
1st June 2008
Did you read Friday's Good life Letter?
If so, you'd have heard me waxing lyrical about an
amazing wonder honey from New Zealand.
(Or 'beeswaxing' lyrical, perhaps?)
This unique wild honey can treat MRSA,
indigestion and ulcers... ease your digestion....
treat wounds and cuts naturally and quickly... and
even treat skin problems.
If you didn't read my letter, it's called 'manuka
honey' and seriously you should give it a try.
Take a look here:
www.greenbayharvest.co.uk
If you did read Friday's letter, then you'd have
noticed something else on the Green Bay
website...
A natural combination that helps you with
digestion and weight loss
On the website you can also buy a bottle of
manuka honey combined with apple cider vinegar.
'What are the benefits of THAT exactly?' asked a
Good Life reader in an email yesterday.
Well, the short answer is this...
You'll get all the benefits of manuka honey as
described in Friday's Good Life Letter... plus,
when combined with vinegar, it's an amazing aid
to digestion and weight loss... and in this bottled
form it's easy to add to juice or pour onto a salad.
Now here's the slightly longer answer...
Vinegar the trusty battlefield remedy for
stomach problems
Apple Cider Vinegar is a well known remedy for
heartburn and indigestion. It was used for upset
stomachs in the US Civil War and First World War.
In fact, honey and vinegar were one both
commonly used antiseptics on the battlefield.
Mixed together, they're a powerful health tonic.
Researchers from Sweden's Lund University have
also found evidence that vinegar can work as an
appetite suppressant.
The reason is the vinegar helps reduce the
amount of insulin your body produces after eating
a carbohydrate meal.
This backs up the findings of Carol Johnston, a
professor of nutrition at Arizona State University.
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She believes that taking two tablespoons of
vinegar before a meal reduces the blood sugar
'spikes' you get after eating.
To explain this quickly...
When you eat a meal, your blood sugar levels
rise, especially if you've eaten lots of sugary food,
or food with a lot of refined carbohydrates in it
(white rice, white flour, cake, white pasta).
To bring these levels down, your body produces a
hormone called insulin. This causes a crash in
your blood sugar. The crash causes a sudden
feeling of hunger and emptiness.
It's this perpetual cycle of feeling stuffed, then
empty, that can drive people to over-eat, and
reach for the wrong types of food.
That peak of satisfaction you get from refined
carbohydrates and sugars is actually very
addictive.
Some experts believe that vinegar can help avoid
that horrible crash, so you feel fuller more quickly,
and for longer.
The upshot is....
By combining honey and vinegar you get a
digestive aid AND appetite suppressant in one!
By having a bottle of honey pre-mixed with quality
apple cider vinegar, you can instantly add it to a
drink or dress salads with it.
Have a look on the website and you'll see what I
mean.
www.greenbayharvest.co.uk
Now onto some other emails I've received
recently....
The secret of avoiding sun burn |
During the hot weather spell back in May (I know,
it seems an age ago doesn't it?) a reader from
Portsmouth emailed me to say:
'During this recent hot weather I have been
walking in shorts and bare arms up to eight hours
daily. I do apply a little factor 15 sun cream.
However at the end of all these days, I am clearly
not burnt.
How has this change happened?
I eat about half a tube of tomato paste daily. It's
so easy to use, even squeeze on food when
serving. Always ensure that you have some oil
with your meal to ensure that the vitamin A is fully
digested.
In addition I take a high dose Vitamin C and E and
a multivitamin and bromelain. These are to ensure
that 'free radicals', which build up during
sunbathing, are quickly dealt with, and the
bromelain reduces inflammation.'
This testimony backs up my email from May 4th -
'Protect Yourself From Wrinkles... with a Pizza'.
Scientists seem to agree that tomato heated and
mixed with oil really can help protect your skin
from sun burn and wrinkles.
And the winner is...
A few weeks back I wondered aloud what the
collective name for 'scientists' could be.
I didn't expect such a huge response. There were
loads of hilarious suggestions. But I did pick a
winner...
Good Lifer Les emailed me to say:
'There can only be one term for a collection of
scientists - a 'schism'. Such a bunch of unsure,
split opinions can only be described as such.'
Fair enough. A 'schism of scientists'. It's going
STRAIGHT into the dictionary.
He also says: 'If I've won a prize please make it a
big one.'
Erm, okay. Does being mentioned in The Good
Life Letter count as being a prize?
Probably not.
And finally today...
Are skin creams and lotions really that safe?
A reader emailed me to say:
'I was thinking the other day about how we every
day, try and restrict chemicals from the foods we
eat and so on....to benefit our health, then I
thought about all the creams, potions and lotions I
use and wondered whether these chemicals are
entering the body.
What a shocking thought.....especially when you
try so hard to eat and drink healthy options and
these cunning little chemicals may be entering by
a side-road.'
Well, this is a good point. And it's exactly why I
went to Bath the other week.
I went to meet an old friend who is particularly
interested in exposing all the chemical gunk in
skin creams, shampoos and dyes.
She used to work in the advertising industry and
knows all the lies and cover-ups used to flog over-
priced rubbish.
She's since got heavily into natural therapies, and
now has plenty of alternatives that will make you
feel and look great.
I've asked her to gather everything she knows and
publish it for free, so YOU get the benefit of her
insights.
Hopefully she will agree to do this. I think I plied
her with enough good food and flattery.
Fingers crossed! |
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