Why I will never gain weight!
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Since I’m on the subject of food, I might as well continue.
Given my ethnic background, I’ve been eating hot peppers as long as I’ve been eating jam on my toast. When I prepare foods for friends, I often have to prepare a separate version for those who don’t eat hot and spicy foods.
I like it all: cayenne pepper, chili pepper, jalapeno pepper, habaneros pepper, Italian peperoncini peppers in vinegar, banana peppers in vinegar, Thai and Chinese hot pepper pastes and Mexican pepper … I just LOVE it all!
I never knew until recently that my need to add peppers to my dishes is not only a tasty way to boost the flavour of foods but it’s also one sure way to NEVER gain weight!!!
Before you run off to your supermarket and clean out the hot pepper isle, I should give a more in-depth explanation.
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Are you getting the right kind of flax seeds in your diet?
This is going to be a very short post, but I thought it was important to highlight something that a lot of people might not understand. I know that I was also misguided when it came to flax seeds.
It appears that not all flax seeds are created equally.
I found out about this a few months ago while watching Dr. Mehmet Oz on one of Oprah’s health segments, but a few weeks ago I was also confronted with this important lesson about flax seeds and I thought I’d pass on my findings.
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Give up your espresso and grab a red espresso instead!
If you’re looking for a way of combining your antioxidants and your daily espresso, you might want to take a look at this new product from South Africa.
I stumbled upon Red EspressoTM and thought the whole concept to be incredibly brilliant.
Rooibos tea has been getting a lot of coverage as beauty diet food because it’s packed with five times more antioxidants than green tea!!!
For those who didn’t know, Rooibos tea is only grown in one place on earth - within the 110-kilometre radius of the Cederberg region in South Africa.
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Warning about choosing fish-oil base products
Along with testing Imedeen Time Perfection, I’ve also added Omega-3 capsules to my diet. As I said in yesterday’s post it has become very obvious that Omega-3 is one of the best kept secrets to aging well and like so many North Americans, I was guilty of not consuming the proper intake of Omega-3 on a daily basis.
My friend Krista had been urging me to start taking fish oil supplements because a number of studies have shown that proper intake of fish oil will help with muscle maintenance.
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