Do Fruits and Veggies Reduce The Risk of Heart Disease?

A Swedish study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health found that eating fruits and vegetables did not lower the risk of coronary heart disease, unless they were consumed with fat.

Many vitamins and micronutrients in food are fat-soluble. They cannot be absorbed without adequate fat. So if you eat fruits or vegetables without fat, you only absorb a fraction of the nutrients.

Consuming enough fat with fruits and vegetables is especially true in the case of children. Vitamins and micronutrients are crucial for proper growth and development. Without adequate fat in the diet, children are not getting enough of these nutrients.

So the next time you eat broccoli or try to feed it to your kids, remember to add some butter. As for those strawberries, have some full-fat cream with them while you’re at it.

Why Supplement?

In a perfect world, you would get all the nutrients you need from your food. Years and years ago, when the topsoil was rich, the oceans clean and animals ate nutrient-rich plants and other animals, you didn’t have to worry about supplementation.

Even better, industrial toxins hadn’t made their way into your food, air and water.

We no longer live in that world. Much of our soil is depleted from over farming. The food you eat has less nutrition than it did forty years ago. Our lives are more stressful. We sleep less. We move less. Things just aren’t the same.

And although scientific progress has made life easier in many ways, it’s also made things harder too.

That’s why my family and I take and recommend BarleyLife Xtra™ and other whole-food nutritional supplements from The AIM Companies™. It’s one way to bridge the gap and make any dietary lifestyle, whether good or bad, significantly better.

Why not put the odds for good health in your favor?

More On Paula Deen and Diabetes

On a recent blog post, Jerry Naughton has some good facts regarding diabetes:

• Type 2 Diabetes is a "burning out" of the pancreas' ability to produce insulin, the powerful hormone that keeps the body’s blood sugar in a very narrow range - so you don't die. 

• Insulin works by forcing your muscles to burn blood sugar first while pushing other nutrients into your fat cells until the sugar is dealt with. 

• If you continuously bombard your system with sugar, your muscles can eventually become "resistant" to insulin's signals and will not uptake the sugar. 

• At that point your body will convert the sugar to fat and store that in your fats cells, too, because insulin's immediate concern is keeping you from sugar-stroking, not how you’ll look in a swimsuit this summer. 

• Since insulin is still present, your fat cells won’t release fat for your body to burn as energy. So you’ll tend to eat more while remaining hungry and tired because you’re starving at the cellular level. 

• Carbohydrates are sugar. Even the hearthealthywholegrain kind (yeah, it’s pretty much officially one word now).

• Fat does not affect blood sugar.

It's not Paula Deen's job to be America's nutritionist. She is first and foremost an entertainer. Instead, let's learn from her mistakes so something like this doesn't happen to us too.