Quitting smoking for good can be really tricky business. Reason being it is very easy to switch from the smoking habit right into another bad habit. The most common switch is from smoking to over-eating, and more specifically, to sugar addiction.
The average person who quits smoking gains anywhere from 4 lbs, all the way up to 30 lbs! This is why many experts are suggesting that smokers stop eating sugar and most carbs before they quit smoking. This will make quitting smoking much easier and save you from obesity, which happens to be even more deadly than smoking!
Proper Nutrition = Smoke Free Success
Getting vital nutrients into your body before you begin your journey to stop smoking is of the utmost importance. Proper nutrition can help you quit smoking in several ways:
- If your body is “satisfied” with the proper vitamins, minerals and nutrients, then your craving for nicotine will be much less intense.
- Adequate nutrition minimizes depression and anxiety, which can easily occur when you smoking.
- When you eat healthy, it helps to strengthen your detoxification pathways, clearing the years of toxins that have accumulated from smoking.
- A healthy diet is going to make you feel stronger and more alert, enabling you to have more willpower to quit.
The Best Diet for Smoking Cessation
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Soy products are big business in the health food industry. Promoted for its appeal as a natural, low fat, no cholesterol food, it’s easy to see why so many of us would buy into the claim that soy is a health food. Besides, if much of Asia enjoys dietary forms of soy on a daily basis then it must be good, right? Not necessarily. There are seemingly advantages and disadvantages associated with soy that may make you think twice about whether or not it’s truly beneficial to your body.
When we think of soy, many of us first think of tofu – and the Asians. Also known as textured vegetable protein, tofu is high on Mercola’s list of soy foods to be avoided. Why? It’s commercially made in large metal containers and thus contains high levels of aluminum. It’s also flavored with MSG…yuk! But above all, soy infant formula remains top of the worst soy foods list for Dr. Mercola. “Infants fed soy formula have up to 20,000 times the amount of estrogen circulating in their blood stream than infants who are not fed soy formula!”
Declining fitness was once expected at about age 35 – now we know it doesn’t have to.
Women are particularly prone to osteoporosis or the thinning of bones. This problem can begin as early as age 25, and speeds up as menopause is approached. It is during the first few years after menopause that the rate at which bone density is lost is tremendously accelerated.
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During this Holiday season we decided to put together some eating tips for alternating recipes and ways to avoid the calorie laden dishes served at every holiday party or meal. These tips should not only get you through the rest of the Holiday season, but they will also serve you well at any social event or dinner party into next year.
Many of us stuffer with stress, some of us more than others. However, few of us are really aware that stress impacts our health. Fear not. There are simple steps you can take to help better manage it.




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