I'm not getting fat.....

Hello all oils and avocado lovers.

As a huge salad eater in summer when the salad is fresh and fruits are ready to be eaten. The berries are so sweat and juicy. I have a lonely blueberry in my mouth right now picked in New Jersey.

Many of my friends and clients thinks that less fat in there body makes them skinnier or loose weight. But that is fantasies. It is actually the opposite. Your body needs oils and fats for the organs and also for digestion. Fats are Jin, grounding and protective. Use only unrefined oils. The fried food for example is not fat you want in your body.

Use the extra Virgin olive oil for cooking and the sesame oil for example, my favorite is Toasted sesame oil on top of my steamed vegetables or on my salad.

What about low fat products??? They have more sugar. Ex Low fat Milk, Yogurt and Drinks even crackers for children. So if you want to loose a little around the waist this summer stay away from low fat products.

I just had a table spoon of the toasted sesame oil on my morning salad and I feel great.
I thought when I was younger (17) that fat made med fat so I had dry salad with no good stuff on it. I call it today boring salad. I think a salad is all about the dressing, the good stuff. But I'm not getting fat when I have my morning tablespoon of toasted sesame oil.

/ C

Red wine good or bad

Hi every one

I'm a red wine drinker and love the red moment 5 times a week. 5 glasses a week is good for you regarding Walter Willett, M.D. he is a teacher, author of Eat, Drink and weigh less. Fantastic book by the way.
Drink alcohol in moderation (optional). A daily glass of wine, or any alcohol, is actually beneficial to health. THAT'S GREAT.

A glass of wine after a long day helps melt away stress and heightens the pleasure of a meal.In France for example they have daily glasses of wine and a low rate of heart disease. Researchers pointed to the red wine in there diet as the explanation. Yes and no. It's a combination of life style and diet.

There is truth behind the red wine theory. Studies have shown moderate consumption of alcohol does protect against heart disease and ischemic strokes it also protects against diabetes, gallstones and kidney cancer. Drinking alcohol raises levels of HDL cholesterol and reduces the formation of arterial blood clots, witch can cause heart attacks.

I love this ifo about wine, sins I listened to Walter I drink red wine almost daily, I feel good and happy. Not only red wine is beneficial for you white wine, beer any kind of alcohol.


//C

Farms

Hello happy friends

I want to tell you about this experience.

After my last class at Institute of Integrative Nutrition we the honor of listening to Howard Lyman. He was a fourth-generation family farmer in Montana for almost 40 years. He speaks from a background of personal experience and he say that chemically based agricultural production methods today are unsustainable, and therefore ecologically disastrous. His experiences range from working in a large organic dairy to raising registered beef cattle to owning a large factory feedlot. He have farmed thousands of acres of grain and reproduced a herd of over one thousand commercial beef cows. In addition to raising cows, he have raised chickens, pigs, and turkeys.

HE was involved in agriculture at a time when the call dictated getting bigger and better or getting out. He was educated in modern agriculture, and he can tell you from firsthand experience -- it is not sustainable. He followed all the modern advice and turned a small organic family farm into a large corporate chemical farm with a thousand range cows, five thousand head of cattle in a factory feedlot, thousands of acres of crops, and as many as thirty employees. He saw the organic soil go from a living, productive base to a sterile, chemical-saturated, mono-cultural ground produced by his so-called modern methods.

In 1979, he got tumor on my spinal cord caused him to be paralyzed from the waist down. That changed his life forever. He promised himself that, whatever the outcome of the surgery, he would dedicate the rest of his life to doing what he believed to be right -- no matter what changes that necessitated.

The period before and after the surgery gave him much time to think about the changes resulting form his methods of farming. Convinced that we were going the wrong way, he decided to become a voice for the family farmer and the land. In 1983, he sold most of his farm and started working for farmers in financial trouble. This led to his working for the Montana Farmers Union and from there to Washington, D.C. as a lobbyist for the National Farmers Union.

His story was so amazing and I had tears in my eyes. 1 man can change everything.
This is his words:

"The question we must ask ourselves as a culture is whether we want to embrace the change that must come, or resist it. Are we so attached to the dietary fallacies with which we were raised, so afraid to counter the arbitrary laws of eating taught to us in childhood by our misinformed parents, that we cannot alter the course they set us on, even if it leads to our own ruin? Does the prospect of standing apart or encounttering ridicule scare us even from saving ourselves?

That prospect intimidated me once, and I can only wonder now what I was frightened of. It's hard to imagine, now that I'm a hundred thirty pounds lighter, infinitely healthier, more full of life and energy, much happier. Now that I have vegetarian friends wherever I go, and feel part of a movement that is not so much political as it is a march of the human heart. Now that I understand how much is at stake. Now that I've come to relish shaking people up.

I would love to see the meat industry and the pesticide industry shaken up, too. I would love to see feedlots close and factory farming end. I would love to see more families return to the land, grow crops for our own species, and raise them organically. I would love to see farm communities revive. I would love to know that I've wandered into my nation's heartland by the sweet smell of grain and not the forbidding smell of excrement.

When you can't take it with you, all that really matters is what you leave behind."*

Howard F. Lyman, LL.D

my day

Today has passed by so quickly I don't understand where the time goes. I started my day on Internet, emails, blogs, school, Swedish news paper and then off to the gym got myself a painful massage by my trainer. Lunch with Franny, good conversations and manicure. Then it was already 3.30. I had a glass of wine with a friend and then... the day was over.

It surprise me everyday in New York city to have days that pass by so fast. How can I make it slower? If I get up earlier? I already get up at 6 or 7 then it would be 5 and that's too crazy. If I get a baby I think I at least remember what I did yesterday. Its actually children that tell you how fast the time goes. Every time I go to my country and city I see the kids that looks like teenagers now and they where baby's the last time a saw them.
SO, I will try to do something I can remember everyday. See someone or talk to someone so I can remember that day. See something like an exhibition or a new house.


This day I will remember cuz I saw friends that I love and I'm writing this.

Love /Success

Dream, take action and change your life

Hello dreamers

I had a dream that came true...how many have had that? I'm a frequent day dreamer and love my dreamy world and if I try to step out of my safe, dreamy and romantic world I will not be me.
I love dreams and they inspire me to take action to the goal I see in my dream.

Some of us are living in the past and will never take steps forward because of that. I was one of them. Now I have changed and use my dreams and let them guide me to take steps forward in life.

Action speaks louder then words. True.

My way of changing from standing-still-at-one-place in life is Breath, Write and Take action. Change is good and you are changing all the time in your life.

That was my day dreams right now.

Love Success

Diets don't work

Hello all

I was just thinking about diets to loose weight. They NEVER work. They really don't. From my own experience I have tried so many of them but no. I work in the fashion business and I see the obsession about being slim, skinny and beautiful. This is my honest opinion: BEAUTY COMES FROM THE INSIDE and it's a ever lasting.
There are so many diets on the market now and they have all very funny names 5 days diets, 3 days diet and even 1 hour diet....how ever that works I totally believe in the 1 hour diet....... He he.
I believe in the normal diet. Eat when hungry, eat whole grains, vegetables and fruits and protein exercises and sleep well. What you eat you become so stay away from the sugar, wheat and some soy products. Treat your body with love, care and teat your self the very best way.

Emotional eating: Ben there done that. It's so easy to talk about it now after knowing what that was when I thought that food could salve my problems. I was using food to fill the void that food can not. I started to really question myself "what was I hungry for" it helped me.


These days I eat when I'm hungry and my body have never felt better-

Love /Success