Category Archives: Nutrition

Magnesium Link to Better Health

Magnesium – The Missing Link to Total Health – Radio Interview

Magnesium is an essential nutrient, indispensable to your health and well-being. By adding this mineral to your diet, you are guarding against — and helping to alleviate — such threats as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and asthma. But, despite magnesium’s numerous benefits, many Americans remain dangerously deficient. Listen as Dr. Carolyn Dean [...]

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Thyroid Health Snack Recipe

Thyroid Health Snack Recipe

The following mix is one of my favorites, both for its convenience and thyroid boosting abilities (and, of course, it’s delicious). Altogether, this recipe is jam-packed with thyroid health—and also helps to balance your other hormones. Let’s break down the six super-thyroid benefits in this recipe: Brazil nuts are rich in selenium, a nutrient that [...]

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Minerals

The One Thing You Can Do Today To Improve Your Overall Health

Minerals are ionic (electrically charged particles) conductors of electrical activity. Dissolved in bodily fluids they activate nerve cells and muscle cells. They also act as necessary cofactors to regulate, effect and affect your body’s metabolism. They maintain body pH and allow the transfer of nutrients across cell membranes. And they are all deficient in our [...]

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Magnesium and Sugar 2

Magnesium, Sugar and Your Health – Safe Alternatives

At any one time there are only 2 teaspoons of sugar in your blood stream. But when you drink a large flavored soda such as a Big Gulp size drink, you are drinking 35 teaspoons of sugar plummeting your pancreas, insulin and blood glucose into a roller coaster ride. Physiologically sugar causes a surge in [...]

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Magnesium Miracle

The Magnesium Miracle – Book Giveaway

REVISED AND UPDATED 2014 EDITION Magnesium is an essential nutrient, indispensable to your health and well-being. By adding this mineral to your diet, you are guarding against—and helping to alleviate—such threats as heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, diabetes, depression, arthritis, and asthma. But despite magnesium’s numerous benefits, many Americans remain dangerously deficient. Updated and revised throughout [...]

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Magnesium Health Benefits

Before we get into the way that this mineral will support your body, let’s look at the signs that you’re suffering from a deficiency in it. Magnesium deficiencies will initially appear as muscle aches and pains. You may find that walking Is uncomfortable or that you have a slight twinge when there isn’t a reason [...]

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Magnesium - Swiss Chard and Beet Greens

How To Make a Magnesium Rich Superfood Meal

Colorful beet greens and Swiss chard are hailed as superfoods. Their vibrant red hues come from anthocyanins, betalains, powerful antioxidants, flavonoids and other important phytonutrients which help prevent cancer and degenerative diseases. Like many greens, they’re rich in important vitamins and minerals: potassium, magnesium, iron, vitamins A, B and C, K, and fiber. Both chard [...]

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How To Stay Cool This Summer Despite Sweltering Heat

To stay cool this summer, you need to know how to stay hydrated. To properly hydrate you need to hydrate your body’s cells. In order to do this you need to make sure you are getting needed electrolyte minerals that allow your muscles and cells to function properly. For example, purified water or ionized water [...]

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Diabetes Friendly Summer Recipe from Master Chef Tell

Long before there was Bobby Flay and all of the other Food Network celebrity chefs, there was Chef Tell, Master Chef, entrepreneur, entertainer, restaurateur and Diabetes educator. Chef Tell (born Friedemann Paul Erhardt) achieved national recognition through TV appearances on Evening/PM Magazine, the internationally syndicated favorite tv show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, LIVE! [...]

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Magnesium Rich Quinoa Salad

How To Make a Magnesium Rich Quinoa Salad

Ingredients: 2 cups quinoa – Quinoa, cooked, 2 pounds chicken tenders, 1 bunch red kale, 1 bunch green kale, 1 red bell pepper, 1 red onion, 1 large cucumber, 1 cup snow peas, 8oz crumbled feta cheese, Magnesium Content: 2 cups of Quinoa – 128 mg of magnesium or 32% of magnesium Daily Requirement 2 [...]

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