Once we are on this planet, we are beginning to age. When we are young, it doesn’t faze us. Sometimes we want to grow older faster, so we can get to the next best thing. However, as we get later on in years, we sometimes wish that we could slow down or even reverse this process. The bottom ...
A sugar substitute is a food additive that duplicates the effect of sugar in taste, usually with less food energy. In this third blog about sweeteners, we will cover the chemical artificial sweeteners. In the United States, six intensely-sweet sugar substitutes have been approved for use. They are stevia, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, neotame, saccharin and sucralose. Cyclamates are ...
Going With the Flow In my last blog post, we discussed how healing happens on all levels; let’s look now at the mental, emotional level of our thoughts and feelings. We are filled with thousands of thoughts daily, moment by moment. Most of these thoughts go flitting by, but when an emotion is attached to a thought, it ...
Let’s continue to unravel the confusion around the types of sweeteners on the market today, starting with the carbohydrate sugars. There is one exception in the list, stevia has no carbohydrates. These are the more common ones we see on packaging and they are listed in alphabetical order. (A quick pointer on terms – monosaccharides are the simple ...
Understanding your body’s PH For those of us who have forgotten our high school chemistry, pH means “potential hydrogen”. The addition of hydrogen makes a substance more acidic, while a reduction make it more alkaline (also called base). The pH scale (0-14) measures acidity and alkalinity. A pH of 7 is considered alkaline and a pH lower than ...
What on earth is epigenetics? In the area of genetics the scientific community has been studying what is called epigenetics. Previously it was thought our genes were the molecular units of heredity and we were predestined to what we inherited. It turns out that genetic data (the genome) has a outer expression called epigenome. The epigenome consists of ...