Energy Boosting/Energy Zapping

Energy Boosting Foods

1.) Water - The easiest, fastest, most effective thing you can do for your body is
hydrate. Your intestines require several gallons of water each day to process the food
you intake. Your brain synapses operate off electric currents dependent on hydration.
Your brain works better when you drink water.

2.) Raw Fruit - Once again, the easiest thing to do for your health is grab a raw piece of fruit.
You can walk into Starbucks, 7-Eleven or any grocery store and buy a banana, apple, pear,
orange or grapes. It's cheap and healthy any time of the day.

3.) Olive Oil - Slather your next meal in olive oil. If the kids order pizza, grab a piece, shred some raw spinach over it, add some sea salt and dip it in extra virgin olive oil. Extra virgin means raw therefore the enzymes are still intact. Use olive oil and sea salt only on a baked potato; it takes it to a new high!

4.) 80% of the immune system is housed in the gut. Do something kind to your intestines. Eat a raw vegetable salad. Find 6 raw veggies that you can cut up and throw over some spinach and eat it with olive oil and lemon juice only.

5.) Nuts - Go to Sam's and buy a huge bag of walnuts. Put them in snack baggies and grab one every morning. When you are sitting in your car listening to your AEA, fill your body with good proteins. Nuts are a fabulous source of fiber. The more raw and organic the better!

Energy Zapping Foods

1.) Soda - All sodas are instantly acidic to your body. Your body is only healthy when the pH is alkaline. The opposite of alkaline is acidic. If you want to keep gaining weight, keep losing your mojo around 3pm and keep feeling a brain fog, then you can blame it on soda. I know it says it has 0 calories but that doesn't mean it has zero harm!

2.) Meat - I know you are meat eaters but be careful with the number of times you eat meat each day. If you eat a breakfast taco with sausage for breakfast, a chicken caesar salad for lunch and an enchilada for dinner you have had pig, chicken and cow. You have put over 16 ounces of animal flesh into your colon where it will remain until you eat something to eliminate it. Be careful with stalling your digestive system this many times per day.

3.) Anything eaten after 8pm - Your body wants to shut down the digestive system for the day about the same time the sun goes down. This starts the detox/cleaning process we call sleep. In spite of your daily sins, your digestive system is miraculously self-healing if you give it a chance. Commit your crimes before 8pm. Fast from all food and beverages from 8pm until waking. Try moving the fasting start up by 1/2 hour each week.

4.) Stick to wine and limit it to 3 days a week - The media loves to talk about the medicinal benefits of wine and alcohol but the truth is, it's all sugar. Alcohol increases your glycemic load, it kicks your pancreas into high gear and your body releases insulin. If you do this too many days in a row the insulin starts to release before the alcohol is consumed. Now you will feel a craving for something bready, sweet or alcoholic. Stop the insanity. Teetotalers are healthier than drinkers.

5.) White bread - The human body has no nutritional use for white flour. If I gave you the list of items with white flour in them you would soon discover you have never had a meal that does not have white flour in it. Your body will either store white flour as fat or line your intestines with it. Look for corn tortillas, tortilla chips, potato chips, Fritos or better yet, skip the bread. If you want to get crazy, buy spelt tortillas, quinoa pasta, rice spaghetti or gluten free chips.