Ten Foods Your Body Needs

There 10 fruits, vegetables and plants that should be a part of your diet…are they in your diet? Let’s see:

1. Pumpkin seeds : Did you know that just 1oz of pumpkin seeds contain 150mg of magnesium. They are also high in zinc and phytosterols, shown to lower cholesterol and defend against cancer.
2. Cabbage : These leafy, green vegetables contain a healthy supply of nutrients. One of the nutrients include sulforaphane, a chemical which increase your body’s production of enzymes. These enzymes combat cell-damaging free radicals and reduce the risk of cancer.
3. Dried plums : These little beauties are infamous for their high fiber content. However, they also include high amounts of neochlorogenic and chlorogenic acids which fight against structural damage to cells, one of the primary causes of cancer.
4. Gogi berries : These berries resemble raisins, yet they taste sweet and sour and are red in color. Including these in your diet will help protect the liver, improve sexual function and increase circulation. They are very high in antioxidants that help prevent the aging process of our cells.
5. Beets : These roots are known for their dark red coloring and are surprisingly sweet for a vegetable. They are the best source for folate and betaine, which help to lower your blood levels of homocysteine. What exactly is homocysteine?? Well homocysteine can damage arteries and increase the risk of heart disease…so eat your beets!!
6. Cinnamon : This is a common spice that many think are just used for cookies or cakes, but don’t overlook a pinch or two in your coffee or on your oatmeal. Cinnamon can lower your blood sugar and lower triglycerides and LDL (bad) cholesterol.
7. Guava : This slightly pear-shaped fruit is known for its sweet, acidic flavor and its yellow or pink in color. It contains cancer-fighting agents such as lycopene. Lycopene is known for warding off prostate cancer. It also contains 688 mg of potassium and 9 grams of fiber, which is important in everyone’s diet.
8. Swiss chard : This is a slightly bitter and salty vegetable. This particular vegetable contains huge amounts of lutein andzeaxanthin, plant chemicals known as carotenoids. These protect the retinas from age-related damage.
9. Purslane : This is a broad-leaved weed. It has the highest amount of heart-healthy omega-3 fats of any edible plant. It also contains 10 to 20 times more melatonin than any other fruit or vegetable.
10. Pomegranate juice : This juice has been consumed for decades in the Middle East as a popular juice beverage. Just 4oz of this juice a day provides 50% of your daily vitamin C needs.

Until next time,

Dr. Mommy

Chiropractic Care and Autism

Being a Chiropractor I found this to be very interesting. I came across an article that mentioned how Chiropractic care can help children with Autism. Well, that sparked my interest because I know many who have children with this dreadful problem and find themselves helpless.

This article was written by a world-renowned chiropractor for children, Dr. Joan Fallon. She stated that more and more parents of children with developmental issues were seeking out chiropractors. She believes, as I do, that many times children with developmental issues, especially children with autism, experience sensory integreation problems. Sensory integreation disorder is defines as ‘the disorganization of the multi-sensory input into the body.’ People who suffer from this have profound and often dibilitating difficulty with touch, taste, smell, sound or visual input. Which means they have difficulty processing incoming sensory information.

So for instance, when in a mall or playground, most of us can block out sounds and talking that occurs around us. However, a child with sensory integration problems has difficulty filtering out the noises effectively, so it all comes at him/her all at once. Dr. Fallon believes that Chiropractic can help children with these problems, because Chiropractic care can get to the root of the problem by helping correct the imbalances in the nervous system. Imbalances in the nervous system are caused by ’subluxations’ in the spine.

Chiropractors correct ’subluxations’ in the spine. What are ’subluxations’? It is when two or more segments in the spine with the disc between are misaligned or lost its proper position. Subluxation can cause a numerous amount of problems in an adult and in a child it is much worse. As Chiropractors, we determine the areas of subluxations, misalignments and put them in the proper position. When subluxations are corrected, the body is brought into alignment and able to maintain the integrity of various systems within the body, including the nervous system.

Much more research has been done offering hope for children with autism. Chiropractic care believes that healing of the body comes from within. We as chiropractors, maintain the spine in alignment, therefore allowing your body as a whole to function at its optimum level.

We have seen children with these same conditions, improve tremendously with Chiropractic care. Give Chiropractic a chance and a child with autism a chance to live a symptom-free and healthier life.

Until next time,

Dr. Mommy

What are catechins and epicatechins??

Catechins and epicatechins are found in a variety of plant sources. The largest source of catechins in the human diet are found in chocolates, wine, teas and vegetables.

Catechins also demonstrate antioxidant activities. Remember antioxidants are needed to remove the toxins from our bodies, but our bodies don’t make these so we must find products that are high in antioxidant levels to keep our bodies healthy.

Studies have shown that catechins can reduce atherosclerotic plaques, therefore are beneficial to us for cardiovascular purposes. Epicatechins can reduce the risk of 4 major health problems: stroke, heart failure, cancer and diabetes. A professor named Norman Hollenburg who teaches at Harvard Medical School, did a study of people in Panama who drank 40 cups of cocoa a week and found that the prevalence of the major 4 health problems was less than 10%. He believes that epicatechins should be considered essential to the diet and should be classed as a vitamin.

We can obtain the power of epicatechins and catechins by adding products made from unprocessed cacao to our daily diets. It is true that catechins and epicatechins can also be found in fruits and vegetables, but the body needs to capture as many different types of catechins as possible such as those found in tea and chocolate. Dark chocolate has higher concentrations of catechins due to the higher levels of cocoa.

Be sure to add unprocessed cacao to your daily diets to get the highest levels of catechins and epicatechins in your system needed to prevent the ‘Big Four’: stroke, heart failure, cancer and diabetes.

Until next time,
Dr. Mommy

Reasons to add Dk Chocolate and Acai to your lives

It’s all over the news…. the benefits of dark chocolate and the acai berry….but does everyone really know why those two main products are soooo good for us????

Well, I will list just a few reasons that they are very important to add to our health regimen—

1. Both the acai berry and dark chocolate contain FIBER.. The fiber will help the digestive system, eliminating wastes…And healthy chocolate does not have any transfatty acids…

2. Studies have shown that the consumption of dark chocolate may PREVENT WEIGHT GAIN..Cocoa contains mood-elevating chemicals that help people feel more energy and want to exercise more, which will also contribute to weight loss.

3. If you have high blood pressure, daily bar-sized servings of flavonol-rich dark chocolate may LOWER your BLOOD PRESSURE and improve insulin resistance.

4. Research studies have shown, dark healthy chocolate LOWERS BAD CHOLESTEROL…

5. Research studies have shown the nutrients in cocoa and acai are able to INHIBIT different INFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS. This is important because chronic inflammation has been linked to cancer and cardiovascular disease.

6. Both cocoa and the acai berry has been used for centuries as a food staple and to cleanse and DETOXIFY the body.

7. MORE NUTRITIOUS — unprocessed dark chocolate is an excellent replacement for other candies, including white and milk chocolate…

8. DESTROY FREE RADICALS—-our bodies are bombarded with free radicals on a daily basis, which causes aging, wrinkles, illnesses, fibromyalgia, to just name a few. Cocoa and acai berries provide antioxidant support to destroy the free radicals that are invading our bodies.

9. SUPPLIES THE BODY WITH CRUCIAL MINERALS—- Magnesium is essential in over 300 biological reactions in the body and is very important for energy production. Nerves, heart, muscle functions, bone health and blood clotting are dependent upon adequate magnesium….high magnesium intake has shown to lower blood pressure, reduce risks of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes and osteoporosis…..

These are just a few reasons to add unprocessed cocoa and acai to your daily lifestyles…. Our healthy chocolate is made with unprocessed cocoa and also contains the acai berry. Our chocolates are made with a cold process which keeps all the phytonutrients necessary for our bodies to function at their maximum. This world wide, exclusive, patented cold process is used to make the Xocai chocolates and products.

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Until next time,
Dr. Mommy

A Little About Me…

I just wanted to share a little about me and my testimonial regarding the Healthy Chocolate - Xocai….

I, along with many was extremely skeptical about chocolate being healthy….Sure I knew that dark chocolate was more or less better for you, but I personally did not care for dark chocolate.

Like many, I enjoyed milk chocolate. Well, did you know that the reason milk chocolate tastes so good is because of the added sugars, waxes and other additives to make it enticing. I, for one, never thought that I would enjoy the Xocai healthy chocolate, but since I love chocolate, I decided to taste it….

But, let me tell you, although I enjoyed the taste….and that is amazing because like I said, I didn’t like dark chocolate or so I thought. Never did I realize that Dark Belgian Chocolate was soo delicious. I still had reservations and wasn’t quite convinced until I researched it further..

Some of the research I did will be included in my blog posts, so you won’t have to use up your precious time. Being a doctor, I had to know the benefits and truly understand before I could wholeheartedly endorse this delicious product…

Well, after the research and of course consuming it for over 2 months, I was completely amazed!!! Not only did I enjoy the consumption of this healthy chocolate 3 times a day, I actually felt more energized. Not the energy that lasts only moments but one that lasted throughout the day….it was a euphoric energy. I slept better at night and did not toss and turn like in the past… I actually lost over 10lbs while consuming chocolate!! Now, where have you ever heard that claim??? Dark unprocessed cacao is a natural appetite suppressant and while consuming this decant food; I no longer craved the bad chocolate!!

I still maintain a healthy diet and consume this wonderful chocolate on a daily basis. I have a wonderful sense of serenity and can be assured that my body is not breaking down as it was before. With the loaded antioxidants contained in these wonderful products, I can enjoy chocolate without the guilt.

Now, my children consume this wonderful chocolate and they don’t feel the need to eat the junk food they once consumed. The Healthy Chocolate actually satisfies their cravings and that makes my husband and I very, very happy.

In my next post, I will share more about the research and the products that Xocai offers…..

Until then,
Dr. Mommy