Healing Foods Healing Vegtables Healing Fruits Foods to Avoid Herbs H.O.P.E. Organics Sugars Oils Beverages Resources Information Center H.O.P.E. Finding Your Way to a Healthier You. The HOPE Formula= H-High Fiber O-Omega-3 Oils P-Probiotics E-Enzymes =A Healthy Liven'Good Life High Fiber: Goal: 25-35 grams/day Choose a naturally balanced fiber, here's why. The best way to receive your fiber is the way nature intended, through your diet. Then you consume the recommended 25-35 grams of fiber per day, through a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, you consume a ratio of 75% insoluble fiber to 25% soluble fiber. This is the NATURAL BALANCE that nature intended. Each type of fiber is important to your health. Soluble fiber, which dissolves in water, helps to absorb intestinal and liver toxins. Insoluble is the roughage that sweeps the colon free and promotes regular bowel movements. When you supplement your diet with a fiber supplement, the easiest way to mimic the natural balance of 75% insoluble to 25% soluble fiber is by taking a flax-based fiber. Flax provides roughly the same natural balance (approximately 65-75% insoluble to 25-35% soluble fiber). Most fiber supplements use psyllium fiber (many think its prevalence is due to it being an inexpensive raw ingredient for manufacturers to use, which provides the opposite of the natural balance). Psyllium has approximately 80% insoluble fiber and 20% soluble fiber. That’s why it swells and gels so significantly. When choosing your fiber supplement, look for a naturally-balanced, flax-based product. Omega-3 Oils Goal: 2 grams/day or more Both Omega-3’s and 6’s are important to your health, but, most people eat too many Omega-6’s and not enough Omega-3’s. The reason for this is that most Americans have a diet rich in Omega-6 source foods (fried foods, margarine, whole-grain bread, baked goods, and other saturated fats), and low in Omega-3 source foods like fish, of which we don’t eat enough. Due to these eating habits, the typical American diet contains as much as 20 times more Omega-6 than Omega-3’s! The consequences of this imbalance may include: dry skin, brittle nails, mood swings, unhealthy inflammatory response and immune weakness. Although, Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA), from borage and primrose oil is an Omega-6 fatty acid, it has shown to be an effective supplement for maintaining healthy inflammatory response and healthy hormonal balance. While there is no established recommended daily intake for Omega-3s, eating a diet with significant amounts of foods rich in Omega-3’s can be highly beneficial. By increasing your intake of Omega-3 fatty acids, you will naturally bring the ratio of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids back into a healthier, 2:1 or (optimally) 1:1 balance. Reducing your intake of Omega-6-rich foods while you increase your consumption of Omega-3-rich foods will further balance the equation. Probiotics Goal: 5 to 50 billion live cultures/day Probiotics are the beneficial bacteria that live in your digestive tract. Your digestive tract is home to more that 500 different species of bacteria; 80% are good bacteria and 20% are bad bacteria. There are literally trillions of individual bacteria residing in the digestive tract, with the majority of the population living in the large intestine. The two most prevalent probiotics are Lactobacillus, which make up the majority of the probiotics living in your small intestine, and Bifidobacteria, the most prevalent probiotic living in your large intestine. Enzymes Goal: Live plant enzymes with every meal Enzymes are protein-based substances that are essential for every function in the human body including eating, digesting, absorbing, seeing, hearing, smelling, breathing, kidney function, liver function, reproduction, elimination, and more. In the digestive system, enzymes break down foods by breaking apart the bonds that hold the nutrients together. Normally, enzymes are also present in raw foods to assist with digestion. However, many foods are depleted of their natural enzymes through cooking and processing. Without the essential enzymes needed for proper digestion, the body may not completely break down those foods to absorb their nutrients. In addition, undigested food in the digestive tract can ferment, causing gas and bloating along with other digestive difficulties.
Finding Your Way to a Healthier You.
High Fiber: Goal: 25-35 grams/day
Choose a naturally balanced fiber, here's why. The best way to receive your fiber is the way nature intended, through your diet. Then you consume the recommended 25-35 grams of fiber per day, through a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, you consume a ratio of 75% insoluble fiber to 25% soluble fiber. This is the NATURAL BALANCE that nature intended. Each type of fiber is important to your health. Soluble fiber, which dissolves in water, helps to absorb intestinal and liver toxins. Insoluble is the roughage that sweeps the colon free and promotes regular bowel movements. When you supplement your diet with a fiber supplement, the easiest way to mimic the natural balance of 75% insoluble to 25% soluble fiber is by taking a flax-based fiber. Flax provides roughly the same natural balance (approximately 65-75% insoluble to 25-35% soluble fiber). Most fiber supplements use psyllium fiber (many think its prevalence is due to it being an inexpensive raw ingredient for manufacturers to use, which provides the opposite of the natural balance). Psyllium has approximately 80% insoluble fiber and 20% soluble fiber. That’s why it swells and gels so significantly. When choosing your fiber supplement, look for a naturally-balanced, flax-based product.
Omega-3 Oils Goal: 2 grams/day or more Both Omega-3’s and 6’s are important to your health, but, most people eat too many Omega-6’s and not enough Omega-3’s. The reason for this is that most Americans have a diet rich in Omega-6 source foods (fried foods, margarine, whole-grain bread, baked goods, and other saturated fats), and low in Omega-3 source foods like fish, of which we don’t eat enough. Due to these eating habits, the typical American diet contains as much as 20 times more Omega-6 than Omega-3’s! The consequences of this imbalance may include: dry skin, brittle nails, mood swings, unhealthy inflammatory response and immune weakness. Although, Gamma Linolenic Acid (GLA), from borage and primrose oil is an Omega-6 fatty acid, it has shown to be an effective supplement for maintaining healthy inflammatory response and healthy hormonal balance. While there is no established recommended daily intake for Omega-3s, eating a diet with significant amounts of foods rich in Omega-3’s can be highly beneficial. By increasing your intake of Omega-3 fatty acids, you will naturally bring the ratio of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids back into a healthier, 2:1 or (optimally) 1:1 balance. Reducing your intake of Omega-6-rich foods while you increase your consumption of Omega-3-rich foods will further balance the equation.
Probiotics Goal: 5 to 50 billion live cultures/day Probiotics are the beneficial bacteria that live in your digestive tract. Your digestive tract is home to more that 500 different species of bacteria; 80% are good bacteria and 20% are bad bacteria. There are literally trillions of individual bacteria residing in the digestive tract, with the majority of the population living in the large intestine. The two most prevalent probiotics are Lactobacillus, which make up the majority of the probiotics living in your small intestine, and Bifidobacteria, the most prevalent probiotic living in your large intestine.
Enzymes Goal: Live plant enzymes with every meal
Enzymes are protein-based substances that are essential for every function in the human body including eating, digesting, absorbing, seeing, hearing, smelling, breathing, kidney function, liver function, reproduction, elimination, and more. In the digestive system, enzymes break down foods by breaking apart the bonds that hold the nutrients together. Normally, enzymes are also present in raw foods to assist with digestion. However, many foods are depleted of their natural enzymes through cooking and processing. Without the essential enzymes needed for proper digestion, the body may not completely break down those foods to absorb their nutrients. In addition, undigested food in the digestive tract can ferment, causing gas and bloating along with other digestive difficulties.
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