Eating too much sugar, alcohol, white flour as well as missing meals all dramatically use up your B vitamins and calcium and negatively effect important functions for optimal health. We are particularly prone to these behaviors during the holiday season!

Our adrenal glands are AUTOMATICALLY engaged to meet many kinds of demands. Without the need for conscious thought, adrenalin is involuntarily secreted. Over generations, our bodies have evolved to either react to this with a ” fight or flight” response.This is the same response that is triggered when we feel threatened or endangered by our surroundings — an encounter with bears or tigers for instance. While such an encounter is not likely to be a part of our daily life, our bodies are wired up as if ANY DEMAND on it is a bear or tiger. Certainly over time, because of work, challenging life styles, long term chronic pain or illness, relationship issues with money or people , or any circumstances that push us to our limits, we confuse stress with distress. Often our resources are either depleted or nowhere near evolved to match and neutralize the demands effectively.

For 2014, make an irrevocable oath to your SELF.

Say, I will learn to “GRAZE.” Think about eating in a way (3 meals per day and 2 snacks mid morning and afternoon) that keeps blood sugar stable. By eating smaller meals and snacking on healthy foods and supplements such as my SUPER VEGAN PROTEIN SHAKE, HEALTHY GREENS, HEALTHY REDS, HEALTHY FRUIT and WAKE UP! you will not be leaning on your adrenals for energy to push you throughout the day. When you eat power foods timed in a way to keep your blood sugar from roller -coastering, you keep your adrenals from being depleted. Then you have much more capacity to deal with stress because you have not stressed your body by demanding that your adrenals energize you instead of eating to maintain blood sugar.

Many symptoms related to weight, immune challenges, allergies, chronic pain and headaches and fatigue improve dramatically when we EAT and GRAZE vs CONSUME foods that deplete B vitamins timed in a way that we get overly hungry and we play catch up because of the nutrient empty breakfasts, lunches and dinners we eat or how often we miss meals.

Eating to cope more effectively with Stress is easy. Have FUN!

At this time of celebration when food and socializing is center stage :
1. choose foods wisely
2. bless everything you eat
3. consume moderately
4. Breathe in the LOVE that is around you that is easy to miss if you over consume and you are so full you are numb

Lots more on this in future blogs.

ENJOY THE NEW YEAR.

DR B