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yourhealthista:

After I wrote the post on creating your own home boot camp, I realized you all could still participate in MY boot camp! Read on to find out how.

I’m so excited to announce the first-ever virtual Healthista Boot Camp! Starting today through the end of July, you can take part in a virtual…

Totally wanna try this!!

yourhealthista:

Rippld is looking for a full-time experienced software developer. Rippld is an innovative startup company based in Detroit, MI, looking to build a connection, collaboration, and services exchange platform for creative professionals and agencies. The company was started a year ago and is…

twloha:

This week, February 26 through March 3, is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. It’s about bringing public attention to eating disorders and the prominent impact they have in our society. Because eating disorders are often accompanied by isolation and shame, the seriousness of these…

yourhealthista:

Reblogged for the complete and utter truth bomb that is this post. This is what happens when you’re trying to lose weight sometimes, and (to use an expression I normally hate) it is what it is.

jennabee:

I wouldn’t say I’ve always struggled with my weight. There was never a battle. There…

Funny yet so true…

yourhealthista:

I hate the title of this article but the content is pretty good. It also explains why we’re seeing more and more cases of celiac disease and gluten intolerance — and why going gluten-free is more than just a diet fad. Here’s a taste:

[We now eat dwarf wheat, a genetic hybrid and manipulation of the wheat our ancestors ate.] Dwarf wheat is that it contains very high levels of a super starch called amylopectin A. This is how we get big fluffy Wonder Bread and Cinnabons.

Here’s the downside. Two slices of whole wheat bread now raise your blood sugar more than two tablespoons of table sugar.

There is no difference between whole wheat and white flour here. The biggest scam perpetrated on the unsuspecting public is the inclusion of “whole grains” in many processed foods full of sugar and wheat, giving the food a virtuous glow. The best way to avoid foods that are bad for you is to stay away from foods with health claims on the labels. They are usually hiding something bad.

Not only does this dwarf, FrankenWheat, contain the super starch, but it also contains super gluten which is much more likely to create inflammation in the body. And in addition to a host of inflammatory and chronic diseases caused by gluten, it causes obesity and diabetes.

Gluten is that sticky protein in wheat that holds bread together and makes it rise. The old fourteen-chromosome-containing Einkorn wheat codes for the small number of gluten proteins, and those that it does produce are the least likely to trigger celiac disease and inflammation. The new dwarf wheat contains twenty-eight or twice as many chromosomes and produces a large variety of gluten proteins, including the ones most likely to cause celiac disease.

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A major study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that hidden gluten sensitivity (elevated antibodies without full-blown celiac disease) was shown to increase risk of death by 35 to 75 percent, mostly by causing heart disease and cancer.[4] Just by this mechanism alone, over 20 million Americans are at risk for heart attack, obesity, cancer and death.