Fight Inflammation with this Daily Morning Turmeric-Lemon Drink

 

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Fight Inflammation with This Turmeric and Lemon Morning Elixir

Starting the day with your morning routine may suit your needs just fine. A bit of yoga, maybe meditation, a shower, a healthy breakfast with organic coffee, and then out the door.

Does this sound familiar? If so, your morning routine is already exceptional. But we have a mighty elixir that can compliment your regimen wonderfully.

You may have heard that warm lemon water will get those pipes working in the morning and optimize your health. You may even drink warm lemon water with Himalayan salt, or warm lemon water with honey in the morning.

However, have you heard of warm lemon water combined with honey, cinnamon, and the most essential ingredient to this morning elixir, turmeric?

If you have yet to try this one, you may be missing out on an excellent way to begin your day. All-natural lemon and turmeric are especially powerful ingredients that boast a wealth of beneficial properties.

Lemons offer a tasty, tart flavor with many health-promoting properties. According to a study published in the Chemistry Central Journal (2015), lemons possess a treasure trove of natural metabolites.

The study authors state, “Citrus fruits exhibit plentiful bioactivities including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer, antimicrobial and anti-allergy activities, as well as cardiovascular effect, neuroprotective effect, hepatoprotective effect, obesity control, etc.”

Lemons are indeed a healthy ingredient to enjoy at the beginning of the day. However, when you couple lemon with turmeric, your health and wellness benefits increase significantly.

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a yellow-orange spice that is part of the ginger family. Native to tropical South Asia, turmeric is well known in traditional Asian medicine and cuisine. More recently, its health benefits have been recognized in Western medicine.

According to a study published in the Journal of Nephropathology (2012), “Turmeric, a neglected Asian traditional drug might reemerge as remedy and/or preventive tool for various illnesses including different type of cancers, obesity, type-2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, CKD [chronic kidney disease] and ESRD [end stage renal disease], which are steadily increasing globally, claiming many lives and tremendous amount of resources worldwide.”

One active ingredient in turmeric, curcumin, has been the focus of several academic studies.

Curcumin may alleviate inflammation: According to research from the Department of Stomatology at the University of California, San Francisco, curcumin possesses anti-inflammatory properties. The research, published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (2004), found that curcumin, “may exert its anti-inflammatory activity by inhibition of a number of different molecules that play a role in inflammation.”

Curcumin’s anticancer potential: Curcumin may play a vital role in cancer prevention, according to a study published in BioMed Research International (2014). Previous research has highlighted curcumin’s antioxidant, antibacterial and antitumor properties, according to the study, which concluded, “Curcumin, a vital constituent of the spice turmeric, is an alternative approach in the prevention of cancer.”

Therapeutic applications of curcumin: According to a review study published in the AAPS Journal (2013), “curcumin has shown therapeutic potential against a number of human diseases,” including multiple types of cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, arthritis, peptic ulcers, psoriasis, H. pylori infection, Alzheimer’s disease, acute coronary syndrome, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and respiratory tract infections.

Tip: I would highly suggest always making sure to take turmeric with a source of FAT… taking turmeric with fat greatly helps your body absorb it. So you could add a splash of MCT oil (coconut based) or even olive oil to this daily drink concoction to help your body absorb it better …

Turmeric and Lemon Morning Elixir

Recipe by the Alternative Daily

All-natural lemon and turmeric are especially powerful ingredients that boast a wealth of beneficial properties.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 of a lemon, squeezed for juice
• 1/4 – 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1/2 tsp honey
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
• 1 cup warm water, and/or coconut milk (the coconut milk adds healthy fats, and helps absorption of turmeric)

Instruction:

Mix the lemon juice, turmeric and honey into your cup of warm water or milk. You will want to stir these ingredients well. Add cinnamon on top and continue to stir your morning elixir as you drink it — this will ensure that the turmeric does not settle at the bottom of your cup.

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Written by The Alternative Daily

Author Bio:

The Alternative Daily seeks to inform, encourage and empower readers to make healthy choices that will positively impact individuals, families and our planet.

A lot of people have gotten results from the Keto diet, and enjoyed the foods that it has to offer. However, many of the people who are following this diet have a hard time finding the recipes that they need, especially ones that are quick and easy to complete.

Fortunately, Kelsey Ale, noticed this problem, and decided to do something about it. She’s found that making recipes in a slow cooker gives you meals which are not only delicious, but also take very little time to make. Mostly you just put a few simple ingredients in the slow cooker, and let it do the rest.

To find out more, click on – Keto Slow Cooker Cookbook

Here is Why Fat Doesn’t Really Make You Fat

 

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Let’s address the absolutely ridiculous idea that fat makes you fat.

If fat made people fat, wouldn’t anyone who ever consumed lots of extra virgin olive oil (like in the traditional Mediterranean diet) be morbidly obese? Or what about the Inuit, who consumed a very high fat, low carbohydrate diet? Using this logic, they would have been larger than anyone in the United States today, despite current obesity rates being as high as they are.

The problem doesn’t lie in fat, but rather in sugar and refined carbohydrates. Take, for example, the following debate, which occurred in 2011 and consisted of high-ranking professors and researchers from Harvard University and other top schools in the United States.

Here is one of many passages which completely debunk this outdated and ridiculous concept.

“Total fat doesn’t matter, nor does saturated fat seem to. The traditional Diet-Heart paradigm is based on ecologic studies, biomarker studies, and animal experiments. These are best for hypothesis generation, not solid conclusions.”

This is a quote from Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Dr.P.H, who is one of the most well respected minds in the world of nutrition and health.

As can easily be seen, suggesting that fat of any kind is unhealthy is both foolish and inaccurate. There are, unquestionably, certain fats that are problematic.

However, when we see any kind of information come out suggesting that fat is bad for you, it is usually based on a flawed studied or inaccurate and/or biased interpretation of the results.

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The Evidence

For example, we see many studies which claim that “high fat feeding promotes the metabolic syndrome.” However, what one must do in cases such as these is look at the actual studies to determine what the diet actually consisted of and what type of animal the study was performed on (human, rat, mouse, etc.)

If one is unfamiliar with the scientific literature, they may be shocked to learn that nearly 100% of these studies consist of diets that are not at all what one in the health world would consider a “high fat” diet.

Gone are the almonds, heart healthy extra virgin olive oil, avocados and other staples like coconut oil.

Instead, many of these studies feed their subjects ridiculous concoctions of “food.”

Here is what one actual high fat diet consisted of: powdered Purina 5001, hydrogenated vegetable fat, with casein, L-methionine, AIN-93 vitamin mix, and AIN-93 mineral mix.

Before we get into just how ridiculous and unhealthy this “food” is, here is the actual table for the study, in case one wants to research this further.

The Details

Let’s start with the Purina 5001 and what it truly is, because last time I checked, you couldn’t buy that “food” at a Whole Foods or farmer’s market. If we go to the actual website for this diet, we find that Purina 5001 consists mainly of: ground corn and dehulled soybean oil.

For those extra curious, there are over 30 total ingredients (none of them much better than the 2 main ones) and they can all be read here.

So, we are starting this “high fat” diet with ground corn and soybean oil. Hmm. Okay. Then we are adding hydrogenated vegetable fat, dairy (casein), an amino acid, and a vitamin mix, along with a mineral mix. Does this look like a high fat diet that anyone in his or her right mind would consume? I didn’t think so.

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Is There A Bias?

Where are the avocados, extra virgin olive oil, coconut oil, etc.? Where are the quality, wild caught or grass-fed, sources of protein? Where are the quality sources of carbohydrate? Exactly. They’re all missing.

This is like saying you are consuming a nutrient-dense diet – all the while you’re actually eating at McDonald’s. It simply makes no sense, is inaccurate, purposefully misleading, and dangerous to those who don’t review the scientific literature carefully.

By the author’s own words, around 17% of total fat in this “diet” was trans fat (!). They then go on to state that “this diet was used because of the more pronounced obesity it has produced in rats in our laboratory than have several commercial high fat diets.”

Does anyone else see the problem here? They know, going into the study, that by using this monstrosity of a “diet,” the rats (who aren’t humans, by the way) will get obese. So, what exactly is the point of their study?

Any scientist can run a study and then claim that “high fat diets promote the metabolic syndrome.” This is especially true if feeding the subjects trans fats and not basing the diet on anything resembling an actual high fat, low carbohydrate diet.

If one were to, instead, look at human, high fat, low carbohydrate studies, they would find very different results.

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The Reality

Take this study, for example, which followed (human) subjects over 12 months and compared a low fat diet with a high fat diet. The results?

“The low-carbohydrate diet was more effective for weight loss and cardiovascular risk factor reduction than the low-fat diet.”

So, when performed on actual humans, eating actual food (not rat chow), a high fat diet, over the period of 12 months, resulted in more weight loss than a low fat diet, as well as besting the low fat diet in the following categories:

• greater decreases in fat mass
• better ratio of total-high-density lipoprotein (HDL)
• better triglyceride level
• greater increases in HDL cholesterol level

Well that seems to contradict all of the propaganda of high carb, low fat diets, now doesn’t it? Maybe the problem isn’t the fat, but rather the carbohydrates. Mind blowing, I know.

The specific problem is sugar. And even more specifically, the problem is hyper-palatable food and fructose. This is a problem that is killing not just our health, but also our economy.

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All Fat is Bad?!

To bring the ridiculous nature of this problem to an even further front, if fat was bad, why would we be supplementing with fish oil (omega-3 fatty acids) every day? Why would proponents of these low fat diets tell us to eat nuts, which are loaded with fat?

Perhaps it’s because the problem is the kind of fat, not the actual fat. Furthermore, there are essential fats. These are ones that your body cannot produce endogenously.

However, there are no essential carbohydrates.

Surprised? I’ve used but 3 small examples in this argument today and yet I think it is blatantly obvious that anyone touting the benefits of a low fat diet is beyond confused and is, quite frankly, scientifically wrong.

Those not consuming fats quickly run into a multitude of problems, especially cognitive. Too many carbohydrates in the diet cause a multitude of problems and they also make it very easy to over-consume calories, resulting in obesity.

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The Bottom Line

So what to eat? Well, a nutrient dense diet consists not only of healthy fats but also quality sources of protein and good, starchy, carbohydrates. A little bit of fruit can be good, as well. Vegetables are your best friend, and help not only with cognitive and heart health, but also with cellular functioning and weight maintenance.

Any diet that contains lots of vegetables, quality sources of protein, and healthy fats, will be ideal. Note that what is not included are trans fats, processed foods, liquid calories, excess sugar, and anything made by man and not by nature.

The ideas and concepts behind a healthy diet aren’t complex, but sticking to one can be. There are many stressors in modern life and many around us are completely unhealthy and addicted.

Whether it’s to alcohol, caffeine, sugar, or stress, those in the world that are addicted can be so oblivious to what is actually healthy that they simply just live in denial until a disease or health condition makes it too late to act.

But you don’t have to live that way. Start today. Right now.

Change your unhealthy habits. Get rid of any things in your life that are causing you grief, stress and unhappiness. Whether it’s a friend who drains you, a romantic relationship that isn’t really worth it, or a job you are terribly unhappy in.

Life is too short to live in a sick, addicted state. A simple, healthful diet can help turn everything around. And a simple, healthful diet contains many healthy fats.

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Written by Casey Thaler

Author Bio:

Casey Thaler, B.A., NASM-CPT, FNS is an NASM® certified personal trainer and NASM® certified fitness nutrition specialist. He writes for Paleo Magazine®, The Paleo Diet® and Greatist®. He is also an advisor for Kettle and Fire and runs his own nutrition and fitness consulting company, Eat Clean, Train Clean®.

A lot of people have gotten results from the Keto diet, and enjoyed the foods that it has to offer. However, many of the people who are following this diet have a hard time finding the recipes that they need, especially ones that are quick and easy to complete.

Fortunately, Kelsey Ale, noticed this problem, and decided to do something about it. She’s found that making recipes in a slow cooker gives you meals which are not only delicious, but also take very little time to make. Mostly you just put a few simple ingredients in the slow cooker, and let it do the rest.To find out more, click on – Keto Slow Cooker Cookbook