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Skip the medicine cabinet for the kitchen pantry
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- Date Mar 3, 2013
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-- do you suffer from a heart burn or migraine headache sure you do we'll set of reaching for the -- caddie may want to check out your kitchen cabinet.
First nutrition specialist and author of the calendar diet a month by month guide to losing weight.
While living your life doctor Molina -- pull us says some everyday foods.
Could also cure what LC a doctor -- -- thank you for having me so offended me here so you see some foods.
As medicine basically I really -- and just to make clear not to replace medicine but to support -- this is really about.
Healthy diet supporting traditional medical care but in some -- says if it does the check on -- on hey let's stick with that.
That's so why have I mean I don't really let's say had migraine -- Would be your prescription absolute -- about the great doctors aren't as.
You know many people think of Omega three fatty -- the essential fatty acids in fish and start you know -- -- ending like that as being good for the heart.
But they're also very good for the brain and research shows that they actually may help migraine suffers so including these foods on a regular basis in your diet.
Could be -- really are being.
Yeah yeah finally Fareed as you -- they really -- think they think get to spend a fortune on salmon but you can get -- guardians and have the stand and let them.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- You -- you -- -- about our love of dark chocolate.
-- -- -- her absolutely well it's a great it's not just in your head no pun intended but it really is it good mood elevator it contains an amino acid called L tryptophan.
Which is the building block for serotonin.
Which is a really important brain chemical for regulating mood it's up and have a little caffeine and sugar which can make us feel better right away.
Actually say high blood pressure can be helped but Walgreens -- absolutely I would know what a -- it's -- cereals I don't know the good ones are -- -- that's a great question you really have to look at the ingredient list you have to take an extra second in the grocery store and look at the side panel.
I love post shredded wheat for example -- that has.
Zero grams of sugar zero grams of salt and actually in a recent survey nine out of ten doctors recommended it for supporting a healthy -- are maintaining our house up.
But you really have to look and most important thing is to make sure the first ingredient.
On the ingredient list says whole -- Okay and that's really and then you know that and it because otherwise -- give -- a white -- something as it right there are physical you know just -- -- in -- like week.
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Corn -- is not the same here really and enact as brightly -- that like you beautiful addressed -- don't exist and shut up and that's probably not a about there yeah.
Yeah actually this is a great choice -- -- whole grains on a regular basis are great for -- your risk of diabetes.
Obesity cancer and heart disease like -- -- so this is a terrific thing to incorporate regularly I regularly eat pineapple I know that it's good for you but I didn't know that it was about allergies at the combining with Apple's hot as this where he had this really cool actually visit Carolina out of things that I get in remarks -- about suffer seasonal allergies.
Apple's have a very.
Potent flat tonight which is a plant based nutrient that actually.
When you combine it with apple.
-- apple has something called grumbling which increases the availability.
The percent and that's in the Apple's that this com about.
So you wanna make a great fruit salad on a regular basis that can actually help you with season on these two which are starting in the spring here -- -- -- hurt what's.
-- Heat that -- -- -- that -- -- that he did this is really cool too because -- are loaded with something called poly -- -- which are plant based compounds.
That actually turn off of genes and proteins that are involved with inflammation.
Inflammation is what causes the pain of arthritis so having foods like this -- -- -- on a regular basis can help.
Decrease your overall inflammation and research shows that it could help with symptoms of arthritis to use it's all very cool stuff that is Madison.
That's great you've taught us well and made -- very hungry.
Hundreds -- the book again is the calendar.
Diet a month let us not to lose weight thanks so much is great -- idea think you.