Posted on 19th January 2012 by admin in Super Health
Advanced Glycation End products, eating, food, glycation, health, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, nutrition, Super Health
There are two primary sources for AGEs (Advanced Glycation End products). The first source is the food we eat. The browning of food is a cooking technique that helps to give desirable flavor to food. It is achieved by heating or cooking sugars with proteins in the absence of water, and in this process AGEs are formed. Since grains, vegetables, fruits, and meat all have proteins, this browning effect is an indication of AGEs. It is estimated that 30 percent of food-borne AGEs are absorbed when ingested.
The second source for AGEs happens inside your body through normal metabolism and aging. Carbohydrates, either simple or complex, are absorbed by your body to affect your blood sugar levels. Most of your blood sugar goes to providing the energy your body needs to properly function. However, a small proportion of your blood sugar binds to proteins in your blood and creates AGEs, which can lead to many types of dysfunction, including autoimmunity.
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Posted on 30th December 2011 by admin in Holiday Health Challenge
blood sugar, diet, eating, endocrine system, health, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, Maximum Metabolic Mode, Super Health, superfood
For about three to four hours after you begin eating a typical meal, your body is operating in what is called a “fully fed state.” Essentially, your body is operating on what you just ate. From that point your insulin levels return to pre-meal levels, and the body is fueled from stored energy that is being released in a catabolic process. I call this state “maximum metabolic mode,” which is the time when the most body fat is being burned. This mode can continue for another 12 to 18 hours until you eat again. This is because your bloodstream contains a steady supply of essential nutrients to stave off the breakdown of lean body mass while your endocrine system is signaling for the release of stored energy. The moment you eat anything that provokes a significant rise in blood sugar, this maximum metabolic mode stops. Because of snacking and eating too frequently, most people spend little or no time in maximum metabolic mode.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
Posted on 16th December 2011 by admin in Super Health |SuperHealth Podcasts
diet, eating, food, health, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, meals, Monica Craichy, nutrition, Super Health, superfood
Eating with foresight and mindfulness can yield great benefits to your health. The simple concept of considering the nutritional value of the foods you and your family enjoy actually sets your table apart from many of your friends and neighbors!
In my recent book, The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!, I present Smart Meals, that is, well-balanced nutritionally powerful meals that also taste great. Imagine enjoying both the taste of your meal and the pleasure of knowing you’re fueling your body with nutrition that helps you perform better in every area of life.
Today on the SuperHealth Podcast, we walk you through how to craft your Smart Meal in your own kitchen. Discover the key macronutrient that should be the basis of every Smart Meal.
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Posted on 15th December 2011 by admin in LivingFuelTV |Super Health
diet, eating, fitness, food, health, KC Craichy, meals, Monica Craichy, nutrition, smart meals, Super Health
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Dear Living Fuel Family,
Eating with foresight and mindfulness can yield great benefits to your health. The simple concept of considering the nutritional value of the foods you and your family enjoy actually sets your table apart from many of your friends and neighbors!
In my recent book, The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!, I present Smart Meals, that is, well-balanced nutritionally powerful meals that also taste great. Imagine enjoying both the taste of your meal and the pleasure of knowing you’re fueling your body with nutrition that helps you perform better in every area of life. Today on LivingFuelTV, we walk you through how to craft your Smart Meal in your own kitchen. Discover the key macronutrient that should be the basis of every Smart Meal. Click on the graphic below to watch and learn.
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Posted on 28th November 2011 by admin in Holiday Health Challenge
amino acids, antioxidants, calories, diet, eating, food, health, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, nutrition, protein, Super Health, superfood
We eat food for three reasons—to obtain building blocks (for repair, maintenance, and growth) and fuel (for energy) for our bodies, and we eat for fun. Where a lot of people get into trouble is by eating for fun when they should be eating for building blocks and fuel. Food contains foundational nutrients, such as amino acids, fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants for repair and maintenance of the body and contains energy (calories) or fuel for the body to operate and perform its many functions. When we eat, our bodies use the calories to produce energy and to repair and maintain body tissues. If not used, calories are stored as fat in most areas of the body. If we keep adding calories that are not being burned up, we get fat. It makes sense, then, that when it comes to calories, the key is to pack as much nutrition as possible into the lowest calorie foods that one can comfortably eat.
KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet
Posted on 23rd June 2011 by admin in LivingFuelTV
diet, eating, food, grazing, health, health alert, KC Craichy, LivingFuel, nutrition, snacks, Super Health
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Dear Living Fuel Family,
A hotly debated topic among doctors, nutritionists, personal trainers, coaches, and mothers is the frequency of our meals. While most of us are keenly aware that a crisp, organic apple is a better choice than a bag of potato chips, the timing of our eating is a subject that you’re not likely to find consensus. Should we graze throughout the day? Should we eat several small meals every three hours? Should we eat three meals with no snacks or three meals with a mid-morning and afternoon snack? A combination of all of the above?
Today on LivingFuelTV, I “weigh in” on the controversy from a lifetime of study. The practical information you’ll learn today is presented in depth in Chapter 13, Meal Frequency, Snacks, and Eating Speed, from my new book The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need! The book is jam-packed with practical tips on eating with wisdom and intent, supported by education. Tune in today and discover if your eating frequency matches your weight optimization and wellness goals. Click on the graphic below to watch.
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Posted on 19th May 2011 by admin in LivingFuelTV
chewing, diet, drinking, eating, food, health, juicing, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, nutrition, Super Health
Dear Living Fuel Family,
Even with decades of intensive study in diet, nutrition, and fitness, I’m continually amazed by the incredible machine we are blessed to inhabit—the human body. For example, the digestive system is a miraculous system of transforming the food on our plates into usable building blocks and fuel for trillions of cells that enable them to carry out their life-sustaining tasks. This engineering marvel operates unconsciously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
The digestive process actually begins in your mouth, not the stomach, and there are simple practices you can implement at your next meal to consciously aid digestion. This is the topic today on LivingFuelTV adapted from my new book
The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!. Join me as we take a fun look at the history of chewing and explore the benefits of drinking your food.
Click on the graphic below to watch and learn.
Here’s to your Super Health!
KC Craichy
Founder/CEO
Living Fuel
Introducing Living Fuel’s New SuperEssentials™ Aminos!
We’re excited to introduce the newest Living Fuel product and addition to the SuperEssentials™ line—
LivingFuel SuperEssentials Aminos. Essential amino acids are the primary reason we eat protein and they are called essential because we must obtain them from our diet or by supplementation. They are also referred to as essential because amino acids play a critical role in most every function in the human body. The body’s natural process of turning protein to amino acids can be time-consuming depending on the source (meat vs. beans, for example). Plus, the quality of the amino acids depends on the quality of the protein. The strategic use of amino acids and their importance for Super Health and weight optimization is a prominent subject in
The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!
Super Essentials Aminos is an ultra-pure powder that mixes with water, juice, or your favorite beverage. It contains absolutely no sweeteners, preservatives, colors, flavors, or other ingredients. Each container has thirty 10 g servings that delivers 10,000 mg of Living Fuel’s SuperEssentials Aminos proprietary formula of 12 free-form essential amino acids.
Posted on 31st March 2011 by admin in Super Health
amino acids, diet, dieting, eating, health, KC Craichy, LivingFuel, nutrition, protein, Super Health, Super Health Diet
Not all protein is alike, and plant and animal protein have differing amino acid profiles– a gram is not necessarily a gram.
- KC Craichy, The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!
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Dear Living Fuel Family,
Say “protein” and you’ll likely think immediately of beef, chicken, turkey, fish, or perhaps eggs, beans, nuts, seeds or even protein powders.
Sufficient quantity of protein is vital to our good health and the quality of our protein choices can make the difference between ill health, good health and Super Health! So, what are the best sources of protein? This is the topic of today’s episode and the answer just may surprise you! You’ll also learn the difference between complete proteins and incomplete proteins and why knowing the difference is so significant to you and your family’s good health.
Join us by clicking on the graphic below.
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To order your copy of The Super Health Diet, click here or on the book above.
Interview Alert! We were recently featured on the
Fit Marriage Show with Tony DiLorenzo. This great interview covers a broad range of interesting topics from how Monica and I met, to the genesis of Living Fuel to the importance of hydration. Click
here to watch or listen online.
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Posted on 21st March 2011 by admin in Super Recipes
diet, dinner, eating, health, KC Craichy, LivingFuel, nutrition, Smart Meal
Will your dinner tonight be a “Smart Meal”?
In The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need! , Chapter 11, The Dynamic Role of Proteins in Weight Loss, you’ll read about Smart Meals, complete meals with a vital balance of clean protein, broad-spectrum organic vegetables and some organic fruit, nuts and seeds. The chapter also provides a useful chart that helps you, quickly and deliciously, build your own Smart Meal by focusing on the protein content of the food choices.
Check out this quick and tasty Smart Meal from The Super Health Diet–Chicken and Spinach Soup with a large green salad and cup of cold goat’s milk. This satisfying, delicious and complete meal provides 36 grams of protein per serving. Bon Appetit and Enjoy!
Chicken and Spinach Soup
1/2 cup chopped free-range, organic chicken
1 cup organic chicken broth
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup chopped organic onion
1/2 cup chopped organic celery
1/2 cup chopped organic spinach
1/2 cup diced organic new or red potatoes
1-2 cloves crushed organic garlic (or more to taste)
Season to taste
Sauté celery, onion, potatoes and garlic in olive oil over low to medium heat for 15 minutes. Add broth and chicken, cook on low heat until potatoes are cooked through, add spinach, salt and pepper and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes.
Side Salad
Add a large salad of your favorite fresh organic mixed salad greens with a light vinaigrette dressing, 1/2 cup sliced avocado, 4 ounces of low-fat or 1% cottage cheese, 1/4 cup Brazil nuts and 1/2 cup fresh raspberries. Also try apple cider vinegar mixed with extra virgin olive oil for a terrific homemade salad dressing!
LivingProtein Shake
This Thursday on LivingFuelTV, we continue our special series The Super Health Diet, focusing on the importance of protein to our diets and it’s vital role in weight optimization. Last week’s episode, Understanding Protein, was a terrific introduction to protein. If you missed it, click on the graphic below to watch and we’ll see you again this Thursday!
1 scoop of
LivingFuel LivingProtein blended in 4 ounces (1/2 cup) of SoDelicious Coconut Milk and 6-8 ounces of fresh water.
Posted on 3rd March 2011 by admin in Health Alerts |LivingFuelTV
diet, donuts, eating, food, fried foods, health alert, KC Craichy, Living Fuel, Monica Craichy, nutrition
On this diet you can eat anything you want. The only catch is that I am going to tell you what you are going to want.
KC Craichy, The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!
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Dear Living Fuel Family,
“What’s for dinner tonight?”
This simple question will be uttered thousands of times this afternoon, maybe by you or someone in your family.
So how much thought have you put into your food choices today? We have long championed the the idea of eating mindfully, with wisdom and intent. Many do not give a second thought to what they are putting in their mouths until the consequences of a lifetime of thoughtlessness appears on a medical report or a reflection in the bathroom mirror. There is a better way!
Today on LivingFuelTV, Monica and I continue our series on my new book The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need! The book is jam-packed with practical tips on eating with foresight supported by education. In The Super Health Diet, we present the worst “foods”, the subject of today’s fun episode. Tune in today to see which “foods” make this infamous list by clicking on the graphic below to watch. |
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For more information, visit our website,
www.livingfuel.com, or call us at 1-866-580-FUEL (3835).
Here’s to your Super Health!
KC & Monica Craichy
Founders & CEO
Living Fuel, Inc.
