Benefits Of Chia Seeds

I recently started using Chia seeds in my smoothies for added health benefits.  I had recently completed some research online looking for ways in which I could reduce my body fat and also cholesterol. Chia Seeds came out on top.  They are pretty versatile, and you can put them in your smoothies, and also in cereal all on top of yoghurt. 

Don’t be fooled by the size… these tiny seeds pack a powerful nutritional punch.

A 1 ounce (28 grams) serving of chia seeds contains: 

• Fiber: 11 grams.
• Protein: 4 grams.
• Fat: 9 grams (5 of which are Omega-3s).
• Calcium: 18% of the RDA.
• Manganese: 30% of the RDA.
• Magnesium: 30% of the RDA.
• Phosphorus: 27% of the RDA.
• They also contain a decent amount of Zinc, Vitamin B3 (Niacin), Potassium, Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) and Vitamin B2.

This is particularly impressive when you consider that this is just a single ounce, which supplies only 137 calories and one gram of digestible carbohydrate!

Just so that we’re all on the same page, 1 ounce equals 28 grams, or about 2 tablespoons.

Interestingly… if you subtract the fiber, which may not end up as usable calories for the body, chia seeds only contain 101 calories per ounce.

This makes them one of the world’s best sources of several important nutrients, calorie for calorie.

To top things off, chia seeds are a “whole grain” food, are usually grown organically, are non-GMO and naturally free of gluten.

Chia Seeds Are Loaded With Antioxidants

Another area where chia seeds shine is in their high amount of antioxidants 

These antioxidants protect the sensitive fats in the seeds from going rancid 

Although antioxidant supplements are not very effective, getting antioxidants from foods can have positive effects on health and immune system.  

Most importantly, antioxidants fight the production of free radicals, which can damage molecules in cells and contribute to ageing and diseases like cancer 

Because of all the fiber, chia seeds can absorb up to 10-12 times their weight in water, becoming gel-like and expanding in your stomach 

Theoretically, this should increase fullness, slow absorption of your food and help you eat fewer calories.

Fiber also feeds the friendly bacteria in the intestine, which is important because keeping your gur bugs well fed is absolutely crucial for health. 

Chia seeds are 40% fiber, by weight. This makes them one of the best sources of fiber in the world.

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Statins Life Saver or Silent Killer?

This is a subject to my heart I have loved ones, friends and family who suffer from high cholesterol.

One thing in common for all of them, is that once they were diagnosed they were put on statins.  

It is far too easy for doctors and specialist to put people on drugs rather than find out the root cause and help them to improve or eliminate health issues through changing their current diet. This of course would involve going through a nutritionist or Dietition and looking at what the are eating on a day-to-day basis and whether they get enough exercise or not. 

Something as simple exchange of diet and adding exercise can improve most health conditions.

The following is an article I read when researching issues with statins for a client of mine. Very interesting reading.

STATINS: A Life Saver or a Silent Killer?

(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 23, 2014 ) Huntington, KY -- For the past previous months, the risk of taking the drugs called Statin has been the main concern of most health-related news as it draws debates from different researchers and health specialists. This controversial issue highlights a range of unintended side effects of these cholesterol-busting drugs.

Statins are medicines known for lowering the levelWhat You Should Know About COQ10 & Statins of Cholesterol in the blood. They do this by curbing the production of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in the liver. High levels of 'bad cholesterol' can increase the risk of having a heart attack or a stroke and of developing cardiovascular disease. Hence, these drugs are prescribed by doctors to help protect healthy but high-risk people from heart disease and to prevent heart attacks and strokes in people who have already had problems.

However, effects identified in studies were published by the British Medical Journal. The articles were written by John Abramson from Harvard medical school, and Aseem Malhotra, a UK cardiologist, who both claimed statins caused harmful side-effects and did not reduce mortality. Statins adverse effects include liver problems, acute kidney failure, muscle weakness and cataracts. 

Conversely, Professor Rory Collins from University of Oxford criticized these articles and emphasized that fears over statins use are misleading the public. He said that BMJ articles had "overestimated the side effects of statin therapy by more than 20 times". This was likely to have encouraged people to either stop taking statins or not to start treatments in the first place.

Recently, statins are once again in the spotlight as the National Health Service considers increasing the use of the drugs (BBC News). It says NHS estimates 7,000 lives are saved by the drugs each year by cutting the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Currently, doctors are meant to offer statin tablets to people who have a 20% chance of developing cardiovascular disease over 10 years, based on risk factors such as their age, sex, whether they smoke and what they weigh. But the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which advises the NHS on its use of drugs, has proposed that people with as low as a 10% risk should be offered the treatment. Nonetheless, the draft guidance is still under consultation and a final decision will be made probably by the end of July.

Despite all the anti-cholesterol propaganda, cholesterol is proven to have vital role in the human body's chemistry, like oxygen is. According to Jimmy Moore in his book entitled "Cholesterol Clarity", indiscriminate use of statins to get cholesterol numbers as low as possible may do more harm than good.

Studies found an alternative to statins which is called Ubiquinol, an active form of Coenzyme Q-10 (CoQ10). CoQ10 is made by the same enzyme in the body as cholesterol. This leads to the conclusion that treatment with the popular cholesterol-lowering medications known as statins reduces the amount of circulating CoQ10 in the blood stream. Therefore medical experts suggest to replenish depleted levels by taking up supplements like the so called Ubiquinol.

According to Prof. Svend Mortensen, other heart failure medications block rather than enhance cellular processes and may have side effects. Supplementation with CoQ10, which is a natural and safe substance, corrects a deficiency in the body and blocks the vicious metabolic cycle in chronic heart failure called the energy starved heart.

In spite of the incessant debates rolling over statins issue, considering these supplements as alternatives would possibly be a great help to justify the effectiveness of these cholesterol-busting drugs and at the same time lessen the risks of its adverse side effects.

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