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Welcome Spring! I can’t believe it is here.

 

How are you doing?

 

Springtime is time to cleanse the body!

 

 

 

 

While many of us get vaccinated, I would like to encourage you all to think about cleansing your body with healthy foods. Using the FIT Tests for cleansing is a wonderful, very individualized approach. Removing the foods that you are sensitive to and react with inflammation, does wonders to your overall health.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drinking plenty of good quality water is necessary for any type of cleansing, to flush out toxins. I love fresh squeezed organic lemon or lime juice added to water to produce more bile. If you are worried about the acidity effecting your tooth enamel, try using a straw. 

 

 

A great approach for cleansing the body is a vegan diet (without all the irritating foods like sugar, gluten, and soy). I recommend organic foods especially for cleansing! 

All bitter herbs are liver cleansing, like for example artichokes, arugula, dandelion, endives, radicchio, chicory, and parsley. 

 

 

 

 

Featured Article:
Parsley, the World's Most Popular Herb with Wonderful Healing Properties

 

 

The delicious taste reminds me of my mom’s cooking, plus the wonderful healing properties of parsley are often ignored in its popular role as a table garnish. Highly nutritious, parsley can be found year-round in your local supermarket.

 

Parsley is the world's most popular herb. It derives its name from the Greek word meaning "rock celery" (parsley is a relative to celery). It is a biennial plant that will return to the garden year after year once it is established.

 

Parsley is full of flavonoids, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It has some powerful kidney health and liver detox properties you can take advantage of.

 

It is a great herb to help prevent kidney stones because it is a diuretic. When studied against other substances, parsley reduced stones the most. The size and number of stones significantly went down, and the kidney tissue was healthier as well. Parsley is a potent natural kidney cleansing herb.

 

Parsley can lower your high blood glucose levels, which can inflame the liver when too high. It can help protect your liver by reducing inflammatory liver enzymes. Parsley can help to bind onto and remove heavy metals from your body.

 

 

 

 

 

Parsley contains two types of unusual components that provide unique health benefits. The first type is volatile oil components—including limonene, and myristicin, the second type is flavonoids—including apigenin, and luteolin.

 

Parsley's volatile oils—particularly myristicin—have been shown to inhibit tumor formation in animal studies, and particularly, tumor formation in the lungs. Myristicin has also been shown to activate the enzyme glutathione-S-transferase, which helps attach the molecule glutathione to oxidized molecules that would otherwise do damage in the body. The activity of parsley's volatile oils qualifies it as a "chemoprotective" food, and in particular, a food that can help neutralize particular types of carcinogens (like the benzopyrenes that are part of cigarette smoke and charcoal grill smoke).

 

 

 

 

 

 

The flavonoids in parsley—especially luteolin—have been shown to function as antioxidants that combine with highly reactive oxygen-containing molecules (called oxygen radicals) and help prevent oxygen-based damage to cells.

 

In addition to its volatile oils and flavonoids, parsley is an excellent source of vitamin C and a good source of vitamin A (notably through its concentration of the pro-vitamin A carotenoid, beta-carotene).

 

So, next time parsley appears on your plate as a garnish, recognize its true worth and partake of its abilities to improve your health. As a bonus, you'll also enjoy parsley's legendary ability to cleanse your palate and your breath at the end of your meal.

 

(Source: whfoods, George Mateljan)

 

 

 

 

 

As you all know, I love to spend my additional time studying and searching for more knowledge to help you all even better. I am proud to say that I have studied in an international sports nutrition program and am now a Certified International Fitness Nutritionist according to accredited international standards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I will continue to concentrate on the topic of inflammation in my work, but with my growing group of international clients, this new degree is a wonderful addition to my knowledge and expertise. Studying intensely during the last year has also kept me sane and my mind occupied. It is nice to see now that it paid off. I will continue to study Functional Nutrition for another year, to deep dive into all body systems in connection with food (I also officially graduated from it). But the program has offered a new degree for a second round, and I will go for that too. Why not, right?

Happy Spring!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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www.SimplifyHolisticNutrition.com

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Norwell, MA 02061

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