Healthy Dieting: Increase Health with Blood Type Recipes and Grain Free

By Sandra Collins

Healthy Dieting: Increase Health with Blood Type Recipes and Grain Free The Healthy Dieting book covers two diet plans that promote good health, the Grain Free Diet and the Blood Type Diet. Each of these diet plans offer recipes that include foods to help make the body stronger and healthier by addressing some health concerns. The grain free diet is good for people who have gluten intolerances and allergies. The blood type diet is good for people who follow the thought that certain foods are good for each different blood type. The diets in this book can be combined if the people who are intolerant to grains just avoid the recipes that call for grains in the blood type diet section.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781632878854

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Healthy Dieting

Increase Health with Blood Type Recipes and Grain Free

Sandra Collins and Rachel Roberts

Copyright © 2013 Sandra Collins and Rachel Roberts

All rights reserved.

Introduction

The number one goal people should have is to get healthy and stay healthy. There are so many things out there that can make us sick and so many detrimental health conditions. It can be devastating to receive a diagnosis for a health issue. But there is good news as far as prevention is concerned and even in offering a good way of treatment and that is through dieting. By going on a healthy diet, you give your body the best weapons of defense against many bad health issues.

Some health issues that plague people are intolerances and allergies to certain foods. If people have these issues and eat the foods, they have undesirable symptoms. One of the main foods that give people problems are grains. People who have grain (or gluten) intolerances or allergies may suffer from digestive issues. Other symptoms include dizziness, lethargy, mood changes, and even depression. An allergy to grains may lead to joint and muscle issues. The skin can be affected in the form of rashes and hives, even eczema. Some grain allergies may cause breathing issues (like you would get with a pollen allergy) with nasal congestion and or runny nose. Grain intolerances and allergies can also cause life-threatening swelling of the mouth and throat. If you suffer from any of these, you must be on a diet that is grain free.

People eat a grain free diet for other reasons even if they have no intolerances or allergies to grain. The grain free diet helps to lose weight, because you knock out carbohydrates found within the grains and focus on eating other foods the body has a chance to shed some extra fat. There are better ways to get the fiber from fresh fruits and vegetables.

Even if you are okay with grains, you can choose to go on the blood type diets. The whole ideas with the blood type diets are to eat foods that are healthy for your blood type. The thought is that by eating foods that your blood type can tolerate better you will have a stronger immune system and as a result will be much healthier.

The recipes found in this book can be mixed and matched. You do not have to follow just one. You can feel free to pick and choose and make a menu based on the whole book. Or you may wish to try the ones for specific diet plans. Either way is fine. This book is meant to be flexible and to give you some good choices for meals and for meal planning.

Developing a healthy lifestyle should start with dieting. The foods we eat works with our body to help keep us healthy and fend off sicknesses. If we eat the wrong foods, it can make us sick. (Just ask people with grain intolerances or allergies!) But other foods may not give us allergic reactions, but are equally as bad for us. Some foods will be bad for us but it may not show up immediately.

Here are some ailments that can occur from eating the wrong foods: digestive issues, weight gain, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, high (or too low) blood glucose levels, depression, moodiness, joint and muscle issues, and more. You can even pull this further apart and look at weight gain. Being overweight can cause these issues: high cholesterol, high blood pressure, bone and joint issues, back problems, and more.

If the body receives the right foods, it can keep itself healthy. It is very simple really. We are what we eat. If we have eaten all the wrong foods for years, then our bodies will show this with less than perfect health conditions. The good news is that by dieting many health ailments can turn around for the better.

Deciding to eat healthier is a good start, however if you have a bad junk food addiction it will become difficult. Unless you have allergies or intolerances to foods, it works better to beat the addiction by weaning off the junk slowly. This is because an addiction to junk food is a very strong one. Having this makes it difficult to diet and if you truly want to change your dieting habits then do this slowly to give your body a chance to beat the addiction.

It takes the body about 3 weeks to break a habit fully. Some habits may take longer, but the food addiction should take 3 weeks or less. Count up how many times a day you consume junk food. Is it full meals? Or is it just snacks? Once you determine this, you can start the process. Have healthy snacks and foods on hand (the recipes in this book is a good start) to replace the junk food. Replace one junk food snack or meal with a healthy choice of food and do this for three days. Add another replacement of junk food, and repeat for three days. Replace each instance of junk food consumption every three days until you have fully gone off the junk food. You can draw it out to every four or five days if you need to. At the very least, wean off at least one every week.

Any diet or addiction removal will be better helped by drinking plenty of water. If drinking water is not a big part of your day it should be. It does not matter what diet you are on you need to give your body plenty of water every single day. Water helps to keep the body hydrated, which helps the body to function better. Water also helps to cleanse the body from the inside out. This is why it is especially helpful when trying to overcome addictions.

Always seek the advice of your health care provider if you are embarking on a new diet plan. This is especially true if you have food allergies or intolerance, are on prescription medications, or have prior health issues. Listen to your doctor's advice on dieting.

Section 1: Grain Free Cooking

Grain free eating can be hard to think about in a culture that uses flour, corn and other refined starches in almost every food. For some of us, however, grains aren't the healthiest option. Mounting evidence suggests that heavy carbohydrate consumption simply isn't ideal for a significant portion of the population. If you're among these people, you're better off choosing a protein-heavy diet that helps you keep your blood sugar consistent and reduces your risk of diabetes and similar conditions.

For others, the gluten found in a wide variety of grains like wheat, rye and some oats can cause serious digestive and metabolic problems. Whether you have a grain allergy or you suffer from gluten intolerances such as celiac disease, your body simply can't digest grains properly. In severe cases, the nutritional deficiencies caused by this problem can lead to fuzzy thinking, deterioration of the bones and teeth, and even serious mood disorders. The solution is simple: just discontinue grains.

Last but not least, you may wish to avoid grains if you're following a paleo-style diet. These eating plans