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Here are some simple eating guidlines that can help you regulate your blood sugar level to give you constant energy throughout your day.

Eat Five Times a Day

Eat a balanced breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and have two small snacks-one in the morning(11:00) and one around the afternoon( 3:00-4:00) -every day.




Break Your Fast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; after all, you fasted all night. To maintain a balanced blood sugar level–thereby giving yourself energy throughout the day–try to make the time to prepare balanced meals in the morning or the night before. After four to six hours, you will need to eat another balanced meal or snack to replenish yourself and keep your blood sugar level steady.

Eat Before You Become Hungry

Unfortunately, many people do not think about food until they are hungry. By that time, they are running out of fuel (i.e. blood sugar may already be low). Skipping meals also causes a low blood sugar level. The longer you wait between meals, the longer you will be in a catabolic state. This in turn places more stress on your hormone and immune systems.

Eat Balanced Meals and Snacks

A balanced meal or snack consists of fat, carbohydrates and protein. For example, a balanced breakfast might consist of plain low-fat yogurt or cottage cheese (the protein) and your favorite fresh fruit (a carbohydrate). You might also combine protein sources like eggs, chicken, or turkey with carbohydrates like fresh fruit and a small amount of potatoes or toast.

Again, avoid eating a large amount of carbohydrates without protein or fat. Eating just carbohydrates will produce a sugar rush. An hour or two later, your blood sugar level will drop. As a result, you will likely feel sluggish or irritable and may have difficulty thinking clearly. Eating a balanced meal (with a small amount of fat) will help you avoid the sugar rush and prevent the peaks and valleys of blood sugar swings.

Eat Organic Foods

The most important way to improve your nutritional status is to eat organic foods, which are richer in nutrients than commercially grown foods. Studies have shown that organically grown food contains a minimum of 50 - 100% more nutrients than commercially grown foods. (In fact, some commercially grown vegetables virtually lack essential minerals.) Eating organic foods also helps you avoid consuming the toxic pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and herbicides.

Inorganic sediment residue and calcification can aggravate your joints.  These conditions are caused by improper balance of minerals and overuse of joints.

The bath described below, consisting of Epsom salts, dead sea salts or herbs with a diaphoretic (sweat-producing) action, can help alleviate this aggravation.

For best results, take this bath at night before retiring to bed and protect your mattress with a sheet of plastic.

Ingredients: elder flowers, peppermint, yarrow, Epsom salts or dead sea salts.

Directions

1. Make sure you are well hydrated with water before you being the procedure. 
2. Make a tea of elder flowers, peppermint and yarrow and drink it hot right before your bath.
3. Pour three pounds of Epsom salts or dead sea salts in very hot bath water.
4. In the bath, rub arthritic joints with a stiff brush for five to ten minutes.
5. Stay in bath for 20-25 minutes.
6. On emerging, do not dry yourself.  Instead, wrap up immediately in a clean sheet and go straight to bed covering yourself with several blankets. 
7. Expect to sweat out the toxins accumulated in your joints and tissues.

The osmotic pressure of the Epsom salt solution absorbed by the sheet will draw off heavy perspiration.  The next morning the sheet will be stained with wastes excreted through your skin - sometimes the color of egg yolk.

Note: this is a strong detox procedure and it happens relatively quickly so take extra care if you have a weak heart or high blood pressure.

Repeat this bath once every two week until sheet is no longer stained, a sign that the body is cleansed. 

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