Or having a good night’s sleep?

From my own observations, it seems that I tend to be more focused and pay attention better after eating or doing certain things.

When I don’t have a good night sleep I have difficulty hearing what people are saying, it’s like my mind blocks them out intentionally for some reason.

If I don’t eat right, I become self-absorbed and become less alert to the environment around me (bad for driving!).

If I don’t drink an energy drink on a work day I am more prone to passive-aggression and holding grudges against others, and fail to be more openminded and see things from other peoples’ point of view. I also have a harder time pleasing customers when I don’t have an energy drink to give me the boost.

But is there any scientific reason why this is? Am I just off on everything?

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yesterday, i ate a homemade thai green curry which we later discovered was mistakenly made with enough curry paste for 24 people where there should have been a curry for 4 (6 times the amt of paste). i have a rather low tolerance of chilli and spicy food, and the result of eating this concentratedly salty and super spicy curry was immediate numbness/tingliness of my extremities, odd ringing in the ears, and general spazzing out (loss of control) almost like i was tripping or something.

the next day i brought a version of this curry (which had been diluted greatly) but when i ate it at work i had the same experience all over again! which is really not a good thing in the office.

can anyone explain to me what in the spice or curry is causing this? or is it the salt? i’d had mild versions of this "numbness and tripping out" experience with other spicy foods, but this curry has been the hottest thing i’ve eaten in ages, and the effect is pronounced and immediate….

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I have been living off of coffee, soda and fast food this week, I am changing my diet and could use suggestions.

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Where can I find a cheap, but quality veggie diet meal plan with lots of info?

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For some reason I’m obsessed about health/energy bars, and I love to eat them. I just want to know if it’s possible for me to be overloading on them. I eat maybe 2 or 3 a day. Is there anything bad about that?

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What kind of thing would i be eating, besides salads? what about protein?
Is tofu raw when you buy it at the store if you don’t cook it? Isn’t eating tofu a lot supposedly bad?

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I’m not a vegan or vegetarian, but I would like to cut down on unnecessary things like sugar and caffine type things. –> ( http://sportsandcooking.com/health/be-careful-with-energy-drinks ). I don’t plan on cutting them out completely, but would like to still have lots of energy. Of course I will be drinking more water and exersizing more! Thanks for all the answers.

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My small dog , 5.5 lbs of the most important thing in my whole life was being baby sat by my mother, and from what i understand somehow he got into ham and pork, diegsted a ton of it, now has pancreatitis.

He is on raw diet, and it is VERY balanced. below i have writen down basically wht it consists of. Now he needs VERY bland diet. The vet recomended Royal Canin prescribed food. But the first ingredients are fish, water, meat by product, rice, corn meal (it is a canned food). Which doesnt sound good at all.

I heard to have low fat, high fiber, bland. I also heard that fish is good? maybe?

I was thinking white fish or chicken breast, and 1 veggie (high in fiber like kidney beans or spinach), maybe add a bit of brown rice or barley???

i would LOVE suggestions. Thank you so much in advance!

Antibiotic-free, hormone-free Protein 90% with 10% Slop (fruit/veggie, other)
Wholemeat, liver, Heart, ground bones: Duck, Venison, Quail, Cornish gamehen, Pheasant, Elk, Turkey, Beef, Lamb, Rabbit, Chicken, Trout (and other fish).
Raw,uncooked Apples, Carrots, Butternut Squash, Yams, Zucchini, Ground Flaxseed,Chicken Eggs, Broccoli, Lettuce, Spinach, Dried Kelp, Apple Cider Vinegar, Parsley, Honey, Salmon Oil, Olive Oil, Blueberries,Strawberries, Blackberries, Cranberries, Daikon, Banana, Peaches,Yogurt, Pumpkin, Celery, Alfalfa Sprouts, Wheat Grass, Beets, Peppers,Persimmons, Kale, Duck Eggs, Pheasant Eggs, Quail Eggs, Rosemary, Sage,Clove, Tyme, Bay leaves, Ginger root, Seaweed.

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I bought a bottle of pure hoodia gordonii 1200mg. I was wondering if they have worked for anyone and if so how and did you exercise while using them?

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There are many products that claim to cleanse your colon and remove pounds of accumulated you know what. These products are promoted through spam emails as weight loss products and mostly contain herbs and act as mild laxatives, but are there any true products that could help to cleanse your body and available without a prescription?

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Total energy use involved with food:
1. growth
2. harvest
3. shipping
4. processing
5. packaging
6. shipping
7. retailing
8. shopping for food
9. cooking

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1.protein
2.fat
3.sucrose
4.water

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If not why?
if so, what foods would make up for lower energy?
Thank you for all of your answers.

I have about a 6" red ear slider turtle… about 2 yrs old. I feed him, but there is NEVER food just floating in his tank. I clean is tank about 1 time a week. With in about 1-2 days after cleaning is tank it is green and cloudy and hard to see through. and It smells SUPER bad. He is in my bedroom and you can smell the odor coming out of my door and it lingers in the living room until I clean his tank. I have a UV light and a heat light also. I also have a Duetto 100 filter. I feed him in the A.M., "turtle Bites" brand food and for lunch a few "Turtle Treats" brand treats and right before bed some more "Turtle Bites’ brand food. and I ALWAYS make sure that he finishes ALL food I give him. So WHY does it smell so bad and What can I do to get the stink out?
Someone PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
I DO clean my filter a LOT. And also he is in a 20 gallon LONG tank, right now he has a lot of room. So My Duteeo 100 filter circuates about 20 gallons… so Should i get a filter that atleast doubles this circulation?

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Some of my leading sites for healthy eating are swinging away from vegetarian, soya
products, saying that eating meat and fat give more energy, more immunity and so
on. Anyone up on this stuff? I do have inflammation and am tired a lot.

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im a veggie trying to be more healthy, i like quorn, sweetcorn, pasta, potato, soup,onions, any veg but not mushroom, you see i know veggies are supposed to love them but since i have never eaten meat test prove that people who have never eaten meat dont like mushroom texture.

i am not fussy, and want a good balanced easy quick meal plan, will be very grateful for somone to make me a morning to night meal plan mon-tues

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More progressive variant of food storage is to create vacuum in ware by means of the special pump (usually it is applied on the container). The electric pump working from a network or the accumulator is much more effective: in containers with manual vacuum not always it is possible to provide sufficient air. The price for such containers begins from 30 dollars of the product from heat resisting glass in which it is possible not only to freeze products, but also to warm up in a microwave, cost more expensive. But that the ware has not burst before to place from a refrigerator in a microwave, it is better for heating up to a room temperature.

The special lattice is often applied on containers also. It is put on a bottom of ware and serves to separate a product, for example fresh meat, from a liquid which of it is allocated. That the owner has not forgotten, how many days at it is stored meat or sausage cutting, on covers of expensive containers there is a special indicator of date and month.

But even in such vacuum containers the meal cannot remain eternally. According to the expert of laboratory of food toxicology of scientific research institute of a food that a foodstuff has not done much harm to health to store them even in the most technological container it is necessary not longer the term specified on packing. Products which should be processed – to cook, fry, soar, – it is not necessary to put in a refrigerator nearby or on a shelf above products which do not require thermal processing, for example sausage or cottage cheese.

On the sanitary rules confirmed for public catering establishments by which it is necessary to be guided and in a life, meat half-finished products are stored in conditions of a refrigerator no more than for few days, sausage boiled: the higher and first grade there are more 72 hours, and the second grade – 48 hours. (soups, snacks) it is not necessary to hold multicomponent products in a refrigerator of more than 24 hours. Term of a life of salads and that is less: without refueling – 18 hours, with refueling (mayonnaise, sauces) – six hours.

And products are desirable for storing on a trellised shelf that air arrived freely. If sausage promptly becomes covered by slippery whitish touch, means, in a refrigerator is too damp. To reduce humidity it is necessary to cover “wet” products with covers, and greens to pack into tight plastic containers.

It is the most popular kind of “refrigerating” packing of food. Containers of the every possible sizes and forms from the plastic calculated on different kinds of products – cold, hot, loose now are issued. Such ware is multipurpose: it is possible and to store in it simply products on a refrigerator regiment, and to freeze them in a freezer, and even to prepare in a microwave. But this variety can play with the buyer a malicious joke. Therefore to choose containers it is necessary very carefully.

Do you know that food storage can save you from lots of troubles during different emergency cases. Learn more about food storage on this food storage site.

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Some great tips about food storage

Let’s begin with what not any plastic is suitable for food, and furthermore for hot products. On the containers contacting to food, there should be special marks – a badge with the glass and plug image. If this badge will cross out, using storage of food a product it is impossible.

Various kinds of plastic under certain conditions get toxicity. Some containers, absolutely safe at a room temperature, become a mine of the slowed down action at considerable heating. So, plastic polystyrene does not react in any way to cold products. But it is necessary to pour in capacity something hot (from 70 °), harmless by sight the vessel starts to allocate toxic connection under the name “styrene”. At the regular use it collects in liver, kidneys and promotes, for example, to cirrhosis development.

Therefore for the consumer it is very important to know, the container is intended for what kind of products. Be attentive: containers and banks supply with inscriptions «for cold foodstuff» or «for hot foodstuff». According to the experts in food storage, «if on the container it is written« for hot foodstuff », this ware can be used both for hot, and for cold dishes».

At absence of an inscription it is necessary to consider pictogrammes – if the container suits both for hot, and for cold, on it the range of temperatures – for example will be specified,-40 +130 ° «four snowflakes» means that in the container it is possible to freeze products.

From the point of view of toxicity it is considered the most safe polymer polypropylene. Substances which can be allocated from polypropylene, are almost harmless. So for foodstuff it is better to choose the containers made of this polymer, on them necessarily there is abbreviation PP. Experts assert that this plastic maintains temperatures to +150 ° with and approaches for dishwashers, refrigerators and microwaves.

Vacuum:

For those who buys products of times in a week and thus wants, that they long remained fresh, special containers with system of vacuum storage are issued and on sale. It is possible to store half-finished products and already ready dishes in them. In vacuum packing products are protected from negative influence of oxygen and long remain same fresh, as at the moment of their purchase or preparation.

Such containers do of special heat resisting glass or aforementioned polypropylene. The main thing in these capacities is a tight cover. It has the special valve through which of densely closed capacity air leaves.

The simplest way of removal of air is mechanical, by simple pressing a container cover. But, of course, real “vacuum” thus can’t be received. As a rule, containers do of polypropylene.

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Assuming your skin temperature is 37.2 C and the temperature of your surroundings is 21.6C, determine the length of time required for you to radiate away the energy gained by eating a 309-Calorie ice cream cone. Let the emissivity of your skin be 0.915 and its area be 1.25m^2.

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Storage of foodstuff

Storage of products at low temperatures considerably reduces activity of enzymes and microbiological processes that does possible storage for a long time.

The choice of temperature of storage depends on type of a product and duration of its storage. The more close the storage temperature to a point has begun freezing; the development of microorganisms is more strongly slowed down.

Storage of the cooled meat products at temperatures slightly more low (nearby—2 °С) allows to extend considerably a period of storage and to simplify transportation.

Eggs can be stored at temperature—2,5 °С in one and a half time longer, than at 0 With.
Distinguish three kinds of storage of foodstuff:

• short-term storage of the cooled products on trade enterprises;

• storage of cool products in refrigerators;

• long low temperature storage of the frozen foodstuff.

Products are stored in first two cases at temperatures lower and is used at storage of the frozen products and stored usually at temperature—18 …-20 °С. Some products, for example, fat fish, store at lower temperature (-25 …-30 °С).

The more low the storage temperature; it is more difficult in developing of microorganisms. However some kinds of a mould can grow at temperature close to—8 °С. It transition to lower temperatures of storage (-18 …-20 °С), completely excluding possibility of development of microorganisms speaks.

Temperature fluctuations at storage of the frozen products should not be more ±1 °С. For example, they lead to deterioration of structure of meat which speaks growth of crystals of ice.

At rise in temperature the part of crystals of ice in a fabric thaws, and at the subsequent fall of temperature there is a growth of crystals and deterioration of structure of a fabric.

The factors influencing shrinkage of foodstuff

1. The more low air temperature, the less its moisture content (absolute humidity), that is can apprehend air less than a moisture. Shrinkage of fish, for example, at—18 °С will be approximately in 2 times less, than at—8 °С.

2. The above relative humidity of air, less intensity of evaporation of moisture from a surface of a product and less shrinkage. For shrinkage reduction it is necessary to support as much as possible admissible relative humidity of air. For each kind of products there are limiting values of relative humidity above which their damage by microorganisms is observed.

3. Intensity of evaporation of moisture is influenced essentially by speed of air circulation. More often there is a change of air at a product surface, the more shrinkage.

4. Character of a surface of a product is of great importance for moisture evaporation.

The product entirely covered with a grease layer, is well protected from shrinkage. Special measures are applied to shrinkage reduction: use of protective films and coverings, installation of special screens, glazing of fish, etc.

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1. Old yoghurt. If at yoghurt in your refrigerator the period of storage has come to an end, do not be afraid of it. This foodstuff stored in a freezer can endure the term of storage on the whole two weeks. However, at some of them thus appears specific smell. If you have already opened yoghurt, it is languid dig in it a spoon and have then recollected that absolutely and did not want it is, cover it and eat during two days.

2. Fruit juice. It in an open kind can be stored fearlessly in a refrigerator week. In a week there will be a probability to poison.

3. The second dishes which prepared on oil and have remained after a dinner. If such meal you want to store in a refrigerator it is better to eat it within four next days.

4. Open canned food in metal banks. Storage of products in open cans is already in itself poison. Therefore if you could not for push once in yourselves all preserve product, shift the rests in a glass jar with a cover or in a deep plateau with which it is possible to cover with one more plateau. To store it will be possible days 5-7, depending on kind of a product.

5. Fruit and vegetables. They need to be stored in bottom sliding boxes, and it is better that fruit lay separately from vegetables – they have on each other badly influence.

6. The mysterious frozen products in a freezer. First of all, understand all who they are, and then throw out everything that has already deteriorated. And has deteriorated here that: chicken if it lay there more than a year; beef and pork if they were there more than 9 months; and fish if term of its stay in a freezer has exceeded half a year. And on the future: paste to each bag a piece of paper with the name of meal and date of its freezing.

7. An open bottle of wine. Such wine will remain tasty within a week, especially if to store a bottle in lying condition.

8. Eggs. They can be stored in a freezer 3-5 weeks. Then with them there is an incident.

Nevertheless it is necessary to feed children with fresh products, at them digestion in another way occurs, and the period of storage very much and very much depends on quality of a refrigerator.

As a result of the lecture I have thrown out from a refrigerator of my friend practically all. I have left only things in which freshness, despite their long storage, did not doubt. It was the jar of jam age in one year; old cheese from which we cut off edges.

This planet gets “hot” – it is high time to be prepared. Find out more about food storage – this info can save your life and the lives of other people you care about. Visit this food storage website for interesting info in the food storage industry.

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A few years ago I was diagnosed with severe ulcerative colitis and was hospitalised. Before that I had been on many drugs, anti inflamatories, anti depressants all sorts.

After going through virtually ALL of the OTC supplements and facial regimes, I decided to take a deeper look at my acne. I figured, since I had been on so many drugs, I may have a fungal overgrowth in my body. I had a ‘hair test’ done and the main stressor in my body, was indeed fungal in nature. Possibly candida. I went on a three month candida diet, excluding almost all sugar, the only sugar I ate were natural occuring sugars in vegetables like spinach, drank a hell of a lot of alkaline filtered water and took garlic and pau d’arco supplements.
Result?
NOTHING

I think thought, I may naturally just have an excessively oily face. So I started taking vilantae B5 from evolution X. I must admit, this did clear my acne a small amount. At the same time I was using Acne Free skin care routine. This combination did not rid me of acne, but it cleared it up about 40%.

I then decided I couldn’t afford this anymore. £30 per bottle of vilantae is far too expensive!
I thought, maybe due to my colon and digestive problems in the past, I may have a toxic colon, or my liver my be struggling to get rid of toxins, thus it is excreting them via my skin.

So I did a 5 day liver detox (very unpleasant) and then went on to do a three day apple cleanse, taking anti fungal enemas everyday (the same as acne free in 3 days routine). The result? I noticed ONE pimple dissapeared, the rest stayed and my face stayed the same.

I then decided to do a colon cleanse, and purchased (cautiously) the colon cleansing kit from blessed herbs. I did the whole cleanse, and although it did work, nothing has changed with my face! Infact, today my face has broken out even more sad.gif.

The colon cleanse involved a completely raw diet three days up to the cleanse, then five days of apple juice. I am now still eating a raw diet but my face looks terrible!

I have been on accutane and all the others…I dont want to go back on medication for it. The accutane messed my liver up.

I really don’t know what to do anymore, I am at my wits end. Someone please help sad.gif. I am so frustrated and lost so much self esteem.

Help!?

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i am happy with my weight, 120(im 5′7, 16yrs old) but i have some areas i want to tune up and i know cutting back on my diet will help.

i live in the south so fried foods are hard to escape from-espceially for supper. BUT i know i can cut back some. i also am a heavy coke drinker. i know i can subsitute water and it would make a big difference.

but other than that idk what to do. fruits and vegetbales, i know those are good. but what is a good healty meat to eat?? i just need some advice on what to substitute for what.

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I always have a massive slump after lunch at work so that if I closed my eyes I would literally fall asleep.
What can I eat at lunchtime that would perk me up for the rest of the day?

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