AND IN THIS CORNER…SUPERFOODS – CUCKOO FOR SUPERFOODS
We’ll get right to the point here. Super-charged superfoods claim to be the Joe Frazier health monster, taking on or knocking down a lineup of illnesses. Health KO in round one. Certainly bad eating habits can lead to many serious problems. But are superfoods just bobbing and weaving in their claims, or can they deliver the punch? Let’s examine some of the things superfoods claim they can help or prevent. I’m sure you’ll have a cautious dose of “yeah, yeah, sure”. But here they are:
- Reduce risk of heart attacks
- Prevent blood clots
- Protect against stroke
- Improve fine motor skills
- Tension headaches
- Stuffy nose
- Nausea
- Promote brain health
- Detoxify liver
- Clear your skin
- Diabetes
- Fighting and suppressing urinary tract infections
- Stimulate bone-building cells
- Assist digestive system, relieve cramping, gas and muscles aches
- Memory and coordination
- Combat cancel and detoxify
- Boost antioxidants
- Prevent ulcers and yeast infections
- Improve oral health
- May reduce risk of lung cancer
- Protect bones, ward off pms symptoms
- Blood clots
- Builds bones
- Cancer fighters
- Healthy eyes
- Convert food to energy
- Immune system
- Lower cholesterol
- May halt growth of cervical and colon cancer
- Reduce inflammation
- Reduce asthma-related wheezing
- Help arteries stay relaxed and pliable
- Fight infection
- Diuretic
- Muscle building
- Lower blood pressure
- Vision
- Immune system
- May prevent endometrial and ovarian cancer
- Control blood sugar
- Immune system
- Anemia
- Protect liver
- Reduce inflammation
- Sleep better
- Detoxify body
- Prevent hardening of arteries
- Mood
- Keep blood vessels healthy
- Boost communication between blood cells
- Neutralize free radicals that cause aging and cell damage
- Reduce effects of age-related conditions like Alzheimer’s or dementia
- Enhance libido improve sex
Note, none of these superfood claims are actually medically proven.
THE SUPERFOOD DIET. WHY TRY IT?
As has always been, the key to maintaining and improving your health is eating right, exercising and making smart choices. Diet plays an important role in our health but there is concern that too much focus on individual foods may encourage unhealthy eating. And the word “diet”? Whoa, there’s a potful of danger. Americans have tried such crazy unbalanced diets as the Cookie diet, the Baby food diet, the Cabbage soup diet, even the Tapeworm diet. (Just picturing the torture of that one is enough to kill any appetite). If people mistakenly believe they can “undo” the damage caused by unhealthy foods by eating a superfood diet, their mental cages are slightly rattled. Healthy is about eating a variety of nutritional foods, which is a lot smarter than going after “superfoods” with tunnel vision. As an aside, trying to maintain a diet consisting mostly of superfoods could actually lead to super dangerous bad food binging. (jaw-dropping, huh?) Common sense goes a long way. So stop scratching your head (which is not considered exercise, by the way) and discuss your health needs with someone who knows what they’re talking about.
HORMONES TO THE RESCUE
HORMONES ARE THE REAL HEALTH HELPERS. HORMONES NAVIGATE THROUGH YOUR BLOODSTREAM IN ORDER TO GET THEIR MESSAGES TO THE RIGHT CELLS. IF THEY ARE IN BALANCE, YOUR HEALTH AND WELL-BEING ARE IN BALANCE.
TO OPTIMIZE YOUR HORMONES, YOU SHOULD CONSULT WITH A TRAINED PHYSICIAN. DR. STEPHEN A. GOLDSTEIN M.D., F.A.C.S. AT DENVER HORMONE HEALTH IS ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER BIOIDENTICAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY EXPERTS IN THE DENVER AREA. BESIDES EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE, HE UTILIZES THE MOST SUPERIOR EDUCATION AND CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH AVAILABLE, ALONG WITH THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY. SUPERFOODS AREN’T THE ANSWER. A UNIQUE TREATMENT PLAN TAILORED TO YOUR HORMONAL NEEDS, INTEGRATED WITH A BALANCED DIET AND EXERCISE IS WHAT WILL GIVE YOU THE ABILITY TO LEAD THE HEALTHY LIFE YOU WANT.
CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT NOW.
AND THINK SUPER-DOCTOR FIRST.