If you decide for the new year to begin a healthy lifestyle, start a new hormone diet, add exercise to your daily schedule, de-stress and get more sleep, you are on the right track. Whether you decide to follow the actual hormone diet or Dr. Oz’s diet, a glyci-med diet based upon the Mediterranean diet, Suzanne Somer’s How to Lose Weight After 40 diet or the South Beach diet, you are making a choice that will affect your self esteem, your looks and most importantly, your health. Known as Superfoods in Suzanne’s book and Hot Hormone Foods in Natasha Turner’s latest book, the following is a list of healthy hormone diet foods to include on your diet – foods which promote health and weight loss. These foods will boost your immune system, reduce your risk of cancer and heart disease. Add these foods to your grocery list and get healthy and lose weight.
Whey Protein Isolate:
Add this to your fruit smoothie in the morning to help promote weight loss, muscle mass, and control insulin and serotonin levels.
Salmon:
Salmon is loaded with Omega-3 fatty acids, high in protein and helps to lower cholesterol However, make sure you buy only wild salmon. Avoid farm salmon which is high in mercury.
Dark Chocolate:
Delicious dark chocolate, chock full of flavanoids of 60% cocoa and low in sugar is good for you but only eat one square per day. It is a powerful source of antioxidants, good for our hearts, mood, and cardiovascular health. It can also lower our blood pressure.
Organic Yogurt:
Organic unsweetened yogurt is high in probiotics which is good for your digestive system by healthy bacteria levels, will reduce bloating and promote weight loss and is high in calcium which helps promote healthy bones. Organic yogurt also aids in the elimination of estrogen and boost immunity.
Whole Grains:
Whole grains such as buckwheat, chia seeds, oat bran, quinoa are not only high in fiber and promote regularity but they help you to lose weight. They are low on the glycemic index and packed with nutrients which can help with tissue repair and growth, diabetes, heart and blood vessel health.
Spices:
Spices will not only flavor up our foods, but they contain antioxidants which will help us lose weight, detoxify, destroy free radicals, balance blood sugar levels, boost our immune systems and even help to balance our hormones. Make sure you have the following spices in your cupboard and use whenever you can:
Ginger
Vanilla
Cinnamon
Cumin
Fresh Garlic
Tumeric
Pepper
Cayenne Pepper
Red Pepper Flakes
Mint
Berries:
Dark red berries such as strawberries, blueberries, acai and pomegranates are high in antioxidants, fiber, vitamin C and potassium, high in. They help protect against inflammation and free radicals and are good for insulin resistance, cognitive function and heart health.
Nuts:
Wonderful for you, high in protein, healthy fats, good carbohydrates and high in Omega-3s. Nuts help to promote brain function and
Flax Seeds:
Add organic ground flax seeds to your fruit smoothies in the morning or sprinkle them over your salads or your whole grain cereal. Flax seeds are full of fiber and essential fatty acids and can lower your cancer risk for such cancers as breast, colon and prostate cancer.
Reverse Osmosis Water:
This one is promoted in Natasha Turner’s Supercharged Hormone Diet book. If you can’t find reverse osmosis water, drink pure spring water – eight glasses a day. It helps wash out the toxins, assists in digestion and moisturizes our cells and skin – from the inside out. Adding a slice of lemon helps add some flavor to water.
Apples:
Eat organic apples because regular apples are heavily sprayed with pesticides. It is no lie your mother told you, an apple is day is good for you. Apples are chock full of fiber and quercetin – an antioxidant with phytoestrogenic abilities. Studies have shown that an apple a day protects against cancer, heart disease and strokes.
Cruciferous Vegetables:
Vegetables such as brocolli, kale, brussel sprouts are so good for you because they are high in glucosinolates, vitamin A and vitamin C, fiber, calcium, manganese and indole-3 carbinol which help neutralize breast cancer cells. The vitamins A and C assist with vision and lung health.
Extra Virgin Olive Oil:
Extra Virgin Olive oil, used throughout the Mediterranean, is a mono-unsaturated fat with health benefits. Research has shown that people who follow the Mediterranean diet experience lower incidence of diabetes, colon cancer, heart disease, atherosclerosis.
Avocados:
Avocados are extremely good for you whether on any of the hormone balancing diets because of their healthy fat content which is great for fat loss. Avocados are also healthy because they are high in antioxidants which fight many of the major diseases associated with aging, including lower bad cholesterol. Other benefits which come from eating an avocado include hormone benefits such as lowering cortisol and improving DHEA levels.
Red Wine:
A few glasses of red wine each week is good for you, but don’t overdo it. Red wine contains resveratol and catechins and is proven to prevent heart disease, prostate cancer and Type 2 Diabetes. Too much wine will cause of host of problems which we won’t go into here. You can also take a resveratol supplement on a daily basis if you don’t wish to drink a glass of wine.
Green Tea:
Much research has gone into the benefits of green tea which shows that it is a healthy hormone diet drink. It can boost your metabolism which promotes weight loss and improve energy levels. Green tea extract, also a component of Suzanne Somers Weight Loss formula for these reasons. The polyphenol component of green tea contributes to quicker weight loss. Drink three to four cups of green tea a day, but avoid drinking it close to your bed time because it may prevent sleep.
These super foods should be included on your healthy hormone diet.
Add them to your grocery list and enjoy the amazing results of health and weight loss. Don’t forget that before you begin your hormone diet, get rid of all the junk foods in your kitchen. It will make it much easier to stick to your hormone diet if you do not keep the junk food around the house. For some great hormone diet food recipes, check out Suzanne Somers’ best seller “Sexy Forever – How to Fight Fight After Forty” or Natasha Turner’s “Super-Charged Hormone Diet” available from Amazon. Both books are full of common-sense diet and nutritional supplements information and delicious recipes using these healthy hormone foods. Vital information for those wanting to know how to lose weight, live long and healthy lives when hormones begin to play havoc.
G. Broker @ January 2, 2012
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you can’t lose weight without exercising. Not only do we review diets here at the Hormone Diet website, but we also give you the complete picture on losing weight. You have to exercise as well as follow a diet.
Tony Horton’s 10 Minute Workout Plan 10 Minute Miracle Plan to lose weight. You will see Tony Horton and Dr Oz in this short 10 minute Miracle Plan. It’s only 10 minutes long and there really is no excuse not to devote 10 minutes a day to exercise.
G. Broker @ January 2, 2012
