Luzia Braun

Sunflower Seeds

Sunflower seeds are another highly nutritious seed food that we Americans supply generously to our parrots and our chickens, yet neglect to utilize in raising the standards of our under-par human diets. Our health authorities have been passing up a highly palatable, first-rate source of high-grade protein, B-vitamins and urgently needed trace minerals by failing to acquaint the public with sunflower seeds. This is a serious oversight in a... (posted by Luzia Braun 4 years 145 days ago.)

What Happens In Your Body When You Fast Or You Are On An All-Protein Diet

Whenever a person either is fasting, or is placed on an all-protein diet, the fat and fatty acid (cholesterol) content of his blood immediately jumps way up-far higher, indeed, than when he is eating carbohydrates and fat foods. This marked increase of fat and cholesterol in the blood has but one meaning: When the body receives no carbohydrates, those 'goldbricking' fats are called... (posted by Luzia Braun 4 years 167 days ago.)

How To Play A Basketball Zone Offense

The zone defense has a definite place in defensive basketball. A good team is ready to face all types of zones. For an attack on any zone, certain principles must be followed. Offensive patterns that are used against a man-for-man defense will not be successful against a zone. In a zone the players have a certain area to guard and do not follow any particular opponent. In attacking a zone, emphasis is placed on... (posted by Luzia Braun 4 years 171 days ago.)

Are You Consuming Too Much Starch And Soda?

'One of the worst of the many bad food habits that Americans have acquired is their use of sweetened carbonated beverages.' This quotation is from Drs. R. M. Wilder and T. E. Keys in the Handbook of Nutrition (American Medical Association). The soda pop addict is a ready victim of edgy nerves, irritability and hazy thinking, to say nothing of digestive upsets caused by the fermenting sugar in the liquid... (posted by Luzia Braun 4 years 196 days ago.)