One Natural Method to Ward Off Three Health Disasters

By Shane Ellison, M.Sc.

Nuts and seeds like cashews, pistachios, and walnuts often get a bad rap for their high fat and calorie content. Yet, as you know from reading Early to Rise, they are among the best foods for igniting metabolism and controlling hunger. Even better than that, nuts and seeds can help protect against three major diseases.

Unlike sugary snacks, nuts and seeds do not spike blood sugar or the fat-storing hormone insulin. Why is this important? As insulin surges into the blood, it removes two anti-aging substances - growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor. Worse, excess blood levels of insulin lead to obesity, heart disease, and Type II diabetes. So choosing snacks - like nuts and seeds - that keep your insulin in check can actually help ward off these three health disasters

It's Fun to Know: An Unexpected Cannibal

Butterflies - sweet, gentle butterflies - are cannibals. Newly hatched butterfly larvae often eat their siblings.

(Source: That's a Fact Jack!)

Word to the Wise: Provender

"Provender" (PROV-un-dur) is another way of saying "food." The word is derived from the Latin for "a daily allowance of provisions."

Example (as used by Simon Schama in The Guardian): "Frances Trollope, Captain Marryat, Colonel Basil Hall, and Charles Dickens in 1842 all commented on the way Americans wolfed down their provender as fast as possible, cramming the cornbread in their sloppy maws and, worse, doing so in grim silence, punctuated only by the noise of slurps, grunts; scraping knives, and hacking coughs."

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