Nutrition
What is the best supplement on the market?
While exercise must be performed
regularly, nutrition is the most important factor in your health and
weight maintenance. We live excessively busy schedules these
days. People rarely have time to be at home and eat healthy home cooked
meals and often don't pack a lunch. Many of my clients and patients
ask me about supplements. While I often defer to a nutritionist for
specific supplements for different medical conditions, there is one WHOLE FOOD supplement that I do believe
in. Juice Plus+®
is unique due to the fact that it is dehydrated fruits and vegetables
in a capsule form. How much more convenient can good nutrition get?
Not only is Juice Plus+® packed with nutrients, but it is not
man-made like most of our isolated nutrients on the market.
There has been many research articles written on the dangers of isolated
nutrients. Do we really think our bodies can process high doses of
Vitamin E or A properly without the thousands of micronutrients
found with those macronutrients in our fruits and vegetables?
Think about...do you get your recommended 9-13 different
fruits and vegetable on a daily basis? The answer is a no-brainer to
me. I love Juice Plus+® because
it is convenient, safe and extremely well researched. Many of my
clients have extremely positive changes in their health with taking Juice Plus+®. If you are interested in optimizing your
daily nutrition please check out the link at the bottom of the page to
read the research for yourself!
"Let Food Be Thine Medicine." -Hippocrates
Sugar "Shakers"
Excessive sugar intake has been linked to:
Heart DiseaseKidney failure
Liver disease
Diabetes
Hyperactivity
Cancer cells thrive on sugar! They consume up to 18 times more sugar than normal cells!
Sugar Substitutes:
Aspartame: Nutrasweet or Equal
Breaks down to formaldehyde in the body and can cause brain cell death in the hypothalamus.
Linked to: Many disorders including: Brain tumors, blindness, memory loss and chronic fatigue
Sucralose: Splenda
May
be derived from sugar but has a similar chemical compound to
pestacides. Rats and humans have similar taste preferances. in a
study in 2006, it was found that rats preferred water over all
sucralose concentrations. Rats will eat just about any of our garbage
and if they won't eat something neither will I!
Linked to: Migraines
Stick with products your DNA will recognize, such as:
Latest news on the Acai berry!
I hate to break it to you acai berry believers, but there are many berries that beat the touted anioxidant effects of the acai juice. A new study performed at the Center for Human Nutrition at UCLA has found that pomegranate juice wins this battle. Here are the sources for best anioxidant effects according to the latest research from most protection to least.
1) Pomegranate juice
2) Red wine
3) Blueberry juice
4) Black cherry juice
5) Acai juice
6) Cranberry juice
7) Orange juice
8) Iced tea
9) Apple juice
J Agric Food Chem Feb 2007
Juice Plus+® has a vineyard blend that covers many of the juices above for a maximum antioxidant effect! See supplement information below.
Workout Nutrition
Remember, is is important to replenish the body with the nutrients the body has lost during a work out. It is best to eat within 2 hours of your workout, even if it is as little as 100 calories. Otherwise, the body is forced to break down healthy tissue elsewhere to help the muscles rebuild.
