Optimal Holistic Health:
Want to feel younger and help prevent terrible diseases all while satisfying your sweet tooth?
Optimal Holistic Health: Smoothies Make it SO EASY!
Phytonutrients are nutrients in fruits and vegetables. It would be great if we could tweak them out and make supplements out of them, but they, in fact, need one another to be as powerful as they are. They work synergistically. Consider how much stronger a group is than easy individual member.
Whole food supplements come about as close as you can get, as far as supplements are concerned. I take these, although I also take it one step further in my goal of obtaining optimal holistic health. I did a little money-shifting by putting change I used to spend on a soda a day (not a good choice, by the way) toward whole food supplements (a much better choice).
Some kind of supplementing is important because even if you eat a perfectly healthy diet, the food just isn't as packed with nutrients the way it used to be. The produce is often ripenned in a building or box, and our soil is becoming depleted. The good news: there are affordable, powerful whole food supplements made by reputable companies. They are a part of my optimal holistic health lifestyle. You can make them a part of yours, also.
Optimal Holistic Health may require some supplementation. Click here to learn more about whole food supplements.
Optimal Holistic Health
Fruits and Vegetables Required!
How are you doing with the 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables? That is 5-9 servings a DAY, by the way, not WEEK. Very few of us reach this goal, and guess what? In 2005, the USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee recommended a minimum of 9 servings a DAY. An example of 9 servings: (4) 1/2 cup servings of fruit and (5) 1/2 cup servings of vegetables PLUS 3 or more servings of whole grains daily.
Does this sound impossible to you?
DON'T GIVE UP
The latest report from the USDA also recommends a whole food diet rather than dietary supplements.
The nutrients from the whole food recommendations are essential-that's right-ESSENTIAL to a long and healthy life. Many of us can't manage to come near the daily recommended servings, though.
Having a long life is one thing. Having a long AND healthy life is another story. Which do you want?
If eating 9 or more servings of fruits and vegetables sounds kind of impossible to you and you just can't imagine it happening for you, hold on. It is easier than you think.
Optimal Holistic Health and and Chocolate?
Dip fresh fruits in CHOCOLATE to live longer and look younger
That's right! You can read it again and it is still true. Dark chocolate has powerful anti-aging properties because it is rich in phenols whichis the antioxidant found in red wine. Phenols are known to lower the risk of heart disease and cancer and boost your body's ability to fight all kinds of age-related problems.
Yes, Optimal Holistic Health and and Chocolate!
Is this the best news you've heard all day?
Imagine if you had a way to heat up chocolate easily, with little cleanup. I suggest to use the Vita-Mix 5000 machine because it generates cooking heat and makes a flawless fondue fast. You can dip strawberries, bananas and pineapple into your anti-aging fondue for even more antioxidant power!
Optimal Holistic Health: A Few Hard-Hitting Facts
Okay, before we venture into some more good news, let's look at a few hard-hitting facts first.
Although hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent on learning to prevent and treat heart disease, cancer,
osteoporosis, diabetes, strokes, obesity, arthritis and autoimmune diseases, the incidents of these killers continue to rise. Why, you ask? Read on...
The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world and many of our citizens have no insurance at all to help them pay. They often go without treatment. The United States is ranked near the bottom when it comes to providing health care to its citizens.
Are you a consumer of fast foods, and processed foods? Do you lead a stressful lifestyle with little time for exercise?
Do I need to write it? You are on the fast track to big trouble!
Do I need to write it? There is so much hope!
Start TODAY to make some good choices and change your destiny.
Start building your immune system now.
Need a refresher on how antioxidants can help you live a healthier life? Click here or on the fruits
Optimal Holistic Health and the VitaMix
That's my husband in the photo, by the way. I'm very blessed that he also strives to live a naturally, holistic lifestyle. He even tried yoga with me, but that's another kind of funny story.
I recommend the Vita-Mix because we use it here and it has made a big difference in how we eat. I've gotten so good at using it, that I will make a fruit and fiber smoothie in the morning before work. We sometimes have morning meetings with donuts or other high fat choices and I am able to pass.
Key peice of information to remember:
The more you make healthy, holistic changes in your life, the more you will resist the harmful things. This might seem unbelievable to you, but it is true! Give it a try for just a few weeks, and you'll see!
Regular juicers are good for making juices, but you miss out on a lot of the fiber since it is discarded. I used a juicer before, and it was a mess to clean up. A juicer does help you to get a lot of the vitamins and liquid. A whole food juicer is a better way to make juice, smoothies, soups and sauces because the best part of the fruits and vegetables are not discarded. You get to benefit from them!
Using the Vita-Mix machine is not the only way to eat whole foods daily, but it is the best way I have found. I made promises to myself to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables and eat them regularly, but it was rather self-defeating, because like many of you, I am very busy. Food went bad before I could get to it, and I wasn't able to eat that much fruit and vegetables during the day. I had to find a way to get closer to my goal of optimal holistic health.
I promised to show you fast and easy ways to build an optimal holistic lifestyle for yourself, and I aim to keep my promise.
This is a typical smoothie for me. You can find other recipes, but this is my favorite. I mix it up a bit with different fruits, but I want to be sure and include those high in Vitamin C, and those packed with antioxidants.
Have you been looking for a fountain of youth? Take a look at the optimal holistic health benefits of that smoothie!
Carrots actually help prevent cancer.
The soy milk can help prevent breast cancer and helps to regulate hormones. I have a lot fewer and less severe hot flashes on the days I drink soy milk.
The Orange fights infection and helps your heart.
The Apple clobbers cholesterol.
How about adding tomatoes to your soup? Tomatoes have wonderful benefits! They contain lycopene, the most powerful phytonutrient there is. Lycopene in tomatoes-boosted by their Vitamin C content-offers great protection against cancer, heals your heart and bombards the bacteria that can weaken your immune system.
Tomatoes eaten whole or in your salad are a great choice! I have memories of sitting in my garden in central Illinois and just eating those oh so sweet fruits off the vine! Even as a young girl, I knew there were benefits to being a gardener!
Okay- back to tomatoes. Did you know that a good bit of the lycopene is locked inside the pulp, skin and seeds of the tomatoes? The cell walls need to be ruptured for the phytonutrients to be released.
Much of this is lost when we chew, because we don't always chew so well. Making soups and sauces with the VitaMix or other blender/processor helps to release the disease-fighting power.
Start now and your "Golden Years" can be GREAT! Start your kids out with the best possible building blocks you can-healthy, whole foods.
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