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Healthy Travels!
Are you traveling by air over the holidays? Even the best travel plans can include unwanted side effects such as jet lag. You can help prevent and lessen the effects with these simple steps:
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- Drink plenty of water…. keep yourself well hydrated throughout the flight.
- Avoid caffeine and alcohol…. and limit your sugary drink intake – these beverages can send your blood sugar on a rollercoaster ride.
- Food is harder to digest at high altitudes…. so eat lightly during the flight and avoid the high-salt, high-fat entrees the airlines and airports tend to serve.
- Get up and stretch…. now and then to stimulate your circulation and dress comfortably.
- When you arrive…. expose yourself to as much natural daylight as you can. Light is the most powerful influence on the timing of your body’s internal clock.
- Consider melatonin…. you can take 2.5 mg of melatonin sublingually at bedtime for one or two nights to significantly reduce jet lag, regardless of the direction of travel.
Written by Dr. Andrew Weil
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Enjoy your flight and Happy Holidays!
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Your Best Health is Your Greatest Wealth ~ Debi
Toss and Turn No More….
Two reasons why you might toss and turn at night
- Light
- Temperature
Don’t be afraid of the dark!
Having too much light in your bedroom at night can interfere with your body’s production of melatonin, which we all know we need enough of to get a good night’s rest.
Here are a few suggestions to keep it dark enough in your bedroom to sleep tight.
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- If you must have your cell phone in your bedroom, keep it as far away from your bed as possible and turn it face down
- Turn your TV off
- Turn your computer off
- NO night light…anywhere
- Use room darkening shades
- If you get up to tinkle, turn the light off as soon as you’re done.
Keep it Cool!
Besides keeping your bedroom pitch black, to help you fall asleep and stay asleep, you should keep your room cool. Many people keep their bedrooms way too warm.
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- Studies show that the optimal bedroom temperature should be between 62 to 68 degrees.
- Keeping your room cooler than 60 degrees F. or hotter than 70 degrees F. can lead to restless sleep.
- When you sleep, your body’s temperature drops to its lowest level. Therefore a cooler bedroom is most conducive to sleep, since it mimics your body’s natural temperature.
Sleep Tight!
Lunchables or Chemicals?
Lunchables – What a cute name…but that’s the only thing cute about it.
I find it hard to believe that anybody thinks its healthy to send their little ones off to school with this abomination called food. IT”S NOT FOOD! It’s a combination of what was once food and a long list of chemicals. Let me repeat… IT”S NOT FOOD!
There is absolutely NO nutritional value to this non food, but lots of bad fat, sugar, sodium, HFCS, MSG, sodium, colored carcinagens(food color), sodium, and many more chemicals. Oh, did I mention sodium?
Which one is your child’s favorite meal of chemicals?
OSCAR MAYER LUNCHABLES – NACHOS – CHEESE DIP + SALSA & 6 FL OZ FRUIT PUNCH
890 mg Sodium
INGREDIENTS: FRUIT PUNCH FLAVORED JUICE DRINK BLEND – WATER, SUGAR, APPLE AND GRAPE JUICE CONCENTRATES, CITRIC ACID, WATER EXTRACTED ORANGE AND PINEAPPLE JUICE CONCENTRATES, NATURAL FLAVOR, VITAMIN E ACETATE. TORTILLA CHIPS – GROUND YELLOW CORN, VEGETABLE OIL (CONTAINS ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING: CORN, SUNFLOWER OR SOYBEAN OIL), CORN BRAN AND SALT. NACHO CHEESE DIP – WHEY (FROM MILK), CHEDDAR CHEESE (MILK, CHEESE CULTURE, SALT, ENZYMES), SOYBEAN OIL, DRIED CORN SYRUP, ENZYME MODIFIED CHEESE (MILK, WATER, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, MILKFAT, SALT, CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES), SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF JALAPENO PEPPERS, SALT, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, LACTIC ACID, SODIUM ALGINATE, VINEGAR, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, NATURAL FLAVOR, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR). CONTAINS: MILK. SALSA – WATER, TOMATO PASTE, GREEN CHILI PEPPERS, VINEGAR, DEHYDRATED ONIONS, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, SALT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, JALAPENO PEPPERS, GREEN BELL PEPPERS, GARLIC POWDER, SODIUM BENZOATE AND POTASSIUM SORBATE AS PRESERVATIVES, CITRIC ACID, SPICES. ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED BLUE RASPBERRY CANDY – SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE, FOOD STARCH MODIFIED (CORN), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, CITRIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1. CANDY MANUFACTURED IN A FACILITY THAT PROCESSES WHEAT FLOUR.
Size: 4.7 OZ
Upc: 4470000679
OSCAR MAYER LUNCHABLES – CRACKER STACKERS – TURKEY + CHEDDAR CHEESE W/CRACKERS
1060mg Sodium
INGREDIENTS: ROAST WHITE TURKEY – CURED – SMOKE FLAVOR ADDED - WHITE TURKEY, WATER, POTASSIUM LACTATE, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, DEXTROSE, CARRAGEENAN, SODIUM PHOSPHATES, SODIUM DIACETATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, SMOKE FLAVOR, SODIUM NITRITE, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR. PASTEURIZED PREPARED CHEDDAR CHEESE PRODUCT – MILK, WHEY, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MILKFAT, SODIUM CITRATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SALT, LACTIC ACID, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (COLOR), ANNATTO (COLOR), CHEESE CULTURE, ENZYMES, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WITH STARCH ADDED FOR SLICE SEPARATION. CONTAINS: MILK. CRACKERS – UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT FLOUR, SOYBEAN OIL, SUGAR, PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED COTTONSEED OIL, SALT, LEAVENING (BAKING SODA AND/OR CALCIUM PHOSPHATE), WHEY (FROM MILK), SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR. CONTAINS: WHEAT, MILK, SOY.
Size: 4.5 OZ
Upc: 4470002455
OSCAR MAYER LUNCHABLES – FUN PACK – EXTRA CHEESY & 6 FL OZ 100% FRUIT JUICE
650mg Sodium
INGREDIENTS: FRUIT PUNCH FLAVORED JUICE BLEND FROM CONCENTRATE WITH ADDED INGREDIENT & OTHER NATURAL FLAVOR – APPLE, GRAPE, AND CHERRY JUICES FROM CONCENTRATE (WATER; APPLE, CHERRY, AND GRAPE JUICE CONCENTRATES); CITRIC ACID (FOR TARTNESS); NATURAL FLAVOR. PIZZA CRUSTS – WHEAT FLOUR (ENRICHED BLEACHED WHEAT FLOUR [FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR), WATER, SOYBEAN OIL, GLYCERINE, SUGAR, CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: YEAST, VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES, SALT, SOY LECITHIN, GUAR GUM, CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE, DATEM, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, SODIUM STEAROYL LACTYLATE, XANTHAN GUM, ENZYME, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SORBIC ACID. CONTAINS: WHEAT, SOY. PIZZA SAUCE – WATER, TOMATO PASTE, SUGAR, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, GARLIC POWDER, ONION POWDER, SPICE, CITRIC ACID, POTASSIUM SORBATE AS A PRESERVATIVE, XANTHAN GUM, NATURAL FLAVOR. PASTEURIZED PREPARED MOZZARELLA CHEESE PRODUCT – PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, WATER, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MILKFAT, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE. CONTAINS: MILK. PASTEURIZED PREPARED CHEESE PRODUCT – PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, WATER, WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, MILKFAT, SODIUM CITRATE, SALT, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, APOCAROTENAL (COLOR), ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE. CONTAINS: MILK. ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED BLUE RASPBERRY CANDY – SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, MALTODEXTRIN, DEXTROSE, FOOD STARCH MODIFIED (CORN), PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, CITRIC ACID, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, BLUE 1. BLUE RASPBERRY CANDY MANUFACTURED IN A FACILITY THAT PROCESSES WHEAT FLOUR.
Size: 4.8 OZ
Upc: 4470036114
Please reconsider!!
Your Kids Health is Your Greatest Wealth ~ Debi
White Out Your Baby
My kid will eat anything. At the tender of age of 12, she’s gaga for garlic, crazy ’bout curries, unchallenged by ripe cheeses, and even psyched for sushi. Why? Because Mom and I have perennially refused to dumb down her dinner plate. From day one, she’s largely eaten what we’ve eaten and the result is a child with a startlingly healthy diet who generally prefers the good stuff over the sugar, fat, and empty calories that fill too many grocery carts.
Without knowing it, we were following Dr. Alan Greene’s theory of food imprinting, which says that the foods babies are exposed to in the womb and fed during early childhood actually program kids to prefer them over other choices. Feed your child sugar and worthless carbs and that what’s they’ll grow up to instinctually seek. Feed them broccoli and Brussels sprouts and they’ll become an adult who heads for the salad bar instead.
That’s the theory at the heart of Dr. Greene’s new White Out campaign. At issue is the white rice cereal that many children get as their first solid food. Dr. Greene posits that, it’s a bad choice, and is calling for change. He’s asking every mom and dad to make a simple switch to whole-grain brown rice cereal instead. The goal is to end white rice cereal’s reign of error by next Thanksgiving, and we can help by joining the the cause and spreading the word.
Making the switch is an easy thing to try. Help set future generations on a delicious path to better health.
No more white!
Your Kids Best Health is Your Greatest Wealth ~ Debi
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Start your own Organic Winter Herb Garden today. Click on this link to get helpful tips for maintaining a winter garden…..10 herbs to grow indoors. Enjoy!
