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Got The Urpy Burpy, Too Much Travel, Too Much BBQ Blues?

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Do you have the urpy burpy, too many barbecues or too much summer travel blues?

Your tummy ache solutions could include these medicinal herbs:

Acidopholus/ Bifidus: Travelers diarrhea is more common than one might think – This particular brand guarantees half a BILLION live beneficial bacteria directly to the small intestine. A balance of healthy bacteria has been shown to boost the body’s natural defense capabilities.

Peppermint/ Ginger: Perhaps you get an upset stomach from driving, flying or boating.  Plan ahead for motion sickness. Using a blend of herbs including peppermint and ginger this product will ease motion sickness and it’s accompanying queasiness and nausea.

Senna: Constipated?  The herb Senna, which has been used for thousands of years is a natural laxative.  Senna and several other herbs provide a gentle and effective colon flush – it does not cause “emergency” trips to the bathroom – just a gentle encouragement of the muscles of the colon to get things moving again. This product is a “signature” formula for this particular company.

Plant based digestive Enzymes: Gassy? Bloated? Enzymes assist the digestion of all the foods you eat – many enzyme products are animal based – but this brand is a multi action plant based product – better digestion means better absorption of your food.


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What’s Wrong With Sugar Anyway?

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Look at how much sugar consumption has grown?

I wonder if this has anything to do with our well being?

1900 – 10 lbs per capita

1985 – 124 lbs

2000 – 160 lbs

What happens to our immune systems at the holidays?

Like from Halloween through Christmas?

These are  candy – centric holidays!

Here’s how it works. Lots of sugar = lots of colds and flu. This is immune dysfunction.

Lendon Smith Author of Feed Your Kids Right distinquished sugar, white flour and all that snicky snacky stuff as “anti-nutrients”

Why?

Because sugar and white flour deplete nutrients to metabolize them, specifically they deplete nutrients needed for immune function. Sugar slows down the white blood cells swimming through the blood stream needed to devour germs, viruses, bacteria, parasites, cancer. Pretty dangerous stuff that sugar.

Sugar Feeds Candida Yeast. Candida are those nasty yeast organisms that grow rampant when given anti-biotics, steroids, or when the balance of the gut is disturbed even by a bout of diarrhea. These yeasty things attach themselves to the lining of the intestines and over time often poke holes in the lining leading to a syndrome known as leaky gut. Those with leaky gut develop all kinds of odd health challenges; everything from environmental sensitivities, food allergies, or headaches. Many conditions of illness and discomfort stem from an unhealthy gut.

Guess what candida’s favorite food is ?? Sugar and white flour.

Sugar depletes B Vitamins. B’s are essential for the brain,the nervous system, behavior and balanced hormones.

Sugar causes the body to become more acidic. Some say this promotes inflammatory illnesses. We are an inflammed society.  Sugar and it’s empty calories contributes to excessive weight gain, dental decay, diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporisis, arthritis

Sugar is just terrible for the digestive track. It literally depletes minerals. ( calcium, chromium, magnesium and zinc ). Sugar reduces the production of digestive enzymes, leads to allergies and immune system issues.

Sugar makes you old. Sugar sticks to proteins, changes their properties and interferes with their ability to function. It compounds heart disease, high blood pressure, cataracts, arthritis and artherosclerosis

above info sourced from nutritionist barb lagoni’s notes

and yet

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NEW Product :: Fiber Bar

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Funny – I just wrote about fiber for digestive health last week!

In that post I shared how a nutritionist recommended what we need daily with regards to fiber!!

13 cups of brown rice, a lb of carrots and 7 apples.  A DAY!!

The truth is most adults barely get 1/2 of that!

High fiber diets are essential to a healthy digestive system and colon.

Well folks,  this bar provides one third of the recommended daily value of fiber.

What does that mean exactly ?

One bar is like eating – a whole apple with skin, 1/2 cups of carrots. 1/2 cup of broccoli and 1/2 cup of oatmeal.

For this particular bar all those ingredients are organic!!

Absolutely no artificial flavors. sweeteners, colors or preservatives added.

It’s also gluten free – certified gluten free.

and they are sure to also comment that the packaging is recyclable.

Our NEW Fiber Bar

Oh and I have to say these sound absolutely delicious!

Getting Enough?

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Getting enough??

Fiber isn’t particularly fun to talk about. Yet when you don’t have enough fiber in the diet that’s not fun either.

A nutritionist once told me that in order to get enough daily fiber in our diet we needed to eat:

13 cups brown rice ( brown rice is 7 times more fibrous than white )
an entire lb of carrots – that’s a bag folks
and 7 apples

a day.

Try and imagine ALL of that food sitting on your plate waiting for you to eat it – each and every day.

The FDA suggest 25 Grams a day

Goodness my.

We just don’t do it.

Fiber is the transit for the ugly. The ugly binds ( no pun intended ) to the fiber we eat and gets it the heck out of our body where it doesn’t belong.

Best way to get the fiber we need in our body is to eat it. Whole grain breads, pastas, veggies and fruit.

The second best way is to supplement it. Tuck it in as we say. Be sure that it’s something you get “regular” about.

I have fiber tablets ( sourced from beets,soy, lemon and grapefruit), this includes both a soluble and insoluble fiber.

I also carry a very special fiber that cholesterol binds to making it an absolutely excellant addition to a natural cholesterol lowering program.

Are you getting enough fiber in your diet?


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Try Chewable Calcium Instead Of Tums

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I will never forget the first time I heard a client tell me they were sourcing their daily calcium from Tums.

Hello!?  Tums is an antacid for heartburn!!

I then found out that chewable calcium is actually a way to neutralize stomach acid.

I didn’t know that.

The problem with Tums is it markets itself as an antacid with a bit of a calcium supplement on the side.  It touts itself as an antacid and then says multi-vitamins don’t have enough calcium in them so use this antacid as an inexpensive way to get your calcium too.

Talk about ploy.

Here’s the deal:

If you have heartburn you have a digestive issue – not a calcium deficiency.

Multi-vitamins don’t have enough calcium in them simply because it’s too bulky of a mineral to tablet. If multi-vitamins put enough calcium into their products they would be horse pills compressed so tight they would not dissolve.

( Which just so you know that’s alot of what’s on the market out there now!)

Tums in addition to having only one source of calcium, is also loaded with sucrose ( first ingredient on the label), has talc in it – some sources of which are carcinagenic. Tums have artificial flavors, way too many food dyes, sorbitol and aspartame.

I have no idea how many folks actually take Tums as their source of calcium but we are a nation with a very high percentage of Osteoporosis.

I’d say the Tums isn’t helping.

In addition if I wanted to take calcium I’d prefer to take it without the sugars, chemicals, talc and food dyes — thank you very much.

It is said that it’s best to use a calcium supplement that utilizes a variety of sources of calcium. Best calcium sources are a combination of concentrated and absorbable calcium carbonate, calium citrate, and calcium citratemalate. If you are taking a calcium supplement that does not include Vitamin D, Magnesium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese or Boron then you have nothing toactually assist the calcium into the bones. These minerals are the matrix that pullscalcium where you need it most. Nature never works single handedly. Calcium alone is not enough.

Calcium with the junk found in Tums is simply preposterous.

I have an absolutely lovely high quality chewable calcium. By design it is simply that. Chewable Calcium. Naturally flavored with raspberries, includes all the matrix minerals to assist the variety of sources of elemental calcium into the bones AND it also works as a natural antacid.

Which would you prefer to take ?

I also have nutritional solutions to many digestive issues. I’d love to be of assistance.

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