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Santa Cruz Unsweetened Apple Sauce offers a Healthy Afternoon Pick Me Up

A cup a day keeps the sleepies away!

Santa Cruz Organic Org Strawberry Applesauce ( 12×23 OZ) ( Value Bulk Multi-pack)

The 3pm workday slump is never easy to bounce back from.  Most people reach for sugar or caffeine, which due more harm than good and ultimately cause more tiredness. Insiders at Eat Smart Age Smart tried eating a small cup of unsweetened applesauce for a week and found that it worked! Apples have a low glycemic level so this snack won’t cause blood sugar to rise quickly. There are tons of different types of applesauce ranging in flavors and consistency. Some of our favorites are: Santa Cruz Organic Applesauce, Motts and Vermont Village. Put down that candy bar and reach for the sauce!

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September is PCOS awareness month (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) Treat with Birth Control

The PCOS Workbook: Your Guide to Complete Physical and Emotional Health (See all Motivational Books)

>>>Taking Birth control will balance your hormones and protect against PCOS (P olycystic Ovary Syndrome)

This hormonal disorder affects over 5 million women of childbearing age. The onset can happen as young as 15 years old.  Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is manageable when treated so be sensitive to the symptoms which include but are not limited to acne, irregular periods, weight gain, excessive body hair and in some cases infertility. PCOS is usually treated with birth control pills to help balance the woman’s hormones. The cause is unknown but September is PCOS awareness month, so share this with your sisters, mothers and friends!

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Red Peppers Help Fight Off Heart Disease and Cancer (Carotine)

Red Bell Pepper

Red Peppers Help Fight Off Heart Disease and Cancer (Carotine)… A Pepper a Day Keeps the Doctor Away – Red Peppers Have 9 times More Carotine (Vitamin A) Than Green Peppers…

Add peppers to your recipes and boost your immune system! Green, yellow and red bell peppers are in abundance during the summertime and add a delicious spice to any meal. While all peppers have essential vitamins and antioxidants, red peppers are by far the best. All peppers contain Carotine (helps fight off heart disease and cancer) but red peppers have 9 times more than the green variety and one red bell pepper has 3 times the amount of vitamin C of a regular orange! A recent segment on The Today show said “Red peppers are one of the best vegetables to eat”. Try cutting them up for a snack, stuffing them with whole grain rice or chopping them into your breakfast omelet.

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Blue Bonnet’s Liquid Super Earth Multi Nutrient Formula Prevents Bone Density Loss

Liquid Super Earth Multinutrient Formula Tropical Fruit – 32 oz – Liquid (See all Multivitamin Supplements)

Prevent Bone Density Loss with Vitamin D

Over 40 Concern – Women over 40 need to start thinking about and preventing bone density loss. A daily dose of Vitamin D is what they need! Insiders at Eat Smart Age Smart have discovered Blue Bonnet’s Liquid Super Earth Multinutrient Formula Tropical Fruit – 32 oz – Liquid (See all Multivitamin Supplements)
A delicious liquid that offers Vitamin D, pomegranate and 25 Vitamins and antioxidants! So much easier than taking 25 vitamins a day!

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How to Keep Your Body in Balance?

Keep Your Body in Balance…

Our bodies stay in balance when we eat the right foods and get enough sleep. We have trillions of microorganisms living in our bodies at any given time, that when in balance are not problematic. When our “normal” intestinal flora are healthy and inline, we are too. But when it gets out of balance, we become more prone to health problems such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome and other digestive problems, allergies, urinary tract and the dreaded yeast infections!

>>>Get Your Body in Balance Today

When your digestive track, urinary track or vaginal track starts to feel out of balance fear no more.

You don’t have to eat yogurt all day long to get your daily dose of probiotics, you can just pop a vitamin! We all know that yeast can be very annoying to deal with and once it arrives it doesn’t like to leave. Nothing was helping me until I read about Fem Dopholus daily supplement. Probiotics are such an important part of the daily diet regimen and often over looked.

Fem Dopholus are tiny little vitamins, not horse pills.  They’re easy to swallow and don’t have a bad taste or odor. Take two every morning with breakfast to ensure your health an intestinal flora is being protected. Now I only have to eat yogurt when I feel like it!

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Quick Tips:

• Help to maintain or restore healthy vaginal flora that are important in maintain vaginal health
• Support the health of the urinary tract
• Contains two patented and clinically documented probiotic strains, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GR-1 and Lactobacillus reuteri RC-14

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What should I eat to stop me from getting eye diseases?

What should I eat to stop me from getting eye diseases?
We are continually reminded that eating a varied and balanced diet is the key to good general health and wellness but is it also important for the health of eyes? Few people would argue about the importance of having good vision but is there anything we can do to help ensure our eyes remain healthy throughout our life? There are a few general pieces of advice that should try to stick to and they are as follows:

• Be wary of the following visual symptoms: If you ever experience either flashing lights in your vision, a sudden increase of floaters in your vision, a reduction in vision or any blind spots in your vision then you should seek medical advice immediately. All these symptoms could indicate the beginning of an eye disease which could lead to irreversible loss of vision if not treated.
• Make sure you get your eyes tested regularly: Regardless of whether or not you think there is anything wrong with your vision or eye health, you should get your eyes checked at least every 2 years. This will ensure that any potential problems with your eyes can be picked up and dealt with easily.

In term of diet and the eyes there are certainly some nutrients which are believed to be beneficial to the health of the eyes. Cataracts and Glaucoma are both eye diseases and it is thought that their progression can be slowed down by having a diet rich in certain anti oxidants. Cataracts cause a slow loss of vision due to the clouding of the naturally transparent lens within our eye. Macular degeneration affects the very central part of our retina (the macula) and can lead to untreatable loss of central vision. Cataracts are however treatable with a surgical procedure which is generally considered to be both safe and effective.

Which nutrients can help Cataracts and macular degeneration?
Both cataracts and macular degeneration are thought to occur as a result of free radical damage within the eye. Free radicals are produced as a result of natural processes within the eye and they can be reduced by increasing the amount of antioxidants within our diet. Lutein and Zeaxanthin are anti oxidant pigments that are found in both the lens and also the macular of our eyes. Fortunately both these nutrients are also found in a variety of vegetables so they can easily be incorporated into our diet. The following lists the best source of these nutrients in foods:

• Generally any green leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale and lettuce.
• Courgettes (zucchini) also have high amounts of Lutein and Zeaxanthin.
• Peas.
• Green beans.
• Broccoli.

In summary if it is green and is a vegetable it is almost certain to contain the nutrients you need for healthy eyes! Having said this, these nutrients are not considered a miracle cure nor are there are guarantees that they will prevent you from getting eye diseases. They do however give your eyes every chance to be as healthy as they can be, especially if you combine this with a healthy life style where you do not smoke or drink excessively.

BIO: Tim Harwood is an Optometrist from the UK who also writes for the website Treatmentsaver which specialises in cosmetic surgery and laser eye surgery.

Vega Shake & Go Smoothie!

Vega Shake & Go Smoothie products are delicious!

I just discovered a new reason to love Vega products so much!

Have you tried Vega’s Shake & Go Smoothie products yet?

If not, I’d really encourage you to try them because you breakfast will never be the same.

These practical smoothies are literally shake and go! You only need water. I actually will admit to have added juice to my “bodacious berry” and “tropical mango” flavours and I will admit to have added some rice milk to their “choc-a-lot” flavour.

Theses Shake & Go Smoothie products are practical because you get a lot of nutrition in just one glass – each serving contains:

* 2500 mg of Omega 3-6-9

* 11 g of complete protein

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