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Goji Juice History

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:45:10 EST
Goji is mainly an eastern name, which has come in many eastern languages. This Goji plant is found mainly in the Himalayan areas where, the conditions are the most suitable for the existence of Goji p...

MLG123.com Wants People to Be Healthy without Chemically Enhanced ... - PR Web (press release)

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:13:27 GMT

MLG123.com Wants People to Be Healthy without Chemically Enhanced ... PR Web (press release), WA - Dec 11, 2008 MLG123.com is a website that offers up resources for people to find products derived from Goji berries, a plant from the Himalayas that has been linked to ...

Five foodie stocking stuffers for less than $25 - StarNewsOnline.com

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:12:02 GMT

Five foodie stocking stuffers for less than $25 StarNewsOnline.com, NC - Dec 10, 2008 Other bars contain mushrooms, plantains, kalamata olives or Tibetan goji berries and pink Himalayan salt. Priced between $6 and $8.50 each, you can splurge ...

himalayan goji berryHealthy Eating: Break Free From Your Food Cravings And Win Your Healthy Eating Quest...

Are you aware of your cravings? When facing a healthy eating plan the real foe is the craving! If you have lost the same 30 lbs with every new product hailed to dissolve belly fat or whatever, confront your cravings. The diet industry is betting that you don�t. This time win your healthy eating quest.

Be brutally honest when opening your awareness. Research shows most people would deny any cravings until pushed into noticing their actions.

Honestly answer these questions. What do you eat when you are nervous, feeling restless, bored, need excitement or want to feel good? What must you have everyday at break time, first thing after work, when your friends visit, and last thing at night? Hint! Make a list! Notice if you want mostly sugary drinks, commercial bake goods derived from sugar and white flour, white bread with 1gram or less of fiber, milk chocolate, potatoes, commercial chips and hard candy.

Have a powerful reason!
I want to get into a size 8 bridesmaid dress in 30 days! This is a quest for temporary weight loss. I want to loose weight to be happier, healthier and more fulfilled! This can bring lasting results and leads to permanent healthy eating changes.

Sages and gurus call this transformation. This is a change in your level of consciousness and your perception of food that leave you looking, acting, and feeling like a winner. I call this the butterfly effect � from caterpillar to butterfly.

What food kept you in bliss as a child? I recall hot cocoa with loads of condensed milk. The moment of power is when you identify, list and claim your bliss cravings. Cravings are supported by the limbic part of your brain. This emotional power station is in charge of feelings that unconsciously keep you happy and contented. It does not like to be challenged. This requires massive action. Anything less usually results in failure.

Consciously overhaul every part of your eating. Every thing counts! Chart your progress daily. At the end of each day record 5 successes you had with managing your craving.

For instance, you can state:
1. I am so happy that I replaced the sweet sugary morning cereal I�ve been eating since childhood with a fibrous grain.
2. I drank a flavorful herbal tea without sugar.
3. I mixed my orange juice with half water to reduce the sugar.
4. I had a sandwich with seven grain bread.
5. I bought and drank bottled water at break. You might be at the edge of your comfort zone. But this action will reprogram your limbic system.

So record your progress. This keeps you consciously competent. Moves your motivation way up and guarantees wellness success. People achieve success with healthy eating everyday and so can you!

Consider this! Pure creativity boosts change. New appreciation for the colors, size and shapes of food can be exciting. Green protein powder in smoothies completely turned one of my clients around. With her sugar craving gone she chose the Warm Duck Salad over the Sesame Chicken. She garnered all the benefits and kept her comfort in tact. She is now the architect and artist of her own body- mind and soaring spirit. If Oprah Winfrey did this she would lose her grip on the diet Yo�Yo.

Use seasonal fresh food in the vegetable section of a grocery store to excite your curiosity and your palate. Seek out food that you never had as a child. Once you conquer your craving, only then can you restructure your diet with success guaranteed. Then use your passion about food to help you experience daily joy and contentment.

Celia Westberry is an author, speaker and wellness lifestyle coach. She helps clients to reprogram their minds and bodies to have a personal relationship with food to be happier, healthier and more contented. Her book Eat Yourself Younger Effortlessly � the easy way to slow aging, feel, great and look good has glycemic ready recipes to help you Start Over with healthy eating. Visit her at westberrywellnessprograms.com

The Food Guide Pyramid

The Food Guide Pyramid is one manner for Americans to read how to eat healthy. A rainbow of colored, vertical stripes stands for the five food groups plus fats and oils. Here is what the colors stand for:

orange = grains
green = vegetables
red = fruits
yellow = fats and oils
blue = milk and dairy products
purple = meat, beans, fish, and nuts

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) modified the pyramid in spring 2005 because they wanted to do a more enhanced job of narrating to Americans how to be healthy. The agency later released a special variation for children. On this website you will observe a girl ascending the staircase up the side of the pyramid. That is an example of showing kids how important it is to exercise and be active every day. From another perspective, play a lot! The stairs are also a way of showing that you can make changes in stages to be more healthy. One step at a time, understand?

The Pyramid Speaks to us in several ways. Let us all confront a few of the additional topics this new symbol is trying to pass on:

A person should eat a wide variety of foods. A balanced diet is one that makes use of all the food groups. From another perspective, have foods from every color, every day.

We should eat less of some foods, and extra of others. You can see that the bands for meat and protein are purple and oils are yellow and less pronounced than the other ones. The reason is because you need less of those varieties of foods than your need of fruits, vegetables, grains, and dairy foods.

Your family also can see the bands start out fatter and get skinnier as they approach the top side. That is designed to show you that not all foods are made as good as others, even within a fit food group like fruit. Sometimes, apple pie might be in that thin section of the fruit band because it has a lot of added sugar and fat. A whole apple would be turn up in the broad part for you can eat more of those in a fit eating regimen.

We should all make nutrition personal. Through the USDA's MyPyramid website, families can get personal recommendations about the mix of nutrients they need to have and how much he or she must be eating. There is a children�s� variation of the website available as well. To understand better ways of applying the food pyramid get access to Super Food Seminars and interviews with Famous Raw Food Authors

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What Is Cacao And Why Is Natural Chocolate Healthy?

Understanding Super Foods: Cacao and Real Chocolate

For some reason I can't get the vision of John Matuszak out of my head. John Matuszak -- you know -- Sloth, from The Goonies! Choc-o-late...Ruth...Ba-by...Ruth. Yes, none of that cinematic magic would have been possible without cacao. Could you imagine? Cacao is responsible for that delicious, sometimes decadent food group we commonly know as chocolate, but it's oh, so much more. In fact, in its purest form, it has health benefits that might even cause you to furrow or lift your brow. But first -- what exactly is cacao?

What Is Cacao?

Cacao is an evergreen tree that generally grows from 10 - 30 feet in height and is native to the tropical regions of the American continents. It is found naturally in the Amazon River Basin as well as the Orinoco River Basin, and can also be found bearing its "fruit" at the base of the Andes Mountain range in foothill elevations of 600 - 1300 ft. above sea level. It is widely accepted by many cacao experts, that the tree was native to Mexico, and brought wild to be cultivated in South America.

It is now farmed in many tropical nations, and the largest commercial producer is actually the western African nation of the Republic of C�te d'Ivoire. Ghana, Indonesia and the Philippines also cultivate a prominent amount of cacao, and the Americas round out the majority of the commercial farming.

The fruit of the cacao, known as the cacao pod, ripens to a hearty yellow or orange, and weighs about a pound. Within it, you'll find a load of seeds, which are generally referred to as cacao beans. Each seed is made up of about 40 percent fat, which is often extracted and known as cocoa butter.

The Cacao Nib Craze

Is it true that Cacao Nibs, the peeled, crushed cacao seeds/beans, are full of antioxidants? Antioxidants that rival super foods like blueberries, and many antioxidant rich teas? Yes, it's all true. As a matter of fact, the cacao nib is also rich in good fat and minerals such as calcium, zinc, iron and potassium. All that good energy stuff you'd get from drinking a Gatorade without the multiple grams of refined sugar. You'll also find a natural byproduct that is very much like caffeine. It even seems that the natural MAO inhibitors found in these tasty morsels can suppress an overactive appetite.

The Taste of Cacao

What do cacao nibs taste like? Chocolately and nutty. You can pick at it like granola, eat it by the spoonful like granola, grind it into your coffee... not like granola... sprinkle it on ice-cream, put it in a smoothie or a personal favorite -- dip a banana into them.

If you're intrigued, make sure you snag an organic variety of the cacao nibs. Criollo cacao is the rarest of the organically produced cacao, and what you'd probably enjoy the most in your first sampling. You can generally find the goods for $10-15 a pound, depending on where you shop. Cacao: Along with Goji Berries, just another example of nature's candies.

Matty Byloos writes and manages the Green Blog known as: Green Eggs and Planet

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