Rainbow Food
A rainbow of reasons
Over the last several years, major health institutions have recommended eating at least five portions of fruits and vegetables a day. Yet, few of us achieve this goal. But there is a rainbow of reasons to eat a variety of colors from the produce aisle. Fruits and vegetables are virtually fat free, low in salt and an excellent source of fiber. Some fruits and vegetables, such as carrots and cantaloupe, provide vitamin A, which maintains eye health and immunity. Other fruits and vegetables, such as bananas and spinach, contain potassium, which is necessary for proper nerve and muscle functioning. Green vegetables, such as broccoli and asparagus, provide B vitamins, which are necessary for converting food into energy. And all fruits and vegetables contain phytonutrients, the health-promoting components of plants. Scientific studies show that phytonutrients can help protect seven key organs-including the eyes, heart, liver and skin-and they can also act as antioxidants.
Antioxidant protection
Current research has measured the total antioxidant power of various foods, citing fruits and vegetables at the top of the list. Antioxidants protect our bodies from free radicals that can cause damage to cellular membranes. Antioxidants also boost our immunity, help make our muscles stronger, and support bone and skin health. So try to get in the habit of eating plenty of produce each day.
But honestly ... eating the recommended daily servings of antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables is not always realistic, so try supplementing your diet with appropriate products that will help to provide your body's vital organs with those key nutrients. Herbalife is a leader in the health and wellness industry, and your Herbalife Independent Distributor can help you discover the best products for your nutritional requirements.
Your Herbalife Independent Distributor,
Arvind Subramaniam
Website: http://herbal-
Importance of Diet
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'Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.'
Have you heard this before? Most of us have at one time. Do we heed the advice? Many of us don't. It's not an old wives tale; having a good breakfast plays a vital role in leading a healthy life. When you eat the right foods at breakfast, it sets you up for the day by kick-starting your metabolism, providing a steady stream of energy to keep you going in the morning, plus it can help to manage your appetite - great news if you're on a diet plan.
Breakfast and metabolism
Metabolism is the physical and chemical processes that create and use energy in the body. The break down of the food we eat and its transformation to energy is a function of metabolism. While you sleep the body's metabolism slows, as its food supply is deprived and its energy requirement is only for essential bodily functions. So you can imagine, if you don't eat breakfast, your metabolism stays as this slower rate and doesn't get that kick-start it needs for the day and to give you more energy.
Breakfast and energy levels
If you try to start the day without fueling your body with the right food, you'll likely end up crashing mid-morning and reaching for 'quick fix' snacks to keep your energy levels up. These unhealthy snacks are often high in sugar, high in fat, and lack adequate protein. They cause your blood sugar levels to spike and then dramatically drop, meaning your appetite won't be satisfied for longer than about an hour. Eating a healthy balanced breakfast, particularly one that provides a good source of protein and complex carbohydrates, will help you maintain a steady stream of energy.
Breakfast and weight loss
Skipping breakfast in order to lose weight? Think again. Missing the morning meal actually slows your weight loss efforts because it slows your metabolism, a driving force behind your weight loss. Instead, be sure to eat a healthy breakfast - one that's balanced in key macro-nutrients such as complex carbohydrates and protein. Including adequate protein for breakfast is especially important as it helps you feel fuller longer, so you're less likely to crave unhealthy snacks mid-morning.
Need some healthy breakfast ideas?
Avoid breakfast cereals that are high in sugar, fat, and salt. Instead, choose foods such as wholegrain muesli with nuts, fresh fruit and low fat yogurt; wholegrain toast topped with eggs and sliced tomato; or oats with skim milk, nuts, seeds and fruit. Combine these wholesome foods with healthy breakfast options from your Herbalife Independent Distributor to ensure that your day begins in a healthy fashion.
Your Herbalife Independent Distributor,
Arvind Subramaniam
Phone: +91 7708760587
Website: http://herbal-
The information contained in this email is general in nature and is not meant to substitute for the advice provided by your own doctor or other medical professional. No statement is an endorsement of any particular product, or a recommendation as to how to treat any particular disease or health related condition. Always contact your doctor or health professional for any medical problems.
The Secret to avoiding "empty calories" now and forever
Want one piece of advice? Don’t fill up on empty calories.
The term “empty calories” almost sounds like a conflict in terms…kind of like “cold sweat”. After all, something can’t be “empty” and “full”… or can it? It sure can – if you’re talking about “empty calories.”
Simply put, empty calories are calories in your foods that are – for the most part – empty of significant nutritional value. But these empty calories can rack up very quickly. Most fats and added sugars are considered “empty” because they don’t offer your body much – if anything – in the way of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients or fiber. What they do offer is a fast track to a bigger belly, hips and thighs. So don’t let the expression fool you – empty calories are anything but.
To make matters even more confusing, foods containing a lot of “empty calories” are sometimes dubbed “energy dense” – which sounds a lot better than it actually is…. as if an “energy dense” food might give you lots of “get-up-and-go”. But when you’re talking about “energy” in food, it’s simply a gentler way of saying “calories” – the calories in the foods you eat are converted into energy that fuels the body.
So, an energy dense food is one that contains a lot of calories (okay, “energy”) in a relatively small volume – like the 250 calories of “energy” you get from a tiny frosted doughnut, or the more than 300 calories you get from a handful of potato chips.
Common Sources of Empty Calories
Sometimes you know when you’re taking in empty calories – sugar is hardly hidden in a carbonated soda or a candy bar. But empty calories aren't always quite so obvious… like the 5 teaspoons of fat hiding in your blueberry muffin – and the 8 teaspoons of sugar lurking in the fancy coffee drink you use to wash it down.
Sugary drinks are a big contributor to empty calories in the diet – not just sodas and coffee drinks, but also heavily sweetened teas and fruit drinks like lemonade. Same goes for sugary candy, pancake syrup, honey and preserves. And fatty foods like chips, French fries and salad dressings are mostly empty calories, too. Desserts can deliver a lot of extra “energy” into your system – most cakes, cookies and pastries pack a one-two punch of sugar and fat.
Swap Empty Calorie Foods for Nutrient Dense Foods
Taking in extra calories that you don’t need is only one problem with empty calorie foods – there’s another equally important issue. When you fill up on fatty, sugary foods, they take up space in your stomach – squeezing out room for all those good-for-you foods that provide the healthy nutrients your body needs.
So here’s the solution in a nutshell: since empty calorie foods have lots of calories and very little nutrition, you want to shift your focus towards foods that are exactly the opposite. You want to eat more foods with an abundance of nutrients with a relatively low calorie cost. These “nutrient dense” foods – like vegetables, fruits and lean proteins – offer up plenty of nutrition and they’re filling, but they won’t break your calorie bank.
Nutrient dense foods are pretty easy to spot. Since fats are so calorie dense (there’s about 40 calories in a teensy pat of butter), swapping high fat items for low fat ones is an easy way to increase your nutrient density and cut out some empty calories. Simple swaps – like replacing whole milk with nonfat, or cooking with ground turkey breast instead of beef – are a great way to start.
Another clue to nutrient dense foods is their water content. Water adds volume – but no calories – to foods like fruits and vegetables, which makes them relatively low in calories and filling. And, they also happen to have an abundance of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and fiber. So, you might want to start your meal off with a leafy green salad or a vegetable soup – and begin to fill up on low calorie items. Snack on whole fruits and vegetables, and add vegetables to as many foods as you can when you cook – like soups, stews, casseroles and pasta sauces – to pump up the volume and the nutrition.
Why Nutrient Density is So Important
I certainly encourage everyone to use their calories wisely and to spend them on the most nutritious foods they can – but this is particularly important for those who have relatively low calorie needs. A woman who maintains her weight on 1400 calories a day will have to choose her foods carefully if she’s going to try to pack in all her nutrient needs without gaining. But even those with high calorie requirements shouldn't assume they've got plenty of calories to spare. Even if you’ve got calories to spare, it’s still wise to eat as many nutrient dense foods as you can.
That said, there’s nothing wrong with a calorie dense treat – once in a while. What really matters is the quality of your diet overall. As long as most of the foods you eat are nutrient dense, an occasional high-calorie indulgence shouldn’t be a big deal. So, tell me how do you balance empty calories and nutrition dense foods in your everyday diet?
Written by Susan Bowerman, MS, RD, CSSD. Susan is a paid consultant for Herbalife.
THE IMPORTANCE OF CELLULAR NUTRITION
What makes Herbalife different?
It’s the science behind the products. Technology and years of research enable us to deliver targeted nutritional supplements to your special needs. Our products have been designed and manufactured from only the highest quality raw ingredients and herbs.
What makes our product line work so well?
Our cellular Nutrition Program actually addresses the underlying problem we’re experiencing by giving the body what it needs on a daily basis, hence allowing the body to do what it does best: heal itself.
Mastering the concept behind absorption and delivery has made it possible to “Feel the Difference.” This breakthrough in nutritional science has opened new doors. For example, once your body is able to absorb key nutrients and actually deliver them to your cells, you can then feel the difference these vital nutrients make on your daily life.
This entire process begins in the small intestine. In your small intestine live microscopic finger-like protrusions called villi (villi is the plural of ‘villus). The villi are where our bodies absorb the nutrients from the foods and supplements we consume. However, these villi become energetically impaired due to plaque and damage. As a result, they lose surface area for absorption.
Factors that damage villi are stress, smoking, alcohol, airborne toxins (e.g. pollution), medications, preservatives, fats, additives and drugs to name just a few. Over the years as your villi break down your body absorbs less and less of the nutrients you need from the food you eat. This is one reason our bodies begin to break down prematurely and we feel worse and worse as time goes on.
Why are we feeling worse instead of better?
When our bodies cannot absorb the nutrients from our food and supplements, often times we find ourselves eating more and more food because our appetites and cravings increase in order to ‘call out’ for more and better nutrition (which we’re not getting). We crave fats and sugars because they are easiest for our body to absorb. We then become increasingly more tired and fatigued because our body is not getting the proper nutrition it needs daily.
Due to our villi being unhealthy and damaged, our body thinks it’s starving because it’s not getting the vital nutrients it needs to stay healthy. For people trying to lose weight, they know this better than anyone. When your body thinks it’s starving , it stores fat, instead of burning fat. If you are trying to lose weight, it becomes almost impossible because your body is in the mode of storing fat versus burning fat. No matter what you do, it doesn’t want to burn the fat off.
Even for those of you not trying to lose weight, the concept is the same. You might find yourself eating healthy, natural, low-fat foods, taking vitamins and exercising regularly, yet you’re still experiencing either no or slow weight loss (if that’s your goal), moodiness and fatigue because your body is not absorbing enough of the nutrition from the good foods you are consuming.
So, what’s the answer?
By starting with our program called Cellular Nutrition and adding our targeted products you have the best chance of fighting the problems nutritionally. By using our products daily your body will begin to repair and rebuild its villi back to the healthy state it was in when you were younger (this process begins within24 hours of starting the products). Your body is then able to absorb not only the vital nutrients our Cellular Nutrition and targeted health and weight loss products provide, but also the key nutrients from the foods you are eating. You will feel the difference within days of being on the products. You may experience things like less moodiness, more mental clarity, more natural energy and stamina. Once you start using our products you can be assured you are moving in the right direction toward better health and a happier you!
This is the power of nutrition on a cellular level. Give it a try today and you’ll understand why this product line is the most advanced approach to nutrition, vitality and weight loss on the market today.
Keeping Your Weight in Balance!!
Nutrition holds a key to good healthy and lifelong weight management.
Your body is composed of trillions of living cells that grow, die and are replaced many times over during your lifetime. These cells need proper nutrition to perform the vital functions of metabolism, growth, repair, detoxification and reproduction. Unfortunately, the average modern diet does not always provide you with a correct nutrient balance for ideal good health.
Cellular Nutrition Technology
Herbalife’s Thermojetics Weight-Management Program uses three advanced technologies to improve our nutrition: food science, micronutrient supplementation and herbal science. Scientifically based formulas are at the very heart of Herbalife’s Thermojetics Weight-management Program. They allow you to reduce your caloric intake while maintaining the vitamins, minerals and nutrients essential to good health. We provide these factors in and easily digestible form, so that your cells can function at their highest level of efficiency.
Cell Activators
So many people believe that the body efficiently and completely absorbs all the nutrients from food and supplements. However, nutrient absorption may be diminished and impaired by poor eating habits, persistent dieting, stress or other factors. A key difference with Herbalife’s products is the inclusion of natural enzymes and herbs that act as cell activators. These cell activators aid in digestion and further improve your health and vitality.
This entire process begins in the small intestine. In your small intestine live microscopic finger-like protrusions called villi (villi is the plural of ‘villus). The villi are where our bodies absorb the nutrients from the foods and supplements we consume. However, these villi become energetically impaired due to plaque and damage. As a result, they lose surface area for absorption.Thanks to Herbalife, and all the Doctors behind these amazing products!
