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where to buy goji berriesHealth Wealth

Nowadays most of us lead very busy lives. We tend to rush from place to place, switch quickly from activity to activity and spend little time on ourselves. Our activity also has a cost. We know that no matter how much money we have, we can't buy good health. We may be able to pay for all kinds of treatments that will make us feel good for a short while but what is real health and well-being all about?

The director of my nutrition course used to compare the state of your well-being to the state of your bank account. If your account is in credit, you're in good health. How quickly your "credit" is used up depends on factors such as your environment, lifestyle and your diet.

Your environment covers everything around out but also everything you are involved in personally and professionally. Your interaction with your environment is important to determine your level of "health wealth." For example, if you eat the right type of food for you but are feeling angry or tense or you eat too much, this would be an interaction that causes you to use some of your health wealth. Do this on a regular basis and you'll feel yourself moving into the debit zone.

I am witnessing increasing evidence of "health debit" as we draw on our "well-being" bank account but don't replace it. So I'm going to share 10 nutritional and well-being tips to help you stock up on your health wealth for the coming months.

1. Cut back on your intake of refined sugar and limit your alcohol and coffee intake.

2. Increase your intake of organic local fruits and vegetables to 7 servings daily.

3. Look after the health of your digestive tract by giving it a regular rest.

4. Drink plenty of water, filtered if possible.

5. Get your essential omega-3 and omega 6 fatty acids every day from organic nuts and seeds or oily fish (if you're not vegetarian!) to help build strong immunity against illnesses and disease.

6. Resolve personal issues as they arise and release your stress on a daily basis. Just a few minutes can make all the difference.

7. Remember that it's your choice how long you decide to stay feeling as you do. If you're not feeling great, acknowledge the feeling and do something to change it - to stop using up more health credit.

8. Have a positive outlook and practical approach. Your health wealth starts with your attitude to life.

9. Strive to attain peace within by stilling your mind. Breathing exercises and meditation can help. This peace is a source of happiness that will always be yours.

10. Get a good night's rest, ideally by 11pm so the body can have time to rest and recuperate.

Copyright � 2008 Janet Gomez. All rights reserved.

Janet Gomez, nutritional consultant, produces the "Nutri-Jyoti News", a free bi-monthly e-newsletter for busy professionals. If you feel ready to learn how to use nutritional strategies to manage your energy levels, sign up for her FREE e-course " 5 Nutritional Keys to Vitality in your Life " at http://www.nutrijyoti.com

The Future of Skin Care

Women have incessantly experimented with the latest magical potion under the sun in hopes of finding the fountain of youth. The new trend in creating a glowing complexion is nourishing your skin from within. Beautiful skin starts from the inside out. Drinking plenty of water, a healthy diet of eating raw fruits and vegetables, and taking nutritional supplements is the new beauty regimen in achieving healthy and radiant skin.

Keep skin hydrated and moisturized by drinking plenty of purified water. Drinking water helps the body rid itself of toxins. Your body will not produce or repair collagen when your body is dehydrated. We have all heard �Drink eight glasses of water a day�. The latest recommendation is to drink approximately half your body weight in ounces of water a day.

Incorporating raw food into your diet will improve your overall health as well as the appearance of your skin. Raw food is food in its natural state with the enzymes left intact. Heating food above 105 degrees Fahrenheit destroys the enzymes as well as vitamins and minerals. A drained enzyme supply can result in vitamin and mineral deficiencies and premature aging. People eating mostly raw food have seen an improvement in their skin and look younger.

Drinking juices jam packed with nutrients and antioxidants is the latest craze in attaining smoother skin. Antioxidants counteract free radicals that age the skin. These juices are sold as dietary supplements with a recommended dosage of one to four ounces a day. Goji Juice made from goji berries is one of the most popular. Goji berries are a nutritionally dense food containing vitamins, minerals, amino acids, polysaccharides, and potent antioxidants said to be anti-aging. Goji berries are a rich source of beta carotene which is known to help protect skin from sun-damage. Goji berries also balance the body�s pH level and boost the body's production of the human growth hormone, the youth hormone, which promotes better sleep, supple skin, and a more youthful appearance.

Expect the future of skin care to be about what you are consuming rather than what you are putting on your skin. Feed your skin from within for more youthful looking skin.

Elizabeth Kiely is the owner of EK Healthy Home and Bath: http://www.eklbc.com

Nature's Pharmacy

"Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food." Hippocrates

Good nutrition is one of the most important factors in determining your health, vitality and longevity. Yet these days we are bombarded with so much information that it's hard to decipher fact from fiction. The truth of the matter is, it doesn't have to be that hard. Nature has already done the work for us and provides us with everything we need to be healthy. We need to learn how to choose the most nutritious foods, eat with the seasons and meet our individual needs.

Of course there are lots of foods in the world and all of them contain some nutrients. But to get the most out of your food you want to focus on the ones that are the most nutrient dense. This means we want to choose foods with a higher number of nutrients versus calories. Think leafy green vegetables, vibrant colors of red, yellow, green and purple fruits and veggies...a colorful assortment of the rainbow will do you just fine.

The nutrients in these foods cannot be manufactured by our bodies, therefore it is best to get them from whole, fresh produce. Fresh food provides us with the nutrients, fiber and enzymes that are essential for energy, proper elimination and the maintenance of our bodies tissues and cells. You know, all the things that make us look and feel better and help prevent disease.

How do you do this you may ask? It's easy. You can find most of these foods at your local market, natural foods store or farmers market. It is best to look for the organically grown varieties. The produce that goes to large markets are often sprayed with pesticides that contain nitrogen, which causes the fruit or vegetable to absorb water, so it looks nice and plump, but lacks flavor. These foods are also often picked before they're ripe and shipped a long way, rather than vine- ripened and freshly picked just before they're sold. So feel and smell them first to assess their freshness or ask someone for assistance. I find the workers at the natural food stores and farmer's markets extremely knowledgeable and helpful.

Secondly, to make the produce that you buy more affordable and better tasting, your best choice is to buy what is in season, particularly at your local farmers market.

Lastly, we are all individuals and our needs vary greatly, especially as it relates to our body type, age, ethnicity and activity level. So what works for one person might not work for another.

Recipe of the month: Visit Your Local Farmer's Market

Check out where the closest farmers market is to you. http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/map.ht m .

Interior Garden's Prescription

The irony of all this is that you can be a healthy person by eating all the right foods but still be unhealthy if you are not happy. While it is very important to eat well, it is also very important to take inventory of what is working and not working in your personal life. Because everything we participate in and absorb through our senses is food. We metabolize the experience of life through our relationships, careers, exercise, spirituality, finances, creativity, thoughts etc. So a good question to ask yourself is what am I am eating, and what's eating me?

As a recovered anorexic and bulimic, I have first-hand experience of my personal life being completely out of balance and using food to assuage the pain. Besides having to relearn how to have a healthy relationship with food again, I had to clean up my personal life, what was not working, which created this imbalance. I found my greatest source of healing came from working on myself. As I cleaned up my life, I started to understand myself better. The more I understood myself, the more I accepted myself. And from that place of acceptance came a whole new level of self-love, peace and healing that catapulted me forward and from which all good things come!

1) Visit and stock up at your local farmer's market with summer's fresh and local produce
2) Keep hydrated with plenty of water
3) Add to that a healthy dose of exercise in the great outdoors
4) Wear sunscreen
5) Plan and accept times to socialize and connect with others
6) Be honest with yourself about what's not working. Refuse to practice self-delusion or to hope for the best
7) Visualize how you want things to be and take baby steps
8) Don't be afraid to get support or ask for help. No man is an island and we can't always do it ourselves
8) Find time to play and laugh until it hurts
9) Practice good self care: light a candle, get a massage, treat yourself to something nice
10) Open your heart and clear your mind
11) Find someone or something you can give your love to for a day, month, years or a lifetime

Interior Gardens improves both physical and mental health. Call me to experience a complimentary health history.

Amy Coughlin is a Certified Wellness Coach whose practice is designed to educate and empower individuals to take significant and preventative steps in their long-term health and wellness. Ultimately, her education, coupled with her expertise in corporate training and recruitment, has inspired her to coach individuals and corporate groups in wellness education programs.

If you want to improve your food, mood, and life, call me to experience a complimentary health history. You will be glad you did!

http://www.amysinteriorgardens.com

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