You've seen ads for the infamous chia pets but did you know that chia seeds are also a nutritional superfood food containing heart-healthy omega 3 fatty acids, fiber, muscle building protein, antioxidants, B vitamins and calcium? In fact, chia seeds are made of 60% omega 3 fatty acids.
Chia seeds in your diet are great for promoting weight loss, bone and digestive health, and improving heart health and diabetes too. It's easy to get these nutritional powerhouses into your diet every day. One serving is just 1/4 teaspoon daily. Add them to yogurt, cereals, stir fry, smoothies and just about anything you eat.
Learn to make chia gel too. Simply add 9 parts water to one part chia seed, shake thoroughly to prevent clumping and then add to smoothies or other recipes. Store unused chia gel in your frig.
One easy way to get chia seeds into your daily diet is to make healthy Shakeology shakes a part of your healthy living program. Shakeology contains chia seeds, as well as other superfood ingredients like gogi berries, Acai berry, pomegranate, spirulina, blue green algae, wheatgrass and much more. Seventy nutrients in all!
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Shakelogy Ingredients offer a Tasty Way to Health and Weightloss
The Shakeology program offers a simple way to add 70 healthy ingredients to your diet every day. Do you eat enough pomegranate and goji berry? How about sprouted quinoa and spinach? Getting fruits, veggies and other healthy foods into your diet is the key, not only to weight loss, but to overall health. Drinking a Shakeology drink daily can help.
So just what can Shakeology ingredients do for your health?
We all know we should eat a healthy diet but we don't always have time to buy and prepare the dozens of superfoods you can find in a Shakeology drink. If you've been eating fast foods, drinking coffee and sodas for energy and not eating at least 7 to 10 servings of fruits and veggies daily, you'll notice a huge difference in health and energy drinking Shakeology on a regular basis.
Here are just a few of Shakeology's healthy ingredients:
Chia Seeds
Amaranth
Grape Seed Extract
Maca Root
Barley Grass
Chlorella
Flax seeds
Goji Berry
spinach
wheatgrass
reishi mushrooms
pea fiber
Astralagus
Digestive Enzymes
Fiber
Green Tea extract
Just imagine the cost of buying these ingredients separately to add to your daily diet!
Check out the ingredients on other meal replacement shakes and see how they measure up to Shakeology ingredients. Which ones do you want to put into your body every day?
Shakeology Recipes
You can drink Shakeology in milk, soy or almond milk or make a smoothie by a banana and some peanut butter. The chocolate Shakeology takes great mixed with milk, while the Greenberry can be mixed with fruit or fruit juice for a refreshing treat.
Click here for more Shakeology Recipes.
Learn more or buy Shakeology Today - Order Shakeology and get the Shakeology workout CD's in your first order.
Learn more about the Shakeology way to be healthy and lose weight.
So just what can Shakeology ingredients do for your health?
We all know we should eat a healthy diet but we don't always have time to buy and prepare the dozens of superfoods you can find in a Shakeology drink. If you've been eating fast foods, drinking coffee and sodas for energy and not eating at least 7 to 10 servings of fruits and veggies daily, you'll notice a huge difference in health and energy drinking Shakeology on a regular basis.
- Do you crave sugar? If you drink Shakeology on a regular basis, it helps to stop unhealthy cravings.
- Shakeology helps you lose weight in a healthy way. No crash diets or losing pounds that come back the minute you stop your diet. Shakeology nutrition can become a way of life to help you keep the pounds off.
- Shakeology ingredients give you energy all day long.
- Regular use of Shakeology's delicious recipes help improve digestion and regularity with added fiber, probiotics and digestive enzymes.
Here are just a few of Shakeology's healthy ingredients:
Chia Seeds
Amaranth
Grape Seed Extract
Maca Root
Barley Grass
Chlorella
Flax seeds
Goji Berry
spinach
wheatgrass
reishi mushrooms
pea fiber
Astralagus
Digestive Enzymes
Fiber
Green Tea extract
Just imagine the cost of buying these ingredients separately to add to your daily diet!
Check out the ingredients on other meal replacement shakes and see how they measure up to Shakeology ingredients. Which ones do you want to put into your body every day?
Shakeology Recipes
You can drink Shakeology in milk, soy or almond milk or make a smoothie by a banana and some peanut butter. The chocolate Shakeology takes great mixed with milk, while the Greenberry can be mixed with fruit or fruit juice for a refreshing treat.
Click here for more Shakeology Recipes.
Learn more or buy Shakeology Today - Order Shakeology and get the Shakeology workout CD's in your first order.
Learn more about the Shakeology way to be healthy and lose weight.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
About Fitness Over Fifty
What makes fitness over fifty different than fitness at other times in our lives? Let's face it, when we are in our 20's, 30's and even our 40's, we put on a few pounds or inches, decide to lose it again, go on a diet for a while, start a fitness routine and, like magic, the pounds and inches melt away. I used to be able to lose 10 pounds in a month easily when I was 30.
For those over 50, though, all that changes. We eat the same things, yet the pounds creep up. We accumulate a spare tire around our middles and someone acquire "chicken wings" where flab hangs on our underarms. We cut back calories - nothing changes. Our metabolism is sluggish and our minds pretty much feel that way too. We try a fitness program but feel stupid out there competing with 20 year old's in an aerobic class.
When I first started going to the YMCA for fitness classes, I started with the "senior" classes because I was afraid I'd feel out of place in an aerobics class. I discovered though, that the seniors in the class were in their 70's and 80's, which impressed me no end, but I turned out to be the youngster in the class.
I finally worked up my courage to do water aerobics and yoga and sure, some of the people in the class were younger than me, but many were also older. What we shared was a desire to look and feel better.
What else changes with fitness when we're over 50?
1. Our focus changes from losing weight and looking "hot" to being healthier - lowering cholesterol, losing the spare tire fat which leads to severe health problems, exercising our hearts so we don't end up like many of the over 50 crowd on heart and blood pressure medications. We want to preserve our balance so we don't fall and fracture something, We want to preserve our bone density for the same reason.
By the time we are 50 and over, all of our bad health habits are catching up with us. Our bodies no longer recover as quickly as they once did. Our doctors are telling us to get out and exercise or face the consequences. Baby boomers find that every trip to the doctor brings more back news in the health department, another drug to take, another specialist to see.
2. We need to be checked out by our doctors before starting an exercise program. When we're 25, we can take up jogging without a second thought but when we are 55, we need to have a physical first to make sure that same exercise won't end up killing us instead.
What's the best way to get fit after 50?
1. Start slowly and build up. Start from your current fitness level, no matter where that is, and increase your level of activity. Start out by walking around the block and add 5 minutes a day, increasing speed.
2. If you're intimidated by the 20 something body builders at the gym, find a senior center and start taking exercise classes.
3. Buy a home program and do yoga or other exercises in the comfort of your home. Nobody will see you or know how well you're doing.
Set a goal of exercising 20 minutes a day to start and increasing that to as much time as you can give it. Alternate with walking, weight bearing exercises (yoga qualifies for this) and aerobic exercise.
Fitness over fifty is probably the most important thing you can do for yourself as you get older. Even if you've never been very physically fit at other times in your life, you still experience the benefits by improving your health and outlook on life.
For those over 50, though, all that changes. We eat the same things, yet the pounds creep up. We accumulate a spare tire around our middles and someone acquire "chicken wings" where flab hangs on our underarms. We cut back calories - nothing changes. Our metabolism is sluggish and our minds pretty much feel that way too. We try a fitness program but feel stupid out there competing with 20 year old's in an aerobic class.
When I first started going to the YMCA for fitness classes, I started with the "senior" classes because I was afraid I'd feel out of place in an aerobics class. I discovered though, that the seniors in the class were in their 70's and 80's, which impressed me no end, but I turned out to be the youngster in the class.
I finally worked up my courage to do water aerobics and yoga and sure, some of the people in the class were younger than me, but many were also older. What we shared was a desire to look and feel better.
What else changes with fitness when we're over 50?
1. Our focus changes from losing weight and looking "hot" to being healthier - lowering cholesterol, losing the spare tire fat which leads to severe health problems, exercising our hearts so we don't end up like many of the over 50 crowd on heart and blood pressure medications. We want to preserve our balance so we don't fall and fracture something, We want to preserve our bone density for the same reason.
By the time we are 50 and over, all of our bad health habits are catching up with us. Our bodies no longer recover as quickly as they once did. Our doctors are telling us to get out and exercise or face the consequences. Baby boomers find that every trip to the doctor brings more back news in the health department, another drug to take, another specialist to see.
2. We need to be checked out by our doctors before starting an exercise program. When we're 25, we can take up jogging without a second thought but when we are 55, we need to have a physical first to make sure that same exercise won't end up killing us instead.
What's the best way to get fit after 50?
1. Start slowly and build up. Start from your current fitness level, no matter where that is, and increase your level of activity. Start out by walking around the block and add 5 minutes a day, increasing speed.
2. If you're intimidated by the 20 something body builders at the gym, find a senior center and start taking exercise classes.
3. Buy a home program and do yoga or other exercises in the comfort of your home. Nobody will see you or know how well you're doing.
Set a goal of exercising 20 minutes a day to start and increasing that to as much time as you can give it. Alternate with walking, weight bearing exercises (yoga qualifies for this) and aerobic exercise.
Fitness over fifty is probably the most important thing you can do for yourself as you get older. Even if you've never been very physically fit at other times in your life, you still experience the benefits by improving your health and outlook on life.
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