Who Said Snacking isn’t Healthy?

Yum! A favorite snack amongst my family! Loaded with only healthy ingredients.
Most often snacking is thought of as bad. But that is when the processed junk foods are the chosen snack. Snacking is actually a very healthy thing to do in between meals.
Most people actually do get hungry before the main meals of the day. So, why keep your blood sugar low and continue functioning at less than optimal by waiting until it’s lunch or dinner? If you snack, you will feel much better and you will notice an immediate difference in how your brain is working.
It’s just a matter of choosing the right snacks. Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse shows you exactly the healthiest snacks you can have. Snacks that will fuel your brain and body so that you can continue working and feel great. All the snacks listed in Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse will serve you very well!!
Eat up and enjoy!!!

New Years Resolution?

Hello,
have you made a New Years Resolution to yourself regarding your health? Was it a resolution to loose weight? Was it a resolution to be healthier? I sincerely hope you have stuck to your resolution so far. And know, that Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse can keep you on your path!

Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse has helped everyone who has taken it loose weight. And you will never feel like you are on a “diet”. You will be eating foods throughout the day. I heard back from one woman while she was doing the Full Body Vegan Cleanse that she couldn’t even eat all those foods that are laid out to eat. This is not a “diet”, it is a healthy way of eating that will teach you how you can eat healthfully for the rest of your life.

Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse has made a tremendous difference to the health for all the people who have done it thus far. The difference to them has been in how they felt; how they slept; how much energy they had; how clothes were now too big; how much clearer they could think; how allergy symptoms decreased or dissipated.

If you would like to see how good you too can feel, there is video testimony on the website

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Cancer Prevention and Your Lifestyle

Cancer prevention is something we can all do. Just think of all the friends you know and family members that have had cancer. The life-changing emotional toll as someone you love goes through treatments. Not to mention the enormous cost. It is estimated that 95% of the cancers that occur are preventable from a healthy lifestyle. That is a huge number. That information is not new and it is available on the American Cancer Society webpage.

Setting yourself up in a healthy lifestyle is your best insurance against developing a cancer. Though not a guarantee, it is the closest you will be able to come to living cancer-free. Cancer prevention is as simple as eating a diet high in vegetables, grains, beans, and fruits.

Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse is a great program to learn how to truly eat healthfully and in a way that is cancer preventive. This 30 Day Vegan Cleanse has changed people’s lives. By following this program, people lost weight, felt more energetic, had less body aches, a big increase in mental clarity and felt much better every morning when waking up. Many of the people who have already taken this Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse keep these recipes in their diet regularly because they loved the foods and felt so much better. Every one of these people also know that by eating this way, they are doing the best they can for themselves and their families to prevent cancer.

Pictured is a dinner of Adzuki beans I made for my family. Adzuki beans are known to help prevent cancers of the breast, if eaten on a regular basis; and also colon cancer due to all the fiber the beans contain. Research is also pointing out that Adzuki beans can help lower the risk of getting other types of cancer too. There is a great recipe for Adzuki beans in the Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse.

Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits

Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits

The base for the yummy and refreshing smoothie I made for the boys was fresh lemonade! It doesn’t get better than this!!!!!! Citrus fruits have so many benefits that staying healthy with citrus fruits is easy. Once you read all these health advantages you will see why you should have a citrus fruit 5-7 times a week.

Weight Loss and Metabolism

Citrus fruits are so good for helping the body with metabolism. Lemons and grapefruits help to keep insulin levels low, translating to your body utilizing calories instead of storing them. Stored calories become fat. Lemons and grapefruit then also allow your blood sugar levels to remain more constant. Avoiding highs and lows, and not having dips in blood sugar means you will not have sugar cravings. It is through this mechanism of keeping insulin levels low that is the cause for your metabolism being increased. Hence, the very popular Grapefruit diet, that actually started as far back as the 1930’s.

Anti-Inflammatory Effects and Your Heart

There are several phytonutrients in citrus fruits that help reduce inflammation and reduce blood clotting. By reducing inflammation and blood clotting, citrus fruits are very helpful for your heart. Some studies have shown that people who consume higher amounts of citrus fruits have less heart disease and stroke. All of that has to do with reducing inflammation.
Citrus fruits also provide a good dose of fiber, which helps to keep the bad cholesterol down and good cholesterol up. This is also helpful for your heart. Once you think about just these benefits for your heart alone, staying healthy with citrus fruits is a no-brainer. Why would you Not regularly eat citrus fruits?

The Bottom Line in Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits

All the benefits our body’s receive from citrus fruits is due to the phytochemical composition. Citrus fruits provide flavanoids which reduce inflammation. Flavanoids also help remove free radicals, so citrus fruits have an anti-oxidant effect, which is always helpful to reduce the risk of cancer. Citrus fruits also supply us with, potassium, folate, B6, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamine, and niacin. With so many helpful fabulous nutrients – how can you go wrong!!!!

And of course, we all know that citrus fruits give us a whopping dose of Vitamin C. Vitamin C is in constant demand in our bodies. It is needed constantly to scavenge for free-radicals. It is helps reduce inflammation. And Vitamin C is needed to help your body regenerate cartilage, keep your skin elastic and smooth.

Your brain benefits tremendously from citrus fruits. Between all the fiber, anti-inflammatories and phytonutrients your brain is very well protected in the development of Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease and other dementia’s. which all have inflammation is a core component.

Numerous studies have all pointed to anti-cancer benefits from a diet high in citrus fruits. There are a number of the phytonutrients that play a role in this ability. You can see it is a package deal. It is Very apparent that staying healthy with citrus fruits will make a difference to your life!

Staying Healthy with Citrus Fruits and Other Vegan Foods

Just that information on citrus fruits should be enough to get you thinking “If staying healthy with citrus fruits, 1 vegan food, can do all of that – what could 1 month of being vegan do for me?” Everything written about above is just some of the reasons to choose a vegan diet, even if for 1 month, as in the Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse. Just think how wonderful you will feel everyday if you followed this Cleanse just like so many others. Just think about how much better your health could be and as a result, how much better your quality of life can be!
This is the perfect time for you to make a dramatic difference to your health. You can order Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse by going to the website Full Body Vegan Cleanse.

staying healthy with citrus fruits

Happy Healthy Halloween!

Halloween could still be a healthy day!! It is a matter of how you set yourself up. Hopefully you will dress up and have a fun-filled day. But, that day does not have to include eating, or even gorging, on candy. It is in how you mentally set yourself up for this day.

Today make this a healthy Halloween and maybe even the first of a new tradition. Skip the candy completely. Just because you have always had candy on Halloween doesn’t mean it always Has to be that way. Interject with thoughts about what you really want for yourself. Thoughts about how you really want to be healthy and that this could be that first day of a better way of life. Then follow-up on those thoughts by acting accordingly. You can skip the candy. You will actually feel better without it. This is written with adults in mind.

As for kids, they should be able to enjoy Halloween much like we did, with the candy. Then even with your kids, it is a matter of how you set it up for them. Halloween is a day that we can teach kids how to enjoy a celebratory day with balance. Gorging on candy until they feel sick is not teaching balance. Halloween is a great day to let them eat some candy and enjoy a day that is fun because they dressed up in a costume and were given lots of candy. That is a super fun day!! As parents we get to revel in their fun and also teach a little. It’s very easy, just let your kids know that they can eat 3-5 pieces of candy. The best thing you can do as a parent is to tell them why. Tell them that you love them and care about them, and because their health is so important to you, this matters. Not eating lots of candy does make a difference to their health.

There is the healthy message for your kids and for their future Halloweens. This sets them up so that they won’t have to battle years of Halloween gorging and a need to set up new habits around a holiday.

Healthy Kid Friendly Smoothies

Yummy!!! The perfect way to pick up my boys from school with a Dairy-Free Banana Date smoothie. It tastes as good as it looks! It is so creamy and yummy! It actually tastes like it has ice cream in it. Which of course it does not! We are a dairy-free family!! I have been making them healthy kid friendly smoothies for years. Majid and I have been dairy-free since 1993. A long time ago when there weren’t as many dairy-free options available.This means I have decades of creating great meals and smoothies without any dairy products at all.

My Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse has this recipe in it. And many more healthy kid friendly smoothies that you can make for your family to keep them healthy! Your kids will love them just as much as my kids have! And the best part is, it is only made from ingredients that will benefit their body’s. No ingredients that are harmful in any way for them. Which is Very different from the majority of smoothies made for kids. The majority of smoothies that are made for kids have way too much sugar in them, and some places use frozen yogurt making their smoothies even higher in sugar. These smoothies are not healthy for kids once you realize they can have more sugar than candy bars! Horrifying fact!

It is a priority to me to feed my boys in the healthiest way possible. I have been in the Wholistic Health field since 1993 as a licensed Herbalist/Acupuncturist and with decades of experience I fully understand the dynamic relationship between the human Microbiome and the gut. Which is why I chose to make healthy kid friendly smoothies for my boys that will give their body’s nutrients and phytochemicals their body’s needed.

healthy kid friendly smoothies- Delicious! Dairy-free.

How to Lower Health Insurance Premiums

Insurance is such a hot topic, understandably with so many really big and important changes that will effect all of us here in America. Insurance companies have had to pay out a lot more money in the last 2 decades than ever before. Parallel to the billions that has been paid out is the still increasing bad health many Americans have gotten into. And, Americans are paying billions in medical bills concurrent with the biggest health crisis the world has ever seen. Read on to discover how to lower health insurance premiums.

The Standard American Diet, (SAD), is the reason for the health crisis. Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse is thee answer to help teach you how to be healthy. It is all laid out. The book is 30 days of what to eat for breakfast, lunch dinner, snacks, smoothies, vegetable juices and protein shakes. It leads you through day-by-day it’s so easy because all you have to do is follow it. Every breakfast is listed with the recipe. Then every lunch also. And, every dinner is also given with the recipe. You don’t have to even think about what to eat.

Most importantly, this Cleanse teaches you how you can eat healthfully for the rest of your life. This is how to lower your health insurance premiums. Once your health insurance company sees  consistent healthy ranges on lab-work, they might lower your premiums. Many of the people who have already done the Cleanse, have done it a third time even. Everyone truly enjoyed feeling so great. Loosing weight./ Having more energy. Having better mental clarity.

You can visit the website fullbodyvegancleanse.com and watch video testimony from some people who have already taken this Cleanse. Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse reversed intestinal polyps for  someone who had had polyps for a longtime. 

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Eat by Color

Eat by Color for Better Health

It was the perfect day for a beautiful salad! A salad is always the perfect opportunity to eat by color. Your health is determined by the foods you eat, and if you eat by color, you are ensuring a better health status.  In fact, an easy way to get healthy or stay healthy is by eating different colored vegetables and fruits every day. This is because the colors of vegetables and fruits are the result of the make up of that particular vegetable or fruit; the colors represent the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients contained in that vegetable or fruit. This is actually a very ancient way of eating, the Chinese culture thousands of years ago knew to eat a  wide range of all the colors in order to be healthy.

Greens and a Little Deep Red/Purple

Baby field greens provide the basis for this varied color salad because there are a number of different field greens, just as the name implies. Some of the common greens in baby field blends are romaine, baby kale, baby spinach, baby arugula, curly endive, mustard greens, field lettuce or mizuna. Each is a different depth of green and supplies some variation in its phytonutrient content. The deeper the green the more nutrients the leaf provides. But overall, a mixture of the above greens will provide a good amount of Vitamins, A,B, C, E and K. And the phytonutrients are beta-carotene, calcium, magnesium,potassium, folate, chlorophyll and a large amount of lutein. Lutein is helpful in reducing cardiovascular disease and age related macular degeneration.

Often there is raddichio, a deep red-purple color, in the field greens as well. These deep red colors providing Vitamins B, C and K. A nice combination of minerals in raddicho are manganese, copper, zinc and iron. Raddichio has a lot of fiber which is great for the intestines. And the phyotnutrients in raddichio are quercitin, lycopene,ellagic acid, and inulin. In other words, raddichio is very good for you! You can eat raddichio on its own too and reap even more benefits. Another not oft fount phytonutrient in raddichio is lactucopricin which has a little sedative and analgesic effects. Including raddichio in your menu often is a great way to eat by color since the color of raddichio is unique and its phytonutrients are distinctive. Raddicio is helpful in digestion, at keeping blood sugar levels stable and is a great source of fiber.

Red Vegetables and Fruit

Chopped red bell pepper brightens any dish and gives your body a heaping dose of several powerful phytonutrients. The color red is known for supplying lycopene, a powerful anti-oxidant that helps neutralize free-radicals. Lycopene is more effective than the other carotenoids. Lycopene shows a protective mechanism against heart disease by binding with LDL cholesterol and preventing it from attaching to plaques in the arteries, which would narrow the arteries. Lycopene also suplies carotenoids, Vitamin A and Vitamin C, which are very good anti-oxidants. The color red in vegetables and fruits also gives you manganese.

Enhancing Your Digestion

Two more greens to include in a meal if you want to eat by color are fennel and avocado. Fennel has been known for centuries as a carminative, a plant that prevents gas and helps bloating. Avocado is also a carminative so this salad provides you with 2 plants that will help your digestion. Whether you want to eat a fennel bulb or steep the seeds into a tea, either helps with digestion.

Fresh fennel also provides a large dose of Vitamin C working as a strong anti-oxidant. Fennel  is also known for having a strong anti-inflammatory effects in the body. Another great attribute is the fiber provided by fennel. Fennel can contribute to your daily requirement for fiber, which is important in keeping your intestines healthy as well as keeping blood glucose levels stable and helping to keep bad cholesterol down. And, as if that isn’t enough, fennel has shown anti-cancer abilities. A phytochemical in fennel called anethole inhibits tumor necrosis factor which is present in cancer cell proliferation. So many great benefits from fennel! and it tastes great!

Avocado along with helping with digestion is a very healthy source of fats. Fats are vital to the immune system and the endocrine system. Fats are also utilized to make up part of the cell membrane. Avocados have been shown to help keep cholesterol low. Avocados have recently been proven to help reduce the risk of Coronary Vascular Disease. There are numerous phytochemicals in avocados such as glycosylated abscisic acid, which is anti-inflammatory and has anti-diabetic properties: cytochrome P-450, which is helpful to the liver in metabolizing thousands of self-produced chemicals and externally derived chemicals, as well as helping to synthesize and breakdown hormones…and the list goes on. It s such an extensive list, trust me – include avocados in your diet regularly.

Phytonutrients Have Potentiating Effect on Other Phytonutrients

This salad is the perfect opportunity to eat by color to ensure you get a variety of nutrients. Think of it as a cross-training effect. The benefits from one of the ingredients has a potentiating effect on the other ingredients. One example of this is the effect of the avocado with the fennel. It has been shown that eating fennel with a healthy fat, strengthens its anti-inflammatory effects.

How to Easily Eat By Color

My Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse is full of recipes guiding you through how to make all of your meals just this healthy and colorful.
Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse takes you step-by-step through 30 days of every breakfast, lunch and dinner with different colors. There is no guess work and you will feel great!!

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Blood Cleansing Digestion Enhancing Salad

A Blood Cleansing Salad

It was a little experiment in the kitchen…and it was a successful one at that! I made this roasted beet and fennel salad for dinner. For generations, beets have been known for their blood cleansing abilities, and fennel for its ability to aid in digestion. This was delicious as well as being perfect for all the benefits it gave to our bodies.

It’s all in the Betalains

Beets get their blood cleansing properties from powerful betalains, the pigments. It is these betalains that interact with oxidants, combining with the oxidants to render them harmless. This reaction appears to be protective for your DNA.

Oxalic Acid Assists in Blood Cleansing

Raw beets also provide oxalic acid, which is a powerful solvent of inorganic calcium deposits. This is also important because as inorganic calcium accumulates in the body, it becomes another factor in a number of disease processes. The oxalic acid also then has blood cleansing abilities.

More Benefits From Beets

Beets provide a large dose of Vitamin C, the B Vitamin folate, and the minerals potassium, manganese, zinc and copper

Beets also have the ability to lower blood pressure. Beets have a high amount of nitrates. In our body, those nitrates get converted to nitrites and then into nitric oxide. Yes, nitric oxide like that used when someone is having a heart attack. Nitric oxide expands the blood vessels. This is why it is used for people having heart attacks, and it is the same reason it reduces blood pressure.

The Conclusion  on Beets

The more powerful effect is right there in the beets – the sum IS greater then the sum of its parts. The very powerful combination of betalains ,oxalic acid are the powerhouses with regards to blood cleansing. Then add in all the other very helpful vitamins, minerals and other phytonutrients, and you have a vegetable that should be a staple in your healthy diet!

Benefits From Fennel

The other fabulous ingredient in this dinner is fennel. Fennel is wonderful raw or prepared umpteen different ways…how can you go wrong when fennel is in a dish? As an Acupuncturist/Herbalist, I am used to using fennel as a way to help people with digestive problems, (IBS, colitis, crohns disease…). Fennel gives us a good amount of fiber and vitamin C. Fennel also gives us potassium. manganese and folic acid.

This is a Fiber Filled Dinner

Since both beets and fennel provide our bodies with a great dose of fiber, this makes this salad great for your intestines. This whopping dose of fiber is exactly what is called for to help prevent colon cancer.
Give this one a try! Enjoy!

Blood Cleansing Salad

Heart Healthy Diet for my Boys!

Heart Healthy Diet

Heart Healthy Lunch

Everyday is the perfect day to have a heart healthy diet! This is how we live our lives and you too can have a heart healthy diet everyday. It is easier than you might think.

Today is another wonderful day in the Ali home with lots of great food to eat!
And a great heart healthy lunch for the beautiful boys to take to school. Yep, that is what you think it is…peanut butter and apple sandwiches!!!!! Yum!!! Of course, the peanut butter is an all natural one with no added preservatives or added sugar. Let’s take a look at these components to get an understanding of why this is part of a heart healthy diet.

Apples for Your Heart Healthy Diet

Apples are definitely still, as they have been for many years, one of the best foods to keep a person healthy. The combination of fiber, pectin and all of the phyto-nutrients a whole apple contains is the key to all the natural benefits, including being part of a heart healthy diet.

Peanuts for your Heart Healthy Diet

Most people wouldn’t think of eating peanuts, or a healthy peanut butter, as part of a heart healthy diet, but it should be. Here are the reasons why: Peanuts are a healthy fat, we all need fats, so choose healthy fats. Numerous studies have shown that peanuts are one of the healthiest sources of fats we can consume. The fat content of the peanuts helps to lower LDL’s, the bad cholesterol, increases the HDL’s, the “good cholesterol”,  and lowers triglycerides too. Peanuts supply mono-unsaturated fatty acids, MUFA’s, and a diet high in MUFA’s can help prevent coronary artery disease.                                                                                                                                   Peanuts can also help reduce your risk of a stroke, again, because the MUFA’s help prevent coronary artery disease, but also because peanuts contain high levels of Resveratrol, an anti-oxidant. Resveratrol also helps prevent damage to the systemic arteries from high cholesterol. And another heart healthy benefit of Resveratrol from peanuts is reduction in the vascular system from angiotensin, a hormone that increases blood pressure, which is damaging to the heart.

Put it All Together for Your Heart Healthy

Now, think about all those heart healthy benefits from the apple and the peanuts! And, really, this is an absolutely super lunch to keep your heart healthy diet.