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

Vegan Cleanse Eat Real Food Everyday

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.

Heart Healthy Soup

I made this delicious lentil soup for my family. This was the perfect soup for a multitude of reasons:
Heart healthy! Absolutely! Lentils provide a whopping dose of soluble fiber. This is great for your heart as it helps to keep cholesterol low. Another heart health contributor is the fact that lentils have been found to reduce homocysteine levels. Homocysteine is a bio-chemical which is produced by the body that is in stress. It is always found in people who have had a heart attack and is used as a marker in blood tests as an indicator for predicting heart attacks.
It is very nice to know what foods can help reduce this marker.

Lentils are also great for your digestive tract. All the soluble fiber stimulates the peristalsis in the large intestines and helps to move waste along and then out. Good digestive health can be accomplished by increasing foods with high fiber content in your diet. Many of the digestive problems seen in Americans have everything to do with the fact that the majority of Americans are not eating as many fiber rich foods as their bodies really need.

Lentils can also be a big help in loosing weight. Lentils are not high in calories but because of their high fiber content, they can make you feel full enough that you are satisfied. That being the case, you won’;t eat anything else and therefore your dinner was a low-calorie healthy and satisfying meal.

“Bon Appetit”

How Did You Tend Your “Garden” Today?

It’s another beautiful day!! It’s another opportunity to take care of yourself and your family. Many people do take great care of their literal gardens, outside of their home…but what about you? Your “Garden”?

It is great to consciously take steps each day that will take care of you. Your health, your body and yes, then even your spirit. “Did you tend your garden?” is such a wonderful phrase. I of course always apply it to the most personal aspect I can get. I apply it to my body. “How did I tend my garden today?” The next natural extension is then to my family. I want to have those answers readily available everyday about how I took care of them.

It’s a gentle way of asking yourself and reminding yourself to take steps every day to take care of yourself.Our bodies are thee most amazing creation. And this was given to you. Instead of treating it like it is something of no value, just because it was given to you, treat it with the utmost respect and value it for all it is.

It is your body you are reading this with. it is your body that turned to its side and got you out of that bed this morning. It is your body that allows you to feel all those wonderful feelings you have for the people you love.

“How did you tend your “Garden” today/”

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.

Healthy Smoothies – Brain Nourishment for the Boys

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Healthy Smoothies to Nourish my Boys After School

After a day at school, the boys deserve a smoothie that will nourish their brains as well as their growing bodies – I have been making healthy smoothies for them for years. I call this one Passionate Peach. It is made with fresh orange juice, frozen peaches, coconut milk passion mango yogurt, and fresh pineapple. All blended very well in my VitaMix. A thick yummy healthy smoothie for their brains, their body and yes, even to nurture their spirit as this healthy smoothie always brings a smile to their faces!

Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse has a number of healthy smoothie recipes that I have made for my boys over the years. As the health of my family is a top priority, even making smoothies stayed in line with that priority. The ingredients I use are only healthy ingredients and I never add sugary ingredients, there is just no need to since fruit is sweet enough. I make different healthy smoothies so that the boys get the benefit of different nutrients from the different ingredients.

I give the boys healthy smoothies to get extra calories in them. Both of them have been very physically active in different sports from a young age. I have always wanted to ensure their bodies were given the nutrients it needed after all the demands they placed on their bodies. Drinking healthy smoothies has certainly accomplished both of those needs and is a much healthier choice over sodas and energy drinks.

Whether this healthy smoothie is for your kids or for you, it will bring a smile to those who get to drink it!

Made with Love – for a Healthy Family

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Raising a Healthy Family

Made with love for a healthy family – the beautiful boys! My number 1 priority is to love them, my number 1A priority is to raise a healthy family. After training hard for hours for baseball, they will be giving their bodies exactly what they need. Since they pushed their bodies so hard, it is imperative that they replenish vital nutrients into their cells. This is how I nourish, nurture, keep my boys healthy and show them how loved they are – by always taking the best care of them I can.

Be the Healthy Example for your Kids

This one was for me today. Consequently, to raise a healthy family, you need to set the example for them. This vegetable juice is filled with 100% usable anti-oxidants that will restore my body. Completely different from taking a supplement that is not 100% used by my body. It is much healthier to get all your vitamins from foods – whole food sources, like veggies, fruits, grains and beans. Doing my Full Body Vegan Cleanse program will teach you how you can raise a healthy family and how to be a vegan. Furthermore, this is a plan that is sustainable and will teach you how you can have a healthy lifestyle for the rest of your life.

Cultivate Your Family’s Health

You can raise a healthy family. You can make your health and the health of your family a top priority. Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse can show you how. It is not a quick fix in our fast paced society. It is the solution to keep in your life for the rest of your life, because good health needs to be cultivated.

I hope Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse can get your family on their way!

Green Juice Benefits/ Healthy Liver, Heart and Colon

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Green Juice Benefits

You can take this simple step everyday of drinking a green juice and it will be well worth your time invested. The green juice benefits your body reaps are numerous! A number of your organs benefit, your liver, colon, and heart. The array of phytonutrients supplied to your body by a green juice are helpful down to the cellular level. A daily green juice can help reduce cholesterol and diabetes. Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse lists a number of great tasting vegetable juices.

To break this Down: lets Start with the Liver

Let’s start with the green juice benefits to your liver. All the deep green vegetables are very helpful to your liver due to their content of vitamin A, vitamin C, beta-carotene, folate, lutein and zeaxanthin, which are very helpful to the cells of the liver. Your liver works very hard everyday helping to break down the foods you eat, the man-made chemicals and preservatives in foods, pollution that you breath in, and your liver even helps break down bio-chemicals your body produces, like hormones. You could make a big difference to your health by supporting your liver. Full Body 30 Day Vegan Cleanse promotes a healthy liver by teaching you which foods to eat and supplies you with herbs to promote liver health. Liver cleansing foods.

A Healthy Heart from Drinking Green Juice

Green juice benefits your heart too, if you are drinking juices made with a Vitamix, this is not just a juice extractor but a very powerful blender that can liquefy the entire plant. This is thee best way to get your vegetable juices because this juice will give your body all the fiber the vegetables have to offer. It is that fiber that makes a difference to your heart by keeping cholesterol low and its effect in keeping blood pressure low. Both high cholesterol and high blood pressure increase the risk of developing heart disease, drinking a green vegetable juice daily is 1 step, along with others, that can help reduce your risk of all three of those health problems.

Green Juice Benefits for Your Colon

Another organ that benefits from green juices, made with a Vitamix, is your large intestines, your colon. And for the same reason, all the fiber in the whole vegetable helps promote a healthy environment in the colon as it promotes bowel movements. A high intake of fiber is known to reduce the risk of colon cancer according to the American Cancer Society. Throughout your life it is vital to keep your colon healthy

Green Juices Help you to Maintain a Healthy Acid-Base Balance

There’s even more green juice benefits to your colon, drinking a green juice daily helps to produce a healthy acid-base balance. This is crucial to cultivate an environment in your colon that healthy bacteria thrive in. An acidic environment in the colon is the environment that unhealthy bacteria thrive in. An acidic colon is an environment that a number of digestive disorders can develop in. like Irritable Bowel Disease, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Colitis, and become life changing problems. Disease happens in an environment that is either too alkaline(base) or too acidic, the majority of Americans are too acidic. You can reset your body, learn how.

Nutrients and Phytonutrients

More important information about green juice benefits for you!!!! Read on to see some of the nutrients and phytonutrients you will get from drinking green vegetable juices/

Raw kale has /100 grams: 3.6 grams fiber, 2.26 grams sugars, 150 mgrams calcium, 1.47 mg iron, 491 mg potassium, 120mg vit C, 141 ug foltae, 5927 ug beta-carotene, 9990 IU vit A,8198 ug lutein and zeaxanthin, 704 ug vit K,

Spinach raw/100 grams: 2.2 grams fiber, .42 grams, 99 mg calcium, 2.71 mg iron, 558 mg potassium, 28.1 mg vit C, 194 ug folate, 5626 ug beta-carotene, 9377 IU vit A, 12, 198 ug luetein and zeaxanthin, 482.9 uh vit K

Collard greens /100 grams 4 gm fiber, .46 sugars, 232 mg calcium, 27 gm magnesium, 25 gm phosphorous, .47 mg iron, 213 mg potassium, 35.3 mg vit C, 129 ug folate, 2991 ug beta-carotene, 5019 IU vit A, 4323 ug lutein and zeaxanthin, 437 ug vit K

To daily have a beautiful fresh green vegetable juice is one of the best ways you can transform your body. You will feel great! You will think so clearly! Open up and say, “Aaaahhh”. Enjoy