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Ginger and I are all about helping you and your family create total wellness. We do that through education, connection to resources and empowering you with the products and tools to sustain and improve your health.
As you explore our website please know that I am here to assist. I also invite you to check out the quick links below for Solutions.
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Welcome again to my monthly wellness e-newsletter. As we get into our Fall routines we soon find that the holidays are upon us. Coming up first? Halloween! It is possible to have fun and make good choices to sustain your health.
Enjoy! I look forward to hearing from you.
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| The Truth About Sugar
Sugar, so yummy and hard to resist, especially when it seems to be everywhere and in everything! Halloween is one of the biggest holidays of the year, and much of our focus is often around the treats associated with celebrating Halloween.
What are some of the problems associated with eating too much sugar? We see everything from the obvious relation to obesity, tooth decay and diabetes to inflammation in joints, increased acidity in the body, high cholesterol, blood pressure and more!
Don't think that its just the kids getting into the candy bags. How pervasive is sugar in your home? Where are the sugars hidden? Check the labels of some common pantry items like spaghetti sauce, ketchup, salad dressings and mayonaisse, and even peanut butter!
Is sugar addicting? Take the sugar quiz.
Sugar Quiz
What can be done in your home to promote good health and still have Halloween fun? Halloween is a holiday with traditions. Create new traditions!
1. Nuts and roasted pumpkin seeds are great fall treats.
2. Have kids trade in their candy for a toy or an excursion.
3. Focus on activities and crafts, movies and music that do not promote sugary foods.
I'd love to hear from you. What are some of your holiday ideas that promote healthier choices? How about a low sugar recipe? email me and I'll post responses on my next newsletter.
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| The Truth about Sweeteners
Artificial Sweeteners
Artificial sweeteners such as sorbitol, mannitol and xylitol are commonly found in chewing gums, hard and soft candies, soft drinks, baked goods and pharmaceutical products. They are thought to be the weight loss answer allowing us to have our sweets without all the calories and tooth decay. We are finding that these additives or sugar substitutes come with a price to our health in other ways. According to the National Cancer Institute, "the five FDA-approved nonnutritive sweeteners are saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame potassium, sucralose, and neotame. Each of these is regulated as a food additive. These sweeteners are evaluated based on their safety, sensory qualities..." Yet links to bladder cancer and other chronic illnesses prevail and we have to wonder if these sweeteners are what we want in our diet.
Stevia, a Natural Sweetener... er, dietary  supplement.
Stevia has been widely used for years in other countries and has become popular in the United States due to it's sweet taste used in minute quantities without the added calories as with sugar. It seems that it may also come without the added worries of artificial sweeteners approved by the FDA. But according to the FDA, stevia can only be listed as a dietary supplement and great pains are taken by the FDA to prohibit companies using stevia from listing the ingredient as a sweetener.
And check out what's happening to Celestial Seasonings tea containing stevia.
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The Truth About Organic Food
Watch this short You Tube presentation.
When we look at the fresh fruits and vegetables we're buying at the grocery store that look so wonderful: firm tomatoes, juicy melons, huge red strawberries that come to us in virtually every season... consider what's really inside them, and what's not. Most commercial fertilizers have the nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium needed by plants to make them grow and to look good. But where are the minerals like boron, selenium and others that are not part of the plant's "diet"? If its not in the plant, its not in the fruit and vegetables you buy and serve to your family.
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