Where can I find the Smoothie Skittles?
I have not seen the orange bag of Smoothie Skittles in a long time, they are my favorite kind too. I have checked online and found maybe 2 places to order them from but they were very expensive. Does anyone know where they are available?
- Jimmy
Supercharge your health with Absorbable Nutrition
Absorbable nutrition simply means eating good food that’s good for you – all the time. Food that, from the moment you put it in your mouth, really works for you. It is immediately being transformed into vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and fibre that your body needs and can use. There are so many rules and laws about how to eat, when to eat, why to eat, what mix to eat, etc etc etc. that we spend our days in total confusion. Then when we add to that the various ‘thoughts’ on how food should be taken to be of most benefit to you and your body, we get even more confused. Much of this is because there is such a wide gulf between what we were taught to eat in what I will call ‘Old theory’ and what we now know to be good for us in what I will call ‘Nosh Theory’.
OLD THEORY
This is based on various ideas that have now become accepted wisdom such as ‘Cow’s milk is needed in a healthy diet because it provides calcium’, or ‘Meat is the best source of protein’ or ‘bread provides energy and protein’.
And this is despite scientific evidence producing result after result showing that after the age of about 5, over 70% of people cannot break down the lactose in milk because their bodies no longer have the enzyme lactase. So for them, milk does not provide as much nutritional value as believed.
Then you have people living on raw food diets and using colonics and other tools to show conclusively that meat and flesh products literally rot in the intestine – so how can they be good for you?
Imagine being told categorically that there is no evidence that organic food has more nutritional value than non-organic? That doesn’t even sound right.
Now I am not advocating turning into an orange robe wearing, OM chanting raw food vegan – although that may well be good for you.
I am suggesting a few, relatively painless changes to your daily routine which just require a little thinking about to initiate, but then pay huge dividends very, very quickly.
NOSH THEORY
Essentially I believe that the food should be organic, freshly bought, seasonal, lightly cooked, and frequently raw. I also believe that fresh herbs and spices are good for you and that chemicals and preservatives are not. I believe that some frozen foods, packaged at source are nutritionally better for you than fresh food that has been flown a million miles to get to you in a semi-preserved state – and that goes for locally sourced food too. Food that has been grown in a smallholding locally to you is better for you than food that has travelled long distances.
Find out as much as you can where your food comes from and it pays immediate dividends in your health. Food that is freshly made, is always better for you than food that has been sitting around for days bathed in preservatives to keep it ‘fresh’.
All our food is gluten and dairy free, and as much of it is in its natural raw state as is possible to be, whilst producing a good, delicious traditional meal plan.
We do look at portion sizes but we never, ever look at calories. What is the point when you can eat a Mars bar, and it could be your entire calorie intake for the day? It doesn’t make it any better for you if all the calories you eat in a day are made up of ‘bad’ food. However, if you eat good, natural, green, pure foods, you literally will find it quite hard to overeat. Your body just gets full faster, as it naturally needs less of it.
And you never need to look at a calorie again.
THE JUICE FAST
At Nosh, many of our clients come to us in a physical state induced by eating according to ‘old theory’ described above. They are tired, sluggish, and often physically overweight. In order to move them forward from there to the newer and higher level of health that they desire, we need to do a number of things. One of the most important of these is to remove the waste that has built up in their body as a consequence of prior eating habits. The Nosh Juice fast was developed as a way of doing that.
Take 4 500ml bottles of Nosh Juice every day for 5 days (that’s 2 litres of juice per day), as a substitute for your normal meals, and watch the transformation of your body occur before your eyes.
THE CONTENTS
The ingredients in the smoothies are rich in minerals, vitamins, antioxidants and chlorophyll and help redress the deficiencies inherent in modern cultivated food due to soil erosion and lack of freshness. Superfoods also help compensate for our bodies’ current lack of efficiency at absorbing nutrients form food. Green Superfoods are very alkalising which is important because a healthy body is in an alkaline state.
RECOMMENDED ADDITIVES
Nosh smoothies contain juice, only juice and nothing but the juice. No chemicals and no preservatives. They are not heat treated and they contain no additives. While, Nosh juices are fabulous alone, we recommend a few additional supplements be added to your smoothies to really skyrocket your results.
Each of the recommended vitamins and minerals are specially selected and work in synergy with the juices to rehydrate, eliminate, heal and rejuvenate the body.
For re-hydration we suggest Pure Synergy Green Superfood Powder as it is simply the best green superfood on the market. Pure Synergy contains 62 of the world’s finest and most potent Superfoods available. For you, this means an ample dose of all those nutrients your body has been craving.
Flax seed, packed with remarkable health benefits, is the ideal dietary supplement to aid in the elimination cycle of your detox. Flax seed oil – the richest plant resource for Omega 3 – sweeps the artery walls ridding them of an undue formation of HDL (bad cholesterol), thus preventing the onset of hypertension, heart disease, and strokes.
Aloe Vera, known for its soothing and healing effects, is also one of the only known natural vegetarian sources of Vitamin B12. It contains many minerals vital to the growth process and healthy function and is a general tonic for the immune system, helping it to fight illness of all kinds.
Acai, loaded with antioxidants, amino acids, essential omegas, fibres and proteins, this little berry works wonders on the body. A few health benefits associated with Acai are increased energy, lower cholesterol, improved immune system and strengthening.
Enjoy the difference this will make in your body.
© 2009 Geeta Sidhu-Robb
- S K Sidhu-Robb
How to Create Wellness-Based Programs, Part 2
g together a wellness program is not as hard as you may think. If you are having problems thinking of an idea, go with one of the national monthly health observances. For example, September is Healthy Aging Month, and because so many of our clients are looking for the fountain of youth, let’s start here. When we think of healthy aging, what are some key words that come to mind? Anti-aging, the power years and positive aging, just to name a few. But how can we create a wellness program that will grab the attention of members? Let’s break it down by using a few segments of the wellness wheel:
Fitness/nutritional wellness.
This one is easy because everyone is already coming to the gym to get in shape. How about offering a nutrition lecture titled “The Anti-Aging Diet” and discussing how nourishing the body from within is key to keeping skin looking young and the body from deteriorating from diseases such as cancer and diabetes? To help boost smoothie sales, you could offer smoothie samples in a lecture that includes key anti-aging ingredients such as berries, almonds or wheat grass juice, to name a few.
Emotional wellness.
Stress is a huge aging factor. It not only wrinkles our skin and grays our hair, but it is also the No. 1 reason why so many of us are visiting our health care providers. Stress causes heart attacks, strokes, cancer and many sleepless nights. Start a “Lights Out by 10 p.m.” sleep challenge and reward everyone with a travel pillow for being able to get to bed early.
Environmental wellness.
What are you doing in your facility to help promote environmental wellness? Recycling is a good way to start, but we are talking about how this will help our members age well. Offering skin screenings or ****** mapping are ways we can see how the environment is damaging our skin. It can be a humbling experience for so many of your members.
Be sure to think about how to incorporate other aspects of wellness, such as spiritual, intellectual, social and financial wellness, into the month, too.
The Marketing Plan Marketing plans are critical to marketing success. There are many types of marketing plans, but most include the following concepts:
* Define the program.
* Set marketing objectives by using goals, then assess your efforts.
* Describe the target audience.
* Create a communication strategy for promoting the program.
* Create a marketing budget, and determine a price and a break-even point.
* Stay consistent and re-evaluate if needed.
Here are some questions to ask when marketing the program:
* What is the specific behavior you want to impact?
* What specific audience do you want to target?
* Will this audience identify with the need to change its behavior?
* What objections might the target audience have to changing its behavior? How can you overcome those barriers?
* What promotion methods will be most effective with your target audience?
* What are your competitors doing?
Don’t forget to write a brief summary of the program. This will help employees hype up the program and become familiar with it without having to spend time reading all the details.
The Evaluation Process There are two types of evaluation: internal and external. External evaluation is completed by the participants. Internal evaluation is completed by the team involved in creating the wellness program. The internal evaluation includes reviewing the goal and objectives, measuring the success and failures, and discussing the requirements for success in the future. You then take the scores of the external evaluations to measure how successful the participants viewed the program. Both evaluations should be completed within 30 days after the program has ended.
Creating wellness programs offers an exciting way to get members off the treadmill and explore their inner being. Besides, who doesn’t want to learn ways about how to stay and feel young?
- Jasmine Jafferali
How do I make the jugo juice breakfast smoothie?
Hello,
I really love the jugo juice breakfast smoothie. Does anyone work there and no how it’s made? I can’t afford to keep going there every day and paying 6 dollars for it! Thanks!
- shopaholic2008
Does anyone have any good smoothie recipes?
I don’t want anything with milk or yoghurt and usually just have red berries (strawberry cranberry etc) with kiwi and banana. I use orange juice to dilute. Does anyone have any tasty ideas?
Thanks!
- claire
How could i make an amazing simple smoothie using these fruits? 10 points?
i have pineapple, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, bananas, grapes, and watermelon
i also have orange juice, ice, and yogurt.
could you tell me which ingredients, and how much of them, like how much ice and yogurt or whatever the smoothie calls for. thank you!
- alex
How to Dine Out and Still Lose Fat
Copyright (c) 2008 Ed Scow
Have you ever been sitting in a restaurant and wondered how many calories or grams of fat were in the meal you’ve got in front of you?
No? OK, so you’re not as weird about that as me, but I wonder about it all the time, and after reading this maybe you should be too.
Some have the information available upon request, but most don’t make it available.
Well, my aunt sent me an email that had the worst restaurant meals and their caloric content and nutritional breakdown.
Here’s just a few examples.
McDonald’s 5 piece Chicken Selects with ranch sauce has over 800 calories with 55g of fat. 55 Grams of fat! That’s insane. Especially when you consider that they advertised them under the guise of healthy food because they were supposed to be chicken breast, but even chicken ****** isn’t healthy when it’s doused in batter and deep fried.
My favorite, though was the smoothie from Jamba Juice. When you hear smoothie you probably think it’s healthy, right? That’s how they’re marketed after all. But this smoothie from Jamba Juice had 900 calories, with 160g of sugar! That’s unbelievable!
By the way, those two I just gave you were the “best of the worst”. There were plenty with upwards of 1500 and 2000 calories. That’s how many calories many people should be consuming in an entire day if they want to lose fat and these entrees (or some appetizers) have them in one shot.
Hearing numbers like that it should be no surprise to anyone that we have an obesity epidemic in this country. We simply eat too much, or don’t pay any attention to what’s going in our mouths, and don’t notice until it’s wound up as gooey fat sitting on our gut, **** or thighs.
You should be wary of any meal when dining out. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t go out to eat. Quite the contrary. I think it’s necessary that we get out of the house and frequent restaurants. I’d go crazy and get cabin fever if I didn’t get out of the house and eat at restaurants. What I am saying is that you need to understand that many meals and drinks are not prepared with the idea that they’re going to keep your waist line in check.
They are made to taste as good and but as cheaply as possible because restaurants need to make money, after all. So in order to make many foods taste better, they are fried, saut?, or otherwise prepared to increase the fat, because fat makes food taste better, or are smothered in sugar and fat loaded creams and sauces.
So here are a couple tips to watch out for when dining out.
First, avoid the appetizer. Appetizers are usually loaded with fat, and this includes the veggie dishes because they come with some sort of dipping sauce.
Next, avoid anything fried, saut? or cooked in some sort of sauce. It may sound healthy because it’s salmon or chicken or vegetarian, but if it’s fried, saut? or cooked in sauce, it’s high in fat and loaded with calories.
Last, if you’ve decided that you’re going to eat poorly when you’re eating in a restaurant, at least get a half order. The proportions on full orders are so out of whack they could feed an entire village in some starving country. So do yourself a favor and just ask for a half order, or split it with whomever you’re dining.
Another easy thing to do is to take a drink of water between every bite. Water will fill you up a little faster, which means you won’t be able to eat as much, which means you won’t store as much fat.
I hope I’ve enlightened you a little bit, and will begin to eat a little more consciously when you’re out and about.
- Ed Scow
JoeMotion Power Smoothie
Check out how Joe Aaron makes his favorite Sambazon açaí smoothie!
- jbsamba
Superfood Flat Stomach Drink — Speed Up Your Metabolism All Day With This Simple 2-Step Smoothie
The key to burning fat around your stomach and everywhere else in your body is eating the right ratio of lean protein, healthy fats and unprocessed carbs (as found in green superfood drinks).
What’s the right ratio for a fast metabolism? Follow the “Fist, Thumb, Fist Rule.”
To keep your metabolism running at a steady, efficient fat-burning pace, you should eat the following at every meal:
• a fist size of lean protein (natural whey protein, wild fish, lentils)
• a thumb size of healthy fats (flax, omega 3 nuts, seeds)
• a fist of carbs (green superfood, veggies, whole grain bread)
Here’s how it works.
Your cells need the carbs to function (carbs = glucose = fuel/energy) but need the protein and fats to process the carbs in a steady stream. If you get only carbs, you get a “sugar rush” and then a sugar crash and then you go into starvation mode. This means that nothing functions properly. You can’t think. You’re hungry and tend to overeat. And whatever carbs/glucose you do eat in this state is stored as fat not used as energy.
But follow the Fist, Thumb, Fist Rule, and you:
• maintain a healthy, lean body
• feel full not hungry so you’re less likely to pig out throughout the day
• give your brain what it needs to run so you can concentrate better and think more clearly
Learning the right ratio down may seem complicated, but you’ll get the hang of it quickly. That’s where the superfood drinks come in.
Green Superfood Drinks For Breakfast, Snacks or as an Easy, Do-able Meal Substitute
Ideally, you should have a your superfoods shake for breakfast every day to provide you with the perfect balance for optimal health and a lean body. This shake is also the perfect lunch, post-workout replenishment, and between-meal snack, and it’s great any time you are too busy to prepare a full meal.
How do you make a shake?
Step #1 — Add the following ingredients into a blender:
• green powder • good fat (omega 3 oil, flax or omega 3 mixed nuts and seeds)
• protein powder • liquid (water, non-fat milk, plain soy milk or plain almond milk)
• fresh fruit
• ice (for a thicker, creamier shake)
• optional essences and spices (vanilla, mint, almond essence, cinnamon, all spice, nutmeg, or ginger)
Step #2 — Blend to desired smoothness and enjoy.
This recipe makes a 32-ounce shake. Drink the whole thing for a complete meal. Drink half for a smaller meal.
Why do we recommend having a shake for breakfast every day?
By starting off your day with the perfect blend of the highest-quality complete protein, good fats, and unprocessed carbohydrates, you keep your blood sugar stable, cease hunger and cravings, and stay energized for 4-6 hours, all while kicking your fat-burning engine into high gear. So go shopping for your fast-metabolism breakfast shake now to get that flat stomach!
- Gerry Morton
What are some good vegan smoothie recipes?
I love to make smoothies, but i’m not much for milk or yogurt bases (or anything with bananas). Any suggestions? I’m looking for something new. I’ve got a good blender.
- earthchick
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