Ask the Experts: Satisfying your Sweet Tooth

Q: I am completely stressed out with wedding plans what are the best options for satisfying my sweet tooth without sacrificing my waistline?

A: We all have a sweet tooth from time to time. Remember it is all about healthier choices and eating in moderation. For the healthy snack, try one of these great choices:

1. Yummy Shake - Chocolate Raspberry Razzmatazz
• 2 tbsp Dutch Chocolate Healthy Meal Shake
• 8 oz of water, soy milk or skim milk
• 1/ cup off raspberries
• 3 ice cubes
• Blend and enjoy

2. Protein Bar

Chewy bars formulated with a blend of soy and whey proteins, healthy fiber and 23 vitamins and minerals, can help sustain your energy and appetite. One or two bars per day for healthy snacking and weight loss. For variety, try our other delicious protein-rich snacks.

Key Benefits
• Promote healthy weight management
• Satisfy your hunger
• Get 12g protein in every bar

Fast Facts
• A satisfying and delicious addition to any weight-loss program
• Ideal to power-up before a workout
• Supplies protein to help build and maintain lean muscle
• Only 150 calories per bar

3. Fill your kitchen and fridge with fresh fruit for a quick snack when you are hungry. I love frozen grapes and chilled melons…yum!

4. For an amazing snack attack control, try Snack Defense, All day Snacking Control:
• Powerful herbal blend helps deliver all-day snack control
• Helps reduce carbohydrate absorption.
• Maintains blood sugar levels already within a normal range

Featured Product

Formula 1 Nutritional Shake Mix
A healthy meal with up to 19 essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients in seven delicious flavors that can help support weight management. Formula 1 shakes include soy protein, fiber and essential nutrients that can help support metabolism, cellular growth repair and production.
• Over 19 vitamins, mineral and essential nutrients
• 9g of protein and healthy fiber to help support weight mgmt (16 if you add soymilk)
• 0 Cholesterol, 0 trans fats
• Nourishes your body with cellular nutrition
• It is orgasmic it’s so good!

Fast Facts
• 9 grams of healthy soy protein in each serving
• Includes the antioxidant vitamins C and E
• Contains Aminogen®†, plus bromelain and papain, to support protein digestion
• Create your own shake recipes by adding fresh fruit
• Diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol that include 25 grams of soy protein
may reduce the risk of heart disease

These suggestions are best complemented with a great workout!

Tip to your Health: Preventing H1N1

In the midst of flu season and the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic, here are a few simple and effective preventative measures to practice while you are still healthy:

1. Frequent hand washing.

2. “Hands- off-the-face” approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of your face unless you are eating, bathing or slapping. The only portals of entry are nostrils and mouth/ throat.

3. Gargle twice a day with warm salt water or Listerine. H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/nasal cavity to proliferation and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Do not underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

4. Clean your nostrils at least once a day with warm salt water. Blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton swabs dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down the viral population. Neti pots and sinus rinse kits are available at the drug store and relatively inexpensive (under $15).

5. Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C. If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also contains Zinc to boost absorption.

6. Drink warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc.). Drinking warm liquids has similar effects as gargling but in the reverse direction. The warm liquids wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

In a global epidemic of this nature, it is almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not the problem as much as the proliferation of the infection. These preventative measures serve to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections. Stay healthy!