Drink Up!

Water helps your body flush out negativity. Just as you have to flush out negativity from your mind in order to make the changes you will need to make to stay focused on living a Healthy Lifestyle, your body uses water to flush out all of the things it doesn‟t need or that don‟t belong.

The list of the benefits of water in living a Healthy Lifestyle is endless, but I‟m sure you get the message.

Hydration plays a huge factor in living a Healthy Lifestyle, simply because your body needs it to be healthy.

Let's make it a healthy weekend.

See you on Tuesday.

The Best Defense!!

I hope your weekend was just as eventful as mine.  For the 1st time in almost 5 years, I experienced common cold symptoms.  My nose wanted to run, my chest decided to ache a little and my throat forced me to add more honey to my daily cup of green tea with lemon.   Since I'm not a fan of over-the-counter medicines, I loaded my body with foods I knew of that would provide me with extra vitamins and minerals: 

I ate broccoli. 
I ate tangerines.
I drank orange juice.
I ate yogurt (probiotics).
I ate spinach.
I drank hot green tea with lemon & honey.
I cooked with onions & green peppers.
I baked lean chicken (protein).
I ate oatmeal with bananas & apples.

Best of all (and as usual), these simple, everyday foods provided me with enough nutrients and aid to my immune system to have me LEAP! out of bed this morning ready to take on the world. 

The moral of this story is the reiteration that there is an abundance of "good health" found in the majority of the foods we normally consume and have loved for most of our lives.  With the right combination of fruits, & veggies, protein & fiber sources, water and exercise, we all can live healthy lifestyles without even trying as hard as some expect.

Let's make it a good and HEALTHY week by deciding to snack on fruit & veggies instead of cookies and cakes and other "processed" choices from the vending machines.

See you on Friday!!!

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