Fennel: A Great Digestive Aide and So Nutritious!

You have all had fennel in licorice or maybe you've eaten the seeds as you leave Indian restaurants. Do you know why these restaurants have them available for you? Because they aide digestion. There are so many health benefits to fennel, including anti-inflammatory and anticancer effects, excellent source of Vitamin C, folate and potassium (a mineral that helps lower high blood pressure). In addition, fennel is a good source of niacin as well as the minerals phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iron, and copper.

Help Prevent Disease by Reducing Inflammation!

What's a big way to help prevent disease? Reduce inflammation!
Inflammation has a positive role in our body to fight against injury or infection, but if inflammation moves outside a contained area, it causes cells to multiply, which can result in tissue damage, obesity and disease.

Unfortunately, this unhealthy inflammation is rampant in our society because we eat too much acidic food (e.g., processed foods, animal proteins, coffee, to name a few), we eat too quickly, we eat too much, and we're stressed. This causes acid buildup in the body, which promotes inflammation, includsive of our waistline.

Here are ways to reduce it:
1. 70% of your diet should consist of alkaline foods - that is, vegetables, which you can get in abundance through drinking JOOS.
2. Reduce stress, whether by developing a regular yoga practice, meditation, prayer, breathing exercises, going out for a long run or having a satisfying workout.
3. Get ample sleep.
4. Follow the 90/10 rule of 90% whole foods and 10% whatever you like.
5. Consume greater amounts of anti-inflammatory foods like ginger and turmeric, which are both in your JOOS. Do you know that in India, where there is a high amount of turmeric consumption, there is one of the lowest rates of Alzheimer's in the world.
6. Consume high quality, oily fish like salmon or sardines or take a high quality fish oil, which is high in Omega 3. JOOS sells New Chapter's Wholemega, one of the best on the market at one of the lowest prices anywhere. If you don't eat fish, try flax seed oil or eat raw walnuts.

Please feel free to contact me with questions.

Parsely: A Great Diuretic and So Much More!!

In this week's newsletter, we wrote about the many benefits of parsley. Parsley is often thought of as a garnish, but it is power-pack filled with so many nutrients: Vitamin K, Vitamin C, Vitamin A, Folate and so much more. Parsley also works as a diuretic so it can ease discomfort from overeating.

Simple Rules to Transform Your Diet and Yourself...

South Beach Diet? Zone Diet? Raw Diet? Atkins? Grapefruit? Weight Watchers? I could go on and on listing hundreds of different diets all guaranteed to make you lose weight. No wonder diet and nutrition seems so complicated, but it's really not. As I've said many times, the diet industry wants us to feel confused because that's what sells.

Some simple rules:

Rule No. 1: Eat 90% of your diet of whole foods. What are whole foods? Foods that are not processed or refined. In other words, foods that are in their most natural form.

I just met with a group who said they ate unprocessed foods and very little grains, just like the way we ate in Paleolithic times. I found out, however, that many of them are eating way too much meat, which is acidic. So, we have to add the second rule:

Rule No. 2: Eat 70% of your diet on alkaline foods; that is, fruits and vegetables. Disease does not grow in an alkaline environment.
These two rules focus on the WHAT to eat. Another important part about your diet is the HOW to eat, which leads to our third rule:

Rule No. 3: Eat 3 meals (with lunch being the biggest and dinner being the smallest) and watch your portions.

What's the easiest way to get you to reboot your system and get you on track: the
JOOS Cleanse!!!