Are you hydrating yourself properly this summer?

Many beverages are NOT hydrating, including soda, coffee, tea, milk, pasteurized juices and alcoholic beverages.

In the heat, we need an extra boost, which is why we turn to drinks with electrolytes. but many of the sports drinks that contain these electrolytes, including many sports drinks, also contain sugars and high fructose corn syrup.

The best solution I've found so far is to add a small amount of Himalayan pink crystal salt to pure water.

I'd love to hear your suggestions about hydrating!

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life...and perhaps eat healthier while you're at it!

Here is a very powerful exercise that I am borrowing from Daniel Amen, MD, author of Change your Brain, Change Your Life.

On one sheet of paper, write down your vision of how you would like to see your relationships with your spouse/partner, your children, your business colleagues, your community and, or course, with food.

At the bottom of that paper, write the question "Is my behavior consistent with my vision?"

Each day, read the vision you wrote and ask yourself if you are behaving in a way that you are reaching your vision.

Sometimes we need tools to help us change our behavior so that we can realize our vision. For example, we may seek the help of a psychologist or a nutritionist. We may go to yoga or church or synagogue to pray.

Here is obviously where the JOOS Cleanse can help you: It can put you on a path to sustainable, healthy eating habits.

We would love to support you on your road to a healthier

What are those cancer causing foods and why are you eating them?

I am in the midst of reading a fascinating and highly informative book called Anti-Cancer by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD. Even if you don't have cancer, I highly recommend it. I will be quoting studies from it over the next couple of weeks because this book is filled with ground breaking material how we can prevent and cure cancer through our diet.

Dr. Servan-Schreiber states that "certain foods in our diet can act as fertizers for tumors, and others, to the contrary, harbor precious anticancer molecules. As recent discoveries show, those go far beyond the usual cvitamins, minerals and antioxidants."

The food cancer promoters unsurprisingly include high glycemic index foods (i.e. sugar, white flour, etc.), hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils, sunflour, soy and corn oil, conventional dairy products, fried foods, chips and fried appetizers, nonorganic red meat and eggs, poultry skin and skins of nonorganic fruits and vegetables (since pesticides cling to their skin).

These are the foods that we urge you to eliminate during the JOOS Cleanse. The cleanse acts to kick start sustainable healthy eating habits. As a result, you should feel more energetic, strenghten your immune system and get rid of excess weight.

No JOOS Delivery on Monday, July 5th in observance of the Independence Day Holiday

Just a friendly reminder that we will not be delivering on Monday July 5, 2010 in observance of the Independence Day Holiday.

Deliveries to H.Y.P. Studio in Needham and BodyScapes in Lexington will be T,W,F for this week only.

We will resume regular deliveries on Tuesday, July 6th. Orders may be placed at orders@drinkjoos.com. For questions or comments please contact us at info@drinkjoos.com or call 617-942-JOOS (5667).

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.

To Your Health!