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Five Signs You Are Magnesium Deficient

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There are thirteen essential minerals that must be ingested for proper health. Their deficiency leads to critical health conditions. Magnesium is one of those minerals and 70% – 80% of people are deficient.

  • Sleep Issues — One study found that daily magnesium supplementation for eight weeks helped patients fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and reduce nighttime awakening.
  • Low energy levels — Magnesium plays a crucial role in energy production to fight fatigue and support high energy levels naturally.
  • Mood imbalances — Magnesium helps to manage your stress response system and cortisol levels. Countless studies have shown that magnesium may help treat anxiety and depression better than some pharmaceutical treatments!
  • Muscle cramps and aches — Magnesium helps relieve muscle tension, tightness, and stiffness.
  • High blood pressure — Chronically low levels of magnesium can cause all types of heart health issues, from high blood pressure, to diabetes, and even heart disease.

There are certain attributes you want to look for in a magnesium supplement. You want one that offers MAXIMUM BIOAVAILABILITY and also contains vitamin B6 for absorption. The one I use is a simple powder instead of a capsule and it’s super easy to use. Don’t just grab a bottle off the shelf at the grocery store. This mineral is too important!

The Good & the Bad

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I’ve got Good News & Bad News…..

First the Bad News:

Remember when we were told one (or two) drinks a day could possibly benefit our health? Not true. A recent study of 4.8 million people proved an old study to be WRONG. The study found that……

  • People who have two drinks each day do NOT have a reduced risk of death than those who don’t drink at all, which is different than what we used to think.
  • People who drink about two drinks a day do NOT have any health benefits from drinking those drinks, again debunking previous misconceptions.
  • Worse: Women who drank 25 or more grams of alcohol per day and men who drank 45 or more grams per day had a higher risk of death from any cause.

So what’s the GOOD NEWS? 

Well, now you know the truth!

it’s the consistent, little things that you do regularly that have the biggest impact on your health and your goals.

Did you know…Coffee “bubbles”

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Essential Oil Blends 

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One of the fun aspects about Essential oils is that you can use individual oils, like Peppermint or Lavendar OR you can use blends. Blends are where different individual oils are combined.

One of my personal favorites is Drive. It contains a minty and citrusy combination of orange, peppermint, bergamot, rosemary, and more to awaken the senses.

You can blend aromas on your own, but I just buy mine. If you use oils, what is your favorite blend?

Fighting Germs

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We are always hearing about germs. How about the toxins in your house when you clean with bleech and all those other chemicals.

A 20-year independent study reveals a shocking fact. Using national brand cleaning products as little as once per week is as damaging to lungs capacity as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day!

I ditched them all and now use natural, safer, more effective ingredients that are plant derived and biodegradable.

Did You Know That Fiber Benefits the FULL BODY?

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Check out what happens when you get the right amount of fiber every day. Fiber helps to…

  • Promote Digestive Health — According to research, a high-fiber diet helps reduce the risk of many serious health concerns in the digestive tract.
  • Promote Healthy Weight Loss — Helps you feel fuller longer, reducing overeating, which in turn helps prevent weight gain and makes it easier to shed excess pounds.
  • Help Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease — Soluble fiber may help lower total blood cholesterol and LDL cholesterol, which may in turn help lower the risk of heart disease.
  • Sweep Away Toxins and Waste — Fiber helps keep toxins from recirculating in the bile and blood, and speeds the passage of waste from the body.
  • Support Immunity — Provides food for the “friendly” bacteria in your large intestine that fight the growth of harmful bacteria and contribute to immune support throughout the body.
  • Improve Regularity — According to research, a high-fiber diet may help promote a healthy digestive tract and keep the gunk out of the trunk!

Fiber is SO important to our bodies! 

I help people set up online shopping accounts so they can break up with Wal-Mart.

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Haven’t even been down any of those smelly aisles of cleaning and laundry products in 19 years! All of my essentials, personal, cleaning products including my supplements are delivered right to my door. All clean, good for my home, good for the humans and furbies in my home and good for the environment!

I love this job and this company! can’t wait to tell you about it.

What’s on your bucket list?

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Living your best life means always having something to look forward to. With all the craziness going on in the world these days, it’s still important that we not lose sight of our dreams. Putting your dreams on hold would be a BIG mistake.

So what’s on your Bucket List? Travel to a specific destination? Learn a new skill? Do something daring like jump out of a plane?
My Bucket List is a constant work in progress; it will never be complete!
What about you?

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.”

Fun Facts about Bar codes

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Please, always read the labels on the foods you by. No matter what the front of the box or package says, turn it over and carefully read the back, please. It could affect your health.

With all the food and pet products now coming from China, it is best to make sure you read label at the grocery store (especially Walmart) when buying food products. Why? Many products no longer show where they were made or manufactured, they only show where the distributor is located.

Therefore, it is important to read the product’s bar code to track it’s origin. Knowing how to read a bar code may be useful when grocery shopping, if a product’s origin is of concern to you. It also helps you buy more US and Canadian goods and fewer products from China. Because of several past issues with products made in China, it is understandable that the world is concerned about China-made “black hearted goods”.
Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products “MADE IN CHINA “, so they don’t show from which country the product is made.
This is our right to know,, but the government and related departments never seem to educate the public—therefore we have to rescue ourselves.

How to differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China:

If the first three digits of the barcode are 690, 691 or 692, the product is MADE IN CHINA.

  • 690, 691, 692 — CHINA
  • 00 – 09 — USA & CANADA
  • 30 – 37 — FRANCE
  • 40 – 44 — GERMANY
  • 471 — TAIWAN.
  • 49 — JAPAN
  • 50 — UK

Remember to buy USA & CANADIAN made goods, look “0” at the beginning of the number.

NUTS!

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Nuts are such a great nutritionally rich food! They are a great source of Omega 3 fatty acids, which offer wonderful benefits from reducing rheumatoid arthritis to protecting against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

That said, they are high in calories and fat, but it’s mostly unsaturated fat. This type of fat is linked to protections against many different diseases, like heart disease.

Check out what ONE SERVING (one ounce or about 1/4 cup)

Walnuts: 183 cal, 18g fat

Brazil Nuts: 184 cal, 19g fat

Almonds: 161 cal, 14g fat

Pistachios: 156 cal, 12g fat

Cashews: 155 cal, 12g fat

There is research that suggests that nut consumption may boost the number of calories burned at rest. Another study found that participants burned 28% more calories after a meal containing walnuts than a meal containing fat from dairy sources. Healthy fat can burn fat.