Consumer Health Newsletter
[Summer – Issue 7 Volume 2]
Host a Green Party this summer •
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Use real plates – yes, the kind you
of setting your table, you eliminate
have to wash, but that makes your
a great number of unnecessary
guests feel important.
bottles and cans as everyone
Forego plastic decorations in
drinks from the punch bowl using their own, refillable glass. Try our
favour of a variety of freshly-
“Sangria” recipe below.
picked flowers.
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ummer is officially here and it is
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Paper napkins might seem easier, but they are harder on both the
the perfect time of year to gather
friends and family for a back-yard bash.
environment and your wallet. Using
Family gatherings and parties can be
cloth napkins is actually just as easy,
hard on our planet, with mounds of pa-
except they go straight into the
per plates and throw-away decorations.
washing machine, not the trash.
Here’s how to have a fun, stress-free, and good-for-the-environment gathering:
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Make a punch your centrepiece. Not only do you reduce the stress
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Serve ice cream for dessert in an edible cookie bowl. Make your favourite cookies and cook them on an upside-down muffin tin, creating small bowls. Let cool, flip over, and fill with your preferred ice cream or sherbet. You’ll have fewer dishes, and it’s way more fun!
Heart Healthy Red Beet “Sangria” Gather the following ingredients and mix together just before serving for our delicious and nutritious version of Sangria. Top with frozen fruit to keep your punch cold, or get fancy and freeze fruit and herbs in iced cube trays for an additional wow-factor. Serves 4; double or triple the recipe depending on your number of guests.
Ingredients: •
1 cup Sparkling water
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1 cup BIJA® Heart Hawthorn tea (made with 2 tea bags)
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1.5 cups organic or fresh-squeezed orange juice
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1-2 whole limes, juice only
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3-4 tbsp Salus® Red Beet Beet crystals (to taste)
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Add fruit / ice cubes to garnish
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t’s especially hard to get motivated to go indoors to the gym for a workout when the weather is nice – so don’t! Take your workout outside for a daily dose of exercise PLUS Vitamin D; here’s how: √ Grab a friend and go for a hike – pack a picnic lunch to enjoy at the end.
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TAKE YOUR WORKOUT TO THE OUTDOORS
[Summer – Issue 7 Volume 2]
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xposing our skin to the sun enables it to make vitamin D; however, sitting inside your house or car, with the sun beaming through the window, doesn’t count. If your skin is covered in sun block, that doesn’t count either. In order to make Vitamin D, your skin needs to be unprotected. That’s right – you need to go outside without sun block in order to benefit from the sun’s amazing healing powers. Sound backwards? It’s true, but it probably goes against everything you’ve been hearing, and teaching your children, for years. Short, unprotected sun exposure is all you need so please don’t spend the day cooking yourself to a lobster-red! Never stay out long enough to burn. Practise safe sun – 10 minutes at a time.
Did you know Far more lives are lost to diseases caused by a lack of sunlight than to those caused by too much sun. Take a lunchtime stroll to get your daily dose of this disease-fighting sunshine vitamin. Robyn Lucas, epidemiologist at Australian National University who led a study published in the February issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology. http:// health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/heart/articles/2008/06/23/timein-the-sun-how-much-is-needed-for-vitamin-d
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