Pulse on Health
Issue 6, June 2015
Wellness tips for a healthy lifestyle
L
ong days and warm nights summertime living feels easy. But lazy days can take a toll on good habits. Combat summer’s health haze with our one-two punch of tips to help you say yes to patio drinks and backyard potlucks, and to your health.
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Up Your Veggie Ante - To look and feel good, green veggies reign supreme. Increase your intake by adding Beyond Greens® to smoothies or baking - think Raw Seed Bars, perfect for a quick hit of greens on-the-go. Bonus: It’s fermented, taking benefits and absorption to the next level.
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Eat All the (good) Fats - The caveat? The right stuff is crucial. Udo’s Oil™ 3•6•9 Blend combines seven certified organic oils, plus a balanced ratio of Omega -3, -6, and -9. These Essential Fatty Acids are key in the functioning of every living cell in the body, yet the body can’t make them on its own, relying on your diet to bring in the right balance. Udo’s Oil™ 3•6•9 Blend eliminates the guesswork, substituting it with health and flavour. Pro tip: its light, nutty taste makes it a great addition to grilled summer veggies.
Localize Your Health Celebrate local this July 1st and raise a Canada Day shot of Flora Flax Oil to your health! Get your 100% Canadian daily dose of vegan, organic and gluten-free Omega 3 while supporting local farmers. For a cool treat, blend with smoothies and freeze for great flax-infused popsicles!
Six Questions
that Could Change Your Life Are certain habits negatively affecting you? Are you ignoring certain ongoing symptoms? Take our quiz to get to the bottom of a common health trap. Do you regularly... 1. ...workout? 2. ...drink carbonated drinks, coffee, and/or alcohol? 3. ...indulge your sweet tooth? 4. ...take calcium supplements, a diuretic, heart or asthma medication, birth control pills or estrogen replacement therapy? 5. ...have anxiety, and/or problems sleeping? 6. ...get muscle cramping or have involuntary contractions? If you answered yes to any of these, you may be among the more than half of Canadians who lack Magnesium.1 Over 55? That likelihood increases. 2 Thankfully, Salus® Magnesium Liquid can restore balance. It provides easily absorbable Magnesium to help the development and maintenance of bones, teeth, and muscle function, helping you recover from every workout, sweet bite, and tough day. 1 http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ fn-an/alt_formats/pdf/ surveill/nutrition/commun/ art-nutr-adult-eng.pdf
Bernstein A, Luggen AS. Nutrition for the Older Adult. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers; 2010
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A Summer Survival Guide for Your Health
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Summer Bliss Smoothie ✽✽ 1 tsp Gandalf Spirulina™ Powder ✽✽ 1 tbsp Salus® Red Beet Crystals ✽✽ 1 cup of fresh, local Strawberries ✽✽ 1/3 cup of pitted dates ✽✽ 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
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he popularity of beet juices, with their concentrated vitamins and minerals, continues to grow.
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When hydration levels run low, power-packed solutions like beet juice become great additions to our diets. Salus® Red Beet Crystals offer a convenient way to soak up the benefits. On fresh salads, in smoothies, or dissolved into homemade freezer pops, your whole family can enjoy a great tasting and convenient nutritional boost that’s a great source of antioxidants. Naturally sweet tasting and instantly soluble, certified organic Salus® Red Beet Crystals are the perfect way to stay healthy.
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Dear Dad...
In
honour of Father’s Day, we’re highlighting some great products to help those we love live with all their hearts, and embrace the best of life.
Focus On:
[Heart Health]
It’s the beating epicentre of our bodies, yet one of our most vulnerable organs two of the three leading causes of death in Canada are Cardiovascular Diseases (heart disease and stroke)3.
Some of the factors that increase the risk include:
alcohol
physical inactivity
obesity
Awareness, prevention, and nature, however, can give dad’s heart a helping hand.
Focus On:
The subject may be cringe worthy, but it’s one most men will have to face - prostate conditions threaten everything from routine and dignity, to life.
Show your heart some love
Most commonly, the enlargement of the prostate leads to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), something almost all men by the age of 70 will experience4. NPN 80031559
Hawthorn has been used as a heart tonic as far back as the first century. Cardio•Essence®, containing Hawthorn, is a gentle, but very effective, heart tonic that helps support and strengthen the heart muscle and surrounding blood vessels, improving blood flow, distributing nutrients, and increasing energy levels. Best for long term use, this gradual herbal blend has calming and soothing properties. Cardio•Essence® gradually reverses loss of function for an aging heart so that it doesn’t have to work quite as hard.
BPH includes a range of uncomfortable symptoms when it comes to urination. There are solutions, including one that looks beyond the realm of invasive procedures and harsh medications. Saw Palmetto, derived naturally from the Serenoa repens fruit, has been used in herbal medicine throughout history - it continues to provide a natural solution for BPH relief.
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Prevent Heart Problems Cardio Support offers a great preventative solution, especially for active individuals. At the heart of Cardio Support is Ubiquinol - an antioxidant with energizing properties, it supports cellular energy production. With Udo’s Oil™ 3•6•9 Blend in the mix, Cardio Support promotes heart health for all, from those with a history of cardiovascular disease, to athletes, and everyone in between.
[Prostate Health]
Zinc and Vitamin B6 make this a complete prostate health formula. Zinc is important for immune health and male fertility, and Vitamin B6 aids the absorption of the zinc for added efficacy. http://www.heartandstroke.com/site/c.ikIQLcMWJtE/b.3483991/k.34A8/Statistics.htm#heartdisease https://www.cancer.ca/en/cancer-information/cancer-type/prostate/prostate-cancer/benign-prostatichyperplasia/?region=on 3
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Spotlight on Summer Skin
The Summer Itch
Despite the warnings, sticking to the shade side isn’t always possible. To help you strike the right balance, here are some common suncare mistakes, and tips to help you shine.
Schedules of swim, relax, repeat sometimes come with unpleasant after-effects, driving many women to doctors’ offices with itchiness, redness, burning, swelling, and discharge - the tell-tale signs of a vaginal infection. Thankfully, restoring balance down there is easy - with probiotics, including lactobacilli (the “good” bacteria), VagiCare treats and prevents vaginal infections naturally, enabling you to keep interruptions to your summer plans at bay.
1. Experts recommend more frequent reapplication of sunscreen than you may think every two hours, in fact. So lather up, thoroughly, and often! And be sure to use a natural sunscreen product to avoid nasty chemicals.
2. Low-grade Shades - There’s more to sunglasses than shade and style. Check that your sunglasses meet recommendations, blocking at least 99% of UVB/UVA rays, or offering UV 400 protection.
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3. Skin Deep Focus - Outside efforts