Healthy Habits

Going Green--Cleaning Up Your Habits

With my background in Chemical Engineering, I had been trained to understand the chemicals I was exposed to and how to protect myself and others in their use. 

No one trains us as consumers about the products we use in our home and how these products can adversely affect our health and the health of our loved ones.

You all know how passionate I am about having everyone create a healthy, non-toxic environment in their homes.  I urge you to make the decision today to switch to save, non-toxic products.  They will make such a positive impact in your home and in our community.

There has been so much excitement since the cleaning products were featured on the Oprah show in April!  Click here to see a clip from her Earth Day show.


Visit my website to learn how you can get started on "cleaning up" your cleaning habits.

Healthy Eating--Breaking the Sugar Habit--Part 2

Last month we introduced you to high-glycemic foods---meaning they spike your blood sugar.  Sweets and snacks, chips and pasta, crackers and pretzels, potatoes and rice, and soda pop and juices are everywhere!

Remember--the cravings you have for these foods are not about will power, but about metabolic imbalance that creates cravings for fast sugar and carbohydrate snacks.

The Ideal Diet

The ideal diet emphasizes fresh raw vegetables, some fresh fruit, along with fish and poultry.

• Breakfast--include high protein foods...
  • eggs, turkey sausages, Swiss oatmeal (rolled oats softened overnight in milk or plain yogurt and fresh fruit...blueberries, strawberries, etc. and almonds)
  • or one of Shaklee's Protein shakes -- Energizing Soy Protein, Cinch Shakes, Meal Shakes
  • or Shaklee Cinch bars (10 grams of protein/bar)
  • Fresh fruit (avoid high glycemic fruits such as pineapple, banana and grapes)
• Lunch--a great place for a main dish salad
  • Be sure to include lots of vegetables whether in salad or with a plate of fresh veggies, maybe with a dip
  • Ideas for salads--try a variety of at least 6 different ingredients to create crunch, color and flavor...
    • Lightly steamed green beans or asparagus, a variety of greens (except no iceberg lettuce...no nutritional value there), sprouts, red cabbage, green cabbage, peas, shredded carrots, chopped broccoli, cauliflower, fresh white mushrooms, green onions, baby bok choy, spinach, etc.
    • Add a little sweetness occasionally with dried cranberries or dried cherries, 1 fresh orange (rind removed an chopped), sliced apples, pears, grapes
    • Add crunch with sliced almonds, pecans, walnuts, pistachios, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds...or Shaklee Fiber Plan Daily Crunch
    • Add flavor with sundried tomatoes, fresh herbs (water cress, parsley, cilantro, etc.), pesto       
    • For protein...chopped cooked chicken, turkey, tuna, Garbanzo beans, chopped hard-cooked eggs, etc.
  • Cinch Shakes
• Mid Afternoon Snacks...Cinch bars, Cinch tea, vegetables and dip, fresh fruit, nuts, peanut butter fudge (1 cup organic peanut butter, 1 cup Energizing Soy Protein, 1/3 cup honey, 1/2 cup Fiber Plan Daily Crunch)
• Dinner--avoid high glycemic starches like potatoes, pasta and rice, avoid fried foods...Include LOTS of vegetables...fresh or lightly steamed, meat, poultry and fish
• Beverages--Bestwater filtered water in a pitcher with cinnamon sticks, ginger root slices, or fresh mint for flavor
• Evening Snack--no popcorn (high glycemic carb), nuts, Cinch bars, veggies and dip, fruit.

Next month we'll discuss how basic supplements and detoxifying can reduce those sugar cravings!

Lagoni Health Associates

Healthy Eating--Breaking the Sugar Habit--Part 1

One of the biggest challenges of eating healthy is removing simple carbohydrates and sugars and empty-calorie snacks from our diet.  Sweets and snacks, chips and pasta, crackers and pretzels, potatoes and rice, and soda pop and juices are everywhere!

These foods are high-glycemic. That means they spike your blood sugar, only to see it plummet an hour or so later thus creating fluctuating blood sugars that lead to cravings and bingeing and no room for healthy choices.

Such cravings are not about will power.  They are about metabolic imbalance that creates cravings for fast sugar and carbohydrate snacks.

In future newsletters, we'll be exploring ways many people have successfully kicked that sugar habit and enjoyed good healthy food again:  The Ideal Diet, Basic Supplements and Detoxifying.

Lagoni Health Associates

Creating Healthy Environments for Children

Healthy Child Healthy World is leading non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the health and well being of children from harmful environmental exposures.

James and Nancy Chuda founded Healthy Child Healthy World in 1992 after the death of their daughter, Colette, at age five from cancer.  Olivia Newton-John helped James and Nancy launch the Colette Chuda Environmental Fund (CCEF) to support scientific research on the risks to children from environmental toxins.

Healthy Child Healthy World exists because more than 125 million of America's children now face an historically unprecedented rise in chronic disease and illness such as cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD / ADHD, and learning and developmental disabilities. Credible scientific evidence increasingly points to environmental hazards and household chemicals as causing and contributing to many of these diseases.

As a national leader for nearly two decades, Healthy Child Healthy World has become the nation's leading organization of its kind. They help millions of parents, educators, health professionals, and the general public take action to create healthy environments and embrace green, non-toxic steps.

The Healthy Child Healthy World website is loaded with programs, resource information, recommended products, newsletter, a blog and more!

Another great tool is the Healthy Child Healthy World DVD.  This new DVD, narrated by actress and mother, Amy Brenneman, explains the 5 easy steps to a healthier home.  The DVD is designed to help you share information with other parents, teachers, administrators, and child care professionals. 

I have copies of the DVD and would be happy to share them!  Please let me know how I can help you share this message with other parents, daycare centers, and schools where your children participate.