We’d all love to find a food or “super pill” that will cure anything that ails us, from the common head cold to the extra ten pounds we find ourselves trying to sweat off every Christmas. Many nutrition companies swear that these products are already available on the market. The question is, are they really? Do these products truly offer hope, or are they just more of the same when it comes to nutrition nonsense?   Weight Loss   Imagine the improved health and happiness that men and women all over the world would be able to enjoy if there were really such a thing as a weight loss super pill that could help you lose weight while still continuing to enjoy your favorite his calorie latte every morning. Unfortunately, regardless of the claims of marketing companies all over the world, such a thing doesn’t exist.   What’s more, there may be danger in them there hills when people go looking for a fast solution to their weight loss dilemma. Some products sold over the counter, such as herbal preparations that contain the herb ephedra, have been linked to real health problems. Other products, such as those that are supposed to increase serotonin (a neurochemical involved in appetite regulation), just have not been proven. The danger there may lie in wasted efforts (to say nothing of wasted money), pinning your hopes on an approach that takes you nowhere.   Bottom Line: When it comes to healthy weights, there’s no substitute for healthy living. It’s a pleasant, safe way to be the best you can be.   Herbal Supplements   Ask women why they take herbal supplements such as ginseng, echinacea, gingko and St. John’s wort, and some of the most common responses are to:   Improve energy Promote weight loss Relieve stress Improve memory Improve mental performance   Do these herbs really have such wonderful effects? Well…maybe. But it’s wise to be cautious. In most cases, there is just not enough research to hang our hats on. Even if there were, product consistency is sorely lacking. There’s no guarantee when it comes to the amount of active ingredient you actually get when you buy various supplements – you could get too little in some and too much in others. Finally, these herbal preparations may have a severely negative effect on the medications that you’re already taking, leaving you feeling like the cure was worse than the disease.   Bottom Line: Take the claims that these supplements make with a grain of salt, and make sure your health care provider knows about herbs you take. She or he can give you guidance based on your individual situation.   Super Foods   The first food that comes to mind when you start talking about super foods is soy. Is it the answer to the challenges women face as they get older, such as menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis, cancer and heart disease, as so many people claim? There’s no question it’s a great food , but is it really a super food? Soy provides protein for vegetarians and anyone else who wants to reduce the amount of animal food they eat. What’s more, research does show that eating a diet rich in soy can help cut risk of heart disease. Whether it cuts cancer risk or prevents hot flashes – that’s not so clear. Then there’s the challenge – do you like the stuff?   Bottom Line: Steer clear of pinning your hopes on these so-called “Super foods”. The best advice remains the same: Eat a variety of foods that include grains/starchy vegetables, protein foods, vegetables and fruits. That way, if you don’t like one particular food, you will likely be able to get similar benefits from others foods you enjoy.   But give soy (a protein food) a try. There are plenty of choices, and you may find that you enjoy them far more than you originally believed. Try tofu instead of chicken in stir fries, sample soymilk if you can’t drink regular milk (get the calcium-fortified kind), and enjoy a veggie burger made with soy instead of a hamburger occasionally. The jury’s still out in soy powders – whether they really provide the benefits you want from soy. Best to stick with the real stuff.   Antioxidants & Other Vitamin/Mineral Supplements   After several years of recommendations from very credible sources to take antioxidants daily, recent studies indicate supplements of vitamins C, E and beta-carotene offer no increased protection against heart disease. Once again, it seems that the higher levels of antioxidants from the foods we eat, e.g. fruits and vegetables, rather than single nutrients are the best way to go. Why? Perhaps because foods also contain additional components such as fiber and other nutrient and non-nutrient components that are not found in single supplements.   Here’s a quick list of phytonutrients (plant nutrients, including antioxidants) that may offer real health benefits and the plants they come in:   Beta carotene — Enjoy apricots, mangoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, cantaloupe, broccoli, spinach and other dark-green, leafy vegies. Lutein — Try kiwi, broccoli, spinach. Lycopene — Pink grapefruit and tomatoes are among the best sources. Anthocyanins — Blueberries, cherries, plums and strawberries fill the bill here. Phenolic compounds – Savor berries, grapes, tomatoes and apples.   In addition, there’s plenty of time-tested research that shows many women don’t get enough calcium or vitamin D, particularly those over the age of 40 and those who live in northern climates and/or do not drink milk. Adequate folate is critical for women of childbearing years, to reduce risk of birth defects. It’s also important to control homocysteine levels in the blood — too much is linked to heart disease. Fortified cereals and other grain foods, leafy greens and legumes are excellent sources of folate.   Younger women likely need supplemental iron, but it is not recommended for postmenopausal women. Fortified cereals are an easy way to add iron to the diet.   Bottom Line: Nutrient deficiencies in the diet are not at all uncommon, but there’s no need to overcompensate. At this time, many researchers believe that multivitamin/mineral supplements, or individual supplements that provide no more than 100% of the daily needs for a individual nutrient, or fortified foods are preferred methods by which to supplement the diet.   The Bottom, Bottom Line   It comes down to this. While there may some truth to many of the nutrition or health claims we hear, in most cases it is too soon – sometimes too dangerous – to act until we know more. Even though scientific research is a very slow, methodical process involving repeated studies and can take years to sort out the facts, experience shows it’s usually better to be safe than sorry. Think carefully before you make any changes in your diet or health routine, particularly if the change is based on the findings of a single study, and always run these changes by your health care practitioner.

Some people think juicing is the most efficient way to get fiber, complex carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals or other nutrients from fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, it can be difficult and disappointing to spend hours cleaning and preparing the piles of produce necessarry for a small glass of juice. While juicing may have been super for Jack Lalanne, it is not a task you must spend so much time on each day in order to consume enough high fiber foods and health drinks. Instead, spend a few minutes searching the net for all natural high fiber foods and health drinks that are not sold in stores. You will find that there are better options for getting complex carbohydrates, natural antioxidants and soluble fiber in your daily diet, just as you would from a glass of fresh juice, but without the expense or hassle of juicing.

Even if you can digest the recommended 25-35 grams of fiber in food and half your body weight in ounces of water every day, as experts recommend, you may not be getting the best nutrition available. Most people find this prospect hard to swallow, and give up quickly on ever reaching perfect health and fitness. It takes too much time, effort and energy to buy, prepare, and devour that much produce, and who can guzzle that much water every day without craving some kind of flavor or enhancement? Consuming fruits, vegetables and water every day is important, and now, superior fitness can be achieved with ready to eat high fiber foods and health drinks not found in grocery stores.

Yes, there are now some very beneficial high fiber foods and health drinks that are made with concentrated nutrients from plants, so that small amounts generate big results. You won’t find these concentrated health foods and drinks on the shelves at your local grocery store, and certainly not in the refrigerator section of the convenience store. We’re not talking about so-called “enhanced vitamin water” beverages filled with fructose, artificial sweeteners and isolated vitamins, or energy drinks boosted with caffeine and sugar. Instead, we are referring to naturally produced health drinks, concentrated with real whole food plant sources such as cocoa, strawberry, lemons, peaches and raspberries. These health drinks are loaded with natural antioxidants, complex carbohydrates, and some have several grams of soluble fiber, plus protein from plants. Your body understands how to process these natural ingredients better than man-made chemically produced, artificial products being sold in stores, and you achieve better results for your overall health.

You don’t have to consume mass quantities of plants to achieve the results that high fiber can offer for keeping your digestive system running smoothly. Try some delicious high fiber foods available in natural, tasty shakes that you can mix with water or other liquids for much of the fiber you need. Throw in a few frozen banana pieces or berries to mix with the powdered shakes and you are quickly on your way to the fiber and nutrients you need each day with all the complex carbohydrates and essential vitamins and minerals from fruits and vegetables Best of all, the shakes taste good. Some even contain FOS, fructooligasacharides, a pro biotic soluble fiber found in foods like garlic, onions or barley. Who wants to have garlic or onions for breakfast when it is easier to have a quick, tasty shake made with real strawberries or cocoa? That makes it so easy to get more essential fiber, complex carbohydrates and natural antioxidants for breakfast than most people get all day.

Drinking diet sodas or high caffeine energy drinks to get fit is like lifting 12 oz cans of beer to build muscle up. Those types of drinks only tear your body down, while health drink formulas made from all natural ingredients give your body the nutrients it needs to build it up. Water is good, but it can be tasteless and boring to drink half your body weight in ounces of plain water every day. When you can drink a quart of water enhanced with all natural antioxidants and complex carbohydrates for better taste and more benefits, why wouldn’t you? Again, we’re not referring to loading up on caffeine, sugar, or vitamin water beverages with isolated vitamins and minerals. Instead, we are talking about enhancing the benefits of drinking water with natural fruits and whole vitamins and minerals from real foods found in nature. It is so easy now to find these carefully produced, powerfully charged health drink formulas that you don’t need to shop every health food store or grocery store. You won’t find them there, but you will find them on the Internet. You have to step out of your comfort zone, change the way you think about nutrition, and change the way you shop for all natural high fiber foods, health drinks, and other essential nutrition.

Changing my diet to a more contemporary way of eating high fiber foods and increasing the benefits of drinking water with super concentrated health drinks has worked quite well for me. I lost 8 pounds in the first week and thirty pounds in the first month of my new diet. I have easily kept that weight off for more than six years by using the same high fiber foods and health drinks referred to in this article. I hardly ever shop at the grocery store these days, and get more nutrition for about three dollars from a quickly made, concentrated, all natural shake than most people get in a week. When you find the simple steps to perfect health you will wonder how you ever lived without them, much the way we wonder how we ever lived without computers and cell phones. So, get out of the grocery store, get on the net, get your nutrition delivered to your door, then go out and live life!

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We all know that we should treat our bodies better than we do sometimes. But, more often than we would like, that is easier said than done. Some of us tend to try to burn the candle at both ends, so to speak, and a little to often. Despite our good intentions we can, occasionally, fall victim to a wide variety of temptations that are not too good for us.
One of these temptations is eating in a hurry because we are starving Marvin’s. In moments of weakness, our old diet habits shift into auto pilot mode and propel us into taking the path of least resistance. We succumb easily to fast and convenient foods because it’s easier not to plan ahead. I am guilty of that too, from time to time. You can do yourself a huge favor by learning to shop differently for food.
How about when we feel we must work harder, more hours, and more often than we like, or had planned? When we put those extra efforts into our work life, and sometimes our recreational life too, we end up short-changing ourselves on sleep. Not getting enough rest or relaxation can be something we have a hard time making up.
As a culture, and on the average, we tend to fall into old social pressure habits. We try to make up for our lack of stamina by fighting our body’s stresses with too much caffeine, using herbal supplements, energy drinks, and often combine these with almost no physical activity. We fool ourselves into thinking there is a quick fix for our lack of go-power somewhere.
So, when you hear about the two new latest buzz words called ’super foods’, and how they can help make you feel better you are all ears. Unlike other diet fads that have come and gone throughout the years, eating a diet high in a wide variety of super foods really do have a lot of healthy stay power. They are not likely to fall out of grace any time soon due to lack of results, as they really do have healthy enhancing benefits.
Congratulations, if you are making a real conscious decision to include more of them in your daily diet. However, you will have to do more than just drink a cup of green tea every day, or eat a piece of fresh fruit once in a while to get the full effect of erasing, or reversing, the damage done over many years.
Eating and drinking differently with the intent to get the healthy effects you are looking for takes a certain amount of dedication on your part. You have to understand that going this route will not be a quick solution. Don’t make the mistake of viewing these foods as boring, or as an unsatisfying, diet food plan. Look at it as a complete dietary lifestyle change.
Take small steps as you learn, and until you are feeling more confidant and secure in your new choices. Get comfortable with the idea that this may be a lengthy road you are taking. See it as a happy, ongoing journey of ever learning. Lower your expectations in how long you think it might actually take to reach your goal.
With that being said, technically, the term ’super food’ includes most all foods in their whole, raw, and unprocessed form, with a few exceptions. Here are just a small few of the miracle health foods to incorporate into a healthy diet plan.
Fruits and vegetables: Eat them freshly harvested when possible, and raw or uncooked. Steaming or stir-fry is acceptable, and considered lightly cooked. Frozen is next best, and preferred over canned. These plant foods are are full of photolytic compounds, antioxidant vitamins, minerals, fiber, and enzymes.
Oils: Fish oils found in cold water fish are high in heart, brain, and joint healthy omega-3 fatty acid oils. Coconut oil is a saturated plant oil that is necessary for optimal health. Try to find a coconut oil that has not been treated with solvents or heated to extract the oil. Olive oil is nutritionally best, although stronger tasting, when consumed as extra virgin. Extra virgin is less refined and higher in vitamin E. A mostly monounsaturated oil.
Nuts: Are chock full of minerals, and have vitamin B-9 (folate), vitamin B-3 (niacin), vitamin E, protein, fiber, and iron. They are higher in monounsaturated oil than polyunsaturated.
Sprouts: Are rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and protein. They are one of the most nutritionally complete of all foods. They are considered a living food because, even after their harvesting, they continue to grow slowly and the vitamin content increases upon refrigeration. They can be fun to grow yourself, and there are many different types of sprouts.
Green tea: Is considered to be the most nutritionally superior of all teas, although other varieties of teas do contain healthful properties as well. Green tea is especially high in antioxidants called ‘polyphenols’. This substance has recently been found to reduce the health damaging effects of HFCS (high fructose corn syrup). It is best, however, to avoid the commercially distributed product varieties and brew your own.
Flax seeds: Is a good plant source of omega-3 fatty acid, a different fat chain of omega-3 than fish oil. A photolytic compound called ‘lignans’ found in flax seeds is also a good source of fiber. Flax seeds are nutritionally better for you than flax seed oil. Grinding the seeds is preferred, as they are very small and are better absorbed by the body. A pepper mill works great for this, and you can eat the ground seeds on cereals, salads, and more.
Tomatoes and carrots: Are a few exceptions to the raw is better than cooked way of eating fruits and vegetables. One theory explains that more of the available photolytic antioxidants like ‘lycopene’ in tomatoes, and ‘beta carotene’ in carrots are released in the cooking process by breaking down the plant cells.
When it comes to fluid intakes, eliminating processed beverages high in caffeine, sugar and artificial sugar, and alcohol is a very helpful move, that has far reaching health benefits. You will be amazed at this one technique alone!
Outside of raw milk, fermented drinks like kombucha tea and kiefer, fresh juiced juices, or home brewed teas water should be, by and large, making up the bulk of your main fluid intake. It should be around three fourths of what to be drinking each and every day.
Don’t forget to add a bit of unrefined salt to your kitchen salt shaker. It is much higher in trace minerals than the cheaper, grocery store variety of refined salt. Increased water intakes calls for adequate salt ratios.
Expect some of these diet changes to taste a little differently to you for a while. It helps to ingrain in your mind a positive mental picture, in that these foods are way better for you than processed. Before long, you will begin to notice they actually do taste, and satisfy, better than refined, processed foods. You can season with fresh or died herbs if you like, to enhance the flavor of these foods even further.
Again, please don’t forget to drink plenty of water with your new diet plan. Water should be considered the ’super’ body fluid solvent to maximize your new super food diet results.

Skinny Water may just be the most fashionable new dietary aid on the market. Celebrity Kristen Bell calls Skinny Water her “weight loss secret” and Nicolette Sheridan credits Skinny Water with helping her stay fit and healthy. Skinny Water has been featured in Woman’s World, First for Women, Woman’s Day and Woman’s Health magazines, and various celebrities have been snapped toting a bottle of the 0 calorie “functional water” on their trips around town. But being fashionable is not the only or even the best reason to drink Skinny Water. Here are the top five reasons that people drink skinny water.

1. Skinny Water helps you lose weight

All five flavors of Skinny Water contain three tested ingredients that help you lose weight. Super Citri Max, the main weight loss supplement ingredient in Skinny Water, has been tested in clinical trials that show it helps people lose up to 365% more weight than dieting alone. Super Citri Max is specially formulated and includes both potassium, which maintains cellular hydration and calcium, which promotes bone density and fat burning. Skinny Water helps suppress your appetite by making you feel full and satisfied longer, while helping your body burn fat for energy.

2. Drinking Skinny Water promotes healthy metabolism while helping you lose weight

Each flavor of Skinny Water is made with ingredients that your body needs but that are often neglected by dieters. In addition to the trace minerals included in Super Citri Max, Skinny Water also includes Chromate, a patented formulation of chromium picolinate. Chromate is a natural appetite suppressant that also promotes healthy metabolism and helps your body regulate sugar. Chromate and Super Cirti Max combine to give your weight loss efforts a kick-start, but it’s only the start of the benefits that Skinny Water offers.

3. Skinny Water provides healthy, essential antioxidants

Skinny Water is made with ECGC, the active antioxidant that makes green tea so good for you. Antioxidants help your body deal with changes in your cells. They are found in many different natural foods, but green tea is packed with antioxidants. ECGC, extracted from green tea, is the most potent of its antioxidants. In addition, each flavor of Skinny Water provides even more antioxidants, as well as vitamins and minerals that help your body keep up with all of its demands even when you are cutting back on calories. Among the delicious antioxidant ingredients in Skinny Water are raspberry, pomegranate, passion fruit, Goji berry, acai berry and mango.

Each flavor is also formulated with a combination of natural ingredients that target your weight loss and fitness goals and help you achieve them.

4. Skinny Water comes in Five Fabulous Flavors!

Skinny Water is good for you in five flavors, each of which provides specific benefits to your body and your weight loss efforts. Drink Skinny Water that suits your tastes – or takes you closer to your goals. They’re all terrific for your body and your taste buds.

Raspberry Pomegranate Skinny Water is designed to help you deal with cravings. The Crave Control formula includes the powerful antioxidants in pomegranate, one of the most widely recognized antioxidant fruit juices available.

Passion fruit Lemonade is also known as Total-V Skinny Water because it’s packed full of vitamins that most people ignore in their daily diets. Its comprehensive multivitamin formula includes 100% the recommended daily intake of Vitamins C, B6 and B12, along with 50% the recommended daily intake of folic acid and 25% the recommended daily intake of Vitamins E and A.

Goji Fruit Punch Skinny Water is made with Goji berry, a fruit that has been used to promote longevity and stamina in Eastern medicine for over 6,000 years. Goji berry is nutrient-dense and high in antioxidants, and contains d-Ribose, Leucine and Valine to promote endurance, inhibit muscle breakdown and help sustain energy.

Peach Mango Mandarin is the XXX-Detox Skinny Water, powered by three powerful antioxidants – hesperidine, lutein and ECGC, the catechin extracted from green tea. The three ingredients combine to strengthen immunity and combat the effects of the UV rays of the sun on your skin.

Acai Grape Blueberry Skinny Water’s High Energy formula harnesses the power of the Acai berry and the antioxidant goodness of grapes and blueberries. The colorful fruits are packed with nutritionally dense polyphenols, which boost metabolism and immune system function.

5. Skinny Water tastes great with 0 calories, 0 sodium, 0 fat and 0 guilt

Let’s face it – plain old water and diet soda also have 0 calories – but neither provides all the additional benefits of Skinny Water. Even better than that, though, Skinny Water TASTES GREAT! It was completely reformulated in 2007 and tested by an independent panel of tasters. The all new Skinny Water flavors are pure indulgence for your taste buds. Your body will never believe that something that tastes this good can be this good for you!

A potable called Mona Vie supplies a healthy drink product. The ingredients of this beverage are acai berry pulp powder, puree and fruit concentrates that are blended in it. Bilberries, black chokeberries, wolfberries and acerola cherry and other fruits are used in its preparation. Some fruits that act as antioxidants are also used, thus this drink serves the purpose of antioxidants, and it’s also useful for diabetic patients and works as dietary supplements.

This drink is marketed by the strategies of MLM or multilevel marketing for its distribution or promotion. Lists of family and contacts are promoted for marketing purpose. The packaging of the product is done in attractive color bottles to draw the customer’s attention. Mona Vie also has varieties of beverages that are MonaVie Original, MonaVie Active Blend, MonaVie Kosher Blend and MonaVie Pulse Blend. Gel based product comprises of Mona Vie active gel pack and Mona Vie gel packs.

Acai pulp and powder that are the promoted by the beverage unit are dried in the freezer so as to retain its nutrition. This potable is made up if white grape, apple, acerola, aronia, purple grape, cranberry, wolfberry, pomergranate, lychee, camu camu, pear, banana, bilberry, passion fruit, apricot, prune, kiwifruit, blueberry, citric acid, sodium benzoate, esterfied fatty acids and finally d-glucosamine hydrochloride.

Although this product is marketed strategically by many frauds have been found. The complains of manufacturing are summarized as follows: Acai berries are not fetched from Sambazon where the best berries grow, Acai is not dried by freezing to 100%, a mixture of acai powder and acai puree is used as an ingredient. There have also been complains of marketing and distribution strategy but still the juice has received good reviews from its customers thereby attaining success. The reviews about Mona Vie are all concerned with its sincerity as it’s a unique product. The benefits offered by the product makes it popular among juices. People should include this beverage in their daily diet for good results.

A proper training is given to the low level distributors for effective marketing. One should be careful of Mona Vie online training as they are not that useful and also charge money. Earlier brochures were used as marketing strategy that contained information about the product and different means to get it.  Although the drink has many benefits not all confirmed with this, Brag Hart was one of them. He was a great spokesperson and was quite against by the product being tagged as super drink.

The benefits offered by the drink have not been able to cover the dissatisfaction of the consumers which have been rising for quite some time. The main complain is, the fight against the cost of the bottle and the quantity available against this cost. For good results 2 ounces should be consumed in the day and 1 ounce in the night but the bottle is of 25 ounce thus it gets over within a week. The bottle costs around $30 to $40 and people feel that the quantity given is not adequate at this price.