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Superfoods. The NEW New Year’s Resolution

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I’m issuing a warning for the month of January. Please heed this warning with furious seriousness and urgency.

The warning? Your gym is about to be packed. If you plan to join a gym, it is going to be packed. There will be injuries (was he really squatting bent like one of grandma’s old spoons?). There will be anguish (um, when was her last time to do Yoga? Wait, has she EVER done Yoga? My God, what is happening?).

new years resolution means packed gyms.

What in the heck is going on in this place?

The future of January’s gym cartel is well-intentioned and overly full from stuffing, ham, muffins, cake, craft beers and something disgusting that weird brother-in-law concocted (why oh why would he make that and why in fat guy desperation, did I eat it?).

It makes sense. Someone is feeling fat is someone who wants to lose weight and regain their old physique. The gym seems like the perfect new beginning. That 30-day free trial to roam the halls of clanging iron plates and grinding resistant cords and trainers named “Bruno” and “Iris” yelling is all too enticing when we feel like our stomach is full of tire irons and our eyes puffy dough.

But is joining a gym for a month really the solution that will change our lives forever? I have a confession: I hate the gym. It is boring. It cost more than it is worth. Iris gives me the flu each year. I don’t look own sweat resistant shirts. That doesn’t mean the gym doesn’t work, that just means that the gym should be, at most, the second level in someone’s health agenda.

The fact is, diet is 90% of health and fat loss. And you, my friend, just ate the equivalent of 300 cake pops over the past week and you aren’t likely done. You can go to the gym as much as you like, your path is set no matter how many reps you kick out or how long that flu last (actually, the flu will help with weight loss, but I digress).

Weight loss. More energy. More sex drive. Clearer skin. More muscle. Clearer eyes (seriously). Does any of this sound good? Well, Iris isn’t going to help you achieve this. But you know what will? I seriously solid diet full of fruits and vegetables and lean proteins.

“Crap, he went there? Why oh why did he have to go there?”

I had to because the thought of you dying underneath of a squat rack makes me sad as a lost puppy.

“But you realize this means I have to go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of vegetables and then come home, chop them, repack them, chop them again, wash them (crap I forgot to do that first!), and then, eat them!”

Well, you just made it sound like a horrifying experience. The fact is, you just made it harder than it had to be. Healthy people do indeed shop in the produce section. We do, of course, wash vegetables. We have no expectation it will be easy. That said, we also streamline how we do things to make it a more efficient, liveable process.

How so?

  • Stop doing calories in versus calories out. This is what the gym tricks you into. This is because the gym knows you will take the bait and eat crappy foods and then come to the gym to “burn calories.” Guess what? You don’t need to burn as many calories if you aren’t eating junk.
  • Utilize superfood green drinks. You can buy superfood supplements at Whole Foods, or order them here online. By using a superfood powders, you give yourself the opportunity to skip the produce section. You simplify your health food strategy. When I wake up in the morning, I put two scoops of Kylea Total Living Drink Greens in a shake (I use almond milk as the base).

This strategy has been a lifesaver because my old breakfast was either bready foods, or nothing at all. Both of which lead to late day hunger and relentless snacking. In my case, I get a load of fiber, anti-cancer / anti-inflammatory greens to start my day.

Just this one change is worth substantial weight loss. Uses Kylea at every meal? Well, the cake pop pounds are likely to dump off.

So let’s review our options once more:

1)    Get overpriced gym membership. Have Irus “spot you.” Contract swine flu or Zika. Become dehydrated by multiple bathroom trips. Lose weight.

2)    Start replacing crappy meals with high fiber green supplement drinks. Lose weight. Use bathroom, but not as much.

Eating healthy will always trump going to the gym. Every legitimate clinical study will confirm this. I’m not breaking the mold here; this is clear science. If you are going to spend money on your health, start with your diet. You will thank me later.

Wait, did he just say the gym sucks?

No brah, I did not. True gym people get the best out of their memberships. But true gym people often rely on superfood supplements just as well.

Heart Greens Review

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Heart Greens ReviewThis Heart Greens review will give us a much more in depth understanding into a superfood supplement which has many online health forums buzzing. Heart Greens is produced by a company called Human Power of N. With a cool name like “Human Power of N,” it is hard not to expect the moon from this superfood combination!

Heart Greens provides a daily punch of kale and spinach and touts itself as a superfood that contributes to healthy blood pressure, healthy circulation and nitric oxide production. Nitric Oxide is a strong vasodilator that relaxes the arteries. This means improved circulation and blood pressure.

PRODUCT PROFILE

Product Name: Heart Greens SupremeFood
Company Name: Human Power of N
Website: www.humann.com
Owner(s): Dr. Nathan Bryan, PhD, Dr. John Ivy
Product Description: kale, spinach, greens superfood powder for improved circulation
Price: $44.95 for 30 servings

SUPERFOODS 

Spinach: Spinach is one of the most powerful superfoods on earth. Spinach would be the most powerful superfood on Mars as well, if it weren’t for a lack of water and oxygen and sunlight. In other words, it takes a direct act of God to contain the greatness of spinach in our universe.

Spinach is a wonderful source of Niacin, Zinc, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Folate and Calcium. Have enough spinach on hand and you could survive years after the collapse of society (though spinach can’t yet verbalize and converse, so you’d probably be rather lonely). Getting enough spinach in your diet means infusing your body and mind with a powerful health promoter. Putting spinach in your diet is a no-brainer.

Kale: It isn’t just hippie chips, kale is also a real live superfood plant that can change the game when it comes to your health. In fairness to the hippies who make chips with it, it is rather difficult to eat. Kale is a tough plant. Using a supplement to get your kale on is a great strategy. Kale’s nutritional profile is similar enough to spinach that I don’t see a need to relist it all.

Wheat Grass: Great for fiber and a good source for protein and potassium.

Barley Grass: Potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, phosphorus and B vitamins are among the many benefits to this green grass.

Inulin: This is considered a prebiotic fiber. Prebiotics are an awesome way to feed the good bacteria in your stomach. Many studies show that prebiotics can positively help improve mood. And let’s be honest, most of us could use an improvement in our mood!

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NUTRITIONAL PANEL

Fiber: 1 gram per every 5 gram serving size ranks amongst average numbers. It is decent, but nothing to write home about. Although, if you are writing home about fiber, you might have some unresolved issues beyond the scope of this review.

Stevia: This natural sweetener helps sweeten the superfood drink without compromising the carbohydrate count. This is used as a natural alternative to sugar. Stevia can illicit an insulin response in some people. Are you one of them? If you drink or eat items which contain stevia and feel drowsy an hour or two following, you might be one of them. Otherwise, drink on!

Monk Fruit Extract: Like stevia, this one is used as an alternative to sugar. Many diabetics rely on it to sweeten food and drink items that would otherwise use sugar.

Natural Lemon Flavor: The flavor profile of Heart Greens is lemony due to this natural flavor infusion.

TASTE

Heart Greens has a lemony, sweet taste profile that does a good job at distancing the superfood drink from an earthy green taste. I actually really enjoy the taste of spinach and kale, which are both the predominant driving factors in the taste of this supplement, but for many, that’s a bit difficult to endure.

Heart Greens does a good job and infusing lemon, stevia and monk fruit extract to build a flavor profile which definitely taste “real.” And what I mean by that is, some green supplement providers attempt to conceal the plant based taste by overwhelming the drink with sweetness. This is the same as when you go into an old person’s home and it smells like Glade covering up old cats tangled in yarn and Cream of Wheat.

You smell Glade, but you know the truth and the truth hurts. The lemon does a really good job at giving a slight tangy tinge to the profile while the two sweeteners neutralize the acidic bitter lemon and guide the taste to something I’d classify as pretty fun to drink.

I am never a fan of a supplement drink which taste like sweetener was used to conceal the underbelly of a mineral, earthy experience. Heart Greens achieves that in spades.

VALUE

And this is where the review’s honeymoon phase with Heart Greens finds an end. To be blatantly honest, the value here simply isn’t very good. The drink possesses five legitimate superfoods, but all in smaller doses. The drink sells you on increasing Nitric Oxide as a way to help with heart health and blood pressure, but there really are many supplements which could do this with greater ease and for less cost. I think Human Power of N might be growing their spinach and kale at Nordstroms. It just shouldn’t cost this much.

At $44.95 for 30 servings, you are looking at about $1.50 per serving size. The serving sizes are 5 grams, or 18 calorie shots. That’s just not much at all. It almost feels a bit too cold and calculating on the part of Human Power of N the way they short change us on value.

The product does deliver what it says, so if you don’t mind overpaying, you can expect to receive some benefits. And if you are someone who doesn’t mind overpaying, please contact me following the review as I have a really cool Bell Biv Devoe ‘Poison’ cassette tape I’d like to sell you. This classic R&B album, which features the hippest New Edition talent exodus, can be played at house parties and in old Dodge Shadows which still have a refined player system and audio deck. It is available for only three more days at the low, low price of $299.99.

PROS & CONS

Pros:

  • Has spinach and kale.
  • A good source to get a bit more fiber.
  • The taste profile is pretty good, you really can’t tell it is covering up the earthy greens.
  • The company that owns the product has a super cool name.
  • Contains a prebiotic, which helps feed the good bacteria in your stomach.

Cons:

  • Incredibly overpriced for what you get.
  • Low amounts of the advertised greens found in the supplement.
  • Relies heavily on alternative sugars, such as stevia, which don’t always work well with everyone.

SUMMARY

There is nothing inherently terrible about this supplement other than the fact that my best description is “there is nothing inherently terrible about this supplement.” The low nutritional value in exchange for what you pay makes this a must-pass supplement in my eyes. There are just many more lower cost, higher nutritional potency options out there.

Nitric Oxide production contributes to a healthy heart (managed blood pressure), but you can find plenty of other superfood supplements at lower costs that would serve the same purpose.

The additional prebiotic via inulin serves a wonderful purpose to a great many people who likely don’t get enough of this type fiber. The taste is pretty good for those who have struggled to accept green superfood supplements into their lives. And of course, like many powdered supplements, it is quite easy to use.

For me? I’d pass and move on to other options such as the Total Living Drink Greens or for a less expensive option Patriot Power Greens.

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6 Broccoli Health Benefits

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Broccoli Health BenefitsWe all have the one friend who absolutely loves eating raw broccoli. Sometimes that friend is over at your house and you offer them a little dark chocolate and mango but broccoli bro instead snobbishly says, “nah, got any raw broccoli and maybe some fresh lemon pepper?”

Thing is, you might end up throwing this bro right out of your house, if not for the fact that this bro really doesn’t exist. This bro is a figment of my imagination. How do you know what I am saying is now truth? Well, do you know anyone who loves eating raw broccoli? It’s kinda….not good. But guess what is good? Broccoli health benefits (in fact, they are insanely good).

No one can argue that broccoli is one of the most potent superfoods on earth: it has amazing health benefits, all of which will be discussed in-depth below. But many of us could also argue that eating raw broccoli feels a lot like a rusty nail puncturing our colon.

So, let’s figure out what makes broccoli so amazingly good for us and then, let’s figure out how the heck we are going to get more of it into our daily diets the easiest way possible (and I mean really easy). Sound good? I thought so. Let’s get started.

Fights Cancer

Cancer sucks. I think we can all agree. And the good news is that broccoli agrees with us as well. And brocolli even does something about it. Sulforaphane inside of broccoli has been shown to destroy cancer stem cells. This means broccoli has the ability to stop tumor growth. Additionally, a study from 2008 showed that broccoli interacts with GSTM1 genotype and interrupts signalling pathways associated with inflammation and carcinogenesis in the prostate. Yep, broccoli lowers the risk of prostate cancer like a boss!

Broccoli helps prevent arthritis

Recent studies have shown that sulforaphane (yep, we were just talking about this) blocks enemy enzymes which typically damage cartilage. This can help slow down the affects (or even prevent) osteoarthritis.

Broccoli contributes to improved eye health

As we age, our vision becomes more and more compromised. Eventually one day, our grandkids are driving us to Lenscrafters because we used salt in place of sugar in the oatmeal raisin cookies. But maybe if we ate more broccoli, we wouldn’t be in such a situation at all? Broccoli contains large quantities of carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin. This is basically fuel for the eyes. See what I’m saying? Ok, sorry, that was pretty lame on my part….

Broccoli is loaded with soluble fiber and chromium

This combination is a perfect storm for controlling blood sugar levels. Balanced blood sugar contributes to weight loss / weight management. The fiber in broccoli can also make you feel a lot more full, which will contribute to lowered caloric intake (which again can mean weight loss / weight management).

Broccoli is rich in vitamin C, which can help you fight off sickness

Vitamin C is essential to improving the strength of your immune system. Do you work in a cubicle next to someone who is always sick and sneezing? You need some broccoli protection detail. Let’s face it, your coworkers are mostly walking complaining bacteria who sneeze and cough all over everything in their path. Defeat them by increasing your broccoli intake.

Broccoli also increases your potassium intake like a champ

Potassium is an amazing electrolyte that many people don’t get enough of. You don’t have to eat bananas to get potassium, broccoli is a solid source for it. Potassium can help prevent strokes, lower anxiety and stress and makes sure to balance your body’s water flow. It is also great for blood pressure.

So wait, all these amazing benefits sound great, but what about that fact that broccoli, for some of us, is about as fun to eat as chewing anchovy flavored antacids? The solution is simple, my friends: Supplement.

Choosing supplements means choosing simplicity in your health. It means choosing taste alongside convenience. I supplement almost all of my superfoods via green superfood shakes. It makes life easier. Superfood drink powders allow people, like us, to get our optimal doses of things like broccoli without enduring the ingestion of a cruciferous stem.

Supplementing superfoods is how I stay younger looking and feeling healthier and more energetic. I like simplicity and that’s the very core of what supplementing entails.

Be simple. Be healthy. Supplement your way to improved health.