Confused about Natural and Organic?
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 SuperFoodsRx is all about incorporating nutrient dense whole foods into your diet and thinking about food for more than just a meal or snack but as playing an essential role in preventing a host of diseases. In the process of shopping for healthy foods you may be one of us that is confused by the terms natural and organic? Let's try to clear it up so we know what we are buying into.
Organic refers specifically to the farming elements used to grow our food. Most conventional bug sprays and other chemicals are not used in the growing of produce and antibiotics and growth hormones are prohibited for livestock.
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Fight Bugs with Better Bugs
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 Probiotics and prebiotics, you need to know the basics of these powerful tools to keep your GI tract bug and symptom-free.
Pro- and prebiotics are found naturally in many foods and more and more are being added to foods like yogurt, muffins, drinks and bars. Probiotics help to digest foods and are living microorganisms often referred to as "good bacteria". Prebiotics are ingredients found in food that provide fuel for the good bacteria in the GI tract.
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Summer Traveling In SuperFoodsRx Style
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 Like a lot of you this time of year, my family is gearing up for our big summer vacation. Our trip this year involves a couple of hours in airport terminals, a really long airplane ride, followed by a three-hour car trip! I thought this would be a good time to share a few of our SuperFoodRx tips for healthy and happy traveling. And we couldn't do this without The Snack Bag.
I'll be traveling with my spouse and two children so I know the temptations that exist when traveling. We know all about the giant muffins and venti beverages at the airport high-end coffee kiosk, the greasy pizza at the airport food court, the king size candy bars at the magazine stand (don't forget the one pound bag of M&Ms!), and those yummy in-flight snack boxes with the cheese wedges, vacuum-packed summer sausage (what is that anyway?), potato chips, etc...It's mostly the high calorie, low nutrient foods that are the opposite of what all of us in the SuperFoodsRx family know is good for us.
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Don't Be Fooled By Fat Labels
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 Have you ever really looked at the fat content on your milk carton nutrition label? How about the fat content on reduced-fat cookies or crackers? And what really is the fat content on 'light' soup? Indeed, what does 2%, low-fat, reduced-calorie and 'light' truly mean?
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Summer SuperDrink: Old-Fashioned Iced Tea
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 Everybody talks about the benefits of green tea, however, there are still some of us who simply don’t like the taste of it. At SuperFoodsRx, many of us prefer black tea (Earl Grey is my favorite) and we live on it, iced, all summer long.
Many people don’t realize that green, black and oolong tea are all produced from the same shrub, Camellia sinensis, and regular consumption of all of them is beneficial to your health.
Tea is readily available, almost calorie-free and it’s positively full of antioxidant flavonoids. As you know by now, antioxidants neutralize free radicals, the harmful substances produced in our bodies. The good news is that one or two cups of tea, green, black or oolong, may provide as much of an antioxidant dose as five servings of fruits and vegetables! |
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