Week 6: ADD 9 fruit/Vegies to your life daily

WEEK 6: 1. ADD 9 fruit/Vegies to your life daily: You can truly eat all the fresh fruit and vegetable you can possibly stand and stay lean. It is Ideal to eat 5-9 servings of vegetables and fruit a day. Have you tried it? It is hard to get all that in! Why the fluctuation in 5-9, our bodies are all different shapes, sizes, and ages. Older or inactive women and smaller children need at least three servings of vegetables and two servings of fruit. Growing kids, teen girls, most men and active women would eat at least four servings of vegetables and three servings of fruit everyday. Teen boys and active men should eat at least five servings of vegetables and four servings of fruit.
A serving size of fruit or vegetable is equal to about one-half cup. Greens like spinach and lettuce have a serving size equal to one full cup. One serving of sliced fruit is equal to one-half cup; however a single piece of fruit, such as an apple or an orange counts as one serving…
Example: Fruits: one banana, six strawberries, two plums, fifteen grapes, one apple, one peach, one-half cup of orange or other fruit juice…
Vegetables: five broccoli florets, ten baby carrots, one tomato, 3/4 cup tomato juice, half of a baked sweet potato, one ear of corn, four slices of an onion…

I will sometime make a smoothie in the evening to get the rest of mine in a day and just drink it, for a snack.
Go to http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/ for a calculator to see how many is good for you.
It may take all summer to get these in your system; it’s worth the try.

Week 5 Healthier Life Style Program

Week 5: 1. Delete Soft drinks or soda pop, and delete artificial sweetener from your life: I’d rather see someone drinking a regular pop than a diet one. In my opinion, artificial sweeteners are very bad for you as most synthetic things are not good for your body. It is always better to go as natural as possible when putting stuff in the body. In a nutshell: Your brain really doesn’t know the difference between sugar and artificial sweetener… it just says, “Here comes sweet,” and pumps out insulin to compensate. So now you have this insulin sitting there and nothing to go to… which can lead to many upsets in the body causing imbalance. High blood levels of insulin can cause obesity, heart attacks, high-blood pressure and cholesterol levels. It is believed by many experts in the field, insulin makes you hungry, causing you to eat more food causes your liver to convert extra calories to fat and causes your fat cells to store more fat. The extra fat in your body causes plaques to form in your arteries, stiffening them and causing your blood pressure to rise and can increase your chances of getting a heart attack and stroke. The good news is you can reduce blood insulin levels, by eating less junk food, less fat, more fiber, more natural fruit and vegies and exercising more (30 minutes daily).