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Schkinny News - Stay healthy WITHOUT health foods!

Posted in Schkinny NEWS on 08/26/2009 04:53 pm by admin

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26th August 2009

 

Stay healthy WITHOUT health foods!

Today’s list of superfoods is very impressive — it seems as though every day something else gets the illustrious title.  Eat right and you can dramatically slow your rate of aging and dim your risk of disease. The trouble? Not everyone can eat these superfoods.

Whether you are allergic to nuts, don’t drink wine, or would just absolutely, positively never voluntarily chew and swallow anything containing fish or flax, you’re not shut out of the health benefits. Here’s what to eat or drink instead:

The superfood: Alcohol
Why it’s good: Sipping wine or beer in moderation may reduce your odds for heart disease by more than 25%.
What to have instead: Put a plant-based “rainbow” on your table. You’ll get the heart-protecting compounds in red wine — resveratrol, quercetin, and catechins — from blueberries, red grape juice (made totally from grapes), apples, onions, grapefruit, black tea, and even peanuts.

These compounds help prevent risky blood clots, stop free radical damage better than vitamins C and E alone, stave off heart rhythm disorders, and counter the inflammation that makes a mess of blood vessel walls. Add fish, dark chocolate, garlic, and nuts (especially walnuts) to your meals and you can cut your risk for heart disease by nearly 75% — without a drop of the hard stuff.

The superfood: Fish
Why it’s good: Having fatty, nonfried fish three times a week gives your body a good squirt of omega-3 fatty acids, the superfat that acts like a handyman inside your arteries and also helps with immune function and brain repair. It lowers triglycerides and blood pressure, makes blood less sticky (clot-prone), and cuts your odds of out-of-sync heartbeats (arrhythmias). Wild salmon, mahimahi, catfish, flounder, and tilapia are top sources for the two omega-3s your body loves best: DHA and EPA.
What to have instead: Start with DHA-rich foods, such as walnuts (2.5 grams of omega-3 per ounce) and omega-3-enriched eggs and orange juice. But because it’s hard to get enough through diet, reach for fish-oil supplements. Pop enough to get 3 grams of DHA and EPA a day. Or pop 600 milligrams of pills containing DHA from a vegetarian source like algae (that’s where fish get their DHA from) — these are much smaller pills and have no fish taste or smell.

The superfood: Nuts
Why they’re good: These tiny power foods are packed with fiber, protein, and an impressive mix of good fats (especially walnuts) that help lower your risk of diabetes, drop blood pressure, and cool chronic inflammation. An ounce a day can lower the rate of heart disease by as much as 40%. And nut-eaters lose more weight than nut-avoiders — presumably because nuts curb your appetite. Plus, eating nuts before high-carbohydrate dishes (pasta, corn on the cob) helps keep your blood sugar steady, not soaring.
What to have instead: If you’re allergic to nuts, get their monounsaturated fats from avocados, canola and olive oils, olives, and even dark chocolate. But if you’re only allergic to the calories in nuts, give ’em a second chance. Have a small handful every day — a half-ounce has only about 100 calories.

The superfood: Skim Milk
Why it’s good: It’s a rich source of bone-protecting calcium, vitamin D, and other minerals.
What to have instead: If you’re lactose intolerant, try a brand that adds lactase — the enzyme your body needs to digest milk sugars — or take lactase tablets before you drink milk.

If you just don’t do milk, then aim for 1,500 milligrams of calcium per day from other sources. Also, be sure to get 400 milligrams of magnesium and 1000 international units (IU) of vitamin D; 1,200 if you’re over age 60. For supplements, we prefer calcium citrate to calcium carbonate. Calcium citrate is more easily absorbed, so you can take it anytime, not just with meals. (Your body can only absorb up to 600 milligrams of calcium in 2 hours, so keep citrate chewables in the car, and pop one every time you turn over the ignition.)

Whenever you can, load up on other calcium-rich foods. Black-eyed peas, baked beans, and canned salmon with the bones (they’re tiny and safe) are good, and a cup of boiled collard greens or spinach packs as much calcium as a glass of skim milk.

The superfood: Flax
Why it’s good: This little seed has a near-perfect balance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids — a balance that’s missing in many modern diets. Getting too many 6s encourages inflammation, which ALA (alpha-linolenic acid), a good fat in flax, fights.
What to have instead: Canola oil, walnuts, brussels sprouts, kale, spinach, and salad greens. Simply fit one of these — or fish, fish oil, or capsules of DHA-omega-3 from algae, or an omega-3-enriched egg and glass of OJ — into your diet every day to keep your good-fat seesaw in balance.

 

Next week marks the enter of something I have not been able to escape for a few months - WINTER and I are officially over!

Spring into SPRING CLEANING with the September cleanse programs.  WE have 5 spots left in our August 31st program, SIGN UP NOW at  http://www.schkinnymaninny.com.au/nutritional-cleanse.php

To get you hot and healthy now that Spring is here, we have partnered with the svelte hunnies at Booty Camp to give all Schkinny customers a special on their GIRLS only boot camp program.  Normally a six week program costs $250, but YOU GET IT FOR $200.  Cash in now at www.bootycamp.com.au and use your special code “Schkinny”

 

 Spring is just perfect to get yourself excited about looking great in Summer, here is a rundown from a Schkinny Cleanser…

Well, nearly there now - two bottles to go and that’s a wrap for the 5 day cleanse!

 

It has been amazing - MUCH better than I thought it would be as I have done many different types of cleanses before and overall eat and drink in the healthy top percentile anyway!

 

BUT - it still had amazing results for me - so much so that I would like to do a 3 day cleanse starting on Monday June 8 and going to Wed 10th, I know it is soon but we are going away on the 15th and I would really love to feel this good as I step onto the plane! My husband may even join me!

 

The bad and the good of it.

 

Monday is easy really, but definately Tuesday is hard! Everything else you mention, getting over the hunger, feeling revitalised , smelling things better etc etc are all true and really do happen.

 

Two things I am amazed about:

 

1. How can you have such regular and LARGE bowel actions when all you do is drink 6 bottles of juice - amazing?

 

2. And OH WOW! I felt and now feel - FABULOUS!! THIS is THE answer to eternal youth, without question! I am over 50 and feel better than I did in my 20’s! Now that’s a result worth having! I will be doing this cleanse on a regular basis for the rest of my life and have already booked my next one!

 

And a bonus third point - for over two years I have dieted and exercised to get my wieght below a certain point. I am not overweight and dont really need to loose weight but I feel better below a certain weight and just could NOT get there no matter what I tried, gym, pilates, even a nutritionist!

 

Guess what! At the beginning of this cleanse I was above it and at the end I am below it!! I am talking about less than 2 kilo’s here so by no means saying that in 5 days this is a way to loose wieght, but no matter what I did I could not get below that magic number - and now I have and it feels fabulous! Thank you!

 

Confession though - I took you seriously about being kind to myself. I scrubed with the loofah each day, went to bed early every night, had a detox seaweed treatment and added a bath to my pre-dinner routine!

 

So guys, get used to delivering to our house - you’ll be doing it alot!

 

Many thanks, hope I have convinced some more people to do it too!

 

www.schkinnymaninny.com.au

Schkinny Maninny Newsletter July.1

Posted in Schkinny NEWS on 07/10/2009 09:38 am by admin
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1st July 2009

The SKINNY Drink
Have a little fat you’d like to lose? Maybe now is a good time to turn on the kettle and pour yourself a cup of this: white tea.

Made from the buds and early leaves of the same plants used to make green and black teas, white tea may have special fat-thwarting powers, a new study suggests.

Fat-Blasting Brew
Fat cells increase or decrease in size, according to your weight. And in a lab study, human fat cells treated with white tea extract accumulated significantly less fat. In fact, the white tea extract reduced the incorporation of fat by as much as 70 percent! The tea also seemed to stimulate the breakdown of fat from mature cells.

Why White Whittles
Because white tea is less processed than green or black tea, it has more of certain active compounds, like epigallocatechin-3-gallate (an antioxidant) and methylxanthines (theobromine and caffeine). And researchers suspect that these compounds influence fat-cell metabolism by acting on the expression of certain genes. But human studies will be needed to confirm it.

The Taste Test
You can get White tea from your supermarket, we have tried the Lotus Peak Natural Vanilla White Tea and the Twinings White Tea.  The Twinings is far more drinkable, and tastes very similar to a Japanese Green Tea.  TRY IT!!

Breathe better (and lose some waistline) – Fibre in your diet

Wish you didn’t get so winded when hiking up the stairs? Then start your day with oats. Or bran. Or anything high in fiber.

It may not give you the lung capacity of Michael Phelps, but it could help you breathe easier. New research shows that dietary fiber may give lungs a leg up.

Breathe Easier
In a study, people who ate at least 27 grams of fiber per day had better lung capacity than people who got less than 10 grams. The high-fiber eaters were also 15 percent less likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an irreversible lung condition that makes it hard to breathe. Fiber may protect lungs by reducing tissue-damaging inflammation. The antioxidants in fiber probably help protect lung cells, too. Are you getting enough fiber? 

Fiber: Wonder Food?

What else is fiber good for? Plenty:

§             Your waistline. Want to lose a few before Summer? Fiber helps fill you up, so you munch less.
§             Your blood pressure. When your blood pressure creeps up, knock it back down with extra fiber.
§             Your bowels. It’s no secret: Fiber helps keep you regular.

Easy ways to add more fibre to your day:
Grab a five bean mix from the supermarket and throw some through your salad.
Try to eat at least 2 pieces of fruit every day
Buy some pysllium husk from your supermarket, add one spoonful to your cereal every morning.

Don’t be content with feeling flabby and yuck in winter - Register NOW for the July Schkinny Cleanse!

Spaces are still available for July 6th and July 20th Cleanses - SIGN UP NOW for the Super 5 Day Cleanse or Baby 3 Day Cleanse.  Register at www.schkinnymaninny.com.au

I feel really…well…..clean on the inside!

Posted in Clean and feeling it, Schkinny Reviews and Testimonials on 06/30/2009 04:16 pm by admin

Well yes, Friday at last!!!  It has been a very interesting week. 

 

The first couple of days were fine, I had a mild headache and was getting a bit tired by the end of the second day, but other than that, none of the nausea, mood swings etc I was expecting.  So here I was thinking I was doing great!!!  And the extra bit in the juices on the second day were fantastic.  It made the not so yummy juices much better! 

 

Wednesday was a little bit worse, I was quite tired that day, especially at the end of the day, my focus was waning.  I put that down to the fact that I was on the second day of a very heavy course I am doing through work.  Probably not the best thing to do on a detox week, but this course was going for another four weeks, a couple of days a week.  I just couldn’t wait any longer to do the cleanse!

 

Then came Thursday, my first day back at the office since Monday.  Man was I restless and unfocussed, and crabby too.  I actually found this day the worst!  After reading my little ’buddy’ for the day, I was thinking I was a dud, I was meant to be coming out the other side.  But everyone is different, and I had been so lucky so far.  I sit near the kitchen at work, so food smells and noises are constantly around me.  Then I had to go to a ‘Brown Bag’ session at lunch time, and I swear I could smell everyone’s lunch - individually!  Ho hum.  Back to my juice.  The afternoon was torture, it dragged and dragged.  It was the fist day I couldn’t drink all of my juices.

 

So now it’s Friday morning.  After yesterday I was wondering what to expect.  I read my ‘buddy’ telling me I can only eat veggies and fruit on my much anticipated ‘chewing’ Saturday.  For a moment I am disappointed, but then, no.  I really don’t mind at all.  Veggies are actually what I’m craving, and I’ve always loved my veggies.  I knew I would have to ease back into food, but I was hoping to sneak in a little bit of chicken and some bbq’d veggies for a dinner with friends!  But steamed veggies are more than fine. 

 

I feel really good, my body has bounce and energy, and I don’t feel bloated as I had been.  I feel really…well…..clean on the inside!  My brain seems to be having a hard time accepting it all just yet.  But that is changing too.  As I go through the morning the acceptance is sinking in!  Little changes like that clean feeling etc are becoming more and more of a realisation as the day goes on.  And as of this morning I have lost 2 kg’s, what a bonus!

 

So it’s been great, well, you know, maybe not all of the time, but in hindsight!  It’s a weird experience, because you aren’t hungry at all, ever!!  The juices are plenty to keep you going.  It’s the struggle with not chewing, it is such a normal thing to do, a huge habit, and everyone else is doing it around you!

 

The 5 days is hard going, but so worth it in the end, and just what I needed.  And I was lucky to have supportive (in their own way!!) people around me, keeping me in check and willing to listen to my gripes about just wanting to CHEW something! 

 

Thanks Catherine, it’s a great thing you and the Schkinny team are doing!