Help Mom get Healthy

In our fast-food culture, maintaining a healthy weight can be quite difficult. Why not help mom loose weight this Mother’s Day by encouraging her to eat healthier. One way mom can loose weight is by increasing her greens. Salads are very popular in the Summer season when it is too hot out to cook.  The variety of salads one can make is endless. A salad simply isn’t a salad without  some toppings.  Fruit can be great salad toppings. Consider doubling up on the eggs, and chicken you add to your salad to keep you fuller or make a leafless salad with fresh vegetables.

                

Ready or not, summer is almost here – along with all the skin-exposing fashions that come with it. Udderly Smooth wants to help you get ready for Summer with a NEW product for udderly beautiful skin – Udderly Smooth Vitamin E Cream. Enriched with Vitamin E, this cream will immediately make your skin summer soft and smooth. The size makes it perfect to toss into your purse, gym bag, or diaper bag.

For those of you who are unaware of the story behind Udderly Smooth allow me to tell you. It was originally intended for use on Dairy Cows sore udders! The reason it became available to us humans stems back to the benefits that the farmers found to their own skin when they were applying it to the cows.

Hot weather causes skin to produce more oils and the exposure to sunlight can cause dry patches for those of us who normally suffer from dry skin. Read more…

                

Mom’s blood pressure might be up these days and (let’s face it) stress is probably part of the problem. Hypertension is dubbed as the ‘silent killer’ because it strikes without warning, which is why it is so important for mom to have a home blood pressure machine.

Keeping a record of blood pressure measurements will show her and her doctor not only how well her medicine is working, but also allows her to identify any changes in her blood pressure.

Did you know that Women with high blood pressure have a 3.5-times greater risk of developing heart disease than women with normal blood pressure?

Knowing ones blood pressure can prevent a number of health problems from occurring. When blood pressure is too high, it puts stress on the body’s entire vascular system, forcing the heart to work harder. When hypertension is left uncontrolled for some time, hypertension can lead to heart failure or stroke.

There are an estimated 70,000 heart attacks each year in Canada. That’s one heart attack every 7 minutes. Each year, more women than men die from stroke.

As someone with hypertension, measuring my blood pressure is important. I have been using the Omron BP785CAN Blood Pressure Monitor for over 7 months now and just recently it saved me from a possible heart attaché or stroke. Because I was monitoring my blood pressure regularly I was able to get to the hospital in time and am now on medication for hypertension.

I do a lot of traveling, so I wanted a blood pressure monitor that I could easily take with me. That is when Dan of Omron Healthcare recommended the Omron HEM-652, a portable wrist blood pressure monitor. Read more…

                

Mother’s Day gift Ideas 

For Mother’s Day this year, help Mom stay healthy with a gift of green tea. Green tea is one of the best drinks on the planet. It has been proven that drinking green tea can lower cholesterol, burn fat, ease the pain of rheumatoid arthritis, boost your immune system and be helpful in variety of other conditions and illnesses. Research suggests that the powerful antioxidants in green tea called flavonoids may also protect the heart and help lower ones’s risk of heart disease. Studies have also found an association between consuming green tea and a reduced risk for several cancers, including, skin, breast, lung, colon, esophageal, and bladder.

Tea Forte takes great pride in offering health promoting TEAS FOR THE HEART on behalf of the 42 million American women living with, or at risk of heart disease. This is a beautiful gift to give mom and supports a wonderful cause. Read more…

                

New research by Swiss Natural, Canada’s trusted provider of vitamins, herbals and supplements, found that 42% of Canadians don’t know what probiotics are or what they do. Until recently I was among that percentage.

Let’s start with the facts behind what probiotics are: “Probiotics are “live microorganisms,” which, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host.”

Probiotic supplements are on the rise. Some specialists are recommending them for disorders, such as irritable bowel syndrome.  Probiotic also helps to prevent eczema in youth, increase ability to digest food, promote anti-tumor and anti-cancer activity in the body, reduce incidence of yeast infections, vaginitis and candidiasis.  There is preliminary research being done that suggests probiotics might even be able to enhance weight loss.  Probiotics are also a beneficial bacteria that may help protect against allergies and asthma. Probiotic supplements ease the symptoms of respiratory allergies, such as asthma and eczema.

Swiss Herbal Remedies has been offering probiotics for decades, before they became the newest trend. Why? Because everyone needs help to rebalance their intestinal tract at one time or another. Read more…