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“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

This statement is powerful and really makes you think about all we put our bodies through. Not only the foods we eat and our enviroment, but what we’re putting on our body.

About a year ago, I had a good friend give me some Native deodorant. She knows I’m always on the look out for good products that are safe and healthy for my body.

Native is aluminum free and paraben free. Contains all natural ingredients. It doesn’t irritate sensitive skin. It comes in several delicious scents. My favorite is the Coconut Vanilla.

I’ve also really enjoyed using their Body Wash. All natural ingredients, and smells wonderful and refreshing.

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Xocai healthy chocolate is now Well-Beyond

Xocai healthy chocolate has changed names/owners, and is now called Well-Beyond. It is still the same healthy chocolate with all the health benefits as before. Here’s an exert from Well-Beyond about healthy chocolate and why this is the best chocolate to consume for good health:

Cacao: Nature’s Supreme Antioxidant Source

ICT ORAC6: A Seal of Superior Quality

“The ICT Certification Program ensures that Beyond Healthy Chocolate products are tested and meet specific criteria several times each year. This seal will appear on all Beyond Healthy Chocolate product packaging for complete customer confidence.”

Can chocolate truly be healthy?

YES! Let’s explain why:

Everyone has heard of free radicals. It’s well known that these rogue molecules damage healthy cells, which in turn results in unhealthy tissues, organs and eventually, an unhealthy body.

Fortunately, cacao, the nutritional source of Dark Chocolate, is nature’s top source of antioxidants. Antioxidants are nutrients that neutralize free radicals and slow their damage.

-Among the most important observations in the history of medicine “How important does that make [cacao antioxidants]? I would say very important.”

-Harvard physician and researcher Norman Hollenberg, MD, regarding the benefits of cacao’s antioxidants. Among cacao’s most impressive phytonutrients are several types of polyphenols, largely recognized as some of the most powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds known today. The most powerful and prominent polyphenols in cacao are flavanols.

Hundreds of studies have found that flavanols possess distinct and powerful properties, including the ability to:

Minimize inflammation throughout the body
Slow free radicals
Protect the heart and blood vessels
Support the immune system
Promote antibacterial/antiviral activity in the body
Relax and dilate blood vessels
Modify blood sugar levels
Protect the brain
Preserve cellular integrity
Protect and repair the liver
Positively modify hormone activity
…and much more!

Did you know if you’re like the average person, you eat about 12 pounds of chocolate per year? The problem with that is that most people are eating the “regular” unhealthy chocolate that has been stripped of its antioxidants and other vital nutrients.

That’s what makes Well-Beyond Healthy Chocolate so different and so healthy!

So why are most chocolate products not really “healthy”? Primarily because of the way their content is processed. Traditional processing means that the chocolate is heated, alkalized and combined with artificial and unhealthy ingredients, all of which destroys the cacao’s powerful antioxidants and degrades it’s nutritional content.

What’s Wrong With “Normal” Chocolate?

Alkalizing (also called “dutching”) neutralizes its antioxidants
Heating further destroys its antioxidants and other vital nutrients
Addition of waxes, milk solids, hydrogenated oils and sugar further degrade the antioxidant firepower of cacao

Why is Beyond, Healthy Chocolate® Different?

Proprietary cold-processing preserves antioxidants and other crucial nutrients
Does not alkalize its chocolate
Uses only natural cacao butter, sweeteners and other natural ingredients
Contains no artificial ingredients
Category creator and leader of healthy chocolate industry

Well-Beyond is still my chocolate of choice! (www.ExcitedAboutHealthyChocolate.Well-Beyond.com)

Green Smoothie Girl Special Group Buy now thru November 30, 2016

Looking for an awesome deal on healthy foods? Green Smoothie Girl annual group buy is going on now!

We’ve been using Green Smoothie Girl products for a few years now. We use the protein powder every day. My husband likes to mix the chocolate flavor with water and fruit. I use a scoop of vanilla or chocolate in my smoothie that I make for lunch. We feel good about using this protein powder. There’s no dairy (whey), soy or fillers. It has organic pea protein, organic hemp seed protein, and organic maca. All super good for you! Right now through the end of November, if you use this link: http://greensmoothiegirl.com/shop/?affiliate=659 you’ll get the special Group Buy where the Protein Powder is ‘Buy 2 Get 1 Free!’ While you’re there, check out the other great deals!https://bd272.isrefer.com/go/gsg/a659/

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Three Quick and Easy Ways to Calm Anxiety and Stress

I don’t know about you, but Election Day brought on major anxiety for me! I really don’t like to get involved in political stuff, and kept telling myself that all my worrying wouldn’t change anything. But I could just feel it building…. anxiety, big time. So here’s a couple quick ideas I have found to take the edge off my anxiety and stress.

Take a deep breath through your nose counting to 10, then hold for 8-10 counts and then slowly release through your mouth (try for 10 counts). Repeat about 3 times. You can wait a couple minutes and do it again.

Next is lavender. Over the last couple years, I have found that lavender essential oil helps calm me. I put a drop on the bottom of each of my feet and put the bottle by my nose take a deep long breath. I also do this at night to help me sleep better.

Recently, my doctor recommended I take L-Theanine when I’m extremely stressed. L-Theanine may help relieve stress by inducing a relaxing effect without causing drowsiness. It helps to calm me down, and there are no known side effects.

After doing these three quick and easy things, I was feeling somewhat better and calmer. If you have more time, a nice long warm bath with some Epsom salts and lavender essential oil is heavenly. Oh, and of course a piece of healthy Xocai chocolate can never hurt.

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Is there really such a thing as Healthy Chocolate? – YES, there is!

This is how I found out about it and why it was such a great product for me.

Several years ago, I injured my back sliding down three steps on black ice and landing on cement. The pain it caused in my lower back was excruciating. I had never experienced chronic pain like that in my life, and couldn’t believe that someone could live through that kind of pain.

I had compressed (bulged) two discs in my lower back, with arthritis in the three vertebras around those discs. I had fractures all over in the sacrum and sacroiliac joints. There was tremendous nerve damage, so much that to even touch the skin on my lower back, it felt like thousands of hot burning needles.

Surgery was not an option, so we spent over thousands of dollars trying all kinds of therapies, treatments, alternative therapies, decompression, sacral cranial therapy, etc. with no relief. When I would go to therapy, the tears would just flow continuously from the pain and I couldn’t even get through five minutes of the simplest moves. I felt like my life was over. We have five boys, and it was a struggle to make it through the day to be there for them. I was pretty much living in bed because the pain was increased immensely the longer I stood, and I couldn’t sit without feeling like I was going to die.

After 2 1/2 years of living life like this, a close family friend introduced me to Xocai healthy chocolate. My first response was that I couldn’t eat chocolate because I’m allergic to caffeine and the sugars that are in chocolate. I would get migraines if I ate chocolate. She said I could eat this kind of chocolate because there is no caffeine in it and no add sugars. Pure unprocessed cacao is an anti-inflammatory, and it would most likely help my back pain. So I decided to try it for a while.

After about 2-3 weeks of eating Xocai, the inflammation in my back decrease significantly and I was finally able to start moving around easier. I went back to physical therapy and learned how to strengthen my back. The nerves began to repair and heal, and I started feeling better.

I’m so excited to finally be able to eat chocolate again! I can eat several pieces and day, and know that it is helping my body. No allergic reaction. I’m a firm believer that it helps with so many of our health problems.

You can learn more about Xocai healthy chocolate here: www.MyDailyChoice.com/shop?selected_brands=8&rep=excitedabouthealthyc

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