The latest product from herbalife, H30, for peak sports performance.

Advantages:

• Replaces essential electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and chloride lost through sweat
• Energising blend of carbohydrates provide your body with immediate and sustained energy
• Energy releasing B-vitamins helps your body to absorb the nutrients in H³O Pro
• Key antioxidants such as vitamins C and E help protect the body against the potentially damaging effects of free radicals induced during strenuous exercise or sports

The list of wonderful contacts just gets longer!

I finally got around to writing a new Longer Article, the topic this time is the little known Nitric Oxide found within all our bodies.

The article can be found here or in the Longer Articles section above.

Let’s take a minute to appreciate fiber.

So many people get confused by the dates on products from supermarkets. I remember my mother telling me that the number in brackets after the date, was how long you could use it after that date, example:

12/03/10 (2) 

in actual fact, the (2) means supermarkets have to sell that product or take it off their shelves 2 days before that date.

so what else is there? Do you know the difference between “Use by” “Best Before” and “Sell By” ? which ones are still safe to eat/drink after the date has passed? In some cases, even if a “use by” date has passed, the food is still good for a few days or even weeks (eggs for example).

view this article for more details!

Enjoy!

This summer Herbalife announced that they have joined F.C Barcelona to become the official nutrition sponsors of the global giants. Watch this video to see who else is working together with Herbalife

And here you can see more info about the union.

While many of you associate Herbalife with weight loss, here is a classic example of the importance of good nutrition to everybody, even those athletes regarded worldwide as among the fittest in the world!

If Messi and Beckham can take Herbalife, why not you?

Watch out Champions League, Barcelona are coming from you, and they will have more energy than ever.

We all know the power of advertising,  I know how many times I used to watch an old McDonald’s advert and think “Now THAT sounds like a good idea” or even simply glancing the famous golden arches in the street made me crave from time to time.  I think advertising and association are the Achilles heel of many weight loss enthusiasts worldwide!

In my experience, people wishing to lose weight struggle the most in the first few days when their bodies are craving the junk food they have become used to, and everywhere they look they see advertising that they subconsciously associate with pleasure!

I never realised until recently reading Tony Robbins “Awaken The Giant Within” ( A truly inspirational read!) that our brains actually create physical neural paths connecting certain images/ideas with pleasure. 

Not wanting to go into the ins and outs of neuroscience too much (especially as I’m not qualified) a brief summary would help you understand my point.

The brain divides everything it experiences into either pain or pleasure.

Whenever we experience either pain or pleasure, the brain searches for the cause, and creates a PHYSICAL NEURAL STRAND related to that activity.

Each time we repeat that activity, the strand is strengthened.  (Hence the philosophy practice makes perfect)

Therefore, anything associated with that activity, imagery, taste, even thinking of that activity, can give us a feeling of pleasure!

Fortunately, by stopping the activity, the neural pathway can weaken, and eventually the urge to eat junk food, for example, will reduce.

Want to stop eating unhealthy food but hate the cravings and the feeling of pleasure you associate with said food?

Stopping is the first step! Over time, you will feel less emotion about junk food.  Don’t let your brain get in the way of your weight loss goals anymore

Visit Tony Robbins’ website for more information on Neural Conditioning and how to control your brain

View this Herbalife article on the power of advertising

Latest research shows that the old myth about milk is largely inaccurate, save for the essential milk we receive during breast feeding.

This website has some very enlightening facts, which I will summarise below.

• In order to ingest Calcium, we need Magnesium. Milk is essentially devoid of Magnesium.
• Studies have shown that the higher the intake of Dairy in a society, the higher the risk of Osteoporosis
• Milk is heated, or pasteurized, in order to kill off the bad bacteria and other harmful substances. In the process, much of the good bacteria and nutrients are also destroyed and can clog up the areas in the intestine where the useful nutrients are absorbed
• If you fed a baby cow pasteurized milk, it would die within two weeks

The list goes on.  Read the article in full for some shocking enlightenment.

This article is very good for highlighting the importance of calcium, but interestingly, the studies they use as an example were of people taking calcium tablets, and not milk, why? why do you think.

More Information:

Check out the following video!

http://www.jsp-nhscollege.org/new_web/big5/main_eng.php?page=&id=5

Remember, every nutrient is connected to another nutrient, without the right balance of nutrients, many of them are wasted in our body and can cause harm!

Never mind hoping to return from a trip abroad looking tanned and golden brown, what about all that excess weight that we inevitably gain from all that indulging?

Here are a few tips how to enjoy your travel abroad, including the odd indulging (It’s a vacation, treat yourself!) without the fear of coming back bloated and ballooned.

As always, weight management and health is the core of our concerns here at Herbalife

Contact me for more information on nutrition and weight management!

Enjoy your travels.