Reduce Oxidative Stress with Good Nutrition

Dr. David Phillips is a former All-American swimmer who specializes in Sports Medicine. In this video, he advises that we should consume more whole food nutrition to reduce oxidative stress – and emphasizes that exercising doesn’t mean it’s okay to eat anything you want.
Dr. Phillips states, “I can't stress enough the critical role that the thousands of phytonutrients found in fruits and vegetables play in helping protect our bodies from oxidative stress and free-radical damage – not only as a part of normal metabolism, but especially during exercise.” Athletes tend to focus on macro nutrition by loading on carbohydrates and proteins but Dr. Phillips tells us that micro-nutrition, which can be found in fruits and vegetables, is equally important for a fitness diet. He sees micronutrients as “the oil that makes your engine run” and explains that the body will break down without it.

Dr. Phillips recommends Juice Plus+® for athletes and people of all physical activity levels for better health and longevity. “Juice Plus+ helps ensure that we are giving our bodies nutrition from the best sources of micronutrients — nutrition that is essential for helping protects us from the damaging effects of oxidative stress.”

Dr. Phillips was an All-American swimmer at Harvard, two-time USA Triathlon All-American (2004 and 2007) and qualified as a member of Team USA for the 2008 ITU World Ironman Triathlon Championships in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Here’s some other simple changes you can try to help manage stress:

• Laugh out loud once a day.
• Start a DIY project.
• Add 5 minutes of quiet meditation to your daily routine.
• Eat lunch away from your desk.
• Turn off your phone before dinner.
• Spend 20 minutes outside each day.
• Go to sleep an hour earlier.
• Wake up an hour later on Sunday.
• Take time to focus on yourself and no-one else at least once a week.

Prevent Disease with Nutrition

Juice Plus is ‪‎30 plants‬ that are proven to be absorbed by the human body instead of excreted like multi‬-vitamins.  It protects your ‎DNA‬ against ‪disease‬, supports your ‪cardiovascular‬ wellness, supports a healthy ‪‎immune‬ system, healthy ‎skin‬ and ‎gums‬, reduced oxidative stress on your body from life's everyday activities (stresses/exercise), reduced key ‪biomarkers‬ of systemic ‪‎inflammation‬ in your body, supports the quality of life in ‪‎cancer‬ survivors, supports ‪‎lung‬ health in ‪‎smokers‬ even if they continue to smoke. Would you want to know more about it? IF it was backed by over 30+ peer reviewed, double blind, placebo based, scientific research by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world, would that spark an interest? IF I told you one existed, would you want to take it? Change your health on a cellular level. ‎Its just food‬!

Eat Great to Hydrate

As glorious as summer can be, it can also be hard on your skin. Not only do you need to protect yourself against sunburn, but the risk of dehydration is higher in this hot weather. And like the rest of your body, your skin needs sufficient hydration to stay healthy.

Staying Hydrated, the Fruit and Veggie WayDrinking an adequate amount of water is the common-sense approach to avoiding dehydration, but did you know eating certain fruits and vegetables can also count toward your daily water needs? Actually, roughly 20% of our water intake is from foods. In the summer months, make sure to eat a lot of these hydrating fruits and veggies:

• Zucchini is 96% water. This member of the squash family is the best source of dietary fiber, which will have you feeling full for longer. Shake up your salad and try this refreshing zucchini salad with pine nuts!
• Tomatoes are 94% water. These Eggs Florentine in tomato cups are perfect for those perfectly ripe farmer’s market tomatoes you can only find this time of year. This recipe contains a healthy serving of spinach as well! Take note that grilling tomatoes will reduce the water content, but still offer a hydrating amount!
• Watermelon and strawberries are 92% water. If you need an incentive to drink more, these tasty strawberry-watermelon coolers should do the trick! You can probably omit the sugar, as both these fruits are plenty sweet.

Getting your D, While Blocking the SunFor most people, sun block is the first line of defense against sunburn and damaging UV-exposure. But sunblock (and other methods of avoiding excess sun exposure, such as staying in the shade or wearing long sleeves and long pants) can reduce your body’s production of vitamin D, which is crucial for bone health, immunity, cardiovascular health, and ironically, skin health.
Not many fruits and vegetables contain vitamin D, but there is one exception: mushrooms. Even so, they don’t have much. One cup of sliced, raw, white button mushrooms has 3% of the Daily Value (DV) for vitamin D. However, you can dramatically boost the vitamin D content of mushrooms by exposing them to sunlight. That’s right, just like your skin, mushrooms can make vitamin D from the sun!
How do you ensure you’re keeping your skin healthy?