| | Greetings! Spring is here. It is time to get out in the fresh air and experience everything nature has to offer. At this time of the year and in the months to come nature provides us with an abundance of fresh produce. Take advantage of nature’s gifts and challenge yourself to try new fruits and vegetables this spring. Explore your local organic fresh markets. Meet the people who grow your food and ask them questions about their organic farming practices. Join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) which will provide you with a box of local, organic, fresh and sustainable produce each month. Have an organic foods potluck party where everyone brings an organic dish and exchanges recipes.
In this newsletter you will learn ways to sustain the earth and celebrate Earth Day on April 22nd. Learn the benefits of eating raw foods and a few easy ways to incorporate more raw foods into your daily diet. One of the keys to a lifetime of optimal health and energy is adopting healthy habits at a young age. Learn easy ways to get your kids eating well now. Learn yoga stretches you can do at your desk to rejuvenate the body and mind. Go one step further and download a program that will pop up on your computer to remind you to take a break and stop and stretch. If you or someone you know has a little one who bottle feeds find out where to get non-toxic baby bottles and cups. Finally, read John Robbins’ Healthy at 100 to learn how to live healthy and vibrant for many years to come.
Check out Kelly’s Weekly Wellness Blog at www.rl.tv to learn more tips on how to live well including optimal forms of exercise that all baby boomers should be doing.
In April Kelly is participating in a variety of corporate health fairs. She is working with companies helping their employees become pro-active about their health. Call Kelly if you want your employees to take control of their health or pass along Kelly's information to your Human Resource Director.
Kelly is also conducting inservices for healthcare professionals. She is talking about the benefits of holistic healthcare including the use of nutrition and holistic health with physical therapy and the use of movement therapies such as pilates, gyrotonic exercise and yoga to treat patients.
Call Kelly to schedule a physical therapy, holistic health/nutrition, gyrotonic exercise or pilates session at her DC studio location. Kelly is at the studio Tuesdays, Wednesdsays and Thursdays.
The studio is located at:
4708 Wisconsin Ave NW Suite 2
Washington DC 20016
Clients are loving Kelly’s Healthy Kitchen Makeover and Healthy Grocery Store Tour packages.
Is your kitchen filled with unhealthy processed foods? Do you want to organize your kitchen so it is full of healthy foods that are easy to prepare? Do you want to learn how to grocery shop for healthy whole foods?
Kelly knows that to be healthy and have energy you need to eat an abundance of whole natural foods. She will come to your home and help you “trash the crap”, reorganize your kitchen and stock it with healthy foods. Kelly will accompany you to the grocery store and/or market and teach you how to shop for whole natural foods, read labels to avoid chemicals and harmful ingredients and prepare healthy delicious quick meals and snacks. She will show you how simple and easy it is for your whole family to eat well everyday.
Kelly is getting Corporate America Healthy.
Schedule a series of Wellness Education Programs to motivate employees to take preventative steps for their long-term health and wellness. Kelly walks her talk and is spreading the word that living healthy can be simple and fun. Our most popular topics include:
Eating for Energy
Superfoods and Healthfoods
Backcare 101: Strengthening the Core
The Breath and Stress Reduction: Relax the Body and Mind
Check out the 2007-2008 Institute for Integrative Nutrition Catalog. Kelly is featured as a Graduate Profile. www.integrativenutrition.com.  | | | The Benefits of Eating Raw  Raw foods are foods in their natural form, from the earth, organic and uncooked. Raw foods contain enzymes which greatly aid in their own digestion, allowing the body’s own enzymes to do the work unimpeded of regulating all the body’s many metabolic processes. Heating food degrades or destroys these enzymes in food, causing the body’s own enzymes to do the work. Eating foods without enzymes makes digestion more difficult. The body is not only deprived of enzymes but it also has to work harder to digest the food and the food does not get properly digested. Over time this can cause toxicity in the body. It can also lead to excess consumption of food because you still crave the nutrients you are not getting from the foods you are eating and therefore, continue to eat to try and get those nutrients. Obesity and chronic disease can be the end result of not eating enough raw foods. Ideally our digestive tract is populated with beneficial flora that enhance digestion and the immune system. Raw foods contain bacteria and other micro-organisms that populate the digestive tract with this beneficial flora. Finally, most raw foods are more nutrient-dense than foods that have been cooked.
You don’t have to eat 100% raw. I suggest you strive to eat between 50-80% raw. If this sounds too challenging just increase the amount of raw fruits and vegetables you are eating. Think of raw food as living food. Living foods are everything edible that grows from the earth that is not cooked. Raw foods include vegetables, fruits, grains, beans, nuts, roots and seeds. When food is cooked above 120 degrees, its nourishing enzymes die and therefore most of the essential nutrients are dead. You also want to make sure that you are buying organic raw foods. Organic foods are grown in soil that is enhanced with organic aids such as compost, earthworms, natural rock products or beneficial bacteria. Organic farming does not use pesticides and toxins and therefore produces the purest, most nutritious foods. If you can’t buy all organic be sure to wash it well.
Eating raw foods is pleasurable because you taste food in its pure form. You experience a wide range of flavors and textures. Become aware of how your body and mind feel after eating raw food compared to cooked or processed foods. Eating raw foods also helps the planet. Instead of getting rid of packaging in the trash you will get rid of seeds that will break down. Learn more about Nutrition at Bradley Wellness, LLC | | | | | Benefits of Eating Breakfast  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast refuels the body after a night’s sleep. When sleeping, the body needs fuel to allow the function of the body to continue working. Most of that fuel comes from stores of glucose in the blood, liver and muscles. By morning, the body is essentially in fasting mode. Breakfast is literally,”breaking the fast”.
If you don’t eat breakfast the result is low blood sugar, decreased energy, fatigue, poor concentration, irritability and lack of attention. If you are an athlete or participating in intense or long-duration exercise, your muscles need the fast-burning energy that comes from carbohydrates. Without it, your performance will be less than optimal because of low blood sugars and depleted energy stores.
Eating breakfast will help you to get in all the servings of nutrient-dense foods you need in a day. Bradley Wellness, LLC | | | | | Bradley Wellness Newsletter The Bradley Wellness Newsletter is a monthly newsletter that provides practical and up-to-date health, wellness and lifestyle information that you can incorporate into your daily life. Each newsletter provides you with health, wellness and lifestyle events, programs, workshops, retreats, articles, exercises, activities, resources, links, recipes, inspirational quotes, and ideas for fun.
The Bradley Wellness Newsletter is designed to empower you to take action and live the life you love. We are faced with daily choices from what to eat, to exercise or not, to spend time with loved ones, to buy and eat organic local whole foods, to spend our dollars on green, environmentally friendly products and so much more. Each dollar we spend and action we take represents our values and passions in life. We have the freedom, ability and power to be mindful of our actions and choose the life we live. By making mindful daily choices we can help to heal not only ourselves but the environment and the world. Each month the newsletter will provide you with an abundance of information that will help you make better choices and take daily action.
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Healthy at 100 by John Robbins
