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Shaklee Cinch vs Meal Deals [Infographic]

2012-02-16T14:22:00.000-08:00

Shaklee Introduces Sports Nutrition

2011-06-21T10:29:00.000-07:00

Introducing Shaklee Sports Nutrition™

Powering athletes. Fueling dreams. From start to finish.

Shaklee Sports Nutrition products can help you perform, and we have the tests to prove it!
Shaklee has been clinically testing the products for decades to give you the best science has to offer. Sustained energy. Long-lasting hydration. More complete recovery. The results speak for themselves.
Let's face it..it’s a competitive world and to maximize your performance, you’ve got to maximize your nutrition. Don’t trust your body to empty promises, marketing hype, questionable science, or artificial ingredients.
Just ask...Jennifer Rodriguez, Speed Skater Two-time bronze medal winner.
Darin Shapiro, Wakeboarder Winningest rider in wakeboarding history, six Pro Tour Championships.
Laurie Brandt, Mountain Biker First place in the 2009 Leadville Silver Rush 50-mile mountain bike race.
Shaklee Sports Nutrition products have helped Americans rule the podium—winning more than 100 gold, silver, and bronze medals! That’s more than most countries! Shaklee has gone to the ends of the earth to prove Shaklee Sports Nutrition is the best. From the North Pole to the South Pole and all points in between.
In fact, seven of Time-Life’s Greatest Adventures of All Time were fueled by Shaklee.
“To be the best you have to give it everything you’ve got.
You have to want it. Want to hurt. Want to be the strongest.
I use Shaklee products exclusively as part of my daily routine.”Billy DemongTwo-time world champion andthe only American ever to win gold in a Nordic skiing event.

Shaklee Energy™ Chews Beforeprovides a clean burst of healthy energy to help you get that extra edge when you need it most. Each chew contains a scientific blend of caffeine from natural green tea extract,plus L-tyrosine, L-theanine, B vitamins, and vitamin D, to help:
+ Sustain energy*
+ Improve performance*
+ Stay alert*
+ Sharpen focus*
+ Improve mood*
Shaklee Performance® DuringSustains Energy! More energy! More endurance! The longer and tougher your workout, the better Performance gets.
1. Wong LG, Jensen CD, Whittam JH. The effects of sodium carbohydrate (Na:Carb) ratios in
rehydration beverages (RB) on plasma glucose (PG), osmolality (PO), volume (PV), and subject
tolerance (ST). FASEB J 1990;4:A381 (abstr).
After 30 minutes: Blood-glucose levels 30% higher than water.
After 2 hours: Blood-glucose levels 37% higher than water.
Shaklee Physique® AfterImproves Recovery! Recover faster! Recover more completely! Physique restores energy to your muscles when taken immediately after working out and again two hours later.
1. Zawadzki KM, Yaspelkis III B, Ivy JL. Carbohydrate-protein complex increases the rate
of muscle glycogen storage after exercise. J Appl Physiol 1992;72:1854-9.
Physique delivers a greater muscle glycogen response following
exercise than either protein or carbohydrate alone. Muscle glycogen
is the body’s most critical (and limited) muscle energy source.
Powering athletes. Fueling dreams. From start to finish.
Special Promotion for Shaklee Sports Nutrition. Get a FREE Sports Nutrition Pack ($75 Retail Value) when you join Shaklee with a $70 order or with a Gold Pack.

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Will Belly Fat make you Dumb?

2011-01-30T06:20:00.000-08:00

According to the following study (RA Whitmer et al, Neurology, 71: 1057-1064, 2008) and Stephen Chaney PhD it does. This study showed that abdominal obesity dramatically increases your risk of developing dementia as you age.

This study involved 6,583 members of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, ages 40 to 45, who had their abdominal obesity measured between 1964 and 1973. The investigators then pulled their medical records between 1994 and 2006 when they were between 73 and 87 years old and asked how many of them had dementia. The results may shock you.

The participants were divided into five groups based on their abdominal circumference. Those with the largest abdominal circumference were nearly 3 times more likely to have developed dementia than those with the smallest abdominal circumference. And that was after the data were adjusted for age, sex, race, education, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stroke and heart disease - all factors that are known to affect the risk of dementia.

Interestingly enough the abdominal circumference was a better predictor of dementia risk than was BMI, the most frequently used measure of obesity. Those subjects who had high abdominal obesity and normal BMI had a 2-fold increased risk of developing dementia, while those subjects who were obese but had normal abdominal circumference had only an 80%
increased risk of developing dementia. Of course, those people who were both obese and had a large belly were the worst off - they had almost a 4-fold increased risk of developing dementia.

What's the Worst that can Happen?

You put on a few extra pounds - especially around the middle. Your blood sugar goes up a bit. Is that a big deal? What's the worst that could happen?

Try Cancer for Starters!

When your blood sugar levels go up, your body produces more insulin and a protein called insulin-like growth factor to try and keep your blood sugar levels under control. Both of these hormones stimulate the growth of cancer cells. This has been known for years, but scientists have argued as to whether this was a real concern or just of theoretical interest. Two recent studies - one in Korea and one in Sweden - have shown that this is a very real concern.

The Swedish study, published in the December 2009 issue of PLoS Medicine, followed 550,000 residents of Sweden, Norway and Austria for 10 years. It showed that high blood sugar levels increased the risk of cancer by 11% for women and 5% for men.

The cancers most affected by high blood sugar levels were cancers of the pancreas, gallbladder, liver and bladder - although the incidence of most other cancers was increased as well. Interestingly, prostate cancer - the most common form
of cancer in men - was not affected by high blood sugar levels. That explains why the effect of high blood sugar on cancer incidence was lower in men than in women.

Are you doomed to develop dementia and cancer when you get older if you are carrying around extra belly fat?"

The answer is no. Most experts feel that the effects of abdominal obesity are reversible. But the time to act is now! If you wait until you get older, you might just forget that you ever read this article.

Weight Loss recipe for a Great New Year Resolution Start

2010-12-28T06:31:00.000-08:00

WEIGHT something that is on EVERYONE'S MIND!

Cinch is a safe, very effective program that offers long lasting results.

And for those who just want a healthy, good tasting drink that fills you up "fast" and removes the desire for sugar and junk food, give CINCH a try! It's my favorite way to take my daily vitamins... they go down easy and Cinch provides the "food" that makes the vitamins even more effective.

A GREAT WAY TO START YOUR DAY

Check this out.. Weight Loss - Great Before and After Pictures! Bev's results were impressive.

Pina Colada Cinch
1"cup"pineapple"juice"
1/4"c."crushed"ice
1"ripe"banana
2"scoops"vanilla"cinch

Lower"calorie"version:
½"Cup"pineapple"juice
½"Cup"water
½"Cup"crushed"ice
½"ripe"banana
2"scoops"vanilla"Cinch

Shaklee Testimonies

2010-11-19T12:07:00.001-08:00

COPD Shaklee Testimonies

Roy, has been on VIVIX, Vitalizer, NutriFeron, extra OptiFlora, and
Cinch since late April. (little over 4 months)

His lung capacity has increased to the point that he no longer needs supplemental Oxygen, nor does he need a Nebulizer. All that equipment has been removed from his home. His three Doctors have demanded to talk with me. Also his macular degeneration has improved dramatically ….he went from not being able to see anything
out of one eye, and had to use magnification to see anything out of the other eye, to being able to see out of both eyes, able to readthe TV screen, & read books in normal print. Needless to say, this 82 year old man is very excited about Shaklee.

The other COPD customer has improved so much in three weeks on VIVIX, Vitalizer and NutriFeron that his wife called me yesterday -- so excited because for the first time in years he is climbing stairs, running errands for her, cooking on the grill (despite the smoke), and agreeing to go to parties and be with people again. His sense of humor has come back. He got on a ladder and put up her FLAG for 9/11. She was ecstatic. You see, she is 68 and she married a younger man of 58 and was watching him slowly disappear.

HEARING
Today I went in for my yearly hearing aid check up at the audiologist. He said that it has been a number of years since I had a hearing test and this is especially important considering my age. After the tests were completed he compared the results today with the previous tests. He said he didn't understand why the results of today's testing were so out of line with my previous tests. Then he showed me the comparison. He said my tests today showed my hearing to be ABOVE the "normal" line whereas my previous tests showed all my scores to be way BELOW the "normal" range.

He said this can't be because no one has ever had this much improvement in their hearing in all the years he has been in this business. He said that something isn't right, no one has this dramatic improvement in hearing and especially considering your age. Then I told him that I felt sure I had
the explanation for the improvement - it's Vivix. Then I briefly told him what this product is and the testimonials Shaklee has received of vastly improved health because of this product. That it is so unique Shaklee has applied for patents. I asked him if he'd like me to drop off information and science about this product. He said "yes". Shirley Davis (age 80)

Franchise Business on Healthy Aging

2010-09-15T20:35:00.001-07:00

This is a testimony from Jan C.
My husband Jim called today after meeting with his lipid specialist in Minneapolis. Once again his cholesterol numbers have significantly dropped! At the time of his cardiac arrest 20 years ago, his cholesterol was over 400. For years the number gradually went down. Two years ago it was 179 and last year, after a year of being on Vivix, it was 138. That's when his statins were cut in half. Today Jim's total cholesterol is 97.

Jim has struggled with the LDL (bad cholesterol) the most. He has a genetic condition that causes his body to produce too much of it. Originally the LDL was 240. For years he worked to get it to 140 and then to 120. It needed to be less than 100. After a year and a half on Vivix, it dropped to 90. Today it was 58 !!!!!

Jim's doctor made this comment: Nobody wants to deal with the problem. They just want to take a pill to have it go away. When that doesn't happen they get upset." He and his office staff consider Jim their poster child. Jim complies and does what's needed to be healthy, and we support him.

What Jim does each day:

1. Takes Vitalizer, Vivix, Nutriferon, CoQHeart, Liver DTX Complex, and Joint Health Complex (had me order the new Cholesterol Reduction Complex right away, too!)

2. Runs 5 miles (has never missed a day of running in 20 years)

3. Drinks tea instead of coffee (Was addicted to coffee but switched to tea several years ago and dropped 30 points off his cholesterol total)

4. Is his own boss - so he can run and rest as needed (Quit a 20 year corporate job at time of cardiac arrest 20 years ago and located his office at home)

5. Makes decisions that eliminate as much stress as possible from his day.

Our youngest son Matt was 2 when Jim had the cardiac arrest. He got married on June 11 this summer. Twenty years ago, I never imagined that with 3 arteries 100% blocked and the 4th blocked 70%, that Jim would even live to see his youngest son grow up. It's good to note, too, that our three sons and I have supported all of Jim's efforts, and as a result we are healthier ourselves. Our family experience is proof that great health is primarily in the hands of the individual and the choices he or she makes. We've always chosen Shaklee nutrition, for example, and that has paid off royally for us. ~Jan

Prescription For A Healthier Life

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Dodging Weight Gain with Vitamin D

2010-09-10T19:52:00.001-07:00

Dodging Weight Gain with Vitamin D Brigham and Women's Hospital An Affiliate of Harvard Medical School You may be well aware of vitamin D's part in building better bones, but did you know it might also help in the battle of the bulge?

Unfortunately, many of us are not getting enough D; in fact, are even D-deficient. Overweight individuals are especially at risk. Excess body fat absorbs and holds onto vitamin D, making it unavailable to the body. The absence of vitamin D creates interference with the functioning of a hormone called leptin, which signals to the brain that you are full and should stop eating. In addition, overweight people tend to spend more time indoors.

This also deprives them from further D as the ultraviolet rays of the sun spur the production of D. Luckily, replenishing vitamin D in the bloodstream to normal levels restores leptin's actions. Getting enough vitamin D, namely 800 to 1,000 International Units (IU) a day can be a challenge from diet sources alone. Supplementation is often needed. Multivitamins typically provide 400 IU.

What are the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency? If you frequently experience unexplainable fatigue, indiscriminate body ache such joint aches, bone pain, and muscle aches, may be signs of vitamin D deficiency. Also difficulty with weight control and depression may indicate low vitamin D levels.

How is vitamin D deficiency cured? Once vitamin D is restored to healthy levels, leptin will function properly again. Sun exposure and vitamin D enriched foods provide vitamin D. However, since it is difficult to obtain sufficient vitamin D level through dietary sources and sun exposure, supplementation is often required.

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Shaklee Celebrates $5 Billion in Paid Commission at Annual Conference in Anaheim

2010-08-10T09:23:00.001-07:00

Number One Natural Nutrition Company in the U.S. Also Unveils New Car Incentive Program for Distributors ANAHEIM, CA--(August 9, 2010) - Shaklee Corporation, a leading provider of natural nutrition, personal care, and environmentally friendly home care products, announced today that it has surpassed five billion dollars in commissions paid to its more than 1.2 million Shaklee Family Members worldwide.

The announcement was made at the 2010 Shaklee Global Conference in Anaheim where thousands of Shaklee Members, Distributors and prospects gathered to explore how to capitalize on the Shaklee business opportunity while embracing the Shaklee vision to make people and the planet healthier.

"Shaklee's mission is to create the best natural health products and market them through a business model that gives people the opportunity to achieve the dream of owning their own business and controlling their financial future," said Shaklee CEO Roger Barnett. "This commission milestone is a tribute to the tens of thousands of distributors around the world who have found success in their own independent business with Shaklee."

The company also kicked off a new Car Incentive Program which will allow distributors to qualify for car bonuses that can be used to pay for a lease or purchase of a brand new car, with extra incentives for those who lease or purchase hybrid vehicles.

"Shaklee's new rewards and compensation program perfectly aligns with our values by creating new opportunities for distributors to grow their business with tangible lifestyle and financial incentives," said Barnett. "This program will also allow our distributors to touch more people and share the Shaklee opportunity of doing well by doing good. That's a powerful thing."

For more information about Shaklee or its 2010 Global Conference, please contact Matt McAsey at mcasey (at) shaklee (dot) net or 785-341-4437. For more information on Shaklee, the number one nutrition company in the U.S., please visit http://mcasey.shaklee.com.

About Shaklee
Founded in 1956, Shaklee Corporation is the number one natural nutrition company in the United States. A leading provider of premium-quality natural nutrition products, personal care products, and environmentally friendly home care products, Shaklee has more than 50 patents and patents pending worldwide. With more than 1.2 million members and distributors around the globe, Shaklee currently operates in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan, and China. In 2000, Shaklee became the first company in the world to be Climate Neutral certified to totally offset its CO2 emissions, resulting in a net-zero impact on the environment.

Do cleaning products cause breast cancer?

2010-08-02T05:24:00.001-07:00

Women who report greater use of cleaning products may be at higher breast cancer risk than those who say they use them sparingly. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health asked more than 1500 women about their cleaning product usage and found that women who reported using more air fresheners and products for mold and mildew control had a higher incidence of breast cancer.

Julia Brody, from the Silent Spring Institute, USA, worked with a team of researchers to carry out telephone interviews with 787 women diagnosed with breast cancer and 721 comparison women. She said, "Women who reported the highest combined cleaning product use had a doubled risk of breast cancer compared to those with the lowest reported use. Use of air fresheners and products for mold and mildew control were associated with increased risk. To our knowledge, this is the first published report on cleaning product use and risk of breast cancer."

The researchers questioned women on product use, beliefs about breast cancer causes, and established and suspected risk factors. They found that cleaning products, air fresheners, and insect repellents were associated with breast cancer, but little association was observed with overall pesticide use.

Women with breast cancer who believed that chemicals and pollutants contribute 'a lot' to the risk of developing the condition were more likely to report high product usage. Speaking about this potential bias to the study, Brody said, "When women are diagnosed with breast cancer, they often think about what happened in the past that might have contributed to the disease.

As a result, it may be women with breast cancer more accurately recall their past product use or even over-estimate it. Or, it could also be experience with breast cancerinfluences beliefs about its causes. For example, women diagnosed with breast cancer are less likely to believe heredity contributes 'a lot', because most are the first in their family to get the disease."

In order to avoid possible recall bias, the researchers recommend further study of cleaning products and breast cancer using prospective self-reports and measurements in environmental and biological media.

Reference: Journal article abstract and full pdf article: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/1476-069x-9-40.pdf

How much do you spend on cleaning products per year? If it's more than 24 to 50 bucks a year you might want to rethink what products your using. Shaklee Get Green Cleaners are safe, always work, 100% guaranteed. Dust, mop, scour, clean fruits and veggies, wash the dog/car/kids, and more. all for $25-$50 for the year. Laundry for only 20 cents per load and so safe, if children ingest it no worries.

Did you know? Shaklee's Basic H2 was chosen by "Real Simple Magazine" as the "longest lasting concentrate" on the market.

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Shaklee Vitamins: Do you need Herb-Lax?

2010-07-21T10:50:00.001-07:00

This site is especially for people who are seeking answers about Shaklee products and business.

It's a fact of the natural healing profession for many years, and is recently being validated by the medical physicians, well over 90% of degenerative disease conditions can be related directly to intestinal stasis meaning, a stagnant, fermenting condition within the bowels and related organs. This does not necessarily correspond to actual known constipation.

Someone can move his bowels many times a day, and still be encumbered with dead cells, decaying food materials, poisonous chemicals, parasites, pus, mucus, etc., all of which contribute to the circulation of toxins throughout the whole body, giving rise to an endless chain of disease conditions.

These facts should be taken into consideration when nutrition programs and vitamin therapy are introduced for the first time. The body’s response to a proper nutrition program is to start releasing stored toxins from the cells and this puts more stress on organs of elimination (colon, kidneys, lungs, liver, blood, and skin)

Many times these organs are already malfunctioning from past intake of drugs, additives, and refined, processed and overcooked foods. The result of this could be symptoms of nausea, weakness, headaches, rashes, and tiredness.

To prevent this from happening, Dr. Shaklee invented HERB-LAX, a combination of nine different herbs that help detoxify the body through better, more complete, elimination.

It is important to understand that herbs are not in any way related to the artificial colon—cleansers promoted online or in other media. Herbs do not act like ordinary laxatives that irritate the tissues and force the bowel to eject its contents This weakens the organs and causes dependencies. But herbs, being a food, nourish the bowel and related organs to strengthen them so that they will function entirely on their own, effectively eliminating waste materials.

It is hard to say how many HERB-LAX an individual should use, since each person differs. Choose the dose that gives you two to three soft, easy bowel movements daily. This can range from one half to 30 per day (in the case of Diverticulitis).

Those who are faithful in using HERB-LAX for internal cleanliness will get surprising good side effects as days, weeks and months go by. These include a better complexion, no headaches, no bad breath, little odor during bowel movements, plus more energy and clearer thinking.

You can hardly study the Shaklee product Herb-Lax® without gaining a profound respect for our founder Forrest C. Shaklee, Sr. What an amazing mind he had to conceive such a product at the time he did. Remember, interest in herbal medicines had waned considerably during the middle of the last century.

Shaklee Herb-Lax was the second Shaklee product developed, and it has truly withstood the "test of time" remaining one of Shaklee's favorite products. Dr. Shaklee knew that proper elimination of waste from the bowel is one of the keys to optimal health. It is said that 90% of degenerative diseases are related to, or worsened by, the food we eat passing too slowly through our intestinal system.

The fact that Herb-Lax® contains Senna leaf powder and is therefore a laxative is a no-brainer. Practically everyone in the medical or herbal community would understand that. Dr. Shaklee made his signature product unique by blending an additional eight herbs with the Senna leaf powder to enhance its use - to speed up the movement of foodstuffs through the intestinal system.

DR Shaklee was able to accomplish this without the usual unwanted side effects of taking a laxative. Something to consider is the label states a serving size of four tablets. That would indeed cause a gentle bowel movement within several hours, by taking less than the serving size, you effectively speed up the flow of food and waste through the intestinal tract without causing diarrhea.

Why does herblax work the way it does? Certainly, several of the herbs contained in this product produce a laxative action. In addition to Senna leaf powder, buckthorn bark powder, licorice root, blue malva powder, and culver root all have shown some laxative action.

They do, however, along with the other herbs present, fulfill other functions within the GI tract to complete the action.

For example, licorice root, alfalfa, fennel seed and anise seed aid in digestion. Licorice root also reduces the production of stomach acid (good for heartburn?); and relieves gas, as does anise seed. Anise seed also acts to relieve stomach cramps. Rhubarb is unusual in that in can cause a laxative effect, and it has the opposite effect in small doses!

Bottom Line: DR Shaklee knew what he was doing by combining all these natural herbs into one fantastic product called HERBLAX. Today it's still one of our best selling products. Why because it flat out works and it's very cost effective.

Cindy McAsey
Barefoot in the Garden
888-272-6701

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Shaklee Nutrition: When you look in the mirror what do you see?

2010-07-08T11:22:00.000-07:00

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When you look in the mirror what do you see?

Uneven skin tone
Blemishes
Breakouts
Bumpy skin
Fine lines around eyes
Laugh lines
Puffiness around eyes
Sagging skin
Age spots
Oily T Zone
Blackheads
Whiteheads

Do you feel you skin being:

Dry
Sensitive
Oily

In todays modern society our skin is exposed to toxins that create accelerated aging:

Chemicals
Iron in tap water
UV rays
stress
smoke
car exhausts
poor diets
medications

These elements create FREE RADICALS which:

Damages the DNA of the cells
Breaks down collegan
Causes sagging skin
Creates Age spots
Slows cellular renewal

The key to healthy, radiant skin is nutrients. Nutrients that are in the right amounts and in the right form that your skin can be absorb and use properly.

That's why you want skin care that is created by a vitamin company.

Enfuselle Skin Care is Vitamins in Cream Form.
To place your order for normal to dry skin click here:

To place your order for normal to oily skin click here:

Here's a picture of one of Shaklee's studies that they did when creating the Enfuselle skin care system!

Shaklee invested 5 Million $$ and 1 1/2 years to create Enfuselle.

Here's what some satisfied customers are saying:
S.L. "Since I use Enfuselle skin care my skin is smooth and looks great. I'm 42 and nobody ever guesses my age because I don't have a single fine line or wrinkle."

P.K. "I had 3 unwanted moles on my face, I started to use Enfuselle and a weeks later the moles lightened then it totally disappeared. I'm ecstatic because I had this for years and I really didn't like it"

E.T. "I have monthly breakouts which leaves me with scars. This means I always have new pimples and old scars. Since I use Enfuselle Acne Cream the pimples dry very fast, and the A.M. & P.M. Repair products make my scars disappear quickly. I also want to start using a Vitamin program to prevent the pimples from coming out in the first place."

Y.L. " I love the refining polisher, when I use it in the shower I feel like I'm having a SPA treatment in the comfort of my home without spending a lot of money."
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Shaklee Protein it's the Amino Acid Content that Counts.

2010-07-06T05:07:00.000-07:00

The Power of Protein
It's essential to the growth, repair, and maintenance of all body tissues. It's also required for making enzymes - catalysts essential to all life processes, and hormones - powerful chemical messengers that circulate through your bloodstream to specific target cells, where they generate a wide range of biological responses. It also helps your body maintain fluid and electrolyte balance, provides a source of energy, and helps your body fight off disease. These are the powers of protein!
These powers are made possible by consuming adequate amounts of dietary protein from a variety of lean meats, fish, and poultry, as well as soy and milk, which supply the body with amino acids, the basic building blocks from which the body can make its own body proteins.
Not All Protein Is Created Equal
Foods provide about 20 different amino acids, of which more than half are considered to be nonessential.?In other words, the body can make them for itself. However, nine other amino acids are considered "essential," meaning the body is unable to make them on its own. And unlike the carbohydrates and fats we consume, amino acids are not stored in the body. Therefore, the body must rely on a constant and steady supply from the protein-rich foods we eat every day.
So what are the best sources of dietary protein? And is there a difference between animal and vegetable sources? Well, it's true that not all dietary protein is created equal. It really is the protein quality of one's diet that, in large part, determines how well a child will grow and develop and how well an adult will maintain his or her health. Put simply, high-quality proteins provide enough of all the essential amino acids needed to support the body's work, and lower-quality proteins don't. Two key factors that influence protein quality are the protein's digestibility and its amino acid composition. Protein digestibility is a measure of the amount of amino acids absorbed from a given protein intake, and amino acid composition refers to the simultaneous availability of all the needed amino acids from a food we choose to eat. In general, animal-sourced proteins (meat, fish, poultry, eggs, and dairy) are considered high-quality proteins, as is soy, a vegetable-sourced protein. However, other vegetable proteins tend to be of much lower quality and are often referred to as "incomplete" proteins because they do not provide all the essential amino acids the body needs. Incomplete proteins can come from fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts.
Health Benefits
When most of us think about the health benefits of dietary protein, its role in bodybuilding comes to mind and rightly so. No new body tissue can be built without it. However, research also suggests that the intake of high-quality protein in the context of an overall healthful diet may also have positive effects on our body weight and body composition as we age, as well as play a role in the prevention of chronic diseases such as heart disease, certain types of cancer, and osteoporosis.

Weight Management: Studies have shown that achieving a healthy weight and maintaining that weight can help add years to your life, and scientists believe that dietary protein may play an important role in weight management. High-protein diets may promote significantly more weight loss compared to lower protein diets because of protein's role in promoting satiety In a fairly recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers studied the effects of increasing dietary protein while maintaining carbohydrate content on weight loss, appetite, calorie intake, and fat mass in a small group of study participants. Initially, participants were instructed to follow a weight-maintaining diet (50% carbohydrate, 15% protein, 35% fat) for two weeks. Then for the following two weeks, they were asked to follow a diet providing the same amount of calories but with 50% of calories coming from carbohydrate, 30% from protein, and 20% from fat. Two weeks later, they were given an ad libitum diet of 50% carbohydrate, 30% protein, and 20% fat to follow for an additional 12 weeks. Even though subjects could eat as much food as they wanted in those 12 weeks, they actually reduced their calorie intake by an average of 441 calories per day. They also lost an average of 10.8 pounds in body weight and 8.2 pounds of body fat.
Age-Related Muscle Loss: After about age 40, most adults will lose anywhere between 0.5% and 1% of their skeletal muscle mass each year. And in the early years, this gradual loss may go unnoticed because it might be masked by a concurrent increase in body fat. However, chronic muscle loss?or what is known as sarcopenia?is estimated to affect about 30% of people over age 60 and may affect more than 50% of those over age 80. Insufficient protein intake in older adults can contribute to a loss of muscle, and although the optimal amount of protein to prevent or offset the progression of sarcopenia has yet to be established, research findings suggest that protein intakes modestly above the present recommended dietary allowance of 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight per day (i.e. 1 gram per kilogram of body weight per day or higher) enhance muscle mass in older adults who regularly perform resistance exercise. Protein intake in older adults also appears to have a more beneficial effect when consumed within an hour or so of resistance exercise. Emerging research also suggests that dairy protein, especially whey protein, may minimize sarcopenia because of its high concentration of leucine, an amino acid known to stimulate muscle protein synthesis. For example, findings in older adults suggest that increasing leucine intake may help restore the protein synthesis response to protein-containing meals, which has been shown to diminish with age.
Cardiovascular Disease: One concern that has been raised about the trend in high-protein diets for weight loss has been that eating diets high in protein and fat, and low in carbohydrate, would harm the heart. However, recent research findings suggest that if done in a healthy way, eating a little more protein, especially vegetable protein, while cutting back on refined carbohydrates may actually benefit the heart. A 20-year prospective study of 82,802 women found that those who ate low-carbohydrate diets high in vegetable sources of fat or protein had a 30% lower risk of heart disease, compared to women who ate high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets. But women who ate low-carbohydrate diets that were high in animal fats or proteins did not have a reduced risk of heart disease.
Cancer: There's no good evidence that eating a little protein or a lot of it significantly influences cancer risk. However, eating a lot of red meat (cured and processed meats, in particular) has been linked to an increased risk of colon cancer. There also has been considerable investigation of the potential of soy-protein-containing foods to reduce the risk of cancer, especially breast cancer. In a fairly recent review of studies based on Asian populations, higher soy intake was associated with an overall 29% decreased risk of breast cancer. Despite these positive findings, the relationship between soy foods and breast cancer risk has been controversial because of data gathered from cell culture and animal studies that suggest isoflavones (the plant-estrogen-like compounds in soy foods) stimulate the growth of estrogen-sensitive breast cancer cells. This has led to questions about the safety of soy consumption in women with a history of breast cancer or women at high risk for the disease. Research continues in this area, but it?s important to point out that several lines of existing evidence suggest that women with breast cancer can safely consume soy. First, human studies have shown that isoflavones do not stimulate breast cell proliferation or increase breast tissue density (two markers of increased cancer risk), and a lack of harmful effects have been noted in several clinical studies examining the impact of soy food intake on the prognosis of breast cancer patients. In one study, neither soy nor isoflavone intake was related to the disease-free survival rate of breast cancer patients over a five-year follow-up period, and in a second study, higher soy intake was associated with a more favorable outcome for both total mortality and disease-specific mortality or relapse during a follow up period of two years. And even better news is that the benefit of soy food intake on survival was more pronounced among women with estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer. Although these studies are encouraging, breast cancer remains a very serious health condition. Women with a history of breast cancer should seek the advice of their doctor concerning the consumption of soy foods as part of an overall healthful diet.
Osteoporosis: Prevention of osteoporosis is a public health priority and among nutritional factors, most attention has focused on the beneficial role of calcium. However, in addition to calcium, many other nutrients are necessary for bone health, including protein. Findings from many, but not all, epidemiological studies point to a beneficial role for dietary protein in bone health. High-protein intakes have been associated with reduced bone loss, high bone-mineral density, and reduced fracture risk in older adults. In a recent trial, increasing protein intake, especially when accompanied by calcium and vitamin D, reduced bone loss, improved muscle strength, and shortened the hospital stay in older patients with hip fractures whose usual intake of dietary protein was low.

On the other hand, some studies suggest that excessive dietary protein intake may have detrimental effects on bone because of its effect on urinary calcium excretion. This controversy may be explained by other nutrients in food or the source of dietary protein. For example, dietary protein has been shown to exert a positive effect on the skeleton of older adults when calcium intake is adequate, but not when calcium intake is low.

Because protein exists in close association with other nutrients in the diet, it is important to consider protein?s role in bone health in the context of foods or the overall dietary pattern. A number of studies have demonstrated that intake of milk and other dairy products benefits bone health. Dairy products such as milk are a unique source of protein because their calcium content is high relative to their protein content and they contain other bone-supporting nutrients such as phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, and vitamins A, D, and K.

How Much Protein Is Enough?
Although no one-size-fits-all answer exists for that question and research on the topic is still emerging, the current recommended dietary allowance for protein is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight per day for healthy young adults. That comes to about 62 grams of protein a day for a person who weighs 170 pounds. Although growing children, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and older adults may need a little more (1.0-1.3 grams per kilogram of body weight), getting the minimum daily requirement of protein is fairly easy. Cereal with milk for breakfast, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, and a piece of fish with a side of beans for dinner adds up to about 70 grams of protein.

It?s also important to pay attention to what comes along with the protein in your food choices. An eight-ounce broiled porterhouse steak is a great source of complete protein?54 grams worth. But it also delivers 44 grams of fat, 16 of which are saturated. Saturated fats raise blood cholesterol, and high blood cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease. On the other hand, a cup of cooked lentils has 18 grams of protein, but less than one gram of fat.

Vegetable sources of protein, including soy protein beverage mixes, are also an excellent choice and many also provide healthful amounts of other essential nutrients such as fiber, vitamins, and minerals. The best animal protein choices are fish and poultry. If you are partial to red meat, such as beef, pork, or lamb, stick with the leanest cuts, choose moderate portion sizes, and make it only an occasional part of your diet.
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Tips for Stressed Mom's

2010-05-16T05:06:00.000-07:00

The Stresses of Motherhood
Mothers are the world’s best jugglers: arranging family schedules from soccer to band practice to doctor’s appointments, planning meals, and dealing with money issues, childcare and work — they seem to do it all. There is a price to pay, however—the evidence is mounting that women today are experiencing more stress at every stage of their lives than ever before. With all that responsibility, many moms are left feeling tired and stressed out. That stress contributes to poor sleep habits which in turn can contribute to emotional issues, job issues and weight gain. According to a 2006 survey by the American Psychological Association, women are more affected by stress than men and report engaging in unhealthy behaviors such as comfort eating, poor diet choices, smoking, and inactivity to help deal with stress. The same survey showed women report feeling the effects of stress on their physical health more than men. So, in honor of Mother’s Day this month, it’s a good time for moms and their families to recognize the importance of addressing stress and learning to manage it in healthy ways.

Supplement your diet. Fill in nutritional gaps with a well-balanced, high-quality multivitamin/mineral
supplement. Look for one that provides at least 100% of the daily value for 21 essential nutrients
including the B vitamins folic acid, B12 and B6 to help promote heart health, the antioxidant nutrients,
vitamin C and E which support immune function and protect against free radical damage and key bone
health nutrients like calcium, vitamin D and magnesium.

Supplement the omega-3s in your diet with a top quality, pharmaceutical grade fish oil supplement. For digestive health, take a probiotic supplement to help maintain healthy intestinal microflora and for additional stress relief, try botanical ingredients like Ltheanine from green tea and ashwaganda. L-theanine has been shown to facilitate the generation of alpha brain waves, which are associated with a relaxed yet alert mental state, and ashwaganda is an Ayurvedic herb traditionally used in India to enhance the body’s ability to adapt to stress. And lastly, if getting to sleep remains a challenge, occasionally try herbal ingredients like valerian which can help you maintain a calm state and promote restful sleep.

We all know that being a mom takes an extraordinary amount of patience, love and discipline. That’s what
makes moms so special! But juggling family, finances and work commitments can really be stressful, so
remember this Mother’s Day to keep things in perspective –prioritize wherever you can, delegate
responsibilities, eat right, stay active and TAKE YOUR SHAKLEE SUPPLEMENTS! But, most of all, make time for what’s really important – taking care of yourself, so you can be the best mom ever!

Vitamins & Supplements: Is Inflammation the Root of All Disease?

2009-01-15T05:38:00.001-08:00

If you think about it most disease starts with inflammation of some kind.

Acute inflammation is characterized by the redness, heat, swelling, and pain that is the immune system’s normal response to infection or injury. Immune cells congregate at the site so that they can overwhelm and dispose of infectious organisms or debris from injury. Thus healing takes place. But there’s another kind of inflammation—low-grade, chronic, and "systemic." It’s been getting a lot of attention lately.

Why it may be dangerous

The reason you hear so much about this kind of inflammation is that it may underlie a kind of "unified field" explanation of disease. That is, some researchers now believe that low-grade inflammation is associated with everything from heart disease and diabetes to Alzheimer’s and arthritis, and may even be the cause of most chronic diseases. This is not an entirely new theory. Inflammation was implicated in cancer many years ago.

There is an easy way to test for inflammation, since it can prompt the liver to produce a protein in the blood known as C-reactive protein (CRP). Elevated levels of CRP often accompany or signal an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. This may help explain why many people who get heart attacks have normal blood cholesterol levels and no other identifiable risk factors. Scientists have been searching for the missing pieces of this puzzle, and inflammation might be one of them. It might even be the most important piece.

We do know a lot about heart disease and its risk factors. High levels of LDL ("bad") cholesterol and low levels of HDL ("good") cholesterol are well-known risk factors, along with smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, family history, and being sedentary.

How to "tamp down" inflammation

The same steps that help prevent cardiovascular disease may reduce chronic inflammation:

• Eat a moderate amount of fish. The omega-3 fats in fish can reduce inflammation. The American Heart Association encourages people with heart disease to consume 1 gram of omega-3s a day from fish or supplements. Omega-3s may also help reduce the inflammation associated with rheumatoid arthritis. Be sure to add Shaklee OmegaGuard to your supplement regimen.
• Don’t smoke; avoid inhaling other people’s smoke.
• Talk to your doctor about low-dose aspirin to help prevent heart attack and stroke.
• Control your blood pressure with diet, exercise, and medication (if needed). This will reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke. It may also lower your CRP level.
• If you are overweight, weight loss should also reduce inflammation and the risk of chronic disease. Obese people tend to have high CRP. Check out our Safe Natural Weight Loss System
• It isn’t certain that aerobic exercise reduces inflammation, but it might. Physically fit people tend to have lower CRP.

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Vitamins Supplements Nutrition: The Anti- Aging Breakthrough

2008-10-22T05:28:00.000-07:00

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2008-08-09T07:15:00.000-07:00

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Why take Vitamins?

2008-06-18T10:44:00.000-07:00

High fructose corn syrup. Bleached flour. Ingredients that can't be pronounced. Even fresh fruit...freshly picked apples lose vitamins by the hour. By the time fresh fruit gets to the store, sits on a shelf, is purchased, sits in the refrigerator, is cooked, and finally eaten, only a very small fraction of the nutritional value is left to be absorbed. The vital vitamins and minerals in the food supply today have been extremely diminished. Many nutritional experts agree that even if one were to eat 100% raw and organic fruits and vegetables, picked and eaten same-day straight from farmland, decades of farming has left large amounts of contracted land depleted.

You have to consume 8-12 times the amount of produce, in some cases, to absorb what much of the farmland contained decades ago. While 1 out of every 10,000 or so people even pick their own food, the rest of world relies on several-days to several-weeks old, processed, canned, previously cooked, etc. food to remain healthy. Even if one were to ignore literally thousands of reports on how diets today are poor, a third grader is able to make the stark observation that the majority of America and many parts of the world is obese.

Now that it has been clearly established that so many diets today are very nutritionally poor, identifying exactly what is missing and how to replenish just that is needed.

Everybody critically needs vitamins to work, grow, and develop properly, which makes them extremely important on a daily basis. But it doesn't stop there. The human body also requires vitamins to do many things, such as ward off disease, boost immune system response, and even improve overall moods!

When the skin gets a cut, the human body needs a good number of vitamins to clot. When one gets sick, the body requires a more than average amount of vitamins to help fight the virus (it is good to note here again that the typical diet does not even provide the average amount of vitamins needed on a daily basis).

Some vitamins even help produce energy throughout the body. People still feeling tired regardless of making good efforts to eat all the right things may very well be not consuming the appropriate amount vitamins. When this happens, there is a very high chance the body isn't getting the vitamins needed to convert what is being eaten into energy. Vitamins are even involved in making sure objects are seen in color. Calcium, as so many have thought was an end-all solution to osteoporosis and calcium deficiencies does not work optimally unless sufficient amounts of Vitamin D are provided!

Most people don't realize just how extremely critical vitamins are. If the body doesn't get the vitamins it needs (read on to see why 100% of the US RDA is just a fraction of what you need each day), there is much improvement needed for a healthy living! For starters, vitamins regulate reactions that occur in metabolism, unlike other dietary components known as macronutrients (fats, carbohydrates, proteins).

One can consume all the right amounts of these fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, get all the exercise needed, but unless there also are very adequate amounts of vitamins in the body to regulate how these macronutrients are used, benefits achieved will be slim to none! To repeat, a very adequate amount of vitamins are needed to get the benefits of exercise and macronutrients. Absence of just a single vitamin blocks one or more specific metabolic reactions in a cell and eventually may disrupt the metabolic balance within a cell and in our entire body.

With the exception of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), all of the water-soluble vitamins (meaning vitamins that need to be replenished each and every day because they are flushed out) assist enzymes that function in energy transfer/metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. In other words, it is extremely difficult for our bodies to break down these nutrients into energy we can use without vitamins. these vitamins are scarcely found in the foods of the typical diet. Supplemenatation is needed!

A good question you can generally ask yourself...

"How many times have I gotten sick in the past five years? How long did my symptoms usually last? 3 days? 5 days? a week or more?" Chances are, many will answer:
"a good number of times and at least 3-5 days or more" respectively.

Some of the fat-soluble vitamins (Vitamins A, D, E, K) help form skin and mucous membranes, which thus increases resistance to infections. Once fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) are consumed, they are stored in the liver and fat tissues in the body until needed. Some are stored for a few days, some for up to six months. Not only do these fat-soluble vitamins help anti-infection defenses, they help keep night vision at its best. Individuals tending to go blind during the night may not be getting enough Vitamin A (retinol).

On the other hand, water-soluble vitamins such as Vitamin C and the B group of vitamins, are different. They are not stored nearly as much in the body. Instead, they travel through the bloodstream. Whatever the body doesn't use is released through urination. These kinds of vitamins need to be replaced often for that very reason.

A good multivitamin is the foundation of health and nutrition. Our manufacture did an extensive study comparaing the overall benefits of using vitamins and supplements vs. no supplementation the results were astounding. News Release about this study