Prepare for swimsuit season

Make Your Life Complete

For most people, winter is usually a more sedentary time of the year; we tend to eat more rich and sugary foods. Following the holidays many people think about knocking off a few pounds, but it takes the onset of swimsuit season before some get serious about it. Juice Plus+® is not a weight loss product, but it does give your body the nourishment it craves and naturally cleanses. When taking Juice Plus+®, weight control can be a byproduct as well as getting a healthier you.

Juice Plus+® capsules micro nutrition smart and easy

Juice Plus+® Orchard and Garden Blends capsules (basic combo only $1.48/day) and chewables provide 17 fruits, vegetables and grains. Add the Vineyard Blend and the total jumps to 26 (the trio only $2.38/day). Juice Plus+®  capsules and chewables also:

• have well over 13,000 phytonutrients, plant compounds naturally found in fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes that scientific studies are showing give health-protecting qualities,

• provide soluble fiber helping food get into your cells and

• have active enzymes and probiotics to help you digest your food so it can be absorbed. 

Add Juice Plus+® to your daily diet and watch your skin glow and your energy increase. As healthy cells replace old ones, be prepared to crave healthier foods. It's micro nutrition that builds, repairs and protects.

Add macro-nutrition with Juice Plus+® Complete Shake Mix

Juice Plus+® Complete Shake (only $2.05/shake) provides:

• 13 grams of protein from: water washed whole soy, peas, chickpeas, tofu, rice, and algae,
• complex carbohydrates from ancient grains: organic quinoa, amaranth and millet and from broccoli, alfalfa and radish sprouts, pumpkin, pomegranate, spirulina and yucca and
• 8 grams of fiber, 2 grams insoluble.

Juice Plus+® Complete Shake is:

• sweetened with stevia and organic cane sugar, and has only 10 grams of low glycemic sugars,
• gluten free
• low fat, and
• has NO: cholesterol, artificial flavorings, coloring, preservatives, wheat, dairy, eggs, caffeine or herbs.
• It is Kosher certified
• Plus it is non-GMO.

This is truly "Affordable Healthy Fast Food!”

Contact me today at gucker.jp@gmail.com or visit my website to order Juice Plus+® and Juice Plus+® Complete Shake mix and get started on healthier and slimmer you. I will send you two eating plans: "Juice Plus+ Transformation: an Amazing Journey to Your Best Health” and “Transform 30." In addition, I’ll send you many Complete Shake mix recipes.

Note: Instead of protein loading for an intense physical work-out, I agree with Ivy at Clean Cuisine, “Instead of worrying so much about protein, if you exercise a lot it is especially important to make sure you get more antioxidants and phytonutrients to combat the exercise-induced oxidative stress that is inevitable with an intense fitness training program. And the more hardcore your workout is, the more cell-protecting antioxidants and phytonutrients you need to ingest. Keep in mind, unrefined whole foods are the best sources of antioxidants, and plant foods are the only sources for phytonutrients. If you want to supplement your diet with anything after a workout you should supplement with a phytonutrient booster, such as…Juice Plus. Juice Plus+ is the only one of these phytonutrient boosters that has clinical research with multiple studies backing up the fact that it does in fact reduce post-exercise oxidative stress…."

Increasingly, more studies are showing that whey protein based drinks may be harmful. One, they are animal protein based and two, they provide too much protein. Ivy also states in her article, "…believe it or not there is such a thing as getting too much protein. There is also such a thing as getting fat from eating too much protein."

Juice Plus+® Complete Shake Mix just makes sense.

Juice Plus+ Parsley and the Importance of Quality Ingredients — watch this video

This is from the April 2015 Juice Plus+® newsletter, "The Plus+ Side":

Parsley is more than just a pretty face: it’s pretty good for you, too. A cup of fresh, chopped parsley contains substantial portions of your daily value of vitamin C (133%), vitamin A (101%), iron (21%), potassium (9%), calcium (8%) and dietary fiber (8%).¹ And it does all that without breaking a sweat. That nutritional punch is part of why we include parsley in our Garden Blend capsules and chewables.

One Simple Change — make it Juice Plus+®

Kids in the Kitchen

Kids in the Kitchen

Starting children on Juice Plus+® is the first step to provide them with a healthy future. Step two is to introduced them to new plant-based foods and getting them involved in the kitchen. These books will help you to interest your children in healthy balanced meals.

COOKBOOKS

The 52 New Foods Challenge: A Family Cooking Adventure for Each Week of the Year, with 150 Recipes by Jennifer Tyler Lee - this book is a week-by-week guide, with each week offering a new  food to try, easy enough for the kids to help with or to prepare by themselves. Even in my empty nest home, my baby being in her 40s, I have over a dozen recipes marked for our table. Because most kids intrinsically are drawn to games, Jennifer uses a point system; it’s ingenious.

The Family Cooks: 100+ Recipes to Get Your Family Craving Food That’s  Simple, Tasty and Incredibly Good For You by Laurie David. Laurie was the producer of the 2014 documentary Fed Up. This book was written to encourage home cooked family meals. Although her approach is different when dealing with picky eaters, it’s intended to get the kids into the kitchen and trying new foods. I have tried several of the recipes; they’re delicious and easy. On March 9, in my article "Go Green Recipes," I posted a link, an excerpt from this book: One-Pot Pasta. Try it for a quick and simple meal.

VIDEO

Chew on This—Getting Kids in the Kitchen

Chew on This is hosted by one of my favorite healthy eating advocates, Stefanie Sacks (more about her in a future post). Her guest for this show is Julie Negrin. In this video Stefanie and Julie, along with several children, prepare Toasted Sesame Soba Noodles from Julie’s cookbook Easy Meals to Cook with Kids. 

This book gets accolades from  many of today’s healthy eating gurus such as Molly Katzen, Mark Hyman, Deborah Madison and Juice Plus+® Children's Health Study advisor Dr. David Katz (more about him in a future post). This book, “with family-friendly recipes that adults can cook with children ages two years old and up,” has been purchased for  my grandkids, ages 2 and 5.

Besides cooking, in this episode of Chew on This, Stefanie and Julie also take the kids to a farm stand to teach them where food comes from and to the super market to shop and learn how to read a food label. Watch this with your kids as an introduction to shopping for and preparing healthy foods.

There are many benefits to teaching children how to cook. 

*Excerpt: page 3 from Easy Meals to Cook with Kids © 2010 by Julie Negrin. 

Exposure to scratch cooking helps kids develop a mature palate and a taste for fresh, wholesome ingredients. The earlier kids become accustomed to nutritious foods, the less likely they will acquire a taste for processed foods. 

Kids are much more likely to eat what they make. Is there anything more fun than eating your art project? Cooking creates a sense of ownership. When kids help in the kitchen, there are fewer mealtime battles and more willingness to try new foods. 

Meals prepared from scratch usually contain more nutrients, fewer calories, and less chemicals and sweeteners than packaged foods and restaurant meals. 

Cooking together provides a natural way to discuss nutrition and the impact that food choices have on the environment. The more educated children are about food, the more likely they will appreciate your suggestions to eat something healthy. 

The earlier kids learn how to cook, the sooner they will learn an essential life skill. It’s hard to imagine that teaching a 3-year-old how to break an egg could result in a culinary prodigy, but kids often become quite talented in the kitchen. This makes the messy floors worth it down the road when they start to cook for you. 

Spending time in the kitchen gives kids confidence. Kids thrive on feeling accomplished. Cooking is an ideal way to boost self-worth and to teach responsibility. There is nothing cuter than watching children proudly serving their food to others. 

Preparing meals together means quality time as a family. Cooking with children when they are young offers an opportunity to communicate with them on a regular basis. The time you spend together chatting and cooking in the kitchen becomes even more important as they reach their teenage years. 

What else do they learn? Science, language, counting, fractions, budgeting, weighing, sequencing, measuring, problem-solving, sharing, fine motor skills, reading and learning about other cultures — to name just a few important things! 

Cooking app "for kids by kids"

APP - Nicolas' Garden

If you have kids consider getting this “for kids by kids” mobile app. Inspired by Nicolas Come, this app is geared to make healthy cooking, eating, and shopping fun. It allows kids to create shopping lists, search for a recipe they like, save their favorites and share with friends and family.

Nicolas Come is the 10-year-old inventor of the Nicolas’Garden mobile app and website.  Nicolas wants everyone to know that healthy food is not only good, but it can be fun as well.  In addition, Nicolas also plans to design interactive games to teach kids about agriculture, health and nutrition inspired by Sacramento's Farm To Fork movement. Nicolas will be one of the Main Stage speakers at the upcoming Juice Plus+® Leadership Conference in Sacramento. Watch for photos of this event.

Also visit Nicholas’ Garden on FaceBook.

Learn more about Nicholas at his wonderful website: Nicolas Garden.

Juice Plus+ and Kids

Parents and Grandparents, Listen Up!

The Children’s Health Study

Anyone who takes Juice Plus+® knows it's a simple, convenient, and inexpensive way to add more nutrition from fruits and vegetables to their diet, every day. Yet that's just part of the story. Juice Plus+® has a phenomenal program in which children get their Juice Plus+ FREE with every adult order. Based on the responses of 150,000 families, the study has shown, that as a result children and adults find that they tend to:

Eat more fruits and vegetables

Eat less fast food and drink fewer soft drinks

Drink more water

Visit the doctor less

Miss fewer days of school or work

Take fewer over-the-counter and/or prescription drugs

Are more aware of their health and wellness

Reap a positive benefit of some kind

Juice Plus+® has the support of leading medical professionals. Meet the advisors to the Children’s Health Study. Take the time to read about these doctors who recommend Juice Plus+® to their patients and watch their videos to hear what they have to say about Juice Plus+®.

To learn more, visit my website: and, at the top, click on Children’s Health Study.

A diet high in plant-based foods has shown to prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer, as well as many age-related conditions. Insure your health and that of your family's with Juice Plus+®. It’s “The next best thing to fruits and vegetables.”

Welcome to Juice Plus® & Tower Garden®

Welcome to to the World of Juice Plus+®

In  this blog I will share Juice Plus+® articles, videos and webinars, post Juice Plus+® events, discuss good eating habits and share healthy recipes. I’m writing this because I want to made a difference in people’s lives. I want you to be in control of your health with the most scientifically researched nutraceutical product on the market.

Add Whole Foods Nutrition With Juice Plus+®

Good nutrition, especially a diet high in fruits and vegetables, is critical for good health. Juice Plus+® is non-GMO whole food based nutrition, packaged in a capsule or soft chewable, and is made from 26 different vine-ripened fruits, vegetables and gluten-free grains. Juice Plus+® is not a vitamin, medicine, treatment or cure for any disease; it's an all natural way to get quality, farm-ripened ingredients into your diet. Almost everyone wants and tries to eat right, but a healthy diet is, most days, a challenge. Juice Plus+® helps you to "bridge the gap" between what you eat and what you should be eating. Juice Plus+® is the next best thing to eating Fruits and Vegetables.

What’s in Juice Plus+®?

Juice PLUS+® Fruit Blend is created from: apples, oranges, pineapple, peaches, cranberries, papaya, acerola cherry,   

Juice PLUS+® Vegetable Blend is: beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, kale, spinach, parsley, tomato, oat bran and brown rice bran.

Those two are sold together. Add:

Juice PLUS+® Vineyard Blend to add: Concord grape, raspberry, blueberry, red currant, cranberry, black currant, blackberry, elderberry and bilberry to your diet.

All three are in capsule or chewable form.

JP is not a supplement, it’s whole foods nutrition. If you look at a vitamin bottle there’s a supplement label — what that product is supposed to contain. Juice Plus+® has a nutritional label. It’s the most researched brand name nutritional product in the world. Clinical research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals show that it:

• is absorbed by the body
• reduces oxidative stress
• reduces key biomarkers of systematic inflammation
• supports healthy immune system
• helps to protect DNA
• supports cardiovascular wellness
• supports healthy skin and gums
• reduces symptoms of the common cold
• improves athletic recovery/performance.
  See the attached List of Published Clinical Research or follow the links on my website to Juice Plus+ Clinical Research.

AND children get their juice plus+ FREE with every adult order…for 4 years! What is your least favorite veggie? What is your child’s least favorite veggie? Wouldn’t it be nice to know that you and your child got it everyday without the hassle and argument?

Some people notice a significant difference when taking JP, others not much; that’s not to say they aren’t receiving the benefits. Keep in mind that you don't feel cholesterol rising... you don't feel blood pressure increasing... you don't feel arteries being clogged... you don't feel your bones getting brittle... So, even though one doesn't necessarily "feel" anything, it doesn't mean that they are not getting benefits.

It has significantly reduced my fibro fatigue and pain, I sleep better and my complexion is a little clearer. Ed has not noticed so much of a change. He says his skin has improved, it’s less transparent, his veins aren’t as noticeable and he eats more fruits and veggies (a common experience).

Most Americans do not eat the recommended 7-13 servings a day of fruits and vegetables. We are an over-fed, under-nourished society. All the more reason you should let Juice Plus+® help you "Bridge the Gap." To learn more, see my website: http://jgucker.juiceplus.com or email me at: gucker.jp@gmail.com 

Go Green!

In March, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, whether Irish or not, most people get into the celebration by wearing green and probably having a beer or two. Also, with spring approaching, everyone begins to think green. We associate green with growth and it’s the symbol for “Go!” There is no better way to think green this month than to Go for the Green on your plate.

http://www.choosemyplate.gov/index.html

The USDA encourages that we fill half our plate with fruits and vegetables. This month, I challenge you to add: green apples, avocados, green grapes, honeydew melon, kiwifruit, limes, bok choy, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale, okra, green peppers, peas, spinach, string beans, and zucchini to your plate. You will have a sunnier outlook; be adding calcium to your diet from broccoli, okra, and greens such as Bok choy and kale (Who needs milk? More about that in a future blog.); your belly will be healthier thanks to the chemicals in cruciferous greens like cabbage and broccoli that help infection-fighting white blood cells to survive in your gut; and the substance, sulforaphane, a compound in broccoli may cut your risk of developing skin cancer.

Tower Garden®

Also part of the Juice Plus+® family is the Tower Garden®. The Tower Garden® is a vertical aeroponic growing system. It fits perfectly on patios, decks, balconies and roof tops …just about any relatively sunny place outside and, now, indoors too because Tower Garden® now has grow lights! It grows vegetables, herbs, flowers and many fruits, convenient to your kitchen.

Because of its unique aeroponic technology and vertical design, Tower Garden uses less than 10% of the water and land required by traditional, soil-based agriculture. And it will reduce your produce bill. No longer will you throw out old slimy vegetables because you can pick them daily right from YOUR GARDEN! With the Tower Garden® you can grow the freshest and most local vine ripened food for your family!

Gardening is easy with Tower Garden®: there is no soil to prepare, no weeding or getting dirty. It comes with everything you need to get started growing your own fruits and vegetable. It’s compact and easy to assemble. Each 5-foot Tower Garden® holds 20 plants and because of its patented aeroponic growing system, your plants will grow in less time than they would in soil. Simply put, you get more produce for less work. With your purchase of Tower Garden® you will receive customer support and a comprehensive online Resource Center right at your finger tips.

Ed and I do not yet own a Tower Garden; one will be part of our lives right after we return from the Juice Plus+® Spring Leadership Conference in Sacramento, CA. Until then, this portion of my blog will not have a lot of input. But keep watch and follow our experience as we grow our own herbs and veggies convenient to our kitchen door. We invite you to join us on this gardening journey.

Both Juice Plus+® and Tower Garden® are perfect solutions to help you bridge the nutritional gap between what you eat and what you should eat every day.

It’s healthier

It’s easier

It’s smarter

I will feature more articles about this remarkable growing system in future blogs.

To learn more, see my website: http://jgucker.towergarden.com or contact me at: gucker.jp@gmail.com

The Tower Garden® and Juice Plus+® both focus on the importance of fruits and vegetables and support the company’s mission to inspire healthy living.