A HEALTHIER YOU, A SMOOTHER YOU: 7 REASONS YOU SHOULD INCORPORATE SMOOTHIES TO YOUR DIET

Smoothies are a great way to kick start your day, boost your energy, and nourish your body. The best smoothies are nutrient-dense, providing vitamins and oils necessary for good nutrition.

1. Good thing about smoothies is that you can make them at home. A homemade smoothie for your morning meal is an excellent choice for breakfast on-the-go. You can make it minutes before you leave the house and sip it on your way to work, school or in your home office.

2. Smoothies are not time consuming. It would take you less time to make one than prepare a full meal.

3. The number of healthy ingredients you can add to your smoothie is practically limitless. Besides your basic fruits and vegetables, you can add an array of various spices, herbs, superfoods, and other health foods. The possibilities and combinations are endless.

4. Consuming smoothies is a great way to get your fruits or vegetables in your diet. Unlike fruit juice or using a juicer, smoothies use the whole fruit and vegetable so that you get all the fiber and nutrients. Fiber is essential for good colon health and it keeps your bowels in working order. Fiber also gives you a full feeling, so you tend to eat less which make smoothies a good choice if you’re trying to lose weight.

5. Smoothies provide your body with the nutrients it needs to excel during sporting activity, and recover and rebuild the body after working out. It is easier for your body to absorb and assimilate the nutrients in a smoothie as opposed to a meal.

6. You can consume a smoothie at any meal, not just breakfast. No time for lunch? Grab or make a quick smoothie!

7. We all crave sweets and unhealthy foods from time to time. Reduce those cravings, or better yet, replace them with a healthy alternative.

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HEALING POWER OF CELERY

I bought a green smoothie some months back which had celery as one of its ingredients. While placing my order, I was a bit skeptical about how a celery smoothie would taste, but my oh my did I enjoy it. Now, I am busy making celery smoothies and even cooking celery soup. I know I tend to go overboard with new discoveries. Well, all of this made me wonder what my body was benefiting from my new found love. After all, it is a vegetable, so it should have loads of nutritional and health benefits right?

NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS OF ZOBO/SORREL DRINK

z obo/sorrel was a must have during family gatherings. As children, we loved drinking it, not only because of how nice it tasted, but also because it coloured our lips and tongues red. Zobo (Nigerian) or Sorrel (Jamaican) is a red coloured drink made from a flower called Hibiscus sabdariffa. The sorrel plant contains a wide range of vitamins and minerals including vitamin C, calcium, niacin, riboflavin and a group of compounds called flavonoids. Flavanoids not only gives the sorrel plant its deep red colour, but, are also rich in antioxidants which rids the body of toxins. The sorrel plant also contains nutraceleuticals, which are said to be helpful to the health. Nutraceleuticals can help prevent and treat several diseases including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and cancer.

SOME OF YOUR EXERCISE IN PREGNANCY QUESTIONS ANSWERED

I t’s been a long time I wrote, but trust me I have not been idle. I recently had a baby and I am glad I have some pregnancy fitness experiences to share with you. After my marriage union with my lovely husband, I began to get advice from some concerned colleagues and family about slowing down on my exercising and focusing on building a family and making babies. I wondered how exercising interfered with me achieving any of that, to my surprise some people believed that exercising was going to prevent me from conceiving. In fact, a particular ex-colleague of mine really scared me when she told me that I could just keep having miscarriages and not even know it. I did not let any of this bother me as I believed that pregnancy would happen at Gods time. Besides I had only been married for a month and still looking forward to our honeymoon. Pregnancy was certainly not on my mind at this time. To answer your first question can I conceive while exercising?

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