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Sarah McNamara Makes Her Radio Debut

Jumi Young — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:27:49 +0000

Sarah McNamara, founder of Miracle Skin Transformer, has a unique understanding of the modern woman from listening to her consumers. She wanted to create a product that catered to the individual woman, so she connected with and listened to her consumers to find out what worked best for real women. This gave her a unique and informed perspective and she now hosts a radio show, FACE FORWARD with Sarah McNamara: Life, Beauty & Everything in Between, to create an even deeper connection with her fans. Sarah has an opinion that women actually want to hear.

Tune in every Wednesday at 2pm EST on VoiceAmerica Variety Channel to hear Sarah discuss hot topics pertaining to the everyday, modern woman such as personal health, fashion & beauty, celebrity gossip and even politics.

Cold Fighting Smoothie

Phuong Le — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:46:29 +0000

Fight a cold with this refreshing smoothie blended with peaches, tropical fruits, ginger, and Koni Immunity Booster Tea! I like mine a little spicy so I add an extra teaspoon of ginger. Add more honey if you like it a little sweeter. I chose coconut milk because the flavor is delicious with the tropical fruits. Plus, coconut milk is super good for you! Turtle Mountain – So Delicious makes a good coconut milk and their almond milk would be great with this recipe as well.
Ingredients:

2 C chilled Koni Immunity Booster
1 C coconut milk or almond milk
1 Banana, frozen
2 C of assorted fresh or frozen fruit (I used pineapple, mango, and peaches)
½-1 Tsp grated fresh ginger (I used 1 tsp)
1 T honey

Directions:

Blend on high until it’s smooth and creamy. Serve in a Koni Double Wall Mug.

Make sure to keep Koni Immunity Booster Tea in stock so you can whip up this delicious smoothie when you’re feeling under the weather! Click here to learn more about the benefits of this delicious tea!

A professionally trained chef and the world’s greatest tea master, Phuong has traveled to the far reaches of our planet in search of a healthier lifestyle. Phuong is the CEO and founder of Koni Tea (http://www.KoniTea.com), the largest women owned loose leaf tea company in the market today.Through her incredible journey she has touched the lives of millions and influenced them to ‘rethink their drink’. Phuong has won countless awards, has been featured on the FoodNetwork, and takes an active role with local charities to help her community grow and prosper.

For a glimpse into her life you can read Phuong’s critically acclaimed blog, The Tea Chick at http://www.theteachick.com.

What else do you do to fight a cold?

Yvette Rose: Joulebody for the body, mind, and soul

Editor — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:43:36 +0000

“The way I see detoxing is a gentle change of routine that moves our body processes into their most optimum operating function,” Rose states. “Whenever we change our habit we pull ourselves out ruts. And there is nothing certain in life but change.” What is proven is that certain foods make our bodies perform in certain ways. “It’s the old garbage in, garbage out theory,” she laughs. “And no one needs a double blind study to trust that.” For those who pay even the smallest amount of attention to their bodies, it’s obvious that when one ingests nutritious stuff, the body performs well.

Yvette Rose is a living and breathing example of a woman who works and plays hard but doesn’t need to sacrifice anything to lead a nourishing and healthy lifestyle. She wanted to share her philosophy with others like her and now Joulebody is becoming available nationally. Joulebody meals and juices are 100% deliverable fresh anywhere in the US. The development of the Jouledetox bar was the next step to provide all the wildly nutritious whole food ingredients in a portable form. And this growth, after a start only in 2007.

The word ‘Joules’ is a physics term for the measurement of energy and inspired the inception of Joulebody–the lifestyle food cleanse and movement program delivering high quality food + exercise to our bodies giving us the energy that makes us feel like we are truly alive. The results are sustainable weight-loss giving us the slim and toned physique we’re meant to have. The challenges to leading a healthy diet and lifestyle are clear. Our overbooked New York lifestyles throw us daily curve balls and the food-on-the-run, missed fitness classes and occasional true indulgences can add up.

Our lifestyles aren’t the only thing posing a challenge. The new, trendy fitness classes or all-liquid cleanses can be anything but enjoyable and can feel like midevil torture making us want to throw in the towel, grab an ice cream cone and drop onto the sofa. This makes sense because our bodies are craving energy and real whole food is what provides us energy, not just juices. The marketplace currently focuses on all-liquid drink-by-number juice “cleanses” and “detox systems” which shock the body into burning fat and supposedly expelling whatever bad stuff is lingering. Medical science has yet to quantify how a juice fast like this may thwart poisons ingested from processed foods or heavy metals inhaled.

Joulebody offers a 3-day Meal Cleansing Plan, Yoga, Fitness, and Nutrition Plans. You can find out more by visiting www.joulebody.com.

A Healthy Year is a Happy Year: Health Tips for a Delicious and Vital 2012

Rithanie Gonzales — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:29:06 +0000

Every year I find myself always tagging on the be healthier, exercise more and eat better onto my new year’s resolution and never following through. Like most of us, we start the New Year with so much excitement for a better body and by mid year we are only going to the gym once a week. This year making time for myself is a resolution to keep for a healthier, happier me.

Topical BioMedics and Alexandra Jamieson, celebrity health and nutrition counselor, chef and author of The Great American Detox Diet, Living Vegan for Dummies and Vegan Cooking for Dummies teamed up to provide a list of tips for a delicious and vital year.

You don’t have to do this alone, share these tips with your girlfriends and encourage each other. Share vegetable recipes, go grocery shopping together, take a daily dance class together. The more the merrier. Let’s make 2012 the year to be a healthier and happier you. Create a plan and stick to these tips, I am sure you’ll feel fantastic and won’t have to add being healthier to your next New Year’s Resolution.

1. Get Clear

In order to transform your health, energy and body, you need to take stock of where you are now, what you’re eating and what you want to change.

Write down everything. How you feel when you wake up? What cravings you have? What your diet is like? What is your exercise routine (if any)? What do you like to feel and look like?

2. Get Support

Talk with someone who has been there before. Read the blogs of experts; watch inspiring movies online or listen to radio shows on the area of health that interests you the most. Find a “tribe” of people who are dedicated to making the same changes you want to accomplish.

There is power in joining forces – they’ll pull you along, and you’ll help them at the same time.

3. Make a Plan

Do you want to eat more vegetables? Eat less sugar? Kick your caffeine habit completely? Do you want to lose 20 pounds, or clear up your skin?

What is the first step towards your goal? If it’s eating less sugar, maybe it’s time to learn about natural foods that give you the sweet sensation you’re looking for without robbing your energy (more on that in a minute).

Or maybe you need to throw away the sweets or chocolates lingering from the holidays. Or maybe there’s something in your lifestyle that triggers your sugar cravings that you can address in a non-food-way.

Whatever the issue is, there are steps you can take to make it a non-issue: start brain-storming on what to do first, then what you can do tomorrow, and in no time you’ll be free and clear.

4. Be Seasonal

Use seasonal, local produce as much as possible.

When you eat veggies from a nearby farm, they offer you the energy and nutrients that support you where you are and when you are.

For example, eating iceberg lettuce and watermelon north of the 45th parallel in winter does not support your body in the cold, sunless months. Instead, choose winter squash, cabbage, other hearty wintergreens, and apples and pears that winter over well. These fruits and veggies give you great, fresh nutrition rather than arriving depleted from half way across the world.

5. Sleep More

The human body is built to follow natural rhythms. Our inner body clock, called circadian rhythm, triggers the natural impulses to wake up with the sun, sleep when it’s dark, as well as a host of other natural body processes.

When your natural circadian rhythm is thrown off, due to jet lag or just staying up too late night after night, your body and brain work at half-speed, and your body feels off balance. Years of staying up late and not getting enough sleep during the darker, winter months, makes caffeine necessary, and cravings for sugar more intense.

This winter, try an experiment: go to bed early and wake up early. Get into bed by 9pm and wake up at 4 or 5am. Even a few days a week of this pattern will help you feel more refreshed, healthier, and those intense food cravings will release their hold on you just a bit more.

6. Make Breakfast a Priority

Now that you’re sleeping better, you can wake up earlier and get a good breakfast in your body. Everyone is different and you might need something that your partner or child doesn’t like or desire. Experiment with different types of food for your morning meal, alternating savory, sweet, liquid or combination breakfasts.

You might notice that a protein rich meal keeps you filled longer. Or perhaps you find that a light meal of fruit and herbal tea is perfect.

Try it out and notice what happens during the day with your cravings. Your first meal can determine your energy for the rest of the day.

7. Skip the White Foods

Any white, refined food is going to steal nutrients and energy from your body. This includes white flour, white sugar, and white table salt.

All of these foods are stripped of nutrition, vitamins and minerals, and offer only the jolt of carbohydrate or sodium. Without any supportive nutrients, your body must draw on its own precious stores to metabolize the refined food, leading to depleted energy over time.

8. Sweeten the Deal

Use more naturally sweet foods instead of relying on white foods, candy, and soda for energy.

Include sweet root veggies, fruits and even whole grains to satisfy your sweet cravings.

Sweet potatoes offer carotenoid antioxidant and help your body respond to insulin better. Parsnips are high in silicon and fiber and are high in calcium. Beets are high in boron, a mineral critical for the production of human sex hormones.

Adding daily doses of sweet veggies, you’ll crave less sugary treats, and you’ll be giving your body necessary nutrients for long-term health.

9. Move Your Body Like Your Life Depends On It – Because it Does

Whatever form of exercise you choose: running, walking, swimming, biking, dancing, weight lifting or machines – just move. Daily. As if it were your last day on earth.

If you incorporate anything from the list above you will be on your way to preserving or regaining your health and vitality in the New Year.

What are your favorite activities to do for exercise?

Think Pink Jewels…and More

Victoria Tillotson — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:46:22 +0000

“I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles. ” – Audrey Hepburn

It’s October and with it, Breast Cancer awareness month and it’s time we ALL start thinking about miracles! As a partner in Surviving Beautifully, a brand new project to help women with aesthetic issues during treatment, it’s my latest, heartfelt work. I promise more about that later. For now, the jewelry and fashion lover in me wants to Think Pink with style. Move over, my beloved pink ribbon, here are some picks for cool pink jewels and accessories:

Michael Von Krenner 14K Gold & Pink Spinel Ring

Gorgeous and sophisticated beyond belief!

Here are some beautiful, delicate earrings by Cathy Waterman with a decidedly antique flair:

Cathy Waterman Earrings

I’m thinking about them with a tailored Byron Lars dress I just saw….

Now onto the less serious: remember these? Who doesn’t! I guess the classics [??] never get old.

Jelly Bracelets

Sorry, designers, these are so ubiquitous that I didn’t know who to credit them to!

But jewelry can’t have ALL the fun: pink leather goods need some love too. Chanel is known for the subtle color palette, and this tote is no exception. C’mon, dontcha want it even if you don’t love baby pink 1000%?

Pink Chanel Tote

Don’t forget your keys: the King of Color, Jonathan Adler, has just the thing to corral them in cuteness:

Jonathan Adler Pink Poodle Keychain

The edgy German fashion designers Dirk Bikkembergs is known for his darkly quirky style. His pink kicks are quite a departure from his post-industrial chic and are just the thing to walk in this October.

Dirk Bikkembergs Pink Soccer Shoes

Finally, not to be too matchy-matchy, a classic shade from OPI: good color, great cause!

OPI Pink of Hearts Nail Lacquer

Be sure to think pink this month and support breast cancer awareness and research. Komen for the Cure is always a great place to start learning how to get involved.