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Marie Claire, a leading women’s magazine, has featured Goodelements.com’s Chief Health Officer, Dr. Britta Zimmer, and the product Craving Control in a recent article on supplement and diet. The piece, entitled “6 Ways to Boost Your Metabolism: Sure-fire diet boosters,” taught readers how to combine supplement and diet techniques for optimal metabolic function.

Good Elements’ weight loss supplement, Craving Control, was also highlighted by the magazine as a supplement that helps “support sustainable weight loss by safely speeding up your metabolism and reducing food cravings.” The entire Marie Claire article featuring Dr. Britta Zimmer on smart vitamin and lifestyle choices can be read on their website.

Did you know that there is an “Almond Board of California”? We didn’t either. But now we do. And now you do too. And the good folks at the Almond Board of California have put out some pretty interesting information about almonds and heath health.

According to the World Health Organization report (2004), heart disease accounts for 17.5 million deaths worldwide annually. One way to improve heart health is to make dietary choices that reduce triglyceride levels, an established risk factor for developing heart disease.

The Almond Board recently funded a study to investigate heart health risk factors, namely high triglyceride levels. During the study, human subjects ate muffin products made with pieces of whole almonds, compared to those made with oil. Researchers witnessed a delayed release of fats from the almonds into the body, which resulted in a lower rise in triglyceride levels.

“This new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, expands upon previous cardiovascular research by investigating not only how the plant cell wall may impact how fats are absorbed into the body, but also the potential impact on acute changes in triglyceride levels,” noted Dr. Sarah Berry, Nutritional Sciences Division, Kings CollegeLondon, United Kingdom. “The data suggest that an intact plant cell wall, as found in whole almonds, may impact on how much and how quickly fat is released into the blood, contributing to a lower acute rise in blood triglyceride levels.”

Now that’s a scientific mouthful, so let’s get a little more basic. Triglycerides are the primary form of fat in foods, regardless of the type of fat i.e., unsaturated or saturated. Blood triglycerides normally increase after eating a meal containing dietary fat. Elevated blood triglyceride levels are a risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease.

The study indicates that the fat found in whole almonds is not as quickly absorbed by the body as that found in almond oil or sunflower oil, which researchers attributed to the plant cell walls found in the whole almond nut. Researchers believe that the plant cell walls found in almonds, act as a physical barrier hindering the rate and release of the lipid during digestion. The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

So what else can be found in almonds? One ounce of almonds, about a handful, offers: Fiber (3g); Calcium (75mg); Protein (6g); Iron (1.0mg); Potassium (200 mg); Saturated Fat (1g); Unsaturated Fat (13g).

Source: Almond Board of California - Wed, 12/17/2008
Source: eMaxHealth

The Holiday Survival System, a combination of anxiety supplements and vitamins produced by goodelements.com, has been featured in the fine living section of justluxe.com as trendy gift idea to help others cope with holiday stress.

The article highlights products from goodelements.com that are “designed for gifting to others, including family, friends, colleagues, coaches, teachers or other health-minded acquaintances,” as they contain gentle anxiety supplements to help friends and relatives cope with the overall stress of the season or any time of year

This same article also features the Well Being Gift Set, which is designed to promote balanced nutrition, improved immunity and overall good health during the stressful and virus plagued holiday season. These products are not only great gifts for the Holidays but can also make great Valentines gifts.

Our diet and healthy living site, Goodelements.com, has been honored in an LA Times article entitled, “Tired of Thinking Pink, Skip to Green,” for having a corporate commitment to breast cancer awareness month. The article highlights corporations that have released special “pink” products to support the cause and those that actually donate profits to further breast cancer research and funding.

Listed among companies such as OPI, Easy Spirit, Huggies, and Masterlock, our diet and healthy living site was highlighted for donating 20% of October proceeds to the Susan G. Komen Foundation and for showing a continued commitment for health and wellness across the globe. We look forward to participating again next year.

Our popular weight loss supplement, Craving Control, has been highlighted by Edge Life magazine as a helpful dietary supplement for weight loss in their article entitled, “Six Sure-Fire Diet Boosters.” The quote highlighting our product is as follows:

“Supplement for faster results: All natural, non-addictive dietary supplements, such as “Craving Control” offered by GoodElements.com, support sustainable weight loss by safety speeding up your metabolism and reducing food cravings. Natural supplements and vitamins can aid in weight loss by increasing your body’s metabolism, while stabilizing blood sugar levels to help you avoid unhealthy snacking.”

If you’re not already familiar with the publication, Edge Life magazine is the premier monthly magazine on holistic living in the Upper Midwest. It is distributed monthly throughout the Twin Cities, outstate Minnesota, Fargo, N.D., Des Moines, Iowa, and in many other locations.

We are honored to have Craving Control featured in Edge Life as a helpful dietary supplement for weight loss. Craving Control truly is one of our most popular products because it can be a great help during the journey to weight loss and on the road to healty living. Craving control is an all natural and non-addictive alternative approach to traditional diets and harmful diet pills.

A reader of the blog, “Butterfly Diary,” left the following comment about Craving Control as a dietary supplement for weight loss:

“I’ve had good success with the craving control product and making a few good decisions like choosing fruit or almonds instead of sweets. Craving control gives me the will power and support to keep it up”- Jenn

We wanted to thank Jenn for the positive feedback regarding her use of Craving Control as her dietary supplement for weight loss. We’re glad it helps you to “keep on, keepin’ on” and gives you that extra boost to keep your metabolism working at optimal levels.

Here at Good Elements we love to eat.   We recognize of course that it is healthier and more cost effective to eat at home.   After all, where do you think all of those great  Good Elements Monthly Recipes come from?  But eating out can be a great pleasure - but one that may come with hidden risks to the waistline.

A new study in Review of Agricultural Economics has compared fast food and table service meals at restaurants.  The results of the study show that both types of meals are larger and have more calories than meals prepared at home.  Now here’s the surprise - the typical fast food meal is smaller and has fewer calories than the average meal from a table service restaurant.  Seems intuitive yet counter-intuitive at the same time, right?

Fast food was found to be more energy dense than food from a table service restaurant, but fast food meals also tend to be smaller. As a result, the typical fast food meal had fewer calories than the average meal from a table service restaurant.

Now here’s where it gets interesting.  Table service diners were more likely to reduce their food consumption during the rest of the day, most likely because of the difference in energy density of the food they consumed.  As a result, fast food may ultimately result in more calories as fast food diners tend to eat more throughout the day.

Not all table service restaurants are created equal, and not all diners are either.  But the moral of this Good Elements blog is - be mindful of what you consume when eating out.  Eating incorrectly when eating out can be more damaging to the waistline than that fast food that you avoided.

GoodElements.com was featured yesterday in the Baltimore Sun.

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We know that exercise helps the heart, and a lack of it can help promote the factors that lead to heart disease.  But how late in life is too late to begin exercising? Well good news, friends, it seems as if it’s never too late.

Epidemiologist Dietrich Rothenbacher of the University of Heidelberg and his colleagues surveyed 312 patients–mostly men–between the ages of 40 and 68 who suffered from coronary heart disease and 479 volunteers matching the patients in age and sex. The scientists asked them to detail their physical activity from the ages of 20 to 39, 40 to 49 and 50 years and older. More than 10 percent of patients and 6 percent of the controls admitted to lifetimes devoid of physical activity.

Compared to these inactive counterparts, those who were active throughout their lives enjoyed more than a 60 percent less chance of developing heart disease. But even those who became active only after the age of 40 enjoyed a 55 percent less chance of cardiovascular trouble, and those who went from being inactive to very active saw the greatest benefits. Although such a survey technique is open to so-called recall bias–a tendency by test subjects to incorrectly estimate their exercise–the researchers found that individuals’ reports matched well with physical fitness measures and even matched better with their ultimate fate. “Our results suggest that a more active physical activity pattern is clearly associated with a reduced risk of [coronary heart disease],” the researchers write in the paper presenting their findings published online in Heart. “And that changing from a sedentary to a more physically active lifestyle even in later adulthood may strongly decrease [coronary heart disease] risk.”

Source:  Scientific American

January 2, 2009

Are you a young woman who took your Good Elements Essentials or Renewal today? If so, then you enjoyed some Vitamin C – which is linked in a new study with lower blood pressure in young women.

This “strongly suggests that vitamin C is specifically important in maintaining a healthy blood pressure,” lead author Dr. Gladys Block, of the University of California, Berkeley, told Reuters Health.

Previous research linked high plasma levels of vitamin C with lower blood pressure among middle-age and older adults, typically those with higher than optimal blood pressure readings, Block and colleagues report in the Nutrition Journal.

The current study involved 242 black and white women, between 18 and 21 years old, with normal blood pressures, who were participants in the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study. Further analyses of vitamin C and blood pressure changes over the previous year, “also strongly suggested that the people with the highest blood level of vitamin C had the least increase in blood pressure,” Block said.

Since these findings infer a possible association between vitamin C and blood pressure in healthy young adults, Block and colleagues call for further investigations in this population.

SOURCE: Nutrition Journal, December 17, 2008