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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.

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.

GoodElements.com was featured yesterday in the Baltimore Sun.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.hs.briefs052jan05,0,7048217.story

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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

This time of year can be fun; attending holiday parties, eating an over-abundance of food, drinking cheer, gathering with loved ones, and traveling. As fun as these events can be they also can weaken your immune system rendering you useless to fully enjoy this time of sharing.

How is your immune system weakened by the holidays?

The weather is changing which means your body needs to adjust and expend more energy keeping warm and less on your immune system.

The late night parties with plenty of sugar-filled treats and alcohol taxes your immune system as sugar is an immune depressant.

As you stay out later you get less sleep for the next day of work which weakens your immune system further.

Are you thinking about all of the presents, obligations, parties and holiday cards you might need to spend time and money on? This can be stressful and as we have explained before, stress is hard on you body, delivering again another blow to your immune system.

Maybe your kids are spending more time at home along with their friends’ germs, demanding your immune system to continue to fight.

We cannot take away the immune suppressing stressors of the holidays nor are we going to take away your fun but we will give you some tips to boost your immune system and stave off the winter crud. Read our December newsletter to find out how hydration, immune boosting vitamins and herbs, and wearing a scarf can help.

Yours in health,

Dr. Britta Zimmer

Chief Naturopathic Physician & Founder

As you are headed into your neighborhood grocery store or drug store you see the sign, “Get Your Flu Shot Here”. Then you hear that the flu can cause days of missed work and even death therefore you better get the vaccine to protect yourself. I encourage you to review the facts and then make an educated decision for yourself.

The federal immunization advisory board portrays the flu shot as being protective against flu related deaths and diseases. What people do not know is many of the members of this advisory committee have financial ties to the vaccine industry. If the randomized controlled studies are evaluated, the flu shot reduces the absolute risk of contracting the flu by 1%. Meaning 1 out of 100 people receiving the flu shot will benefit from it. They claim that over 35,000 people die from the flu caused illnesses yearly and this is the reason to get the flu vaccine but in fact less than 1000 people a year die from the flu, and 35,000 people a year die from pneumonia. After carefully reading the research, the flu vaccine does not protect people from contracting pneumonia.

In addition to not providing as much protection as claimed, the flu vaccine contains harmful ingredients. Mercury is added as a preservative in the form of thimerosal. Mercury is neurotoxic and has been implicated in various chronic diseases. In fact, many flu shots contain mercury above the upper limit for an individual weighing 200 pounds. If the flu vaccine is claimed to be thimerosal free, the fine print reads that thimerosal is still used in the manufacturing process. Aluminum is also added to the flu shot to promote an antibody response, aluminum has been implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. The other toxic ingredients in flu shots include, formaldehyde which can cause cancer, ethylene glycol a component of antifreeze and various antibiotics.

Potential side effects from receiving the flu vaccine include joint inflammation, arthritis, anaphylactic shock, and Guillain-Barré syndrome (a disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks part of the nervous system causing weakness and paralysis.)

Prevention is key:

1. Wash your hands often
2. Avoid immune-suppressing sugar and alcohol.
3. Take a high quality multi-vitamin and mineral supplement especially one containing Vitamin D such as Good Elements’ Essentials
4. Manage stress
5. Exercise
6. Rest and sleep

If you are already in poor health and these prevention tools are not an option for you then you should consider receiving the flu vaccine.

Fear and availability make it easy for most people get the flu vaccine but I advise you to review the evidence for yourself, perhaps you will reach the conclusion that the risks of the flu vaccine outweigh the possible benefits.

Yours in health,

Dr. Britta Zimmer

Chief Naturopathic Physician & Founder

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http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20081006/flu-shots-not-so-helpful-for-kids?ecd=wnl_nrn_101508

Why do some people have allergies and others do not?

Is life just not fair or can we do something about this?
Allergies are a sign of our immune systems overreacting to otherwise harmless substances. Common allergy symptoms of sneezing, itchy eyes, runny nose, headache and fatigue are a response to increased inflammation in the body and the over-production of histamine by immune cells.

Over the counter or pharmaceutical allergy medications or decongestants only mask the symptoms of allergies rather than addressing the true underlying cause. Using these conventional remedies wastes your money and more importantly your body’s resources on band-aids that never fully address the true issue

Wouldn’t you prefer a deep acting remedy rather than a band-aid for your allergies?

This topic will be comprehensively covered in future blogs and in our daily health tips.
But to briefly mention a few points

Inflammation, imbalanced digestive systems and weakened immune systems can account for an increased susceptibility to allergies and suffering from associated allergic symptoms.
1. Decrease inflammation in your body by eating the right foods and taking herbs and nutrients like in Good Elements Sneeze-less and Motion.

2. Balance your digestive systems with the proper diet, stress reducing techniques and beneficial flora.

3. Fortify your immune systems by decreasing sugar and taking nutrients in formulas such as Good Elements Renewal and Resistance.

Check out Good Elements daily health tips over the coming weeks for more tactical allergy fighting strategies and make room in your medicine cabinet for health supporting remedies.
Yours in health,
Dr. Britta Zimmer
Chief Naturopathic Physician & Founder