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Top 10 small steps you can do to save the environment

Helping the environment doesn’t have to be that hard, in fact there many small things you can do that have a big impact.

Take a look:

1. Filter your own water: Since studies show bottled water is often no better than tap water, why would you waste your money and harm the environment by buying bottled water? Fossil fuels are wasted in the unnecessary production, manufacture, and transportation of bottled water. Once in a consumer’s hand, it is estimated that more than 75 percent of these bottles end up in landfills. To ensure you are getting the best water your body needs, try filtering your own water; it is much cheaper and far healthier for you. I like sparkling water, so I’ve purchased a snazzy little device that adds CO₂ to my filtered water—and voilà, I have healthier, environmentally friendlier bubbly water!
2. Replace your bulbs: Both compact fluorescent bulbs and LED bulbs use much less energy than old incandescent bulbs (and save you money). LED bulbs have a very high up-front price tag, but have a lifespan of around 20 years. Imagine replacing a bulb and then not having to do it again for two decades!
3. Plastic bags: One-use, throwaway bags are a waste of energy and resources. Choose a few strong, reusable bags and put them in your trunk. It takes only a few times having to run out to your car to get those reusable bags for you to remember them every time.
4. Eat low on food chain: Even one meatless meal a week can help to reduce your carbon footprint. It has been estimated that it requires 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef and that cows contribute greatly to the greenhouse effect by producing large amounts of methane. Choose organically grown and pasture-raised meats when you do eat beef to reduce the amount of chemicals in the environment.
5. Plant: Every time you plant something, you help the environment. Consider growing your own garden this spring! Plant some pretty potted flowers in your backyard—and don’t forget a little greenery inside your house. I try to have a plant in almost every room in my house. All this yard work is great exercise too!
6. Go paperless: Computers were supposed to usher in the era of the paperless society, but the opposite has happened. You can go paperless by paying bills online and avoiding bills sent to your house. Estimates are that paperless billing in America would save nearly 19 million trees, 2.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide, and 1.7 billion pounds of solid waste every year. You can take it a step further by cutting out junk mail. There are many services that can help you get off mailing lists, try searching the Internet for a good company.
7. Buy locally: You cannot buy everything locally, but commit to as much as you can. The local food movement is growing and farmers markets are popping up all over. Even grocery stores are getting into the act by having part of the produce section devoted to locally grown foods. The estimates on savings are hard to determine, but it makes sense that buying an apple grown in your state is much less energy intensive than having it shipped from thousands of miles away.
8. Walk/bike: Think before you get in your car. Can your errand be combined with another trip? Can you use a bike or walk instead? Try committing to using public transportation once a week or once a month. According to the EPA, leaving your car at home just two days a week can reduce your greenhouse gas emissions by an average of two tons per year.
   
9. Take your lunch: It may not seem obvious at first why brown-bagging it helps the environment, but eating out usually means a trip in a car, the use of containers, paper products, and plastic throwaway utensils. Most restaurant food is going to be less healthy and higher in calories than what you might bring from home, so this step is good for your waistline and helping the environment.
10. Clean cleaning: Harsh chemicals in most cleaners are not good for you or the environment. Chemical cleaners have been linked with many health issues, including skin rashes and asthma flare-ups.  Do yourself and the environment a favor and drop the chemical cleaners for earth-friendly versions.

Bonus tip: My best tip? Share these tips with your family and friends. It’s amazing that some of the smallest, easiest steps like sharing a good tip or great result from a product are so easy to share and each little step leads to big changes/differences.

What do you do in your personal life to help the environment?

Be well!

Info thanks to Shaklee Health Wise Blog!

Have a healthy and productive day!

MJ

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The Benefits of Supplementation

It's a tough world out there. Our air and water are often full of toxic chemicals and many of our food choices are less than nutritious. Most of us have highly busy lives and devote too little time to being physically active. Despite the fact that nearly 7 out of 10 Americans are overweight to obese, we are ironically often under-nourished. In fact, up to 90 percent of Americans are lacking key nutrients in our diets.

Ensuring we are getting the nourishment needed to support our bodies optimal function can be a challenge, but nutritional supplementation can help fill in those gaps that exist in just about everyone's diet. Countless research studies and health experts agree that supplementing with key nutrients, including a multivitamin, adequate vitamin D, and omega-3 fatty acids provide a good nutritional foundation.

To understand the relationship between supplementation and long-term health, a first-of-its-kind Landmark Studyii was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University Of California, Berkeley, School Of Public Health.

Researchers gathered a group of Shaklee long-term (20+ years) multi-supplement users and compared their health to non-supplement users. Results were adjusted to account for a number of potential confounders, including age, sex, education, income, and body mass index (BMI).

Questionnaires, on-site physical examinations, and blood work were used to compare nutritional status, serum biomarkers of health risk, and self-assessed health status between the three groups.

The dietary supplements consumed on a daily basis by more than 50 percent of the multi-supplement users included a multivitamin/multimineral, B vitamin complex, vitamins C and E, antioxidants, calcium with vitamin D, omega-3 fatty acids, probiotic, soy protein, glucosamine and an herbal immune supplement.

Researchers discovered that the overall health of long-term multiple supplement users was dramatically different than that of non-supplement users.

The multiple supplement users had improved levels of important heart-healthy biomarkers including 33 percent lower triglycerides, 36 percent lower homocysteine, 59 percent lower C-reactive protein levels, along with 11 percent lower cholesterol to HDL ratio when compared to the non-supplement users. As expected, the multiple supplement users also had higher blood levels of vitamin A, C, E, D, folate, and iron than non-supplement users.

Risk of disease was also much lower in these multiple dietary supplement users than nonusers. As a group, the multiple supplement users had lower risk of high blood pressure (39 percent), lower risk of diabetes (73 percent), and multiple measures of cardiovascular risk were directionally better with supplementation. Multiple supplement users were also four times more likely to describe their health as "very good" or "excellent" compared to non-supplement users.

In most cases, the single supplement users' health markers fell between these two groups, suggesting that multiple supplementation use was both safe and effective.

Quality supplements can help fill nutritional gaps left by less than optimal food choices, our overworked bodies, and our toxic environment.

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Have a healthy and productive week! 

MJ 

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