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LÄRABAR
Posted by admin in Health & Nutrition, Product Reviews, Wellness on August 5th, 2009
LÄRABAR quickly became my favorite on the go bar as soon as I tasted them. They are made of high quality simple ingredients that hit you with amazing flavor.
They keep their ingredient list to a minimum and I can assure you that you will recognize all of them. They most recently came out with 3 new flavors: Peanutbutter and Jelly, Tropical Fruit Tart, and German Chocolate Cake. I was lucky enough to find the first two at my local health food store and pushed any and everyone out of the way to make sure I left with some in my shopping bag!
The Peanutbutter and Jelly LÄRABAR brought back memories of my favorite school lunch. Peanuts, dates, cherries, and salt make up the ingredient list and the flavor was spot on.
The Tropical Fruit Tart jumped up to one of my favorite flavors. The ingredient list was dates, pineapple, unsweetened coconut, almonds, extra virgin coconut oil, cashews, orange juice concentrate, orange peel. It was like a tropical party in my mouth. I am a huge fan of coconuts and the addition of the fruity flavors made it even better.
LÄRABAR knows how to reach their customer and keep them satisfied. You know i’ll be on the lookout for the new German Chocolate Cake now! I need to review them all right?!
For more information on LÄRABAR visit, larabar.com.
Recipe: Apricot-Cherry Triffle
Posted by admin in Health & Nutrition, Recipes, Wellness on July 20th, 2009
Looking to get your daily fruit servings but also want dessert?! Try this diet-friendly dessert from Annie Clemmons, pastry chef at Cyrus in Healdsburg, California from Self magazine.
Serves 4
INGREDIENTS
6 ripe apricots, halved and pitted
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
2 teaspoons apricot nectar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 angel food cake, cut into 1/2-inch slices
2 1/2 cups nonfat plain yogurt
1 cup bing cherries, halved and pitted
PREPARATION
Cook first 4 ingredients in a medium saucepan over low heat for about 10 minutes or until apricots start to release juices. Remove from heat; set aside. Lay cake slices on waxed paper. Using a standard “rocks” glass, cut out 12 circles of cake. When apricots are cool, puree in blender 2 minutes or until smooth. Cover, and refrigerate 30 minutes.
Stir yogurt into apricot mixture. Place a few cherry halves on the bottom of a rocks glass. Spoon 2 tbsp yogurt-apricot mixture over cherries; cover with a slice of cake; repeat twice. Top with cherries and a drizzle of yogurt-apricot mixture.
THE SKINNY
359 calories per serving, 1.2 g fat (0.3 g saturated), 73.8 g carbs, 3.1 g fiber, 14.9 g protein
Amazing Grass’ Green SuperFood: Chocolate Drink Powder
Posted by admin in Health & Nutrition, Wellness on July 17th, 2009
I had the pleasure of trying out Amazing Grass’ Green SuperFood: Chocolate Drink Powder. Gone are the days when I would drink Carnation Instant Breakfast shakes. The Amazing Grass website describes the powder as:
“A full spectrum of alkalizing green superfoods, antioxidant rich fruits, and support herbs unite with organic Acai, Maca and Cacao to provide a powerful dose of whole food nutrition with a delicious dark chocolate taste. Complete with pre & probiotics and digestive enzymes to ensure rapid nutrient absorption and healthy digestion.
Chocolate Green SuperFood: All natural and organic ingredients include organic wheat grass, organic barley grass, organic alfalfa, organic spirulina, organic spinach, organic chlorella (cracked cell-wall), organic broccoli, organic dutch cocoa, organic redwood cocoa, organic cacao, natural chocolate flavoring, organic acai from Sambazon, organic maca, organic carrot, organic beet, raspberry, organic rose hips, pineapple, green tea, acerola cherry, organic flax seed powder, organic oat fiber, apple pectin fiber, F.O.S. (from chicory root), L. acidophilus, alpha and beta amylase, protease, lipase, lactase, cellulase, siberian eleuthero root, peppermint and organic sea salt. 100% Vegan.”
Look at that ingredient list. Nothing but nutrient dense ingredients to help give you achieve your 5 to 9 daily recommended servings of fruits and vegetables.
You can mix a scoop with water, milk, or add it into smoothies. When added with soy milk or almond milk this reminds me of chocolate milk. It has an earthy taste to it but the cacao is prominent. I also love adding it to my morning smoothies. A frozen banana, a scoop of Chocolate Green Superfood Drink Powder, some milk and ice and you’ve got yourself a healthy breakfast smoothie that your tastebuds will thank you for. It gives you an energy burst so you don’t even need your daily cup of coffee. A serving size is 1 scoop (8 g) and has 30 calories and 1 g of fat. They recommend 1-3 servings daily.
There’s never been a tastier way to get your daily dose of greens.
For more information on Amazing Grass products visit www.amazinggrass.com.
Take A Fit Vacation In Jamaica At The Couples Swept Away Resort!
Posted by admin in Fitness & Exercises, Health & Nutrition, Misc., Wellness on July 17th, 2009
About a week ago I was heading to the gorgeous island of Jamaica to teach fitness classes for a week at the all-inclusive Couples Swept Away Resort. Judging from the photo gallery from the resorts website, the resort looked beautiful, but it was even more amazing in person.
If you’re a fitness enthusiast who works out even on vacation, but dread going to the resort’s fitness facility that usually involves a couple of treadmills and weight machines in a white walled room, The Couples Swept Away fitness facility will blow your mind!
I never been to a resort that had a whole fitness facility on site – and when I say whole fitness facility I mean, they have a HUGE studio where fitness classes are held twice daily. There are cardio groove classes, spin classes, body pumping classes, yoga, pilates and of course reggae abs classes.
There’s also a weight machine room that is open (no windows or doors), a lap pool where aquacize classes are held or you could do just laps, tennis courts, squash courts and a pool table.
There’s also a guest tennis instructor each week that teaches tennis lessons. So whether you want to play on your own or learn how-to play, the choice is yours.
The fitness facility also has a health bar which has declicious fresh fruit smoothies, granola bar snacks, and fresh fruit infused water (and I don’t mean bottled!). They also serve coffee, water and other health drinks.
Near the health bar is a lounge area where the sports channel is constantly on, so for those men…or women, who want to keep up to date on their sports, can. There are also locker rooms with saunas and steam rooms for both men and women.
I’m telling you, if you and a loved one are looking for the perfect getaway, but must workout – this is the place! Even if you don’t workout, the resort is all-inclusive and is just amazing.
The couple staying next to our room told us they extended their stay because they loved it so much.
To learn more about the Couples Swept Away Resort visit www.couples.com.
Also, become a fan of their fitness club on Facebook, Couples Swept Away Fitness Club.
Get Free Health & Fitness Advice From Celebrity Trainer David Kirsch!
Posted by admin in Fitness & Exercises, Health & Nutrition, Interviews, Wellness on June 18th, 2009
With the economy down the toilet, gym memberships are being dropped like bad habits. So celebrity trainer David Kirsch, who’s trained celebs such as Heidi Klum, Anne Hathaway, Kerry Washington and athletes to name a few, has a Summer Shape Up program on MSN.com for FREE!
You better hurry though, this free program is only running until July 8th. It includes a whole bunch of diet & exercise tools and resources with a weekly blog from David himself. You can also ask David any question you want, in “Ask David A Question.”
What’s also great about this program is, it’s geared toward all fitness levels. So if you’ve never exercised before, if you’re pregnant, if you’re a fitness enthusiast – the program provides many different levels and advice/tips that will get you to your fitness goal – and if you are ever are unsure of what you should do or what you are doing, again just ask David. When else are you going to be able to take advantage of a celebrity trainer!
David doesn’t only keep busy training celebrities for their A-list bodies, but he is a part of the Madison Square Garden Club in New York City. He also will be releasing a book next week called, “The Butt Book.” It’s a manual just under 100 pgs. of everything you want to know in order to get the perfect butt! While training Carolina Kournikova, she coined him the phrase “Master of the Ass.” So what better way to learn how to get the perfect butt, than from the master himself! The book will be released on David’s site, www.davidkirschwellness.com.
MSN.com will be excerpting part of this book on their site next week, so stay tuned!
To learn more about David, visit his website www.davidkirschwellness.com.
You can also check out some of his exercise videos on www.youtube.com, like the 7 Day Prescription.
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