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Shred10 2022

Jun 30, 2022

I mentioned in one of my posts about eating comfort food during my broken ankle recovery. You know what happens when you eat comfort food? You start feeling bloated which in turn makes you feel bad, and there is definitely weight gain. That’s the way it worked out for me. Now I have 10 pounds to lose to be where I want to be. And let me tell you one thing – it is NOT easy!

This is why I am so thankful for the Shred10. This is a 10-day jumpstart into a four-month experience that will launch you into lifelong health. We begin the Shred10 every month, usually the first Monday unless it’s a holiday, and I find myself continuing for more than the 10 days because I feel so much better when I eat right. I certainly didn’t follow the plan from March until June that’s for sure! I’ve learned that food does things FOR you and medicine does things TO you. I’m not saying that all medicines are bad, I am thankful for some of them but why take meds if you don’t have to. I’d rather eat good food than pop pills! Wouldn’t you? It’s all about whole food nutrition.

Ok, back to the Shred 10, we have a Facebook group where you’ll find videos, cookbooks, grocery list to make sure you have all of the right food on hand. People post recipes, helpful hints, give inspiration and anything to help during the journey. And if you do want to lose weight, like me and my 10 pounds, I replace two meals with one of our Complete whole food shakes and I’m set to go. Of course, I take my “magic pills” with the nutrients of over 30 fruits, vegetables and berries – can’t forget those. And my plant-based Omegas. I remember when I was taking omegas way back and the fishy taste that I had to deal with. We have taken the fish totally out of the picture and went straight to the source – the algae. No more fishy taste – or burps! YUK!!!

Our next Shred10 begins on July 11th which gives me plenty of time to check my supply of Complete and place my order. It’s also a good time to stop at roadside produce stands and farmers markets for fresh veggies. I hope you’ll join me because it’s always more fun with a buddie!
Have a great Fourth of July!

Whole Food Nutritional Foundation

Apr 12, 2022

We are crazy about fruits, vegetables and berries.
Our goal is to give you the best that fresh, ripened fruits, vegetables and berries have to offer. This is how we do it!

Step 1: We love our farmers.

We partner with family farmers, who take pride in their seeds, fields and orchards, growing the amazing fruits, vegetables and berries that go into our capsules.

Step 2: Our farmers harvest at the peak of ripeness.

We wait until mother nature has done her job and allow the fruits and vegetables to ripen. By harvesting the fully ripened produce, we capture the maximum nutrition possible.

Step 3: The “quick freeze.”

If our farms aren’t close enough to where we make the capsules, we take that wonderfully ripened produce and give it the “quick freeze”, also known as IQF (individual quick freeze) by the product nerds. This ensures we don’t lose any valuable nutrients along the way as we prepare for the next step.

Step 4: Create fruit, vegetable and berry powders.

We selected 30 different fruits, vegetable and berries for our three blends. We juice the whole fruit, vegetable or berry, including peels, leaves and seeds whenever possible, to harvest the greatest amount of nutrients. We dry to remove water and create the colorful powders. (And from what I understand, we dry at very low temperatures to keep the live enzymes in tact.)

Step 5: Protect the plant-based goodness.

The powders are kept in a vegan capsule and preserved in special bottles that keep it protected from moisture and oxygen, ensuring that it stays fresh from our storage facility and all the way to your door.

Et Voilà! (And there you have it!)

Beautiful fruit, vegetable and berry capsules to help you build a solid nutritional foundation!

Over 30 Years of Clinical Research.

Don’t Get the People and Prevention

Dec 18, 2021

I want to ask you a question. With everything going on in this world, the negativity, the pointing fingers, the blaming, the rage, the hatred, sickness, disease and deaths, why on earth would anyone not want to be surrounded with people who are positive, supporting, helpful, happy and healthy. I just don’t get it!!! Another question, if you were to find out that you had chronic disease, would you not do whatever you could if there were any possible chance that it could help you? Not only what the doctors say, but anything that was backed by research!

One thing that I have learned during the past nine years is that no one will take care of your health better than you. You have got to take control of your destiny. It’s up to you. Not me, YOU! I can help by making suggestions, but the final decision is on you. This is why it just breaks my heart to see so many talk about their health issues, their doctors’ visits, hospital stays, chemo, radiation, you name it, there are all sorts of treatments out there, and no one is listening to the prevention side of it, the power of nutrition and how it truly does affect the body. Yes, the body that God created! He not only created man and woman, but He also gave them a garden, full of fruits and vegetables, yes whole food, to keep them healthy. This my friends is called PREVENTION. I don’t get it! Hmmmmm, processed food versus whole food, let’s see… I just don’t get it!!! I’m not 100% myself but I sure do my best to live it out.

No, it’s not miracle fruits and veggies. It won’t keep you from ever getting sick but it may just help you have a better, longer life with a little kick in your step. People have been asking me if what they’re seeing on TV about fruits and vegetables are what I’m talking about. NO IT IS NOT! The whole food capsules that I’m talking about have been around for 28 years and backed by research. I’m not talking about borrowed research, like these copycat companies, I’m talking about clinical research that’s been done and continues to be done by well-known institutions such as the University of Texas/MD Anderson, Yale University, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and many others. These are done on humans, they find the patients, draw the blood, follow them, do the study then present their work through the scientific process to a review board. It’s totally independent. Not to mention that it’s NSF certified. What does that mean you ask? Well NSF requires audits of all manufacturing sites, as well as sample of the products that determines that what’s on the label is actually what is in the product. They make sure of the safety of the product which makes it the perfect product for athletes.

So, why take a chance on these copycat companies when you can have the original, the real thing with the whole food nutritional capsules that I have been taking for the past nine years? I have the assurance of a 28 year track record that I am getting the best. Oh, did I mention that these wonderful capsules of whole food nutrition are bioavailable? Not like a vitamin which just ends up in the toilet. This actually is absorbed in your body to help it heal.

This is a quote from Johns Hopkins Medicine “I don’t recommend other supplements,” Appel says. “If you follow a healthy diet, you can get all of the vitamins and minerals you need from food.”

And guess what? My whole food capsules are exactly that – real food, dried at very low temperatures to keep the live enzymes’, then encapsulated in vegan capsules. Can’t go wrong with that.

Here’s to your health!

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Time Tested Health Journey

Jul 19, 2019

In February 2013 my wife went to a gathering at a friend’s house to learn what I thought was about how to make healthy meals. We both like to cook so we went. This day started my journey of what I put in my body. I have not eaten at McDonalds or much fast food since that day. We committed to start eating whole food nutrition. My wife believed so much in it she signed up to work for the company, and I have been continuing to eat and take the whole food supplements and shakes daily. I have had a breakfast smoothie about 9 out of ten morning since. I would never go back to eating a biscuit daily again.

I now watch what I eat. I read about the food I eat. I have eaten a lot of Salads, raw fruits and Vegetables. In fact, we grow most of our own lettuce on our Tower Garden. I now love Brussel Sprouts, Cooked Carrots and Egg Plant, where I would not touch the stuff before. My favorite food is spaghetti squash. Hopeful to harvest a few today.

Now I know, when you give your body good food it will crave good food. Plant based whole food nutrition is the best diet for anyone. I have done the research for a little over 6 years. I have read a lot about what I am doing. I know I am on the right path. The greater number of plant-based phytonutrients you put in your body the better your health will be. I am not perfect! I cheat with pasta, rice and ice cream more than I probably should. But I eat very little red meat or pork but crave apples, cauliflower and spaghetti squash.

I now sleep great; I take no prescribed medicine even though diabetes and high blood pressure runs in my family. My skin is way better, gums, nails and hair are in excellent shape. You can learn more about it too, and I will put my research up with any other fad diet out there. Eating as much raw fruits and vegetables to your diet and being sure by taking Juice Plus, too. Juice Plus is the most researched nutritional whole food supplement in the world and if you add it to your diet it will assure you of daily whole food plant-based nutrition.

Yes, this is a plug for my wife’s product. But this is a plug 6 years after the fact. Juice plus cover the gap and enhances the days I do eat a lot of fruits and vegetables but cover the days I am slack. You can never have enough fruits and vegetables in your body. I have testimony from many of our customers and I usually just do my thing and let France share Juice Plus. But as I approach my golden years, I want everyone to be healthy so that is why I wrote this. Your body is a temple and you should only give the temple nothing but the best. I know these products have helped me ensure every day that I put the nutrients my body needs to be healthy.

WHAT IF…

Dec 27, 2018

Do you ever ask yourself “what if I ________” (fill in the blank). It can be if I had or if I had not done this or that. It certainly can go either way. There are a lot of “What Ifs” in my life, but recently it seems like it’s been around my eating and exercising.

Until almost six years ago, I ate pretty much what I wanted. I love fried chicken. I’m sure we had it when I lived in Montreal growing up but don’t remember. I do remember eating baked chicken. I guess it’s a southern thing and I had no trouble eating it. Then I was introduced to fried okra, fried green tomatoes, fried pork chops and gravy and yes, please put gravy on my mashed potatoes too! You get the gist of it. I exercised some, but not a huge fan of it. Around this time of year I joined a gym or two but that didn’t last long. Those New Year’s Resolutions just don’t seem to last very long with me which is why I don’t make them anymore.

One good thing happened almost six years ago that changed my life. I was introduced to a healthier way of life. A way to get nutrition from 30 different fruits, vegetables and berries in my system. Not a replacement to keep me from eating them, but a way to get those nutrients from what I should be eating. I noticed that the more I stayed consistent taking these dried fruits, veggies and berries in the capsules, the more I wanted to eat what was in them! Of course, I’m human and I had my fried chicken once in a while, and that wonderful tenderloin biscuit on Saturday morning from this awesome little café inside a local gas station, but I knew that I was filling in the gap with what I was taking. Instead of eating chips I was eating an apple. Don’t get me wrong, I still ate chips, hamburgers, chocolate cake, brownies, you know the “good stuff” as we call it. But I also started eating these fruits, vegetables and berries in chewable form as a snack. They satisfied my “sweet tooth” and I was getting the nutrients that I needed at the same time!

About 8 months ago, I ended up with a surplus of the berry capsules and started taking 4 to 6 a day. I knew that it wouldn’t hurt me because it’s food! Well, let me tell you that God had a plan. Sty with me here. Did you know that there is a study in the JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology) on the effect of Supplemental Phytonutrients on Impairment of the Flow-Mediated Brachial Artery Vasoactivity AFTER a SINGLE High-Fat Meal?? Well, there is! And it shows that thirty-eight healthy, physically active hospital employees – 14 men and 24 women were studied. They were randomized in a double blind study where all sorts of tests were done on them. They were divided into three groups, one groups taking the fruits and vegetables capsules, one group taking the fruits, vegetables and berries and the last group taking a placebo. Now remember that these fruits, vegetables and berries capsules provide dried juice concentrates derived from produce picked at its ripest to keep the nutritional value. They possess antioxidants and are great for the body. Then they were given a high fat meal and re-studied. They were then sent on their way to return in three weeks and at four weeks. All tests done before the study were performed again at this 3 and 4 week period. The results were amazing! When they came back, in the placebo group, the percent of decrease in vasoactivity with the high-fat meal remained high. In the fruits, vegetables and berries group, the percent of decrease in postprandial vasodilation was significantly less than the decrease found before they started. The study found that the DAILY use of a fruit/vegetable/berry concentrate rich in antioxidant phytochemicals, blunted the detrimental impact of a single high-fat meal on healthy subjects.

I say all of this because in August, I ended up in ER and to make a long story short, on September 28^th I had quadruple bypass surgery. WHAT!!!! Me! Bypass surgery! I’m eating these capsules and this is not suppose to happen. As a representative for this wonderful gift that I share, I found myself not really wanting to share anymore. How could this happen? What will people think? When I spoke to my surgeon before surgery and he pointed out the 9 blockages, I was shocked! He said it was a miracle that I had not had a heart attack or a stroke. He wouldn’t let me leave the hospital until surgery. My response was, “well I guess God was not finished with me yet and maybe my fruit, vegetable and berry capsules helped”. He responded with “You take those? He knew all about them. Then he said “it probably saved your life!”. Now don’t get this wrong, these are not miracle pills, but the nutrients you get from taking them help support the immune system. Now I know that God was preparing me for this. No telling how long this had been going on, and without knowing, I was taking extra nutrients every single day. This was affecting the flow and contraction of the blood vessels to my heart!

I went from beating myself up saying “I should have______” to “What if”. I have to understand that I’ve only been taking these capsules for almost 6 years. I didn’t eat right for 56 years! I can’t expect my health to be judged by only the past few years. BUT, what if I had not been consuming those nutrients every day, then what? What if I had not changed most of my eating habits for the past few years? Would I have had that heart attack? What if I had not had that surplus of the berry blend, would my arteries have closed up? What if I had said no when I was offered this gift, would I be alive today? I’ve been going to Cardiac Rehab, and it’s usually 3 days a week for 12 weeks. I’ve been going 4 weeks and graduated today because I’m doing so good. Isn’t that awesome! What if I wasn’t flooding my body with all of those nutrients, would I have done that well?

I am so blessed that God gave the CEO of our company the wisdom to encapsulate real fruits, vegetables and berries. Who on earth can eat 30 of these each day? I can’t. Wouldn’t be able to afford it if I could. Can you imagine buying and eating apple, peach, cranberry, orange, mango, lemon peel, acerola cherry, pineapple, prune, date, beet, broccoli, parsley, tomato, carrot, garlic, spinach, rice bran, kale, raspberry, bilberry, blueberry, cranberry, pomegranate, concord grape, black currant, blackberry, elderberry, artichoke and cocoa every single day! And eating the peel where most of the nutritional value is? I don’t think so! Yes, I know that lots of people juice but the cost alone would be ridiculous and the clean up…I don’t think so. Been there done that.

So now I feel great and I’m ready to share this wonderful gift. I had to get over myself as I heard a wonderful mentor say. Isn’t it funny how we feel when we think of what others are thinking and saying about us? One thing I’ve learned in the past 10 plus years is that people that point at you have 3 fingers pointing right back at them. I’ve been guilty of that and continue to work on it. One thing I do know for sure – God works in mysterious ways.

Here’s to your health,

France

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