Finchfit4life – June 2014 Newsletter

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Welcome to the Finchfit4life June 2014 Newsletter

WELCOME SUMMER!

What’s up with the Finchfit4life Summer Exercise Schedule?
Shake it Up! Delicious Summer Fruit Smoothie Recipe
5 Portable-Fast Acting Exercises for Summer Travel
Cooling Carrot & Kale Summer Detox Soup – Yummy
Does Your Sweetener Kill Fruit flies?

What’s up with the Finchfit4life Summer Exercise Schedule?
June 2-20, 2014

Most of you know that I’m in New York helping with the care of my father who is in hospice.
Should I return on June 20th, classes will resume the week of June 23rd.
I’ll let you know the moment my plans are made.

Thank you for your patience.
Aileen
626-524-6690
www.finchfit4life.com

Shake it Up! Delicious Summer Fruit Smoothie Recipe

Papaya pleasure
Papaya is so hydrating in the warm weather. Combine it with almond milk, and you get a delicious, earthy flavor that’s beautifully accented by the ginger and cinnamon. Mix papaya with other cleansing foods like flax and lemon, and you have the ultimate morning skin food.

Make 2 servings

1 cup (240ml) unsweetened almond milk (strained if homemade)
2 cups (320g) roughly chopped papaya
3/4 cup (120g) roughly chopped fresh or frozen mango
2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 teaspoons minced ginger, plus more to taste
1 teaspoon flaxseed oil
1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more to taste
1/8 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest, plus more to taste
1/4 teaspoon alcohol-free vanilla extract
5 drops alcohol-free liquid stevia, plus more to taste (or substitute 1 teaspoon or more of coconut nectar or agave nectar)
1 cup (125g) ice cubes
Throw all of the ingredients into your blender and blast on high for about 1 minute, until smooth and creamy. Tweak flavors to taste (you may want more ginger, cinnamon, lemon zest or sweetener).

5 Portable/Fast Acting Exercises for Summer Travel

Finchfit4life No Excuses Exercise Repitoire

Summer is a fabulous time to kick back, relax and change up your schedule. For some this means more time to do “your thing.” For others, there are more demands on their time, so one has to be clever about getting in the workout. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. It’s up to you to decide how to carve it up.

If exercise is a priority, then schedule it into your planner just like a dentist appointment! Better yet, schedule your exercise like your trip to Starbuck’s! Ha, now I got your attention. Seriously, your exercise should be as important as your commitment (in my case) to caffeine (or whatever healthy vice you consider daily.) Ok , I’ll get off the soapbox and on with the exercises.

RATIONALE
You should be able to do these exercises when you visit your mother in law, visit Hawaii or attend a soccer tournament in San Bernardino.

Do each exercise for one minute. Depending on your fitness level repeat 3-6 times through. Take at least a one minute recovery in between the sets of five exercises.

1. Jumping Jacks
2. Burpees
3. Reach for toes with legs elevated straight up in the air :30/Ski Jumps (plank position- legs together – knees bent as you jump them to the right elbow, back to center – same move to the left elbow. Repeat.
4. Push ups :30/Plank :30
5. Jump Rope

Cooling Carrot and Kale Detox Soup for Summer

Soup is a great way to get immune-building nutrients and detoxifying antioxidants into your diet. In the spring and summer, soup can be a lighter version of the heavy soups we consume in the fall and winter. By lightly cooking soup, meaning a quick sauté and just a few minutes on the stovetop, you’ll have a light, nourishing, feel-good dish, filled with the vitamins and minerals your body needs.
This carrot and kale soup is a light and refreshing dish that can be served hot or cold, depending on your mood.

A Cooling Carrot & Kale Detox Soup For Summer

Serves 4-6

Ingredients

3 cup Tuscan kale
2 medium carrots
2 cups coconut milk
1 clove of garlic
2 Tbsp. fresh ginger
¼ tsp. turmeric
1 Tbsp. olive or coconut oil
Sea salt and pepper
Chives for garnish (optional)
Directions

Chop kale into small pieces and grate carrots.

Mince ginger and garlic.

In a medium saucepan pour olive or coconut oil and garlic, gently sauté on a low temperature setting.

Add kale, and carrots and stir. Continue to sauté for approximately 5-8 minutes.

When the carrots and kale have begun to softened, add the coconut milk, mix thoroughly, and continue cooking for another 8-12 minutes, depending on how well cooked you want the ingredients to be.

Add the turmeric. Add sea salt and pepper to taste. Stir.

Garnish with garlic or onion chives.

Enjoy!

Does Your Sweetener Kill Fruit flies?

(NaturalNews) Truvia sweetener is made from about 99.5% erythritol (a sugar alcohol), and 0.5% rebiana, an extract from the stevia plant (but not at all the same thing as stevia). A shocking new study published in the journal PLOS ONE (1) has found that Truvia, an alternative sweetener manufactured by food giant Cargill, is a potent insecticide that kills fruit flies which consume it.

The study is titled, Erythritol, a Non-Nutritive Sugar Alcohol Sweetener and the Main Component of Truvia, Is a Palatable Ingested Insecticide.

The study found that while fruit flies normally live between 39 and 51 days, those that ate the Truvia ingredient erythritol died in less than a week.

Erythritol made from yeast fed genetically modified corn derivatives

Erythritol is often indirectly derived from genetically modified corn, by the way. Cargill was forced to settle a class action lawsuit last year (2) for labeling Truvia “natural” when it’s actually made from a fermentation process whereby yeast are fed GM corn maltodextrin.

Cargill plays word games with this process, insisting that “erythritol is not derived from corn or dextrose feedstock; it is derived from the yeast organism.”

Yeah, okay, but the yeast are fed GMOs. So they’re playing mind games with their explanations.

There is a verified non-GMO erythritol available today, by the way, and it’s made by Pyure Brands, based in Florida.

Pyure Brands offers alternative sweeteners for the health-conscious marketplace, and their product is USDA Organic certified and Non-GMO Project Verified.

Truvia a really amazing insecticide

This story on Truvia’s insecticidal properties has really caught the attention of the public. Even CBS News (3), a mainstream media outlet that rarely covers the dangers of food additives, covered this story, reporting:

Erythritol, the main component of the sweetener Truvia, has a new, unexpected application — it may be used as an insecticide. …Researchers found that fruit flies fed with food that included erythritol or the erythritol-containing sweetener Truvia died much sooner than flies fed with food containing other types of sweeteners.

“The more you get [fruit flies] to consume erythritol, the faster they die,” Sean O’Donnell, a professor of biology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, told CBS News.

“We are hoping to develop it into a human-safe insecticide,” O’Donnell later says in the story.

The abstract of the published study concludes, “Here we show that Erythritol, a non-nutritive sugar alcohol, was toxic to the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.”

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