You To Be Healthy

Congratulations to new Executive Coordinator Lisa Anderson whose team sponsored  140 new Members  during the month of April!  Check out her inspiring story  and how Shaklee enabled her to spend more time with her children and help her family make ends meet when faced with unexpected job loss. I was introduced to Shaklee about twelve years ago.  I have four wonderful children and at the time they were all little and did not seem as healthy as I would have liked. I was looking for a good children’s vitamin that wasn’t full of sugar and that had some science and testing behind it. When we started our kids on Shaklee supplements we were just amazed at how our children responded and within a few months we knew that we had found the products that our family would be using for life. I very quickly fell in love with Dr. Shaklee’s philosophies and the things that Shaklee as a company stood for. Prevention and a natural approach to health really made sense to me. Kn...

     Make Your Health—and Your Bones—a Priority: from Shaklee Health Sciences To all the multitasking moms, daughters, aunts, sisters, and nieces, we're dedicating the month of May to you. Mother's Day is just around the corner, and National Women's Health Week is May 13–19. If you're a parent, you spend a lot of time taking care of your family. Have you done anything for yourself lately? Perhaps you have improved your diet or hit the gym more often. While these are both important to include in your health regimen, you should be especially mindful of your bones. Your bones are constantly being broken down and rebuilt. In fact, every 12 months they completely replace themselves—all 236 of them! To do so effectively, your bones need all the help they can get. This is especially true for women because gender, menopause, and smoking, as well as eating disorders such as anorexia, can accelerate bone loss and contribute to the development of osteop...

Hearts At Home   is a wonderful website for moms. It provides practical advice, encouragement, and a place where other moms can uplift each other. "Hearts at Home’s mission is to   encourage, educate, and equip every mom in every season of motherhood using Christian values to strengthen families." Their Mother's Day gift to you – a free download of one of their most popular conference workshops,  Ten Stress Strategies Every Mom Needs . This is a wonderful thing to listen to. Take some time for yourself, put in a video for the kids to watch, plug in your headphones and listen. Do this for yourself and it will be something you and your whole family will benefit from. Download and listen to   Ten Stress Strategies Every Mom Needs   and enjoy!

Article By:  Dr. Chaney (See my personal notes below) Every mom wants the best for their kids. Every mom would like to be able to give their kids an edge in life if they could. According to a recent study there is one very simple thing that every mom can do to give her kids an edge. A study published in the June 2009 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that when expectant mothers supplemented with DHA during pregnancy their infants had better problem solving skills at 9 months. This was the very first study to look at the effect of DHA supplementation during pregnancy on problem solving skills at such a young age. Basically, the results of the study just mean that when the moms supplemented with DHA their kids were smarter - and were smarter at a very early age. First, let me give you a little bit of background. Docosahexaenoic acid or DHA is an omega-3 fatty acid that occurs naturally in fish oils. It is found in particularly high concentra...

Article By:  Dr. Stephen Chaney   (This is an interesting study on what a mother eats during pregnancy and how it can affect what her offspring eat later in life. See my notes following this interesting article.) When I was a young graduate student (just a few years ago), I was taught that all genetic information resided in our DNA. During conception, we picked up some DNA from our dad & some from our mom, and that DNA was what made us a unique individual. We knew that environmental influences could affect our health personally, but never dreamed that the effects of those environmental influences could be passed on to our kids. But today we know that environmental influences can actually modify our DNA and that those modifications can be passed on to our offspring - a process called epigenetics. Which brings me to the question I posed today: "Can what we eat affect our kids?" According to two articles that ...

As promised, here is the list of our health calls. Shaklee Health Sciences holds a monthly conference call where we present interesting and timely topics related to your health, including relevant scientific and nutritional research and more.  These insights will help you on your own pathway to wellness These calls are very informative and are free. Learn more about how to keep you and your family healthy. The newest one will take place on Wednesday, May 9 , 2012 5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET You will learn about the various health challenges women face throughout their lives, including the latest nutrition recommendations during pregnancy ,   natural approaches to reducing hot flashes and why it's so important for women of all ages to engage in lifestyle strategies to reduce their risk of osteoporosis and heart disease.   Don’t miss this important webinar! Here are the details: Date:  Wednesday, May 9th ...

Mothers are the best jugglers—arranging family schedules from soccer games to band practice to doctor’s appointments; planning and cooking healthful meals; and, for many, holding down a full-time job. We seem to do it all. Unfortunately, being “the 24-hour woman” comes with a price—chronic stress and its related health issues. Women today experience more stress at every stage of life, with new moms topping that list of highly stressed women! The  New Moms Speak Out   report, a 2008 national survey of women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals in 2005, found 43% of respondents said stress was a major postpartum problem, followed closely by weight concerns, lack of sleep, and physical exhaustion. As a mom (and grandmother), I have personally experienced some of these same challenges, but I also remember all the wonderful rewards of motherhood that make every part of it well worth it! Watching my son take his first steps, receiving my daughter’s art...