You're right, all natural foods are great - but some are even better. Fill your basket with these top must-haves for the very best health benefits.
Fruits – put extra in your basket, because you can eat as many as you want!
- Blueberries - antioxidant-rich
- Kiwi – Vitamin C rich
- Oranges – Vitamin C
Vegetables – like fruits, fill up with as much of these and other veggies as you like!
What’s a great reason to limit sodas and sugary drinks and give your kids water with delicious, all-natural True Citrus flavors instead? Because once kids get Type 2 diabetes, many can’t ever get rid of it - not with drugs, diet or exercise. They’re stuck with it for life.
This scary finding came out recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the first large study of Type 2 in children, 700 diabetic kids were followed over 4 years. Every kind of treatment was used, insulin shots, oral pills and lifestyle changes, but for nearly half the kids, blood sugar levels could not be improved. Nothing helped, not in 4 years of trying.
When you’re out and about, are you ever nervous about what’s in your water glass? If you are, just shake in a packet of True Lime! Because it turns out that lime juice can help make water safer to drink!
Here’s the story: in many places around the world, clean water is hard to come by and water-borne bacteria often causes diarrhea. For those places, UNICEF recommends a process called "Solar Water Disinfection". Water is collected in plastic bottles and set in the sun for six to 48 hours to kill germs.
Feel like celebrating May 5th? Then try these zesty fiesta dishes, delicious and easier than ever to make thanks to all natural True Citrus flavors.
If you noticed there’s a lot of lime in these recipes, that’s because in Mexico, limes, or “limóns,” are used in everything! So start your party with a traditional favorite: peanuts drizzled with True Lime, and things just get more fabulous from there!
What vitamin-rich leafy green vegetable did settlers bring to the New World to eat that we now spend hundreds of dollars to remove from our lawns?
Dandelions! It’s true. The dandelion has been an important part of European and Asian diets for centuries. Dandelion greens have more Thiamine, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Calcium, Iron and Phosphorus than spinach, according to the USDA Nutrient Database.
As we mentioned in a recent blog, we have lost a lot of weight over the years and kept it off. So we thought we’d go ahead and tell you our 4 secrets to permanent weight loss.
They’re simple and don’t involve feeling hungry. In fact, along with being slimmer, we feel healthier and happier since making these habit changes.
Aside from the fabulous way it helps you drink more water – and therefore lose pounds and inches - here’s another good reason to stock up on all-natural True Lemon, True Lime or True Orange. They help you avoid too much salt, which can mean a reduced chance of heart attack or stroke.
Recent research from the University of Queensland says a fifth of deaths from heart disease could be prevented if people cut down on salt. Krikey! That’s a staggering statistic, mate!
We’ve told you how all-natural True Citrus flavors contain the cold-pressed and crystallized juice, pith and rind of the lemon, orange, lime and grapefruit. That’s a very good thing – considering how nutritious the outside of fruits and vegetables can be!
In many cases, the outside is even more nutritious than the inside. Good fruits to eat more parts of include:
April is National Poetry Month! Sometimes when we read poetry we wonder, “what the heck IS a poem?” Well, whatever it is, and rhyming or not, we do know a good poem lets you feel, hear, see, or even taste what’s being described, and often makes you want to sing the words out loud. So to celebrate, here’s a poem that presents the fabulous essence of one of our favorite subjects here at True Citrus: lemonade!
April by Marcia Masters
Family history isn’t the whole story when it comes to developing diabetes! Here are 5 ways to avoid the Type 2 blues.
1. Trade soda for water with all natural True Citrus flavors. Here's why:
Water helps your body regulate blood sugar. People in a study who drank 2 to 5 glasses of water daily had a 30 percent lower risk of getting diabetes. And delicious True Citrus flavors are proven to help people drink as much as 60 percent more no-calorie water.
