Change is in the Air!

Whether you're in the Northern or Southern Hemispheres, change is in the air! If you're north of the equator, Happy Autumn! If you're south, Happy Spring! (I know. I'm a week late. Chalk it off to the change of seasons!)

The changes of season can be a time of change for us, as well. While change can be challenging, or even difficult, it can also be good for us.

Let's consider the change of the seasons. As the earth orbits the sun, it wobbles on its axis. It's a gentle wobble, fortunately for all of us, but it still makes the sun seem to move north and south of the equator. Seasonal changes can seem sudden, like the cooler fall days that just popped into my neighborhood, practically overnight. Most often, however, change is more subtle.

Say you go on a diet and lose twenty pounds. Maybe it came off quickly. Maybe it took a while. Either way, you hit your goal weight and you think, "Aha! I'm there! I can relax now!" "One cookie won't hurt." "Yes, thank you, I'd love seconds."

Sure, you won't put on twenty pounds overnight (unless you have a serious medical condition beyond the scope of this blog). However slow it may be, however, once you stop your diet, the scales may start to creep upward again. A subtle change. Soon you may be back where you were before, or even worse than when you started.

That's the problem with diets. As I stated in my last post, the entire dieting mindset is based on its being temporary. Something with an end-date.

What you need is a life-style change. A program that will give you tips on how to change what you're doing now, so that you can live your life at a healthy weight.

The Bodē plan from VEMMA is just such a plan. Not only is it simple & easy, but you get smartphone support with its award-winning app that will message you when it's time to eat, give you recipes, exercises, and the best vitamin and mineral combo in the business. With the great nutrition you'll be getting, not only will your weight improve, but you'll get more energy for living!

What about it, then? Are you ready for some positive change in your life? Check out the Bodē products today!

Supplement Your Life

As long ago as 1946, J.I Rodale was concerned with the state of nutrition in America. The United States was just coming out of one of the worst droughts in history, resulting in that terrible time during the Great Depression known as the Dust Bowl. Overfarming and lack of crop rotations combined with drought, destroyed thousands of acres of formerly profitable land, turning them into worthless wasteland.

As thousands fled the heartland of America for the still-fertile lands west of the Rockies, scientists began searching for a way to reclaim the land and restore it to profitability. Chemical fertilizers, they thought, were the wave of the future. All they had to do was reintroduce the proper combination of phosphates, nitrogen and potassium back into the soil, and all would be well.

Great idea. Unfortunately, the artificial fertilizers did nothing to restore the earthworm population. Earthworms are a vital part of the ecosystem, often overlooked or ignored entirely. Without earthworms and their casings, the land may produce for a while, but eventually it will die again.

Rodale tried to wake American farmers up to the need for traditional composting, and he did reach a few. However, the rise of single-crop farming across broad expanses of land in the mid-to-late twentieth century began to deplete the one thing we need most from our food: Nutrients.

The state of nutrition in America has gotten so bad that most nutritionists now agree we all need to supplement our diet with vitamins and minerals. The food we eat, even if we're eating the daily recommended amounts of healthful fruits and vegetables, just isn't as nutritious as what our grandparents and great-grandparents ate.

Growing vegetables and fruits is like anything else in this way: you get out of it what you put into it. If you put the plants into nutrient-depleted soil, you're going to get nutrient-deficient plants. They can only absorb what's there in the ground. If there's insufficient iron in the soil, the spinach won't have enough iron to give Popeye his strength.

Granted, not everyone has access to a place where they can grow their own garden using compost they've made from plant and animal byproducts. That's why we need to supplement our diet with vitamins and minerals. The latest wave of nutritional supplementation is in a liquid form.

Vemma has been listed as one of the top five superjuices in an article in Men's Journal. You only need 2 ounces per hundred pounds of bodyweight. Before it was released to market, the strictest double-blind placebo clinical trials were conducted to rate its effect on the body. You can read the clinical studies here.

So, if you are interested, please visit my Enthusiasm Pays Vemma site, or e-mail me marionlaird@gmail.com for more information.

To read more of J.I. Rodale's epic work on compost farming, look for Pay Dirt. It's been updated several times since 1946, and the tips for creating your own compost will help even the smallest garden grow healthier plants, meaning a healthier you!

Here's to your health!