NSA

This past weekend I attended THE Padgett Bootcamp. It was the first time I had been there since 2003, when I was 17 and just being introduced to the JuicePlus+ grown-up business world, and my father (a passionate family physician) was adamant that I know and love the business from the ground up. He wanted me to not only understand "WHY" JuicePlus+ is so incredible, but to also see "HOW" others grew healthy families, friends and businesses and also "WHAT" they did to stand out in the Sea of Sameness that is now the wellness industry. (How many products are "World-Class", "Whole Food"... it's a mess, really)

My mother and father both understand and see the value in learning from others who have developed personal growth and financial wealth by being involved with a company that started out selling clean water (water filters I still to-this-day remember my father bring to vacations and being sure we were hydrated) and is now selling a glorious array of quality of life enhancing products. From fruits and veggies in a capsule to gardens to grow fresh fruits and veggies.

That may sound cheesy but it's not.

Water/Air Filters + Dehydrated Fruit & Vegetable Concentrate + Standing Hydroponic Gardens = NSA

To hear wonderful stories of success and pride in the company reassured me that I represent one of the best companies in the world and our products really can change lives.

Thank You, National Safety Association, for improving lives and inspiring health globally.

And thank you for always being the company who loves to make people healthy, happy & wealthy.

Negative what?

Negative calorie foods?!

This mind-blowing thought could help you create a salad that really DOES do your body good.

Instead of making healthy eating harder, 

a little "negative calories" (aka raw fruits and veggies) help you eat smarter, and give you the vitamins and minerals and antioxidants you need from whole food nutrition.

WIKIPEDIA SAYS; A negative calorie food is a food that is purported to require more food energy to be digested than it provides. That is, its thermic effect is greater than its food energy content.

While this concept is popular in dieting guides, there is no scientific evidence that any of the foods claimed as negative calorie foods are such.^[1][2] Foods that are claimed to be negative in calories are mostly low-calorie fruits and vegetables such as grapefruit, lemon, lime, apple, lettuce, celery, broccoli and cabbage.^[3] Celery, a commonly cited negative calorie food, actually requires only about 10% of its food energy content to be digested (due to the thermic effect).^[4]:88 Zero-calorie beverages, such as water, do take more than zero calories to process within the body, however they do not offer the dietary sustenance that other so-called negative calorie foods do in the form of fiber, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc. and as such, are not generally regarded as being negative calorie."

As a busy gal it's good to know what I can grab on the go and nosh on while not adding extra work for my body later on (saturated fats are like a hamster-wheel of wasted energy...so much so, you made need a nap after eating them). But not fruits and veggies, no sir-ee! Check out these yummies....

Here's a list. Hope it helps! 

Fruits 
apple 
cranberries 
grapefruit 
lemon 
mango 
orange 
pineapple 
raspberries 
strawberries 
tangerine 

Vegetables 
asparagus 
beet 
broccoli 
cabbage (green) 
carrot 
cauliflower 
celery 
Chile peppers (hot) 
cucumber 
dandelion 
endive 
garden cress 
garlic 
green beans 
lettuce 
onion 
papaya 
radishes 
spinach 
turnip 

  

Turnip your metabolism with these yummy guys!

Nothing fits in a breakfast bowl better than one of these guys!
GRAPEFRUIT!

Also, since it's hard to get the recommended 10 servings of fruits and veggies, check out my long-time love, Juice Plus+. Juice Plus+ does not substitute eating, it's like brushing your teeth, it's security that you're doing something everyday, but with thousands of living enzymes and antioxidants. 

All for less than a medium Soy Chai Latte.

www.victorialovesjuiceplus.com

Fruits and Vegetables prevent chronic disease. Dr. Bill Sears supports a JP+ lifestyle.
And with the Children's Research Study a child between the ages of 4-18 (or in undergrad) can get JuicePlus+
 for FREE for 3 years! The proof is in the results.

Dr. David Katz supports Juice Plus+ and it's movement to change families health.

17 Fruits, Vegetables, & Grains

Juice Plus+^® contains a wide variety of nutritionally dense fruits and vegetables reduced to juice powder concentrate using a proprietary process. Fruits and vegetables contain many phytonutrients, from such familiar vitamins as vitamin C and beta-carotene, to less widely known antioxidant compounds, including polyphenols and flavonoids. It also includes the carotenoids, beta-cryptoxanthin, and lycopene. Below are a few examples of the broad range of phytonutrients found in fruits and vegetables, but remember that there are many more than those listed here:

• Apple: Pectin along with a variety of polyphenols and other antioxidants
• Acerola Cherry: Vitamin C and anthocyanadins
• Cranberry: Flavonoid and phenolic antioxidants
• Orange: Vitamin C, folate, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin
• Papaya: Vitamin C, potassium, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin
• Peach: Vitamin C and several carotenoids
• Pineapple: Vitamin C and bromelain
• Tomato: Vitamin C, polyphenols, and several carotenoids including lycopene
• Oat Bran: Dietary fiber, vitamin E, several B vitamins, and minerals
• Beet: Folate, iron and calcium
• Broccoli: Folate, vitamin C, and several carotenoids including beta-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, and glucosinolates
• Cabbage: Vitamin C, folate, and glucosinolates
• Carrot: Several carotenoids including beta-carotene, along with vitamin E
• Kale: Vitamin C, folate, magnesium, and several carotenoids including beta carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin
• Parsley: Vitamin C, folate, several carotenoids and flavonols
• Spinach: Folate, vitamin C, vitamin E, several carotenoids, iron, and calcium
• Brown Rice Bran: Dietary fiber, several B vitamins, and minerals

Live your life to the plus. 

These three products will change your life. You are what you eat.

Steering yourself

ANY direction you choose.

Dr. Seuss was a (sort of) friend of mine growing up.

His words were like candy to my sisters and I before bed.

His stories made up my dreams, and his images stayed with me from the very first moment I saw them. And his advice on life consistently supported the fact that dreaming big dreams are amazing.

And allowed.

Now that I'm 27, basically (almost) 30, I wonder how big my dreams are supposed to be. How big can I dream now?

Am I supposed to want a family and children? 

Am I supposed to hope to land in a career position that keeps me financially content and inhabits my 9am-5pm weekday hours?

Am I supposed to want to save money to buy a house soon?

I don't think Dr. Seuss would support this feeling of adult bewilderment. 

In fact, if he was still with us (bless his soul), I would hope he would be kind enough to support the dreamers he created and give us a few more words of wisdom when making that transition from childhood to adulthood.

I guess I am an adult now.

But back to Dr. Seuss. I discovered that he himself was a bit of a shape-shifter. Here's an exert from his biography on his website; www.seussville.com.

"The true story is also a good one, as we learn in Judith and Neil Morgan’s excellent biography Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel (the primary source for what you are now reading). During his senior year at Dartmouth College, Ted Geisel and nine of his friends were caught drinking gin in his room. This was the spring of 1925, and the dean put them all on probation for violating the laws of Prohibition. He also stripped Geisel of his editorship of Jack-O-Lantern — the college’s humor magazine — where Ted published his cartoons. To evade punishment, Ted Geisel began publishing cartoons under aliases: L. Pasteur, D.G. Rossetti ’25, T. Seuss, and Seuss. These cartoons mark the first time he signed his work “Seuss.”

As a magazine cartoonist, he began signing his work under the mock-scholarly title of “Dr. Theophrastus Seuss” in 1927. He shortened that to “Dr. Seuss” in 1928. In acquiring his professional pseudonym, he also gained a new pronunciation. Most Americans pronounce the name Soose, and not Zoice. And that’s how Ted Geisel became Dr. Seuss."

With that being said, I've decided I'm going on an identity search.

I'm going to rid myself of my self-pity and fear of commitment and do something. Create things, inspire people and decide...

What inspires me?

What drives me?

What can I contribute to the World, even if under a guise?

And I urge you to do the same. 

Do something that would make Ted Geisel proud.

Because we've all violated Prohibition somehow.

And I suppose it's not the punishment of the crime, it's the coping of the punishment, that defines who you really are.

Build your own Seussville.

A glimpse of Seussville. An office I wouldn't mind having for myself!

Mulberry Street Unicorn.
On of Ted's realistic creations.

An Untitled oil on canvas from Ted's private collection.