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Make Vivix your new ally in aging fight

Aging is a natural process that starts with our cells. When they’re healthy, they function properly.

Unfortunately, for many North Americans, supporting optimal cell function is easier said than done. Stress, poor diet, and environmental toxins can significantly affect cell per-formance over time. Our bod-ies become more vulnerable to developing age-related condi-tions.

Now, however, global cut-ting-edge research in the fight against cellular aging and years spent in partnership with lead-ing scientists have culminated in Vivix — a scientific break-through from Shaklee.

Vivix contains both reser-vatrol and a proprietary phy-tonutrient blend, a blend that harnesses the powerful anti-oxidant properties of rare mus-cadine grapes and has been shown to be 10X more effec-tive than reservatrol alone in slowing a key mechanism of cellular aging.

Vivix is all-natural, with no artificial flavors, sweeteners, colors or preservatives.

Want to know more about this amazing product, you can read more at www.embracethe-goodlife.com.

Making our homes a place to really hang out is a constant chore. Let us share with you a few products to make that job a little easier.

Tracey and Andrew are proud to partner with Shaklee Canada to provide friends and clients with the very best in environ-mentally friendly health, beauty, fitness and home cleaning products. If you’d like to know how you can enjoy the same op-portunity, visit www.starnorth.info or call us at 778-437-2206.

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Add a bit of green to your cleaning daylinda mason hunter

My Grandma Nelle used vin-egar and water for most household cleaning tasks. She had a few bak-ing soda tricks up her sleeve, and later added a scouring powder to her cleaning cupboard.

She didn’t know it, but today we’d call such habits “green.”

“Green” means seeking the least harmful solution for both environ-mental and human health reasons. If you live green, you strive to re-duce your negative impact on the planet in small, everyday ways, liv-ing with nature instead of trying to subdue it.

It means choosing alternatives that have less of a toxic impact on your home and the environment.

A good place to begin a program of green living is by evaluating your household cleaning products. By choosing eco-friendly formu-las and tools, you transform your shelter into a place of comfort and health while doing your part to

protect local waterways, soil, and landfills, promoting the health of the entire community.

Good planets are hard to find. We should do everything we can to minimize our destructive impact on this one. Here are some sugges-tions for greening your home:l Shop wisely; buy green prod-

ucts whenever possible.l Avoid excess packaging.l Purchase products that are

easily recycled.l Purchase unbleached paper

products.l Avoid using aerosols.l Replace incandescent light

bulbs with compact fluores-cents.

l Don’t use chemical pesticides on your lawn or garden.

Linda Mason Hunter is the co-author of Green Clean, Melcher Media, 2005, and Creating a Safe and Healthy Home, Creative Publishing International, 2005.

Scour Off: a better way to remove grime

Here’s an exclusive scour-ing cleanser that sets a new standard.

It’s a paste, so it doesn’t form dust clouds. It cleans stuck-on messes. It even cleans burnt-on food in your oven.

And best of all, it doesn’t burn off your nose hairs in the process.

Scour Off is made from natural mineral abrasives and biodegradable cleaning agents. It does not contain chlorine bleach or dye.

Natural ingredients remove the toughest dried-on splat-ters and spills, burned-on grease, baked-on food, and sticky messes without haz-ardous chemicals or toxic fumes.

Scour Off will remove rust, and is great for cleaning these surfaces: copper, grout, ce-ment, and ceramic.

Scour Off will make your daily cleaning a breeze. Give it a try today.

We all want to do our part for the environment. The place to start is in the home.

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Ingredients1 banana1 tbsp peanut butter1 Cinch Chocolate Shake mix1 cup non-fat milk4 ice cubes

DirectionsIn a mini blender, crush the ice

cubes. Add milk, banana, peanut butter

and Cinch Chocolate shake mix. Blend at high speed for 15 seconds.

Enjoy.

Andrew’s Peanut Banana Boredom-Buster Breakfast

Losing weight’s a Cinch with great-tasting plan

Yes, in the short term you can lose weight, but every time you do this you may be doing more dam-age than good because your body thinks it’s experiencing a “fam-ine.” In response to that famine, your body goes into survival mode and conserves energy by slowing down your metabolism. Your body does its best to hold on to the fat you have for as long as it can.

So, with many diets, the weight you initially lose is not just from fat but muscle, too. And that loss of muscle slows down your metab-olism even further because muscle burns calories.

Muscle equals metabolism.There are also common chal-

lenges — emotional and other physical ones — that come along with dieting.

Many diets are too restrictive or monotonous, or leave you feel-ing deprived and don’t teach you how to permanently change your eating and exercise habits. They leave you feeling hungry, tired and craving the foods you miss most. You’ve about had it, so you return

to your old eating habits and gain the weight back.

And the sad part is, the weight you put back on is fat weight.

The Cinch Inch Loss Plan is different. It addresses one of the primary reasons why other diets fail. Cinch provides you a plan to lose the right way. Instead of help-ing you lose weight from fat and muscle, the Cinch Inch Loss Plan is powered by Leucine™ to help preserve muscle while you lose weight from fat. Preserving muscle mass also prevents your metabo-lism from dropping.

The Cinch Inch Loss Plan is designed for real life, so it also ad-dresses the physical and emotional challenges that come along with your weight control efforts. With proprietary formulas, the Cinch products will help you control your hunger, boost your energy, and keep you feeling satisfied.

Want to know more about the Cinch Inch Loss Plan? Call us to-day and we’ll plug you in to the program. What have you got to lose — except for a little weight?

If you are like most people, you’ve struggled with your weight at one time or another. You’ve been on every fad diet. Initially, you lose some weight, but then you gain it back and find yourself heavier than before. This is the dreaded cycle of yo-yo dieting.

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CUSTOMIZED INFO HERE: Tracey Walsh

Phone: 778-437-2206Email: tracey@starnorth.ca

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