Slim-Fast Optima Meal Shake Mix, Chocolate Royale, 12.83-Ounce Canisters

Features

• Pack of three 12.83-ounce cans of calcium rich, chocolate-flavored meal replacement shake mix (38.49 total ounces)
• Contains 45% less sugar than Slim-Fast's original chocolate royale powder mix; each can contains 14 servings
• Includes 24 essential vitamins and minerals, and over 50% of your daily calcium in 190 total calories (when prepared with fat-free milk)
• Deep, chocolaty shake has a rich taste that satisfies your hunger as well as your craving for chocolate
• Controls your hunger up to four hours
  
  
  
  
  

101 Beauty Tips: The Modern Woman's Complete Guide to Looking and Feeling Great

Review
Jane Cunningham explores not only the latest advances in the beauty biz, but also time-tested means of looking your best. (Joanne Sasvari Calgary Herald 20070605)

Packed with useful health and beauty tips and inspirational photographs (Tanya Enberg Toronto 24 Hours 30070502)

The tips are simply, easy to follow and -- especially important -- inexpensive. (Wire Story Sacramento Bee 20070606)

The tips are simple, easy to follow and -- especially important -- inexpensive. (The Modesto Bee 20070624)

Will give a healthy foundation for a long-term approach. (Terry Peters North Shore News )

An excellent cross-section of ideas.... 101 Beauty Tips gives us 101 reasons to love the book. (Paul Sutter Shelf Life )

A comprehensive guide to looking great at any age.

Beauty products' excessive advertising and outlandish promises stretch the rational limits of what cosmetics can actually do. 101 Beauty Tips is a reminder that beauty and wellness do not come from ajar, but from a balance of good nutrition, exercise and relaxation. And this comprehensive book shows how to achieve that balance.

101 Beauty Tips is an informative guide to the newest alternative beauty and health treatments as well as the latest advances in traditional products. The author takes an approach that women will find user-friendly and convenient. She discusses the best in cosmetology advances and provides tips on everything from exfoliation, hair styling and eye shadow, to cellulite, posture, essential oils and reflexology. Highlights include:

* Nutrition for healthier hair
* Gels and serums, and how to use them
* Applying makeup for face shape
* Minimizing wrinkles
* Achieving the right combination of fats, vitamins and minerals
* Understanding food cravings
* Exercising on the go
* Sleep hygiene
* Fake tans that save the skin.

There are illustrations and sidebars throughout. With dozens of ideas that women can apply daily, plus how-to photographs and clear instructions, 101 Beauty Tips is an indispensable guide.

Olive Oil Desserts: Delicious and Healthy Heart Smart Baking

Those yearning to create more healthy treats will learn how to bake without the fats and hydrogenated oils found in common dessert recipes with this lavishly illustrated cookbook. Designed specifically for baking with olive oil, the recipes eliminate key ingredients—butter, hydrogenated oils, margarine, and shortening—that are staples in many traditional desserts. In addition to household favorites such as toll cookies, brownies, and apple pie, the cookbook features instructions for making more than 60 mouth-watering treats, among them chocolate chip buttermilk cake, silky cheesecake with strawberries, lemon sugar cookies, pecan coconut bars, and apple cinnamon rolls. Hints such as using egg substitutes and other ingredients to further lower cholesterol intake, substituting lactose-free options for those suffering from milk sensitivities, and a guide to the many varieties of olive oil are also included.

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

Aimed at nothing less than totally restructuring the diets of Americans, Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy may well accomplish its goal. Dr. Walter C. Willett gets off to a roaring start by totally dismantling one of the largest icons in health today: the USDA Food Pyramid that we all learn in elementary school. He blames many of the pyramid's recommendations--6 to 11 servings of carbohydrates, all fats used sparingly--for much of the current wave of obesity. At first this may read differently than any diet book, but Willett also makes a crucial, rarely mentioned point about this icon: "The thing to keep in mind about the USDA Pyramid is that it comes from the Department of Agriculture, the agency responsible for promoting American agriculture, not from the agencies established to monitor and protect our health." It's no wonder that dairy products and American-grown grains such as wheat and corn figure so prominently in the USDA's recommendations.

Willett's own simple pyramid has several benefits over the traditional format. His information is up-to-date, and you won't find recommendations that come from special-interest groups. His ideas are nothing radical--if we eat more vegetables and complex carbohydrates (no, potatoes are not complex), emphasize healthy fats, and enjoy small amounts of a tremendous variety of food, we will be healthier. You'll find some surprises as well, such as doubts about the overall benefits of soy (unless you're willing to eat a pound and a half of tofu a day), and that nuts, with their "good" fat content, are a terrific snack. Relying on research rather than anecdotes, this is a solidly written nutritional guide that will show you the real story behind how food is digested, from the glycemic index for carbs to the wisdom of adding a multivitamin to your diet. Willett combines research with matter-of-fact language and a no-nonsense tone that turns academic studies into easily understandable suggestions for living

Meditation for Optimum Health: How to Use Mindfulness and Breathing to Heal

Doctors Weil and Kabat-Zinn uncover myths and realities surrounding the often intimidating art of meditation. Frequent television appearances, a newsletter, a Web site and a bevy of bestselling books have made Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) America's most prominent defender of holistic medicine, and his fans will appreciate his calm, knowledgeable coauthor/reader, University of Massachusetts Medical School professor Kabat-Zinn (Full Catastrophe Living), who has practiced meditation since the 1960s. Defining meditation simply as "directed concentration" and "dropping into stillness" with breath as the natural object of focus, the authors recommend comfortable clothing, a dignified sitting position, turning off the phone and not getting discouraged. Honing "mindfulness" through repetitive activities like dishwashing or walking, and at times of pleasure and pain (lovemaking, recovery from illness) increases meditative skills. Freedom from addictive thoughts, a sense of ease and inhabiting the present moment can result from practicing Christian prayer or Tibetan, Hindu or Buddhist meditation. The authors back up their findings about meditation's ability to ease pain, lower blood pressure and slow heart rate with medical research. Kabat-Zinn systematically guides the listener through various meditation sessions, with reminders to stay aware of breathing, physical sensations and thought patterns. The authors' warm, articulate presentation and clear instructions make this the perfect meditation primer.

In this relatively short program, Weil and Kabat-Zinn present a very user-friendly and nondoctrinal introduction to a basic meditation technique. As is usual with Weil's "Optimum Health" series, the information is offered in a very understandable format, which will appeal to teens and adults. His explanation of what meditation is, the various types, and his personal experiences (how he doesn't do it perfectly) are very valuable. Kabat-Zinn has practiced meditation for 40 years and currently employs it to help people with various diseases including chronic stress and/or pain. While he offers some background, his chief contribution is to lead one through the basic meditation and some permutations. Like Weil, he is careful to be inclusive rather than rigid. Kabat-Zinn explains his recommendations for certain methods and encourages listeners to do what they can to see meditation as an adventure, a gift to themselves, rather than just "one more thing to do." Highly recommended. Kathleen A. Sullivan, Phoenix P.L.

Cosamin DS Joint Health Supplement, Capsules

Product Features
Size: 210 ea

* One bottle with 210 joint health supplement capsules
* Only brand that contains pharmaceutical-grade TRH122 chondroitin sulfate and FCHG49 glucosamine
* Easy-to-swallow capsules work better and last longer, proven to reduce joint pain
* Number one recommended brand by orthopedic surgeons and rheumatologists to protect cartilage, and help keep joints healthy and flexible
* Number one brand recommended by orthopedic surgeons

Phillips' Colon Health Probiotic Supplement 30 Capsules.

This once-daily capsule contains probiotics to help with occasional: * Constipation * Diarrhea * Gas & Bloating When you should take Probiotics? * Everyday to support overall digestive health* * When traveling * Can be taken with laxative products Why Take Phillip's Colon Health? * To support a healthy colon, one of the most important parts of your digestive system * To replenish the good bacteria when diet and stress cause constipation and upset your natural balance causing bloating, gas and diarrhea * To support a healthy immune system. How Does Phillip's Colon Health Work? * Contains the most common and most studied bacteria for digestive health 9Lactobacillus and Bifodobacterium), which closely resemble your body's natural good bacteria * There is scientific evidence that Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium help relieve gas, diarrhea, constipation and other GI discomforts Take One Capsule Daily No Refrigeration necessary Safe For Children 3 and older Can be taken in addition to laxative products Directions Adults - Take one capsule with a meal twice daily. Children over 3 - take 1/4 capsule with a meal daily Children under 3 - Ask a doctor before use Ingredients Active Ingredients: Proprietary Blend; (L acidophilus, B bifidum, B longum) Inactive Ingredients: Potato Starch, Gelatin, Silica

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I use this product whenever I feel irregular or bloated. The first time you use it, give it a week, then you'll notice smoother stools.

Before I travel or if I get sick, I sometimes take 2 pills. This helps to keep bad bacteria out.

PROS:
Easy pill to pop
Made my bowel movements easier

CONS:
Taking it the first time, took at least a week to see results