Fight the common cold with a healthy and nutritious diet!

Eat the right foods to prevent yourself from getting sick this year.

Although a healthy diet won't guarantee a cold-free season, it will drastically improve your chances of staying healthy. By building up your immune system with nutritous foods and healthy eating habits, you will be increasing your body's abilities to ward off those pesky cold symtoms!

Find the top 5 foods to help you fight off cold season below.

Top 5 Foods to Prevent a Cold:

1. Chicken soup
2. Colourful fruits
3. Colourful veggies
4. Foods high in Vitamins A, B, C and E
   
5. Yogurt

Stay healthy, PGX'ers!

Reference: http://www.everydayhealth.com

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Support your immune system with PGX and a healthy diet!

It's that time of year again where the threat of catching a cold is looming over everyone's head. And so, with December just around the corner - tomorrow, can you believe it?! - we wanted to remind you that a healthy diet and PGX can help you ward off the cold and flu bug.

In the below video, Dr. Joyce Johnson explains how PGX and eating healthy can help protect you and your family from coughs, scratchy throats, sneezes and runny noses. Whew! Sounds good to me!

Remember to also get plenty of exercise, rest and drink lots of water - especially if you're taking PGX! - in order to support your immune system even more.

Watch the video now:

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Discover the Top 10 Workouts for Fall!

Get out of the gym and into shape!

Autumn is here and with this season, comes colder weather; and with the colder weather often comes heartier appetites and occasions for comfort food. I know that I have to make even more of a conscious effort to eat well, exercise and not to become a winter couch critter! But does the chilly weather mean I have to go the gym?

Just because summer is over, doesn't mean you have to workout indoors! It's true that when the rain and cold weather comes, it's not as appealing to go outside but I think these fun outdoor fitness activities might change your mind!

Fox News shares their Top 10 Fall Workouts that will help keep you in shape and having so much fun not matter how many layers you may need to put on! 

My personal favourite on that list is Ultimate Frisbee. Although...I wouldn't mind raking a huge pile of leaves and jumping in! Get outside and enjoy the fall colours and crisp air. Just remember to bundle up!

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

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This is an easy and convenient way to make salads-to-go!

Bring your salad to have along side a sandwich at lunch, on a picnic or anywhere. You can either eat the salad from the jar or tip it out into a bowl or onto a plate. Just take it and shake it when you’re ready to eat.

The secret to jar salads is to keep the dressing on the bottom, then layer your ingredients from most hearty, such as carrots to least. Just make sure your greens are on top! Here are a couple of recipes ideas to get you started. Sprinkle with PGX Daily Singles for a great source of fiber and much more.

Balsamic Chicken Salad
Dressing: Mix balsamic vinegar, extra-virgin olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.
Layer it with: Cold, cooked chicken, chopped walnuts, apple, celery and onion. Top with leaf lettuce. For a vegetarian option, use tofu instead of chicken.

Hearty Spinach Salad
Dressing: Select your favorite dressing.
Layer it with: Carrots, cucumber, celery, hard-boiled egg, tomato, walnuts or almonds. Top with baby spinach.

Summer Salad
Dressing: Mix in 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil, 1/8 cup lemon juice and dash of salt.
Layer it with:  Cold, grilled chicken, pecans, fresh raspberries and blueberries, and crumbled goat cheese (optional). Top with arugula or Boston lettuce. For a vegetarian option, use grilled tofu instead of chicken. 

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Avoid those winter workout blues!

It's cold and it's dark for more hours than it is light out, but don't let winter mess with your workout!

How many times have you let winter convince you to skip your workout? I don't know how many times I've convinced myself that it's too cold to get moving, too rainy to drive to an exercise class or the gym, too early to get up and ski... Unfortunately, it has happened. But this winter, my major fitness goal is to overcome the laziness, ditch the excuses and get exercising!

Fitness Magazine has a great article that has all the answers to trump those winter excuses: Winter-proof Your Workout!

Don't let Old Man Winter get you down. Jump up and exercise!

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