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Hop Off the Blood Sugar Roller Coaster

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The ride is finally over. Get your blood sugar levels back in check with PGX.

Considering the food landscape within our modern society, most of the foods that we consume in the Western diet are highly processed. “Fast foods” especially are laden with highly refined carbohydrates, which are rapidly digested by the body, causing excessive peaks in our blood sugar levels after we eat. As a result, our bodies tend to release insulin to bring blood sugar back down again, creating chronic blood sugar level imbalances. With an imbalance, blood sugar levels erratically rise and fall, which may have led to the name “the blood sugar roller coaster.”

Cue PGX:

PGX Daily helps control and balance blood sugar levels by counteracting the effects of carbohydrate-heavy meals. How does PGX do this? By helping you feel fuller faster and satisfied longer due to its highly viscous fibre complex. When added to your meals, or consumed pre-meal, PGX can help slow down your digestion. PGX also slows the conversion of carbohydrates and other foods into sugar, resulting in a more gradual release of glucose into the bloodstream. This means that blood sugar levels are less likely to spike when using PGX. And when they don’t spike, blood sugar levels don’t tend to fall far enough to trigger excess production of insulin.

Learn more about avoiding the blood sugar roller coaster.

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Low Calorie Summer Snacks!

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Looking for a light snack in the warm weather? Try one of these low calorie recipes!

Spark People dishes up 10 tasty, weight wise snacks under 200 calories!

Salad Stick Skewers, Bacon-Cantaloupe Bites, Caprese Salad… Yes! Plus, they are less than 200 calories per serving! If you?re craving something tasty and fresh this summer, try one of these recipes from Spark People’s 10 Healthy, Low-Calorie Summer Snacks!

Enjoy!

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Healthy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

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It’s true! Healthy and cookie can appear in the same sentence!

Satisfy your sweet tooth with this tasty and actually healthy cookie recipe from The Skinny Fork!

You an give in to your inner cookie monster without regret. It is completely possible! I know it seems rather oxymoronic to think of cookies as healthy but it’s a fabulous thing to think of and know to be real. What it is really that makes cookies so unhealthy? Tons of sugar, oil, white flour, butter… all things that can actually be replaced!

The Skinny Fork recipe for Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies does just that: food substitution! For example, instead of butter or oil, you’ll find this recipe calls for apple sauce!

Try this recipe and add a dash of PGX Daily Singles for an even healthier treat and that extra fibre kick!

So without further ado, click to view the Skinny Fork recipe for Healthy Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies (it has some chocolate in it too!).

 

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Shop Yourself Healthy

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No more aimless walking in the grocery store. It’s time to shop ourselves healthy!

I can’t even count how many times I walk over to the refrigerator, stare at its contents and close the door empty handed. From there, I cruise over to the pantry and start inspecting it’s contents!

The crave monster has just surfaced and it’s forcing me to begin the hunt for snacks! All too often this leads to snacking on things like chips and dip or if nothing else, buttered toast (I swear I could live on toasted bread with butter and I would be quite happy!). So what can one do to prevent this kind of craving grazing? It all starts at the grocery store…

Check out this infographic and learn how to shop yourself slim and healthy! Don’t forget to add some fibre into your diet! PGX can help control that blood sugar roller coaster for you 😉

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Is the Paleo Diet for You?

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Everybody’s talking about it – but is this the diet for you?

Learn what following the Paleo Diet entails.

Although the paleo diet has never appealed to me (I enjoy dairy too much), it has become all the rage among many health conscious folks. Especially popular amongst those that are involved in Cross Fit training, the paleo diet emulates the diet of cavemen. What exactly does this mean, you ask? Well, the Paleo Diet, as defined by thepaleodiet.com, is “based upon eating wholesome, contemporary foods from the food groups our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have thrived on during the Paleolithic era, the time period from about 2.6 million years ago to the beginning of the agricultural revolution, about 10,000 years ago.”

So, what’s on the Paleo Menu?

  • Fresh Meat, such as beef, pork or poultry
  • Fish and other seafood
  • Fresh Fruit
  • Fresh Vegetables
  • Seeds
  • Nuts
  • Oils, such as olive oil, coconut oil or flaxseed oil

What’s excluded from the menu?

  • Dairy products
  • Cereal grains
  • Legumes
  • Refined sugars
  • Processed food

What do you think? Is this a diet you would try? Let us know in the comments below or on our Facebook page.

Reference: www.thepaleodiet.com

 

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Win $100 Worth of PGX!

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Fill Up & Slim Down with alive Magazine’s PGX giveaway.

Enter to win a PGX weight loss package, worth an estimated retail value of over $100!

Package Includes:

Contest ends January 31st, so be sure to enter before the end of the month! Learn more about the contest.

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PGX Daily Singles

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A spotlight on one of our most popular PGX products.

What are PGX Daily Singles?

PGX Daily Singles are unflavoured granules that mix easily and dissolve into foods and beverages.

How do you use PGX Daily Singles?

Simply sprinkle on cereal, soups, yogurt or salads without affecting the flavour or just add it to water for a convenient way to control your appetite. PGX granules will change the consistency of your food or beverage, becoming thicker the longer you wait prior to consuming, therefore, it is important to sprinkle your PGX onto your food or beverage immediately before consuming; don’t wait too long if you would like the consistency to remain unchanged.

PGX requires additional water to provide its full range of benefits, so it is important to always drink plenty of water when using any PGX product.

Health Benefits of PGX Daily Singles

  • Helps to normalize blood sugar levels    
  • Lowers the glycemic index of meals    
  • Supports healthy weight loss   
  • Reduces food cravings  

Pros of Choosing PGX Daily Singles

  • Granules are flavour-free
  • Easily mixed into your food and added to your regular diet

  • Discreet and convenient packages that you can carry on the go

Discover where you can find PGX Daily Singles in store.

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Homemade Spa Water

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Say goodbye to soda, juice, and bottled water with these refreshing, healthy flavors!

Try this homemade ‘spa water’ with a wide variety of flavors to motivate you to drink more water. If you’re like me you might forget to drink enough water everyday. Although we have great tasting tap water, I am more likely to remember to drink water if it’s flavoured. It feels more like a special treat!

Here’s a simple recipe you can try to make your own homemade “spa water” from Yummy Life! Add a PGX single for long lasting satiety!

 

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Fitocracy: a Fitness App

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On your marks. Get set. Exercise!

Get in shape with the app that turns fitness into fun and games…

We’ve all got a competitive side right? Now there’s a fitness app that appeals to our inner competitor (racer, fighter, Olympian?) and can help you stay motivated to workout! Fitocracy is an app that turns your exercise routines into games!

Fitness geeks and gurus, Brian Wang and Richard Talens, decided it was time to help people actually fall in love with fitness; not an easy task! With Fitocracy you can climb levels, earn points, and compete in quests and challenges, turning that routine workout into an addictive game world of health and exercise! A healthy habit addiction?! How very convenient!

So if you find yourself lacking in consistant motivation or just looking to stir the exercise pot, try this app and start competing with yourself and your friends. A little healthy competition can go a long way!

 

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What inspires you to live a healthy life?

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What a great question and a big one!

Living a healthy life isn’t the easiest choice. It requires planning to go to the grocery store and make healthy meal choices. Or, scheduling time for exercise. Sure, you could just kick off your shoes after a long day but you don’t. I think that’s pretty awesome.

We all have our reasons for wanting to live a bit healthier. For some, it might be to be more active with our kids or younger people in our lives. For others, the children are fully-grown and on their own so it feels like now is the time to get healthy.

Some may be following doctors orders and are restricted to a special diet. While another is doing it for a special event such as a wedding, to get ready for a baby, a family reunion or a graduation. Maybe it’s just to look great on a date or anniversary with someone special.

Or maybe you’ve set your sights higher! Maybe you’re looking to climb the next mountain like Esther and Martin Kafer the oldest couple to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to help raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society of BC! Or run your first marathon, or 10 k or even 5 k run.

Whatever your reason, we think you’re pretty awesome for doing it. If you’ve made PGX part of the journey, we thank you and are proud to be a part of it!

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