As important as vitamins are, they can do nothing for you without minerals. Vitamins cannot be assimilated without the aid of minerals. Although the body can manufacture a few vitamins, it cannot manufacture a single mineral.

All tissue and internal fluids contain varying quantities of minerals. Minerals are constituents of the bones, teeth, soft tissue, muscle, blood, and nerve cells. They are vital to overall mental and physical well-being.

Minerals act as catalysts for many biological reactions within the body, including, muscle response, the transmission of messages through the nervous system, and the utilization of nutrients in food. As important as vitamins are, they can do nothing for you without minerals.
Minerals are vital to your overall mental and physical well-being.
When we think of minerals, food isn’t the first thing that comes to our minds. After all, minerals are something that you find in the earth like iron and salt. However, when we eat our meals there are small amounts of mineral in our food, such as red meat is a good source of iron.
Just like vitamins, minerals help our body stay healthy. The body uses minerals to perform different functions such as, building strong bones and transmitting nerve impulses.
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We humans share our planet with millions of microorganisms that put the human body under constant attack. It is important to take care of your immune system and shield it form infection. There are things we can do to help.
It is important to get enough sleep.
The lack of sleep will not only leave you feeling irritable, sluggish and forgetful, it can temporarily reduce the activity of the immune system.
Stress can play havoc on our immune systems. Many doctors believed that immune system’s function can be diminished by stress so try to relax.
Not eating a well balanced diet may weaken the immune system as well. Eating too many calories and too much fat, the immune system will suffer and the body will start to feel the effects.
Regular physical activity and exercise is good for our bodies as it will improve your cardiovascular system, heart and lungs, it will also strengthen your immune system.
You may want to increase your interferon to keep your immune system healthy.
This could be done by taking a natural dietary supplement that increases the body’s production of it’s own ability to produce interferon naturally. There is product call NutriFeron and was developed by the Japanese Scientist , Dr. Yasuhiko Kojima after his discovery of interferon.
For more information from the Center for Immune Research about enhancing and strengthening the body’s natural defense systems, visit ImmunityFacts.com. To learn more about the benefits of NutriFeron™, visit NutriFeron.com. You can also go to my web site at www.healthyandgreencolleen.com and learn more about the immune system.

I haven’t been able to blog lately and that is about to change. I plan on a new entry weekly and I want to thank all of you who have contacted me. I enjoy sharing wellness information with you and hope you do as well. I also want to thank those who became customers. I believe the products I talk about, each supplements, weight loss products or house whole cleaning products are the best products and are truly safe and green. I share these products with my family and friends and hope you enjoy them as well.

Fragrance in the cleaners you use in your home may be toxic. There are hundreds of untested chemicals called fragrances that are in the ingredients, like phthalates and synthetic musks. Fragrances are also listed as the top five allergens in the world. You may associate Pine or Citrus oil as a clean smell when it comes to cleaning supplies however, it has been recommended not to use this fragrances on high ozone days. The compounds in these cleaners can react with ozone to form carcinogenic formaldehyde. It is so easy to be confused on what products are safe to buy and use in our homes. A wise choice is to use Shaklee Get Clean Products.
They are nontoxic and natural cleaning products that are safe, powerful, green and smart. Smart because you will save money while you do something good for the planet. Go to my web site to learn more.

There is very little information given on the labels of the cleaning products we use to clean our homes and we aren’t sure if these products are harmful to our families or to us as we use them. About all the information that we are given is the warning on the labels and that can be confusing. If there is a skull and crossbones on the label than we know it will harm to us if we don’t take precautions. But, what are the precautions? Is opening a window enough? The EPA assigns toxicity levels to products like pesticides and cleaners, based on how much harm they can do to you if you were to drink, inhale the fumes or absorb them through your skin. There are words that mean different levels of toxicity that are on each product, the problem is, we’re still not sure what is in the product and can the fumes of another product being use in the same area or in the same house be more harmful or even make stronger fumes. DANGER is the strongest signal word. If danger is on the label you must be extremely cautions when using. Danger is also on a product that could explode if it gets hot. WARNING, still means you could get hurt or really sick if you don’t use the product carefully. This product can catch on fire easily. CAUTION means the product can harm you. This product could bother your skin or make you sick if you inhaled the fumes. It could do damage to your eyes also. Please read the labels carefully and don’t mix your products. We don’t know what the out come could be.

Have you ever thought about why there are warning labels on cleaning products? We are cleaning our homes with some pretty nasty chemicals and we are making our families sick. The government requires companies to list know concerns on their labels. What we don’t know is if all the known chemicals are listed. With the list “chemicals of known concern” on the product label, the rest of the chemicals do not have to be listed until there is a concern. The EPA can’t require chemical companies to prove their safety unless the EPA can show the product is a health risk. With out the list of ingredients, how can they know if it is a health risk. Is this a catch 22?

Many of us believe you are as healthy as you can be when your home is as healthy as it can be. Home should be the safest, cleanest, healthiest place in the whole world. To do that you need to go green. You don’t have to give up strong cleaners to get something really clean and you don’t have to use those toxic cleaners that are dangerous to you,  your children and our planet to get something clean. So I ask you, What does clean smell like? It shouldn’t smell like bleach or any other harsh cleaners. It should smell like nothing. Shaklee offers you nontoxic, natural choices that are safe, powerful, green and smart. You will save money by using  Shaklee as well.  After all , if we don’t take care of our earth , where else are we going to live?

With Earth Day behind us, we still need to keep thinking about how we can improve our environment and preserve what is important to all of us living on this planet. After all, If we don’t take care of our earth where else are we going to live?

What is Green? Out in the world of business, in the world of industry and technology, this can be an ambiguous question. But at home, it’s incredibly simple. A green product is one that won’t harm you, your children, your pets or the environment. A green product won’t hang around after you are done using it. It is nontoxic and there are no harmful fumes. A green product and the packaging it comes in, truly breaks down or turns into safe recyclable stuff when your done with it. Going green at home or in the office is about choices. Making informed choices about the products you use, can change the quality of your in door air and improve the health of our planet. With Earth Day not to far away, I ask you to think about cleaning products that are use and the toxins they contain. Have you ever thought about where those toxic products go after they have been used? They go into the air and ground, then into  water ways and then into our bodies, and the cycle continues. Each of us can do a small part to improve our homes and the planet we live on. After all, if we don’t take care of our earth where else will we live?

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