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A whole lot of us are attempting to live healthier today. We do our best to exercise, get an adequate amount of sleep, and eat our three to five servings of vegetables and fruit on a daily basis. However frustration can mount when shopping for fresh produce only have it turn brown and wilted within days.

A good method to help keep your produce fresh for a longer period is to store it in Debbie Meyers Green Bags. These bags can prolong the life of your fresh produce for weeks longer than you ever though possible. The bags slow down the ripening of produce and result in fresher fruit and vegetables. By slowing this ripening process, valuable vitamins can be preserved, meaning that you get more of a health benefit from your meals.

Lettuce and cabbage, which tend to wilt within a week under normal circumstances, can stay green, crisp, and fresh for weeks when stored in Debbie Meyer Green bags. Apples stay crisp, bananas stay yellow, and celery stays crunchy for much longer than they would in regular supermarket produce bags. Even cut flowers can enjoy prolonged freshness in the bags.

Debbie Meyers Green Bags can also help to cut down on landfill waste. Unlike the plastic bags you find in supermarket produce departments, Green Bags can be rinsed and reused several times. Take a moment and consider just how many single-use plastic bags you can keep from circulation every year - just carry a couple Green Bags with you to the store and use them in place of disposable bags.

With food prices constantly rising, it’s easy to get frustrated with the expense of healthy organic foods. When your veggies and fruits stay fresh until you’re ready to use them, you’ll throw away less food because of spoiling early and possibly reduce your food bill.

Although Green Bags feel like plastic, they are actually made from a special form of a natural mineral. These bags are designed to to absorb the ethylene gases given off by produce which contribute to ripening and spoilage. The special bag material is also made to reduce moisture and the production of mold and bacteria on your fruits and veggies. They perform consistently well, whether kept on the counter or in the fridge. Even cut fruit experiences a notably lengthier life when wrapped in Debbie Meyers Green Bags.

Besides the obvious benefits of reducing landfill waste and keeping your fruits and veggies fresher for longer, these fantastic bags can also cut out the clutter in your refrigerator. Debbie Meyer Green Bags take up a lot less space than Tupperware and its clones and can be stored right in the fruit drawer and vegetable crisper. You can keep a stack in your vehicle or purse and always have them ready for quick store trips. In no time, you’ll notice that you are throwing out fewer spoiled items and enjoying lower grocery bills.

For more information about these great green bags which are good for your fruits, veggies and helping the environment, check out the Debbie Meyer Greenbags TM set of 50

- Judith Allison

Many people want to get rid of unwanted weight in a hurry. They  try the semistarvation method, where they exist on very  low-calorie, low-cabohydrate regimens which are fewer than one thousand calories a day. These diets cause your body to react in a way similar way to fasting in that your body, thinking there is a famine, hangs on to every calorie. There is some initial weight loss from water and lean tissue. However, you rapidly regain the weight and then some when you start to eat normally again. Not only does the water weight come back immediately, such extremes have proven to backfire as you wind up burning up only muscle rather than fat; you slow your metabolism rather than rev it up and gain more in the long run thus defeating your purpose.

Metabolism Increasing Tip: What’s better than Peanut Butter? Peanut butter is scrumptious, satisfying, and a superb way to make the energy and metabolism boost of the carbohydrates last longer. However, like any food high in fat, calories from peanut butter add up very quickly - so stick to one flat tablespoon.

Metabolism Boosting Tip: Parmesan Cheese - At only twenty-two calories per tablespoon, top salads with two tablespoons instead of calorie dense salad dressing. Tastes good; low calorie. What could be better?

Weight Loss Tip: Sunflower Seeds - Roasted dry, just two tablespoons is all it takes to add spunk to any meal. It’ll keep you satisfied while revving you up.

Metabolism Boosting Tip: Roasted Pumpkin Seeds. They pack seven grams of fiber (more than three slices of whole wheat bread) and protein into every one-ounce serving. They’re also high in zinc which increases the chances of a healthy immune system.

How many times have you heard the expression, “You are what you eat?” Have you ever really thought about what it means? Do you think about it when you’re in the pizza parlor ordering that sausage and green pepper special? Everything you do, bake or eat is a choice.

In some ways, unfortunately, we do become what we eat. Have you ever seen an example of your blood plasma after eating a fast food burger? What was previously a clear liquid becomes cloudy with the fat and cholesterol that’s absorbed from eating that high-fat food.

And when you stop and consider it, we also become what we don’t eat in that if we avoid vegetables and fruits, salads without gobs of salad dressing, healthy starches and good cholesterol building, glucose-regulating foods, we are basically allowing ourselves to gain fat, promote heart disease, slow down and gain weight.

However, the power is yours. It is your choice.

When we switch from eating meat and fatty foods to a vegetarian and fish/chicken-based diet, we become less fat, and less prone to many types of cancers. Our cholesterol improves. When we are leaner and eating fewer animal products, then many other health and fitness issues are reduced.

For example, the development of Type II Diabetes is lessened. Blood pressure might fall into normal ranges. When you are healthier, you’re taking fewer medications. Even if you have a prescription drug benefit in your health plan, you’re still saving money with fewer co-payments on medications and the bottom line is that you are healthier.

If you have a family history of high cholesterol or high blood pressure, then it is especially incumbent upon you to revise your eating habits. Moving towards a more vegetarian, fish and chicken diet has been shown statistically to reduce the incidence of so many of the diseases of Western industrialized countries. People who eat fish and chicken, lots of fruits and vegetables and stay away from fatty foods are statistically healthier than omnivorous persons; they’re leaner and live longer.

Isn’t it time to consider what you want to be and to eat accordingly. Do you want to be sluggish and fat? Do you want the gamble that goes with eating animal products, with their high fat content? Or do you want to look like and be what people in charge of their food look like? Leaner and fitter with a longer anticipated lifespan. It’s never too late to change what you’re doing and increase your chances for a lengthier, fitter lifestyle.

And the beauty of it all is that it is your choice. If you’re “insulin resistant” (ask your doctor about this one, get a shot or pill to lessen your cravings to help you change your food choices. If it’s medical, get it fixed. Pursue an answer. It’s your life and your body, and you are in charge of what happens to it.

Is it easy? Hell, no! I can state that emphatically. Failure and slip-ups are a way of life. But persistence and tenacity are the key to success.

Is it worth it? Oh, yes, for sure. Set a goal of only 10% of your total body weight to lose or you’ll give up before you start. It’s one step at a time, and sometimes that stubborn scale refuses to budge. Get as stubborn as the scale. Refuse to give in and eat a load of cupcakes. Just keep munching on those salad greens. They begin, after a fashion, to taste pretty good.