Healthy Living Products To Help You Be Healthy and Happy

Healthy living products make it easier for you to be healthy and happy and what better gift can you give yourself or a loved one the gift of good health?

I was reluctant to buy a juicer wondering if it would just end up collecting dust, but I'm happy to say that this has become my most used healthy living product. I use it every morning to make myself a glass of fresh squeezed juice. The energy you get from a glass of juice is incredible and you get on average, 4-6 servings of fruits and vegetables, all in one glass of juice. Your juicer will have you eating fruits and vegetables that you haven't eaten for years since your parents made you.  Beets anyone?  A juicer is a great start to be healthy and happy. 

The blender is my second most used healthy living product. You can use it to make nutritious and filling fruit smoothies when you come home from work to fill up before dinner.  A big pot of soup made on a weekly basis works well for a nutrious lunch all week and a blender is great for pureeing soups.  A blender is a superb healthy living product for ensuring you're getting your daily dose of fruits and veggies and will you be healthy and happy.  

The secret to getting lots of use out of your new healthy living products, aka a juicer and a blender, is to find great recipes that you enjoy. The Juices and Smoothies Galore is my favourite juice/smoothie recipe book. I especially love the Detox-ification recipe on page 40 - ginger, carrot, apple and pear, delicious! I'm personally not a fan of the green juices in that I find them hard to swallow, but their health benefits are undisputed, so if you don't mind a foul tasting juice, the green smoothie recipe book could be for you. Soups are are an important part of healthy eating since you can add so many different vegetables to them so a good soup cook book is also a must to be healthy and happy.

This is the newest healthy living product on the list and is so new that it's currently only available for pre-order. It's receiving a lot of hype since you're able to make all your favourite comfort foods - french fries, meat, poultry, risotto, seafood, etc, with only 1 tbsp of oil so you can still eat your favourite foods only in a way that you will be healthy and happy.  

The Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board is getting rave reviews from everyone, regardless of their age or sex. It brings the fun back into exercise and gets you moving and fun is what it is all about to be healthy and happy. You can customize your workout to 20, 30 or 40 minutes and choose from a smorgasbord of activities - skateboarding, balance games, yoga, Hula-Hooping and Island Cycling to name a few. Plus you'll also get a status report so you can see how you're doing. Another advantage is that you can do all this in your living room, so no excuses for the bad weather. A Wii is required to use the Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board, but when you think about it, it's really just a few months gym membership that you probably weren't using anyway. Cancel the gym membership and get yourself a Wii Fit Plus instead, it's a lot more fun than the treadmill and you're more likely to stick with activities that are fun.

What's our biggest excuse for not exercising? Time. Well, no more excuses with these 10 minute DVDs. I love them and have quite a few of them. I'm not a morning person, but even I can find time for 10 minutes of exercise and you actually get a really good workout. They're short, but efficient. Then, when you come home at the end of the day you can do another 10 minute workout, which is much easier to manage than a longer workout.  If you have more time, you can customize your workout by doing several in a row, and you have the ability to choose the order and the workout and variety will keep you healthy and happy!

Be healthy and happy, now let's get moving!