Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

John Anderson’s Seven Tips for Healthy Aging

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Living well into old age depends on healthy habits.With recent news of preliminary data that U.S. life expectancy is down for the first time since 2004 — dropping to age 77.8 overall – there is yet more talk about what people can really do for themselves to live successfully into old age. 

How to Get to Your Healthiest BMI with Isagenix

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Maintaining a healthy body mass index, or BMI, is one of the most important ways to help you live longer, according to a new study published in the December issue of New England Journal of Medicine (1).

BMI is not a perfect measure, but it is one of the simplest for estimating body weight. It is calculated by weight in pounds divided by height in inches squared and multiplying the number by 703, or by weight in kilograms divided by height in inches squared. What’s your BMI? Find out using this free calculator provided by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, of the National Institutes of Health.

Study Boosts Validity of Aging Research by John Anderson & Dr. Bill Andrews

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

A new study on mice published in Nature has added validation to research that is being performed by Bill Andrews, Ph.D., who has partnered with Isagenix Founder John Anderson to “turn back the clock” on aging.

Their approach is to screen thousands of natural product compounds a week to turn on the enzyme, telomerase, in cells to protect telomere length and reverse its loss.

Telomeres are protective sequences of repetitive non-coding DNA segments found at the end of chromosomes. In recent years, telomere length has been hypothesized to be the closest way to measure lifespan in humans.

New Vitamin D Guidelines Still Fall Short, Say Experts

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Experts say higher "sunshine vitamin" levels needed for optimal health.Emerging clinical research over the last decade has sparked enormous interest in the “sunshine vitamin” because of new associations with bone density, a stronger immune system, a healthier heart and brain, and maintenance of cell integrity. The hormone-like vitamin is noted to have direct effects on cells throughout the body and act on more than 2,000 genes.

For this reason, the Institute of Medicine, of the National Academy of Sciences, was asked by the United States and Canadian governments to assess current data and subsequently tasked a committee of experts to update nutrient reference values.

Seven Products for a Healthy Holiday Season

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Isagenix products can help keep the weight off during the holidays.It’s the same way year after year. Let’s face it—the holidays are no help for our weight management goals. Come January, the majority of us will end up having put on a couple (or more) extra pounds around the waist. Does it have to be this way? What can be done to keep the weight from piling on?

We’ve put together some of our favorite tips for helping you stay healthy and fit this holiday season with Isagenix products:

Toxin Watch: Chemicals in Store Register Receipts and Fast Food Wrappers

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Before the next time you ask a cashier for a receipt, think twice! It might be tainted with bisphenol A, aka BPA.

A recent study in Environmental Health Perspectives showed that cashiers had highest BPA exposure because of its use in thermal paper for register receipts in a monomer form that is readily absorbed through skin.

BPA is also used as a polymer complex in hard, clear polycarbonate plastic water bottles and as epoxy resins lining aluminum cans.

The study raises concerns about widespread exposure to BPA from a variety of sources, especially for women who are pregnant.

Although the actual BPA amounts in receipts is so little it may not pose enough risk to worry about, it does raise concerns for people—those behind a register, for example—who are in contact with the thermal paper regularly.

The news comes no later than a month after Health Canada officially declared BPA a toxic substance that mimics estrogen, potentially increasing risks of breast cancer and prostate cancer.

Resveratrol May Improve Belly Fat’s Metabolic Behavior

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Fat can not only be unsightly, but if it’s sitting on your belly, may also contribute to overproduction of signaling hormones called adipokines, which are linked to metabolic changes that can worsen health.  

New research from Aarhus University has found that abdominal adipose tissue extracted from overweight adults, and then exposed to resveratrol, exhibited reduced adipokine production. According to these authors, “small interfering molecules such as resveratrol are, in this matter, hypothesized to possess beneficial effects and might improve the metabolic profile in human obesity.”   

The scientists obtained the abdominal adipose tissue via liposuction from seven women and one man, ages 43-55, who had body mass indexes categorized as overweight. All subjects were Caucasian, healthy and not on any medication that could confound the results.

Living with Diabetes

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

By Sonja Schoonenberg, RD, LD, CDE

Whether you are newly diagnosed or a “diabetic veteran,” staying on top of current and accurate diabetes information can be a challenge. As the population of people with diabetes grows, so does the confusion about what to do to cope with the disease. 

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that 23.6 million U.S. adults have now been diagnosed with diabetes. In addition, nearly six million are undiagnosed, and another 57 million are considered as having prediabetes.

Understanding Diabetes 

Five Healthy Treats to Help You Control Cravings

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Feeling guilty about snacking? You shouldn’t. When your stomach starts growling, snacking here and there is essential for managing hunger pangs. The trick is smart snacking by choosing healthy foods that will satisfy your cravings, but won’t affect your weight-management goals.

When considering options for snacks, don’t think of the bags of candy, candy bars, sugar cookies, slices of pizza, ice cream cones, or bags of potato chips – these foods only overload you with calories from fat and sugar, and are generally high in sodium too.

Look for healthy treats by seeking out the ones that are nutrient-dense and low in calories. This can mean they are high in protein or fiber, and contain good fats, balanced carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals.

These five treats are a few great examples of healthy snacks that will help you hold back the desire to overeat.

Healthy Treat #1: Fruits and Vegetables

Who’s Afraid of a Little Something Sweet?

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

There are few food ingredients that conjure up more fear in the public mind than sugar and sugar substitutes found in manufactured products. This fear can be bolstered by a common ploy some companies and organizations use to create panic and push their products by smearing nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners used by their competitors.

The hysteria surrounding fructose is one such example — a simple fruit sugar found in almost every natural food on the planet has been unfairly targeted as the scapegoat for all of the extra pounds on America’s waistlines. 

But although it’s appropriate for people to watch for extra calories from all sources, including sugars, reasonable amounts of fructose each day as part of a balanced diet is not really anything to worry about.