A Blogtastic Extravaganza 2012 :: Superfoods Giveaway

A Blogtastic Extravaganza

Wel­come to A Blog­tas­tic Extrav­a­ganza!  We are so excited about this huge give­away.  There are $1,000s worth of prizes across all these great blogs.  Thanks for joining us.

On Seeds of Life we are cel­e­brat­ing the New Year with a renewed inter­est in mak­ing healthy changes in our lives.  Our Super­foods give­away is jam-packed with foods that will help you to look and feel great in 2012.

I’ve lined up some great spon­sors with excep­tional qual­ity prod­ucts to offer you for a prize pack­age total­ing $120 in Superfoods.

TeaGuys One tin each of Green Tea, White Tea and Black Tea

4 bars of Fear­less Raw Chocolate

Sea­Mama SeaVegi Salad and Wakame

Miso Mas­ter 1 pound each of Red Miso and White Miso ChiaSeedsDirect.com 2 pound bag of Chia Seeds

So get ready for the New Year because we are cel­e­brat­ing with new health.

All entries are

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January 22nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Detoxification, Giveaways, Healing Arts, Health, Holistic, Natural healing, Nutrition, Spa and Wellness, Tea | 91 people had their say - chime in!

Chia Seeds Direct

Chia Seed Plant

My lit­tle love affair with chia seeds is still going hot and heavy.  I use them con­stantly when I eat because they fill me up and have a great nutri­ent pro­file.  They are so ver­sa­tile and blend eas­ily into food, I hardly know they are there but love the ben­e­fits I get from using them in my diet. They absorb the fla­vor of any­thing they are prepared with.

If you are curi­ous about why Chia seeds are the new great super food here are a few good rea­sons to look into the ben­e­fits they pro­vide.  You can also check out my arti­cles here and here.

The Ben­e­fits of Adding Chia

High in Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Chia Seed Plant

Chia seeds are the high­est whole-food source of omega-3 fatty acids by weight.  They con­tain the same amount of these essen­tial fatty acids as 10 pounds of salmon. They have a higher level than

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November 17th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Giveaways, Health, Holistic, Natural healing, Nutrition, Recipes | 17 people had their say - chime in!

Purification diet

Vegetables are Life

Any­one with chil­dren knows how hard the early days are.  Babies, while need­ing many hours of sleep a day, don’t feel the need to make those hours con­sec­u­tive.  As a nurs­ing mom I was always the one get­ting up with every feed­ing and late night wak­ing.  Mul­ti­ply that by two and it makes ideal con­di­tions for sleep depri­va­tion. Since I stopped sleep­ing through the night around the begin­ning of the third trimester I fig­ure I didn’t get more than 4 con­sec­u­tive hours of sleep for about 3 years.

Dur­ing that time I wasn’t tak­ing the best care of myself.  I made sure I got the basic nutri­ents but moved through my days in a foggy haze.  4 years later I real­ize I am 4 sizes big­ger than I started.  Not my finest hour.  Last spring, as my energy was pick­ing up and I was feel­ing more like a woman and less

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October 24th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Detoxification, Health, Inspiration, Mind Body Spirit, Nutrition, Vegetarian | 4 people had their say - chime in!

Endurance drink the Aztec warriors used

WIngfoot Logo

Chia seeds are an ancient food report­edly used by Aztec war­riors as rations when they went out on con­quests.  It is said an Aztec war­rior could march for an entire day on a hand­ful of chia seeds.  Their high nutri­ent den­sity, omega-3 fatty acids and hydra­tion abil­i­ties make them supe­rior endurance foods for any­one want­ing an edge in their sport of choice.  I have been using chia seeds for sev­eral months now and love the ben­e­fits I have been get­ting with my run­ning and exer­cise routine.

At Expo East I met a great cou­ple who have cre­ated a chia per­for­mance drink that I absolutely love.  Tobias and Sheree founded Wing­foot Iski­ate on prin­ci­ples of local, nat­ural foods and con­nect­ing with peo­ple they work with.  We had a great dis­cus­sion at the expo and I am happy to be work­ing with them to spread the word about their chia drinks.

When

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October 11th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: Giveaways, Health, Holistic, Nutrition, Reviews | 4 people had their say - chime in!

Weight loss tips you haven’t heard before

Hand with Cucumber

For the past sev­eral months I have been try­ing to lose the weight I gained when I had my kids.  Car­ry­ing twins really takes a toll on the body.  Of course I am

Get­ting Veggies

doing all the things you know about.  I have increased the veg­eta­bles and fruits in my diet.  Cut back on the fried foods and meals con­sist­ing of only bread and cheese (des­per­ate times of the sleep-deprived).  I am at the gym, on the bike or run­ning with the kids just about every­day.  All of these things have helped immensely.

You didn’t come here to read about the things you know already, did you? I have added two new tools I have found great suc­cess with.  The first I wrote about in this arti­cle.  Using chia seeds helps me to feel full faster and not want to snack or binge late into the night.  It’s great

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September 9th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Health | 10 people had their say - chime in!

Chia seeds aid weight loss

Chia seeds for health

Chia seeds for health

One of my cur­rent goals is to lose the weight I gained since 2003 after two preg­nan­cies, a motor vehi­cle acci­dent and the ups and downs of life.  All told 48 pounds.  I don’t come from nat­u­rally skinny peo­ple.  My mom and her sis­ters are on per­pet­ual diets.  (I speak of my matri­lin­eal side because my father was adopted and his fam­ily genet­ics are not avail­able to me.)  In any event, while liv­ing my life I gained 48 pounds and I want them gone.

So I have been chang­ing my diet and hit­ting the gym pretty reg­u­larly.  I have made one major addi­tion that has been great for mak­ing all of this come together.  Chia seeds are my new favorite food.

Chia seeds were a major com­po­nent of Aztec and Mayan life for cen­turies.  They are con­sid­ered the food of the war­rior because of their nutrient

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August 25th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: Detoxification, Health, Holistic, Natural healing | 11 people had their say - chime in!