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Good nutrition is vital to living a natural and healthy lifestyle. It can provide energy and increase work productivity, promote health, prevent illness, and provide antioxidants that help protect your body. But proper nutrition is not just the food you eat, but also includes essential vitamins; they are key contributors to good health and well-being.
- Switch to green tea: After lunch when your sugar cravings kick in, or when you reach for that third cup of coffee or soda, try drinking green tea instead. Comforting when hot, and soothing when chilled, green tea has powerful antioxidant properties and can help lower cholesterol and even relieve headaches.
- Take snack and lunch breaks away from the desk: When it’s time for lunch, or you notice your hunger pangs creeping up, take notice and eat away from your desk. Grazing can lead to additional unwanted calories, so instead of munching while working on the computer, take a break, feed your body and give your mind a rest.
- Don’t forget your fruits and vegetables: Bringing fruits and vegetables to work can be easy! Not only is bringing a ready-to-eat fruit or vegetable to work, like an apple, simple, but you can also get your daily dose by eating dried fruit, stopping by a smoothie shop, or a glass of 100% fruit or vegetable juice.
Vitamin Essentials
- Vitamin A: Helps maintain eye, skin and immune health.
- Vitamin B (Thiamine): Necessary for the health of the nervous system, energy production, and physical strength.
- Stress B-Complex: Helps manage stress with B vitamins plus 1,000mg of vitamin C.
- Vitamin B3 (Niacin): Helps mental health, and is important in the prevention of mental confusion and memory loss.
- Vitamin C: Provides high-potency antioxidant and immune protection.
- Vitamin E: A powerful antioxidant that helps promote a healthy heart.
- Biotin: Aids fatty acid production, metabolism of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
Quick Tip:
"If you have trouble remembering to take your vitamins in the morning when you have a million other things on your mind, try keeping them at your desk. It will be a reminder to take them with your next snack or meal and can help give you the vitamin boost you need to stay alert and energetic throughout the day." – Roni Proter, host of Simply Beautiful
