Category: Nutrition

easy food fixes for teens

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Simply Gum – Natural Gum

Regular gum, like Trident and Orbit gum, contains plastic and harmful chemicals such as aspartame and BHT.

An alternative is Simply Gum, a company that uses only natural ingredients to produce their gum.

The base ingredients in Simply Gum are a natural chicle base (the sap of the sapodilla tree, candelilla wax, citric acid), organic raw cane sugar (less sugar than the amount found in “normal” gum and unrefined), organic vegetable glycerin (non-GMO), organic rice flour, and natural flavors (never artificial, tastes better, lasts longer). In addition to being much healthier, Simply Gum is also BIODEGRADABLE, as the natural ingredients easily decompose in the Earth’s intrinsic terrain.

Simply Gum produces none of the negative health effects that regular gum does. Therefore, in order to benefit our planet and wellbeing, chew NATURAL simply gum instead of ARTIFICIAL regular gum.

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Edible water bottle – Ooho

While I was researching for ideas, I came across this company called Ooho. It is an edible water company with goals to eliminate the plastic water bottles that are so detrimental to the environment. Ooho creates edible squares filled with water. You can take a square and pop it into your mouth, hydrating yourself. You can either eat the wrapping, which is made out of seaweed or just suck out the water and then throw the biodegradable seaweed wrap wherever. The company also makes flavored water and flavored drinks that they package inside of the edible squares if you are looking for some flavor with your hydration. The squares are not available for sale yet, but hopefully will be soon. However, the squares are available for events if you send an email to the company’s events email address. If you want to check out the company yourself, the link is down below. Plastic water bottles, all of them, get certain amounts of plastic particles into the water that you are drinking. The health effects of the massive amounts of plastic particles that are entering the water that you are drinking are still being researched, and are probably very detrimental towards your health. This biodegradable option is better for your health, as well as for the environment.

Just copy and paste it into google! : http://www.skippingrockslab.com/ooho!.html

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The Significance of Tea

Cut down on the sugared, artificial drinks like soda. Instead, delve into the numerous healthy flavors of tea. Tea is yummy, filled with nutrients, and easily accessible for various price ranges. All you need is hot water, a cup, and a tea bag. Honestly, it doesn’t really matter which tea bag you use, because most of them are good for you, and many of them taste spectacular. My favorite company is Tazo Tea. There are multitudinous flavors of Tazo Tea – you just have to find the one that you like the best – and the tea boxes (which cost around $5.99) come with 20 tea bags (enough to last a while). Swap your sodas for cups of tea and you will feel and be much healthier.

Here are three of the flavors and what the boxes and tea bags look like: