Ultraviolet (UV) rays are the primary cause of accelerated aging, contributing to the discoloration, sagging and wrinkling that results from UV-induced damage to the surface of the skin as well as to the underlying collagen and elastin that give our skin firmness and structure.

We are exposed to UV radiation anytime we’re outdoors, even in winter or on cloudy days. Indoors, computers and fluorescent and halogen lights also add to our cumulative UV exposure. The amount of UV radiation reaching the earth is increasing each year as the ozone layer is depleted. Research shows that as UV radiation increases, so does the incidence of skin cancer, particularly life-threatening melanoma. And the combination of UV rays and environmental pollutants dramatically increases the total load of free radical attacks our bodies must cope with.

Factors that Increase Risks of UV Exposure

Genetics. All types of skin cancer are much more common among individuals with lightly pigmented skin. Blondes and redheads are particularly vulnerable. And melanoma rates are 20 times higher in whites than in African Americans.

Time of Day. At noon, when the sun is overhead, UV radiation levels are 10 times greater than at either three hours before (9 A.M.) or three hours after (3 P.M.). An untanned person with fair skin can receive a mild sunburn in as little as 25 minutes at noon; at 3 P.M. the same person would have to stay in the sun for 2 hours to get the same level of exposure.

Geography. The sun’s rays get stronger as you get closer to the equator. Altitude is also a factor: exposure to UV radiation can increase by as much as 4% every 1,000 feet above sea level, putting mountain climbers, hikers, and skiers at higher risk.

Chronic Exposure. Most UV exposure occurs during everyday activities such as driving or walking to and from your car while running errands. Skin cancer occurs most often on the areas of the body most frequently exposed: the top of the head (particularly for those who are bald or have thinning hair), the nose, the tops of the ears, and the left arm and left side of the face among Americans who drive a lot (this risk factor shifts to the right side of the body in countries where you drive on the left side of the road). Some researchers theorize that the risk of getting age spots on the backs of your hands may correlate to the amount of time you spend driving with both hands on top of the steering wheel. Another important note: even someone sitting in the shade may still be exposed to one-quarter or more of the total UV radiation present. And up to 80% of the sun’s rays penetrate even dense cloud cover.

Apply UVA/UVB protection every day, indoors and out. Statistics prove that most UV exposure occurs when we’re not even thinking about it. Be sure to cover ALL areas of your body that will be exposed to the sun: remember the top of ears and forehead, bald spot, tops of feet when wearing sandals, and the back of neck and hands. The recommended daily precaution is SPF 15; use a higher SPF if you’ll be outdoors for two hours or longer.

Boost your skin’s natural defenses against environmental pollutants. Researchers agree that the same nutrients which protect your health also play a vital role in the vitality and appearance of your skin. Clinical studies show that Shaklee Vital Repair+™, the patented complex (U.S. Patent No. 6,036,946) integral to the Enfuselle skin care line, actually breaks each link in the chain of free radical damage on the surface of your skin.

How Do SPF 15 for Body and SPF 30 for Body Work?

Dermatologists know that an effective sunscreen must provide a high level of protection against ultraviolet radiation without irritating the skin. Enfuselle achieves that goal with two waterproof products to meet all your sun care needs. Quickly absorbed to lock in moisture without leaving a sticky finish. Ideal for sensitive skin.

• Patented SPF formula (U.S. Patent No. 6,015,548) with broad-spectrum UVA and UVB protection shields skin from sun’s harmful rays to help prevent skin damage.

• Patented Vital Repair+™ (U.S. Patent No. 6,036,946) breaks each link in the chain of free radical damage to defend against accelerated aging.

 By combining UVA and UVB sunscreen agents with the patented antioxidant protection of Vital Repair+™, Enfuselle SPF 15 for Body and SPF 30 for Body provide unique, patented, non-irritating and extremely effective sun protection while using the lowest levels of chemical sunscreens possible.

Enfuselle: Nutrition Therapy Skin Care System

Clinical Proof

Extensive independent clinical testing has demonstrated:

• UVA and UVB (broad spectrum) protection helps inhibit the UV-induced accelerated loss of collagen and elastin.

• Provides both high-level and broad-spectrum UV protection without irritation.

• Very high protection against sunburn for blondes, redheads, and fairskinned persons.

• Diminishes the visible signs of aging such as fine lines and wrinkles.

• Oil free.

• Safe for sensitive skin.

• Waterproof and sweatproof.

• Won’t clog pores.

The Shaklee Unconditional Guarantee:

If for any reason a Shaklee product is not satisfactory, return it to your Shaklee Independent Distributor or Shaklee Corporation, or exchange or full refund. 

FAQ

What’s SPF?

SPF means sun protection factor. If you wear a sunscreen with an SPF of 15, you have 15 times the protection from the sun than you’d have if you weren’t wearing any sunscreen at all. In other words, if you would burn after 10 minutes in the sun with no protection, an SPF of 15 would allow you to stay in the sun for two and a half hours (10 minutes times SPF 15 = 150 minutes or two and a half hours) before burning. Keep in mind that you would still receive a burn! Sunscreens don’t give you license to stay forever in the sun. Also remember that sunscreens aren’t cumulative: if you combine a moisturizer with SPF 15 with a sunscreen product with SPF 15, your sun protection factor is still 15, not 30. Virtually all sunscreens protect against UVB radiation — in addition, some products screen out a small part of the UVA spectrum. Enfuselle’s patented sunscreen formula (U.S. Patent No. 6,015,548) provides broad-spectrum protection against both UVB and UV  radiation.

Why No Avobenzone?

A “new kid on the block” sunscreen ingredient, Avobenzone currently does NOT meet Shaklee’s strict standards for product stability — in fact, Avobenzone has shown a disturbing tendency to decompose when exposed to UV light …particularly unfortunate for a sunscreen! In addition to using low levels of chemical sunscreens,  Enfuselle’s patented formulas (U.S. Patent No. 6,015,548) provide broad-spectrum protection against UVA and UVB radiation without the need for Avobenzone. Additionally, the Enfuselle Time Repair A.M.™ SPF 15 incorporates ingredients that help screen out UVA wavelengths (zinc oxide and titanium dioxide). This means that these sunscreen products provide reliable, full protection against UV damage.

Resources (printer friendly)

•  Enfuselle Difference (.pdf)
• Enfuselle Introduction Bulletin (.pdf)
• How to Use Enfuselle Skin Care (.pdf)
• Tips to Prevent Skin Cancer (.pdf)

Products:

• Enfuselle SPF 30 for Body
• Enfuselle Time Repair AM SPF 15
• Enfuselle Repair Skin System

Pregnant or already have twins, triplets or quads?

Visit Plano Area Mothers of Multiples organization (PAMOM)

On June 14th, 2011, I had a privilege to be a part of the PAMOM evening and share my passion on creating non-toxic houses and healthier children.

Raising Healthy Kids Today (June 14th, 2011)

What do you use at home?

Fantastik, 409, Ajax, Comet, Windex, Tide, Cascade, Sun Light, Johnson and Johnson, Aveno, Colgate, Nature’s Source, and more

What’s now?

• Baby care products: possible sources of infant phthalate exposure
• 287 industrial chemicals found in a test of the umbilical cord blood of 10 newborns
• Mercury contamination moves beyond fish
• Bisphenol-A can build up in babies and infants
• Carcinogen 1,4-dioxane found in leading ‘organic’ brand personal care products

Hazardous chemicals in the home are connected to your children’s health and future.

• Asthma
• Weak immune system
• Poor physical development
• Indoor poisoning
• Autism
  

What to do? Take action.

Get educated.

• Household:  http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/ingredients.htm
• Water: http://water.epa.gov/
• Children:  http://healthychild.org/

Search for  non-toxic alternatives

Join us for Healthy Children, Healthy World:

http://www.thenaturalpower.com/healthy-children-healthy-world-june-17th-2011/

Downloadable docs:

• Hazardous Chemicals in the Home – The Health Connection.
  Alternatives to common household chemicals. based on information from Natural Health Magazine. Brands and potential dangers (.pdf)

• Recipes for Safer Cleaners (.pdf)

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World

“..Guess how many chemicals have been restricted since TSCA was passed in 1976? Five. Yes, you read that right. Five…
..In a nutshell: Autism is America’s fastest growing developmental disability. An estimated 1.5 million children are currently affected by autism spectrum disorder in the United States. Autism rates have risen nearly 400% in 20 years, to the point that now one out of every 100 children—or one out of every 70 boys—is statistically destined for diagnosis..
.. the unregulated chemicals that infuse our children’s lives to the point that today babies are born pre-polluted with more than 200 chemicals in their blood, just from pre-natal exposure..
“We live, breathe and start our families in the presence of toxic chemical mixtures and constant low-level toxic exposures, in stark contrast to the way chemicals are tested for safety,” said Donna Ferullo, Director of Program Research at The Autism Society. “Lead, mercury, and other neurotoxic chemicals have a profound effect on the developing brain at levels that were once thought to be safe.”
Just to be clear: There is no clear data on why autism occurs. Most scientists agree that there are many factors—from genetic to environmental—which may increase risk for ASD. Hundreds of genes have been associated with autism, some of which are inherited and some of which are found in people with autism but not in their parents. Large numbers of environmental factors are being looked at as well. These include chemicals, infectious agents, and various health problems in the parents. Autism may result from a combination of risk factors.”

Download “Perspectives on Autism” (.pdf)

Topics covered: What is autism? What is autism? What causes autism? What creates the behaviors associated with autism? Why should we be concerned about autism? Is there a connection between the immune system and autism? Is there a connection between mercury and autism? Is there a connection between gut irritation and autism? Is there a connection between immunizations and autism?

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff
Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World

Read a complete article: http://healthychild.org/blog/comments/healthy_childs_experts_on_autism/

Join us for the  “Healthy Children, Healthy World” event:

http://www.thenaturalpower.com/healthy-children-healthy-world-june-17th-2011/

Raising Healthy Kids Today for Healthier Tomorrow

What Now:

• Too much junk food being put in children’s hands

• Baby care products: possible sources of infant phthalate exposure

• 287 industrial chemicals found in a test of the    umbilical cord blood of 10 newborns

• Mercury contamination moves beyond fish

• Bisphenol-A can build up in babies and infants

• Carcinogen 1,4-dioxane found in leading ‘organic’ brand personal care products

Possible Future:

Overweight, Type 2 Diabetes, Asthma, Weak   Immune System, Poor Physical Development, Indoor Poisoning

TAKE ACTION, GET EDUCATED

When: June 28th, 10am (Healthy Children, Healthy World presentation), noon (playdate time)
Where: Murphy TX 75094 (Nadya Tatsch’ house). Contact for details
Contact: Nadya Tatsch 972-489-7449

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Author Paul Fassa, http://www.naturalnews.com/032262_cholesterol_fats.html

For decades we have been indoctrinated that cholesterol from saturated fat is the major harbinger of heart disease and death. The result has been big profits for unhealthy, cheaply produced no/low fat foods like margarine and Big Pharma’s dangerous statin drugs.

Over several decades, this propaganda has diminished or even destroyed the health of millions while killing thousands who have been put on cholesterol lowering statin drugs. Simply put, cholesterol as the major heart disease threat is disinformation.

Bad vs Real Science

The original study that started the whole cholesterol/heart disease hypothesis was conducted on rabbits. They were fed enormous quantities of butter and lard daily, equivalent to a quart a day for humans. But those animals are herbivores, not omnivores. Herbivores are not equipped to digest animal proteins and fats. When a similar study was conducted years later on rats, which like humans are omnivores, there were no negative consequences whatsoever.

More impressive are the three epidemiological human studies involving tens of thousands of subjects over two to three generations. They all discovered higher death rates among those with lower cholesterol counts. Those studies were: The Framingham Study; The Honolulu Heart Program Study; The Japanese Lipid Intervention Trial.

Many agree that stress coupled with heavy refined carbohydrate and junk food diets (SAD) are the sources of most obesity, diabetes, chronic inflammation, and heart disease.

Getting Fats Into Your Diet

Cholesterol is essential to many metabolic functions and forms 20% of our brains as well as part of our cell walls. Depression is often the result of low blood cholesterol levels. Our bodies make some cholesterol while regulating cholesterol blood levels. So if you consume too much cholesterol, the body compensates by making less.

The only bad cholesterol is external, unnatural oxy-cholesterol, which is the result of heating fats to where they oxidize. This occurs commonly in processed and fast food. Natural oxy-cholesterol is produced in the body as part of a regulatory function. But unnatural oxy-cholesterol can obstruct bile functions and eventually cause arterial problems. This arrangement is prevalent among SAD consumers.

A leading nutritional biochemist, Dr. Harry Eidiner Jr., has confirmed in medical journals that you cannot digest protein without fat in your diet. A vegetarian who consumes raw milk dairy products from grass fed cows and free range hen eggs has no problems with taking in sufficient fats.

Strict vegans may have a more difficult time getting enough fats. Virgin coconut oil and fresh raw nuts can be added. Unrefined cold pressed poly-unsaturated plant based oils have positive fatty acid value also. Balancing omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids (around two or three to one) is healthiest. Hemp oil has that balance.

Omega-3 flaxseed oil can offset the imbalance of omega-6 olive oil. Avocado and avocado unprocessed oils are rich in good fats. Avocado is so nutrient dense it’s often considered a super food. Just make sure polyunsaturated fat oils don’t go rancid or get overheated. Seafood or fresh water fish not farmed are good fatty acid sources. But choosing healthy seafood is getting dicier daily.

Eating meat? A few of us need to. But unless you’re wiling to go the extra mile to find meats from grass fed livestock treated humanely and pay the extra bucks, you’ll be eating meat from diseased, drugged, and distressed animals. Not so healthy. This diet also perpetuates more massive, outrageous suffering to our friends in the animal kingdom.

Include some fat in your diet. Simply avoid refined carbs, processed or fast foods and the phony food no-fat diet craze that lingers on as the legacy of some old bad science.

[Editor`s Note: NaturalNews is strongly against the use of all forms of animal testing. We fully support implementation of humane medical experimentation that promotes the health and wellbeing of all living creatures.]

Sources for this article include:

http://thehealthyskeptic.org/choles…
http://www.13.waisays.com/cholester…
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/kos…
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004…
http://thecholesterollie.com/
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/a…

Author Paul Fassa, http://www.naturalnews.com/032262_cholesterol_fats.html

“I get most excited about people getting healthier, physically, financially, environmentally, emotionally & spiritually.  This is a journey: no one ever arrives!  There are always steps we can make to nurture and heal our lives.

It will be a privilege to be with you and your friends in discovering their next right step!”

Jude Peskuski

Healthy lifestyle, healthy nutrition, beauty inside and out to reach the best health.

Dates:

• May 25th, 7pm (West Plano, Texas, USA)
• May 29th, 2pm (Garland, Texas, USA)
• May 31st, 7pm (West Plano, Texas, USA)
• June 5th, 2pm (Murphy, Texas, USA)

Print friendly Invitation: woman_to_woman_2011_The_Natural_Power

Please RSVP  ASAP  if you are coming and/or bringing a friend. We want to have healthy snacks available for all attendees.

Thanks for helping share the possibility of profound healing to those around you!

Contact for more details: Nadya Tatsch, 972-489-7449, ntatsch@verizon.net

EWG’s Bottled Water Research & Advocacy

Americans drink twice as much bottled water today as they did ten years ago. One would think that purity would be included at a price, that, at a typical cost of $3.79 per gallon, is 1,900 times the cost of public tap water. But EWG’s ground-breaking studies have documented how, when it comes to bottled water, consumers don’t know what they are getting.

To the contrary, our tests strongly indicate that the purity of bottled water cannot be trusted. Given the industry’s refusal to make available data to support their claims of superiority, consumer confidence in the purity of bottled water is simply not justified.

Is your bottled water worth it? EWG looks under the labels.

Until the federal Food and Drug Administration cracks down on water bottlers, use EWG’s What’s in My Bottled Water guide to find brands with high scores for disclosing full water source, treatment and quality and that use advanced treatment methods to remove a broad range of pollutants.

Bottled Water Quality Investigation: 10 Major Brands, 38 Pollutants

The bottled water industry promotes an image of purity, but EWG’s comprehensive testing reveals a surprising array of chemical contaminants in every bottled water brand analyzed, including two brands that exceeded legal limits.

Featured partners: Corporate Accountability International, Environmental Working Group

Read more at http://www.ewg.org/ourwater/bottled-water

One of the Solutions: the Shaklee Get Clean water pitcher filtration system

• certified by the Water Quality Association (WQA) to reduce up to 99% of lead
• filters 80 gallons of water
• the cartridge is refillable