5 Things You Need to Know about Meal Replacement Shakes

Hoping to sip your way to a slimmer you? Then meal replacement shakes might just be your golden ticket. These shakes are low in calories and high in essential vitamins and minerals.

But, before you decide, you need to really understand what meal replacement shakes are and how they work. Read on to learn five things you need to know about meal replacement shakes before deciding if this weight-loss method is right for you.

What are Electrolytes?

You’ve likely seen these touted as ingredients in health foods, sports drinks, and supplements – but what exactly is an electrolyte? 

The truth is that electrolytes are very valuable in cultivating great overall health, and you do need to make sure to add regular amounts into your diet.

Electrolytes regulate the function of nerves and muscles in your body, in addition to aiding in ensuring that you’re hydrated, you’re blood pH and pressure levels are right, and rebuilding damaged tissues. With how much they do to help hydration and muscles, it’s easy to see why so many pre- and post-workout drinks and foods include ample amounts of electrolytes.

Standard American Diet (It’s really SAD)

The Standard American Diet (SAD) is a major contributor to disease-causing inflammation, as is lack of natural sunlight exposure and routine inactivity.

Cleansing and detoxifying eliminate harmful toxins. Failing to consume enough cleansing foods as part of a normal diet contributes to chronic inflammation, as cells and blood must be continually purified with the help of nutrient-dense foods and supplements to prevent a chronic inflammatory response.

If you were to list the factors that increase the risk  chronic inflammation– linked to just about any illness – the Standard American Diet (SAD) has them all:

  High in simple carbohydrates and refined sugars
  High in unhealthy fats: saturated, hydrogenated
  Low in fiber
  High in processed foods
  Low in complex carbohydrates
  Low in plant-based foods

The striking fact is that cultures that eat the reverse of the standard American diet – low fat, high in complex carbohydrates, plant-based, and high in fiber – have a much lower rates of killer disease.

What’s even more SAD is that countries whose populations can afford to eat the healthiest disease-preventing foods, don’t. The United States has spent more money on cancer research than any country in the world, yet the American diet contributes to the very diseases we are spending money to prevent.

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Food Cravings – What Your Body Really Needs

Listen to Your Body

If you are craving something your body is speaking to you. Listen to it! For example, if you are craving sweets, your body may need chromium, phosphorus, sulfur, or tryptophan. Instead of going for a sweet you can take a supplement or find the chromium, phosphorus, sulfur, or tryptophan in the foods you eat. For example, chromium can be found in broccoli, grapes, cheese, dried beans, and chicken. One specific sweet that people often crave is chocolate.

Every journey begins with a single step

Every journey begins with a single step and making the decision to take back your health is a big step forward. With nearly every aspect of our environment affecting us, it’s making it increasingly harder to stay healthy. Currently 1 in 3 people are suffering from Metabolic Dysfunction and 3.5 Trillion dollars are spent globally, linked directly to the following three conditions:

• 91 Million Americans are overweight or dangerously overweight.
• 29 Million Americans suffer from unhealthy blood sugar levels, which quickly lead to other far more serious problems.
• And when it comes to matters of the heart, 71 Million Americans have high cholesterol levels. 

Unlike any other program on the market, and with the clinical proof to back it up, the IN.FORM program utilizes the untapped power of the microbiome to support healthy metabolic function.