I am on a mission to create a healthy living revolution so that our country can Take Healthy Back! I have not always been on this mission. I grew up eating the Standard American Diet (SAD). I mostly raised my children on the same diet. About 16 years ago, I was introduced to JuicePlus+. I have been on JuicePlus + for most of the 16 years since then. I did not realize it was going to set me on a mission until I re-joined the company two years ago, not only as a customer, but also as a representative.

As a representative I have learned a lot more about the product I had been taking all those years. I knew that during those years my family was healthier, but just thought it was because I was taking those “vitamins”. Since then, I have learned that those “vitamins” aren’t vitamins at all, but are whole food nutrition. What that means is that my JuicePlus+ is actually powdered fruits and vegetables in a capsule or a gummy. I’ve also learned WHY that is so important. Vitamins are made in a factory one element at a time based on whatever the company wants to put in them with no FDA regulation. JuicePlus+ is actually produce picked at the peak of ripeness, juiced and dried right there on the farm.

They are then sent to the packaging facility to be blended and packaged for shipment. The antioxidants and phytonutrients in JuicePlus+ come straight from the produce. This is why JuicePlus+ is allowed to have a nutritional label and not a supplement label. It is whole food nutrition.

As my interest in my health grew in this process, I learned that the company encourages so much more than just taking your capsules. The company sponsors a Children’s Health Study that gives one free child’s order for every adult order that is placed. The child must be aged 4-undergraduate in college. There are also programs in place to help customers improve their eating habits by doing a Shred10 within a supportive community each month or by joining the Healthy Living community on Facebook. There are free resources available such as E-Cookbooks and print-outs on healthy living for children. Individual JuicePlus+ teams may do events in your community such as Salad in a Jar parties, walking groups, smoothie nights or Kombucha training.

Within my own family I have experienced improved immunity, disappearance of allergies, improved skin condition, 13 years of perfect attendance by my youngest daughter and improved numbers in yearly bloodwork. Who wouldn’t be excited about that???

Why is it important to me that people join the mission to take healthy back? It’s our children! They are eating so much processed food that is destroying their health. They don’t know any better. It is up to us to show them a better way. Children today are becoming more obese, getting more childhood diseases, such as cancer, and children as young as 8 are being placed on medicines for high cholesterol. We should ALL find this unacceptable. Processed food is killing our families. The best thing parents can do for their children is to learn what they are feeding them. Cut out the ingredients that you don’t recognize. Eat food that doesn’t come in a package! Drink water, not sugary soda and juices.

Four of the healthy living components that JuicePlus+ encourages are 1) Eat real food 2) Drink Water 3) Move More and 4) Sleep 7-8 hours. Just working on one of these at a time can lead you to a better, healthier life. If you are like me, making those simple changes could lead you to a life you never knew you could have! Making these healthy changes have taken me from unhealthy, fat-filled meals followed by a night on the couch watching TV to someone that eats a healthy vegetable and fruit filled dinner with exercise all throughout the day. I sleep better, I exercise better, I am happier, I earned a health coaching certificate and I hope it ends with a healthier aging process than I might have otherwise had! Don’t you want that for you and your family?

I will leave you with a quote from Dr. Paul Stricker, MD, FAAP Sports Medicine Pediatrician and Olympic physician originally from St. James, MO in his book Sports Success Rx!, “Of the various encapsulated food products available, the one I happen to recommend to my patients and athletes is JuicePlus+ because of its extensive independent medical research.

If you want to talk more about any of these, please reach out to me!

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This tower garden works wonderfully for those who cannot plant a traditional garden anymore.  It is low maintenance, extremely accessible, all while still growing fresh produce.   Read how Denise explains how well this has worked for her busy lifestyle and maybe you’ve just found a way to work it into yours!

Hi all!!  My name is Denise White and I am super excited to share my Tower Garden with you!!!  What in the heck is a Tower Garden, you ask?  A Tower Garden is a hydroponic, vertical growing system that can be used outdoors or indoors to grow many vegetables and herbs.  Each tower is about 5’ tall, 3’ wide and contains spots for 20 plants.  The tower has a reservoir for water at the base, a small, low-wattage, submersible pump in the reservoir that pushes the water to the top of the tower where it cascades down through the inside watering and providing nutrients to each individual plant.

I bought my Tower Garden about 4 years ago.  I used it outside on my deck every Spring/Summer growing season.   I have grown lots of zucchini, yellow squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, bell peppers, lettuce (many varieties), and spices galore!  The third year I bought the grown lights and moved it into my dining room!  Holy WOW!  I love picking spinach and kale out of my dining room to throw in my smoothies or soups or whatever else I want to use it for!  My husband says we could land a plane in the yard with those lights shining out the window, but I adore my Tower Garden indoors as much as I do outdoors!  I love them so much that I recently bought another.  I’ve started my very own Tower Garden family!!!

The amazing thing about the Tower Garden is the fact that there is no dirt, it uses less water than your typical growing methods and fits is such a small area!  You could grow a Tower Garden on your deck, in your house, anywhere you have a 4-5 foot spare space!  It would also be convenient if you are in a position where you struggle to get out into the garden.  Growing your own food is more economical and has more nutrients than the produce you buy at the store.  Tower Gardens are popping up all over the place. Schools, restaurants, airports, and even on rooftop terraces!

I am currently in the process of trying to raise funds to get Tower Gardens in each of my local school districts!  I think introducing our students to fresh produce is a great way to open their minds and their palates to fresh, healthy food.  It’s important that children realize there are growing methods other than just a traditional garden.  Traditional gardens are fantastic, but not always feasible.  Kids that grow their own food are more likely to try eating it.

Stephen Ritz, founder of the Green Bronx Machine and author of The Power of a Plant, asked the following questions, “What if we taught students that they have as much potential as a seed?  That in the right conditions, they can grow something great?  He then went on to create a miraculous turn around in the condition of an inner city school by growing green!  He is my hero!!  I will continue to grow my own produce and work at getting the opportunity into the hands of teachers as long as it takes.

If you are interested in your very own Tower Garden story, my contact information is below!

www.blankenship-white.towergarden.com

denisewhite0@me.com

We met as sixth graders. That was the year when the Gerald and Owensville kids combined at one location. On a warm spring day, nearly every other student in our school was away on a field trip. Apparently Chris and I were not good fundraisers, so we were left at school with a few others to play at the park all day. This was the first time we really had a conversation with each other, partly due to my shyness, the other because he was the most popular boy in school and everyone wanted to talk to him.
We played one on one basketball nearly the entire time and I was seriously competitive, so I was giving him a run for his money, as a girl. That was the beginning of our friendship, whether we spent every weekend together or only caught up occasionally as our lives took different paths.
Regardless of time, Chris was one who never judged nor turned his nose up at you and each time we ran into each other, his arms were spread wide and that goofy smile was on his face and I’d hear, “Carey!”

This is why he was loved by so many. He was always Chris, no matter what crowd he was hanging with, he was always the same person.
When I opened up Face Book that Monday afternoon as I was picking up my child from Middle School, my mind became confused, panicked and started a denial process. Immediately I messaged a long time friend of mine and she gave me the grim rundown of events that I had not yet heard.
I’m sick.
I hurt.
My mind is racing and screaming NO!
How could this be? He’s not waking up? He’s a pro motorcycle rider, it was a county fair, and how could this go wrong? Nothing can happen to Short Blankenship, he IS invincible! Many of our minds were screaming the same sentiment.
I could not call anyone. I did not feel it was my place, this was too real, too sacred, too heart breaking. I waited, along with every other person who Chris had touched with his personality.
A day later, as I rode in my Kubota, clipping our pastures, I knew this would be the deciding day. Such heaviness heaved itself upon me for days and I was just on the outskirts of the tragedy, not in the eye of the storm.
As my music shuffled from my phone to the tractor speakers, I heard the song play and my heart shattered. I knew before I even opened up my phone to look that Chris “Short” Blankenship had passed from this Earth. The very first post I viewed as I swiped my phone was from a moto-cross friend of his that explained, due to the severity of Short’s injuries that he sustained at a race the past weekend, he had indeed passed away.
I sat in my tractor seat and wept as if I were a little girl, with waves of tears, gasps and emotions rolling over me again and again and again, just as every single person who knew Short was doing at that same exact moment.
Our Owensville class of 1994 had lost too many classmates already, but Chris was my first true friend that had left my life, forever.
Each of us ask the question of, “Why did he have to be taken from us so early”? Especially his wife and two children. Fair? Never.

As time has passed and our hearts have had time to accept and heal, we again smile as we think of those many crazy, fun experiences or those late night sentimental, overly philosophical conversations we all have had with that man.
God does not bring us home until we have fulfilled our purpose. We’ve heard that our entire lives.
Look at how many lives Chris Blankenship has touched. How many memories he has given us to reminisce about.
How many of us can leave a legacy like he has by just being ourselves? By being true to whom we are, one hundred percent of the time? THAT is pretty freakin’ awesome.

That song, that was playing, that told me the truth that I did not want to believe, was Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue. As I took control of my tears that day, I couldn’t help but to smirk at him and think, “Well………..how fitting”. Because there was no way that Chris “Short” Blankenship was going to make a quiet, mundane entrance into the gates of Heaven, he was going to be playing that electric guitar at the highest decibel possible, letting every angel know he was arriving , singing to them,

“I’m coming home. Home Sweet Home.”