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96 Aristo Body Mind Wellness Bars
NUTTY GOJI BERRY = NEW WEIGHT LOSS SOLUTIONS!
For the Dietary Non-Compliant
Goji Berry Orange with Chocolate
How Goji Berries Help You Lose Weight
Best by October 2008
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THE DELICATE BERRIES OF THE GOJI PLANT HAVE BEEN TREASURED FOR CENTURIES BY THE HIMALAYAN PEOPLE AND IS NICKNAMED THE 'HAPPY BERRY' FROM THE SENSE OF WELL BEING INDUCED FOLLOWING DIGESTION/ASSIMILATION!
GOJI BERRIES ARE RICH IN CAROTENOIDS, PHENOLS AND VITAMIN C CREATING AN EXTRAORDINARY SYNERGY OF ANTIOXIDANT STRENGTH.
If you're like millions of other people who have difficulty losing weight, you probably engage in two common behaviors: You can't control your appetite -- especially your cravings for sugary, starchy foods -- and you don't have enough energy to exercise regularly. Nutrient-rich goji berries directly target these two weight-losing obstacles.
The Vicious Cycle of Cravings
High-calorie sugary and starchy foods tend to have little nutritional value. Instead, they trigger a hormonal reaction that leads to uncontrollable cravings. The process works like this:
You eat a sugary, starchy food and your body quickly converts it to blood sugar.
Your levels of blood sugar spike upward.
In response, your pancreas produces a high level of insulin.
Your blood sugar levels crash.
The roller-coaster effect causes cravings for more sugary, starchy foods.
The cycle repeats.
The speed at which a food converts to blood sugar (glucose) is measured on a numerical scale known as the glycemic index (GI). The lower the GI of a food, the more slowly it converts to blood sugar and the less likely it is to stimulate uncontrollable urges to eat empty calories.
The Low Glycemic Index of Goji Berries
On the glycemic index, a value of 100 is assigned to pure glucose. Foods rated at 70 or higher are considered high-GI, while foods rated below 55 are considered low GI and are more likely to satisfy rather than increase the appetite. Here's how the GI of goji berries compare with some other fruits:
Goji berry - 29
Apple - 38
Orange - 42
Banana - 25
Cantaloupe - 65
Raisins - 64
Watermelon - 72
More Ways of Controlling Appetite
Goji berries have additional characteristics that help control blood sugar and appetite. They contain 21 percent fiber by weight. High fiber foods are filling and moderate blood sugar levels. The berries are also a good source of chromium, a mineral that aids in blood sugar control. Chromium may also help to preserve lean muscle mass during weight loss. Muscle burns more calories than fat, promoting a more efficient metabolism, which makes it easier to prevent weight gain.
Burning Food for Energy
Goji berries are rich in several nutrients that help to convert food into energy rather than storing it as fat:
B1 (thiamin): The vitamin is essential for converting carbohydrates into energy and for healthy thyroid function. A sluggish thyroid gland promotes weight gain.
Calcium: In addition to supporting healthy bones, adequate calcium has been linked to lower levels of body fat.
Other minerals: A balanced combination of essential minerals is necessary for efficient protein metabolism. In addition to calcium and chromium, goji berries contain copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium and zinc.
Promoting Lean Muscle
A lean body burns food as fuel rather than storing calories as fat. When we are young, abundant levels of human growth hormone help to keep our bodies lean. As we age, declining growth hormone supplies are a key factor that contributes to less muscle mass and greater fat storage.
Two amino acids and potassium in goji berries help our bodies to produce more growth hormone.
L-arginine: Research has shown that this amino acid stimulates significantly higher levels of growth hormone in the blood than a placebo.
L-glutamine: In addition to promoting growth hormone production, the amino acid enhances the production of lean muscle tissue.
Potassium: The mineral is essential for normal function of the pituitary gland, which produces growth hormone.
Counteracting Fat Storage
Stress plays a pivotal role in fat storage. Because goji berries can help to alleviate stress, they can prevent a series of effects that lead to weight gain. When we are under stress, our adrenal glands produce too much of the "fight or flight" hormone, cortisol. Excess levels of cortisol prompt weight gain by:
Telling our bodies to hang on to stored fat
Increasing cravings for sugary, high-fat foods
Directing food calories to be stored as fat, rather than being burned for energy
Stopping the secretion of growth hormone
Exhausting the adrenal glands, causing fatigue and encouraging overeating in an effort to replenish energy
As an adaptogen, goji berries can reduce the impact of stressful circumstances in our daily lives, thereby lowering unhealthy levels of cortisol and enabling us to burn body fat.
Goji Berry (Wolfberry polysaccharides) research:
Wolfberry polysaccharides were shown to have an antioxidant activity in vitro and might also have biological activities in vivo. This is currently being researched. Wolfberry fruits also contain zeaxanthin, a carotenoid that is selectively absorbed into the retinal macula lutea where it is thought to provide protective light-filtering properties. Several published studies, mostly from China, have also reported possible medicinal benefits of Lycium barbarum, especially due to its antioxidant properties, including potential benefits against cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases, vision-related diseases (such as age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma), having neuroprotective properties or as an anticancer and immunomodulatory agent.
Wolfberries contain many nutrients and phytochemicals, including 11 essential and 22 trace minerals,18 amino acids, 6 essential vitamins, 8 polysaccharides and 6 monosaccharides, 5 unsaturated fatty acids (including the essential fatty acids, linoleic acid and alpha-linolenic acid), beta-sitosterol and other phytosterols, 5 carotenoids (including beta-carotene and zeaxanthin, lutein, lycopene and cryptoxanthin), and numerous phenols.
The wolfberry is best known in the United States and Canada as a juice, marketed over the Internet, and has been increasingly mentioned in reports as an “exotic superfruit”, with an unusual antioxidant strength.
Goji Under the Microscope
The nutritional bounty of goji berries includes:
• More protein than whole wheat, with 19 amino acids—including all eight of the essential aminos
• 21 trace minerals, including germanium, which has been the subject of intense study because of its anti-cancer effects
• A wide spectrum of antioxidants, including vitamin C, vitamin E, flavonoids such as zeaxanthin, and various carotenoids such as beta-carotene
• B-complex vitamins
• Beta-sitosterol, a cholesterol-like compound found in plant foods that has anti-inflammatory, cholesterol-lowering effects, and has been used in natural medical research as a therapy for prostate enlargement and impotence
• Essential fatty acids
• A sesquiterpene called cyperone, which has beneficial effects in the circulatory system
Physalin, a compound that is currently under investigation by oncological researchers because of its activity in vitro (in a test-tube) against every major type of leukemia; physalin also has been found to promote the activity of cancer-killing natural killer (NK) cells in mouse experiments, and shows promise as a natural therapy for hepatitis B
Best by October 2008
Supplement Facts
Serving Size 1 BAR (37G)
Servings Per Container 12
Amount Per Serving
% Daily Value
Calories
130
N/A*
Calories From Fat
35
N/A*
Total Fat
4 Gm
6%
Saturated Fat
1 Gm
5%
TRANS FAT
0 Gm
N/A*
Cholesterol
5 Mg
2%
Sodium
50 Mg
2%
Total Carbohydrate
22 Gm
7%
Dietary Fiber
3 Gm
12%
Sugars
6 Gm
N/A*
Protein
3 Gm
N/A*
Vitamin A
0
N/A*
Calcium
0
15%
Vitamin C
0
20%
Iron
0
4%
* Daily value not established
Other Ingredients:
ORGANIC ROLLED OATS, ORGANIC BROWN RICE SYRUP, WATER, CRISP RICE (BROWN RICE FLOUR, RICE FLOUR), CHOCOLATE COATING (SUGAR, FRACTIONATE PALM KERNEL, COCOA POWDER, WHEY POWDER, NONFAT DRY MILK, SOY LECITHIN, NATURAL FLAVOR), DRY ROASTED PEANUTS, THOMPSON SEEDLESS RAISINS, PLANT STEROL ESTERS, GUM ARABIC, ORGANIC EVAPORATED CANE JUICE, FISH OIL FROM ANCHOVY SARDINE, CANOLA OIL, ROASTED DICED ALMONDS, MILK MINERAL COMPLEX, NATURAL FLAVORS, GOJI POWDER, GLYCERIN, HONEY, REFINED SEA SALT, NATURAL TOCOPHEROLS ADDED TO PRESERVE FRESHNESS. CONTAINS: Milk, Soy, Fish Oil, Peanuts, and Almonds. May contain (or manufactured in a facility that processes) eggs, nuts, tree nuts and wheat.
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