October is breast cancer awareness month!

Add 1000 iu (international units) of Vitamin D to your daily diet for protection/prevention against breast, prostate cancer and many other cancers. Even Dr. Oz - and I know everyone knows who he is - recommends adding Vitamin D to your diet.

It is very simple to do. If you take a daily multivitamin, you can expect to add about 750 iu (international units, which is the rate or unit of measurement for some vitamins and minerals) to your diet by this simple process alone! There's no reason everyone, I mean EVERYONE cannot take 25 seconds out of their daily life to pop a multivitamin that will take care of this very important need your body has. 25 seconds could end up saving your life so think very hard before you decide you don't have time to pop a vitamin.

After you take your multivitamin, you only have to get 250 iu more of Vitamin D in your diet to satisfy your daily requirement and shore up your defenses. You should be able to get that in with your daily food intake, if you're eating the right foods.

Are you eating the right foods? Are you eating any salmon? It's delicious when bought fresh and seasoned with a bit of garlic powder and cajun pepper. What about your milk intake? Are you drinking milk? Can your body even tolerate it? You know that having the right amount of Vitamin D is the only way your body can even absorb calcium? Yep, they go hand in hand so you can take all the Calcium you want but, without Vitamin D to convert the Calcium into a useful supplement, all that Calcium will be for naught.

One last thing I want to touch on as a reason to ensure you take your daily dose of Vitamin D. With our stress levels skyrocketing due to the pressures of the economy as well as issues in other aspects of our life, it's no surprise that high blood pressure has gone on the rise as another silent killer. Some people don't even know they have medically emergent high blood pressure ratings until it might be too late. Vitamin D has been known to help reduce high blood pressure so there's just one more reason to make sure you get it (Vitamin D) in people.

I have some Vitamin D in various forms on my website. Take a look here. http://youngevityonline.com/rhondae I am currently loving the Ultimate Tangy Tangerine. It's a vitamin/mineral in liquid form which is the best for fast absorption by the body. That way, you drink it down and it gets to work for you right away vs pill form that has to go through the system, be broken down and then appropriated to the right parts of the body. It's listed in the 'Youngevity Liquid Nutrition category' .

Til next time!


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Mangoes

I can't let the "Mango thing" go just yet.

I've been reading up on the nutritional value of the mango and let me tell you...the benefits are endless!

The mango is loaded with vitamins A and C first off. As we all know, vitamins A and C help protect us from certain cancers and heart disease. What I didn't know (and learned through my recent studies) is that the mango is so powerful that just one half of a mango provides 40% of the daily value of vitamin A that is required by the body for one day's supply. So go ahead, eat the whole mango! You'll really be ahead of the game then!

You certainly don't have to feel guilty about eating the whole thing either because it's only 70 calories for a half of a mango and not even a whole gram of fat (0.5g)! Now that is something to smile about. Something that is good to you AND good for you? Oh yeah! Eat up people!

They're usually in season from February through September and they actually come in four varieties: There's the Harden, which has a yellow hue w/a red-orange blush when it's ripe. Then there's the Keitt, that is green and may have a slight yellow blush when it's ripe. The third kind is called the Kent, that is greenish-yellow in color with the possibility of a red blush when it's ripe and lastly, the Tommy Atkins mango is red when it's ripe and incidentally has the highest fiber content of them all.

They are multi-use, multi-delicious and I do believe I'm going to get some mangoes in my life today.

They're also good if you have a stomach ache. Why? They contain an enzyme that may act as a digestive aid. Scientists are still working that part out but hey, it's worth a try right?

So eat some mango, put some delicious Malaysian Mango (http://tinyurl.com/cbl8u4) on your body, simply delight in it! It can only be good for you!