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Make a Difference in Climate Change: Make Disposable Water Bottles Obsolete with Vapur

What’s that in the ocean? Is it a whale? Is it a dolphin? Is it a plastic water bottle? Nooooo! It’s the ANTI bottle!

Ok, that’s cheesy, but we had to paint the picture for you. With talk of climate change infiltrating the air waves (finally!!!), it’s getting harder and harder as individuals to ignore our role in contributing to the destruction of our planet. No longer is it ok to reason, “Well how is one person such as myself going to be able to make a difference?”

Don’t hide behind your computer screen. We see you! And we see us too! We are just as guilty! Admit it: We can ALL be doing a better job of reducing our carbon footprint.

Plastic water bottles are a great place to start, considering so many of them end up in our oceans (and streets and water ways and, and, and…!), which is why we are thrilled to welcome our newest client here at Dunn Pellier Media, Vapur! Vapur is the ANTI-bottle. Their ANTI bottles are an environmentally friendly alternative to the plastic water bottles currently gunking up our planet. Their mission? To make plastic water bottles obsolete.

It’s a noble mission, but we believe in them and we believe in their cause, if for no other reason than their cause is to literally save the planet on which all of us – you and me included – reside. Vapur ANTI-bottles are made with BPA-free polyethylene & nylon, and are manufactured in any given one of the manufacturing facilities, be it in the USA, Germany, or China. They all come with a 1 year warranty, and should last up to 3-4 years.

As if their company mission wasn’t enough to want to buy one, they have a philanthropic component to them as well. Vapur has created a community-giving program called, Drops of Hope. Partnering with likeminded companies and organizations, Vapur aims to make disposable bottles obsolete and clean water more accessible than ever. Through Drops of Hope, Vapur annually donates thousands of bottles to charitable groups all over the world.

And just in time for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Vapur is launching a special pink version of their ANTI bottle.

There is no time like the present to give yourself – and the planet – the gift of a Vapur bottle.

To buy one, or to get more information, visit https://www.vapur.us/

The Most Potent Food Family to Prevent Breast Cancer

Breast cancer. It’s a diagnosis that no one wants to hear. You may have been diagnosed with it yourself. And if not you, you may know someone (or many someones) who have been diagnosed with the disease. About 1 in 8 women in the USA will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. So if you are an American woman reading this right now, knowing what precautions you can take to protect yourself against developing breast cancer should be among your highest priorities.

Thankfully, our client, Dr. Steven C. Quay, has this advice for you: eat your garlic and onions. And eat them on the daily.

Dr. Steven C. Quay is the founder of Seattle-based Atossa Genetics, Inc., dedicated to breast cancer prevention. His contributions to medicine, cancer, and biochemistry have been cited more than 9,300 times, putting him in the top 1% of the world’s scientists. His current passion involves the prevention of the two million yearly breast cancer cases worldwide.

Dr. Quay has read and reviewed over 1000 articles on the impact of food on health, and specifically, breast cancer. He prefers to look at studies done on human cells rather than on mice, because let’s face it – mice and humans are different.

He happily came across a study out of Puerto Rico published in July 2019 that determined a group of foods – the Allium Family – are very effective in the prevention of breast cancer. What is this group of foods? Garlic. Onions. And all their varieties.

Who knew? Garlic is now not just great for warding away vampires (and make out sessions with your date, haha). Turns out, it’s one of your most powerful tools in the prevention of breast cancer.

For the full study, visit pubmed.

For more information on Dr. Quay, visit https://drquay.com/

Do Nutrition Right with Gauge Girl Training: Get the Diet Plan that is Guaranteed to Work for You!

When it comes to nutrition and diet, this much we know is true: one size does not fit all. So unfortunately, your friend Sally who went on the Keto diet and lost a million pounds might try to get you to go on it. And you might do it, only to find that it doesn’t work for you at all. Or your friend Harry might be a staunch vegan and swear that it will improve your life, so you try that, and end up gaining weight and feeling like crap.

So what is a person to do?

Well, the first step is to stop denying what you know is true. There is no magic pill, no single diet that is perfect for every single person. Unfortunately, we are all just too different for that. There are some blanket rules, of course (eat lots of veggies, stay away from processed foods and oils, stay away from fake ingredients), but honing in on what’s right for you takes a bit more work than eating according to what’s trending. It takes a macro plan tailored specifically to you.

Enter chemical engineer, food scientist, and founder of Gauge Girl Training, Christine Hronec. Christine and her team have been featured in Forbes, Fox, OK!, CBS, The Huffington Post, and even The Knot, and they are the #1 Selling Meal Plans and Custom Meal Plans on the market:

“We create Custom Meal Plans, DIY Meal Plans and Body Type Training Plans. Each of our meal plans come with macros calculated menus, grocery lists, menu notes, whole foods lists, recipes broken down by macros, your macros overview, progress tracking, a meal planning calendar, and much more! Dietary restrictions? No problem!”

Head on over to Gauge Girl Training and take their quiz to get you on the right meal plan today. You have nothing to lose but the weight. Oh, and maybe also the frustration of not feeling good in your body and clothes. There is that too…

Kanye West May be Onto Something: Color Light Therapy

More People are Using Saunas to Rejuvenate the Mind, Body & Soul!

If we gave you a pill and told you that it could alleviate depression, reduce swelling, relieve pain, decrease inflammation, decrease recovery time from injuries and operations, sleep better, regulate your mood, improve mental and physical performance, and promote anti-aging by energizing the skin cells, stimulating the production of collagen and elastin, giving skin back its youthful look, would you take it?

Of course you would! Hand me that water!!

But what if you didn’t need to take a pill at all? What if you can get all of those benefits (or rather, the potential for all of those benefits), simply by basking in light?

Well, you can. It’s called Color Light Therapy, and if you’ve ever caught a glimpse of Kanye West’s famous Sunday Service, you would have gotten a first hand view of how this ancient practice is used.

Our newest client, Perspire Sauna studio, is harnessing this ancient medicine and combining it with the power of heat to bring you a full spectrum infrared sauna technology combined with Color Light Therapy, or Chromotherapy, as it is also called. With locations in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Laguna Niguel, Newport Beach, Atlanta, GA, and soon Austin, TX, you can sign up for a session in this healing sauna and test it out for yourself!

Currently the therapeutic applications of light and color are being researched in major hospitals and research centers worldwide. Results indicate that full-spectrum, ultraviolet, colored, and laser light can have therapeutic value for a range of conditions from chronic pain and depression to immune disorders.

The Science of Color

Every color, each with its own frequency, is a form of vibrational energy.

All organs, cells and atoms exist as energy, and each form has its frequency. Each of our organs and energy centers vibrates and harmonizes with the frequencies of these colors. When various parts of the body deviate from these expected normal vibrations, one can assume that the body is either diseased or at least not functioning properly. The vibratory rates inherent in color (chromotherapy) are such that they balance the diseased energy pattern found in the body

Colors generate electrical impulses and magnetic currents or fields of energy that are prime activators of the biochemical and hormonal processes in the human body.

The Science of Light

Light is responsible for turning on the brain and the body. Light enters the body through the eyes and skin. When even a single photon of light enters the eye, it lights up the entire brain. The release of melatonin is directly related to light. This necessary hormone affects every cell in the body. It turns on each cell’s internal activities, allowing them to harmonize with each other and nature.

Kanye West, inspired by artist James Turrell, is using colored light in his Sunday Service performances for therapeutic reasons. “They pull you into a Zen space, and to reprogram…to be more calm, in the moment to be more stable,” explains West in his latest interview with David Letterman.

So if you’re ready to relax your mind, detox your body, burn calories, increase circulation, relieve pain, enhance your immune system, clear and improve your skin, and start sleeping better, sign up for a session today!

For more information, visit https://perspiresaunastudio.com/

Uplift Food Breakfast Recipe: Gut Healthy Prebiotic Fiber Pancakes!

Ingredients:
1 medium banana
1 full egg + 1 egg white
1 tbsp prebiotic Uplift Food – Daily Uplifter
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)
Directions:
Blend all ingredients until a smooth mixture is created.Heat a nonstick pan and Spoon mixture onto the pan as per your desired pancake size and let cook until you start to see bubbles coming through the top of the pancake (approximately 30-45 seconds dependent on pancake size).Flip and cook for an additional 20-30 seconds, or until your desired consistency.Place prebiotic fiber pancakes on a serving plate. Top with your favorite gut healthy breakfast toppings such as natural nut butter, hemp seeds, sliced fruit, fresh berries, or whatever you prefer.

Uplift Your Food, Uplift Your Mood: Improving Mental Health Starts in Your Gut!

Photo Credit: Kara Landau

If we had a nickel for the number of times we’ve heard that our gut is our second brain these days, we’d be rich! What are you doing to nourish that second brain of yours? Some have even argued that our second brain or “gut” is even more in charge than our actual brains when it comes to our mood, and thus our decision making processes. This is a big deal, ladies and gents!

You may already be eating probiotic rich foods to nourish your gut. If that’s you, congrats. But did you know that unless you have prebiotic rich foods before you have probiotic ones, you’re not actually making that much of a difference? That’s because probiotics need prebiotics as their energy source in order to thrive.

Kara Landau, registered NYC based dietician, has taken this research into her own hands. She has created a food company that makes feeding your gut not only convenient, but also utterly delicious. Uplift Food has been featured in such publications as Forbes, The Food Network and Women’s Health, and has recently launched on Amazon. In their own words:

Uplift Food is the world’s first functional food brand to focus exclusively on the Mood Supportive Benefits of PRE-biotic Gut Healthy Foods. We take complex science and translate it into practical solutions to help you feel Uplifted!…At Uplift Food HQ our focus is on helping you, our fellow Uplifter, easily get more beneficial PRE-biotics into your body.

At Uplift Food, their mission is “to make quality mood supportive gut healthy prebiotic foods and information accessible, understandable, and incorporated daily, by all.”

Don’t take our word for it: head on over to their website for a plethora of science and research and get educated on how much better you could be feeling if you focused on nourishing your gut through prebiotic rich foods! And while you’re there, be sure to check out their amazing staple product, the gut happy vanilla powder, which can easily be added to smoothies, pancakes, waffles, muffins and more! Check out their recipes for ideas on how to incorporate this life changing food into your daily diet. And get a sneak peek below!

Show your gut you care! Visit https://upliftfood.com/ today!

Meal Delivery with Territory Foods Plus: A Recipe for Summer Salad & Salmon Cakes!

Territory Foods may be one of the new kids on the block in meal delivery, but they just might be the mightiest. They make eating clean easy, no matter what dietary restrictions (or lack thereof), you follow. Oh, except: No dairy. No gluten. No refined sugars. Ever (because come on – by now you know that’s not great for you….right?).

But how do they do it? Their formula is quite simple:

Creative local chefs + Smart nutritionist input = tasty, clean eats.

Yup, they partner with local chefs and nutritionists to bring you flavors and meals that will never bore you. And in fact, they have partnered with Chef Tony Campos from Elite Eats to bring you this amazing Salmon Cake meal (see recipe below)! Look out for Chef Tony on Extra TV in mid Julywhere 10 lucky winners will win a weeks’ worth of meals!

Look, you’re busy. You’ve got work, kids, spouses/partners, pets, social life. Make your life easier, and try out Territory Foods today.

For more information, visit https://www.territoryfoods.com/

Now, about that recipe…

Chef Tony Campos’ Salmon Cakes

Makes 12 Cakes

1 piece of Salmon (cooked medium and cooled and flaked)
1/2 cup fine dice red onion
1/2 cup fine dice celery
1/2 cup fine dice red bell pepper
2 tsp coconut aminos
4 tsp dijon mustard
1 tsp Franks Hot Sauce (Original)
2 each whole eggs

1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and toss together until mixed.

2. Make into desired sized cakes and place on a parchment paper lined dish.

3. Heat up olive oil in a frying pan and brown each side of the cakes, turning gently. Drain on paper towels and serve with fennel apple salad (recipe follows).

Fennel Apple

1 Fennel Bulb, sliced
1 Green Apple, sliced

Shave and let soak in acidulated water (2 parts water, 1 part lemon juice).

The Wellness Your Way Festival is Back – An Affordable Music & Wellness Festival For All

Grammy Nominated Singer Jewel’s Festival comes to Denver & Cincinnati…

So, you wanted to go to the Goop wellness festival but couldn’t quite stomach the $500+ price tag for a ticket? We totally get it. The good news is that wellness festivals can actually be accessible to everyone – at any price point. Let’s leave the gooping to the goopers, and instead let’s focus on the crown Jewel (wink wink) of festivals: Wellness Your Way Festival!

Grammy Nominated Singer/songwriter, Jewel (yes, that Jewel) partnered with Kroger and Inclusion Companies to launch the first ever, affordable music and wellness festival last October in Cincinnati. As you can imagine, it was a huge success. But not just because of their star studded line up, including Jewel herself. It was because this festival did something no other festivals appear to be doing: it was made affordable to everyone, no matter their income level. And when it comes to music and wellness, shouldn’t we all have the chance to learn about what makes us healthy and listen to good music? We think so.

Wellness Your Way Festival is here to stay – they will be back in Cincinnati this October! But they didn’t want to stop at just one city, so they have added another stop: Denver, Colorado in August!

That’s right, Denver fans and citizens, you can attend a celebrity studded, affordable wellness festival in those Colorado rockies for a small fee: $35 for a 3 day VIP pass, $25 for a regular 3 days pass (same deal without the bells and whistles of the VIP stuff), or $10 for a day pass to either day (Friday, Saturday of Sunday).

Got any children under 12? Great. They are FREE!!

You can expect workouts from celebrity trainers like Tony Horton (creator of P90X), The Tone It Up Girls, Denise Austin, cooking demos from famous chefs like The Today Show nutritionist Joy Bauer, main stage events, and a speaker series with influential people – including Jewel, of course!

There is literally no reason not to go to this festival – you have only your health to gain! Oh, and a whole lot of fun too.

So spread the word: if you live in Denver, get tickets! If you have friends there, tell them about it. And if you just feel like posting about this fantabulous and kind hearted event on your social media channels, please do that too.

For more information, visit: https://www.wellnessyourwayfestival.com/

Stop Starving Yourself! Sustain Your Summer Health and Bod Mindfully with Body Complete Rx

The summer solstice is just around the corner. What that usually means is talk about getting that bikini bod for summer. But health goes so much deeper than that, and we all know it. It’s less about getting a bikini bod in time for the summer, and more about total body health, don’t you think? When you feel good in your body – year round – everything else follows suit: glowing skin, increase confidence, better sleep, the works.

That’s why we are so in love with our client, Body Complete Rx. They have created effective plant based health and beauty supplements for everyone looking to maximize not just their “bikini bods,” but also, their overall health.

“Being healthy isn’t just a goal. It’s a lifestyle you choose to live daily,” the company says.

From vegan protein to multi and B12 vitamins, to HCG drops, Body Complete Rx is a system of eating, training and supplementing designed to help you achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Walk around with confidence this summer, knowing your skin is glowing from the inside out, your muscles are toned to their optimal function, and your organs are thanking their lucky stars that you’ve given them the fuel they need to perform.

We know, it sounds great. But don’t take our word for it. Here is what other people are saying:

“I have always been the one that was struggling to lose the weight. After using the product I have been able to lose the weight successfully and keep it off.” – Alexandria R.

“I have been taking the products for about 9 days and I’m already down 10 POUNDS! I love it! I follow the diet regimen that was provided with the products and I absolutely love it. I can’t wait to order my next kit!” – Katherine

“I have completed my first month and I am down 25 pounds! This product is amazing! Although I was not able to work out as much, I definitely just stuck to the meal plan and the weight just simply fell off. I’ll definitely be reordering this product again. I couldn’t be happier. I’m on my way to a healthier me!” – Crystal L.

So, how does it work and how do you get started? To check them out, and to download their FREE copy of Body Complete Guide, visit https://bodycompleterx.com/

The Newest in Food Delivery Services Catering to All Food Tribes: Territory Foods

Here at Dunn Pellier Media, we take great care to make sure we represent only the best of the best of health and wellness companies. That is why we are so proud (not to mention, satiated!) to announce our newest partnership with Territory Foods.

If you haven’t jumped on the meal delivery service yet, you might want to consider getting on board since Territory Foods caters to all types of foodies. This meal delivery company caters to all foodies, and boasts no refined sugars, no gluten or dairy, and foods that are responsibly sourced and prepared by local artisan chefs. Right now they cater to the areas of Los Angeles, OC, San Diego, Dallas, SF and DC.

Paleo? Keto? Whole30? Vegan? Vegetarian? Flexitarian…insert-your-diet-here, no problem – Territory Foods has something for everyone. Their specialty is to personalizeyour dietary approach. Meals are made-to-order fresh each week and start around $10 (yes, $10!!). Free delivery to a nearby pickup spot (or home delivery where available). No shopping, no schlepping, no cooking, no cleaning.

Here’s how it works:

1. Select from a rotating menu of 25 items each week.
2. No commitment necessary – pause or cancel your order at any time.
3. Choose your desired portion size.
4. Not happy? Let them know and they will make it right.

Eating for a cause:

It’s one thing to eat really great food that you know is healthy (especially when you didn’t have to prepare it yourself). It’s another thing to know that your dollars are going to work on more than just your healthy heart and waistline.

Every time you place a Territory order, through their partnership with Feeding America® more than a pound of food is recovered and shared with someone struggling to put food on the table. I mean – come on, folks! Can it get any better than this? Food with a cause – and a footprint you can feel good about as you lick your plate and fingers clean.

For more information, and to place your first order, visit https://www.territoryfoods.com/

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