Planting your peppers can be much easier than you think!

With the cost of food sky rocketing, you may decide to start planting your own vegetable garden. Chances are you’ll want to plant some tasty peppers.

If gardening is on your list for this spring, nothing can be easier than using Rainbow Peppers to help you plant and grow 5 different colored peppers on 1 plant!

When you plant your peppers in your vegetable garden with Rainbow Peppers, you can enjoy 5 different colored peppers on 1 plant!

For the past few months the entire team here has been working really hard at creating a brand new site!

Since I noticed that a lot of the nutrition and fitness posts that I published were becoming more and more read and popular, I made an executive decision to separate the content to a brand new site and focus solely on nutrition and fitness on Eat Smart Age Smart.

You’ll want to sign-up to receive weekly Eat Smart Age Smart tips and just like on Beauty Match … we’ll have a series of contests that are exclusive to readers who join our free membership!

I’m all about finding any product that can help control my acne. Not long ago it hit me that I’ve been battling acne since I was in my very early teens and I only had a short respite from acne in my 20s and early 30s.

I have to say that never in a million years would I have ever thought that I’d still be battling with acne at my age. The reality is that more and more women are dealing with acne well into their 40s and late 40s (I’ve actually spoken to women in their 50s who dealt with acne) because of environmental and nutritional changes that are affecting our hormone levels.

Another major cause of acne is stress! We’re living in a time where we are “on” 24/7. We’re multi tasking … we’re double and triple booked … we’re flying around the globe for business meetings or conferences … we’re working longer hours … we’re sleeping less now than at any other time in history … we’re eating low quality food on the run. It’s really no wonder why so many women deal with acne in their 30s and 40s.

This new DVD will become “The Secret” of nutrition (mark my words)! If you’ve not yet heard of “Food Matters“, it won’t take long for this to become a phenomenon. I cannot wait to see how long it takes before Oprah features this revolution on her show.

“Food Matters” will shock a number of people and it will anger others. The DVD is an in-depth analysis of what’s wrong with our food and why so many people are so incredibly overweight.

This is going to be a very short post, but I thought it was important to highlight something that a lot of people might not understand. I know that I was also misguided when it came to flax seeds.

It appears that not all flax seeds are created equally.

I found out about this a few months ago while watching Dr. Mehmet Oz on one of Oprah’s health segments, but a few weeks ago I was also confronted with this important lesson about flax seeds and I thought I’d pass on my findings.

If you’re looking for a way of combining your antioxidants and your daily espresso, you might want to take a look at this new product from South Africa.

I stumbled upon Red Espresso^TM and thought the whole concept to be incredibly brilliant.

Rooibos tea has been getting a lot of coverage as beauty diet food because it’s packed with five times more antioxidants than green tea!!!

For those who didn’t know, Rooibos tea is only grown in one place on earth – within the 110-kilometre radius of the Cederberg region in South Africa.

Along with testing Imedeen Time Perfection, I’ve also added Omega-3 capsules to my diet. As I said in yesterday’s post it has become very obvious that Omega-3 is one of the best kept secrets to aging well and like so many North Americans, I was guilty of not consuming the proper intake of Omega-3 on a daily basis.

My friend Krista had been urging me to start taking fish oil supplements because a number of studies have shown that proper intake of fish oil will help with muscle maintenance.

The reality is that it’s not always possible to follow a diet that’s rich in all the essential foods that will help our bodies function at full capacity as we age.

We’re all juggling very busy lives and we’re too often double booked. I quite like finding solutions that make it easier to add nutrients to our diet with little or no effort.

I recently tried the Vega Antioxidant EFA Oil Blend with is an essential oil rich in Omega 3-6-9 fatty acids and phytonutrients. Vega Antioxidant EFA Oil Blend was formulated by professional Ironman triathlete and best-selling author, Brendan Brazier.

This is going to be the most complicated beauty/health food product to explain that I’ve tried lately. Using the product is super-mega easy, but explaining the product and its incredible benefits will be a little trickier because there are a number of scientifically-based facts involved. This product also contains an essential ingredient that most of us have never heard of before. I know, personally, I had never heard of the benefits of fulvic acid until I started doing research for this product.

I tried a number of Vega products and created yummy and vitamin-rich smoothies for my morning meal. Now, one thing I have to say is that it will take getting used to the taste of the Vega Complete Whole Food Meal Replacement. This Vega product does have an aftertaste and the best way I found to camouflage the taste was to add raw sugar and plenty of fruits.

That said, my little morning recipe did bare a delicious tasting smoothie in the end. When it comes to the Vega Whole Food Smoothie Fusion, it’s your basic greens powder that you add to juice to create a smoothie.

As you know, this month I’m looking at simply, fast, easy, beauty foods. I hope that you’ve been reading and I hope you also find that some of the recent products I’ve highlighted are easy enough and convenient enough for you to want to add them to your diet. They are excellent products to fit neatly in our super-busy and stressed lives.

Here’s another great thing about Salba, they want you to actually test drive the product before buying it.

If you contact them online by filling out the three-day Salba challenge form you’ll be able to try out their “take the Salba 3 day challenge” program at home.

You cannot ignore the fact that pretty much every single media outlet in North America will feature at least one article on how food affects our health, skin and how well we age every month.

Last month, I summarized a recent Oprah special where she and Dr. Oz highlighted foods that were essential to aging-well: Dr. Oz and Oprah’s anti-aging check list!. It’s no secret that you cannot have beautiful skin if you eat poor quality foods.

If you didn’t like my idea of Wholy Tea, then you might prefer to use Green+ Daily Detox instead.

Everyday we are assaulted by significant number of toxins that we really have little control over. You might not think about it, but little daily events can turn out to be toxin ones: exhaust from cars, paint fumes and pesticide in our food. In the long run, this accumulation of toxins has a serious impact on our health and on our skin.

I was flipping through an edition of Elle France when I landed on an interesting article: The dangers of multi-vitamins (Trop de vitamins, danger!).

I used to take multi-vitamins for many years until one day I realized that my diet was very complete and that maybe I was doubling on vitamin dosage. Since I knew the body can only take so much dosage of vitamins per day, I realized that I was most likely eliminating a larger percentage of my multi-vitamin intake.

You’ve surely heard of the Master Cleanse diet! It would appear that the Master Cleanse diet was the most googled search term on Google in 2007. Can you imagine all these women wanting to learn how to lose weight by starving themselves?

I’m not the biggest Beyonce fan (since she broke up Destiny’s Child … but that’s another story all together), but I do admire her for saying that she didn’t find that she looked healthy after having to lose 20 lbs for the movie role in ‘Dream Girls’.