Roxanne Russell - Shaklee, Winston-Salem, NC (2026)

04/03/2026

Fruit of the Day
Blueberries 🫐

Blueberries are small but mighty, packed with powerful antioxidants, vitamins, and plant compounds that support whole-body health and protect cells from oxidative stress.

Nutrition:
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin K
• Fiber
• Manganese
• Antioxidants (anthocyanins, quercetin, resveratrol)
• Phytonutrients and polyphenols
Health Benefits:
1. Supports brain health and memory
2. Promotes heart health and healthy blood pressure
3. Helps reduce inflammation
4. Supports healthy blood sugar balance
5. Aids in digestive health
6. Protects cells from oxidative stress
7. Supports immune function
8. Promotes healthy skin aging
9. May help reduce risk of chronic disease

How to Eat:
For maximum benefits, enjoy blueberries fresh and raw. Eat them by the handful, sprinkle over yogurt, oatmeal, or salads, or blend into smoothies. Pairing blueberries with protein or healthy fats can help stabilize blood sugar and keep you fuller longer.

Tip:
Blueberries are also on the “Dirty Dozen” list, so choosing organic when possible can help reduce pesticide exposure. If organic isn’t available, rinse thoroughly under cool running water or soak briefly in a baking soda solution before enjoying.

You can visit my site for more ways to fill in nutritional gaps, boost your health, cleanse your body, or start a health journey. https://us.shaklee.com/en_US/hsh/storefront

03/04/2026

Sometimes life gets full. 💚

I realized I haven’t shared in a bit — caregiving, appointments, work, mom life… it all adds up quickly. If you’re in a busy season too, I see you.

I will be continuing Fruit of the Day (because simple health habits matter 🍎🫐🍊), but today I wanted to pause for something a little different.

I want to encourage you.

No matter what season you’re in — exhaustion, rebuilding, healing, stretching financially, trying to take better care of your body — small intentional steps still matter. They add up. I’ve seen it in my own home.

Over the past few years, I’ve become more passionate about supporting not just my family’s health, but helping other families live healthier, stronger lives too. That’s one of the reasons I chose to partner with Shaklee in 2010.

For me, this isn’t just about products.
It’s about:
✨ Supporting our bodies with clean, science-backed nutrition
✨ Creating an additional stream of income in a season where flexibility matters
✨ Building something meaningful while still being present for my family
✨ Encouraging others physically, financially, and mentally

If you’ve ever:
• Wanted to feel better physically
• Needed simple, realistic health support
• Been curious about earning from home
• Or just needed someone in your corner

I’d love to connect with you. No pressure — just conversation and encouragement.

This space will always be about real life. The hard days. The healing days. The hopeful days. And the practical steps we can take to live better in the middle of it all.

Fruit of the Day returns soon 🫐
But today, just know — you’re not behind. You’re building. 💚

You can visit my site for more ways to fill in nutritional gaps, boost your health, cleanse your body, or start a new journey towards your goals.

02/21/2026

🍃 Natural vs. Synthetic 👨‍🔬
Natural Sugars — Part A 🍦🍇🍞

All sugars are not equal.
Unprocessed, natural sugars are naturally lower glycemic. That doesn’t mean they have zero glycemic impact—just stay with me 😉. Examples include pure maple syrup, honey, agave, fruits, and vegetables 🍇🥕.
These sugars are lower glycemic because the body processes them differently. With fruits and vegetables, there’s an added benefit: fiber. Fiber slows digestion and further reduces the glycemic impact, helping blood sugar stay more balanced.
This is exactly why juicing is not the healthiest choice. When fruits and vegetables are juiced, the fiber is removed, leaving a higher sugar load without the natural balance. Beyond blood sugar control, the body also needs the full spectrum of nutrients found in whole fruits and vegetables.
➡️ The healthier choice is to eat the whole fruit, rather than follow the juicing fad.
It’s also important to train our children early to drink water and eat whole fruit 🍼🍌. My pediatrician always agreed with me and explained that juices fill children up with excess sugar, disrupting their appetite for real, nourishing food.
When it comes to sweeteners:
• 🍯 Pure maple syrup, honey, and agave are naturally lower glycemic.
• The next best option is organic, less-processed cane sugar or syrup.
• 🚫 Avoid high-fructose corn syrup.
👨‍🔬 Synthetic sugars are not safe or healthy. Our cells were not designed to process chemicals. Over time, chemical exposure has been linked to numerous health concerns, including metabolic issues, gut imbalance, inflammation, neurological concerns, dental problems, obesity, headaches, mood disorders, and more.
The key is moderation. Processed foods—even “diet” foods and drinks—often contain hidden sugars or artificial sweeteners. If the foundation of your diet is real, natural food, enjoying a dessert now and then is perfectly okay 🍰.

02/14/2026

Fruit of the Day
Strawberries 🍓

Strawberries are a vibrant, nutrient-rich fruit that provide powerful antioxidants, vitamins, and fiber to support overall health and cellular wellness.

Nutrition:
• Vitamin C
• Fiber
• Folate
• Potassium
• Manganese
• Antioxidants (anthocyanins, ellagic acid, flavonoids)
Health Benefits:
1. Supports immune system health
2. Promotes heart health and cholesterol
3. Promotes healthy circulation
4. Helps reduce inflammation
5. Supports healthy digestion
6. Aids in blood sugar balance
7. Supports skin health and collagen production
8. Helps protect against chronic disease
9. Supports brain health

How to Eat:
For maximum benefits, enjoy strawberries fresh and raw. Wash gently and eat whole or sliced. Strawberries are one of the "Dirty Dozen," so choosing organic when possible can reduce exposures to pesticides.

02/10/2026

One of my favorite things with Shaklee is the amazing integrity they have. Any questions you have concerning ingredients and more will be answered by just emailing medicalaffairs@shaklee.com.

Shaklee tests their products from 100s and 100s of tests per raw ingredients to finished product for top performance and absolute purity. They even helped set the USP standards and go way beyond the requirements in testing.

You can access up-to-date resource of the very latest in information about nutrition and the role it plays in health.

You can also access the entire compendium of Shaklee-sponsored research, much of which has been published in peer-reviewed medical & scientific journals. (Peer-reviewed medical and science journals- is amazing in itself)

You can visit my site for more ways to fill in nutritional gaps, boost your health, cleanse your body, or start a new journey towards your goals. https://us.shaklee.com/en_US/hsh/storefront

I chose Shaklee for my nutritional needs 16 years ago because they truly have the most pure ingredients I can trust.

02/05/2026

Fruit of the Day
Oranges 🍊

Oranges are a refreshing, nutrient-dense fruit best known for their immune-supporting properties. They provide essential vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants that support overall health and cellular function.

Nutrition:
• Vitamin C
• Fiber
• Potassium
• Folate
• Vitamin B1
• Calcium
• Antioxidants - Carotenoids (beta-cryptoxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin), Flavonoids (hesperidin, naringenin)

Health Benefits:
1. Supports a strong immune system
2. Promotes heart health and healthy blood pressure
3. Enhances iron absorption from plant-based foods
4. Supports healthy digestion
5. Promotes skin health and collagen production
6. Helps reduce inflammation
7. Supports hydration due to high water content
8. Aids in chronic disease prevention

How to Eat:
For maximum benefits, enjoy oranges whole rather than just drinking the juice. The natural fiber helps slow sugar absorption, supports digestion, and keeps blood sugar more stable. Fresh, raw oranges provide the highest vitamin C content.

01/30/2026

Food For Health Fridays.
🍃 Natural vs. Synthetic 👨‍🔬
Nutritional Value 🥑🍎

We all learned in elementary school that plants get their nutrients from the soil. 🌱 With that basic understanding, it’s easy to see that the more nutrient-dense the soil, the nutrient-dense our food becomes.
Our cells recognize and understand naturally food-derived vitamins and know exactly how to process and use them in the body. I may repeat this often, but it’s a key foundation of natural health. 🥗

With that in mind:

1. 🔬 Fertilizers and pesticides can reduce the nutritional quality of the soil, resulting in plants with lower nutritional value.

2. 🍆🍌🍞🥕 After harvest, food loses even more nutrients during - bleaching flour, chemical processes and treatments, excessive cooking, and refining all strip away natural vitamins and minerals. To compensate, synthetic vitamins and nutrients are added back in. Enriched flour is a perfect example. The word enriched sounds positive, but the reality is that natural nutrients were stripped and replaced with synthetic ones.

3. 🍒👍🍭👎 Additional chemicals are often added in the form of artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, and preservatives.
💊 By the time food goes through growing, processing, and additives, our bodies may be exposed to a significant toxic load. Synthetic nutrients and artificial ingredients can confuse our cells, because our cells were designed to recognize and process nature, not chemicals.
Over time, chronic exposure may cause cells to lose their ability to clearly distinguish what is helpful versus harmful. As described by a rheumatologist:
“An autoimmune disease occurs when the immune system becomes confused—attacking healthy tissue as if it were foreign, while failing to recognize harmful substances appropriately.”
In rheumatoid arthritis, the joints are attacked. In other autoimmune conditions—such as lupus or type 1 diabetes—the specific healthy tissue targeted varies. 😷🤒

01/28/2026

Fruit of the Day.
Banana

Nutrition...
vitamin C, B6
Potassium
Fiber
Prebiotics and probiotics

Health benefits
1. Helps manage blood pressure
2. Reduces hypertension
3. Supports regularity and gut health
4. Weight management.
5. Antioxidants - dopamine, catechin for overall health
6. Supports kidney health
7. Prevents calcium loss for bone density.
8. Promotes healthy sleep

Did you know that fruit has protein? Look at the comparison of bananas with the other fruits we’ve covered.

Grapefruit .9g grapefruit
Kiwi .8-1g (skin only slightly contributes to this total)
Apples with skin .5g
Banana 1g

How to Eat…
See the photo for excellent eating tips.

Bananas have a bad rep because they are known for a higher sugar content. But natural fruit sugar is low glycemic because our body understands it. It also contains exceptionally high fiber and even some protein which counteracts the glycemic impact. The problem is not the fruit. The issue is that we choose a diet of processed foods containing extra sugars, carbs, and salt. We choose “diet”/low fat items. Milk is a good example of this. Just FYI my family drinks a choice of full fat oat, almond, or coconut milk. These are the best choices. But for example purposes… low fat milk means the natural fats our bodies understand are removed. Once nature’s fat is removed sugars, other fats, and carbs are added in to make it palatable. In a nutshell shell, the answer is not removing bananas from your diet and eating diet/lowfat options.

The answer - A true clean balanced diet of God’s nature made meat, veggies, and fruit. Plants have the vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, and natural carbs for energy and focus your body needs and cannot get from meat. You can actually get your daily dose of protein in plants. But meat is good as a side.

You can visit my site for more ways to fill in nutritional gaps, boost your health, cleanse your body, or start a new journey towards your goals. https://us.shaklee.com/en_US/hsh/storefront

01/26/2026

Fruit of the Day.
Kiwi

Nutriton
Vitamin C, K, E
Potassium
Fiber
Folate
Acitinidin (enzyme)
Antioxidants (polyphenols, carotenoids)

Kiwi is an exceptionally nutrient dense fruit.

Health Benefits
Great gut health as a great laxative and aides in digesting protein.
Boosts your immune system.
Manages blood pressure.
Lowers cholesterol
Collagen synthesis
Promotes quality sleep
Reduces inflammation
Protects cells from damage

How to eat
This is a more difficult fruit to eat the skin with. Believe it or not, it is edible for both green and yellow kiwis. For fuzz removal simply wipe with a paper towel or cloth.
The skin has lutein and zeaxanthin to promote eye health.
It contains around 30% more vitamin E, K, folate, and antioxidants.
You can increase your fiber intake by 50%

Be Aware-
1. You may experience loose stools with consumption of the skin.
2. If you are prone to kidney stones you may need to avoid the skin due to high levels of oxalates.

You can visit my site for more ways to fill in nutritional gaps, boost your health, cleanse your body, or start a new journey towards your goals. https://us.shaklee.com/en_US/hsh/storefront

01/24/2026

✨ Food for Health Fridays are back! ✨
The Foundation for Understanding Nutrition is learning the difference between Natural 🍃 vs. Synthetic 👨‍🔬:

For our first one, we will begin with a simple concept using soy as our example.

Knocking the myth on SOY 🌱

I once listened to a homeopathic doctor on the radio who confirmed what I had always believed: our cells read and process natural and synthetic substances very differently. Our bodies were designed to recognize and work with nature—not chemicals.

Synthetic soy and animal estrogen–based foods behave differently in the body than organic, non-GMO, plant-based estrogen. Plant-based estrogens do not activate estrogen receptors in the same way synthetic, animal-derived, or xenoestrogens do. Instead, they bind briefly and release.

When our cells encounter synthetic or highly processed substances, they can become confused and unsure how to respond. In contrast, our cells recognize pure, natural soy and know exactly what to do with it.

That’s why organically grown, non-GMO soy can be a valuable part of a healthy diet. It’s a true nutritional powerhouse with many benefits when consumed in its natural, minimally processed form.

This is also why supplements, smoothies, milks, and bars should be made with non-GMO, minimally processed, additive-free, whole-food ingredients. When we choose foods closest to their natural state, our bodies can process them properly and extract the highest nutritional value.
🌱 Nature knows best.

01/22/2026

Fruit of the Day.
Apples

Nutrition
Fiber
Vitamin C, B1, B6, E
Potassium
Copper
Magnesium
Antioxidants

Health benefits
1. Protects from heart disease
2. Aides in lowering bad LDL cholesterol and blood pressure
3. Feeds good bacteria for gut health
4. Assists in weight management
5. Promotes blood sugar control and lowers diabetes risk
6. Potential to prevent certain cancers
7. Protects against memory loss
8. Hydration
9. Cleans teeth.

How to Eat.
For the most health benefits leave the skin on. I love that my husband and children have always eaten our apples unpeeled.

You can visit my site for more ways to fill in nutritional gaps, boost your health, cleanse your body, or start a health journey. https://us.shaklee.com/en_US/hsh/storefront

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