Healthy travel tips: get your greens on the go (aria hotel, las vegas)
hotandhealthyliving.com Going Green on Vacation Anybody who’s been to Whole Foods Market lately has seen Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index) system in place. The ANDI score analyzes many nutrients in a food such as calcium, the ORAC score (oxygen radical absorbance capacity, which measures the antioxidant capacity of foods), calcium, carotenoids, B vitamins, etc. The highest score a food can get is 1000, the lowest is close to zero. Dark leafy greens rank the highest (cola gets a score of 0.6). The ANDI score convinces me everyone should eat a huge serving of dark leafy greens everyday. At home I eat a lot of dark leafy green salads but I also make a green smoothie everyday. I’m so hooked on my green smoothies that I actually crave them if I miss a day. Right now I’m in Vegas and I can tell you nobody here is making (or drinking) green smoothies. But I’m still craving them! Salads are of course a no-brainer way to get your dark leafy green fix while on the go, and I eat plenty of salads at home and while traveling too (by the way, believe it or not, the Vegas buffets have plenty of dark leafy greens and other healthy foods to eat—you just have to make the right choices!) The video shows how easy it is to make a green smoothie on the go with individual travel-size packets of freeze-dried greens. For more healthy living tips, visit Ivy Larson at
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