Doctors on Kissing, Chocolate, and Valentine’s Day Healthy Ideas
If you asked me what I would most like to get for Valentine’s Day INSTEAD of the worthless diamond necklaces, red roses, or dinner date to a smoke-filled restaurant; then it would have to be some Organic Dark Chocolate Bars from VitalChoice AND one of those fresh fruit bouquets that are cut in the shape of flowers, leaves, and ripe with delicious strawberries, cantaloupe, kiwi, pineapple, and watermelon….as long as it’s organic!
VitalChoice Salmon and Organic Chocolate Bars
After more than fifty years of enjoying Valentine’s Day goodies, it’s about time to get real stuff that matters and shows how much we are loved and cherished. Nothing says, “I Love You” like healthy Chocolate! There are two companies whose organic Dark Chocolate make me feel fantastic. One company, VitalChoice, has these fabulous organic chocolate bars in several varieties which will satisfy any gourmet of cacao. Then there is another company, ForeverGreen, which carries these little morsels of bit-sized organic Dark Chocolate candies with completely healthy ingredients which make me smile – ready for some ‘loving’!
Dark Chocolate or Cacao keeps getting good news in the media from scientific research which finds additional health benefits from moderate amounts of dark chocolate in one’s diet. From reducing the risk of heart disease to lowering blood pressure as well as improving mood and supporting healthy immune function. Chocolate is most definitely heart-healthy and is always an excellent choice for the Day of Hearts!
If you cannot find healthy chocolates and have to settle for less-than-ideal brands, then look for those that have no dairy products, that have natural sweeteners, and are made using real cacao – instead of oils and butters and refined sugar and artificial flavors!
If you have a local Whole Foods store, you can find Theo chocolates and so many other great brands that have set a higher standard for excellence and flavor sensations with healthy nuts, seeds, orange EO, crispy rice, and other exotic ingredients like cayenne or fennel. You’ll be more than pleasantly surprised at the creativity and the ingenuity to bring brilliant flavors to life with chocolate. Did I mention that cacao is known for having a role in gaining a mental edge for memory and cognition?
A Timeless Message in a Bottle for Valentine’s Day will keep showing your true heart when the key and the message are kept on the table for years to come. This is a real heart-felt way to say that Love endures.
Valentine’s Day can also be a time to give organic clothing, bamboo items, living trees from the Amazon, and many environmentally-loving gifts that mean the world to your significant other. Many presents are more for our genuine long-term benefit than transitory one-time efforts to impress. Giving the living gift of a tree growing and thriving in the Amazon is more valued than a little glimmer of silver around the neck!
Diamonds are not always a girl’s best friend, but a gift of exotic healthy beef which gives the heart a healthy glow will shine more than any gemstone in a velvet box. I would rather get a dozen grass-fed burgers to enjoy with my Beloved than try to justify the unsustainable mining practices in Sierra Leone!
Actually, I would prefer to be honored with my own Label of Jones Soda rather than getting a traditional piece of jewelry or flowers or candy:
There are nutritional supplements like Co-enzyme Q10 and minerals for the healthy Heart that will give the one you love the idea that you want to have them around for decades longer enjoying a healthy heart rather than loading up on sweet treats that compromise that all-important muscle of love. Fish Oil and Flaxseed products give the Heart the gift of generations of living longer and in great shape. Many of us would rather get a month’s supply of EFAs in place of a dinner of over-cooked salmon at a local restaurant where you have to wait an hour inhaling smoke and having to settle for fries and chocolate ice cream.
VitalChoice EFAs
Better yet…we love to stay in the kitchen and prepare some heart-healthy ostrich or other exotic gamebird…or you can order some VitalChoice salmon and bake it for your Beloved at home with garlic mashed potatoes and a side of organic vegetables on a bed of whole grains. If you whip up a honey mustard sauce or a ginger sesame dipping sauce to go with the broiled salmon; then you will have served a memorable meal that will be the envy of ten thousand florists. If you are going to get flowers, get sustainably-raised bouquets and recycle them when their lustre fades in a week, but include a package of heirloom seeds to give plants that matter to most of us who love to garden and take good care of the planet as one way to express our enduring Love of Life!
What does all this have to do with Kissing? On Valentine’s Day there is usually a fair share of expectation for Kissing following those fine chocolates or other wonderful displays of our love for one another. The doctors on TheDoctorsTV show discussed the transmission of germs from partner to partner when kissing today. If you worry that your partner doesn’t do his best when it comes to oral healthcare; then get some Nutri-Biotic toothpaste and put it to work for both of you. You can also gargle with Thieves EO or put a couple of drops on your throat for protection from pathogens. Lemonade made from fresh organic lemon juice, blue agave syrup, and purified water will also help to address a healthy mouth either before, during, or after some pleasant kissing happens…
Dr. Oz suggested that ears, armpits, and feet are erogenous zones that you can explore with your partner to enhance your sensual sexual expression immensely. There are companies which make edible organic chocolate spreads and paint for the human body which can be used in this manner. You can also avail yourself of wonderful potions made with delightful Essential Oils that can be applied with gentle massage to these areas of the body to bring about warmth, stimulation, and pleasure. Auricular Therapy upon the ears is a tradition that is thousands of years old that will support the health of your entire body while being strangely arousing when you stimulate specific points on the earlobes. Play and enjoy!
It good to be in love, to show that love with healthy gifts, and to share a kiss with a healthy exchange every day of the year after Valentine’s Day.
