Summer may not have brought the best weather this year, but it never disappoints with what is available for breakfast. I invite all women entrepreneurs to start every day with a positive attitude and a bowl of fresh fruit. Why does what you eat for breakfast impact the rest of the day? Because when you feel good every thing you do becomes easier and more enjoyable.

Here are just a few reasons why fresh fruit is good for you: (excerpt from http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/fruit-nutrition.html)

1. Fruits are low in calories and fat and are a source of simple sugars, fiber, and vitamins, which are essential for optimizing our health.

2. Fruits provide plenty of soluble dietary fiber, which helps to ward of cholesterol and fats from the body and to get relief from constipation as well.

3. Fruits contain many anti-oxidants like poly-phenolic flavonoids, vitamin-C, and anthocyanins. These compounds, firstly, help human body protected from oxidant stress, diseases, and cancers, and secondly; help the body develop capacity to fight against these ailments by boosting our immunity level. Many fruits, when compared to vegetables and cereals, have very high anti-oxidant value, which is something measured by their "Oxygen Radical Absorbent Capacity" or (ORAC).

4. Anthocyanins are flavonoid category of poly-phenolic compounds found in some "blue-fruits" like blue-black grapes, mulberries, acai berry, chokeberry, blueberries, blackberries, and in many vegetables featuring blue or deep purple color. Eating fruits rich in blue pigments offers many health benefits. These compounds have potent anti-oxidant properties, remove free radicals from the body, and thus offer protection against cancers, aging, infections, etc. These pigments tend to concentrate just underneath the skin.

5. Fruit’s health benefiting properties are because of their richness in vitamins, minerals, micro-nutrients, anti-oxidants, which helps the body prevent or at least prolong the natural changes of aging by protecting and rejuvenating cells, tissues and organs. Their overall benefits are manifold! Fruit nutrition benefits are infinite! You are protecting yourself from minor ailments like wrinkling of skin, hair-fall, and memory loss to major ailments like age-related macular degeneration (AMRD) of the retina in the eyes, Alzheimer’s disease, colon cancers, weak bones (osteoporosis)…etc., and the list of fruit nutrition benefits never ends!

In other words, eating a variety of fresh fruit every day will give you all the energy you need to make the decision every woman in business is required to make. You'll also feel lighter and never need to worry about constipation.

Can you imagine how much better you would feel if you acquire all the sweetness in your food from fruit? Too much sugar of all kinds are hiding in everything we eat these days. And, there is no longer any controversy as to why Americans are more overweight than ever in our history - the culprit is SUGAR!

The old adage sweets for the sweet can equally be applied to fresh fruit. Doesn't everyone love a Edible Fruit arrangement? I don't get anything for suggesting that you use this as your gift of choice to customers or vendors. They will thank you for it as will their families because eating fruit adds years to one's life.

So, if I haven't lost you already with my diatribe about eating healthy, please consider adding one new fruit to your life each month. Try fruits of different colors and textures together. Try fruits pureed with fruit juice, soy or almond milk. Try adding fruit to your salad for a natural sweetness and stay away from the light dressings with all the sugar added.

Be good to yourself and feed your body well and you will be successful in life and business. Let me know if I can help.