Vita-Mix have featured their 5200 super blender on a number of popular TV programs. They featured on the Martha Stewart show ”The Martha Stewart Show” is an hour long daily series that informs and inspires viewers on subjects from cooking and entertaining to crafting and gardening, hosted by Martha Stewart.

And then, Vita-Mix featured on the Ellen Degeneres show ’12 Days of Giveaways’ and actually gave away over 300 of their 5200 Super Blenders on the show.  This episode will no doubt flight in South Africa, but who knows when so here is a photo clip of the Viamix giveaway.

And then, Vita-Mix Corporation gave Colleen and Michael of Healthmakers one of the new Brushed Stainless Model 5200.

Now this is a Super Blender that you could REALLY get passionate about. Between looks and performance i’m not sure what the world has to offer that could beat it.

Go and check this beauty out at www.healthmakers.co.za. Just search for brushed stainless.

Another Healthmakers approved product that will be in stock mid August 2011.

On Special is about the only time you get a whiff of lower prices these days and tomorrow they bounce back to where they were and sometimes even higher.

What Healthmakers has done is unprecedented in these times.

Yes Fallen Prices is true!

And No, these are not Special Prices that will bounce back tomorrow.

BUT, with no control over the Rand/$ exchange rate these prices are always vulnerable to external conditions. So, if you were considering improving the health of yourself and your family by enjoying real wholefood smoothies, extracted veg/fruit juices, rawfood dehydrated delights, nutritious healing sprouts, clean,safe filtered water and the chance to breath air that has been processed to remove allergy and disease causing bacteria, virus and other pollutants…..don’t delay… go to www.healthmakers.co.za, sign-up for a Free downloadable Catalogue of all the products that will offer health, easy of use, excellent guarantees and most important the Healthmakers Approved Label. Invest in your health today rather than paying for disease tomorrow.

Take a look today prices have literally Fallen and remember that ‘Health is for Everyone’

The unusually bitter cold in Utrecht this 2011 winter finally crescendoed into snow last night. We expected this morning to offer little more than some cold slush but were pleasantly surprised to see huge flakes floating quietly and gently down from the light grey sky.
Since the taxi’s were not running, half our employees never made it to work and missed the fun an hilarity of building the snowman and the usual snowball fights.

It is quite some years since we have seen good snow in Utrecht and I had forgotten just how extraordinarily beautiful everything looks when it is covered in a thick layer of fresh snow. The stillness is almost erie. The flakes continue to fall 14 hours later.

Winter colds and flu – the choice we have and the choices we make.

With so many employees off work over the past month as we hit the winter of winters I started thinking of the choices people have when a cold or flu sets in.

The ones with medical aid often run themselves and their family off to the doctor at the first sign of a cough, cold, temperature, vomiting. Once the prescription has be obtained everybody feels safe and happy to invade the body with all manner of chemical substances that frankly are foreign toxins that suppress the symptoms until the body heals itself anyway.

I have noticed that when people do not have medical aid they hit the pharmacy or supermarket to self medicate with the most popular TV ad recommendation for the season. Remember the ad that said “you can’t take every cough to a doctor”? Mmm can’t remember the product and, well I wouldn’t personally like to give them air time on this blog anyway.

When will people realize that the doctor does not heal you and neither does the medication? The doctor usually allays fears of death and dreaded disease (in the case of the coughs, colds etc and that for some is an essential part of their healing. Your immune system is what you need to rely on to get over the short-term misery of the cold/flu. When you are feeling fine, which for some includes the more than occasional headache, indigestion, constipation, heartburn etc etc you might not be aware that this is the time to give your body the best nutrition so that when the chips are down your body has the resources to get above it.

Someone once told me that if you get the flu and go to a GP it will take 14 days before you feel better. If you go to a Homeopath it will take two weeks and if you do nothing it will take a fortnight.

When the occasional cold / cough etc hits me or Michael I have my favorite standby ‘medications’ that seem to motivate the immune system to get on with the job. My top of the list favorites are Tissue Salts. No 5 and No 9 or the Coughs and Colds Combin. (More info on Tissue Salts in another post). Then there is Echinacea which I don’t always do – I usually ask my body if it want it and only if I get a resounding yes do I use that. Another big-time favorite is Olive Leaf Extract. I have been told by devotees of this substance that if you take this before winter you seldom ever come down with the winter blues. Now, if a cough is the problem then this old fashioned home remedy has been a winner, Grate an onion and sprinkle with brown sugar and leave until the sugar forms a syrup. Sip on the liquid in between those wracking coughing attacks for absolute relief.

My message.

• Look after your immune system on a daily basis with good nutrition and by learn to cope with the stresses of life
• Realize that your body’s magic is what will heal you and not the doctor or his poisonous chemical drugs or the supermarket offerings for coughs, colds and cauliflower ears
• Be in touch with your body – repeated bouts of bronchitis, colds etc indicate that the body needs better care – take stock of how much raw living food you are consuming
• Consider how much of your diet includes coffee, tea, sugar, fast foods, white rice, bread, pasta, MSG (found in Aramat, packet soups and sauces, and loads of other products) P.S. These foods do not build a healthy immune system
• Be positive, laugh a lot (mostly at yourself and at life), find solutions not problems and most of all be grateful!

Healthmakers receives numerous enquiries regarding the difference in power between the Super Blenders that we sell. The Vitamix blender has always had a 2 Hp motor that in my opinion has always performed above expectations. Competitor products such as the Hi-Blend / Omniblend and Blendtec have endeavoured to outsmart Vita-Mix by manufacturing their blenders with a 3Hp motor. And since the numbers go 1,2,3, we all seem to think that 3 is bigger than 2 so it must therefore be better.

Well, Vita-Mix had obviously had enough of this, and proceeded to do some extensive testing that proved conclusively that it is much more than input horsepower to create a great performing Super Blender.

Read the Statement by Vita-Mix Corp. here and form your own opinion.

Message from Colleen

(Managing Partner at Healthmakers)

I went from a standard blender to the powerful might of the Vitamix Total Nutrition Center in 1995. Healthmakers became the agent for Vita-Mix Corp. in that same year and traded with the TNC (Total Nutrition Center) as the sole product of the Company, giving demonstrations all over the country. In 1999 we visited Vita-Mix Corp in the USA and learnt anything else that we perhaps did not know about what a Vitamix could do. I can confidently say that Michael and I became experts in regard to the use, operation, capabilities and repair of the Vitamix Super Blender.

Colleen and Michael Demonstrating the Vitamix in 1999

Finally in 2010, 15 years later, after pounding the machine at demos, making juice at fairs and at home, we donated the machine to a worthy friend to make place for the Vitamix 5200, confident in the knowledge that the Vita-Mix is truly a remarkable machine that stands head and shoulders above any other Super Blender that we have tested.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kFCtGulA2Y