Ms. Fitness Shares Healthy Secrets on Family Life and Competing

Professional Fitness Competitor, Nikki Crawford,Gets her Go from HealthAid
America Ginkgo Vital 3™ and Gives Life and Time-Saving New Year's Tips to Parents

Ms. Fitness USA competitor, Nikki Crawford, is not only one of America's most renowned fitness champion's, but she has also conquered the pressures of raising a family, caring for a husband, and coordinating a well run home, while traveling and managing a grueling schedule as a professional fitness competitor. But, the non-stop demands of wife and mother of three small children seems to agree with Ms. Crawford, and in fact, have inspired her to create helpful tips to share with other parents with overwhelming schedules ahead in the New Year.

During the Las Vegas competition in 2006, Nikki discovered that HealthAid America's Ginkgo Vital 3™ helped her tremendously by giving her a boost in energy, as well as improving her focus and mental clarity. It has now become a regular part of her busy daily regimen. "I love taking Ginkgo Vital 3 every morning when I wake up! It makes me think clearly and I feel so awake and ready to start my workout," exclaims Ms. Crawford. "I feel that Ginkgo Vital 3 definitely helps give me a competitive edge."

Nikki Crawford's schedule demands her to be on top of her game at all times, and she has found that using HealthAid America's Ginkgo Vital 3™ helped her tremendously during her recent 2007 competitions. Not only has Ginkgo Vital 3 (tm) given her a boost in energy during competitions, it has also carried over into her demanding schedule in managing her personal lifestyle. Her website is filled with helpful healthy and time saving advice for other parents with hectic lifestyles, and for executive parents on the go, who are trying to maintain a healthy diet and exercise plan for themselves and their children. A few recommendations she has for keeping yourself and your kids healthy in the New Year are included in the following tips from her website:

1. Prepare baggies filled with healthy snacks to not only keep handy in the fridge, but to be packed in lunches for the family each day.

2. Try making up portion meals for the week every Sunday to be on top of the busy weekly schedule coming up.

3. Keep Ziploc dishes in the fridge with cheese squares, cottage cheese, yogurt, cheese, sugar free jell-o, and pudding; the freezer treats can include fruit juice pops.

4. Snacks from the cupboard can include bread sticks, flavored rice cakes, granola bars and popcorn for the kids to choose from.

5. I try to keep strips of chicken, tuna and salmon, steamed brown rice and vegetables, as well as salads with fat free dressings prepared. I prepare them on Sunday I'm ready to go for the coming week.

6. Keep a small cooler on the seat in the car. Pack the cooler in the morning while making the kid's lunches. Put rice and chicken mixed together (like a rice bowl) and a protein bar, rice cakes or plain popcorn in it. If I can't get home, I don't go without a meal or eat fast food.

Nikki believes that a family commitment to exercise is as important as eating healthy food, and Nikki makes exercise fun for her children, and believes that parental involvement in providing healthy food, and fun physical activity is key to helping their children stay sound physically and mentally.

Nikki Crawford is dedicated to educating and helping eliminate obesity in children. She tells families fighting this problem that changing eating habits and lifestyles is not easy, but the increase in obesity among children has risen 20% since 1994, and is rising. Her recommendations to help kids avoid obesity include:

1. Limit TV and time on the computer to two hours a day

2. Encourage participation in physical activity, and sports

3. Avoid fast food restaurants

4. Provide kids with nutritious, well balance, low-calorie, and low-fat meals

5. Control the availability of high-fat and high-sugar snacks in your home.

Ms. Crawford's advise makes it clear that parents need to have that added energy to set an example for their children to exercise and stay in great physical shape, and this is where she feels Ginkgo Vital 3™ by HealthAid America can play a vital role in the overall health of a family. Children imitate their parent's activity, and with an extra energy boost parents can set a stellar example of physical activity in a variety of sports, or active family pastimes.

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For additional information on professional fitness competitor Nikki Crawford or HealthAid America products please contact Ms. Bonnie Carroll at Christie
Communications at (805) 962-1347 or by email at bcarroll@christiecomm.com.