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| Try KIND bars for free at Starbucks on February 5th! |
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On February 5th, Starbucks will sample KIND bars at participating stores across the country! Drop in to try one of the two delicious flavors selling at your local Starbucks: Fruit & Nut Delight and Cranberry Almond+Antioxidants. Click HERE to find a Starbucks near you.
Offer applies to sample size products only. Limited time offer. While supplies last |
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| Almond Cashew + Omega 3 now available at Starbucks |
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Last week Starbucks added Almond Cashew + Omega 3 to its existing superstar lineup of KIND flavors: Fruit & Nut Delight, Cranberry Almond + Antioxidants and Mango Macadamia + Calcium. Almond Cashew is only 150 calories and packed with 500mg of Omega 3 Fatty Acids (ALA), which helps support a healthy heart and immune system. Almond Cashew + OMEGA 3 is a snack that you can feel good munching on. |
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| Start 2010 off right with the KIND Diet |
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It’s not a diet, it’s KIND. The KIND team came up with 10 tips to help you adopt the KIND of lifestyle that is going to make you look good but more importantly, feel good. |
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Don’t skip meals!
When you don’t eat your body actually goes into “starvation mode” and your metabolism slows. If you skip a meal your chances of overeating dramatically increase and, when you skip meals brain function such as memory, concentration, and mood can suffer. |
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Eat breakfast like a KING…
Someone that lived a KIND lifestyle once said “Eat breakfast like a KING, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper”. Eating a complete, well-balanced meal in the morning jump starts your metabolism to calorie-burning mode. If you do not eat until lunch time, you body will not burn as many calories as you would during the morning period. In fact, research indicates that people who do not eat breakfast are more likely to be overweight than those who eat a proper breakfast. Breakfast is a great way to boost energy levels, brain power and help with weight control. |
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Watch your caloric intake
Understanding your calorie needs is important for weight loss and control and can help with your meal planning. Depending on your weight and activity level, you should eat somewhere between 1500-2000 each day. Click here to find the caloric intake that is right for you. |
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Keep portions in check
Most of the time, we crave more than what our bodies really require. No matter what the food, portions do matter! Meals should include a protein serving the size of a deck of cards, plenty of veggies with small amounts of healthy fats and swap out the refined grains for whole grains. Limit “unhealthy” saturated fat and trans fat. It usually takes about 20 minutes for your stomach to signal to your brain that you are “full” so try not to eat until you get that “full” feeling. That’s a sign that you overate! Click here for more information on portion sizes. |
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Avoid empty calories.
Look for nutritionally dense foods where you get a bang for your buck. These are foods high in vitamins and nutrients compared to their calorie content. Examples: lean meats and fish, beans, whole grains, vegetables and fruits. |
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Know your fats:
Look for foods high in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. These are good for your heart, make you feel full and actually promote weight loss. Those Mediterraneans are really on to something…
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=532 |
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Drink water!
Even better, drink water before you eat and drink throughout the day. A lot of the time when you think you are hungry, you are actually just dehydrated. Remember caffeine is a diuretic so if you drink a cup of coffee, you should drink more water in order to stay hydrated! |
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Get some exercise
Sure going to the gym and getting a good sweat is great, but there are other ways to get some exercise if you can’t do it like a gym rat. Take the stairs, park further away when you are at the grocery store or the movies, take up a hobby like dancing or biking, plan weekends to involve some sort of activity. |
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Sleep well
You should get at least 7-8 hours each night. When we don’t get enough sleep we get cranky, makes it hard to focus and we are more prone to eat unhealthy foods. Lack of sleep may disrupt natural hormonal balances, increasing appetite and triggering overeating. |
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Be KIND!
Research shows that happy people are healthier and giving to others actually can improve your overall health. Do an unexpected KIND act for someone: offer to carry someone’s heavy bag, let someone go in front of you in line, give up your middle seat on an airplane. Stepping out of your comfort zone feels good, it will make someone’s day and yours too. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/health/01well.html?em |
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| KIND in the news: |
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Good Morning America Health:
On January 4th, KIND was featured on GMA Health as a great tasting, healthy snack to help consumers limit their cravings and keep the pounds off in the New Year. |
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CBS/Philadelphia:
On January 3rd, KIND was featured on CBS 3 Philadelphia as a food that promotes satiety, a popular food trend for 2010. |
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Fox and Friends:
On January 2, noted RD’s the Nutrition Twins highlighted KIND as a healthy snack to help reduce sodium in the New Year on Fox and Friends. |
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NBC/San Francisco:
On December 20th, KIND was included as a healthy snack to eat while mall-shopping on a NBC San Francisco segment with Julie Upton. |
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American Baby:
American Baby featured KIND PLUS Cranberry Almond + Antioxidants as one of the “Supermarket Stars”, citing KIND as one of the 50 tastiest on- the-go foods in its January issue.
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| KIND and Zipcar partnered to deliver Christmas trees to people without cars |
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KIND and Zipcar teamed up to help out the Dunshee House and the Seattle AIDS Support Group this Holiday season. Between Thanksgiving and Christams, Zipcar ‘KINDED’ over 300 families in Seattle by delivering Christmas tree from the Dunshee House Christmas Tree Lot and to homes for a small fee that went straight back to the Seattle AIDS Support Group. KIND was on hand every weekend to provide healthy snacks for all the volunteers and for customers as they picked up their trees. It was a huge success and the Dunshee House was able to raise almost double what they did the year before! For more information about what services the Dunshee House and the Seattle AIDS Support Group check out www.dunsheehouse.org. |
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| KIND showed off its creativity at Art Basel |
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The legendary Art Basel Miami Beach art show is an international cultural and social highlight. A work of art itself, KIND bars were there with bells on, keeping artists, gallerists and other attendees satiated and well-fed throughout the event. Art fans were introduced to KIND bars as they checked out cool graffiti at Graffiti Gone Global and Japanese pop art at Miguel Paredes gallery in Miami Beach FL. |
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| Retailer Profile – Starbucks |
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With over 7,000 stores across the United States, Starbucks is the largest coffee chain in the world. As a leading tastemaker in coffee and beyond, KIND is proud to be amongst Starbucks’ new offerings of healthier, great tasting foods. Starbucks now carries four delicious flavors of KIND, KIND PLUS Almond Cashew + Omega-3 to its existing selection of KIND F&N Fruit & Nut Delight, KIND PLUS Cranberry Almond + Antioxidants and KIND PLUS Mango Macadamia +Calcium. You can find KIND Bars at all Starbucks locations throughout America. |
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| Questions? Comments? Let us know! |
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| We always love to hear from you, whether it’s a question, a pat on the back, or an idea about how we can improve. Please don’t hesitate to contact us at kind@kindsnacks.com. |
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