As musicians and artists, we're constantly burning energy creating and performing and often we need some kind of good snack to help keep energy levels up. A lot of us will grab a bag of chips, crackers, candy or something else unhealthy, just because it's quick, cheap, and that's all they had at the convenience store at 3:30am.
If you have the time, you can pack your snacks to take with you, which is a far better, cheaper, and healthier idea than paying retail for junk late at night. And for stuff to pack, one of the best natural snacks we've found to add to your stash is raw almonds. Not the roasted, salted kind--just plain old almonds in the raw.
Why almonds? Not only are they loaded with energy supporting vitamins like manganese and copper, minerals, and key fats that give you energy, they can help protect you from a variety of illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, helps you lower and maintain your ideal weight, prevent gallstones, and a whole list of other benefits. Not to mention, they're really pretty tasty and satisfying--so you don't get hungry again in 30 minutes like what typically happens when you eat that bag of chips.
Almonds can even help boost one of the body's key anti-oxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD), which helps get rid of tons of pollutants in the blood--like, uh, the smoke you're breathing every night at the club...?
In fact, we generally recommend adding them to your regular diet, putting them in cereals, cooking with them, and snacking on a regular basis because the nutritional benefits of almonds are so high. Now, if you have any kind of food allergy, allergic to nuts or anything like that, you might need to check with your doctor about adding or increasing your intake of raw almonds. But if everything's ok, you'll probably find that it's tough to find a better snack to help keep those energy levels up and improve your health at the same time!
Here's a really good link for more information on raw almonds--you might be surprised: http://www.whfoods.com/
To Your Health!
Red Murphy
The ASPA
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