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Whole Food vs. Synthetic Supplements

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:28:57 +0000

In my last article, “Why Do We Need To Take Supplements”, we discussed the importance of taking natural supplements to support our body and our immune system. But which supplements do we take and how do we know which supplements are the best ones? With billions being spent every year on supplements, it is very important you understand that not all supplements are created equal….there are sometimes very vast differences between one product and another.

So let’s talk about the difference between “Whole Food Based” and “Synthetic or Isolated or Fractionated” Supplements. A great example would be just to simply look at almost any Multi-Vitamin. When you scan the nutritional content fact and ingredient label, you’ll see quite an assortment of vitamins….Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, etc. Here is a portion of a label from a common multi-vitamin:

Now obviously there are alot more vitamins listed on this label than I had room for, but I think you get the idea. Specifically, I want you to pay attention to the items listed under “Ingredients”. Those are what we call “Isolated” vitamins and other “chemicals”. There are no foods or herbal ingredients listed; only partial vitamins and other chemicals. Nature intended for us to consume food in its WHOLE form because all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes are together in one package and work synergistically together to bring your body the nutrition that it needs. When you take one part away from the whole, you get “Synthetic”, “Isolated” or “Fractionated” pieces of the whole, but it is simply not the same. The other problem is that by taking isolated vitamins, sometimes we are getting “massive” doses of some vitamins, but not enough of others. Over time, this can cause health problems too and aren’t we trying to get healthy rather than cause more problems?

Whole-Food based supplements are different. Typically, they will list the foods that the supplement was made from. Here is an example of what to look for when searching for a Whole-Food based product. Notice that under the supplemental facts, you’ll still see all the Vitamins listed, but see the difference under the Ingredients….now, there is actual WHOLE food listed:

What a difference this 2nd product will make in your body vs. the first product! You’ll actually be gaining benefits from the WHOLE food and all of the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes that occur naturally in the food or plant.

Another way that might make sense is to look at the source. When it says “Vitamin C” on the label, what is the source of that Vitamin C? What you want to see listed in the ingredient list is the foods; i.e., Citrus Fruits, Papaya, Bell Peppers, etc. If you see “Ascorbic Acid” listed, that means it is an “Isolated” product. Keep searching for one that lists the whole foods.

In summary, be sure you read your labels! It is important to educate yourself about what you’ll be putting into your body and supplements are no different than anything else. In one of my prior articles, “Reading Food Labels”, we discussed the importance of reading the labels on the foods you’re eating, but it’s just as important if not more so, to be sure you’re reading all of your supplemental labels! You want to be consuming supplements that have actual whole food, plants or herbs listed on the label; that way you know it is as close to natural as possible! And lastly, understand that no supplement alone will help you achieve the level of health you desire….you will have to make lifestyle and behavior changes AND take supplements in order to achieve ultimate health.

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Importance Of Body Building Basic Exercises

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:10:36 +0000

Before you engage yourself in a body building work out, you need to know the basic exercises involving a body changing workout. And yes, what you need to know are the basics and facts which can more or less leave you in shock. What you need to keep in mind though is to concentrate on specific parts of your body to be able to gain muscle mass rapidly.

The parts of the body which allows fast muscle growth are the ones on the legs, back and the chest. These parts hold large muscles of the body and concentrating on these regions will help a person to not only gain muscle mass but strength as well. When using basic exercises, other areas of the body that you’re probably not concentrating on at the moment are also gaining mass and changing although you might not realize it.

What is emphasized as the goal for knowing the basic bodybuilding exercises is the idea to increase your muscle mass. In other words, performing and mastering the basic exercises can help a bodybuilder to become larger. Leave the exercises for smaller muscle groups for later. Concentrate on the large groups of muscle first.

The Squat, Deadlift, Bench Press, Bent-Over-Row, Overhead Press, Lat Pulldown, Chin, and Dip are among the basic exercises in body building any beginner should learn how to execute since this is when and how the muscles are able to coordinate with other muscles and joints of the body. What is recommended for beginners is to focus in gaining muscle mass without stressing the body too much or it will lead to exhaustion and bad body building outcome.

There are a lot of points one aspiring body builder needs to know before seriously diving in to the entire body building routine and exercises. Get to know more information related to body building by visiting http://www.body-building-book.com.

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Revealed! How I Achieved a 70 Pound Healthy Weight Loss in 4 Months and Have Kept it Off for 15 Years!

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:28:00 +0000

No matter what stop light your car is parked at, chances are good that you can look over at any of the four street corners and see a fast food restaurant. Despite all of the technical advances and knowledge we are equipped with to help us lead healthy lifestyles, temptation is keeping our nation fat and a soaring need for healthy weight loss for over 65% of Americans. One cheeseburger won’t hurt us in the long run, we say, but ten years later we wonder how we became obese.

Another factor helping America achieve the status of being the fattest nation in the world, and an alarming need for healthy weight loss, is fad diets. We eat cheeseburgers, tacos and fried chicken at all of these fast food restaurants, then jump on whatever fad diet train that conveniently passes by in order to try and cheat our way back to good health. All it seems to be doing is making us even fatter.

I struggled with being overweight for twenty years before finally realizing that cheaters never prosper, and it goes double when dealing with your health. I spent over $2,000 on various weight loss programs only to lose 60 pounds and gain back 80 pounds. The only logical solution I could come up with was that there was something wrong with me personally or I was using the wrong weight loss programs.

But thankfully, I’m not the type of person who gives up. When I finally woke up and realized that there will never be some sort of miracle cure packaged nicely in one little healthy weight loss supplement that will help anyone lose weight, things became clear. In order to lose weight and keep it off for good, I had to face the fact that lifestyle changes must be made and I had to find a healthy weight loss program that would work for me.

Lifestyle modifications are the foundation of any successful long-term weight loss plan (eating less and moving more), and they require daily focus and discipline. I had chronic asthma all of my life and could not exercise or even breathe heavy, yet I still found a way to lose 70 pounds 15 years ago and have been medication free ever since. For me there was no other choice. It all came down to making simple decisions on a daily basis.

The way I lost weight was by replacing high-fat and high-sugar foods with proper nutrition and targeted vitamins made from all natural ingredients. Specifically, I began replacing unhealthy meals with a soy-based protein shake that gave my body all of the proper nutrition that a huge high-calorie meal gives you, minus the salt, sugar and fat. Proper nutrition and less calories equals healthy weight loss. Did I give up the foods I love? No. I just don’t eat them quite so often.

One of the biggest misconceptions that I have encountered since beginning to help people in their healthy weight loss journey is that all you have to do is eat vegetables and fruits to get the nutrition you need. Although these foods are a much healthier alternative than low-fat potato chips and cookies, you still have to eat too much of them to get the nutrition of a scientifically formulated protein shake.

Calories are calories no matter what the food source is, and the more you consume, the more you will gain weight. One 200 calorie soy-based protein meal replacement shake, for example, could be packed with all the nutrients found in eating 2,000 calories worth of food.

The human body is complex and requires many different needs for all of your problems which cannot be solved with one little weight loss pill. Treating each organ individually so that it functions at its optimum performance is the safest way to achieve an overall wellness of the body. By taking an all-natural products targeted to help me breathe better, I was soon able to get off all of my asthma medications while achieving the weight loss I wanted.

Another reason why I was successful at losing weight and keeping it off was because I had a support system. My coach had been where I was, and struggled in the same ways to achieve weight loss. Because he was part of the program I began, my coach’s success was dependent on my success. And that is why I am so successful at helping people lose weight now. I have been there before and I know what it’s like.

The best part about the meal replacements and supplements I have conditioned myself to take every day to keep me healthy is the cost. It is cheaper for me to get the best nutrition possible into my system than it is to buy the extra value meal at any given fast food restaurant. How can you beat spending $3.50 per meal without putting your health at risk.

It is important that you understand the importance of making healthy choices as a new way of life. It is extremely difficult in America today to find the road to good health and stay on it, but you must if you want to achieve healthy weight loss and keep it off for good. Do not let poor food and diet choices rob you of living the best life you can live. For things to change, you’ve got to change.

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Should Women Strive To Get 6 Pack Abs

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:14:05 +0000

One of the top fitness goals is to get ripped 6 pack abs, but for many women this is a bad goal and this article will explain why. Obviously, the answer to the question can women get ripped abs is, “Yes!” But, the answer to the question should women try to get ripped abs is a little less clear.

There are 2 main reasons that having ripped abs may not be the best fitness goal for women. The first reason is that the low body fat percentage needed to achieve the ripped look may negatively affect hormones. And, the second reason is that striving for extreme perfection and sometimes unattainable goals can lead to body image and self-esteem issues. Let’s talk a little more about each reason.

Generally speaking to see their six pack, a woman needs to have a body fat percentage less than 18%, and many women will not actually have ripped abs until they get closer to 12% body fat. Everyone has an essential amount of fat that they need to function at peak efficiency. Generally, 10-12% body fat is considered the essential amount for women.

One of the main problems with low body fat percentage for both men and women is a disruption of the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone. When a woman exercises excessively and has a low body fat percentage, her estrogen level can be disrupted which can lead to health problems.

The condition known as amenorrhea can develop when a woman exercises excessively and has a low body fat percentage. Amenorrhea is a cessation of the menstrual cycle and it is associated with decreased bone density, stress fractures, and infertility. Some people feel there is a connection between stress fractures in marathon runners and amenorrhea. And some elite female athletes have trouble getting pregnant because their body fat is so low. In order for a woman to get ripped abs, she may have to get her body fat percentage so low that it affects other aspects of her health.

In addition to affecting aspects of physical health, striving for a six pack may negatively affect mental health. In today’s society, women are bombarded with messages that they are not pretty enough, thin enough, smart enough, or rich enough. The pressure is immense and this drives people eating disorders and low self-esteem.

I understand that people want to be their best, and I always encourage people to go after their goals. But, there has to be a balance between striving to improve and being content with who you are. I also want people to remember that exercise is a healthy habit that is good to incorporate in your life for other reasons besides vanity. When someone gets overly focused on the vanity goal of fitness, it is easy to lose site of the other benefits. I know a lot of people give up working out because they don’t look like models after a month.

Obviously, women can get 6 pack abs, but if might not be the best goal for some women. Try to think about all the health benefits of exercise in addition to the vanity benefits, and treat your body well.

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Strength Training and Weight Training Exercises for Fitness

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:16:40 +0000

physicalliving.com Visit my site for strength training tips, exercise demos, and workout routines for fitness training, home fitness and more. Exercises are… joint mobility Arm swings, elbow clovers, arm screws, arm waves, thorax clovers, spine circles, tai chi twist, leg infinities. strength exercises: squat creep, shin twist, shin roll, shinbox switch, triangle squat, 45 lb clubbell cleans to shoulder park, long leg creep, quad squats, springing tripods, dumbbell swings, elevated scorpion to lateral lunge switch, dragon twisting, sandbag front squats, super slow spinal rock (breathing core/ab exercise), spinal rock variations, alligator walk, 15lb clubbell hammer swings, caterpillar exercise, pistol to spinal rock, leg swoop, walking lunge, double clubbell swipes 15lbers, handstand walking, 100lb heavybag runs at shoulder park, 15lb clubbell mills, 200 lb tractor tire flips, heavy bag runs 2, leg swoop AKA waterglider, clubbell mills 2, pushups, 15lb lateral clubbell swings, keg snatch throw. compensations/cooldown: spinal twisting, upward dog, bits of forest flow (prasara yoga), shinbox switch. Song: Come On Artist: Andy Hunt Album: Life

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Bodybuilding Muscle Gain: Harness Your Inner Power

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:14:57 +0000

By harnessing the power within you, you can make or break your workouts and achieve bodybuilding muscle gain.

The fact is that if you truly believe that you can do something and have the utmost confidence in yourself that you will succeed, there is nothing that can stop you.

If you really want bodybuilding muscle gain, use the power of your mind.

It can spell the difference between true bodybuilding muscle gain and mediocre results.

My years of experience in the gym have taught me that ultimately it is a person’s mindset that decides whether or not he can pack on muscles and achieve bodybuilding muscle gain.

I’ve come across thousands of aspiring bodybuilders, and I’ve come to learn that when it comes to bodybuilding muscle gain, it is a person’s mindset that matters the most.

A lot of them have preconceived ideas that are mostly negative, and hence, their failure is inevitable.

They keep thinking self-defeating thoughts and mentally impose limits on what they can do; it’s no surprise that their chances of achieving the body of their dreams are greatly reduced.

I’ve come across many people in my years of bodybuilding who will never attain bodybuilding muscle gain because they don’t have the will to push ahead and turn their dreams to reality; these people are doomed to a life of mediocrity.

Their mindset is far weaker than that of the average person.

If you don’t believe in yourself and your ability to achieve the body that you want, you won’t achieve it.

You need to learn how to motivate yourself and keep yourself motivated throughout your bodybuilding muscle gain program if you want to taste the heights of success.

If you want to achieve bodybuilding muscle gain, you need to employ visualization and verbalization techniques.

These are your allies in the arena of bodybuilding muscle gain.

When you imagine that you’ve already achieved your goals and view yourself as you’d like others to see you, you’re visualizing.

Visualize yourself with ripped muscles, and pretty soon you’ll have them through hard work and motivation.

Take control of your destiny by using your mind to devise the most efficient route to get where you want.

If you want to achieve your goals, you have to remain steadfast and keep the faith; use the power of your mind as an ally in this battle.

When you use affirmations to help you achieve bodybuilding muscle gain, it is known as verbalization; this should be at least once a day, if not more.

These twin processes, verbalization and visualization, work together and enable you to achieve bodybuilding muscle gain.

Both of these techniques involve “knowing” what you want and then going all out to get them.

“I know I can do this” must be your mantra.

To learn more about how you can achieve bodybuilding muscle gain, visit the website below….

www.Muscle-Gainer.com

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Fitness Studios Liverpool – Optimizing Health & Well-being

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:14:47 +0000

Modern lifestyle has certainly brought about a lot of ease and convenience, but at the same time has deprived man of a great deal of physical movement. This has resulted in his physical fitness and health being adversely affected. Many kinds of diseases and ailments due to lack of physical exercise have cropped-up.

As more and more people are realizing the importance and benefits of physical fitness, they are starting to make exercise a part of their daily activities. Fitness and wellness centers have cropped up all over the world in the last several years as people are realizing the importance of wellness, and also that prevention is indeed the best possible medicine.

There is a specialist Fitness Studio in Liverpool that offers a wonderful fusion of health, fitness and wellbeing services. Their multi-dimensional and holistic approach to health and wellbeing ensures that an individual gets the best results possible. From Personal Training, through to Nutrition, Injury Rehabilitation, Group Fitness and Clinical Lab Testing, they serve as a One Stop for happy and healthy living. Some of their important offerings include:

Personal Training: Their Personal Trainers are specialists in the areas of fat loss, sports performance, injury prevention, human movement and principles of training for fast and functional results. They work towards helping the clients to discover the best of their performance and aesthetic potential.
Nutrition and Lifestyle: Their Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaches work 1-on-1 with clients to help them regain health and vitality. Whatever be the health challenge, be it obesity, diabetes, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome, adrenal fatigue, etc, they devise a totally unique lifestyle ‘Action Plan’ to help reduce and in many cases eradicate that particular health or weight issue.
Injury Rehabilitation: They take a holistic and logical approach towards healing the body. This means that they provide a treatment plan that effectively treats and not just waylays the pain or injury. Their Sports Therapists have a proven and comprehensive understanding of the human body – how it functions, how it reacts and responds to rehabilitative exercise and how it heals and rejuvenates itself to be pain and ultimately becomes injury free.
Corporate Training: They provide specialist corporate fitness programmes that help corporate staff in keeping fit, recover from any kind of pain or injury, and follow healthy nutrition and lifestyle practices. Their corporate vouchers enable the staff to participate in Fitness Boot Camps, Nutrition & Personal Training or Injury Rehabilitation, at their own leisure.
Wedding Makeover: They devise motivational and effective exercise and nutrition plans for the brides and grooms-to-be so that they look and feel their absolute best on their ‘big’ day. These wedding makeover packages also incorporate the important style, colour and make-up aspects of looking absolutely outstanding on the wedding day.

“A sound mind in a sound body”, as the saying goes, is very essential in achieving overall health. In order to realize life-long fitness and health changes, one must adopt a more conscious lifestyle.

Whether it is about weight loss exercises, Personal Training Sessions, Nutritional Supplements or any other health or fitness issue, this expert Liverpool Gym creates the ultimate environment to live a more complete life!

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Choosing Your Fitness Equipment

admin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:26:36 +0000

Fitness equipment is a large group of tools that are used in exercise and are referred to also as exercise equipment. These can include simple items such as balls, track shoes and skipping ropes as well as more complex pieces of equipment such as treadmills, weights, bicycles and many others. Today a wide range of fitness equipment is available for sale with new designs constantly being produced due to the high demand for equipment that is effective in building muscles and strength as well as for losing weight.

Some of the types of fitness equipment available for use can be classified according the type of exercise for which they are built. The first class to be discussed is the strength training equipment. These include free weights and machines referred to as the resistance machines.

The most common type of resistance machine is one that uses gravity as a resistance source. This design is used mainly in weight machines. Gravity in combination with a simple design of pulleys, wheels and inclines, uses a percentage of the weight of the user as the resistance transferred. Other types of resistance machines can use other forces other than gravity to provide resistance. These include friction, spring-loaded, fan-loaded or fluid-loaded machines.

Another type of equipment belonging to the strength training equipment is the bands and tubing, which are lightweight options for training at home and in the office.

The other class is the aerobic fitness equipment which is mainly the endless-path machines. These include devices such as the stationary bicycles, the treadmills, the elliptical trainers, aerobic riders, the stair climbers, the ski and rowing machines. The stationary bicycle focuses the exercise on the legs by the action of pedaling. The treadmills are an all body exercise as you may walk or run at various speeds. There are also some models that can simulate slopes for a more intense workout.

The stair climbers replicate the action of climbing a stairway. This device now also has modifications that replicate the pulling up action off the hands for a more through workout. The skiing and rowing machines work both the arms and legs simultaneously with the rowing machine also working the back muscles. The elliptical trainers are a cross between the stair climbers and the ski machines. The aerobic riders also exercise the arms and legs at the same time by the use of a simultaneous pull and push motion.

There is also a miscellaneous group of fitness equipment. These include items such as heart rate monitors and exercise balls as well as many others. The heart rate monitors are used as a motivational tool in exercise as they monitor the heart rate and provide feedback to the individual exercising. The use of exercise balls has become very important in training such as flexibility training and for balance as well.

When using any type of fitness equipment it is always important to seek professional advice as the improper use of this equipment can cause severe damage.

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My 40lb Weight loss Before & After

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Health Food Supplements – Consumer Guide

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:24:23 +0000

Health food supplements are one of the hottest selling products in the market these days. Their total consumption values billions of dollars in the U.S. alone. Recent surveys show that more than half of the adults in the U.S. consume health food supplements in different forms, such as tablets, capsules, powders, soft gels, gel caps and liquids.

The increased consumption of health food supplements can be attributed to public awareness of health issues and improved standard of living in our society. Many studies have shown that there is a close correlation between health and nutrition. Insufficient supply of nutrients can weaken our body defense mechanism, causing medical problems from common ailments to more severe illnesses in the long term.

There are different types of health food supplements, including macronutrients (amino acids, proteins, essential fatty acids), micronutrients (vitamins and minerals), enzymes (digestive enzymes and antioxidant enzymes), probiotics (beneficial bacteria in the gut), and herbal supplements. These supplements have unique functions in our body. They are either essential for life and good health, modulate our immune system or help with liver detoxification, digestion, mental clarity, etc.

Many people argue that there is no need to consume health food supplements as long as you have a healthy lifestyle and eat a balanced diet. While this may be true, the fact is maintaining a healthy lifestyle and proper diet is difficult to achieve by many people.

Over the past few decades, the green revolution has changed the farming practices over the world. We use more chemical fertilizers, more pesticides to grow the food produce in order to increase harvest and shorten the growth period. As a result, soil nutrients and the population of beneficial soil bacteria are depleted rapidly, and the produce we grow today contain less micronutrient than before.

A stressful lifestyle, improper eating habits, imbalanced diet and increased exposure to chemicals such as environmental pollutants (air, water) and pesticides, drugs, hormones, heavy metals in foods also weaken our body gradually.

Although health food supplements can be beneficial to our health, consumers should still choose the products carefully. Currently, there is little regulation on the quality of health food supplements. Composition of some health food products may not match the label claims and the quality of raw materials and finished products is not guaranteed. Therefore, consumers should only buy from reputable health food manufacturers, read the labels carefully and read more related literatures.

Here are some general rules for buying health food supplements:

1) Supplements made from whole foods, natural sources are better than the synthetic ones. They are more bioactive, can be absorbed readily, and less likely to be contaminated by chemicals such as coal tars used in chemical synthesis.

2) Protein-bonded vitamins and minerals (vitamins and minerals in organic form, binding to amino acids) are more bioactive than the inorganic forms.

3) Buy supplements using safe extraction methods, such as cold pressed extraction or supercritical extraction. This can avoid the harmful residue from chemical extraction.

4) Herbal concentrate and extract are usually more effective than the raw herbs.

5) Organically grown or wild crafted herbs are less likely to be contaminated by heavy metals, pesticides and other chemicals.

6) Read the labels, do not consume more than the recommended dose.

7) Be careful when consuming certain herbal supplements, such as Ma Huang / ephedra, Kava Kava, comfrey, etc. Some studies have shown that these herbs may cause severe side effects to some people. Stop use if unusual signs appear after consumption.

Some health food supplements may interact with drugs, either by decreasing or increasing their effects. Consult your doctor if you are currently taking medications.

9) Pregnant and nursing women, people with specific medical conditions such consult the doctors when consuming health food supplements.

10) If in doubt, contact the supplement manufacturers or distributors for more information of their products.

11) Health food supplements are available in many places, such as grocery stores, health food stores, drug stores, pharmacies, supermarkets, department stores, online stores, etc. Be a smart consumer, compare the price and service before purchase.

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