Archive for November, 2008

Working To Lower The Chances Of Disease With Power Foods

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

As we get older, we naturally become much more focused on our health. Perhaps we feel our clock is ticking and see the toll that premature aging takes on those around us. Maybe it’s just that we′re not consumed with worrying about who’s talking about us, what our test scores will be, how we′re going to make ends meet or if our career is rewarding enough. Either way, recent research indicates that there are certain “power foods” we can add to our diets that will steer our health goals in the right direction.

For snackers, texture is a big thing. You love the crunch of a potato chip or the way a chocolate chip cookie just sort of melts in your mouth. The good news is that one of the power foods on our list has just the crunch you need to feel satisfied: almonds! Two ounces or 48 of these tasty nuts will give you 50% of your daily magnesium, which ensures heart health, as well as providing vitamin E, fiber and monosaturated fat, which is the good kind. One study last year found that participants who ate 2.5 ounces of almonds per day lowered their cholesterol significantly after just one month! Other studies suggest a link between almonds and reducing the risk of colon cancer.

Some people like complementary health foods. These are things that they won’t so much taste, but can sprinkle or grind up onto other food to add an extra boost. Flax seeds are an easy addition to salads, vegetable and rice dishes, and oatmeal. This super seed is one of the few plant sources for omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential for maintaining a balance within the body and fighting off heart disease, strokes and depression. Flax seeds also carry a photoestrogen, which mimics the body’s estrogen, and works to reduce cholesterol, as well as circulating estrogen to prevent breast cancer.

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How Changing Your Diet Can Help With Yeast Infections

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

There’s so many different ways that you can get a yeast infection. Among the possibilities include using oral contraceptive pills, using oral steroids, about to get your period, having diabetes, use of applications like soap, douche, hygiene products, and wearing clothing that is damp and/or warm. Luckily there are many ways that you can treat the yeast infection. However any treatment you try should also be combined with the right type of diet.  If you have a symptoms of a yeast infection you really want to deal with it.

Detoxing, that would be the more appropriate term when it comes to a yeast infection diet. Yeast infection is a direct result of an overgrowth in some areas of a natural occurring microorganism, if you want the scientific name then it’s really called Candida albican.  There are many ways you can do a body detox.

A basic part of the diet is of course to drink plenty of water. When detoxing your body it’s very difficult to do this without the help of water. This is because the water helps get rid of toxins that are trapped in your body. It has been also suggested that fresh fruit juices and even tea be added to the liquid intake. But emphasis is given to drinking at least eight glasses of water daily. 

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Benefit of Antioxidant Foods

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Antioxidant Foods Video

Fighting cancer using natures help requires the use of antioxidant foods; substances found in many plants, fruits and vegetables. Phytonutrients found in fruits and vegetables work together with other nutrients to protect your health. Although only nine hundred if these phytonutrients have been discovered so far it is the scientist opinion that many more will be found and will change tomorrows health care needs; with these discoveries (and more to come), scientists believe the face of healthcare is changing, hopefully forever.

Recent studies have indicated the phytonutrients found in fruit provide a whole host of natural health benefits; cherries for instance are able to reduce the pain in joints and blueberries have anti-aging properties.

Unrecognized for many years, the properties contained in the blueberry are only just now being appreciated with many antioxidant compounds contained in a fruit with very low sugar content. The easiest way to inject concentrated amounts of these fruits is by drinking juice every day; regular consumption can help our circulation and increase our ability to combat illness.

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Acai- Its Contribution to the Formulation of Exfuze Seven Plus

Friday, November 14th, 2008

eXfuze HD Inspiration eXfuze 7+ Exfuse Seven

Finally its celebration time!! Your wait for a drink which celebrates your life is here. The drink of our time and the drink of the future have arrived. Exfuze, a proven natural drink with most of the renowned botanical substances is what the people are talking about at the moment. A health drink with super foods and supported by numerous clinical studies is Exfuze seven plus.

Exfuze distinguishes itself from other health drinks, as it presents a combination of valuable supplements derived from natural fruits and herbs which are indigenous to different parts of the world. The drink has come to be known as the Exfuze seven plus because it is a combination of seven of the world’s most renowned of herbs with high nutritional value. One of the most important components of Exfuze seven plus is Acai or Amazon’s “super berry” as it is locally called. Botanically Acai is known as Euterpe oleracea and it belongs to the family of Arecaceae, a family to which most of the palms belong.

Acai is highly nutritious and a storehouse of antioxidants which helps in building the natural defense mechanism of the body against disease and germs. Its fatty acid content is high too and helps to maintain the cholesterol level of the blood. Studies have shown that being a fruit rich in antioxidants, it restricts harmful free radicals which destroy human cells. Antioxidant, precisely anthocyanidin, present in these fruits destroy cancer cells, restore stamina, and increases vigor.

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Female Bodybuilding Diet

Friday, November 14th, 2008

For a female bodybuilding fan, a disadvantage compared to men is that they don’t produce enough testosterone. It is important to have a very strong diet to be successful in this sport. That means they have to take advantage of every little aspect of our anatomy to get results that are worth wild. Diet happens to be one of the most important aspects of this. You’re going to need to be a very long term oriented thinker because this is going to a lot of consistent behavior on your part for months.

You have to eat properly to get the right results. Even if your workout is the best the results will still be bad, if you’re not eating properly to support the body’s proper development.

Eat Smaller Meals More Often: This is a sound rule that you will find in bodybuilding diets for women and men. The reason for it is that it keeps a consistent flow of nutrients into the body, so you properly repair muscles throughout the day. The second reason is that when your body is put into a constant state of digestion, your metabolism increases. This allows you to put on the muscle mass without having to put on a lot of fat with it.

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L-Arginines Health Benefits

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

 

L-Arginine is a dietary substance and an amino acid that helps the body rid itself of ammonia and is used to make such compounds in the body as creatine and glutamate. It is possible to convert it to glucose and glycogen when needed. There are many health benefits of this substance. Preliminary research has found that Arginine may help with conditions such as atherosclerosis and erectile dysfunction. It’s found in protein formation and with larger doses stimulate growth hormone production and prolactin.

One of the most prominent health benefits of L-Arginine is its use in patients who can benefit from increased blood flow, such as erectile dysfunction and heart disease. This substance is used in the production of nitric oxide, which increases blood flow, reduces blood vessel stiffness and improves blood vessel function. Increased blood flow due to arginine makes it a possible use in cases of erectile dysfunction. It helps dilates the penis’ blood vessels, this increased blood flow helps sustain an erection. It increase circulation and blood flow in the body, this is why it is thought to be such a good aid for people with erectile dysfunction and heart disease. L-Arginine is also used in the care of and relief from arthritis symptoms as it is a component of collagen. In new tissue and bone cells collagen plays a vital role. It is also thought to promote the rapid healing of wounds for this reason.

Athletes take advantage of the health benefits of L-Arginine due to the amino acid’s ability to promote the release of human growth hormone, which enhances energy and endurance in the body. Athletes take it to increase creatine phosphate and insulin production, this is thought to increase muscle mass and hlep with fat loss. L-Arginines healing properties have been documented it has been found to help heal wounds and damaged bones.

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What Happened to Our Bodies Natural Probiotic Production?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

There are many advances in our health care we can be thankful for today. Before the 1900’s poor sanitary conditions including insufficient sewage waste systems as well as contaminated food and water were attributed to the main causes of death aside from natural causes. Once we began to understand more about the invisible world full of bacteria, things like indoor plumbing and the sterilization of medical instruments were established. As time has passed, we have become more and more conscience about our personal hygiene. The results are a tremendous decrease in infectious diseases.

However, while there has been a great decrease in deaths due to infectious diseases, starting with the introduction of penicillin in the 1940’s, a new type of problem cropped up. Instead of dying of many infectious diseases, death from serious chronic conditions has gotten out of control. People are not dying from poor hygiene, they are dying from the decrease and elimination of something else.

And this is where our discussion turns to the endangered internal species as a result of antibiotics. The undeniable truth of the matter is this – the destruction of bad bacteria by means of antibiotics also kills our amazing probiotic bacteria friends.

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Nutrition Facts For The Elderly

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

protein rich foods

Healthy eating and nutrition education for the elderly is greatly impacted by several factors, one of them
being a change in body composition.  During the later years in life, the body will lose bone and
muscle and gain fat because the hormones aren′t very active anymore.

There are many factors which hinder an elderly person’s health.  The information below will help
you to lead a healthy life - no matter how old you may be.

Water

Water in the body decreases with age, so many older folks will become dehydrated very easily.  Sometimes they won’t feel thirsty, while other times it’s too much work to pour a glass a water.  With this in mind, it’s recommended that they drink at least 1 ounce of water for every 2.2 pounds of weight.

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Nature’s Amazing Flu Shot

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

The usual routine for most for any given winter is, especially if you forget your flu shot is this. Get cold or flu like symptoms and keep them on and off for a month or so. Certainly this is no way to live. We all live in a very fast paced world and we really need to be on the move and get things done. We don’t have time for down time. Right?

The cure for the common cold is something that has eluded mankind for thousands of years. Chicken soup Vitamin C and a host of other natural remedies have been used for years to fight this formidable foe. But that is all that other remedies can do, try to make the suffering a bit better. What this simple cure does is to put the BAM on the cold or flu.  It effect annihilates it! I noticed another very interesting benefit.  After several years of doing this I have confirmed that this also works like a flu shot, making you immune to any bug that comes along for about 5 months or so. Now that’s cool!

So what is this miracle cure? Garlic. Yes Garlic. I have been amazed at how so many nutritionists and health conscious people like Jack La Lane referred to Garlic as Natures antibiotic. So, One day my wife and I were working and had an upcoming event, which we really needed to be well for. We just couldn’t be sick! So what could we do…Huuuuum. We remembered the power of Garlic and made a juice consisting of:

Handful of Garlic cloves
1 Small Carrot
1 Tomato
Honey
1/2 cup Lemon Juice

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Kelly Slater Heli-Surfing Massive G-Land

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

If there was ever a time when the coolest surfer in the world is in his prime then this has to be it. Flying into Indo in a helicopter to surf huge G-land waves is just amazingly cool. Watch Kelly Slater slay giant G-land on SurferMag.com. Incredible! From the Association of Surfing Professionals web site, “There isn’t a surfer out there, past or present, whose sheer dominance is even close to that of Kelly Slater. Since cutting his teeth with old school veterans Tom Carroll, Martin Potter, Derek Ho and a host of others too numerous to list, the prodigious Slater walked away with his first ASP World Title in 1992 and quickly led surfing into the twenty-first century. He conquered the ‘90s and almost effortlessly placed six ASP world title trophies on his mantle (See Career for stats). After taking a brief sabbatical from touring (1999-2001), he dropped back into competition to face off against the new guard of competitors like Andy Irons, Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson. Proving he hadn’t lost his touch, Slater stole crowns No. 7 and 8 in 2005 and 2006. After watching Australian Mick Fanning take the ASP World Title in 2007, an unstoppable Slater bitzed the start of the 2008 season, winning 5 out of the first 7 events and claiming ASP World Title No. 9 in Spain.” He′s awesome!

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