Coffee may not be as unhealthy as many would have you believe. Although technically an alkaloid, or a poison, often touted by New Age health gurus as an evil brew, new evidence shows many surprising health benefits.
It is startling the amount of conflicting advice one hears about the health of various foods and drinks. It was once thought that eating eggs were harmful because of the high cholesterol content, and a man should not eat more than one a day. Recent evidence, however, has shown that they are not as harmful as once believed, and the controversy over cholesterol rages on. I know some bodybuilders who eat 10 to 15 raw eggs a day with no apparent ill effects.
We now know, for example, that there is good and bad cholesterol. And cholesterol is vital for the production of important hormones such as pregnenolone, responsible for the manufacture of such vital hormones as DHEA, estrogen, testosterone, etc. Without cholesterol we would die. The attack of the food and medical industry against cholesterol has been wrongheaded, among many others.
It was once thought that margarine was far healthier than butter, as another example. We now know that margarine is one [...]
Image via Wikipedia What is Anti Aging & Longevity?
If you read through books, journals, articles and surf the Internet, you will soon notice that it is very difficult to find a satisfactory definition of aging. It is easy to enumerate the symptoms of aging, which most writers fall back on doing. But what aging is exactly seems to be somewhat elusive.
We are less concerned with what aging is, and more concerned with how we can slow the process. However, here is a brief overview of aging.
We now know that part of the reason we age is because our genes are preprogrammed in such a way that prohibits our cells from regenerating indefinitely. That is, there is a mechanism in our cells which sets a limit on how many times they can divide and regenerate new cells. Due to evolutionary factors, we are literally programmed by our genetic structure to die.
Fortunately, scientists are beginning to understand this process, and it is becoming quite clear that we will be able to eliminate this roadblock to immortality within the next 20 years or so.
Even if our cells were not preprogrammed to die, they would eventually [...]
It is a well known fact nowadays that your build muscle diet is a critically important component of your total fitness regime that will determine the degree of your bodybuilding success. If your diet is substandard and lacking in key nutrients and food types, regardless of how hard you train you won’t gain the muscle mass and definition you desire.
Let’s review a few simple but essential rules to follow to design and implement a superb build muscle diet, and then we’ll uncover some of the very best quality and targeted foods for building muscle mass. Here are some quick guidelines for a diet to build muscle:
1. Consume 6-7 quality, well-planned meals per day to sustain a high metabolism and avoid glycemic spikes. This will make it much easier for you to metabolize the required amount of calories in order for you to gain muscle mass. Also, it will ensure your body has high energy levels throughout the entire day to fight fatigue, maintain an elevated mood and assist recovery and muscle repair.
2. Your build muscle diet should consist of roughly 50% carbohydrates, 30% [...]
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Aerobic exercises and strength training should be a part of everyone’s weekly routine (at least three times a week) in order to maximize their overall health, fitness and enjoyment of life. Exercise helps with weight loss by boosting metabolism. The healthier you are the better you feel. So it only makes sense that greater health leads to greater satisfaction in life. If you look around at the people with the biggest smiles on their faces, they are usually the ones who are healthy and active. Our bodies were made to move. Movement is life.
Before starting any rigorous exercise program, you should consult with your Doctor in order to ensure that you are not endangering your health in any way. In other words, it is important to be healthy before you begin exercising. It is also important to exercise in many cases if you are not healthy, but this must be done under the strict supervision of a health expert. Here are some exercise tips to make your exercise program work to your benefit, helping you lose weight, increase lean muscle mass and fight depression while maintaining your motivation and sense of fun.
1. Begin by [...]
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A blending of the best of the web concerning weight loss tips and how to lose weight. There is a great deal we can do to lose weight that does not involve taking risky pills and medicines.
This series also includes great lifestyle changes for enhancing fitness, increasing your resistance to disease, and healthy changes to your mental and spiritual well-being. Health begins in the mind, with positive thoughts and a positive attitude. Learn to be creative, to pray, to give thanks, to be grateful, to forgive, and create your own reality.
Obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of over 30, is a physical state that simply means you have excessive body fat. Probably you have experienced the frustrations of dieting many times before if you have problems with your weight, especially since childhood. Nearly a hundred million Americans pursue a weight loss diet in any given year and as many as 95% of them regain the extra weight they had lost in the last five years.
Even worse than that, a third of dieters will gain back more weight than they lost, in danger of bouncing from one fad diet to another, and [...]
The world’s most powerful medicines, the foundation and fabric of your body, reside in nature, in the food you eat. “You are what you eat” is the fundamental commandment of optimal health and well-being.
Paramount health and the healing of disease doesn’t require artificial, pharmaceutical drugs or medical “experts,” as the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies would like you to believe. The wisdom of the universe resides in nature and natural foods, and all the nourishment your body needs to heal itself can be found there. Give the body what it needs and it will heal itself: your immune system is the product of hundreds of millions of years of biological evolution – the evolution of natural intelligence.
If everyone consumed the proper amount of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, green superfoods like chlorella and spirulina, and got enough excercise, 90% or more of all disease would be eliminated within a few years from the face of the earth. Lifespans would increase, youthful health and vitality restored to the elderly, and cutting -edge, natural anti-aging science would become mainstream. One day in the not too distant future it will be.
Will you and your family still be alive to enjoy it? I [...]
Chlorella and Spirulina: The “Perfect” Superfoods
Chlorella and spirulina are two of the most remarkable superfoods ever discovered. Everyone should include these miracle foods in their diet. For example, pound for pound, spirulina contains twelve times the digestible protein of beef. It’s a far superior protein than beef because of your body’s natural ability to digest it, and incorporates a much more complete balance of minerals such as magnesium.
As another example, a phytochemical in chlorella can actually rebuild nerve damage in the brain and nervous system. Because of this, chlorella is used in the treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Both of these superfoods have been scientifically shown to both prevent and even reverse cancer in humans. These superfoods also contain a high amount of essential fatty acids such as GLA that are lacking in the diets of most people yet are essential for healthy brain function.
Chlorella & Spirulina: What Are They
Food! Chlorella and spirulina are both microscopic plants that grow in fresh water, called micro-algae. They are among the earliest and simplest forms of life. They incorporate an astonishing spectrum of nutritional ingredients: vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, protein, nucleic acids (RNA and DNA), [...]
Obesity has become an epidemic in America. And as America exports its junk food like McDonalds, Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken around the world, people in other countries increasingly suffer from being overweight.
The following are weight loss tips to help you keep off the pounds, or lose some of the unnecessary weight you have.
Weight Loss Tip #1. Ask yourself these questions as you begin: Why do you want to lose weight? Are you truly committed? You must want to do it for yourself not someone else whose love you don’t want to lose. And you must be 100% committed and ready to make sacrifices in your traditional, habitual way of life. Losing a significant amount of weight is very difficult for most people even under the best of circumstances, so you must be prepared to endure and perservere You must really want it and not just “wish” it was already accomplished.
Weight Loss Tip #2. Use a small plate to help control the amount of food you can devour without reloading. In other words, your hunger will be satisfied with less food if you eat more slowly.
Weight Loss Tip #3. Take time to chew your food. [...]
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Corruption in the Health Care Industry
The world’s most powerful medicines, the foundation and fabric of your body, reside in nature, in the food you eat. “You are what you eat” is the fundamental commandment of optimal health and well-being.
Paramount health and the healing of disease doesn’t require artificial, pharmaceutical drugs or medical “experts,” as the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies would like you to believe. The wisdom of the universe resides in nature and natural foods, and all the nourishment your body needs to heal itself can be found there. Give the body what it needs and it will heal itself: your immune system is the product of hundreds of millions of years of biological evolution – the evolution of natural intelligence.
If everyone consumed the proper amount of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, green superfoods like chlorella and spirulina, and got enough excercise, 90% or more of all disease would be eliminated within a few years from the face of the earth. Lifespans would increase, youthful health and vitality restored to the elderly, and cutting -edge, natural anti-aging science would become mainstream. One day in the not too distant future it will be.
Will you and your family still be alive to enjoy it? I [...]