Healthy Food and Drinks

Latest blog for 2012 and a few tips on healthy foods and drinks, and their benefits. Check out my other Health and Fitness blogs, and let me know what you think and any recommendations.

·        Drink BEETROOT JUICE to boost stamina. This stuff is high in nitrate, which widens blood vessels, optimising oxygen intake for extra energy levels. Great for football, weight training, the lot!

·        If you’re serious about fighting against getting cancer then I highly recommend a regular intake of BROCCOLI each week. I’m not the biggest fan of broccoli, or vegetables in general, but chopping them finely and adding them to soups, stews and much more, is a simple and effective way of beating this. Oregan State University research has shown that the chemical Sulforphane, found in broccoli, attacks cancer cells while ignoring the healthy ones!

·        PEANUT BUTTER regenerates your liver! Not just a great muscle-gaining aid then! Research done by the University of Virginia found the effects of liver damage can be reversed by eating foods rich in vitamin E, as they help block the RSK proteins that cause cirrhosis. Peanut butter is said to be one of the best sources, so stock your cupboards now!

Next is to antioxidants, and the best foods to find them in.

·        Red Kidney Beans – Studies have shown that these help to reduce cholesterol levels. Also high in the fatty acid DHA, essential for eye health.

·        Cranberries  – These are said to fight against tooth decay.

·        Pecans – Eating these can delay age-related Motor Neuron Degeneration.

·        Wild Blueberries – These little beauties can help you in your weight-loss goals as they’re said to reduce stomach fat.

Strength Training and Weight Loss; A Perfect Combination by Ross Cohen

Strength Training and Weight Loss: A Perfect Combination

When you need to lose weight, whether it's a hundred pounds or five, you know you need to exercise. Unfortunately, it's often difficult to make that first step. Perhaps you're apprehensive about your appearance while you work out. Maybe you are simply dreading working out that first time. No matter where you are, there are weight loss exercises that will help you shed those unwanted pounds. You know that you could crash diet, or take some unsafe pills, but just by reading this exercise article, we know that you want to do things the safe way.

Before you begin an exercise regimen, particularly if you've not been exercising at all, it's important to consult a doctor. Your physician will most likely have helpful, specific to you tips and strategies. He or she may even suggest some exercises to do in addition to the ones we'll discuss. Plus, you'll feel more at ease while you work out, knowing that you'll be safe.

Cardio

There are two major categories in weight loss exercises. The first is cardiovascular exercises. Cardio, as it's called for short, elevates your heart rate to a range that is ideal for fat and calorie burning. Furthermore, your blood circulation is enhanced, supplying your muscles with Some examples of cardio include:

Walking

Jogging/Running

Swimming

Aerobics

Zumba

Martial Arts

Dancing

Rowing

Of course, these aren't the only cardio activities out there-truly there is something for everyone. It's important to note a prolonged amount of time, around twenty to thirty minutes, maximizes the benefits of cardio.

Strength Training

Strength training is the other main category of weight loss exercise. It's also the category that people are most likely to overlook. Strength training, often performed with weights, increases your muscle density and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). What's the benefit to that? Increased muscle density leads to a higher level of calorie burning, even while you're doing nothing! Combining this with cardio is an excellent way to boost weight loss.

Many individuals, particularly women, are often wary of strength training. They don't want to look like body builders! You can rest assured. The types of exercises that would produce that result are far beyond what you'll need to do. Some examples of strength training activities include:

Squats

Lunges

Dips

Pull ups

Push up

Crunches

Of course, strength training's effectiveness is enhanced by adding in the presence of weights, even if they're only the handheld, two pound ones. Here's some further strength training exercises that are done with weights:

Bicep curls

Chest flies

Deadlifts

Bench presses

Shoulder presses

In Closing

As we mentioned before, the best strategy is to combine weight loss exercises from both cardio and strength training. You'll maximize your results that way and lose more weight. You might even find yourself enjoying your workouts because of the variety. No more running on the treadmill night after night! You can add in a number of activities to that treadmill and shed those pounds.

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Health/Fitness and Exercise in the New Year - 2012

Health/Fitness and Exercise for the New Year – 2012

Well 2012 is nearly upon us and I’m working on some great new blogs coming in January so please look out for them. There will be more on mental health and depression, muscle building tips, healthy eating guides and much more.

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Chat to me any time, I’ll be happy to answer any questions as soon as possible and as honestly as possible.

Thanks for taking the time to read this short blog, and again look out for the new blogs coming in the New Year. Bye for now J

Back Pain During Pregnancy: Can Prenatal Pilates Help?

Continuing on the pregnancy subject, here's a blog about back pain during pregnancy. The article is from a popular author by the name of Sean Burton, but I think he offers great advice.

Back pain accompanies every stage of pregnancy for many women. From conception to delivery, the body undergoes significant changes.

Very soon after conception, the body begins releasing the hormone relaxin. This causes ligaments and joints in the pelvis to loosen, making room for baby. Since the pelvis is the foundation of the spine, pelvic instability can lead to back pain. An unstable pelvis also encourages postural changes that lead to back pain.

As the pregnancy proceeds, abdominal muscles loosen to make room for the growing womb. The pelvic floor, a group of muscles, ligaments and tissues that stretches from the pubic bone to the base of the spine, also stretches out as the baby grows. These changes leave the lower back muscles alone to handle the task of supporting the spine and the upper body's weight.

Finally, as the baby grows to full size, your center of gravity changes. This can alter posture significantly, causing muscle aches, strains and fatigue.

How Prenatal Pilates Can Help

Pilates is a popular form of exercises that focuses on developing core strength through body awareness and exercise. One of its major benefits is that, like yoga, Pilates is highly adaptable.

You may want to consider attending a prenatal Pilates course during your pregnancy. Its benefits include increasing pelvic stability by keeping the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles as strong as possible, maintaining flexibility in the back muscles and spine through stretching and enhancing pain management abilities through mental focus and breathing exercises.

First, talk to your doctor or midwife to make sure there is no special circumstance that would bar you from Pilates practice.

Next, seek out a prenatal Pilates class with a qualified instructor. You can look for classes at community centers, gyms, fitness clubs and YMCAs. You'll want to take a class where the instructor can offer plenty of individual attention. This is important; prenatal Pilates is very safe, but only when performed properly. As your body changes throughout pregnancy, your program will need to be altered.

For example, overstretching is a concern for pregnant women. This is because relaxin has made muscles, ligaments and joints very loose. Women are more susceptible to muscle strains late in pregnancy. A prenatal Pilates instructor can guide you as to the types of movements that are safe and beneficial for you along the way.

While you can't stop the changes your body goes through during pregnancy, you can take steps to manage the painful effects they have on your body. Prenatal Pilates is a great way to increase strength and overall well-being during your pregnancy. Pilates can help make this very special time more comfortable.

Education in back pain is the cheapest form of self preservation. Learn about what causes back pain and 4 other things that cause sciatic nerve pain.

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World AIDS Day

Well we're nearing the end of the 1st December 2011 and another successful awareness day for AIDS and HIV.
A big thanks to everybody who has done their bit to promote the awareness to people who didn't have a clue or had limited knowledge of the disease, it makes a huge difference.


Please check these links below and to the side for more information on this years World AIDS Day and more.

http://www.voanews.com/policy/editorials/World-AIDS-Day-2011-134832603.html


http://www.un.org/en/events/aidsday/2011/


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8920640/World-Aids-Day-2011-What-we-now-know.html



Thanks again for the support on this subject. Also check my other blogs on Health and Fitness and other blogspots on Football and Charity Work.

Top Mobile Apps for Monitoring Health and Fitness

A great article I found from author Chandra Heitzman about different health and fitness apps for your mobile, check them out now, and let me know what you think.

Healthcare costs are rising for consumers and for companies providing health insurance to their employees. One solution many companies have explored to help mitigate healthcare costs has been to encourage individuals to focus on preventative care and overall healthy lifestyle choices. When people develop healthy habits, the need for medical care tends to go down and the amount of money spent on medical care goes with it.

Mobile applications exist for virtually every purpose, including a growing number of apps designed to help individuals monitor their personal health and fitness. Some great examples of these apps can be found for both iOS users and Android users:

• Loseit! (iOS): Loseit! is a free app designed to help users count calories. It also provides nutrition information for many popular restaurants, allowing users to make intelligent choices while dining out. This particular app also allows users to keep track of physical activity, to monitor both caloric intake and calories burned while exercising. Again, this is one of many apps for the purpose of monitoring diet and fitness, and it happens to be free of charge


• iBody (iOS): On the other end of the price spectrum at $9.99, the iBody application provides many of the same functions as the free Loseit! app, but goes much further. Space for recording heart rate and blood pressure can help users maximize the effectiveness of their workouts. These are but two example of a myriad of options available up and down the price scale, so depending on your specific goals and needs there is an app out there that will meet the cost and functionality parameters for which you are looking.


• Endomono Sports Tracker (Android): The Sports Tracker helps users map jogging routes and track distance and average speeds. It also provides audio feedback for every mile/kilometer traveled and a history of users' lap times and music playlists. This app also includes elements of gamification, allowing users to challenge friends to beat their time on routes and share the results of their workouts on Facebook.


• Food & Nutrition (Android): The Food & Nutrition Tracker is helpful when used in conjunction with the Sports Tracker if weight loss is one of your specific goals. This app provides nutrition information on thousands of foods which makes it easy to make decisions that best mesh with your physical activity level as you work to achieve your goals.


• AllSports GPS (Android): If you find using two free apps to be too cumbersome, the AllSports GPS app is $9.99 and it tracks exercise information such as calories burned, distance traveled, and average speed. It also functions as a calorie counter to help keep track of caloric intake. This app is also great for individuals who like to share goals and progress with friends and family.

There are many more apps available than can be discussed here, so rest assured that one or more exists (or will exist soon) to help anyone get healthy and stay healthy. You'll save money in the long run by avoiding many health problems associated with a lack of proper nutrition and exercise. Your body will thank you and perhaps your employer will thank you as well.

For more information about mobile application development, visit Magenic Technologies who have been providing innovative custom software development to meet unique business challenges for some of the most recognized companies and organizations in the nation.

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My New Health E-Book - BEAT HEART DISEASE AND CANCER

I have finally published my first e-book after spending hours and hours, years and years getting the vital facts and information you will find in this great e-book series, 'ESSENTIAL HEALTH'.
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Quick Muscle Gain For Men And Women

There are many great shortcuts when it comes to quick muscle gain. If you think that building muscle has to be a major task, you will want to look at the many quick ways you can gain muscle in a very short time frame. This does not have to interfere with your life, but you will have to make some changes in your life that can have some very positive consequences.

It used to be that the requirements for building muscle were about an hour per muscle group. This could leave someone in the gym for hours each day to get the body benefits they seek. Exercise has come a long way over the years and the days of hours in the gym are over.

It is now believed that muscles need an optimal amount of rest for optimum building power. This requires you to work out for a shorter time period each day with adequate rest for each muscle group. The beginner will be delighted with the new muscle building techniques.

It is now recommended that you only work each muscle group very hard only one day per week. Years ago someone would work his or her muscles to exhaustion every single day. This is a routine that can be very disruptive to life and relationships. The new recommendations make it much easier to have a life outside of building great muscles.

When you are training very rigorously, you will want to monitor your diet closely. You want to eat more to gain the muscle you need. If you are eating less, you may not be giving your body the fuel it needs to help build muscle. You can achieve great results by obtaining more calories and this can help you to make better food choices.

Small meals are often recommended compared to large meals. If you are continuously replenishing your body, it can help the body from going into starvation mode. More of the energy your body converts from food can be used to build muscle and this can help you to achieve great results.

When you are looking for quick muscle gain, many things have changed over the years and the guidelines for building muscle have changed dramatically. When you explore the new guidelines and recommendations, you will be giving your body the ultimate chance at gaining muscle in a very short time frame and this can help you to achieve your goals quickly.

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3 Quick Health Facts

3 Quick Health Facts
1. You can burn an extra 11% of calories when completing fast reps when working out, opposed to normal speed reps with the same size weight!
2. Take 2-3 tumeric tablets a day to get rid of those aching joints. Get yours from revital.co.uk
3. Enjoy sardines to keep your sperm healthy and reduce your risk of prostate cancer. 100g of these supply 70% of your RDA of Selenium.
And there you have it! Just a brief blog with 3 vital facts about health and fitness.
By James Harvey

Recognizing The Truth About Health And Exercise

Imagine the frustration if you were performing some exercise for years and discovered you were doing it wrong. Think of the person injured while performing an exercise incorrectly because of bad information. These are very real considerations and they happen to people all the time. That is why it's so important to make sure you get your information from experts and credible sources. Your health depends on you doing your research because bad information is everywhere. The world of health and fitness are no different so here's some solid information for you.

Have you ever heard that swimming is a great way to lose weight? This is a fallacy. Swimming has many benefits but losing pounds isn't one of them. The reason for this is because as you are swimming the water is doing the work to support your body weight (called buoyancy) which basically means you aren't getting the workout you think you are or that you might if you were running or jogging long distances.

If you want relieve your feeling of stress, do some exercises. You may be wondering how exercising or working out can be stressful. Performing exercises causes your body to produce a relaxation response. Granted, you may not necessarily feel it if you're running or sweating all over the place in the gym. If you are looking for a way to take your mind off your stressful life for a while do some exercises. There is also the point about endorphin release which helps to calm you and can create a natural feeling of euphoria.

You will also see improvement to your physical and mental performance when you get regular, quality exercise. Greater strength and stamina will help improve your physical performance. People who exercise regularly enjoy a greater degree of clarity, which obviously helps with mental performance. When people exercise regularly, they carry those positive habits to other areas such as their diet and nutrition. If you are totally new to working out, then health and fitness truths and falsehoods are more important than ever. Because you are still forming your fitness habits, this is extremely important. You will be setting yourself up for a painful re-education if you cultivate the wrong habits now. Forming good habits is crucial not only to your success but to actually sticking with your fitness routine.


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Top 5 Reasons to Eat Fruit & Veg!

Here I have found some vital information on the importance of eating your fruit & veg; Top 5 Reasons!

1. Studies have shown the risk of a stroke will decrease by 42% if eating nine portions of fruit and veg a day.

2. Bananas lower blood pressure and their potassium helps to regulate your heartbeat.

3. An orange a day will reduce your risk of larynx and stomach cancer by 50%.

4. Eating foods high in vitamin C, like oranges and broccoli, increases your protection from heart disease. It is said that men can even achieve a six-year life extension as a result of this.

5. And finally, your chances of a long life increase by a quarter if you eat a fig a day.

So, there you have it. A few vital facts about the importance of eating your fruit and veg. Please keep checking back for more great information and this subject and much more, and please recommend my blogs on twitter and anywhere else you can, thank you.