Category Archives: Health & Nutrition

Guide to Nutritional Supplements and weight management.

Health & Nutrition #65 by Nutrobalance

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Exercise and Weight Loss: How Much Time it Takes
to Gain and Lose Muscle Mass

I realize it’s not new information that exercise is important for weight management and health. The hard part is staying consistent. If you’re like most people you’ll find yourself having conversations in your head where you talk yourself out of exercise: “I don’t have time today”, “I don’t feel like it”, I don’t want to get sweaty and have to shower again”. In the beginning you’re motivated and exercise 4-5 days a week for a couple of weeks and then some minor disasters happen at work or home and you exercise only once that week, and then once every two weeks, and pretty soon you aren’t exercising at all.  continue reading…..

Why Strength Training is Important Later in Life


Many people believe that as you age your metabolism automatically slows down and the weight creep is inevitable. While this is partially true, there is one important thing you can do to keep your metabolism revving like you were in your thirties. Strength train. Strength training allows you to build and maintain muscle.   continue reading……
Eat Your Vegetables! Getting Young Children to Eat Healthy
You can compare a child’s body to a building under construction. A lot of different materials are needed to build it and to keep it in good repair. But a human being is also a kind of machine that’s running. It requires fuel for energy, and other substances to make it work properly, just as an automobile needs gasoline, oil, grease and water.  continue reading……

Alcohol Risks vs. Benefits

Previously I’ve addressed the pros and cons in Alcohol Risks vs. Benefits. The other mouthwash video I referred to is Don’t Use Antiseptic Mouthwash, part of a video series on improving athletic performance with nitrate-containing vegetables (if interested, start here: Doping With Beet Juice).
As you can see in my volume 13 DVD listing, I’ve got another video coming up in a few weeks, Breast Cancer Risk: Red Wine vs. White Wine. Make sure you’re subscribed (for free!) so you don’t miss it.
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Healthy Aging

Read about the latest developments in anti-aging science and learn about the secrets that contribute to longevity and happy, healthy aging.   click here!

Jamie Oliver’s  Recipe of the Day – Incredible nut roast
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Health & Nutrition #64 by Nutrobalance

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HOW STRESS AFFECTS YOUR APPETITE
AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

When you feel stressed it’s a common experience to want to eat a pint of ice cream and equally common to not want to eat anything at all. The stress response is complicated involving many systems of your body. How you react to that response varies from person to person.   continue reading….

Breast Cancer and Diet

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and its incidence has increased by more than 20 percent worldwide since 2008. A study from Spain shows that women on a high-vegetable Mediterranean-type diet had close to one third the rate of breast cancer when compared to a control group that was only given advice to reduce fat intake (AMA Oncol, January 21, 2016, and JAMA Intern Med, Nov 1, 2015;175(11):1752-60). Mediterranean-type diets are high in plants and contain fish but are low in other animal products.  continue reading….

Might Turmeric Help Prevent Alzheimer’s?

There are plenty of anti-inflammatory drugs out there that may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, but stomach, liver, and kidney toxicity precludes their widespread use. So, maybe using an anti-inflammatory food like the spice, turmeric, found in curry powder, could offer the benefits without the risks? Before even considering putting it to the test, though, one might ask, “Well, do populations that eat a lot of turmeric have a lower prevalence of dementia?” And indeed, those living in rural India who do just that may actually have the lowest reported prevalence of dementia and Alzheimer’s.  continue reading…..

Jamie Olivers’ Recipe of the Day –
Sizzling Chicken Fajitas  click here!

 

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Health & Nutrition #63 by Nutrobalance

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Your Guide to Sports Nutrition

If you’re eating before or after a workout, your meal should have plenty of protein, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates – so we’ve rounded up the best recipes and tips to help you eat to perform (and recover) at your best.   click here!!!

Love Your Liver: Lessons From Chinese Medicine (TCM)

There is much we can learn from the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is at least 6,000 years old. According to TCM,each season relates to specific organs that are more active and in fact going through a “cleansing” process.
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Blood Pressure

Blood pressure is considered a key vital sign. High blood pressure may be the #1 killer risk factor in the world, as it is a risk factor for coronary artery disease, heart attacks, and possibly Alzheimer’s disease.   continue  reading….

Healthy Living Program

Making health changes takes time and commitment and there are often obstacles along the way. With our maintenance and support program, you get a series of our exclusive E-coaching sessions to get further support while you master your new eating habits and lifestyle changes.   click here!!

Fresh Squeezed Nutrition by Lindsey Toth, MS, RD

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Lindsey is a leading nutrition expert whose passion is helping others fall in love with food and nutrition. As a media spokesperson, professional speaker, author, blogger, and registered dietitian, Lindsey empowers people to take charge of their health by finding the balance between the pleasure and nourishment in food.   meet Lindsey!

Jamie Oliver’s Recipe of the Day -Fantastic tomato & fennel salad with flaked barbecued fish click here!!

 



 

Health & Nutrition #62 by Nutrobalance

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Eating a high protein breakfast may help you with weight management

You’ve probably heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but did you know that the type of breakfast you eat is just as important. New research suggests that eating a higher protein breakfast can help you feel more full and satisfied throughout the day, leading to greater weight loss overall. In a study at the University of Missouri researchers compared the benefits of a normal protein breakfast (milk and cereal) with a high protein breakfast (eggs, dairy, pork) and found that participants in the high protein group reported less feelings of hunger, decreased their daily caloric intake by 400 calories, and lost body fat mass.  read it all……

Healthy Eating and Diet Nutrition

Healthy Weight Loss, Fight Lifestyle Diseases

Healthy eating and getting the most nutrition out of your meals is your secret to staying healthy and energized, natural weight loss, and combating lifestyles diseases.
Does the expression, “you are what you eat” ring a bell? Do you know that what you eat and how you prepare your food can affect how you look, how you feel, and how long you live?
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Lowering Your Blood Pressure
Below 120/80 Helps Prevent:

  • Stroke
  • Heart Attack
  • Impotence
  • Kidney Failure
…to name just a few of the conditions you may prevent if you lower your blood pressure naturally! continue reading...

Jamie Oliver’s
Recipe of the Day – Salmon & couscous click here!!

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The Need for Supplementation

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Never before has the need for supplementation been greater than in our present time.

The connection between good nutrition and long term health is beyond dispute and backed by a wealth of scientific evidence.What we eat and how we eat effects our health on the long term.

Our diet fails in supplying the essential nutrients we need for optimum health.We have put good nutrition on the backburner and as a result our diet fails to provide even the minimum levels of nutrients that we need for long term health. Only 9% of people consume the five daily servings of fresh fruit and vegetables recommended by the National Cancer Institute. Until the 1940’s,farmers used to practise crop rotation and returned essential nutrients back into the soil by mulching,manuring and churning. Because of growing population and industrialization it was no longer possible to grow crops that way. So the farmer use large farms and make use of artificial fertilizers. But crops can’t make their natural insect repellents with artificial fertilizers,so the farmer has to use chemical pesticides, which are sprayed on the crop and fruits and when we consume those fruits and veges,those chemical pesticides accumulates in our body and causes diseases.

Most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies, which cannot be remedied until the depleted soils from which our food come,are brought into proper mineral balance.The alarming fact is that fruits and vegetables now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals, are starving us, no matter how much we eat.In other words, we cannot get the necessary nutrients out of our food. 96% of the US population dies of a degenerative disease, like cancer, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer disease etc. Over 65% of American adults are overweight or obese (20%-25% of children). We are not even getting the minimum of RDA levels of vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants. The RDA levels were designed in the early 1920’s and 1930’s as minimum requirements of TEN essential nutrients to protect against acute deficiency diseases,like Scurvy (deficiency of vit.C), Rickets (deficiency of vit.D) and Pellagra(deficiency of niacin)

The RDA’s did a good job to eliminate Scurvy and Rickets, but consuming the RDA’s will not even come close to helping prevent a degenerative disease and our EPIDEMIC health stats prove that. To protect us against degenerative diseases we need OPTIMUM LEVELS of nutrients. Just to make a comparison between the RDA levels and Optimum levels: The RDA level for Vit.C is 60mg.However the Optimum level is 1300mg.
The RDA level for vit.E is 15IU. But the Optimum level is 450IU’s(IU stands for International Unit).
The RDA level for vit.D is 200IU’s,but the Optimum level is 600 IU’s. To be able to get the Optimum level of vitamin C(1300mg) out of our food, we have to consume 17 medium kiwifruits or 16 medium oranges daily, which is unpractical. So what’s the solution? We have three choices:
1. do nothing and pay the price.
2. become an old fashion farmer.
3. take a 1st. grade supplement.

It’s been scientifically proven that there are substantial health benefits in taking nutritional supplements.
The benefits of nutritional supplements are scientifically verified over the past two years.Hundreds of scientific studies have proved that nutritional supplements can significantly reduce the risk of degenerative diseases.

Supplements provide a convenient and effective means of achieving good nutrition every day for a lifetime. Chronic degenerative diseases are not diseases of old age.Heart disease starts at childhood. It appears prudent for all children and adults to take vitamin supplements.

For information about nutritional supplements, please visit: http://www.nutrobalance.usana.com

Health & Nutrition #61 by Nutrobalance

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Yoga improves quality of life in patients with
atrial fibrillation

Heart rate, blood pressure also decreased in patients
who did yoga

Date:
March 14, 2016
Source:
European Society of Cardiology
Summary:
Yoga improves quality of life in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, according to research. Heart rate and blood pressure also decreased in patients who did yoga.  read it all.…

Diet Matters: Clarifying the Link Between Breast Cancer and Eating Patterns

It was June 1982. At a news conference in Washington, a group of internationally recognized scientists had just finished announcing the National Research Council’s report on diet, nutrition, and cancer[1]. The report received extensive news coverage, lots of criticism from the industry most affected by the report’s conclusion and – according to some authorities-the highest number of requests for a report ever released by the august National Academy of Sciences (NAS), our sponsor. continue reading…..

How to gain muscle mass, burn stubborn body fat and make overall body composition improvements

I explain how to properly train on the major compound exercises such as the squat, dead-lift and bench-press and cover why training hard, once or twice a week on these exercises makes losing fat easy whilst maintaining or even building muscle mass.  read it all.….

Jamie Oliver’s Recipe of  the Day –
Asian Crispy Beef  click here!!

Health & Nutrition #60 by Nutrobalance

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Mindful Eating for Balance

How would you define the term balanced living? For some people, it may mean that all the necessary “pieces” of their life are in place. Perhaps they are healthy and live with minimal stress, worry, or sadness. Perhaps they have mastered the art of mindful eating and that has positively impacted other areas of their lives. While there is no concrete definition for balanced living, studies have shown that life satisfaction is directly linked to well-being and can be assessed through health, economic, marital, personal, family, social, and job satisfaction. In turn, life satisfaction may motivate people to pursue and reach their goals. continue reading…..

Potential new treatment for prostate cancer

Date: March 21, 2016
Source: University of Georgia
Summary:
Researchers have created a new therapeutic for prostate cancer that has shown great efficacy in mouse models of the disease. The treatment is designed to inhibit the activity of a protein called PAK-1, which contributes to the development of highly invasive prostate cancer cells.   continue reading……

Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet

Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting-edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.
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Jamie Oliver’s Recipe of the Day
A rather pleasing carrot cake
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Multivitamins

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Multivitamins for optimal cellular nutrition

Are your cells getting the nutrients they need to work optimally?

Good nutrition is the cornerstone for optimal health.
Your daily diet must provide the essential nutrients
for your body cells to function properly.

That’s where USANA Health Sciences comes in.

USANA was established in 1992 by Dr. Myron Wentz, PhD in microbiology,
world-renowned expert in human cell culture and disease detection technology.

For more than 30 years he has studied, grown, observed and applied
the nutrient balance and dosage requirements for cells to grow,
multiply and maintain at optimal health.

Dr. Wentz has used his expertise in cellular nutrition to develop
the USANA Nutritionals to help you maintain good health.

USANA’s research and scientific excellence provides you with the confidence
that you are following a nutritional and wellness program that truly works!

Nobody Knows Nutrition Like USANA!

For more information, visit:http://www.nutrobalance.usana.com

 

Nutritional Medicine

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Nutritional Medicine is unknown to most physicians as well as the public. The benefits of a good exercise program and a healthy diet are well known. Few however, especially physicians, have any knowledge of the health benefits of taking high quality nutritional supplements. Vitamins are a hot issue within the medical field.But the verdict is in. What your doctor doesn’t know about nutritional medicine may be killing you. Only about 6% of the graduating physicians in America have received any training in nutrition. Doctors believe that you don’t need supplements and that you get all the nutrients you need from a good diet.

Doctor and patients alike must take a long hard look at how they approach health care to-day. Numerous studies prove that a healthy diet, a good exercise program and high quality nutritional supplements is the absolute best way to maintain your health and to regain your health after you have lost it.

There are records of amazing results by practicing nutritional medicine. Patients with multiple schlerosis, who have gone from wheelchair-bound to walking again. Some cancer patients have gone into remission, patients with macular degeneration have found significant visual improvement and fibromyalgia patients have regained their lives.

Oxidative stress is the underlying cause of all chronic degenerative diseases, like coronary heart disease, stroke, cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and macular degeneration.

Heart disease is not caused by high cholesterol, but the inflammation of blood vessels, which can be reduced and even totally eliminated by taking nutritional supplements.

Antioxidants and there supporting nutrients have become our new weapon in the war against our number one killer: heart disease.

Fruits and vegetables contain thousands of extremely potent bioflavanoids. They also have some anti-allergic and anti- inflammatory properties.

Red whine and grape juice contain polythenols, which has been proven to reduce the formation of oxidized LDL cholesterol. Grape seed extract is known as the best antioxidant to prevent chronic inflammatory disease.

Vitamin E is the best antioxidant for the cell wall, vitamin C for the plasma and glutathione is the best intra cellular antioxidant. All of these antioxidants need the so-called antioxidant minerals and B-cofactors to do their job.

These ingredients work together in synergy as they accomplish the ultimate goal of defeating oxidative stress.

Doctors are content to let the pharmaceutical companies determine new therapies when they develop new drugs. But our natural antioxidant and immune system are the best defence against the development of chronic degenerative diseases.

There is some good news however, medical research is beginning to support the idea of supplementation with a mixture of antioxidants and supporting nutrients. This mix can enhance traditional chemo and radiation therapy and at the same time protecting normal cells from toxic effects.

But you don’t have to be a physician to start practicing nutritional medicine, you as a patient can become proactive about preserving the health you have.

Cellular nutrition is defined as providing all of the nutrients to the cell at optimal levels or to those levels which provide a health benefit according to medical literature. Your life and health depends on it. They are far more superior to any drugs your doctor prescribe.

Health & Nutrition #58 by Nutrobalance

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Understanding obesity from the inside out

New lab method reveals roles of GABA in the control of appetite and metabolism

Researchers developed a new laboratory method that allowed them to identify GABA as a key player in the complex brain processes that control appetite and metabolism
In the last 40 years, obesity has more than doubled around the world. In the United States, the average American is more than 24 pounds heavier today than in 1960. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Washington are studying the problem of obesity from the inside out.  continue reading.…..

 Bycicles are most energy-efficient

If you ride a bicycle, be proud. Humans riding on bicycles are more energy-efficient than any other animal and any other form of transportation. Vance Tucker of Duke University compared bicyclists to humans and animals running, birds flying and fish swimming, as well as to people in motor-powered cars, boats, trains and planes (J. Exp. Bio, 1973;68(9):689-709). The less energy per weight you use to travel over a distance, the more energy-efficient you are. Vance found that the most efficient creature without mechanical help is a condor. With mechanical help, the cyclist comes out on top.  continue reading…..

15 Anti-Inflammatory Foods You Should Be Eating

Inflammation is your immune system’s reaction to irritation, injury, or infection. It’s a normal response (and actually a good thing) and it’s a natural part of healing. But, it’s possible that chronic inflammation could have a negative impact on your body and your health.
Following an anti-inflammatory diet is one way to counter some of the chronic inflammation that comes from leading a not-so-healthy lifestyle.   continue reading……

Jamie Oliver’s Recipe of the Day

Hasselback potatoes  with gorgonzola & honey

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