Category Archives: health & nutrition

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.
continue reading…..

Jamie Oliver’s Recipe of the Day
A rather pleasing carrot cake
click here!!

Multivitamins

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

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

click here!
 

 

Cholesterol versus Homosysteine

Has your doctor ever recommended a blood test to check your homocysteine level? After you have read this article, I guarantee you will wonder why. Not many people have ever heard of it, yet it is responsible for ca 15% of all heart attacks and strokes in the world.Wouldn’t it be worth to know more about this major killer, more so when you realize that you can correct it by simply taking vitamin B?

The research on homosysteine was done by Dr. Kelmer Mc Cully, a promising pathologist and researcher, who graduated from the Harvard Medical School in the mid 1960’s.

Dr. Mc Cullly was in particular interested in studies that involved the connection of biochemistry with disease. He earned a strong reputation and became assistant professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Mc Cully discovered that children who had a genetic defect that kept them from breaking down an essential amino acid called methionine. These children showed a tremendous buildup of a by-product, called homocysteine.

Dr. Mc Cully looked at two special cases of two under eight years old boys, who died from a heart attack. When he examined the boys’ pathology slides, he discovered that the damage to the arteries was similar to that of an elderly man, who had severe hardening of the arteries.

This led Dr. Mc Cully to wonder whether mild to moderate elevations of homocysteine that were present over a lifetime could be a cause of heart attacks and strokes in the average patient.

Homocysteine is an intermediate byproduct that we produce when our bodies breakdown the amino acid called methionine. It is found in large quantities in meat, eggs, milk, cheese, white flour, canned foods and highly processed foods.

Unlike cholesterol, which the body needs for the production of certain cell parts and hormones, homocysteine provides no health benefit. The higher the level of homocysteine, the greater the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Homocysteine is converted by our bodies into either cysteine or back to methionine again. These products are not harmful, however, the enzymes to break down homocysteine into cysteine, need folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12. If we are deficient in these nutrients, the homocysteine levels in our blood begin to rise.

Dr. Mc Cully’s theory was shut down and he lost his job at Harvard’s, because at that time the cholesterol- heart attack theory was gaining tremendous momentum and Dr Mc Cully’s hypothesis were a threat to its future.

The cholesterol theory achieved great victory and killed all other threatening theories.
Drug companies made their fortunes and everybody was convinced that heart attacks and strokes were associated with high blood cholesterol levels. Are you? If you have read my article about Nutritional Medicine, you should know better!

Anyway, the medical society and the pharmaceutical Companies did an excellent job selling this to the medical community and to the general public.

Health & Nutrition #57 by Nutrobalance

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Eliminate The Signs Of Low Testosterone!

The 214 page Testosterone Restoration Handbook e-book shows you how to eliminate signs of low testosterone such as low energy, moodiness and weak libido, within 12 weeks!
The e-Book is packed full of articles on ways to naturally maximise testosterone levels, which I’ve written over the past few years. The advice provided within the articles included in this book will allow you to push your testosterone levels up to the top of the natural range in an incredibly short time period, normally less than 12 weeks, and to eliminate the signs of low testosterone!   click here !

11 Reasons why You need to drink more water.

Your body contains more water than anything else — about 60 percent of your total body weight. Water helps regulate your body temperature, transports nutrients and helps remove waste. Every day you lose water when you breathe, sweat, urinate and defecate, and that water needs to be replenished.
The big question is how much water do you need to drink every day? Although that’s a simple question, it doesn’t have an easy answer.  continue reading…..

Light-to-moderate drinking good for your heart

Date: February 18, 2016
Source:
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Summary:
People who drink wine, liquor or beer regularly are less prone to heart failure and heart attacks than those who rarely or never drink. Three to five drinks a week can be good for your heart.  read it all…..

Jamie Oliver’s  Recipe of the Day – The best fish baps

The best fish baps with mushy peas & tartare sauce My super-quick twist on the fish finger buttie These crispy fish finger sarnies are a little bite of heaven, especially with my mushy peas Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals Recipe Buy the book
click here for the recipe!

Nutritional Medicine

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 defense 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 #56 by Nutrobalance

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How to Build Muscle & Be Your Plant-Based Personal Best

By Robert Cheeke December 17, 2015
If there is one common behavior I see over and over again in the health and fitness industries, it is the fear people have of trying something new. That’s precisely how I felt when I enrolled in the Center for Nutrition Studies Certificate Program in Plant-Based Nutrition through eCornell in the spring of 2012.
continue reading....

Using This Raises Your Heart Attack and Stroke Risk By 30%

For many men in their 50s and 60s, that all too familiar dip in energy and sexual vigor is often a fact of life–and a clear sign of diminishing testosterone levels. For many healthcare professionals, though, the solution is clear: Have them take a testosterone supplement.   Read More »

New Dietary Guidelines

North Americans are killing themselves by eating too much of the wrong foods. Half of all U.S. adults suffer from chronic diseases caused by unhealthful diets and two-thirds are markedly overweight. To help correct this, the Dietary Guidelines issued this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services recommend: * restricting sugar, salt, saturated fat, and trans fats * eating more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, lean meat, and low-fat foods The recommendation to eat lean meat has caused the most criticism by scientists.
continue reading….

Jamie Oliver’s Recipe of the Day –
Broccoli salad With smoky bacon    click here!

Health & Nutrition #55 by Nutrobalance

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6 Simple Habits To Ward Off Disease That The Healthcare System Don’t Tell You

The above video is 4:04 minutes long. Watch the full interview below or listen to the full episode on your iPhone HERE. Guy: When it comes to disease and sickness, we are big believers in prevention is the cure. I think … Read More

High Protein Diets Safe for Resistance Trained Men

High Protein Diets Shown to Build a Better Body!