Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Monday, January 21, 2008

The Truth About Statins



Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Burn your body fat with Joy Fit Club’s 30-minute workout!

Try the Joy Fit Club’s 30-minute workout! Tone your muscles, increase your aerobic capacity and burn body fat.

Fitness expert Geralyn Coopersmith has created a 30-minute circuit training workout perfect for members of the Joy Fit Club or anyone looking to get in shape.

Circuit training is a great way to get a quick, effective total-body workout that never gets boring. The circuits you’ll be doing involve alternating power toning moves with cardio moves, so that in just 30 minutes you can tone your muscles, increase your aerobic capacity and burn body fat.

I’ve picked a series of lower body, upper body and core exercises to tone the largest muscle groups in the shortest amount of time. Because these muscles require a lot of total body effort, your heart rate will stay elevated during the entire workout — and you will burn more calories than with conventional resistance training.

Here are a few simple guidelines to keep in mind:

1. Commit to 30 minutes of exercise every day
2. You can do any of the following variations, but be careful not to do the same muscle groups on back-to-back days:

* cardio moves alone
* cardio with lower body only
* cardio with upper body only
* cardio with core only or cardio with upper, lower and core

*The exception to this are the core moves, which can (and should, if possible) be done every day.

Five cardio options
Works the cardiovascular system, improves aerobic capacity, burns calories and helps fat loss. The following are five cardio options

1. Straddle down on step (step move): Begin standing on top and in the middle of the step, standing “lengthwise” (i.e., as if you were standing on a diving board). Begin straddling off and on the step by stepping off with your right foot then off with your left, then back on with your right foot and on with your left. Continue doing the movement quickly while still maintaining good control and foot placement. To make the movement more intense, bend the knees and try to keep your body down closer to the step throughout.

2. Alternating knees up on step (step move): Step on the step with your right foot and then lift your left knee up as high as you can, keeping good posture. Immediately, step down with your left foot and down with your right. Then change step on with your left foot and lift your right knee. Continue so that you are alternating stepping and lifting knees each time.

3. Marching in place (floor move – no step): Stand tall with good posture. March in place lifting the feet up purposefully and pumping the arms rhythmically.

4. Alternating elbow to knee (floor move – no step): Stand tall with good posture. Bring your right knee toward your left elbow. Then switch and bring your left knee toward your right elbow. Continue alternating rhythmically. Try to keep your back as straight as possible throughout.

5. Alternating squat to front kick (floor move – no step): Standing with your feet a little wider than hip-width apart, sit back as if sitting into a chair. As you stand back up, kick out in front of you with your right leg. Immediately place your right leg down and go back into a squat. This time as you come up, kick forward with your left leg as you come up. Continue alternating squats with single-leg front kicks.

Five lower body options
Five upper body options
Five core options

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22627588/

Monday, January 14, 2008

Know more about Ultimate Tea Diet

Tea has been widely recognized for its amazing health benefits. It can help:

• Boost the immune system
• Lower blood sugar and cholesterol
• Prevent cavities and tooth decay
• Slow the aging process
• Decrease high blood pressure
• Prevent arthritis
• Sharpen mental focus and concentration
• Reduce the risk of stroke, heart disease, cancer, and more...

Now, it's time for tea to be recognized, not only for all of these wonderful health benefits, but also for its ability to help tea drinkers lose weight.

The Ultimate Tea Diet harnesses tea's incredible weight-loss potential in a straightforward plan for losing weight in a safe and healthy way. Simply find a tea you love, drink it all day, follow an easy food plan, and see the pounds fall off.

Tea's ability to encourage weight loss comes from the synergy of its three main ingredients: caffeine to stimulate, L-theanine to neutralize the harmful side effects of caffeine and act as an appetite suppressant, and EGCG, which causes you to burn fat faster and more efficiently. In other words, tea reduces your appetite and stimulates your metabolism.

Don't worry--you won't go hungry on the Ultimate Tea Diet. The food plan includes tasty tea-based meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner as well as tempting choices for midday snacks and sweet treats. All are made deliciously with tea so not only is your food incredibly flavorful, but you're also getting the health and weight-loss benefits in every single bite you enjoy.

Drinking tea--and maintaining a conscientious focus on good health--can easily become a way of life. Slim down to a leaner, more energetic, and healthier you with the Ultimate Tea Diet.

Click here to find out more about the Ultimate Tea Diet.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

New Reebok Precision Trainer XT Heart Rate Monitor with Chest Strap

Reebok's Precision Trainer Heart Rate Monitor is designed with multiple features to help you keep track of your heart rate, target zone, exercise time, laps and more.

Its graphical pyramid display indicates your level of exercise intensity.

Now, Reebok launched a new series called Reebok Precision Trainer XT and this comes with Heart Rate Monitor with Chest Strap.

There is a special offer from www.woot.com. Check it out here.





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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Breathe Easier with Nose Bidet

What is a Nose Bidet? And what is Neti Pot?

Read on more from http://thenosebidet.com/.

The "nose bidet" refers to something called a neti pot. A neti pot is used to "clean out" the nose and sinuses- thus the comparison to a bidet.

Oprah Winfrey and Doctor Oz were discussing neti pots on her talk show in April 2007. They brought one out and asked the audience if anyone knew what it was. A woman in the audience stated that it was a nose bidet. Most viewers had no idea what this was. Dr. Oz then explained and demonstrated how to clean the sinuses with a neti pot.

The nose bidet was revisited on a new episode on May 21, 2007. This appearance on Oprah Winfrey has caused the demand for these "nose bidets" to skyrocket- just like everything else that appears on her show. Many people are now searching for nose bidets while everyone else is left scratching their heads asking "What the heck is a nose bidet?"

Amazon.com has wide ranges of Neti Pot selections. Do check out some of their starter kits.



The Neti Pot Starter Kit contains everything you need to begin a daily nasal wash routine--Ceramic Neti Pot, Neti Pot Salt 10 oz jar, and Neti Wash Plus 2 oz bottle.

The bestselling ceramic Neti Pot makes nasal irrigation easy and comfortable. The trademarked lotus design and distinctive shape dispenses the perfect rate of flow to optimally cleanse the sinus passages. Made with lead-free ceramic and glaze. Neti Pot Salt is 99.99% USP grade salt, the highest purity salt commercially available, perfect for use with the nasal wash system.

The salt is non-iodized and contains no additives or anti-caking agents. 10 oz refillable jar with measuring spoon. Neti Wash Plus contains zinc and herbal extracts that add anti-microbial and anti-viral support to your nasal wash. Zinc helps to tone and astringe the nasal passages reducing excess mucus and promoting clear, healthy sinuses. Studies show that zinc can shorten the duration of a cold.

* Ingredients: Zinc acetate, Goldenseal root (Hydrastis canadensis), Phellodendron bark (Phellodendron amurense), Coptis root (Coptis chinensis), Barberry root bark (Berberis vulgaris), Grapefruit seed extract, vegetable glycerin and distilled, purified water. *These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

The Starter Kit contains everything needed for a daily nasal wash routine - Ceramic Neti Pot , Neti Pot Salt 10 oz jar, and Neti Wash Plus 2 oz bottle. The Himalayan Institute introduced the Neti Pot 35 years ago as the perfect tool to support sinus health.

The Neti Pot naturally cleanses, refreshes, and protects the nasal passages and has been used for thousands of years in Ayurvedic medicine to alleviate allergy and sinus problems. Ingredients: Zinc acetate, Goldenseal root (Hydrastis canadensis), Phellodendron bark (Phellodendron amurense), Coptis root (Coptis chinensis), Barberry root bark (Berberis vulgaris), Grapefruit seed extract, vegetable glycerin and distilled, purified water.

Product Features:

* The Neti Pot Starter Kit contains everything needed for a daily nasal wash routine
* Naturally removes excess mucus, pollen, dust, and other environmental irritants from the sinus passages
* Add anti-microbial and anti-viral ingredients to your nasal wash with Net Wash Plus
* Doctor recommended and featured on America's favorite talk show
* Ceramic Neti Pot made with lead-free ceramic and glaze; illustrated instructions included

Indications:

Dry Nasal Passages, Allergies, Excess mucus, etc.

Directions of use:

To use Neti Pot, simply fill it with your prepared saline solution, turn your head to the side, and insert the spout into the proper upper nostril. Raise the Neti Pot so the saline solution flows into the nose and out the lower nostril.

Lose 100 pounds or more with The Joy Fit Club!

Looking for effective way to shed extra pounds on your body? The Joy Fit Club helps its members to lose 100 pounds or more...read on!

New York nutritionist Joy Bauer is making good headlines with her weight loss and nutrition program called The Joy Fit Club.

The Joy Fit Club is based in New York City and has earned the attention of numerous top TV shows and health magazines. In fact, The Today Show will present members of the Joy Fit Club who have lost and kept off a significant amount of weight.

"Twice a month, TODAY will induct new members into nutritionist Joy's Bauer's Fit Club. These are determined people who have lost and kept off a significant amount of weight -- 100 pounds or more. Read their inspiring and motivating stories of how they lost the weight the good old-fashioned way, through diet, exercise and no surgery," reads the announcement in TODAY show's website.

The club has been inspiration for many people wishing to lose extra weight. Patti Ferrara from Youngstown, OH comments to a personal weight loss experience of Mandy Muniz (who went from 300 pounds to 126 with Joy Fit Club) and writes "I haven't hit the Joy Fit Club 100 yet, but I'm close. Your story has given me the incentive to get rid of the last twenty lbs once and for all."

In her website's About Us section we learn about The Joy Fit Club that "Joy Bauer has built one of the largest nutrition centers in the country. Located in Manhattan and Westchester, Joy Bauer Nutrition, provides counseling to both adults and children dealing with a variety of nutritional concerns, including weight management, diabetes, eating disorders, cardiac rehabilitation, sports nutrition, food allergies, gastrointestinal disorders, pregnancy, lactation, and menopause."

Read more about The Joy Fit Club here.

Watch video about Joy Fit Club member loses 100 pounds here!

Article source: http://www.emaxhealth.com/69/19558.html

Sunday, January 06, 2008

How to Lose 21 Pounds in 21 Days!

Losing weight in 2008? Is this one of your new year's resolutions? If you're looking for effective, quickest, easiest and safe ways to shed pounds...you may want to grab a copy of 21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox.

Here are the descriptions of the book...





Detox diets are making news as the quickest, easiest way to shed pounds, boost your energy, and get yourself on a wellness track. Popular in the 1970s, cleansing fasts are again all the rage among celebrities like Gisele Bundchen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Stella McCartney, and Madonna.

One of the key advocates of the health benefits of cleansing detoxes is Roni DeLuz, ND, a licensed naturopathic and health practitioner at Martha's Vineyard Holistic Retreat, part of the renowned Martha's Vineyard Inn. The idea behind DeLuz's new detox plan is the belief that the foods we eat (along with the coffee, tea, and alcohol we drink and the air we breathe) contain harmful and toxic substances that accumulate in our bodies and need to be removed in some way. In 21 Pounds in 21 Days, DeLuz offers three different detox programs, including the original and most effective 21-day "MasterFast," which promises a 21-pound weight loss in just three weeks and focuses on detoxification through antioxidants, fasting, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes. Also included in the book are:

* Maintenance plans

* Dozens of easy, delicious recipes

* Real-life tips

* An extensive glossary of terms

* A guide to supplements

Meals consist of supplement-laden drinks, herbal teas, thick, delicious vegetable purees, and "live" juices, along with nutritional supplements, vitamins, and enzymes designed to keep the body's systems stable and its cells nourished while harmful toxins are flushed out. 21 Pounds in 21 Days isn't just for those looking to lose weight; everyone can benefit from this revolutionary detox diet that results in a clean, refreshed system that functions at its best.

You can save more than 30% if you get the book from amazon.com now!