Athletes need more antioxidants to protect against the byproducts of exercise and they need more natural Cox-2 inhibitors to protect against inflammation. The following recommendations - in the form of a balanced and varied diet - ensure an adequate supply of energy, nutrition, and protective elements, and therefore represent a healthy approach to eating. The carbohydrates can supply extra energy, which is especially important in the latter stages of exercise, while protein helps to protect against muscle loss. Increased oxygen utilization during exercise can increase the production of free radicals (unstable molecules that can cause tissue damage at the ...

Along with the notorious absolutes in life, death and taxes, stress is a fact of life. It’s relentlessly forces us to adapt to change, be it from external or internal sources. Like death and taxes, stress will not disappear. Therefore it’s imperative that we develop better ways to adapt. Now, it’s possible to do more than exercise, meditate and eat well to manage stress. ShenTrition (pronounced: shen-tri-shun) is a new supplement that supplies nature’s solution for stress—adaptogenic herbs. Adaptogenic herbs, or adaptogens for short, are a select group of herbs that provide a normalizing influence on the body, neither over stimulating ...

Nutrient deficiencies appear to increase with age. Some colleagues at the University of Iowa looked at over 400 Iowans 79 and older living independently in rural areas and found that 80 percent reported consuming inadequate amounts of four or more nutrients. When declining energy requirements are not matched by decreased caloric intake then total body fat increases. The Atkins diet leaves your body shy on some important nutrients, such as vitamin B, and also is negative for vitamins A, C and D, anti-oxidants that slow the effects of aging and calcium. Once again the lack of exercise has to enter ...

This is your wakeup call for being prepared going into the fall and any time you are laid up with a cold or flu. Try and set-up a plan for your family, as it can save you a lot of time & money. Those trips to the doctor and/or emergency room, if you deal with older parents, can drain you and your family! The flu typically arrives later, in November, with the peak season from late December through early March. Odds are you'll catch a cold soon, if you haven't already this season. The average American adult catches about two to ...

Nutrition and weight loss are certainly important subjects and ones that you would love to learn all that you can and then jump in and start on your diet so that you can lose the weight you desire. However, I sincerely believe that dieting is not the best approach to losing weight.Knowing everything about proper nutrition is going to help you do what is necessary to lose weight. Nutrition and weight loss are plausible solutions to losing those unwanted pounds. Meditation, visualization and prayer also help. We are in the 21st century and have the luxury of liquid vitamins to ...

Tap into the power of your immune system to avoid getting sick. You and a friend step into a crowded elevator and immediately notice two people coughing and sneezing up a storm. Within a couple of days you come down with a bad cold and blame it on that elevator ride. Yet your friend, exposed to the same germs at the same time, remains perfectly healthy. What made the difference? The power of the immune system. The strength of our immune system is what makes the difference between who stays healthy and who doesn’t. The ...

Who is at risk for getting autoimmune diseases? There are more than 80 types of autoimmune diseases and new treatments for autoimmune diseases are being studied all the time and can affect many parts of the body.  Women tend to be affected more often by autoimmune disorders; nearly 79% of autoimmune disease patients in the USA are women.  It is not known why this is the case, although hormone levels have been shown to affect the severity of some autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. These diseases can affect connective tissue in your body (the tissue which binds together body ...