Why ‘Vitamin D’ is Important!
Low Vitamin D Levels Lead to Poor Physical Performance in the Elderly!
Get Your Vitamin D Now!
In a recent study, researchers examined the association between Vitamin D status and physical performance. Among subjects with low Vitamin D levels, physical performance and grip strength were significantly lower than that of participants who did not have reduced levels.
In addition to its role in bone health, vitamin D is thought to play a role in musculoskeletal function. In a recent study, researchers examined the association between vitamin D status and physical performance in a sample of 976 persons over the age of 65.
Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for 2011
Happy New Year!
If you are like most people, you have promised yourself that THIS YEAR you are going to improve in one or more areas of your life!
Are your resolutions on our TOP 10 List?
- Lose Weight
- Stop Smoking
- Get Fit
- Spend More Time With Family and Friends
- Quit Drinking
- Enjoy Life More
- Get out of Debt / Earn More Money
- Learn Something New
- Help Other People
- Get Organized
Watch for upcoming posts that will talk about many of these topics!
U.S. Agency Says More than 70 Million U.S. Adults Obese
26.7 % of Americans are Obese!
Obesity Costs $147 Billion a Year!
More than 72 million U.S. adults, or 26.7 percent, are obese, up 1 percentage point in two years, the U.S. government reported on Tuesday.
Obesity has become “a major public health threat” and is steadily worsening, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
“We need intensive, comprehensive and ongoing efforts to address obesity,” CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a statement.
U.S. Dietary Supplements Often Contaminated!
Many popular dietary supplements contain ingredients that may cause cancer, heart problems, liver or kidney damage, but U.S. stores sell them anyway and Americans spend millions on them, according to Consumer Reports.
The consumer magazine published a report on Tuesday highlighting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s lack of power to regulate such supplements, and said the agency rarely uses what little power it does have.
The report from the influential group urged Congress to speed up small moves toward giving the agency more clout, especially in regulating supplements
Foot Detox Scam!
The Foot Detox brochure claims that the device will “detoxify” your body by immersing your feet in it. The brochure is even so bold as to deny that they are “not linked with the recent media reports on foot spa services being investigated by the Ministry”.
The main benefits touted by the use of the foot detox system are that it relieves pain and discomfort of arthritis, improves immunity system, reduces stress and anxiety, improves circulation, removes blood clot material, improves sleep, improves liver and kidney function, enhances mental focus and concentration, assists in recovery time from injuries and surgery, soothes headaches and increases vitality and energy.
While their website states that “As a company we do not claim that we can cure disease by soaking the feet in water”, 
another section of the website has the usual “testimonials” of people with various “disorders” like migraines, irritable bowel syndrome and even “severe gout” allegedly obtaining benefit from its use.
A scam is a scam is a scam. Surely you cannot be so gullible to believe that by soaking your feet in this contraption your body will be “detoxified”? The public may be swayed by the water “miraculously” turning brown or black in color.
This is a simple explanation on How Foot Detox Works:
Vitamins Plus Ibuprofen May Ward Off Alzheimer’s
For patients at high risk of Alzheimer’s disease, taking a combination of vitamins E and C plus ibuprofen significantly reduces their risk, results of a longitudinal study suggest.
Specifically, the combination seems to benefit people who carry a variant of the gene for apolipoprotein, APOE-4, which is known to put them at high risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease.
“We found that for people at low risk, taking vitamin C and E alone is sufficient to further reduce their risk,” Dr. Majid Fotuhi told Reuters Health. “But for those with (APOE-4), the combination exerts a synergistic benefit.”
Fotuhi, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and his associates followed nearly 5000 elderly residents of Cache County in Utah for 8 years, taking into account their regular consumption of vitamins C and E, and ibuprofen.
U.S. Heart Attack Rates Declining – New Study
Heart attack rates fell 24 percent in California between 2000 and 2008, probably because of better care, U.S. researchers reported Wednesday.
Protect Your Heart!
Dr. Robert Yeh of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues said the 24 percent drop was seen even though doctors can better detect heart attacks and despite the growing rates of diabetes and obesity, both of which raise the risk of heart attack.
“We would expect an increase in heart attacks because we’re picking up more heart attacks than we used to,” Yeh said in a telephone interview. “We found that, despite that, they are still going down.”
His team used data from the 3 million people in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California health system.
Over 50 Aerobics
Research tells us that exercise is good for all older people.
Aerobic exercise is especially good. It helps older adults move more easily and feel better. Even people in their 90s can improve their aerobic fitness.
Older adults who are fit are likely to have a better quality of life and to live longer. If we lose fitness, daily tasks such as housework and gardening tire us out. When we feel strained or too tired, we stop doing these tasks. Then we can start to decline, doing less, getting less fit and weaker, and you end up doing even less activity. We can end up needing others to help with the simple daily tasks of living on our own.
What is Aerobic Fitness?
Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss
Whey Protein Powder!
Athletes have benefited from the lean-muscle building property of whey protein for years, and now you can too!
Get Your Whey Now!
Chocolate Whey Nutrimeal provides an impressive 15 grams of whey protein—one of the highest concentrations of quality whey you can buy. It also contains all-natural flavors and sweeteners and is formulated without gluten and soy-protein for those with special diets.
And like the other Nutrimeals, Chocolate Whey has a low-glycemic formula to produce only small fluctuations in blood glucose levels for sustained energy to keep you satisfied longer.
Each serving of Chocolate Whey Nutrimeal contains 2 grams of dietary fiber. You’ll be the envy of your friends, building lean muscle through proper diet and exercise and drinking delicious chocolate shakes.
Health Basics of Whey Protein
- Formulated without gluten and soy protein for special dietary needs
- 2 grams of dietary fiber
- 15 grams of whey protein
- Low in saturated fat
- Low glycemic
- Helps reduce carbohydrate cravings and deliver sustained energy
Read this Before taking Another Herb!
Many Herbs & Supplements Contain Cancer Causing Ingredients such as Lead and Arsenic!
Sellers of ginseng, echinacea and other herbal and dietary supplements often cross the line in marketing their products, going as far as telling consumers the pills can cure cancer or replace prescription medications, a U.S. government probe found.
In an undercover probe, investigators at the Government Accountability Office also found that labels for some supplements claim to prevent or cure ailments like diabetes or heart disease, a clear violation of U.S. law.
GAO staff targeted supplements most popular with older consumers and posed as elderly buyers in stores or over the telephone.
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