How to Measure Your Health and Fitness Progress
Roberto Parezze asked:
There are a number of ways in which you can measure success. When it comes to your health and fitness it is important that you measure your progress by both new healthy habits and your appearance. The most important measures of success with a health and fitness program is the long-term decrease in medical problems, injury and other health risks while improving your quality of life either with or without weight loss.
You can also measure short and medium term changes regularly during the process of your health and fitness program. Some obvious changes can be noted in health related behavior patterns like a decreased need for medications, an increased ability to perform physical tasks, a reduce fat intake and an increased intake of dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals.
Watch what you eat closely:
One way to make great improvement towards a healthier lifestyle is by making slight changes to how your food is cooked and prepared. You may even notice yourself checking labels at the grocery store or discovering new tastes and textures for food. If you feel good about yourself and know about these changes then you are more likely to keep making progress with your health and fitness program.
A physical way in which you can measure your progress towards a healthier appearance is by measuring the fat distribution through the waist circumference and waist-hip ration or WHR. Abdominal obesity is most commonly linked to risk factors such as diabetes and heart disease. This is why any slight reduction you notice in waist circumference or in the WHR is a good step towards having a healthier fat distribution in your body even if you aren’t actively losing weight.
Body fat can be a good measure of fitness:
Another way you can use to measure you physical progress is through body fat measuring with either hydrostatic weighing, electrical impedance or just by using skin fold calipers. The last method is obviously the cheapest and most accessible method. However, it is also a less accurate method, but it will give you at least a beginning point for you to measure decrease in your body fat.
No matter how you choose to measure your physical progress you should never rely on a scale for your indicator. Your overall weight loss in numbers and pounds doesn’t determine your healthy progress. Your weight is merely a combined total of both your lean body weight and body fat weight. Two individuals can have the save body weight while having completely different body compositions. One individual can be in more shape than a person with the exact same weight.
A scale has no way of measuring your body composition and the actual changes that are occurring. While a scale may show you’ve lost seven pounds it can’t tell you if half of the weight was muscle loss and water instead of fat. People also become discouraged when the scale shows they haven’t lost any weight but in fact they have lost pounds of fat and just replaced it with healthy, firm and fat-burning muscle. So consider other methods other than the scale to get a true measure of your health and fitness progress.
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There are a number of ways in which you can measure success. When it comes to your health and fitness it is important that you measure your progress by both new healthy habits and your appearance. The most important measures of success with a health and fitness program is the long-term decrease in medical problems, injury and other health risks while improving your quality of life either with or without weight loss.
You can also measure short and medium term changes regularly during the process of your health and fitness program. Some obvious changes can be noted in health related behavior patterns like a decreased need for medications, an increased ability to perform physical tasks, a reduce fat intake and an increased intake of dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals.
Watch what you eat closely:
One way to make great improvement towards a healthier lifestyle is by making slight changes to how your food is cooked and prepared. You may even notice yourself checking labels at the grocery store or discovering new tastes and textures for food. If you feel good about yourself and know about these changes then you are more likely to keep making progress with your health and fitness program.
A physical way in which you can measure your progress towards a healthier appearance is by measuring the fat distribution through the waist circumference and waist-hip ration or WHR. Abdominal obesity is most commonly linked to risk factors such as diabetes and heart disease. This is why any slight reduction you notice in waist circumference or in the WHR is a good step towards having a healthier fat distribution in your body even if you aren’t actively losing weight.
Body fat can be a good measure of fitness:
Another way you can use to measure you physical progress is through body fat measuring with either hydrostatic weighing, electrical impedance or just by using skin fold calipers. The last method is obviously the cheapest and most accessible method. However, it is also a less accurate method, but it will give you at least a beginning point for you to measure decrease in your body fat.
No matter how you choose to measure your physical progress you should never rely on a scale for your indicator. Your overall weight loss in numbers and pounds doesn’t determine your healthy progress. Your weight is merely a combined total of both your lean body weight and body fat weight. Two individuals can have the save body weight while having completely different body compositions. One individual can be in more shape than a person with the exact same weight.
A scale has no way of measuring your body composition and the actual changes that are occurring. While a scale may show you’ve lost seven pounds it can’t tell you if half of the weight was muscle loss and water instead of fat. People also become discouraged when the scale shows they haven’t lost any weight but in fact they have lost pounds of fat and just replaced it with healthy, firm and fat-burning muscle. So consider other methods other than the scale to get a true measure of your health and fitness progress.
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What Is The Big, Fat Health And Fitness Lie?
Kevin Gianni asked:
This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s The Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com. In this excerpt, Craig Pepin Donat shares on the experiences that led him to write The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie.
The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Craig Pepin Donat, a certified personal trainer and author of The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie.
Kevin: Good evening, everyone. So Craig, you’ve been in the fitness industry for over 26 years and with that, I imagine comes a bit of wisdom. Why don’t you start with your story and how you’ve gotten to where you are now?
Craig: Sure Kevin. Well, first of all, I started out in the fitness industry as a personal trainer making $3.50 an hour.
Kevin: Wow.
Craig: So I’ve been in it for awhile and I grew through the ranks in the fitness industry to the executive level. I was the president of two of the largest fitness organizations in the United States. I was the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the largest chain of fitness clubs in the world operating in 11 countries. I also successfully owned and operated my own fitness company. I’ve visited 30 countries and evaluated health and fitness trends all over Russia, Asia, Europe. I’ve been to dozens of fitness conventions, purchased millions of dollars worth of equipment, supplements and other health and fitness related products and I’ve also had the ability to train thousands of health and fitness professionals around the world and help them to help other people improve their lives. So this really kind of led me to where I am today, which is to where I just got to the point where I want to do something more and that’s why I wrote my book The Big Fat Healthy Fitness Lie and founded Fit Advocate.com so that I could create a platform to protect and enhance the lives and health and fitness consumers.
Kevin: Now you just mentioned your book, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie which I absolutely love. What is the big fat fitness lie. Let’s just lay it on the table.
Craig: Why mince words? Let’s dig right in. The lie is that there are these billion dollar industries out there getting richer while we get sicker and fatter and with all the so-called solutions available for losing weight and improving our health, we are literally in the worse shape in the history of modern civilization. There’s big profit in sickness and in fatness, and a lot of times people question that and they think, “Oh, well we live in the United States, we’re in great health and we have the best health care system” which is a complete fallacy. Here’s an interesting fact that people should be aware of, we’re approaching some 300 million people in the U.S. and we have every year 200 million diseases that are diagnosed for conditions that could be prevented with simple lifestyle changes.
Kevin: Wow.
Craig: And we spend in the United States, 270 billion dollars on 3.7 billion prescriptions written to, not to cure anything because there’s really very few cures in modern medicine, medicine is meant mostly to mask our symptoms. So taking into our bodies a lot of toxic chemicals and you know there’s so much confusion out there and misinformation about health and fitness. So there’s a huge opportunity, unfortunately, for people to make big money on the lack of knowledge that people have about how to lose weight, improve their health, get in shape and live better. So millions of people are out there paying thousands of dollars that have no chance of helping them achieve their goal and that’s really the big fat lie.
Kevin: And let me just ask you this, you’ve been on the other side, you’ve been a part of the industry that is making a lot of money in the fitness clubs and the organizations and everything. When did you suddenly say, “Hey, you know, maybe I need to educate people about this.”
Craig: Well, first of all I never felt that the club industry was a bad industry.
Kevin: Okay.
Craig: And in my book I still am a big proponent of joining a fitness center for the average person, there are, of course, some caveat of how to get a quality club. I have an article on the ten worst tricks for the fitness industry. So I try to expose the things that I think are bad but there’s also a lot of good too, but what I did notice while I was operating all of these clubs and trying to help people is that I would talk to thousands of consumers, face to face. For a big part of my career, my job was to get out there and help, work with people in the field, club operators, managers, sales people, fitness staff members, personal trainers, to talk to them about how to help people make decisions that are good for them and the guiding principle, of course was always don’t focus on making money, focus on helping people and you will make money as a natural result, as a natural bi-produce of helping people. That’s always been one of my guiding principles, but in speaking with all these consumers, you find that the average person spends thousands and thousands of dollars on products and services that have no chance of helping them. They spend hours and hours of wasted time on information that will never help them improve their health or change their lives. So I got tired, frustrated and really kind of outraged at all of the quick fix solutions that are out there that people jump from one to the other and without really understanding the true cause of why they’re in such poor health. So I wanted to try to educate them on all of the things, the lies the deceptions while also trying to give them simple solutions for how to improve their health, how to lose weight, how to get in shape, how to live better, how to feel better with no tricks and no gimmicks for the rest of their lives. That’s really what the big fat health and fitness lie is all about and that’s really what Fit Advocate website is all about.
Kevin: And you take a different approach in your book as opposed to a lot of the other books that I’ve read about health and fitness and it’s related to addiction. You say addiction feeds this whole lie. What do you mean by this?
Craig: Well, many people live a self-inflicted toxic lifestyle that destroys their health and feeds this lie. So what do I mean by that? Well, the definition of toxic, first of all, is poison and in our society we are surrounded by poisons, in our air, it’s in our water, some of them we can’t avoid and many of them we can, however. A lot of these poisons, they’re not going to kill us today, but instead what they do is they slowly and quietly deteriorate and destroy our health.
There’s two specific types of poisons or toxins that I talk about that create these health problems. The first, of course is chemical exposures. There are thousands of untested chemical combinations in our food supply to improve taste, texture, color or to extend shelf life. There are low calorie,low carb foods laced with toxic sweeteners that has contributed to obesity and diabetes. We’ve been conditioned to believe that sodium fluoride, for example is good for our teeth. Yet it’s a known chemical waste bi-product of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industry. This chemical has been pumped into our water supply and put into our dental hygiene products for years but fluoridation has been flatly rejected by many developed countries because of the dangers and the lack of really any scientific evidence of any health benefit. Beyond that, we have toxic chemicals in our household products, our cleaning products, personal hygiene products. Fruits and vegetables have been treated with herbicides and pesticides. Chickens and cows are fed ground chicken and beef. Then pumped full of antibiotics to stave off disease from the horrific conditions in which they live and where they’re slaughtered. So we have all of those, you know, all of this chemical toxicity. That’s the first concern.
The second is the biggest toxic exposure which is related to stress, and people don’t realize this but as much as 80% of all disease is the result of stress and having had the ability to travel all over the world and visit, you know, I believe I’ve been to over 40 countries now, you find that we in America are the most stressed out country on the planet. We work more than any other activity other than sleep. Just think about our normal lives, we wake up every day and we’re running on empty from morning to night. We’ve got the pressures at work, at home, the challenges sustaining some sort of happy relationship with our significant others. We’ve got the demands of the kids, trying to pay the bills. We have all of the negativity in the news. We’re all trying to live the American dream which is predicated on financial freedom, but the truth is only a fraction of people out there actually ever realize the American dream and the rest of us are simply trying to get by, and, you know, we’re buried in a mountain of debt. All of these things add up to a lot of worry and stress and to cope with this stress, what do we do? We drink, we smoke, we take drugs, we over eat, we eat the wrong foods and we spend hours in front of the television or surfing the internet. All of these activities, unfortunately make us fat, lazy and out of shape, and what happens is this poor health that’s created from this self addictive lifestyle creates, and opens the door for these big fat health and fitness lies. One of them is companies that market, manufacture and market and sale products that have no chance of helping us and then, of course, the worse thing is when we look to synthetic chemical compounds, prescription drugs, as the first line of defense to handle our self inflicted health problems. So we really have a lot of issues that we have to deal with in order to be healthy, but people need to understand the basis of where it starts, the cause.
Kevin: Yes. How does someone take that sort of addiction or quote unquote addictive personality and turn that into fitness success?
Craig: Well the first thing they have to do is identify it.
Kevin: Yes.
Craig: You have to realize it. Here’s, here’s a fact that’s pretty important that people should know about, the number one reason that people give for not exercising regularly is that they don’t have enough time, okay. Yet the average American watches four and a half hours of television a day. So there’s an issue there with priority and people have to understand that time is the most important and the most valuable thing that we have because once it’s gone you can’t get it back. If you want to improve your health, you have to make time to do all of the things that are necessary to improve and enhance your health and your life and it’s not just exercise but it is one of the key components. So they have to first understand the issues and then have the right motivation and set the right priorities to get them to where they need to be.
To read the rest of this transcript as well as access more information on creating and living a healthy lifestyle and hear from other health experts just like Craig Pepin Donat please visit thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com.
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This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni’s The Healthiest Year of Your Life, which can be found at thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com. In this excerpt, Craig Pepin Donat shares on the experiences that led him to write The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie.
The Healthiest Year of Your Life with Craig Pepin Donat, a certified personal trainer and author of The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie.
Kevin: Good evening, everyone. So Craig, you’ve been in the fitness industry for over 26 years and with that, I imagine comes a bit of wisdom. Why don’t you start with your story and how you’ve gotten to where you are now?
Craig: Sure Kevin. Well, first of all, I started out in the fitness industry as a personal trainer making $3.50 an hour.
Kevin: Wow.
Craig: So I’ve been in it for awhile and I grew through the ranks in the fitness industry to the executive level. I was the president of two of the largest fitness organizations in the United States. I was the Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the largest chain of fitness clubs in the world operating in 11 countries. I also successfully owned and operated my own fitness company. I’ve visited 30 countries and evaluated health and fitness trends all over Russia, Asia, Europe. I’ve been to dozens of fitness conventions, purchased millions of dollars worth of equipment, supplements and other health and fitness related products and I’ve also had the ability to train thousands of health and fitness professionals around the world and help them to help other people improve their lives. So this really kind of led me to where I am today, which is to where I just got to the point where I want to do something more and that’s why I wrote my book The Big Fat Healthy Fitness Lie and founded Fit Advocate.com so that I could create a platform to protect and enhance the lives and health and fitness consumers.
Kevin: Now you just mentioned your book, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie which I absolutely love. What is the big fat fitness lie. Let’s just lay it on the table.
Craig: Why mince words? Let’s dig right in. The lie is that there are these billion dollar industries out there getting richer while we get sicker and fatter and with all the so-called solutions available for losing weight and improving our health, we are literally in the worse shape in the history of modern civilization. There’s big profit in sickness and in fatness, and a lot of times people question that and they think, “Oh, well we live in the United States, we’re in great health and we have the best health care system” which is a complete fallacy. Here’s an interesting fact that people should be aware of, we’re approaching some 300 million people in the U.S. and we have every year 200 million diseases that are diagnosed for conditions that could be prevented with simple lifestyle changes.
Kevin: Wow.
Craig: And we spend in the United States, 270 billion dollars on 3.7 billion prescriptions written to, not to cure anything because there’s really very few cures in modern medicine, medicine is meant mostly to mask our symptoms. So taking into our bodies a lot of toxic chemicals and you know there’s so much confusion out there and misinformation about health and fitness. So there’s a huge opportunity, unfortunately, for people to make big money on the lack of knowledge that people have about how to lose weight, improve their health, get in shape and live better. So millions of people are out there paying thousands of dollars that have no chance of helping them achieve their goal and that’s really the big fat lie.
Kevin: And let me just ask you this, you’ve been on the other side, you’ve been a part of the industry that is making a lot of money in the fitness clubs and the organizations and everything. When did you suddenly say, “Hey, you know, maybe I need to educate people about this.”
Craig: Well, first of all I never felt that the club industry was a bad industry.
Kevin: Okay.
Craig: And in my book I still am a big proponent of joining a fitness center for the average person, there are, of course, some caveat of how to get a quality club. I have an article on the ten worst tricks for the fitness industry. So I try to expose the things that I think are bad but there’s also a lot of good too, but what I did notice while I was operating all of these clubs and trying to help people is that I would talk to thousands of consumers, face to face. For a big part of my career, my job was to get out there and help, work with people in the field, club operators, managers, sales people, fitness staff members, personal trainers, to talk to them about how to help people make decisions that are good for them and the guiding principle, of course was always don’t focus on making money, focus on helping people and you will make money as a natural result, as a natural bi-produce of helping people. That’s always been one of my guiding principles, but in speaking with all these consumers, you find that the average person spends thousands and thousands of dollars on products and services that have no chance of helping them. They spend hours and hours of wasted time on information that will never help them improve their health or change their lives. So I got tired, frustrated and really kind of outraged at all of the quick fix solutions that are out there that people jump from one to the other and without really understanding the true cause of why they’re in such poor health. So I wanted to try to educate them on all of the things, the lies the deceptions while also trying to give them simple solutions for how to improve their health, how to lose weight, how to get in shape, how to live better, how to feel better with no tricks and no gimmicks for the rest of their lives. That’s really what the big fat health and fitness lie is all about and that’s really what Fit Advocate website is all about.
Kevin: And you take a different approach in your book as opposed to a lot of the other books that I’ve read about health and fitness and it’s related to addiction. You say addiction feeds this whole lie. What do you mean by this?
Craig: Well, many people live a self-inflicted toxic lifestyle that destroys their health and feeds this lie. So what do I mean by that? Well, the definition of toxic, first of all, is poison and in our society we are surrounded by poisons, in our air, it’s in our water, some of them we can’t avoid and many of them we can, however. A lot of these poisons, they’re not going to kill us today, but instead what they do is they slowly and quietly deteriorate and destroy our health.
There’s two specific types of poisons or toxins that I talk about that create these health problems. The first, of course is chemical exposures. There are thousands of untested chemical combinations in our food supply to improve taste, texture, color or to extend shelf life. There are low calorie,low carb foods laced with toxic sweeteners that has contributed to obesity and diabetes. We’ve been conditioned to believe that sodium fluoride, for example is good for our teeth. Yet it’s a known chemical waste bi-product of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industry. This chemical has been pumped into our water supply and put into our dental hygiene products for years but fluoridation has been flatly rejected by many developed countries because of the dangers and the lack of really any scientific evidence of any health benefit. Beyond that, we have toxic chemicals in our household products, our cleaning products, personal hygiene products. Fruits and vegetables have been treated with herbicides and pesticides. Chickens and cows are fed ground chicken and beef. Then pumped full of antibiotics to stave off disease from the horrific conditions in which they live and where they’re slaughtered. So we have all of those, you know, all of this chemical toxicity. That’s the first concern.
The second is the biggest toxic exposure which is related to stress, and people don’t realize this but as much as 80% of all disease is the result of stress and having had the ability to travel all over the world and visit, you know, I believe I’ve been to over 40 countries now, you find that we in America are the most stressed out country on the planet. We work more than any other activity other than sleep. Just think about our normal lives, we wake up every day and we’re running on empty from morning to night. We’ve got the pressures at work, at home, the challenges sustaining some sort of happy relationship with our significant others. We’ve got the demands of the kids, trying to pay the bills. We have all of the negativity in the news. We’re all trying to live the American dream which is predicated on financial freedom, but the truth is only a fraction of people out there actually ever realize the American dream and the rest of us are simply trying to get by, and, you know, we’re buried in a mountain of debt. All of these things add up to a lot of worry and stress and to cope with this stress, what do we do? We drink, we smoke, we take drugs, we over eat, we eat the wrong foods and we spend hours in front of the television or surfing the internet. All of these activities, unfortunately make us fat, lazy and out of shape, and what happens is this poor health that’s created from this self addictive lifestyle creates, and opens the door for these big fat health and fitness lies. One of them is companies that market, manufacture and market and sale products that have no chance of helping us and then, of course, the worse thing is when we look to synthetic chemical compounds, prescription drugs, as the first line of defense to handle our self inflicted health problems. So we really have a lot of issues that we have to deal with in order to be healthy, but people need to understand the basis of where it starts, the cause.
Kevin: Yes. How does someone take that sort of addiction or quote unquote addictive personality and turn that into fitness success?
Craig: Well the first thing they have to do is identify it.
Kevin: Yes.
Craig: You have to realize it. Here’s, here’s a fact that’s pretty important that people should know about, the number one reason that people give for not exercising regularly is that they don’t have enough time, okay. Yet the average American watches four and a half hours of television a day. So there’s an issue there with priority and people have to understand that time is the most important and the most valuable thing that we have because once it’s gone you can’t get it back. If you want to improve your health, you have to make time to do all of the things that are necessary to improve and enhance your health and your life and it’s not just exercise but it is one of the key components. So they have to first understand the issues and then have the right motivation and set the right priorities to get them to where they need to be.
To read the rest of this transcript as well as access more information on creating and living a healthy lifestyle and hear from other health experts just like Craig Pepin Donat please visit thehealthiestyearofyourlife.com.
Good Health And Fitness Is The Key To Anti Aging- Antiaging Is About Skincare?
Chris Chew asked:
We the baby boomers, that is those aged about 40 and above make up about one quarter of the world’s population and are growing older rapidly. Considering that most of these baby boomers have already established their careers, have accumulated savings with disposable income, having grown up or fast growing up children and would probably owned their own homes, what do they want next? A secret antidote to stop the aging process would be nice isn’t it?
Business owners are quick to capitalize on this rich and growing market dreaming up multitudes of anti aging products and services to cater to the baby boomers. The fear of growing old and the loss of youth and vitality are so real that these industries are doing businesses in the tune of billions of dollars every year. Products like slimming pills, health care, skincare and look good products are so highly in demand that you see these companies pitching their products in multi million advertising campaigns. Some of these products do work very well but most don’t.
Of all the products and services catering to the baby boomers, skin care anti aging products seems to be spearheading the charge and raking in immense profit. Consumers persuaded by advertisements of skin care companies promising face lift without surgery, wrinkles vanishing creams and a host of other variations are snapping up these products real quick. Men are also not spared from the marketing onslaught and lines of men’s skincare products are now plentiful too.
Do you know what can be the best anti aging weapon against the effects of aging? Nope, it is not the skincare products that you can buy off the shelves. It is looking after your own health and fitness.
Do you remember the good old days when you are able to play robust games, climb trees, cycle long distances and enjoying them? Are you able to do these things with gusto these days? If not, why not? That is because your health and fitness is slowly and surely deteriorating as you age. We are putting on body fat faster because our metabolism is slowing down. From the age of about 25, our body starts to produce less and less growth hormones leading to deterioration of body tissues and the process to replace and repair tissue cells is being comprised more and more as we age. That is why we recover slower from diseases, muscles are getting smaller and weaker, bones are getting brittle and wrinkles start forming. In other words, we are slowly dying.
To counter these aging effects, we have got to keep ourselves fit and healthy. By improving our fitness and health levels, we are able to slow down the aging process. We protect muscle and bone loss by lifting weights. With cardio exercises, we strengthen our hearts and lungs and improve our immunity keeping deadly age related diseases and obesity at bay. We will regain some the energy and vitality of our youthful days making daily chores so much easier to handle. Best of all, exercises reduces stress, improve your posture and adds a healthy glow to your skin. And you know what? It is free.
So isn’t improving your health and fitness is the best antidote to the aging process? I know because I refuse to let age defy me. So with good healthy eating habits a regular dose of exercise, I am able to play competitive soccer with people half my age, enjoy mountain tracking and scuba diving now and then. That to me is a much more fulfilling and enjoyable life than having jars of anti aging pills and skincare creams sitting on my shelf and burning a gaping hole in my pocket.
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We the baby boomers, that is those aged about 40 and above make up about one quarter of the world’s population and are growing older rapidly. Considering that most of these baby boomers have already established their careers, have accumulated savings with disposable income, having grown up or fast growing up children and would probably owned their own homes, what do they want next? A secret antidote to stop the aging process would be nice isn’t it?
Business owners are quick to capitalize on this rich and growing market dreaming up multitudes of anti aging products and services to cater to the baby boomers. The fear of growing old and the loss of youth and vitality are so real that these industries are doing businesses in the tune of billions of dollars every year. Products like slimming pills, health care, skincare and look good products are so highly in demand that you see these companies pitching their products in multi million advertising campaigns. Some of these products do work very well but most don’t.
Of all the products and services catering to the baby boomers, skin care anti aging products seems to be spearheading the charge and raking in immense profit. Consumers persuaded by advertisements of skin care companies promising face lift without surgery, wrinkles vanishing creams and a host of other variations are snapping up these products real quick. Men are also not spared from the marketing onslaught and lines of men’s skincare products are now plentiful too.
Do you know what can be the best anti aging weapon against the effects of aging? Nope, it is not the skincare products that you can buy off the shelves. It is looking after your own health and fitness.
Do you remember the good old days when you are able to play robust games, climb trees, cycle long distances and enjoying them? Are you able to do these things with gusto these days? If not, why not? That is because your health and fitness is slowly and surely deteriorating as you age. We are putting on body fat faster because our metabolism is slowing down. From the age of about 25, our body starts to produce less and less growth hormones leading to deterioration of body tissues and the process to replace and repair tissue cells is being comprised more and more as we age. That is why we recover slower from diseases, muscles are getting smaller and weaker, bones are getting brittle and wrinkles start forming. In other words, we are slowly dying.
To counter these aging effects, we have got to keep ourselves fit and healthy. By improving our fitness and health levels, we are able to slow down the aging process. We protect muscle and bone loss by lifting weights. With cardio exercises, we strengthen our hearts and lungs and improve our immunity keeping deadly age related diseases and obesity at bay. We will regain some the energy and vitality of our youthful days making daily chores so much easier to handle. Best of all, exercises reduces stress, improve your posture and adds a healthy glow to your skin. And you know what? It is free.
So isn’t improving your health and fitness is the best antidote to the aging process? I know because I refuse to let age defy me. So with good healthy eating habits a regular dose of exercise, I am able to play competitive soccer with people half my age, enjoy mountain tracking and scuba diving now and then. That to me is a much more fulfilling and enjoyable life than having jars of anti aging pills and skincare creams sitting on my shelf and burning a gaping hole in my pocket.
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Health And Fitness Programs For Everybody
Paul Hata asked:
Since more and more people are getting interested in becoming world-class athletes, and the area of sports is one of the most lucrative and popular forms of entertainment and recreation, the study of sports nutrition has developed steadily. Consumable products and instructional materials are being released in the market endlessly in order to help athletes and ordinary people with ample interest in physical fitness achieve their personal goals.
In this respect, American sports nutrition has indeed made very useful discoveries on how to make the human body function to its outmost potential.Here are some studies and opinions created by some of the most respected health and fitness experts around.
According to a press release from the IDEA Health & Fitness Association, the best kind of nutrition is only based on the type of food one eats, but also, the time that a certain food was consumed. Research states that the food that athletes take in on all stages of a training session, may it be prior, during or afterwards, will make a considerable impact on their athletic prowess and recovery.
The highlights of the press release include:
-The practice of right timing for taking in nutrients also benefits ordinary exercisers, and not only athletes
-The consumption of nutrients in ideal combinations at the most optimal of frequencies will result in the enhancement of athletic performance and the recovery of the body. It also improves the composition and strength of muscles.
-Obesity can be battled by simply upping the amount of calcium that one consumes everyday.
-The right combination of protein and carbohydrates will result in improved workout and training performance.
Another important discovery made in American sports nutrition deals with the possibility of high protein diets to bring about dehydration in most people, even professional sportsmen.
Citing a study from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, graduate student William Forrest Martin reported on the effect of high protein on five athletes who were made to consume various amounts in the span of four weeks. The researchers stressed that when one takes in high amounts of protein in their body, the amount of fluid intake should also be raised considerably.
Aside from hydration, people who drink less water are prone to catching other health problems, such as heat illnesses. Minimal decrease of water in the body will have a negative effect on certain bodily functions.
The importance and strategies for the recovery of the body after strenuous activity has also been discussed in relation to American sports nutrition.
A good recovery enables one to be well-prepared for the next physical activity. What are the goals in body recovery? they are:
- Replacement of the storage of liver glycogen and muscle in the body.
- Regaining of all those electrolytes and fluids that went down with the sweat.
- Rejuvenation of the body from the damage brought about by exercise.
It is best to consume foods rich in carbohydrates while the body recovers from the activity.
Other tips for quick recovery include:
-Take snacks for within an hour maximum if the next activity is less than 8 hours.
-For people with poor appetite, juice and sports drinks can provide carbs and fluids necessary for recovery.
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Since more and more people are getting interested in becoming world-class athletes, and the area of sports is one of the most lucrative and popular forms of entertainment and recreation, the study of sports nutrition has developed steadily. Consumable products and instructional materials are being released in the market endlessly in order to help athletes and ordinary people with ample interest in physical fitness achieve their personal goals.
In this respect, American sports nutrition has indeed made very useful discoveries on how to make the human body function to its outmost potential.Here are some studies and opinions created by some of the most respected health and fitness experts around.
According to a press release from the IDEA Health & Fitness Association, the best kind of nutrition is only based on the type of food one eats, but also, the time that a certain food was consumed. Research states that the food that athletes take in on all stages of a training session, may it be prior, during or afterwards, will make a considerable impact on their athletic prowess and recovery.
The highlights of the press release include:
-The practice of right timing for taking in nutrients also benefits ordinary exercisers, and not only athletes
-The consumption of nutrients in ideal combinations at the most optimal of frequencies will result in the enhancement of athletic performance and the recovery of the body. It also improves the composition and strength of muscles.
-Obesity can be battled by simply upping the amount of calcium that one consumes everyday.
-The right combination of protein and carbohydrates will result in improved workout and training performance.
Another important discovery made in American sports nutrition deals with the possibility of high protein diets to bring about dehydration in most people, even professional sportsmen.
Citing a study from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, graduate student William Forrest Martin reported on the effect of high protein on five athletes who were made to consume various amounts in the span of four weeks. The researchers stressed that when one takes in high amounts of protein in their body, the amount of fluid intake should also be raised considerably.
Aside from hydration, people who drink less water are prone to catching other health problems, such as heat illnesses. Minimal decrease of water in the body will have a negative effect on certain bodily functions.
The importance and strategies for the recovery of the body after strenuous activity has also been discussed in relation to American sports nutrition.
A good recovery enables one to be well-prepared for the next physical activity. What are the goals in body recovery? they are:
- Replacement of the storage of liver glycogen and muscle in the body.
- Regaining of all those electrolytes and fluids that went down with the sweat.
- Rejuvenation of the body from the damage brought about by exercise.
It is best to consume foods rich in carbohydrates while the body recovers from the activity.
Other tips for quick recovery include:
-Take snacks for within an hour maximum if the next activity is less than 8 hours.
-For people with poor appetite, juice and sports drinks can provide carbs and fluids necessary for recovery.
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Watching Health and Fitness Videos For A Fitter You
Jefferson Good asked:
Health & Fitness Videos are a great tool in promoting the topic. It is not the only method of doing this, but videos are without doubt a more popular and easy tool for individuals to utilize for learning about this theme.
The reasons for videos being used to do this are simple, as the video format is simple easy to use and follow, and the information that needs to be demonstrated visiually (such as various excercises), can be done easily where another method, such as a book, would fail. Most health and fitness videos are avaliable on video sharing websites such as YouTube.
They will come in a variety of formats, and as such target specific types of viewer. This may be that the clips are or are not in a series, which sometimes says much of the nature of the video in terms of a serious message. Many of these videos rarely exceed 10 minutes, so will usually cover very little, or a solitary one of the area(s) of the topic, meaning a more in-depth view.
The level of detail may have an effect on the popularity of such videos, as will obviously be different levels of interest for different people, so the nature of the video could be a deciding factor for the amount of viewers it gets. It is fair to say that a most people would rather be entertained than informed, but if a person is serious about the topic, they will watch a video that is likely to help them.
This is a key reason as to why such videos can affect those that watch it, as the ones that ’scare’ the viewer statistics often makes them consider their lifestyle and perhaps improve themselves, which would mean that the videos have done thier job. It is good that the videos that can do this, as some people do need the information much more than they realise, but overall the viewers must not let such videos have an ultimate influence on their desisions.
These informative videos can greatly affect the way people think about their health, as they will usually ’scare’ a responsive action from the viewer by virtue of unpleasant facts and stats. In turn, it will generally help the audience to consider their health options and improve themselves for the ‘better’, which is what the videos will want to achieve. It is good that the videos can make people think where it is needed, but there should be reassurance in that no-one is ‘perfect’, and that the viewers should not come to dramatic conclusions and decisions.
Overall, nonetheless, the majority of individuals do not get heavily influenced by them, and rather live a regular life with only a limited level of direction on health and fitness, which is perhaps best, as long as that they recognise what they are doing and are conscious of potential dangers and able to combat them. The topic is very debatable on the grounds of making individuals afraid and paranoid of their selections, but it must be stressed that it is, generally, their decisions that lead to their thoughts of a healthy, natural, and balanced way of life.
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Health & Fitness Videos are a great tool in promoting the topic. It is not the only method of doing this, but videos are without doubt a more popular and easy tool for individuals to utilize for learning about this theme.
The reasons for videos being used to do this are simple, as the video format is simple easy to use and follow, and the information that needs to be demonstrated visiually (such as various excercises), can be done easily where another method, such as a book, would fail. Most health and fitness videos are avaliable on video sharing websites such as YouTube.
They will come in a variety of formats, and as such target specific types of viewer. This may be that the clips are or are not in a series, which sometimes says much of the nature of the video in terms of a serious message. Many of these videos rarely exceed 10 minutes, so will usually cover very little, or a solitary one of the area(s) of the topic, meaning a more in-depth view.
The level of detail may have an effect on the popularity of such videos, as will obviously be different levels of interest for different people, so the nature of the video could be a deciding factor for the amount of viewers it gets. It is fair to say that a most people would rather be entertained than informed, but if a person is serious about the topic, they will watch a video that is likely to help them.
This is a key reason as to why such videos can affect those that watch it, as the ones that ’scare’ the viewer statistics often makes them consider their lifestyle and perhaps improve themselves, which would mean that the videos have done thier job. It is good that the videos that can do this, as some people do need the information much more than they realise, but overall the viewers must not let such videos have an ultimate influence on their desisions.
These informative videos can greatly affect the way people think about their health, as they will usually ’scare’ a responsive action from the viewer by virtue of unpleasant facts and stats. In turn, it will generally help the audience to consider their health options and improve themselves for the ‘better’, which is what the videos will want to achieve. It is good that the videos can make people think where it is needed, but there should be reassurance in that no-one is ‘perfect’, and that the viewers should not come to dramatic conclusions and decisions.
Overall, nonetheless, the majority of individuals do not get heavily influenced by them, and rather live a regular life with only a limited level of direction on health and fitness, which is perhaps best, as long as that they recognise what they are doing and are conscious of potential dangers and able to combat them. The topic is very debatable on the grounds of making individuals afraid and paranoid of their selections, but it must be stressed that it is, generally, their decisions that lead to their thoughts of a healthy, natural, and balanced way of life.
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The Basic of a Good Health and Fitness Program
Chris M. asked:
The best health and fitness plans promote to not only alter your physical appearance, but also help you to defeat the emotional issues physiological obstructions that induce us to be insalubrious in the first place. Ask any person who has committed to a serious health and fitness practice and has experienced this life-changing procedure. They will certainly be the best source of inspiration and information when you are considering taking the journey to improve your own health.
Physical fitness is essential in maintaining a healthy body. This is a physical process that serves a person to look, feel and work better. It helps in carrying out the bodily activities expeditiously. Physical fitness means you have to work out your heart, lungs and muscles of the body regularly. But fitness activities change from person to person.
You have to make sure that your exercise never becomes a routine. So keep on changing things up on a regular basis. This means that you will have to change the timing of your exercise and also you will have to do different exercises. Here’s why. When you stay stuck in the same patterns all the time, your body becomes accustomed to it and will develop defense mechanisms that will prevent you from being fit. When you change things up regularly, it doesn’t have time to adapt, and your physical fitness appears to be at its best.
Activities to be integrated in the fitness plans have to be determined after examining several constituents of fitness. Checking weight is a crucial part of physical fitness. Muscle tone growth is another view that is called for by fitness programs. Suggestions of timings are given by a good fitness program. Actually exercises are adjusted on the schedules of work which and individual is taking up.
Fitness programs also advise diets for individuals. Your eating habit will also affect your health and fitness programs. The main idea behind choosing health and fitness programs is that they give you long term suggestions. These fitness programs improve your health in terms of better performance of important body organs. This fitness programs gives you better stamina and more energy because of which you feel that you are healthy and fit.
Health experts recommend green tea as a diet for your physical fitness program. You should make it a regular habit of having green tea with your daily diet. You should have it at least thrice daily. Green tea energizes your metabolism. Your metabolic rate is kept at a high rate due to the presence of caffeine and other chemicals in green tea.
You have to keep a watch and analyze your exercise session. You don’t have to work out for hours together. That will lead to injury, exhaustion and you will be tired and less likely to carry on with your routine the next day. Just find ways and means through which you can increase intensity and make your exercises more challenging a little at a time. You can add more pushups to your list of exercises and also make them harder. This will help you to burn more calories and keep you physically fit.
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The best health and fitness plans promote to not only alter your physical appearance, but also help you to defeat the emotional issues physiological obstructions that induce us to be insalubrious in the first place. Ask any person who has committed to a serious health and fitness practice and has experienced this life-changing procedure. They will certainly be the best source of inspiration and information when you are considering taking the journey to improve your own health.
Physical fitness is essential in maintaining a healthy body. This is a physical process that serves a person to look, feel and work better. It helps in carrying out the bodily activities expeditiously. Physical fitness means you have to work out your heart, lungs and muscles of the body regularly. But fitness activities change from person to person.
You have to make sure that your exercise never becomes a routine. So keep on changing things up on a regular basis. This means that you will have to change the timing of your exercise and also you will have to do different exercises. Here’s why. When you stay stuck in the same patterns all the time, your body becomes accustomed to it and will develop defense mechanisms that will prevent you from being fit. When you change things up regularly, it doesn’t have time to adapt, and your physical fitness appears to be at its best.
Activities to be integrated in the fitness plans have to be determined after examining several constituents of fitness. Checking weight is a crucial part of physical fitness. Muscle tone growth is another view that is called for by fitness programs. Suggestions of timings are given by a good fitness program. Actually exercises are adjusted on the schedules of work which and individual is taking up.
Fitness programs also advise diets for individuals. Your eating habit will also affect your health and fitness programs. The main idea behind choosing health and fitness programs is that they give you long term suggestions. These fitness programs improve your health in terms of better performance of important body organs. This fitness programs gives you better stamina and more energy because of which you feel that you are healthy and fit.
Health experts recommend green tea as a diet for your physical fitness program. You should make it a regular habit of having green tea with your daily diet. You should have it at least thrice daily. Green tea energizes your metabolism. Your metabolic rate is kept at a high rate due to the presence of caffeine and other chemicals in green tea.
You have to keep a watch and analyze your exercise session. You don’t have to work out for hours together. That will lead to injury, exhaustion and you will be tired and less likely to carry on with your routine the next day. Just find ways and means through which you can increase intensity and make your exercises more challenging a little at a time. You can add more pushups to your list of exercises and also make them harder. This will help you to burn more calories and keep you physically fit.
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Create Health and Fitness With Constructive Speech
Laurence Magne asked:
Constructive speech is a term coined by Wallace Wattles, and I explain it in the Science of Being Well Home Study Course. For a simple definition that would affect your health and fitness, it would go something like this.
Make sure that all the words that come out of your mouth in relation to your health are positive and constructive words. Even if you had a bad night last night, you speak of the great nap you’re going to take this afternoon. If you have an ache in your back, either keep quiet about it, or mention how much better you feel today compared to yesterday.
You see, the way our mind works, it’s almost as if our immune system is constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts. When we have positive thoughts, and we concentrate on our state of well-being, our immune system is thereby transformed and receives a positive “live” message that makes it put out healthy cells and mobilize all its fighting troups to keep you healthy.
So what if you’re feeling really lousy? This does happen. But when we speak it, it is mainly with a desire to attract sympathy. Even pity. The way Wallace Wattles explains it, “You cannot hold the desire for sympathy and at the same time hold the thoguth that you are getting better and growing stronger. The moment you give way to the desire for pity, you will begin to suggest to yourself that you are going down hill, and you will begin to go downhill…”
The same goes when you see someone in pain. Do not sympathize with the pain in them, but with the health they have the ability to tap into and recover. You see, health and fitness are always in you. This is our natural state. It is only hidden behind pain and disease. Do not focus your conversation on disease, death, accidents, pain. Courtesy does not require you to sacrifice your well-being, happiness and hope in order to listen to the croakers.
Never talk about sickness. Forget it. Focus your thoughts on your immense health and fitness. Imagine how you will soon feel. Keep that thought foremost in your mind.
I agree with you that this can be difficult at times, and this is why I have created the Science of Being Well as a Home Study Course. The course contains everyday exercises and clear instructions on how you can bring health and fitness in your life by using Constructive Speech. This is not a natural ability we have. We have been trained to complain so we can attract sympathy and pity. However, this will not lead us to better health.
In the Science of Being Well Home Study Course, you will find many examples and stories to help you develop your own powers of healing using simply the power of your mind. This is not revolutionary. These secrets have been around for ages. To learn more, claim your FREE report of the First Secret to Abundant Health on www.thescienceofbeingwell.biz today!!
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Constructive speech is a term coined by Wallace Wattles, and I explain it in the Science of Being Well Home Study Course. For a simple definition that would affect your health and fitness, it would go something like this.
Make sure that all the words that come out of your mouth in relation to your health are positive and constructive words. Even if you had a bad night last night, you speak of the great nap you’re going to take this afternoon. If you have an ache in your back, either keep quiet about it, or mention how much better you feel today compared to yesterday.
You see, the way our mind works, it’s almost as if our immune system is constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts. When we have positive thoughts, and we concentrate on our state of well-being, our immune system is thereby transformed and receives a positive “live” message that makes it put out healthy cells and mobilize all its fighting troups to keep you healthy.
So what if you’re feeling really lousy? This does happen. But when we speak it, it is mainly with a desire to attract sympathy. Even pity. The way Wallace Wattles explains it, “You cannot hold the desire for sympathy and at the same time hold the thoguth that you are getting better and growing stronger. The moment you give way to the desire for pity, you will begin to suggest to yourself that you are going down hill, and you will begin to go downhill…”
The same goes when you see someone in pain. Do not sympathize with the pain in them, but with the health they have the ability to tap into and recover. You see, health and fitness are always in you. This is our natural state. It is only hidden behind pain and disease. Do not focus your conversation on disease, death, accidents, pain. Courtesy does not require you to sacrifice your well-being, happiness and hope in order to listen to the croakers.
Never talk about sickness. Forget it. Focus your thoughts on your immense health and fitness. Imagine how you will soon feel. Keep that thought foremost in your mind.
I agree with you that this can be difficult at times, and this is why I have created the Science of Being Well as a Home Study Course. The course contains everyday exercises and clear instructions on how you can bring health and fitness in your life by using Constructive Speech. This is not a natural ability we have. We have been trained to complain so we can attract sympathy and pity. However, this will not lead us to better health.
In the Science of Being Well Home Study Course, you will find many examples and stories to help you develop your own powers of healing using simply the power of your mind. This is not revolutionary. These secrets have been around for ages. To learn more, claim your FREE report of the First Secret to Abundant Health on www.thescienceofbeingwell.biz today!!
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Health and Fitness Lies Part 1
Craig Pepin Donat asked:
y has taught us anything, it is that when an industry exhibits the potential for growth, people and companies exploit the opportunity. The fitness industry has transformed into a multi-billion dollar juggernaut with highly trained sales and marketing snipers who have their cross hairs on your cash.
Although the expansions of this industry and advances in modern technology have helped usher in a new era of quality health and fitness products, they have also opened the door for liars and con artists who could care less about your health. The trick is to understand how to maneuver through the marketing madness to find the truth.
Sadly, the number of people who fall victim to unrealistic quick-fix solutions is in the tens of millions. All the while, companies that sell ineffective products that will never help you acheive your goals, get rich at your expense. Beyond the scams and rip-offs designed to separate you from your hard-earned cash, there are people, companies, industries and even government agencies with hidden agendas designed to sabotage your attempts to improve your health. It’s not a conspiracy theory; it is simply the undeniable truth that you will see once the facts are known.
There is no shortage of people who stand to profit from those who do not know the truth, and they will do everything possible to refute the facts. Remember, when it comes to big industry and their profits, the fix is in: billions are spent to keep consumers in the dark. You will need to rely on the one thing that marketing cannot spin your common sense.
Let’s start with a simple truth that helps feed the big, fat health and fitness lie. That truth is that the average person would much prefer to go on a diet or take a pill rather than exercise. This is why the fitness industry at $19 billion in annual revenue pales in comparison with the diet and weight loss industry, which exceeds $40 billion. Even the supplement industry, with more than $20 billion in annual revenue, outperforms the fitness industry.
Yet with a success rate of sustained weight loss as low as 5 percent, more than 50 million Americans line up each year to go on a diet. Why? The answer was simple. When people think about exercise, they relate it to work. Even the phrase we use to describe exercise is to “work out.” The truth is that the average American spends the majority of waking life working. Who wants more work? We want to play. We want to relax. We want to escape from the reality of work, Exercise is the last thing we want to do. Instead, we want a quick fix solution, and the desire for fast results is an open invitation for health and fitness parasites. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The smoking gun that reveals the real truth about the state of health in the U.S. is the sky rocketing revenue within the pharmaceutical industry. Between 1995 and 2005, prescription drug sales increased by 249 percent to a staggering $251 billion on more than 3.6 billion prescriptions that are written annually. This doesn’t include the $17 billion we spent on over 100,000 over-the-counter drugs that have in excess of 1,000 synthetic chemical compounds.
As you peel back the layers of the lie, you quickly realize that these record-breaking numbers were made possible by drugs that treat conditions and diseases, which are largely self-inflicted or forced upon us by accomplices that stand to profit from our ill health.
Read more in Part Two.
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y has taught us anything, it is that when an industry exhibits the potential for growth, people and companies exploit the opportunity. The fitness industry has transformed into a multi-billion dollar juggernaut with highly trained sales and marketing snipers who have their cross hairs on your cash.
Although the expansions of this industry and advances in modern technology have helped usher in a new era of quality health and fitness products, they have also opened the door for liars and con artists who could care less about your health. The trick is to understand how to maneuver through the marketing madness to find the truth.
Sadly, the number of people who fall victim to unrealistic quick-fix solutions is in the tens of millions. All the while, companies that sell ineffective products that will never help you acheive your goals, get rich at your expense. Beyond the scams and rip-offs designed to separate you from your hard-earned cash, there are people, companies, industries and even government agencies with hidden agendas designed to sabotage your attempts to improve your health. It’s not a conspiracy theory; it is simply the undeniable truth that you will see once the facts are known.
There is no shortage of people who stand to profit from those who do not know the truth, and they will do everything possible to refute the facts. Remember, when it comes to big industry and their profits, the fix is in: billions are spent to keep consumers in the dark. You will need to rely on the one thing that marketing cannot spin your common sense.
Let’s start with a simple truth that helps feed the big, fat health and fitness lie. That truth is that the average person would much prefer to go on a diet or take a pill rather than exercise. This is why the fitness industry at $19 billion in annual revenue pales in comparison with the diet and weight loss industry, which exceeds $40 billion. Even the supplement industry, with more than $20 billion in annual revenue, outperforms the fitness industry.
Yet with a success rate of sustained weight loss as low as 5 percent, more than 50 million Americans line up each year to go on a diet. Why? The answer was simple. When people think about exercise, they relate it to work. Even the phrase we use to describe exercise is to “work out.” The truth is that the average American spends the majority of waking life working. Who wants more work? We want to play. We want to relax. We want to escape from the reality of work, Exercise is the last thing we want to do. Instead, we want a quick fix solution, and the desire for fast results is an open invitation for health and fitness parasites. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The smoking gun that reveals the real truth about the state of health in the U.S. is the sky rocketing revenue within the pharmaceutical industry. Between 1995 and 2005, prescription drug sales increased by 249 percent to a staggering $251 billion on more than 3.6 billion prescriptions that are written annually. This doesn’t include the $17 billion we spent on over 100,000 over-the-counter drugs that have in excess of 1,000 synthetic chemical compounds.
As you peel back the layers of the lie, you quickly realize that these record-breaking numbers were made possible by drugs that treat conditions and diseases, which are largely self-inflicted or forced upon us by accomplices that stand to profit from our ill health.
Read more in Part Two.
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The Power of Creative Daydreaming for Health and Fitness
Laurence Magne asked:
Most of us were taught that daydreaming was a waste of time and that we should concentrate our mental energies on the “here and now”. Rarely is it mentioned that some of the greatest advancements in human history were the result of someone’s daydream.
For instance, Albert Einstein worked out many of the details of his Special Theory of Relativity in daydreams. Thomas Edison would have never invented half of the things he did were it not for his active imagination and the daydreams he had about the possibilities that electricity held. Stephen King taps the power of his daydreams to create the immense stories for which he is so famous. In psychoanalysis, patients are healed in large part using a process of a directed daydream.
When we engage ourselves in daydreaming, there are a couple of things that happen. First of all, we generally allow our mind to shift focus away from the world around us and focus it specifically on the subject of our daydream. When our mind is focused intensely, there is an increase in the power of our thoughts.
In the intensity of mind that can be achieved by someone who is good at daydreaming, something else happens too. A doorway is opened between your mind and the mind of God.
When you open this doorway between your mind and the mind of God, you get a sensation of strength and assurance that everything will be okay. It’s almost like you have grown in some way that makes you powerful and wise. Usually, you will also feel a sense of compassion and acceptance for the frailties of humanity.
There are several ways you can use the power of creative daydreaming to manifest health and fitness in your life.
You could ask for a guide in your creative daydream to take you to the future. Once there, you can pay attention to new techniques that you are not aware of, that can help you with your health and fitness.
If you are faced with a dilemma, you can go into a creative daydream and explore possible solutions to that problem. When working in a creative daydream, you can ask for an expert in this area to give you more information that you can use to solve your problem. This expert will usually show you what to do, and more importantly, explain why it works.
Creative daydreaming can be used to help reprogram your inner beliefs to aid in your attraction of greater prosperity. Beliefs are usually based on past experiences, but are sometimes based on the results of your imagination playing out various possibilities. In a creative daydream, you have the option to create your own experiences from which to form new beliefs. In this way, you can create ‘memories’ of a healthy life with increased vitality, and create a strong set of memories of being fit.
You can develop your ability to tap and direct Power to an incredible degree with the Science of Being Well Home study Course. You’ll find that all aspects of your health and fitness improve when you practice the series of exercises that are contained in this awesome course.
In the Science of Being Well Home Study Course, you will find many examples and stories to help you develop your own powers of healing using simply the power of your mind. This is not revolutionary. These secrets have been around for ages. To learn more, claim your FREE report of the First Secret to Abundant Health on www.thescienceofbeingwell.biz today!!
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Most of us were taught that daydreaming was a waste of time and that we should concentrate our mental energies on the “here and now”. Rarely is it mentioned that some of the greatest advancements in human history were the result of someone’s daydream.
For instance, Albert Einstein worked out many of the details of his Special Theory of Relativity in daydreams. Thomas Edison would have never invented half of the things he did were it not for his active imagination and the daydreams he had about the possibilities that electricity held. Stephen King taps the power of his daydreams to create the immense stories for which he is so famous. In psychoanalysis, patients are healed in large part using a process of a directed daydream.
When we engage ourselves in daydreaming, there are a couple of things that happen. First of all, we generally allow our mind to shift focus away from the world around us and focus it specifically on the subject of our daydream. When our mind is focused intensely, there is an increase in the power of our thoughts.
In the intensity of mind that can be achieved by someone who is good at daydreaming, something else happens too. A doorway is opened between your mind and the mind of God.
When you open this doorway between your mind and the mind of God, you get a sensation of strength and assurance that everything will be okay. It’s almost like you have grown in some way that makes you powerful and wise. Usually, you will also feel a sense of compassion and acceptance for the frailties of humanity.
There are several ways you can use the power of creative daydreaming to manifest health and fitness in your life.
You could ask for a guide in your creative daydream to take you to the future. Once there, you can pay attention to new techniques that you are not aware of, that can help you with your health and fitness.
If you are faced with a dilemma, you can go into a creative daydream and explore possible solutions to that problem. When working in a creative daydream, you can ask for an expert in this area to give you more information that you can use to solve your problem. This expert will usually show you what to do, and more importantly, explain why it works.
Creative daydreaming can be used to help reprogram your inner beliefs to aid in your attraction of greater prosperity. Beliefs are usually based on past experiences, but are sometimes based on the results of your imagination playing out various possibilities. In a creative daydream, you have the option to create your own experiences from which to form new beliefs. In this way, you can create ‘memories’ of a healthy life with increased vitality, and create a strong set of memories of being fit.
You can develop your ability to tap and direct Power to an incredible degree with the Science of Being Well Home study Course. You’ll find that all aspects of your health and fitness improve when you practice the series of exercises that are contained in this awesome course.
In the Science of Being Well Home Study Course, you will find many examples and stories to help you develop your own powers of healing using simply the power of your mind. This is not revolutionary. These secrets have been around for ages. To learn more, claim your FREE report of the First Secret to Abundant Health on www.thescienceofbeingwell.biz today!!
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Health and Fitness: Tips & Information, Live a Healthy Life
Imran Malik asked:
Health and fitness have become a big business and people are struggling to have best healthiest body. The people are spending money in huge value and doing something to improve their bodies and normal lifestyle. The health and fitness industries are earning millions of dollars every per year through fitness equipment, herbal supplements, gyms, and specific diets. Many media resources are promoting through different channels like TV, magazines, internet advertising they ask for spend money and make their body fit and smart.
The healthiest body required continually exercises and physical activity; if we want to stay fit we need it so much in our daily life, exercise burns fats as well as build muscles, remove stress and anxiety, decrease cholesterols, make us sleep easily. Exercises increase body temperature which helps to mobilize fats in the body used for energy and metabolic rate will be increased as well which will help to burn maximum fats and improve the ratio of the body’s fat percentage in the body. Aerobic (cardiorespiratory) exercises make the ability to use oxygen efficiently and depend upon the condition of your heart, muscles and lungs, these exercises increase the percentage of oxygen that is delivered to our muscles, which allows us to work longer. Walk is one important type of aerobic exercise.
The foods are the essential part of our health and fitness, it can be the as medicine, in this regard the organic food strongly recommended for growing the ones body and make it healthy, its provides more nutrition and contain vitamins, minerals etc and no additives are present, all physical, mental, chemical, metabolic, and hormonal activities required nutrition, and it repair and rebuild the body.
Keep yourself happy because stress can damage your mental and physical health, don’t be sad always try to be happy, as well as cut down smoking because its stop growing ones body as need, drinks lot of water at least 7 to 8 glass of water daily, water also one of the important tool to loss your weight. Sleep well because its changes hormone levels and ability to metabolize carbohydrates, so research shows that good and deep sleep causes cell repair and help to growing cell and burn calories by speed up the metabolism so its recommended sleep at least 8 hours in a night.
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Health and fitness have become a big business and people are struggling to have best healthiest body. The people are spending money in huge value and doing something to improve their bodies and normal lifestyle. The health and fitness industries are earning millions of dollars every per year through fitness equipment, herbal supplements, gyms, and specific diets. Many media resources are promoting through different channels like TV, magazines, internet advertising they ask for spend money and make their body fit and smart.
The healthiest body required continually exercises and physical activity; if we want to stay fit we need it so much in our daily life, exercise burns fats as well as build muscles, remove stress and anxiety, decrease cholesterols, make us sleep easily. Exercises increase body temperature which helps to mobilize fats in the body used for energy and metabolic rate will be increased as well which will help to burn maximum fats and improve the ratio of the body’s fat percentage in the body. Aerobic (cardiorespiratory) exercises make the ability to use oxygen efficiently and depend upon the condition of your heart, muscles and lungs, these exercises increase the percentage of oxygen that is delivered to our muscles, which allows us to work longer. Walk is one important type of aerobic exercise.
The foods are the essential part of our health and fitness, it can be the as medicine, in this regard the organic food strongly recommended for growing the ones body and make it healthy, its provides more nutrition and contain vitamins, minerals etc and no additives are present, all physical, mental, chemical, metabolic, and hormonal activities required nutrition, and it repair and rebuild the body.
Keep yourself happy because stress can damage your mental and physical health, don’t be sad always try to be happy, as well as cut down smoking because its stop growing ones body as need, drinks lot of water at least 7 to 8 glass of water daily, water also one of the important tool to loss your weight. Sleep well because its changes hormone levels and ability to metabolize carbohydrates, so research shows that good and deep sleep causes cell repair and help to growing cell and burn calories by speed up the metabolism so its recommended sleep at least 8 hours in a night.
For more details visit: :
http://www.ehealthdirectory.net/health-fitness.html
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