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Diet and Nutrition
You must add some fresh cherries, which are now in season, to
your health routine this week.I don't know about you, but when my
local supermarket runs specials on cherries, I won't leave the
store without buying several pounds of these delicious and
healthy orbs.
Okay, so you think you are doing pretty well with your diet. You
prepare most of your meals at home, don't eat much junk food and
aren't a fast food eater only rarely.
"What exercises can I do to ?? As fitness professional I hear
these words often. It doesn't matter if the sentence ends with,
"get bigger muscles", "firm up my butt" or "flatten my stomach".
I'm 40-something years old, and for 40-something years breakfast
has been a pain. Some of my earliest memories are getting ready
for school with my mother insisting I eat a bowl of cereal.
I confess: I'm completely addicted to Pringles. My determination
weakens every time I think about munching into one, hearing the
crunch, and getting that first taste of its salty flavor.
Did you know that the food you eat could be prematurely ageing
you? Science has made some amazing discoveries in the last decade
in nutrition. We really should be taking note of what we put in
our mouth because more than ever, "we are what we eat".
Scandinavian fishermen are a healthy bunch. It had long been
known that they live longer and have much less heart and
blood-pressure related diseases than their European counterparts.
Arthritis - if you suffer from this illness, I don't have to tell
you how bad it is. If you don't suffer from it yet, keep reading
- I want to make sure you will do everything in your power to
prevent yourself from getting it.
Some fats are good for you. Your body can't function without
them.
Do you want more energy? How about more of the vitamins, minerals
and enzymes that your body craves? Try eating fruit for
breakfast! Fresh fruit - apples, grapefruit, strawberries,
cherries, oranges, kiwi, melon, and grapes all count. In fact,
any fruit works - and there are so many to choose from.
The body is a marvelous creation, a carbon, oxygen combustion
machine, constantly burning fuel, disposing of the waste products
of combustion, and constantly rebuilding tissue by replacing worn
out, dead cells with new, fresh ones.Every seven years virtually
every cell in the body is replaced, some types of cells having a
faster turnover rate than others, which means that over a seven
year period several hundred pounds of dead cells must be digested
(autolyzed) and eliminated.
After we have eaten a meal -- and often we do this in a hurry,
without much chewing, under a lot of stress, or in the presence
of negative emotions -- we give no thought to what becomes of our
food once it has been swallowed.We have been led to assume that
anything put in the mouth automatically gets digested flawlessly,
is efficiently absorbed into the body where it nourishes our
cells, with the waste products being eliminated completely by the
large intestine.
Did you know that the food you eat when you are ill can help your
body to recover? Or succumb to the full-blown illness?What foods
should you AVOID?And what should you be eating if you have a cold
or colitis or cancer?Learn more at: http://www.XTherapist.
The key to good hydration is drinking a lot of water before,
during and after any workout or activity. Water is essential for
proper bodily function.
Fats (triacylglycerols) ..
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