January 2009 Archives

Do you fall sick frequently? Do whether changes affect you more that others around you? Are you regularly suffering from chest infections and colds? Do you always take a long time to heal fully? If the answer is yes thenneed to work on boosting your natural immunity. The following tips may help:

Exercise regularly- Regular exercise keeps your body fit and makes your bones and muscles stronger and a healthy body acts as a strong shield against diseases. Moreover during exercise chemicals known as endorphins are released in our bodies. When you are feeling good about yourself, stress (which weakens your immune system), is kept away and you stay healthy.

Positive affirmations - Our own negative beliefs are the very reason for our lower levels of immunity. For instance, if we believe that we are week and prone to diseases, our body will feel weak and that is an open invitation to illness and diseases! Sometimes we may even manage to fool our minds into believing we are sick with our negative thoughts.

Thinking positive or will always reduce the side effects of illnesses. Even doctors often advice their patients to focus on feeling better or to avoid thinking about their sickness in order to recover from an illness. This is simply because how we feel is largely dependant upon the state of our minds. Positive affirmations help in improving our mental state so that our body focuses on building it’s resistance to diseases. The following positive affirmations can help in building one’s immunity:

“I feel fit and strong”

“My body has power to heal itself”

Subliminal messages- Our subconscious is extremely powerful and is believed to influence all our mind and body functions. Subliminal messages work as they are said to have the power to influence and reprogram the subconscious. These messages may be in the form of or audio are always above the level of human hearing. Subliminal audio can help your immune system in several ways:

  • It will help you beat your illness as quickly as possible and recover faster than you normally would.

  • Uses messages to boost your immune system in the long run: to stop you from getting ill as often in the future

It has been rightly said that worry and sickness lie in the mind, once the mind decides to evict them; nothing can prevent us from feeling healthy and happy – so improve your health by giving yourself a subliminal immune system boost today!

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Many Body Building athletes do a lot of research to judge what their personal Muscle Building supplement leaders are.  As with most aspects of the Muscle Building lifestyle, finding a Muscle Building supplement leader is unique to individual athletes.  Often it takes years of product use to determine which are your favourite supplements.  

There are several categories of bodybuilding supplements, and each one offers a wide array product choices for athletes to choose from.  The best way to begin your quest to find a body building supplement leader is to speak to a sports nutritionist who can give you guidance on which types of supplements will work the best for your body and your workouts.

Your selection of supplements will also be heavily based on the nutrients that you have included or excluded from your bodybuilding nutrition plan.  For example, some bodybuilders can’t consume the huge quantities of protein that are required to build muscle fast if they eat whole foods alone.  As a result, these individuals will focus a lot of attention on finding protein supplements to compliment their diet plan. 

Protein supplements are typically found in the forms of protein powders, protein bars and protein juices.  Now, to find the bodybuilding supplement leader within the protein category, athletes need to read labels thoroughly to see what other additives are included in their protein supplement.  They also have to sample a variety of the supplements to determine which ones taste the best.  It does no good to find the most quality product if it tastes awful and you’ll never use it.  Additionally, you’ll want to see which products have the greatest amount of protein and the least amount of sugar and carbohydrates.  Eventually you’ll find the right balance for your body.

Other supplements that bodybuilders research to advance their Body Building training plans are weight gain supplements, creatine monohydrate, L-glutamine and different other amino acid supplements to name a few.  The criteria that bodybuilders use to determine the effectiveness of products in each category varies greatly.  In the end, finding a Muscle Building supplement leader can be limited down to reading a lot of labels, taste testing a lot of products, and gauging each products effect on your Bodybuilding training program and your recovery times. 

Teenage Muscle Building is on the increase today.  a lot of teenagers have signed up at their local gyms to see if they can improve their look and their athletic abilities with the take of a Bodybuilding training program.  So, the popularity of teenage Bodybuilding leaves many parents worry about what loss and benefits may be involved for their kids.
 
The benefits of teenage bodybuilding:

First and foremost, muscle building exercise gets teens moving.  It pulls them away from the television, the computer or the video games and gives them the opportunity to develop strong and healthy bodies.  However, it is important that those involved in teenage bodybuilding understand how to workout safely and what their own limitations are.
 
As with adults, when teens first start a bodybuilding workout program, it’s best to work with a trained professional who can help construct a safe and effective routine that will produce results quickly.  Once involved in the sport of bodybuilding, many teen athletes will develop the dedication and discipline that is required to excel in any sport.  Teenage bodybuilding also helps to improve confidence levels, self-esteem and work ethics. 
 
Physical benefits that accompany teenage bodybuilding include increased muscular strength and endurance, increased kinesthetic awareness, stronger bones and a reduced risk for weight related illnesses such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
 
The mental and physical benefits of teenage bodybuilding will continue to payoff long after these athletes have matured into adults.  As with most sports, muscle building gives teens a focus and it empowers them to better themselves through their own efforts. 
 
The risks of teenage bodybuilding:

For many years, one of the greatest concerns for teenage bodybuilding was that putting growing bodies under the strain of heavy weights over and over would cause premature closure of the growth plates resulting in stunted growth.  This theory has never been proven, and if teenage bodybuilding is done properly, under the supervision of trained adults, the chances of any injuries occurring are greatly reduced.
 
Another concern in the sport of Teenage Bodybuilding is the improper or illegal use of Body Building supplements.  The most obvious concern is teen’s exposure to or use of illegal steroids.  As athletes get more involved in teenage Bodybuilding, they start to look for more methods to build muscle fast.  If they have touch to steroids, there is always a concern that they will disregard the dangers of steroid use for the opportunity to increase their look faster.

 

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Sleep is a complicated process that is needed in order to give the brain and body rest, time to recover and time to process memories.  Sleep is important for growth during childhood and adolescence. During the day, but especially when we sleep, the body produces growth hormones that, among other things, strengthen the bones and build muscles.

A sleep disorder is any disruption in the sleep patterns of an individual. While some sleep disorders may leave you feeling unrefreshed, a number of symptoms are more severe including excessive sleepiness, snoring, difficulty falling asleep during normal sleeping hours and abnormal behaviors such as restless leg syndrome. There are even disorders that cause you to get too much sleep.  One type of sleep disorder is insomnia.

Insomnia is a condition where you have trouble falling asleep, and/ or trouble staying asleep. Most of the time, you will know if you are experiencing insomnia because you will remember tossing and turning or being awake at night.

Our sleep pattern is divided into five stages.  When you have passed thru all five states your start over at stage one.  One such cycle is called a sleep cycle and your body may cycle totally several times a night.  Insomnia becomes a problem whnever we do not go through the complete sleep cycle

Insomnia can be caused by emotional problems, medications, herbs, caffeine, and sometimes occurs for no apparent reason. An overactive imagination or physical pain may also be causes of insomnia.  Finding the underlying cause of insomnia is necessary to completely cure it.

Insomnia can also be the symptom of many other illnesses, one of these is depression.  Studies have shown that when given Paxil for depression, the patient will sleep better.

Paxil is not indicated for insomnia unless it is insomnia caused by depression.  Paxil also has many withdrawal problems when a person has been on Paxil for some time, so a patient should not just stop taking Paxil without the full knowledge and support as he will probably want to take you off Paxil gradually.

So the answer is, yes – if you are suffering from a sleep disorder caused by depression, Paxil will help with your sleep.

 

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By Jim Nettleton

Many people who are overweight suffer from an accompanying potentially dangerous syndrome; lack of proper nutrition. Because their eating habits are not balanced, deficiencies in this vital area are relatively common in overweight people. This problem

becomes magnified when they go on a diet.

It is imperative that they pay close attention to getting the proper amounts of vitamins and minerals when dieting. Because dieters in many instances dramatically reduce their food intake while trying to lose weight, the amount of vitamins and minerals consumed are also often radically reduced.

But be careful in your choices of supplements. I’d recommend that you consult with a competent nutritionist who can help you choose supplements that will actually provide your body with the right amounts of vitamins and minerals and will ensure that they contain proper potency. Many commercial supplements do not deliver the potency that they claim. Further, when taken in tablet form, the actual amount the body absorbs is

lessened, thereby reducing the benefits even more.

While the bottle may claim to deliver 100% minimum daily requirements of various vitamins and minerals, by the time those tablets reach your blood stream you could be getting only 30% or less.

Using the best supplements can also help you in your weight loss quest. They contribute to making you feel more full. If you’re on a diet and you feel hungry most of the time, beware. Something about that diet is very wrong.

The best possible scenario, if you have it available in your region, is supplementation intravenously, a service along the lines of that offered by the Cherry Hill Center For Molecular Medicine, in Cherry Hill, NJ. You can call Dr. Molly Fantasia at 856-489-0505 if you’re nearby to their clinic. Sure, it costs more than other types of supplements, but the method ensures an extremely high degree of absorption of the nutrients.

If you can afford it, it’s best to have your diet personalized for you and you alone. This would require utilizing the services of a dietitian and a nutritionist, although in many instances those two fields are combined in one person, which makes it a lot less financially daunting.

If you follow this path, your chances of being successful in your attempt to lose weight will be considerably higher, since your body won’t be craving those things that are missing in less well thought out diets. A lack of the elements that your body needs is one of the major factors in the failure of dieters to achieve their goals.

So follow this plan. Begin by consulting with a qualified nutritionist to make certain you’re getting all the nutrients you need and in sufficient quantities. And if you can, go the intravenous route. The extra effort and/or expense will be well worth it.

I wish you the best in your dieting efforts.

About the author:

Jim Nettleton is a radio & TV professional with over 40 years of major market experience. His wide range of interests include nutrition and working with natural health clinics for many years. Check out his comprehensive weight loss website at

http://www.jaynetinc.com/LoseWeight

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