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The Natural Way to Improve your Mental and Physical Well-Being

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:30:40 +0100

Siberian Golden Root - Rhodiola rosea

The classification of plants called "Adaptogens" have been used for centuries to help the body and brain cells "adapt" to and resist physical, chemical and environmental stress. They also help the body by normalizing the immune system and glucocorticoid hormone levels in a positive way, bringing them into balance. For thousands of years people have used Rhodiola rosea to help their body deal with the effects of stress, Rhodiola rosea is largely unknown, and yet quite possibly the most extraordinary adaptogen of them all.

While ginseng has received all the attention as an adaptogen, the use of Rhodiola rosea by the Russians has shown this herb to go above and beyond ginseng. The scientific work on Rhodiola rosea's active components in addressing heart disease, cancer and performance (mentally and physically) is impressive and places Rhodiola rosea as one of the most important herbs and greatest gifts bestow on us.

Rhodiola rosea just one of the amazing herbs that forms and enhances Fitnut's herbal nutrition supplement 4 x 4.

4 x 4 = Energy, weight loss, overall wellness & balance

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Nutrition Breakdown

High in natural insulin, Antioxidant, Potent diuretic, Protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Calcium, Potassium, Carotene, Iron, Zinc, Niacin, Diosgenin, Alkaloids, Lysine, L-tryptophan, Steroidal saponins (diosgenin, yamogenin, Tigogenin and neotigogenin) – amino acids, Phenois, Manganese, B6, Foliate, Cho line, Betaine, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Sodium, Selenium, Omega 3, Omega 6, Copper, Chromium, cobalt (vitamin 12), Coq10, 5 Htp, Iron, Fibre, Green tea, Phenolic bioflavonoids, Phyto-nutrients, Adoptogen, etc.

Benefits

Improves digestive system, Stimulant, Prevents infection by killing decay, Control blood sugar levels, Lowers cholesterol, Anti inflammatory, Lowers plasma glucose, Combats acidicy, Helps hormonal system function efficiently, Increase libido,Improves digestive system, Stimulant, Lowers cholesterol, Anti inflammatory, Lowers plasma glucose, Helps hormonal system function efficiently, Lessen effect of hot flashes and mood fluctuations, Maintains healthy metabolism, Reduces menstrual pain, Strengthens memory and optic nerve, Reduces flatulence, Weight loss, Anti Aging, Energy, Improve Metabolism, Antioxidant (lipid-soluble), Maintain healthy heart, Supports cardiovascular System, Promotes arterior and vascular health, Reduces anxiety, Boosts mood, Suppress appetite, Boosts serotin, Neural function, Lowers plasma glucose, Cat chin, Epigallo cat chin, Anti cancer effect, Cardiovascular and metabolic health, Absorbs and blocks cholesterol, Detoxifying, Stabilize diabetes, Strengthens immune system, Reduces stress and depression, Lowers cortisol, Eliminates sugar cravings or keep them low, Natural anti depressant, etc.

Fitnut's herbal supplement

Body Composition

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:19:40 +0100

What is it?

Body composition refers to the constituents of your body - lean mass, fat mass, and water.

Scales weigh total body mass. What the scale doesn't tell you is whether that weight is fat, lean ( which includes bone, ligaments, and muscle) or water. Your body composition is more important than your weight in determining fitness and health.

Too High or Too Low

Excess fat may be partly genetic, but mostly results from poor exercise and nutritional habits. If your percentage of fat is excessive you may want to make some lifestyle changes. Obesity raises one's risk of getting heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and cancer. Excess fat weight stresses the cardiovascular system and reduces the body's ability to work efficiently.

All of us require stored body fat for fueling energy- if the body has to little fat, it will begin to break down muscle tissue in order to satisfy energy requirements.

Ideal Diet ....

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:43:35 +0100

80% Alkaline and 20% Acid

A diet high in alkaline foods neutralizes the blood and decalicifies the body.

Alkaline-Forming Foods:

Sprouts; leafy and green vegetables; herbs; cayenne pepper; garlic and onions; tree-ripenend fruits; small grains; sea vegetables; fresh beans and corn; sesame seeds; and some nuts such as almonds and pine nuts.

Acid-Forming Foods:

Some fruits such as blueberries, cranberries, plums and prunes; some large grains such as buckwheat and rye; dry unsprouted beans; most unsprouted nuts; and most unsprouted seeds.

The Magic of PH Balancing

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:24:40 +0100

Balanced Ph for the healthiest body naturally:

When it comes to your health, you are likely doing a lot of things right - watching what you eat, exercising regularly and reducing stress wherever possible. However there is on factor that is often overlooked. According to the latest research, ultimate health can only be achieved with a balanced PH.

What is PH?

PH (potential of hydrogen) represents the balance of positively charged (acid-forming) ions to negatively charged (alkaline-forming) ions in your body. The lower the PH of your blood, the more acidic, the higher the PH, the more alkaline. Studies show your PH directly impacts your overall health, including energy, digestion and skin - as well as your risk for serious diseases, including cancer, osteoporosis and even obesity.

For optimum health, our PH should be slightly alkaline, however the mayority of people are overly acidic due mostly to their diets. The good news that through dietary and lifestyle changes, you become more alkaline, starting with a easy PH test and the right dietary and lifestyle changes.

Everyday we derived energy from the foods we consume and a steady flow of oxygen. After food is consumed, it is broken down, digested and absorbed. What's left behind is an ash residue that's either acidic - requiring elimination via the intestines, kidneys, skin or lungs - or alkaline.

Before the body can excrete acidic waste products, it must neutralize them using a steady source of oxygen an organic minerals found in foods such as vegetables, herbs and green food supplements. When there is ample oxygen and alkaline minerals available for neutralization, the body's PH remains balanced and its organs functions correctly.

Exercise the best way to control your appetite and boost your metabolism .....

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:22:44 +0100

There's a way you can naturally suppress your appetite and boost your metabolism with no negative side effects. It's called regular exercise, which means exercising five to seven times per week, not just intermittently.

As Smart Medicine for Healthier Living explains, exercise actually affects the hypothalamus' appetite control system:

"The appetite-control center of the body is the hypothalamus, or 'appestat,' the portion of the brain that tells the body when it is hungry and when the stomach is full. The appestat's hunger signals are triggered by specific levels of certain substances in the blood, including glucose, serotonin, noradrenaline, adrenaline, and dopamine. Physical activity reduces the levels of the hunger-stimulating chemicals that cause the appestat to start the stomach growling for food, and increases the levels of the chemicals that signal to the appestat that the body is humming along at peak efficiency and doesn't require food. In fact, research indicates that exercise can inhibit hunger for as long as six hours after a high level of physical activity" (Zand, Spreen and LaValle).

This means that you won't have to ignore painful hunger pangs or tempting food cravings because, with regular exercise, you won't have them as often. Along with helping you cut the amount of calories you put in your system, exercise can also help you burn the body fat that you already have by increasing your metabolism. Unlike stimulants, which increase your metabolism at a price of jitteriness and sometimes even heart palpitations, exercise naturally boosts your metabolism both while you're doing it and even when you're resting, so you'll be burning more calories even when you sleep.

How is this possible?

Exercise builds muscle, which naturally burns more calories at rest than fatty tissue. Plus, muscular thighs and abs look better than fatty thighs and abs, so exercising enhances your physical appearance as well.

You are eating for someone Else’s body –

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:19:17 +0100

I want to talk about nutrition, and how best to utilize it for losing the last stubborn pounds. But first I have a few quick questions for you:

Are you on a diet?

What diet?

Why that diet?

How many Calories are you eating?

Why are you eating that many Calories?

Nearly everyone can answer the first two questions. The third question … well, that makes you think a little. I think most people probably select diets that suit their needs and lifestyles, but there’s also a good number of people that have no idea why they chose the diet they are on – they just heard that it was good. Question four: well do you? I know a lot of couches and nutritionists don’t really get into counting Calories. Well, I try not to either. But the bottom line is, if you’re not losing fat, you need to step back and re-evaluate the situation. How can u possibly do that if you don’t know how much you’re eating? Question 5, for those of you who know exactly how many Calories you’re eating, why are you eating exactly that many?

Most Calorie formulas are absolutely flawed when it comes to fat loss. Why? Simple: because most Calorie formulas don’t factor in body fat to a great enough degree. If you’re not making any distinction between your body fat and your lean muscle body mass, then you’re basically eating to maintain both – which is pretty much the opposite of what you want to be doing. Calories are a unit of energy more than they are a unit of nutrition. To that end, you need to think about taking in enough energy to maintain your necessary equipment (LBM) while at the same time forcing your body to tap into energy reserves (fat) to get the job done.

If you want to make optimal progress and get leaner than you’ve ever been in the past, you must understand and apply the concept that your body is unique, and the amount of fat on it is going to be as large a determinant for Calorie intake as the amount of muscle. The obvious reason for the structure is rate of fat loss. Simply put, the more fat you have on your body, the faster you can lose it, and the more of it you cam lose without sacrificing LBM (lean body mass). Therefore, if you’re carrying around a significant amount of body fat you can consume fewer calories and still have a pretty decent rate of fat loss without really affecting the metabolic processes responsible for fat loss and muscle gain. On the other hand, if you’re starting out in already (relatively) lean condition and trying to get even leaner, your body is going to necessitate a higher baseline level level of incoming energy (calories) simply to maintain your starting muscle mass.

Savor .....

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:49:30 +0100

When you’re training to revive your fat loss, you must take into account your hormonal needs and structure training accordingly, from the perspective of both the program and the programming.

This is especially true if you’re aiming to enter the final phase and drop the last 5-15 pounds. That is, trying to lose the last few pounds necessitate and approach that addresses the hormonal environment of the trainee.

The trainee protocols need to be exceptional for fat loss in the general sense, but also elicit certain hormonal responses that will help lose fat overall and addresses the issues I touched on earlier.

As an example, if you have high estrogen, you would benefit from utilizing heavy training. Lifting near maximal weights triggers the release of high amounts of IGF-1, testosterone, and Mechano Growth Factor – all of which positively affect body composition in the general sense, and more specifically estrogen-related fat storage.

Closing thoughts:

Whether it’s been a problem with lousy programming or a stagnant program, incorrect cardio methods or Calorie formulas, or dealing with hormonal fat storage, you now have the power to take the steps to correct each issue and accelerate your progress like never before.

Body ….. My House

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:50:10 +0100

Stealth Health: Get Healthy Without Really Trying

How much do you know about what makes up a healthy lifestyle? Here's a pop quiz.

a. Going to the gym.

b. Turning the jump-rope for the neighbor's kid.

c. Playing Frisbee with your dog.

2. How do you define good nutrition?

a. Eating a vegetable at every meal.

b. Eating two vegetables at every meal.

c. Drinking a fruit smoothie for breakfast.

3. Which of these is a healthy activity?

a. Push-ups, sit-ups, or running the track.

b. Walking the dog after dinner.

c. Spending Saturday afternoon snoozing on the sofa.

Believe it or not, the correct answer to every question is A, B, and C -- even that Saturday afternoon snooze! According to the growing "Stealth Health" movement, sneaking healthy habits into our daily living is easier than we think.

"You can infuse your life with the power of prevention incrementally and fairly painlessly, and yes, doing something, no matter how small, is infinitely better for you than doing nothing,
" says David Katz, MD, MPH, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center and of the Yale Preventive Medicine Center.

From your morning shower to the evening news, from your work commute to your household chores, there are at least 2,400 ways to sneak healthy activities into daily living.

If you let yourself make small changes, they will add up to meaningful changes in the quality of your diet, your physical activity pattern, your capacity to deal with stress, and in your sleep quality -- and those four things comprise an enormously powerful health promotion that can change your life.

And yes,a nap on the couch can be a health-giving opportunity -- particularly if you aren't getting enough sleep at night.

You don't have to belong to a gym or live on wheat grass just to be healthy,there are dozens of small things you can do every day that make a difference, and you don't always have to do a lot to gain a lot.

Do a Little, Get a Lot -The notion that good health can come in small tidbits is not really new. Research showing that making small changes can add up to a big difference has been quietly accumulating for a while.

For example, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2004 found that adding just 30 minutes of walking per day was enough to prevent weight gain and encourage moderate weight loss.And if 30 minutes is still too big a bite? Another study, published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, found that three brisk 10-minute walks per day were as effective as a daily 30-minute walk in decreasing risk factors for heart disease.

But it's not only in fitness where small changes can make a difference. The same principles apply at the kitchen table (and the office snack bar). Reducing fat intake, cutting down on sugar, eating a piece of fruit instead of a candy bar -- over time, these things can make a difference. A lot of bad eating habits are about not taking charge of your life, and that attitude is often reflected in other areas. On the other hand,when you make small changes at the kitchen table, the rewards may show up in other areas of your life.

Images of energy ....

Tue, 03 May 2011 16:25:58 +0100

Curls around tangled folds of indistinctly drifting thoughts - Weight Training - currents echoes of blood pounding accumulated effulgence filling and when ... the last restrains snap ... we reap the benefits ... the pleasure dance .....

Your metabolic rate is very much determined by the amount of muscles mass you carry. Weight training for fat loss are a decrease in rest periods between sets and an increase in training volume.

The result of short rest periods, combined with higher volume and moderately high reps is increased growth hormone secretion, due to lactic acid build-up.

Weight training itself has been shown to increase exercise post oxygen consumption (EPOC), in other words, your metabolism may be raised for hours or even days after the session. Weight training is also the main way to stimulate the growth of muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is metabolic active, so it requires calories to be burned for energy, even at rest.

Muscle tissue even helps increase the number of fat-burning enzymes and organelles in your body.