Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Adding Fish to Your Diet can Save, Lengthen and Improve Your Life

The Facts You Need To Know About Fish Oil Supplements

If you are doing it at least 5 times a week, maintaining healthy eating habit and expecting to lose 30 pounds in 3 months, you are getting it wrong somewhere.

It seems you need a weight loss supplement to boost your current work out regimen.

According to western nutrition plans, people are missing the resource of Omega 3 essential fatty acids from their daily meals and kitchen menus. Most of the people have stopped eating Omega 3 rich fishes. This deficiency is posing many health problems.

Moreover the ratio between Omega 6 and Omega 3 fatty acids in a common western nutrition is around 1:10, 1:20 and above. This misbalance is creating a real concern. The perfect ratio is 1:4. By consuming omega 3 from reliable sources you can improve the ratio a lot.

Public reviews on Fish oil supplement are necessary:

Before you are heading towards this diet plan, here are some reviews from real dieters who have used Fish Oil Capsules and have much information to share.

Their experiences and opinions have been arranged in a conclusive manner that gives you over all idea on its pros and cons. Here are those as follows:

A) Fish oil supplements have been a great booster to improve a number of cardiovascular problems like high blood pressure, heart diseases. Other than regulatory fat loss benefits it has numerous other health solutions to depression, asthma, nerve and brain diseases etc. It has also been helpful in maintaining good hormone production, skin/hair/nail and bone health everything.

B) Knowing the action mechanism of poly unsaturated fatty acids is also important, especially with omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids. Generally fatty acids in our body alter cell membrane structure and thus produce series 3 prostaglandins, which improves nerve functions and hormone actions.

C) But eating of too many omega 6 fatty acids can inhibit the conversion of ALA into the series 3 prostaglandins, EPA and DHA. Rather it may increase the formation of the bad Series 2 prostaglandins. Finally it suppresses all the benefits of the omega-3 Fatty acids. Of course, Omega-6 fatty acids are essential for immunity, but in comparison, Omega 3 Fatty acids are more vital.



D) Fish oils are better source of Omega 3 than plant based foods. If you consider flax seeds or canola oil for Omega 3 components, you wont get EPA and DHA, the only portion that provides nutritional benefit. Even if you include fishes like salmon, sardine directly into your meal plan, it wont ensure you right amount of EPA and DHA dosage. Hence fish oil softgels are the next best options.

E) Before choosing a particular label of fish oil pills, consult your doctor; ask him or her for a specific brand recommendation. Be extra cautious while verifying the dosage instructions. If you are consuming 1000 mg soft gels, the amount of EPA and DHA must consist up the whole. Always consider 100 percent pure softgels free from toxin and heavy metals like mercury.

Written by: Johny Powell


About the Author: Johny Powell is a speciality nutrition expert previously worked with the board of scientific advisors Florida. He suggests a range of fish oil softgels that can improve your brain health and regain the activeness. For more information please visit: http://www.stopagingnow.com/


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Friday, October 15, 2010

How to Live to be 100 Years Old while Feeling 50 Years Young

Is it a long, healthy life luck of the genetic draw, or can anybody live to be 100 through lifestyle choices? 

Genes play a role, but new studies show that we can extend lifespan by choice.


In the New England Centenarian Study, researchers found a variety genetic factors that could explain the extraordinary longevity of some people, but a number of environmental and behavioral factors made a big difference as well. They found that bad health is not a by-product of aging either; lots of people in the study functioned independently well beyon 90.

There have been many studies on aging, resulting in two 2 primary theories and 7 mitigating factors for living a long life.

2 Theories on Aging

Damage theory: aging is caused by a lifetime assault on cells and genetic materials, like the free-radical theory of aging says that free radicals destroy cellular compounds. The idea behind this theory is, that highly reactive molecules inherent in our environments and our diets, and produced by our bodies destroy it's cellular compounds.

Programmed theory: genetics determine when we die. This telomere-shortening theory suggests that cell death is caused by the shortening of telomeres on our chromosomes. When a cell replicates, a minute piece of DNA is taken off the end of the chromosome. When they get too short, which causes the death of the entire organism. Us.

Modern society tends to believe the damage theory, as well as the older we get, the weaker and sicker we get. This does not need to be true, considering most studies show that if you live healthy throughout your life, you will avoid most disease and live longer.

Most of this has to do with diet and exercise. But these two facts are far from being the only reasons why we could, should or would live longer. The way we think about our ourselves, our lives and how well we cope with stress is as important as how many vitamins we take or how far we jog each day. Studies show:

7 Factors of Long Life

1. Eat less and live longer.

Decreasing the amount of food you eat seems to increase lifespan, reduce the  frequency of age-related disease, and put off its onset. Research also suggests that restricting calories retards inflammation and lowers blood pressure, glucose levels and cholesterol. However you must make sure you are still getting enough protein, fat and other nutrients. You should only follow this advice under the watchful eyes of a health care professional.

2. Excercise or die.

I can’t make it any clearer, you have to get off the couch if you want to live longer. A robust, active lifestyle will put years on your life. Walk more and move more in general, even in your older years.

3. Smile and be happy.

Long-living people are happy. They tend to be laid back, cheery, fun-loving folk. Though they have the same amount of stress, they deal with it more effectively. And it’s probably not surprising that studies consistently link hostility, depression, anxiety and a sense of hopelessness with increased risk of heart disease and death.

4. Love and be loved. 

Studies show that people who have someone to love and that are loved in return live longer. This may in part be due to them being happy, but it is more than that. It is the feeling of contentment, fulfillment and serinity that accompanies love that produces neurochemicals such as oxytocin and dopamine which have long been associated with well being.

5. Mental muscles are important.

In the Centenarian study, an agile mind was very important to longevity. New, stimulating activities seem to be the key in boosting brain activity. However, once these skills become routine, they deminish in their ability to stimulate the brain. Learn a new language, read a books, play chess, these are all activities that will stimulate your mental muscles.

6. Live like a Mormon.

Mormons are great role models; those who don’t drink or use tobacco, and who are vegetarians, live an average of eight years longer than other Americans, and have a lower rate of heart disease, cancer and other illnesses. Most older, healthy people share the characteristics of clean living, strong spiritual practices and time for family.

7. Know your family history.

Most of us know some bacon-eating and cigarette-smoking, alcohol drinking whoremongers who laugh in the face of death and disease. Most of us know right-eating, non-smoking, non-drinking athletes that die before they reach 50. There is no one formula that works for everyone, as the interaction between genetics and lifestyle is very complicated. Everybody’s factors are different. The most important life-extending factor for one person might be exercising regularly, but for the next person it might be eating less fat. What is your family history? What diseases did you grandparents, parents, aunts or uncles get? If you find that cancer runs in your family, boost your intake of cancer-preventive nutrients, if they all become morbidly obese, you know you are going to have to watch your weight, and so on.

People are living longer now than at any other time in history. There are more people over 100 now than there were people over 50, less than 100 years ago!

This is in part becaus of modern medicine, which can cure many, if not most diseases now, but also because we now have the knowledge and the information to know what's good and what's bad for you.

We never knew that smoking, sugar, fat, cholesterol and many other things were bad. We didn't know about the tips I mentioned earlier in this article. We just didn't know any better to be able to live longer. Now we have the knowledge to be able to avoid the bad and do the good.

There is little excuse if you don't live to be 100. If you die before 100, 99 times out of a 100 it's because you didn't do what it takes to reach 100, the other 1 time was because of genetics. You may call that a play on words, I call it the wisdom of the ages.


Written By: Tom Retterbush



Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men? (time.com)
New genetic model can predict who will live past 100 [Mad Gerontology] (io9.com)
Survey Reveals More 100-Year-Olds Using New Technology (eon.businesswire.com)

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Cure E.D. Quickly and Easily with Safe and Natural Supplement

Erection Problems?

Get a Hard Erection Quickly with this Natural Supplement

There is a key chemical produced by the body which if you don't get enough of it you will never get an erection let alone a hard one.

The chemical we are going to look at here though can be topped up naturally and cure erection problems...

The chemical is called nitric oxide and plays a crucial role in terms of getting an erection.


It is secreted in the blood vessels which lead to the penis which enables them to expand enough, to take the increased flow of blood in which makes the penis hard and erect.

Many men lack it and think they have to resort to synthetic drugs - but the reality is there are several natural ways of getting more of it and here we will look at 3 of them.

L'arginine Known as natures Viagra- one of the best libido enhancers you can take.

It is actually produced in the body naturally - but declines with age. In terms of sexual health, it helps produce nitric oxide when levels fall so to do nitric oxide levels.

You can take it as a supplement and its very effective.

In a test, after just 2 weeks of supplementation more than 80% of men with erection problems reported better erections, more sex drive and more satisfaction, and numerous tests have shown similar results.

Combining it for greater Affect...

While it's great on its own, it works even better with two Chinese herbs - Horny Goat Weed and Cnidium.
Both help increase levels of nitric oxide - but Horny Goat Weed also increases testosterone, as well as helping to alleviate stress and fatigue which both cause poor erectile function.

Cnidium also helps pump the blood strongly to the extremities, including the genitals. Strong blood flow is crucial to sexuality, as you need strong blood flow to the genitals on arousal, as if you think about it - your heart rate quickens as soon as sexual impulses are received and wants to send blood to the penis.

Get these Natural Cures and More.

The above 3 natural cures for erection problems are found in all the best herbal sex pills and combined with other natural herbs, will help you not only cure erectile dysfunction - but also give your overall wellness a boost at the same time.

Try them and you will have more nitric oxide, better erectile function and better health and that's got to be good news.

Written By: Kelly Price

Also check out, Forget Viagra; 5 Natural Health Tips to Cure ED, for more ways to fight erectile dysfunction, wich on SEXYOUALL, the Sexual Advice Blog. 


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About the Author: Kelly Price, For more on male sexual wellness, visit Kelly's website.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

10 Natural Health Tips that will Save You a whole lot of Money

Ten Holistic Health Tips for Little to no Money

A holistic approach to health has become vastly popular in recent years.

As more and more patients get fed up with emergency rooms, doctors and hospitals in general, they look for alternative forms of medicine.


Holistic medicine has been around for thousands of years, and definitely has its merits. It is not only meant for unknown tribes from distant lands, we can all gain benefit by understanding and utilizing this approach to healing. Here are no- and low-cost holistic health tips to improve your health:

1. Improve Your Posture. It is important to keep your spine as straight as possible, this way your muscles will not strain unnecessarily. This also serves to improve the energy circulating through the body by keeping the nerves straight and unhindered.

2. Avoid Television. Television can actually invoke negative feelings in most viewers. This is due to the violent, sexual and gossipy nature of the programming. TRY THIS: Give up television viewing for one full week and replace that time with other activities (walking, playing games with your family, etc.). You will discover you are better rested, less stressed out and happier in general.

3. Improve Your Sleeping Habits. Your body needs time to unwind and relax so that you can feel refreshed. If you still feel tired after a night's sleep, or even during the day, chances are you are not getting sufficient sleep. Science has proven that the average human being needs at least 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep each night. Try setting aside these 8 hours each night for a few weeks. Do your best to avoid stress and exertion within an hour of bedtime. You will definitely notice improvement in your overall health and your productivity throughout the day.

4. Deep Breathing Exercises. Under stressful circumstances, people tend to breathe more rapidly and in shallow breaths. This is a VERY unhealthy pattern as your blood stream and body tissues rely heavily on oxygen exchange to perform efficiently. Try focused breathing for a few minutes each day. Start by inhaling completely, then slowly exhaling completely. You will find that you actually feel better during this daily exercise. Also, you will discover that you are paying closer attention to your breathing throughout the day.

5. Try Being Nicer. Positive energy is very contagious. If you are nice to others, they will be nice to you. Have you ever held a door open for someone? How about smiled at a stranger at the mall? You most likely found they responded favorably, and that is what this section is about. Doing these little good deeds will have you feeling much better about yourself in the long run.

6. Avoid Clutter. This is an energy deflator. Take time to eliminate clutter a little bit at a time (becoming overwhelmed defeats the purpose of this exercise). Once your space is uncluttered, you will feel the positive energy flowing again!

7. Follow Your Dreams. What you dream can reveal quite a bit to you. Some therapists believe that our dreams help us become aware of struggles, fears, and anxieties. Try keeping a journal of the major themes of your dreams. Record these as soon as you can upon waking. Look for patterns ore recurring themes. Take time to look these up in a dream dictionary. Meditate on the information you uncover to see if their meaning is representative of your struggles. Becoming more aware of these internal conflicts can give you an excellent place to start working them out.

8. Examine Your Colors. Color is directly associated with your emotions and your body's energy. Be mindful of the colors that surround you during various emotional points in your day. Red is very stimulating, which is OK when you are looking for an energy boost, but not so good during attempted rest periods. Try changing colors in your wardrobe or work space to better suit your emotional needs. Green is an esteem booster, purple is associated with healing, etc...experiment!!

9. Listen to More Music. There are many benefits to music/sound therapy, the biggest is a sense of overall well-being. TRY THIS: Find some soft music that you enjoy, go into a quiet room and play it on a very low volume setting. If you are quiet and relaxed. you will be able to hear the music as if it were at full volume.

10. Try Aromatherapy. Aromatherapy has been a very popular holistic health topic for a long time. Many people will swear to you the benefits they have received from such therapies. The aroma of rosemary oil calming headaches, lavender oil adding to a relaxing sleep. There are many wonderful books and experts out there to help you get started.


Written By: Jeff Murad

  
About the Author: Looking for tips and resources on a totally healthy lifestyle? Visit Totally Healthy You for a complete lifestyle makeover. The author is a 20 healthcare veteran in the field of Cardiology and healthcare education dedicated to helping others achieve a healthy lifestyle.

                                             
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