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Health Benefits Of Magnesium
The crucial health benefits of magnesium include solving or preventing osteoporosis, heart attacks, hypertenstion, constipation, migraines, leg cramps, kidney stones, gallstones and more. Magnesium is an essential part of the alternative health approaches of alternative medicine.
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Top 10 Inflammatory Foods to Avoid Like the Plague
According to the statistics from the World Health Organization, about 12.9 million people worldwide died from some form of cardiovascular disease in 2004. And each year, the World Cancer Research Fund estimated that some eight million people died from cancer. Heart disease and cancer, the deadly manifestation of chronic inflammation, are expected to remain as the leading causes of death in developed countries for many years to come.
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The Claim: For Better Muscle Tone, Go Lighter and Repeat
By ANAHAD O'CONNOR
Lifting heavy weights makes you big and bulky — or at least that’s the conventional wisdom. It’s the reason many women (and some men) who want slim and “toned” physiques opt for lighter weights, lifted more times.
But the notion is not supported by science.
Click here to read the NY Times article. Be sure to review the supporting abstracts linked within the article.
Here is another article on the same topic from hotbodytraining.com.
Sitting Ducks?
New findings from the AusDiab study published online in Diabetes Care this week reported that people who took more breaks from sitting were associated with better metabolic health – regardless of their total sitting time, or how much moderate-to-vigorous intensity activity they did. First author and PhD student, Genevieve Healy from the Cancer Prevention Research Centre, in collaboration with researchers at the International Diabetes Institute, measured sedentary time, and breaks in sedentary time, in 168 subjects using an accelerometer worn during waking hours over seven consecutive days. While sedentary time was shown to be detrimentally associated with several metabolic health outcomes, those who regularly interrupted their sitting time – even by such light intensity activities such as walking to go see a colleague, or changing the TV channel manually instead of using the remote – were associated with lower waist circumference, body mass index, triglyceride, and blood glucose levels. High levels of these metabolic measures are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. The latest study builds on work that is shifting the health promotion focus beyond just purposeful exercise, such as jogging or cycling, to lower intensity activity throughout the day and suggest new public health recommendations on the breaking-up of sedentary time that are complementary to those for physical activity.
Click here for Stand Up Australia Study Findings
Got Milk...Questions??
Many of you are familiar with the work of Mark Sisson. Sisson is constantly firing out great information related to health, longevity, and fitness. His book, The Primal Blueprint, and his website, Mark's Daily Apple, are two great sources of information related to the health, longevity, and fitness benefits of a paleo-esque or "Primal" lifestyle.
In the Definitive Guide to Dairy, featured on Mark's Daily Apple, Sisson discusses the pros and cons of milk.
Carb Rules for a Better Looking Body
Coach Charles Poliquin is hailed as one of the world's premier strength coaches. Coach Poliquin has successfully trained professional athletes and Olympians worldwide, and his training methods and nutritional philosophies are highly sought after in the industry. Please read Coach Poliquin’s Top 10 Carb Intake Rules for Optimal Body Composition.
A Closer Look at Vitamin D
85-90% of people are deficient to severely deficient in Vitamin D. This is because we get very little from our diets except for fish and in fortified dairy now. This is exacerbated by having jobs that are indoor. When we do go outside we use sunscreen which blocks UVB radiation that allows Vitamin D production to occur in our skin.
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Recovery
This is the easy bit!!! Sounds easy and is easy, but it’s often neglected. As crazy as it sounds, rest is just as important as exercise. Time to find out why!
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