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[7 minute workout] The Truth About Health and Fitness. – Video
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Fitness Matters: Decrease your inflammation for better health
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Inflammatory factors are unique to each person and are influenced by various lifestyle, environmental or infectious factors that spin the immune system out of control, leading to a host of chronic illnesses such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia and cancer.
Everyone who has had a sore throat, rash, hives or a sprained ankle knows about inflammation. These are normal and appropriate responses of your body's defense system to infection and trauma.
This kind of inflammation is good and we need it to survive. The trouble occurs when that defense system runs out of control. When inflammation persists or serves no purpose, it damages the body and causes illness.
Many of us are familiar with an overactive immune response and too much inflammation. It results in common conditions like allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune disease and asthma. This is bad inflammation, and if it is left unchecked, it can make life pretty difficult.
By identifying the triggers and causes of inflammation, we can help reset the body's natural immune balance by providing the right conditions for it to thrive. Fortunately, addressing the causes of inflammation and learning how to live an anti-inflammatory lifestyle can dramatically improve your health.
A poor diet that consists of mostly sugar, refined flours, processed foods and inflammatory fats such as trans and saturated fats contribute to inflammation.
Consume whole foods that are high in fiber, unprocessed, unrefined, fresh and plant-based foods. Refined sugar and other foods with a high glycemic values jack up insulin levels and put the immune system on high alert.
Lack of regular exercise contributes to inflammation. In addition to strengthening your cardiovascular system, exercise corrects and prevents insulin resistance, and is key for improving your mood and erasing the effects of stress.
Stress. Your body reacts universally to biological and psychological stressors, so controlling our stress level has a dramatic affect on overall inflammation. Thoughts and feelings are very powerful and they can manifest themselves physically with symptoms of inflammation, such as skin breakouts and intestinal issues.
Hidden allergens from food or the environment can be a source of stress on your body as well. Two common culprits are dairy and gluten.
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Wanted: 15 men willing to run for their lives
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Monday 2 July 2012
Wanted: 15 men willing to run for their lives
Unitec student-led initiative aims to improve mens health and fitness
About 15 Auckland men who do little or no exercise will get the support this year to turn that around, thanks to the initiative of one Unitec student.
Michael McLeod, who is studying towards a Master of Osteopathy, has recruited a group of fellow osteopathy students who will become the support network for the men, helping them set fitness goals and achieve them, while monitoring their musculoskeletal health.
The group is looking for around 15 inactive Auckland men who are willing to take part. As well as aiming for the big goal of the adidas Auckland Marathon, the students and their recruits will be building up their fitness by training for the Unitec Run & Walk Events Series. The series of five running and walking events goes from July to September, and is the official lead-up series to the marathon.
Michael, who also has a Bachelor of Applied Science from Unitec, as well as a teaching diploma and a degree in physical education, exercise and sport science, dreamed up the initiative as a way to help improve mens health outcomes.
Having received a scholarship from the Mens Health Trust New Zealand to help pay for his studies, Michael was keen to pay it forward by driving an initiative that would improve mens health outcomes through increased physical activity.
I had a goal this year that I wanted to run the adidas Auckland Marathon and so decided to recruit other osteopathy students who were interested in running a marathon event as well, so we could train together.
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Oakland's Boxing for Health is a place for fighters and fitness buffs
Posted: July 1, 2012 at 9:16 am
Miguel Lopez spends much of every day on a second-story boxing gym on Santa Clara Avenue near Lake Merritt catering to an American obsession: the human body. From 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. the talk revolves around weight, fat-to-muscle ratios, diets, heart rates and calories.
"People come stressed out and just want to get through the day feeling good," he said. "It's addictive when you look in the mirror and like what you see."
Lopez is 28, stands 5 feet, 8 inches tall and his fighting weight is 155 pounds. The pattern of a lightning bolt is shaved into his hair, which he keeps closely cropped.
On a Thursday afternoon he leads a group of about a dozen men and women through a series of crunches, push ups and reverse situps during a beginner cardio boxing class.
"Grab your hand wraps and gloves and we're going to jump on the bags," Lopez calls out after the last set. Everyone is sweating. A few are panting.
They rise from the mats padding the floor and wrap their hands in long strands of thick cotton that will protect their knuckles, thumbs and wrists. Pulling on boxing gloves -- pink Everlast gloves are popular among the women -- they begin to line up in front of heavy punching bags hanging in front of a wall covered by mirrors.
Some of Lopez's clients come to Boxing for Health to excise love handles. A few people have many pounds to shed. Two women are pregnant.
"I love getting people in shape. That's why you always
There is a cancer survivor, a Russian kick boxer improving his boxing skills, a former pro fighter from Brooklyn looking to slim down, a man with knee replacements, a local fitness trainer who brought in her class, a teenager aspiring to go pro and a 40-year-old woman who wants to fight in the amateur masters age division.
Stephen Anderson is 19 and a receiver for the UC Berkeley football team. The graduate of the Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose has been coming to the gym whenever he has a break since March. His mother and sister are members. "If you want to lose weight you will lose weight. If you want to get in shape you will get in shape," he said after a warm-up.
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Health and Fitness: Breakthrough Research On New Focus & Brain Health Nutrient
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Attention anyone seeking greater cognitive health and function: Researchers from The Brain Institute and Harvard University reported, for the first time, positive effects on focus and attention in healthy adult women with nutrient Cognizin Citicoline. Companies like GungHo are reaping the benefits.
Researchers from the Brain Institute of the University of Utah and Harvard University have reported for the first time positive effects from the consumption of a proprietary branded citicoline nutrient named Cognizin on attentional performance in healthy adult women. Published in the June issue of the journal Food and Nutrition Sciences, the results of their investigation showed that healthy subjects consuming a 250mg capsule of Cognizin citicoline per day performed significantly better than those consuming a placebo capsule on a measure of attentional performance, committing significantly fewer errors of commission and omission on this task.
This groundbreaking research is of vital interest since several previous papers reporting positive cognitive effects of citicoline focused on its ability to improve performance and cellular metabolism in animals and humans with cognitive defects (e.g., stroke victims). Now, that work has been extended to healthy humans.
Adults of all ages could benefit markedly from the consumption of the vital nutrient. Apparently, Cognizin citicoline exerts its positive effects on focus, attention and memory by being rapidly absorbed, converted to choline and uridine (both psychoactive substances), entering systemic circulation and being finally utilized in many biosynthetic pathways, especially in the brain where it is further converted into CDP-choline, a major building block for dopamine, a molecule of major importance in the maintenance of cognitive health and performance.
Does Cognizin work? GoGungHo Inc (makers of a focus/energy gel shot), believe it does. They made an agreement for the exclusive rights to distribute Cognizin, at the proven effective dose of 250mg, within the energy/focus shots and drink category. And GungHo is going GungHo. They recently broke launch records with the social media release of their product; University students, gamers and women, love the "smooth focus" said Mason, co-founder. "We asked students what they wanted in an energy drink and they told us they actually wanted focus. Focus to game, study or work without the typical distracting buzz, jitters and crash. They also wanted the convenience of a gel shot with no sugar and all-natural ingredients." GungHo has a patent-pending on their focus gel shot. "We combined the long-term impact on focus and memory provided by the Cognizin with the immediate alertness of caffeine - far less than used in typical energy shots - and the smoothness of ashwaganda. Hence folks can get the energy and focus they want without the harsh jitters or crash." Said Dr Dan Mowry.
Dr Renshaw, Director at The Brain Institute and former professor of Psychiatry at Harvard - one of the primary researchers on Cognizin Citicoline - peer reviewed GungHo' formula and stated:
"GungHo is the ONLY energy shot or drink that contains natural ingredients at proven effective doses to improve focus and concentration. Unlike other energy products that deal with short-term energy and no lasting impact on brain energy, GungHo will actually increase levels of critical neurotransmitters in the brain over time."
Will GungHo be the first of many products to benefit from focusing on Cognizin Citicoline? We shall see.
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Posted: June 30, 2012 at 9:18 pm
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