Increase Your Energy and Inner Strength with Just a Few Drops

By Lenette Nakauchi

Are you interested in increasing your energy and inner strength? Marine Phytoplankton as a superfood supplement could be your answer. Marine Phytoplankton from Elements for Life is a raw, unprocessed, nutrient-dense micro-algae suspended in an ocean water concentrate. This is truly where all life gets its energy from; its at the bottom of the food chain so is the purest forms of energy. This superfood contains 92 macro and trace minerals, is a complete protein, is high in antioxidants, and contains all four essential fatty acids. Just one drop has more minerals and nutrients than most people may get in a week!

There is a vast array of human health benefits from the internal use of Marine Phytoplankton. These references include more vibrant and younger looking skin, a gentle lift of energy each day of use, eyesight improvement, speedy recovery to health, strengthening of the immune, nervous and endocrine system, and more. It has also been shown to enhance brain function, act as an anti-inflammatory, improve cellular repair, and improve circulation.

Typically, Omega 3 fatty acids in hemp, flax, and chia seeds are Alpha-linolenic acids, or ALA, which need to be converted in the body through several complicated steps before it can deliver the benefits. Omega 3 fatty acids in marine phytoplankton are immediately assimilable in the human body. So when we take marine phytoplankton, no energy is necessary to convert and assimilate the Essential Fatty Acids, minerals, or proteins. They are literally delivered at the DNA/Mitochondria level. That means instant energy is delivered right into our blood steam. We get all of those benefits for no digestive work.

Place just one dropperful of Elements for Life Marine Phytoplankton in a six ounce glass of water, and you will see just how nutrient and chlorophyll-dense this product is. Chlorophyll is detoxifying for the blood, liver, and entire digestive tract, it improves oxygen uptake, fueling muscles and improving performance endurance, and is good for all around energy and health. The more "green" you can get in your diet, the better!

One species of marine phytoplankton was determined to be the most optimal for human use by a team of doctors, microbiologists, and botanists in Europe. This original strain of marine phytoplankton was taken from ocean, isolated, then grown in a giant bio-reactor in Europe, where they replicate in, and are harvested from, an ocean-like environment. This ensures there are no contaminants or environmental pollutants in the product. From there it is bottled in a living-state in a concentrate ocean water solution.

Because marine phytoplankton is a relatively new to market superfood, there are only a few other companies making it right now. I decided to do a comparison test with the two others I found. I placed a dropperful of each in a small glass of water to see the difference in pigmentation and concentration. The other two didn't come close. One was actually completely clear so it caused no change in water color; the other was a pink/orangish color so the water looked pinkish in color. The taste test didn't impress me either. I thought one tasted like alcohol and the other like fruit juice. They didn't come close to giving me the jolt of energy I feel when I take a dropperful of Elements for Life Marine Phytoplankton.

This is a medicine that represents the future of healing. It is only living product that you can buy that contains all known minerals that can be used in human metabolism. Its so powerful that you only need 4 drops per day or twice a day. Just one drop will knock your socks off though and give you a difference in energy you can feel. One bottle will last well over a month with this type of usage. Other options to take it if you don't like the salty taste are to add it to a smoothie, orange juice, water, coconut water, or your favorite juice. It doesn't get any simpler than that! - 17274

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Lenette Nakauchi is a Chicagoan raw foodist passionate about teaching, coaching and demonstrating to others how to incorporate more raw foods into their diet in a fun, healthy, sustainable way. Discover more about raw foods and superfoods such as Elements for Life Marine Phytoplankton by visiting her websites www.gorawhavefun.com and www.eatsuperfoods.com.

Supplements and RDAS

By P.G Mayora

When you go to the supermarkets or health food shops looking for a multi vitamin/mineral and you pick one up and on the label it says vitamin A 100% RDA, vitamin D 100% RDA and so on , so you think Ill take this one as it has the full amount of RDAS for all these vitamins.

But!.. The thing is that these guidelines set by the government and health experts are basically the bare minimum for each of these micronutrients to stop diseases such as scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), beri-beri (thiamine deficiency), pellagra nicotinic acid and tryptophen deficiency), rickets (vitamin D deficiency) and so on, although these amount are the bare minimum needed to keep these diseases at bay, it is by no means enough to stay in peak condition, the distance between a diet to prevent these conditions and a diet to stay in the best of health are a million miles apart.

It is impossible to say that such and such is the amount for the RDAs for everyone on the the planet. Every single person needs different and varying amounts of each vitamin and mineral, and this all depends on sex, age, where you live (country or city), what medication you are on, which country you live in , weight, fitness, activity, what exercise you do, your job, anything you suffer from (any conditions, ailments or diseases), family history, allergies, diet, if you smoke or drink the list goes on and on, as there are hundreds of factors that contribute to your well being.

Lets take a couple of examples: If you live in a busy city as opposed to out in the country, then one of the things you will need more than the ones who live in less polluted areas are antioxidants. There are way too many antioxidants to list, but whereas RDA,s tell you vitamin A 800ug, vitamin C 60mg and vitamin E 10mg, it really should be more like vitamin A 2,500ug, vitamin C 1,000- 2,000mg and vitamin E 300mg as a much stronger level of anti oxidants will be required to fight all of the extra free radicals from exhaust and pollution.

But increasing your vitamins and minerals is only part of the story. Another thing that people may not realise is that certain vitamins and minerals help each other and are needed in certain combinations and certain ones work against each other. Pretty much everyone knows that calcium is needed for strong bones and teeth, but this does not make the slightest bit of difference unless there are suitable levels of vitamin D, magnesium and phosphorus because these all work together for the maximum uptake by the body.

Iron needs vitamin C to increase absorption, potassium needs magnesium to hold it in the cells, sodium works with potassium in order to maintain water balance and proper nerve and muscle impulses, and then on the other side of the coin zinc and copper are highly antagonistic as they stop each other working properly and phosphorus is hindered by high levels of iron, magnesium and aluminium to name but a few. - 17274

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Gaining Muscle Instead of Fat

By Allen Brian

It is commonly believed that if you add too much muscle quickly, you will add fat at the same time. Gaining muscle and fat at the same time is a natural process of gaining weight, you must know and accept it if you want build muscle mass. If your goal is to build big muscles, then you need to intake a lot of calories for your body to grow more muscles. But it is impossible for all of your additional calories to go for growing your muscle. Some of these extra calories will end up as fat.

To make the biggest appearance changes in the shortest time possible, you must concentrate on getting larger for one specific time period and then concentrate on getting rid of the extra fat for one specific time period.

The level of muscles plays an important role in determining the rate of metabolism, so the more muscle you have, the more fat that you can get rid of. For this reason, build a bulking phase of muscle is a good start.

Based on what we get here, your goal of gaining weight should be: gain small amount of fat and big amount of muscle as you can. Losing fat completely is not what we want here; we just want to get them as small as possible.

Here are 3 methods that may help.

Count the exact additional calories you need.

Super nutrition is a phrase that differs from "optimal nutrition". Getting extra calories is needed to make your muscles larger, but eating as much as you can of random foods beyond what you need to make your muscle tissue larger will cause you to gain more fat than you should.

Set extra calories to fifteen to twenty percent of your daily calories needs are acceptable for growing muscle. If your calorie intake is in this range, you don't need any more calories.

Be careful your nutrition sources.

Healthy, unsaturated fats, carbohydrate with high fibers and lean proteins should be your main food sources. Food plays a large role in muscle building. You should always keep away from saturated fats, intake natural fiber carbohydrates to stabilize the level of your blood sugar and eat more red lean meats.

The importance of cardio workout.

Cardio workout is less important for build bulk muscle, but it will help you gain less fat. You don't need to go overboard, it is just an additional workout. Just keep cardio workout high strength and short. Keep the workout within 10 to 20 minutes long that can help maintain your muscle mass.

Once you've built an amount of muscle size that you're satisfied with (and this is totally up to the individual), you can then move into a fat loss cycle and concentrate on dropping off body fat while retaining muscle size. It is inevitable that you will gain fat while in the muscle building process. Instead of trying to totally avoid gaining fat, you should learn how to make fat storage as little as possible in muscle building process. - 17274

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Understanding The Dangers Of The Three Day Diet

By Cathy M

The 3 Day Diet dates back to 1985 and today can be found all over the Internet and on book store shelves. The three day diet and its variants promise quick weight loss, a cleansing of the system, lower cholesterol and increased energy all through a specific metabolic reaction that no version of the diet has ever proven.

The diet goes on for three days and then off for four or five with lots of specific and cryptic steps so that when it fails the dieter can be pinned for doing something wrong.

Breakfast on the first day begins with coffee (no sugar), half a grapefruit, and a portion of toast with one tblsp of peanut butter. For lunch, you are to eat a can of tuna, a slice of toast, and black coffee. Dinner consists of 3 ounces of chicken or lean meat, a cup of green beans, one cup of carrots, one apple, and one cup of regular vanilla ice cream.

The next two days of the 3 day diet are pretty similar in meal quantity, though the specifics change, for example Day 2 recommends two beef franks for dinner in place of 3ozs of lean meat. Supposedly it's viable to lose as much as 10lbs in only three days.

Hogwash is the answer. The issue is what is a specific reaction to that claim? As stated the metabolic reaction has never been examined much less proven. Any weight loss would be mostly water loss due to a lack of carbohydrates in the body which help the body to hold the water that we all need. At the end of the day this can lead to dehydration which is not desirable for our bodies to function correctly.

Because of binge eating after such starvation and because most of the weight lost is from water, the weight will hastily return after the three days. Furthermore, such water loss could result in some serious medical problems. But hey, then you'd lose some real weight in the hospital.

The three day diet should really be treated as a no day diet. In other words, don't do it unless you wish to suffer many other conditions that could possibly be caused by over use of this diet. - 17274

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The Guy Behind Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle

By Caitlin Ryan

Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle author Tom Venuto is going to be popular around here at Your Health Reporter! I just bought the book and already I can tell you that Tom Venuto is rather impressive and receives a big nod from me and definitely KNOWS what he is talking about!

A natural, competitive body builder in rock hard shape, Tom has a remarkable 3.7% body fat. He has been in many competitions and has won championships. He has been featured in highly recognized fitness magazines like IRONMAN and Mens Fitness. He is wonderfully fit and a professional at it, but that is not why I am putting him at the top of my list!

Tom Venuto is the author of many published fitness articles and he is involved in organizations such as the American College of Sports Medicine. He is well educated with a bachelors degree in Exercise Science. He knows and understands fat loss, muscle building and proper nutrition; yet, that is STILL not why I think his book is going to be amazing!

Tom Venuto receives a thumbs up from Your Health Reporter because he has spent the last 19 years educating himself, training his body, and most importantly, trying virtually every diet and supplement known. He has taken that knowledge and spent 14 years testing and developing his program, Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle.

I too have spent a lot of time looking into MANY fat loss/weight loss programs, pills and products that are readily available. This is the first time I have found an author that was SO knowledgeable and who backs what he says with what he does! If you think about it, why would weight loss and fat loss companies want their products to work? If they did, would not we lose body fat, keep it off and never need another diet pill or book again?

Tom Venuto tried virtually all of the weight loss or fat loss products and gimmicks. He knows through experience that though weight loss is possible with most of those diets and pills, FAT loss or body fat and keeping that body fat down is NOT possible with most programs.

Our bodies need nutrients and training if we want to lose body fat and keep lean body mass. I have always said that there IS a such thing as a skinny fat person. And these folks may be happy with skinny until they gain the weight back!

Metabolism is also another key component of proper weight loss. Very low calorie diets LOWER your metabolism. This causes your body to store body fat! This is one of the most important aspects of understanding how to lose body fat and keep it off! If you want to burn fat and build lean body mass, you absolutely have to keep your metabolism at optimum level! - 17274

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Rheumatoid Arthritis Relief Supplement: Omega Daily

By Andrew John

Rheumatoid arthritis is certainly the most dangerous and severe form of arthritis. It is known to attack both joints and some internal organs including eyes, lungs and heart. The signs of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) include painful joint and eyes inflammations.

Rheumatoid arthritis is the fastest-acting form of arthritis, with most of the damage done within the first two-five years. We can't cure it and we can't prevent it, but if the condition is diagnosed early enough, we can minimize the secondary damage and slow down its progress.

There are several drugs that can be used to reduce the effects of rheumatoid arthritis. First, there are NSAID - Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs such as acetylsalicylic acid and ibuprofen. Most of them are available over the counter, but in more severe cases you may want to ask your doctor for stronger NSAID that are prescription-only. Other means of reducing the symptoms of RA is increasing the intake of Omega-3 fatty acids by taking Omega Daily food supplement or simply by eating more fish oil. These nutrients are known to decrease periods of morning stiffness as well as for reducing inflammations.

Rheumatoid Arthritis can be also fought by other medications. The most effective, but also the most effective are Biological Response Modifiers. While they can virtually stop the progress of RA, their cost prohibits their wider use. A year-long treatment can cost more than twenty-five thousand dollars.

There is also a cheaper alternative to BRM, commonly used to combat rheumatoid arthritis: Disease-Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (example: Methotrexate). Their main goal is to reduce the damage done to joints by the disease. Needless to say, they are prescription-only drugs.

Besides medications, there is also a few other things you may want to do in order to make your life with rheumatoid arthritis easier. First, you need to accept that RA won't go, so you can't simply "wait until it is gone." While some activities are beyond of your reach, it does not mean that you can only sit down and watch TV. Another important thing is that you need to do some sport. While you may feel it is safer to put no stress at all to your joints, this will only speed up the disease progress. Strong muscles reduce the impact of RA and increase the flexibility of your joints. However, you'd better choose such exercises that do not harm your joints - usually swimming is the best idea.

Only in the United States there are more than two million people affected by this disease. While it affect women more often than men and the susceptibility to RA is thought to be hereditary, don't discard it even if you're a male with no RA history in your family. It can happen to anyone, anytime - if you suspect you have RA, contact your doctor ASAP. Every week matters, so don't delay your visit! - 17274

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