Juicing Changes Health for The Best

By Ellen Valentine, CNC

Is there a certain line of defense to engage when you are not well? Is it true that once you hit a certain age things begin to fall apart and youre at the mercy of a life of medication to keep organ systems going? Well, it will be true for you if you believe that. My job here though is to remind you that your body has the greatest potential for healing, and once you taste the triumph when Infinite Intelligence reverses an illness or condition, youll be empowered for life. Youll be invincible.

Everyone needs reminders. They come in the form of a good friend, a spouse, a mentor, a movie like the Secret or What the Bleep, a class or a book. The reminder is simple yet profound and that is that YOU ARE IN CHARGE. You can turn poor health around by going to the root cause of all disease: bad digestion. Bad digestion simply means youve run out of or are very low in digestive enzymes and minerals. Your job now is to eat whole, organic, take digestive enzymes every time you eat and combine your foods properly.

The Infinite Intelligence in the body considers assimilating food a high priority; in fact, all else takes second place to digestion. As a persons digestion becomes increasingly worse, the body must expend more time and energy grasping for nourishment. As the body becomes more starved and depleted it only makes sense that organs and systems breakdown, usually those that are genetically predisposed. If poor eating habits persist, the body spends more energy trying to work food through the system, organ systems break down, and the Infinite Intelligence programmed for homeostasis doesnt have a spare moment for healing. This is when people are in a real crisis.

The most intelligent line of defense in a crisis is to mineralize and rest the body. This point in a persons life can be a real blessing. It may change their life for the wonderful simply because of the marvelous miracles that they will experience. The idea is to eat as much organic raw as possible. Not only is juicing the most effective way to put minerals in and replenish, a juicer is the best pharmacy you can go to. And you dont have to be sick to juice. Mothers should be juicing every day for the healthy and vibrant future of their children.

There are some really tasty juice combinations. In our home we love carrots, a cucumber, a green apple, celery, spinach, fennel and watercress. The cucumber and green apple lend a lot of juice and cut any heaviness in the carrots and spinach. Carrots are rich in beta carotene, great for the immune system, spinach is rich in folic acid, vitamin E and a great blood builder, celery is rich in potassium, fennel great for the digestive system and cucumber promotes beautiful skin.

Try these simple formulas: 1. Blood Building: 7 carrots, 1 beet with the greens and a handful of parsley. Add a green apple if you like. 2. Beautiful Skin: 2 Cucumbers, handful of parsley, 7 carrots, a green apple and kale. 3. Arthritis: handful of cherries, a handful of blueberries, and pineapple. Also try: pineapple, 6 carrots, and a handful of spinach. These three are only a taste of the many juice recipes you can play with. You will create many of your own favorites.

Always use organics. To juice non-organic is to ingest an inordinate amount of pesticides in one or two gulps. Pesticides are oil based and most plants are sprayed (grapes) up to thirty times in a growing season. The oil base ensures water will not rinse it off. So juice organic and allow the fresh healthy juice to revitalize and mineralize your body.

As Earth Day is on our minds, take a stand for organic, both for fabrics and foods. Ask store owners to make sure that they do not stock genetically engineered, seedless varieties. Remember that the middle isles of stores contain lifeless food. Eat around the periphery of any store. And although you can have some lifeless in your diet; make 75% real and live food.

If you are healing, there are certain rules of thumb: it is better to not eat than to eat something that will throw the healing process back, drink lots of pure water every day, use only the freshest of everything you put in or on your body, make sure you eliminate several times a day, get lots of rest or meditation time, or both, have people you can trust to talk to, change the way you do things, eat every bite of food with gratitude and consciousness, help a friend, and love yourself above all else so you have more to give to others.

You Are Healthy, Ellen Valentine - 17274

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Ellen Valentine is a Nutritionist and Life Coach in Sacramento, CA.Healthy habits create family harmony. One of her greatest passions is coaching people successfully through life's many changes. Coaching Successful Life Transitions.

A Lower Body Workout And Less Back Pain - Just By Wearing Different Shoes?

By Fiona Saunders

Karl Muller, a Swiss engineer, noticed whilst walking barefoot through a rice field in Korea that his back pain, which he suffered with, was very much better. After a little further research he learned that the Masai tribesmen of Africa do not suffer from back pain. They also display excellent posture.

Muller deduced that walking barefoot on a yielding surface was much better for both your back and joints than walking on a firm surface. He resolved to develop footwear that would replicate the effect of walking on a soft surface such as sand or grass.

The end result was the Masai Barefoot Technology (MBT) shoe. According to the company website, it is so different to conventional footwear that it merits the name of "anti-shoe".

The key component to MBT shoes is the specially engineered curved sole with no heel. This encourages a gentle rolling motion whenever your foot comes into contact with the ground. It is, in fact, just like walking across sand in your bare feet. Materials of different densities are used at different points in the sole and this also contributes to the effect by reducing jarring and minimizing impact shock.

The fact that this is better for your back and joints has now been verified by independent scientific studies. In addition to improved posture, there are evn more benefits. For example, whilst walking normally wearing MBT shoes, the user's muscles are in use for a longer period of time (when compared to normal walking in conventional shoes). The muscles are active for around about 16% longer. Users also tend to take fractionally shorter strides - both of these effects increase the amount of work being done.

The result of this is that each step you take wearing MBT shoes will provide you with additional exercise. It's like a lower body workout when you walk around. So, as well as improving posture and lowering back pain, MBT shoes can help to firm up your buttocks and tone your legs.

You would imagine that would be sufficient wouldn't you? Despite all these benefits some people find MBT shoes a little chunky and not very aesthetically pleasing. MBTs are a little more expensive than conventional shoes (but the benefits may make them great value for money). Fortunately there are now alternative offerings available which utilise the same basic design and are more cosmetically attractive. Both Skechers Shape Ups and Fitflops have similar curved soles which are specially engineered to increase the muscle activity duration and tone your legs and buttocks whilst engaged in normal, everyday walking activity.

Whichever brand of footwear you go for, the opportunity to reduce back pain and trim your lower body at the same time - all whilst doing nothing more energetic than walking normally - seems to be very attractive. - 17274

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Quick Ways to Reduce Fat - Learn the Insider Story!

By Taw Jensun

This is one question which is on top of everybody's mind. What is the quickest and smartest ways to reduce fat? The answers may be plenty. There are thousands of products accessible on the shelf offering fast ways to reduce fat. You have to choose one with great consideration. Look for the pros and cons. Perfect diets and workouts may assist you reduce weight immediately but it may be detrimental in the long run. There are a couple of great ideas that may assist you to reduce fat rapidly.

The first and simplest method to lose weight quickly is to drink 3-4 liters of water a day. Obviate caffeine drinks and Aerated drinks. Notice that 70% of our body is made up of water and 75% of our brain comprises this fluid which makes it an essential part of our diet. Water curbs our hunger pangs too. Drinking a lot of water forces the fat to be used as fuel, thus making it one of the important keys for fat reduction. Whatever your diet, take at least 8-10 glasses of water a day.

Eat the right food. Dispose of all oily and junk food that tempts you. Try to avoid starch and sugar to lose weight fast. Eat whole cereals and plenty of raw vegetables and fruits. Include lean protein in your diet. Green tea is better than milk tea. The benefits would surely show on your body. Eat carbohydrates and fats in moderation. If you wish to crash diet and lose weight quickly ask a nutritionist for assist.

Consistent exercise give you the benefits easily. Try out any kind of aerobic exercise. Check out Warp speed fat loss which is a good choice. Walking is regarded the healthiest and smartest way to reduce fat expeditiously. Try some kind of anaerobic exercises to build the muscles. If you are young, try swimming. It burns the calories very quickly. You can try dancing at house.

Pills, diet colas, reduce weight body wraps and tummy tucker belts are fast ways to lose fat. You can also take a trainer who would direct in how to lose weight straightaway. Surgery is the ultimate option. Methods like liposuction and tummy tucks are in vogue today. Whatever you do, take care of your health because it is observed and found gradual fat loss is the best process. - 17274

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What Good Comes From the Common Cold or Flu

By Ellen Valentine, CNC

The human body is amazing. Often misunderstood, because of the way most people interpret feeling bad, is the way the body seeks to heal and add quality years to the particular person involved. Termed the Healing Crisis, it is the bodys attempt to throw off toxicity and get the rest imperative for healing.

Colds and influenza is actually the body's attempt to cleanse. Working with that process means rest and lots of fluids. Unknown to many frequenters of fast food chains, symptoms that appear as flu-like for them are really food poisoning.

During anytime of healing, even in the case of serious illnesses, cleansing the body with organic juicing or supervised water fasting (not recommended without support) colon hydro-therapy or other safe, time tested and success proven methods are suggested to work along with the natural process of the body.

Healing crises occur naturally throughout a person's life. Some person's experience colds and flu more simply because they can use the clean out. Sometimes a cleanse may be prompted by a new healthier eating regime; and even this type of cleanse should be regarded as sacred time out, with rest and nurturing.

The healing crisis may not feel great; however, it can add years to life. When symptoms are merely suppressed with medication and one goes on with what one must do without needed rest, the need for the cleanse does not disappear. In fact rather than being so close to the surface, the cause dives deeper; and unresolved, what the body wanted to rid itself of will gain power and become serious illness in years to come.

Why must it feel so bad? Many people dont have the tolerance for feeling badly. It can feel better to suppress messages and healing processes rather than accept opportunities to throw off toxicity. Most people receive this message in early childhood from the television, pharmaceutical companies and other seeming authority media.

Truthfully it does seem that healing wants to present itself during a busy schedule, stressful time, or when that certain deadline must be met. In brief, the body under stress also has a weaker immune system. Too much stress taxes the immune system.

To recap, the healing crisis which can feel like influenza, have coughing fits, headaches, diarrhea, skin eruptions etc. is a naturally occurring attempt on the bodys part to heal and spring clean. A person has the choice to rest and take care of themselves or to bear up and push the body further without rest. The latter is suppression.

What to do if you are in a crisis and you make the smart decision to go with the flow and support your body? Take as much rest as possible. Buy or use your juicer. Drink at least a quart of fresh juice a day. Get a book that gives you juice recommendations. Eat only food that has a natural earth color; in other words, no fast food, nothing white, no dairy and no meat, no breads. If you have to work, use as much emotional detachment as possible. You can still go home and go right to bed. Eat sparingly and get lots of fresh juices and pure water.

The above are easy and inexpensive alternatives to staying sick or suppression through medication. If youre a bit more ambitious you can get colonics, delve into traditional uses of herbal combinations, see a naturopath, get body work and join an on-line or local community support group.

Healing crises last as long as they need to and then you get a reprieve. Like everything in life, they are cyclical. If you are recovering from cancer or other life threatening illness, plan on healing and cleansing naturally several times a year, stay on your food regime and find a nutritional and naturopathic accountability coach. You will need to do this for support.

If you are under a doctors care for any life threatening illness you should ask for assistance in determining the difference between normal body healing and an acute but life threatening attack. Interesting and notable it is not entirely possible to heal from a chronic condition without nutrition and lifestyle changes. Healing is really a spiritual journey.

The High Intelligence within each body is such a miracle and should not be dulled or minimized, cannot be quantified in absolute terms and can be trusted. It is your gift to be well and get well naturally. Rely on your own judgment in this regard and take back control of your body. Making your own decisions and trusting your body is the first part of healing from within.

You Are the Gift You Bring to the World, Ellen Valentine, CNC - 17274

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Getting and Staying in Shape - Finding the Best Core Stability Exercises

By Thaya Kareeson

Targeted abdominal exercises are only a subset of core stability exercises. People have this confusion because they see that "6-pack ABS" represent fitness and attractiveness in today's world.

Choosing the right core stability exercises for your goals involves a larger set of target muscles and can be helpful in gaining and maintaining general fitness as well as boost athletic performance and even help eliminate back pain

Let's take a look at the broader meaning of "core" first. Core stability exercises are designed to strengthen the torso and all the muscles that are in it. A strong torso will give better support for everyday tasks and thus work against strains that can occur when performing recurring or monotonous tasks. This can help avoid back pain or neck pain caused by certain day-to-day activities.

A strong torso also builds the base support for powerful arm and leg movements and thereby reinforces athletic performance in almost any discipline. From swimming to track and field to athletic team sports - true athletic performance is almost unthinkable without solid core stability and strength.

How do you build and maintain core stability?

Avariety of exercises should be combined for best results. You can do exercises without any aids like push-ups and crunches. Exercises with light equipment are also very effective and a great deal more interesting. These exercises can involve medicine balls, balancing balls, stability balls or dumbbells just to name a few.

Weight lifting machines such as machine assisted crunches, bench presses, or parallel bar dips can also be used to improve core strength, but at the cost of adding bulk. You want to develop core strength and stability, not just strength. Your best bet is to keep a good balance of these high resistance exercises with the low resistance exercises previously mentioned.

Hiring a personal trainer can help take the guess work out of developing core muscles as they are a complicated muscle group. Each muscle group that make up core muscles should be targeted a certain way, so best results will come from listening to an experienced trainer. - 17274

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Hair Care Secrets

By Cindy Myers

Falling hair, balding scalp, thousands of remedies and confusion on what to use. This is a problem plaguing millions of men and women around the globe. Be it the new hair care product that your favorite multinational giant has introduced, or a simple homemade remedy your grandmother suggested, we need to know what will work for our hair type. In this trial and error process we begin to eliminate what does not work, but at what cost?

If you can identify your hair type like dry or oily you can use shampoos and conditioners accordingly. It is better to use a mild shampoo or herbal products. Sometimes these are on trial and error basis and one needs to try various brands before deciding what is best for them. You cannot afford to do that at the cost of losing your hair. So many natural herbal hair care products have flooded the market which does not use any chemicals in their preparations.

Natural salons and spas and also naturopathy doctor's advocate homemade remedies for treating hair loss because they contain no harmful chemicals. Natural hair care is the best way to maintain hair and prevent hair loss due to unwanted chemicals. Keeping yourself relaxed and free from stress, balanced diet and exercise are ways to keep hair health. Applying coconut milk and massaging the scalp is said to stimulate the scalp and prevent hair loss. It also has a soothing effect and hence helps to relieve stress.

To make hair black, hair care websites advocate use of oil mixed with dried gooseberry powder massaged on the scalp. Gooseberry also contains iron which is vital for growth of hair.

Markets are flooded with hair proteins and hair vitamins. Hair needs nourishment more from within than from the outside. These supplements make up for the loss of vitamins and minerals and promote hair growth or at least prevent loss of hair. Any pills or supplements have to be taken after consulting your doctor. Sometimes if it is not necessary there is no need to unduly pump our body with pills even if they are mere vitamins for hair care.

Apart from all the above factors, good sleep habits and exercise is a must to keep healthy. Stress is part of life but you can keep it to minimum by exercising and yoga as it relaxes the mind. - 17274

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Blast Off Fat the Easy Way - Four Keys to Safe Weight Loss

By Josh Wintrop

Are you sick and tired of punishing weight loss diet? Have you been burned by fancy weight loss products and solutions? Then you are not alone because millions of people are being conned everyday by hyped but often ineffective weight loss programs.

But there is hope, losing weight and burning fats is not as hard as it appears to be. The first step is to change the way you think about fat, and how to burn it, and then you may find that you can lose the weight.

The operative word here is "perception." Getting into shape and maintaining that shape all work around ideas that are already planted in your head. All those weight loss systems you've tried are just concepts someone planted in your head, and not the god's honest truth.

These ideas lead people to believe that the only way to burn fat and achieve that thinner, healthier figure is to take weight loss pills. And there are millions of fancy pills out there to accommodate the public. Fat binders, appetite suppressants, cleaners and detox pills are only a few of the many products that are available.

Those pill manufacturers don't want to help you lose weight; they only have one goal in mind: getting their hands on your hard earned cash. They want you to lose money on their products and their concept, instead of losing your excess body fat. And while your wallet is getting thin and your body is not, the weight loss pill companies' wallets are growing ever fatter.

Or maybe you have encountered fad programs like celebrity diets which could starve you to death, literally. Or concepts about punishing exercises, constant huffing and puffing in the gym, innumerable crunches, cardio, and using those really nasty exercise machines.

However, while these methods are all highly effective at draining your bank account or keeping your miserable, they will not help you lose the fat. However, there is another weight loss concept, one that predates all of these methods discussed here, that is actually highly effective.

That concept is to eat healthy and nutritious foods to keep your body in shape. There is no need for those pills, punishing exercises, and fad diets. All you need is healthy eating habit that will transform your body into a furnace that burns fat. And you can do this in 4 key steps. Here's how:

First, meals should spread out through the day, eat 6 to 8 small ones. Weight gain is largely driven by the habit of eating only three meals a day, and then making those large meals. When full meals are eaten, many excess nutrients are not absorbed and used, but are simply stored as fat. It also increases hunger and encourages people to actually eat more. However, by eating 6 to 8 small meals a day, your systems stabilizes, nutrients are absorbed and used and there is nothing excessive to be stored as fat.

Next, you must consume protein to build muscle. Protein not only helps develop healthy, lean muscles, but also helps burn fat. Third, carbs should be limited. Complex carbs from vegetables and fruits are good and should be included in your meals, but pastas and breads should be limited. Finally, water will aid in hydrolysis and that will release fats to consume as much water as you can.

These are simple steps, and following them will not cost you any money or misery. And best of all, if you will follow these four steps, you will find the pounds falling off, the fat being shed and you will look and feel your absolute best. - 17274

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Build Muscle Fast with the Right Amount of Reps

By Klint Newton

So many people wonder about this, and there are just about as many answers as there are people asking. Depending on what trainer you talk to, you will get a different theory, and everyone thinks they have the answer.

So how do you know who you can trust? Even with the best intentions, many people are wrong about their theories. I'll just tell you the facts, so you can decide for yourself.

Basically, different programs target different muscle types as well as different parts of the muscle. Just to keep it simple, let's say there are two types of muscle fibers, fast and slow twitch. Let's also say there are three types of rep schemes.

1. Low reps (3-5), very heavy weight (88-93% of 1RM)

2. Medium reps (6-8), moderate weight (84-88% of 1RM)

3. Many Reps (15-25), light weight (60-70% of 1RM)

The first scheme is designed to gain power. These reps should be done one after the other and explosively through the complete range of motion, without losing your form. This rep scheme will increase power with the heavy weight, low reps, and explosiveness of the lift. It's likely that you will gain strength, but not size with this rep scheme. A muscle needs a minimum of 36 seconds of continuous tension to signal the need for muscle growth. The 3-5 explosive rep scheme does not meet this requirement. This is why you can have a smaller person being able to lift much more, for only a few reps, than someone who is 50 lbs heavier. This type of lift recruits the maximum amount of fast twitch fibers.

The second reps scheme from above, 6-8 at 84-88% of 1RM, is the best rep scheme to build mass while also making gains in strength. You would lift the weight a little slower than with the low rep scheme. You would lower the weight in 4 seconds, and lift it in 2 seconds. This scheme of performing a rep in six seconds would pass the 36 second test and if you are using enough weight, which 84-88% of your 1 rep max would be, you will be stimulating muscle growth and strength. This rep scheme mostly recruits fast twitch fibers.

The high rep, low weight program is meant for building endurance and burning fat and primarily targets slow twitch fibers. Your cardiovascular system actually gets tired before your muscles do because of a lactic acid build up in the muscle, this is how you burn fat instead of building muscle mass.

Now the question would be, What's best? Well, they are all beneficial. The truth is that muscle groups are comprised of Type I and Type II, Slow and Fast twitch muscle. So just as you need to vary your diet, you need to vary your training. When thinking about training, just keep in mind that your fast twitch muscles have the more capability for growth than slow twitch, but your body adapts to heavy, fast twitch fiber stimulating exercise. When your body adapts to your training, it's called a plateau. If you hit a plateau, you need to change your rep scheme and even your exercises for three to four weeks. Also, always strive to use proper form when you lift. Whenever you are unable to lift the weight one more time, with correct form, the set is over.

One of the fundamentals for muscle building success is to have a plan from the start with different rep schemes so that you will be targeting fast and slow twitch muscles how and when you should be. - 17274

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What Is Acai Berry

By Adam Sanders

What is acai berry? Acai Berry is one of the greatest weight loss colon cleansers in the global markets. This impressive drug is 100% Acai supplement that renders tremendous health benefits to your body. It is widely known for its fast, safe and effective result all across the globe. However, it became hot in the west only a few years ago when it was advertised in numerous TV shows, newspapers and magazine articles.

Why these little berries got so much attention from the media? It turned out that acai berries contain an dramatic combination of health-promoting foods, among them antioxidants, dietary fiber and monounsaturated fats. No wonder they have taken the world by storm!

How acai berry helps you lose weight? Acai berries are most known as a weight loss supplement, although they have a number of other gains such as reducing the aging procedure and helping cell recovery. The weight loss properties of acai berry can be largely explained by the increased metabolic rate it causes.

It further ensures enhanced bowel movement in the body and relieves you from some digestive troubles such as constipation and bloating. The powerful antioxidant ability of this product lowers the carbohydrate and cholesterol levels in the blood. This procedure helps to prevent diabetes and heart stroke in a safe and effective manner. numerous research papers suggest that eating a diet high in antioxidants is the key to successful weight loss.

How to choose the right acai berry supplement? Choose products that contain 100% pure Amazonian acai berry extract. Other products are a waste of time and money. Steer clear of products that seem very cheap.

Do not forget that acai berries are harvested manually in the Brazilian rain forest, which is a very labor-intensive task. Before you order I would recommend trying a free sample before you commit to a large order. Make sure that the vendor provides money back guarantee. This can help you save money and find and evaluate the gains of Acai and see if it's right for you. - 17274

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