Category: Wellness (Page 107 of 116)

What Is the Best Exercise?

April 18, 2011 / Staff

The debate goes on as to which is the single best exercise.

Ask a dozen physiologists which exercise is best, and you’ll get a dozen wildly divergent replies. “Trying to choose” a single best exercise is “like trying to condense the entire field” of exercise science, said Martin Gibala, the chairman of the department of kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.”

Everyone is looking for the “magic bullet” move that will transform their body.

And it may be out there but the experts haven’t decided just what that is, yet!

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It Might Surprise You to Know What a “Portion” is!

April 18, 2011 / Staff

You have a bowl and you fill it to the brim and you think that you’re having a “serving”.

It may surprise you to know that most recommended “serving” sizes are much smaller than you think.

Not to mention the fact that everything from plates to cups are super-sized these days, we are misled into believing that we are eating a portion when in fact we are eating 2,3,or 6 times what we need!

Cereal 1 cup = a baseball
Salad Dressing 2 Tbsp. = a shot glass
Cheese 1 oz. = a golf ball
Nuts 1 oz. = 1 cupped palm
Hamburger 3 oz = mayo jar lid
Beef 3 oz. = deck of cards
Rice 1/2 c = ice cream scoop
Sweet Potato = computer mouse
Butter 1 tsp = a waterbottle cap
Pasta 1/2 cup = a tennis ball

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Drug-Resistant Bacteria Found in U.S. Meat

April 16, 2011 / Staff

Drug-resistant staphylococcus has been found in 47 perecent of meat sold in the U.S.

The staph bacteria is linked to a range of health problems from rashes and respiratory ailments to potentially fatal illnesses such as sepsis and endocarditis.

The meat industry is putting American health at risk everyday.

There can be no viable healthcare without serious reform of the FDA and it’s negligent oversight of the food industry.

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Cortisol, the answer to anxiety & panic disorders?

April 14, 2011 / Staff

Panic attacks may be symptoms of an anxiety disorder and they are a serious health problem.

A study shows that an extra dose of the stress hormone cortisol may help reduce stress

Our brain triggers the release of cortisol when we are under stress.

This hormone is believed to play a role in memory and learning.

Taking a dose of cortisol has been seen to calm fears and anxiety.

“Considering the importance of extinction learning for exposure therapy, pharmacological interventions aimed at enhancing extinction processes are promising approaches to enhance exposure therapy,” write researcher Dominique J.-F. de Quervain of the University of Basel, Switzerland, and colleagues in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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An Apple a Day Keeps the Cardiologist Away!

April 14, 2011 / Staff

As an apple lover I was really happy to hear that eating one or two apples a day may reduce the risk of heart disease.

Like any fruits there are nutritional benefits to eating them.

However, apples in particular seem to have certain properties which allay the onset of cardio-vascular disease.

“We were pleasantly surprised …” that apples so effectively lowered LDL (bad) cholesterol, says study researcher Bahram H. Arjmandi, PhD, RD, Margaret A. Sitton Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences at The Florida State University in Tallahassee.
“When we look at the whole composite of human studies and animal studies and in vitro lab studies, when you look at the active components in apples and apple juice, there’s definitely benefit,” says Dianne A. Hyson, PhD, RD, a nutritionist and researcher at the University of California at Davis.

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