Midlife baby boomers: health, nutrition,
antiaging & fitness.
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Healthy
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Know your
cholesterol
numbers - know your risk!
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Women's Health |
Men's Health | Fitness | Things Change
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wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings." ~
Hippocrates |
Stress Diet! (humor)
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For a comprehensive & up-to-date self-help approach to good health, you can't
do better than to start off with a copy of Prescription for Nutritional Healing
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by doctors Balch & Balch ~ an M.D. and a
C.N.C.(certified nutritional consultant). In this expanded third edition, you'll
find an introduction to good nutrition, guidance in choosing vitamins, minerals, herbs,
and other dietary supplements, drug-free remedies for a huge number of
ailments and disorders, and traditional remedies and therapies that can be used in
conjunction with a nutritional program. |
Nutraceuticals~
Most of us don't have a good working knowledge
of what it takes to maintain good health and simply rely on our doctors to cure us when we
are ill. We've been lucky ~ nature has provided us with an incredible immune system
and our age has granted us this amazing privilege. But in case you haven't noticed,
things are changing. Unless we take care of our body, it will fail to function at
its fullest potential and we will find ourselves out of balance and susceptible to
illness.
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The foods we eat
provide the fuel, in the form of nutrients, that our bodies need to function. And
those nutrients come in the form of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, water, amino acids,
lipids, carbohydrates, and phytonutrients.
Nutrients are involved in all body processes, on a microscopic level; from thinking, to
fighting infection, to repairing tissue. If we deprive our bodies of essential
nutrients, we impair normal functions and cause ourselves harm.
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Phytonutrients ~
A great deal of new research has introduced us to phytonutrients and the role they
play in keeping us free from disease. Phytonutrients are chemicals in plants that
make the plants biologically active and researchers have identified literally thousands of
them. They have also developed the technology to extract these chemical compounds
and concentrate them into powders, pills, and capsules. These are called
nutraceuticals - the newest type of dietary supplement. |
 
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AntiOxidantCheck
Home Test $59.95
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AntiOxidantCheck
uses a urine sample to
evaluate antioxidant reserves. Low antioxidant levels can indicate the increase of free
radical activity. Free radicals, unstable cells, produce lipid peroxides that can
be measured to indicate antioxidant levels. High lipid peroxide levels indicate increased
free radical activity, which can indicate a lower antioxidant reserve necessary to
counteract free radical activity.
Antioxidants are essential to your body's
defense against free radicals. Free radicals can attack the cells of your body, affecting
the cardiovascular, neurological, and immune systems. Monitor free radical activity with
AntiOxidantCheck, as you strive to strengthen your antioxidant levels. |
What's all this free-radical & anti-oxidant stuff? |
Free-radicals ~
The human body uses nutrients and oxygen as fuel to generate energy on a cellular
level. A natural consequence of this cellular metabolism is that it produces toxic
byproducts called "free radicals". These free radicals
react with body tissues in a process called oxidation that can damage healthy cells.
When the body can't handle or eliminate free radicals the result is aging, cancer,
and degenerative disease. Anti-oxidants are needed to neutralize or turn off the
free-radicals. |
Anti-oxidants ~
are a class of nutrients which help the body to neutralize free-radicals and repair
free radical damage. The most commonly recommended antioxidants are Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Lutein, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B6, and Coenzyme Q10.
Each time an antioxidant molecule interacts with a free radical, however, it is
neutralized. Therefore, we need to constantly replenish antioxidants in our system.
A balanced diet (or supplementation) will include antioxidants of several different
types since various types are more effective against some free radicals than others. |
 
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Natural Sources ~ Any foods high
in the nutrients mentioned above, including fruits and vegetables.
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Essential Fatty Acids ~ "EFA"s
Probably four of every five Americans consume an
insufficient quantity of the essential omega-3 fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid, which
results in deficiencies as high as 90%. Such deficiencies can result in fatigue, dry skin,
and dry mucous membranes (mouth, vagina, tear ducts), dry hair, cracked nails, depression,
forgetfulness, aching and sore joints with arthritis, as well as a host of other
problems. It is now known that the deficient fatty acid is almost always the omega-3 fatty
acid. In fact, if there is too much omega-6 fatty acids in the body, the production of
good prostaglandins and their hundreds of health-enhancing qualities is decreased. Thus,
in long-term supplementation, omega-3 fatty acids, for example, eicosapentanoic acid (EPA)
and docosahexoic acid (DHA), are definitely preferred over omega-6 supplementation, for
example, gamma-linolenic acid, or GLA. Thus flax seed, flax oil or fish oil is definitely
preferable to oil of evening primrose or borage oil as a source of essential fatty acids.
Books on Omega-3 & other healthy fats |
" Your eyes are slowly, quietly, damaged by the UV rays of the sun.
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| Soy Shake ~ Better than
"Mickey D's" |
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- 1 piece of tofu
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for size)
- 3 rounded soup spoonsful nofat strawberry
yogurt
- 3/4 cup skim milk
- Blend on low for 25 seconds
Low in fat, cholesterol, and carbohydate
High in protein and calcium
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Waring Prof Bar Blender
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Tofu is sold in health food
stores and the refrigerator section of the produce department in most grocery
stores. Usually packaged in a slab about 3" x 5" x 1 3/4" and in
water. Don't worry about whether to buy the firm or soft tofu -- for the shake it
doesn't matter. Slice into 6 or 7 pieces. Drink on the way to the gym!
Soy Desserts
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Oat Bran Muffins ~ cholesterol
lowering |
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- 2
 1/4 cups oat bran
- 1/4 cup chopped nuts
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup brown sugar (or honey or molasses)
- 1 1/4 cup skim milk
- 2 eggs (or egg substitute)
- 2 tbsps vegetable oil (canola is good &
low in saturated fat)
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| Preheat oven to 425° F. In a large bowl combine
the oat-bran, nuts, raisins and baking powder. Stir in the brown sugar or liquid
sweetening. Mix the milk, eggs, and oil together and blend in with the oat
bran. Line muffin pans with paper baking cups and fill with batter. Bake 14 to
16 minutes. Test for doneness with a toothpick; it should come out moist, not wet.
Don't over cook or they'll be dry. Makes 12 muffins. Store in a plastic bag to retain moisture. Keep
in refrig if they will not be eaten within 3 days. Make a double batch and freeze
them. 2 muffins every morning are a great "cholesterol lowering" way to
start your day.
Cholesterol Books
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Light on Yoga : Yoga Dipika
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"Yoga's greatest living
teacher" will help with your stress.
Light on Yoga : Yoga Dipika by
B.K.S. Iyengar, considered by many to be Yoga's greatest living teacher.
The definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga--the ancient healing
discipline for body and mind. Light on Yoga provides complete descriptions and
illustrations of all the positions and breathing exercises. Illustrations throughout.
More Yoga books
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Living Yoga - A.M./P.M.
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