Better Work Out
Posted by: overallhealth on: November 5, 2008
1.Stop and Go
If you play a sport that requires a full sprint, remember that a full sprint strains the muscles of the lower body. To combat this, do stop-and-go exercises. For example, run 30 meters at about 80 percent of your effort, slow to a jog for five to 10 meters, then run again for another 30 meters. Repeat this process five times.
2.On bended knees
Almost 3 out of four ACL injury occurs when players are landing or turning. If your knees are bent instead of straight, the risk of injury is greatly reduced according to a report in the JAAOS (Journal of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons).
3.Cool down
Heatstroke is not something that can be easily cured like headache. To avoid it, stay cool and hydrated. Be sure the combined temp an humidity is less than 160. This is according to Dr. Dave Janda of the IPSM.
4.Get the proper equipment
Badly fitting gears or ill sized equipment can be a cause of training injuries. The extra money spent on proper equipment goes a long way.
5.Do it the right way
Bad technique is just as bad as, well, bad equipment. Seek advice from pros and trainer, this advice are invaluable to your exercises or training.
6.Go West (or whichever direction)
If you’re playing or training in multiple directions, your warm up should also. Move sideways, backward, forward and all the motions you might be doing. This allows your body to be prepared.
7.Have yourself filmed
The camera doesn’t lie. Show your video to a person well verse in your training, so he can give a critic of your fitness regimen.
8.Loosen the shoulders.
Even a slightly injured rotator cuff can shut down the function of a shoulder. You might want to include stretching to protect your rotator cuffs.
9.take An early dip
Schedule your swimming sessions early. The less people in the pool means less of everything in the pool.
10. Protect yourself
Wearing custom-fitted mouth guards reduces the risk of injuries by as much as 82 percent, according to a study at UNC at Chapel Hill. Plunk out the cash for a custom-fitted mouth guard and it’ll last for years including your smile and teeth.
11. Smooth out your tendon
Inquire about ultrasound needle therapy. These procedure is minimally by using ultrasound to guide a needle. The needle smoothens the bone, breaks up calcifications, and fixes scar tissue. Thirteen out of twenty patients saw improvement, and the session takes only about 15 minutes of your time.
12. Buy your running shoes after work.
Shop in the evening, the feet are swollen after a day of work. It approximates how your feet will be after three miles of running.
13. Do off road running.
If the surface is unstable, it trains the ankles to be stable.
14. Know where you’re going.
Whether its biking, or skiing, be sure to have a dry run down any path first. A lot of injuries can be avoided when you’re familiar with the route taken.
15. Train hard.
Anxiety reduces your peripheral vision by three degrees and slows the reaction time by almost 120 milliseconds, according to an article of the Journal of Sports Sciences. When the going gets difficult, the veteran athlete rely on skills they’ve trained for and practiced. It keeps them cooler under pressure, widening their vision so they can see react much faster.
Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 9, 2008
by Beth Harrison Ph.D.
When genetically engineered (GE) food was commercially introduced in 1994, it was touted as a solution to some of the world’s food problems. However, the promised advantages have never been realized. GE crops do not benefit consumers, do not feed the world, do not help the environment, and are not rigorously regulated – despite myths propagated by the multi-billion dollar biotechnology industry and its many front groups.
Food prices are soaring, people continue to go hungry, and the use of pesticides with GE crops is escalating. 
The Center for Food Safety coined GE crops “biotech snake oil: a quack cure for hunger” and said the tremendous hype surrounding biotechnology has obscured the facts.
In 2006, the U.S. Department of Agriculture admitted “currently available [genetically modified] GM crops do not increase yield potential.” In 2004 a UN report acknowledged that “GM crops can have reduced yields” and in April 2008 another published UN report, the work of more than 400 international scientists, concluded that genetically engineered crops “will not play a substantial role in addressing the key problems of climate change, biodiversity loss, hunger, and poverty.”
More critically, GE food has never been proven safe for human consumption. Independent scientific evidence has shown that human health effects of eating GE food can include toxic and allergic reactions, antibiotic resistance, immune suppression, and other serious illnesses.
Aided and abetted by the U.S. government, biotech corporations benefit, yet we bear the health risks. The biotech industry often claims that the safety of GE products has been certified through a rigorous approval process but as far as U.S. regulatory agencies are concerned, if a biotech company says its products are safe, that is enough for approval.
Our food is being genetically engineered so that a few multinational (and chemical) corporations can gain control over farmers and the global food supply. These same corporations, responsible for Agent Orange, PCBs, and DDT, have repeatedly done business at the expense of public health. And for more than a decade, they have been reprogramming, patenting, and owning an alarming amount of the world’s food supply-without public debate.
With so many pressing issues that affect us today, nothing is more personal than the food we eat. Even though there has been a media blackout effort regarding GE food and its risks, particularly in the United States, we are seeing a shift. A growing global movement is rejecting GE food and is returning to sustainable and organic food.
This is a profound time of responsibility not to rely on industry-influenced governmental agencies to protect us. The time to embrace conscious living and to move beyond corporate-political spin is now. We can make a difference.
Learn which foods have been genetically engineered and make other choices. Call food manufacturers and tell them you don’t want it. Get informed and tell your friends and family about GE food and the risks. We have to act today to protect our health, our environment, and future generations. Change will occur with an awakening of the people.
Four-time award-winning book ‘Shedding Light on Genetically Engineered Food’ explores why and how you have been kept in the dark about GE foods and the risks, why these foods continue to go unlabeled, and outlines what foods to avoid and how to take action.
What Is Your Microwave Doing To Your Health?
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 7, 2008
Is it possible that millions of people are ignorantly sacrificing their health in exchange for the convenience of microwave ovens? Why did the Soviet Union ban the use of microwave ovens in 1976? Who invented microwave ovens, and why? The answers to these questions may shock you into throwing your microwave oven in the trash.
Over 90% of homes have microwave ovens used for meal preparation. Because microwave ovens are so convenient and energy efficient, as compared to conventional ovens, very few homes or restaurants are without them. In general, people believe that whatever a microwave oven does to foods cooked in it doesn’t have any negative effect on either the food or them.
Of course, if microwave ovens were really harmful, our government would never allow them on the market, would they? Would they? There is evidence to prove that microwave cooking is not natural, nor healthy, and is far more dangerous to the human body than anyone could imagine.
However, the microwave oven manufacturers are suppressing the facts and evidence. Because of this, people are continuing to microwave their food – in blissful ignorance – without knowing the effects and danger of doing so.
So where is the evidence?
In 1991, there was a lawsuit in Oklahoma concerning the hospital use of a microwave oven to warm blood needed in a transfusion. The case involved a hip surgery patient, Norma Levitt, who died from a simple blood transfusion.
It seems the nurse had warmed the blood in a microwave oven. This tragedy makes it very apparent that there’s much more to “heating” with microwaves than we’ve been led to believe. Blood for transfusions is routinely warmed, but not in microwave ovens. In the case of Mrs. Levitt, the microwaving altered the blood and it killed her.
It’s very obvious that this form of microwave radiation “heating” does something to the substances it heats. It’s also becoming quite apparent that people who process food in a microwave oven are also ingesting these “unknowns”.
Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel, who is now retired, worked as a food scientist for many years with one of the major Swiss food companies that do business on a global scale. A few years ago, he was fired from his job for questioning certain processing procedures that denatured the food.
In 1991, he and a Lausanne University professor published a research paper indicating that food cooked in microwave ovens could pose a greater risk to health than food cooked by conventional means.
An article also appeared in issue 19 of the Journal Franz Weber in which it was stated that the consumption of food cooked in microwave ovens had cancerous effects on the blood. The research paper itself followed the article. On the cover of the magazine there was a picture of the Grim Reaper holding a microwave oven in one of his hands.
Dr. Hertel was the first scientist to conceive and carry out a quality clinical study on the effects microwaved nutrients have on the blood and physiology of the human body.
His small but well controlled study showed the degenerative force produced in microwave ovens and the food processed in them. The scientific conclusion showed that microwave cooking changed the nutrients in the food; and, changes took place in the participants’ blood that could cause deterioration in the human system.
Ten Reasons To Throw Out Your Microwave Oven:
- Continually eating microwave processed food causes permanent brain damage.
- The human body is unable to metabolize the unknown by-products created in microwaved foods.
- Male and female hormone production is shut down and/or altered by continually eating microwaved foods.
- The effects of by-products remain in the human body long-term.
- Minerals, vitamins and nutrients are reduced by microwaving so that the body gets little or altered components that cannot be broken down.
- The minerals in vegetables are altered into cancerous free radicals by microwaves.
- Microwaved foods cause stomach and intestinal cancerous growths. This may partially explain the rapid increase of the colon cancer rate in America.
- Long term consumption of microwaved foods causes cancerous cells to increase in human blood.
- It also causes immune system deficiencies through alterations in the lymph glands and blood serum.
- Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory and concentration, emotional instability and a decrease of intelligence.
http://www.foodmatters.tv/cmd.php?af=790593
This article was written by Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell
Source: www.mercola.com
For more research on this important topic please visit this link: http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm
Milk The Deadly Poison
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 6, 2008
You will be blown away once you watch this video. Folks we need to do something here. It just makes me sick to see what is going on.
Why is Milk The Deadly Poison of the future?
You Really Are What You Eat –PART 3
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 6, 2008
You will be blown away once you watch this video. Folks we need to do something here.
Most Astonishing Health Disaster of the 20th Century A MUST WATCH VIDEO.
You Really Are What You Eat PART 2
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 6, 2008
If you have not seen this video YOU NEED TO!!
Future of food and what you should know
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America — a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.
You Really Are What You Eat
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 6, 2008
Recent dietary research has uncovered 14 different nutrient-dense foods that time and again promote good overall health. Coined “superfoods,” they tend to have fewer calories, higher levels of vitamins and minerals, and many disease-fighting antioxidants.
Beans (legumes), berries (especially blueberries), broccoli, green tea, nuts (especially walnuts), oranges, pumpkin, salmon. soy, spinach, tomatoes, turkey, whole grains and oats, and yogurt can all help stop and even reverse diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and some forms of cancer. And where one might have an effect on a certain part of the body, it can also affect the health of other body functions and performance, since the whole body is connected. With these 14 foods as the base of a balanced, solid diet, weight loss gimmicks and other fly-by-night programs can become a thing of the past in your life.
Conversely, the ill-effects of an unbalanced diet are several and varied. Low energy levels, mood swings, tired all the time, weight change, uncomfortable with body are just a few signs that your diet is unbalanced. An unbalanced diet can cause problems with maintenance of body tissues, growth and development, brain and nervous system function, as well as problems with bone and muscle systems.
Symptoms of malnutrition include lack of energy, irritability, a weakened immune system leading to frequent colds or allergies, and mineral depletion that can trigger a variety of health concerns including anemia.
And since the body is connected, realizing that an unhealthy body will result in an unhealthy spirit only makes sense. When we nourish our body with these superfoods and complement them with other nutrient-dense and healthy fresh foods, our spirit will be vitalized and healthy as a direct result.
Many modern diets based on prepackaged convenience foods are sorely lacking in many vitamins and minerals, which can affect our mental capacities as well, and cause irritability, confusion, and the feeling of ‘being in a fog’ all the time.
Superfoods can be the basis of a sound, healthy, nutritious solution to curing many of these ailments and more.
This is a great Video show casing what is going on with today’s Foods. This Video was an independent film called FOOD MATTERS. It will shock you on what is going on with our agriculture and the doctors these days.
Cardio Vascular Disease, Heart Disease, Cholesterol, any solutions?
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 6, 2008
I recently cam across a product that would help me with my high cholesterol at first I was not sure but after taking the product and reading about what it has and what it can do for me. I have become very impressed with it and MAN does it taste good. You are only suppose to take 2oz in morning and 2oz in the evening but it taste so good I can help but drink more. You can’t overdose on it, it is a fruit juice but it is very very powerful.
The juice is scientifically formulated with 19 fruits, including the superfruit açai, delivering powerful antioxidants to nutritionally support your cardiovascular system. It is design to help your body get the proper nutrition. It has 2 FDA ingredients in that are plant sterols.
Here are some of the benefits
• Boasts heart healthy levels of plant sterols* to help maintain existing healthy cholesterol levels. 
• Features resveratrol, which supports your cardiovascular system by helping protect healthy blood vessels.
• Delivers powerful antioxidant polyphenols to promote a healthy cardiovascular system.
• Features a wide array of essential nutrients for optimal health.
• Offers potent antioxidant protection against free radicals.
• Delivers the antioxidant capacity of approximately 13 servings of fruits and vegetables in just four ounces.
Watch this cool video the company released explaining what cholesterol is and how the product works.
Additional information http://www.monaviepulse.com/ to buy
Liquid Vitamin Supplements
Posted by: overallhealth on: October 6, 2008
Most people do not realise that the body can absorb the nutrients from liquid vitamin supplements easier than from tablets. It is estimated that liquid vitamin supplements are actually absorbed at least five times better than regular vitamin pills. Of course, there are many other benefits that liquid vitamin supplements have over pills. For example, the liquid vitamin supplements are easier to swallow. This alone makes liquid vitamin supplements preferable to pills, especially for children and anyone else who has trouble taking pills of any type.
Young children are often unable to gather sufficient nutrients from the foods that they eat but it is almost impossible for them to take vitamin supplements in pill form. Liquid vitamin supplements are ideal because they can be given by a dropper, straight into the child’s mouth or even added to their regular bottle of water or juice to ensure that they receive all of the vitamins that they need to grow. For exactly the same reason, liquid vitamin supplements are perfect for anyone who is unwell and not able to eat properly.
Despite the best efforts of most people it is likely that most are not getting sufficient vitamins and minerals from their diet and that is where liquid vitamin supplements are beneficial. The vitamins in many common pill supplements are actually packed too densely. This leads to a lot of the vitamins not being broken down and absorbed as they should do whereas liquid vitamin supplements do not have the same problem. The body is therefore able to absorb far more of the nutritional value from liquid vitamin supplements than it can from those in the traditional pill form. In fact, the body only absorbs about 10-20% of the nutrients from vitamin pills compared to around 80-90% that it can absorb from liquid vitamin supplements.
Another benefit of liquid vitamin supplements is that they often contain more than one type of vitamin and other nutrients. Vitamin pills traditionally contain only one which means that you are going to have to take a whole handful of vitamin pills to get the same benefits as you do from many of the liquid vitamin supplements. Liquid vitamin supplements offer far more convenience and effectiveness for supplying the body with the vitamins that it needs. The cost of buying the equivalent number of vitamin pills to obtain the same results is also far more than that of liquid vitamin supplements .
