Thursday, April 8, 2010

Weight Loss

Health and Wellness -weight loss

Our busy lifestyles and wrong eating habits, lead most of us to put on weight fast but we are always stuck without any idea how to lose it and stay healthy. Everyone wants to look great and feel good and stay healthy, but in the fast paced world some of us don’t even have time to exercise. Would like to lose weight in a healthy manner? Yes this is possible. You can lose weight with fruits. Apart from this of course you will also have eat a balanced diet, exercise moderately, avoid bad nutrition and do not go on drastic weight lose programs. Do it naturally and in a healthy way.

Fresh raw fruit gives you the best nutrition. Start with 5 – 10 pieces of fruits a day for a few days and later on you can increase the intake. If you have not been eating fruits at all and you start, your body will detoxify itself. Later on you can start including more fruits in your diet. However eating fruits alone will not help you lose weight. You will need to avoid animal food, white flour, refined sugar and stimulants such as Coffee, Alcohol, Cigarettes, Spices, Red meat. Apart from this exercise regularly and lead a healthy lifestyle.

David Ogden- Helping People Help Themselves
TriVita Health and Wellness
Sonoran Bloom Click Here - New ant-inflammatory, antioxidant and detoxifying drink providing natural pain relief for inflammation
phone 1-386-308-1956 After 6PM EST
Skype seadogs11

Taking the Flame Out of Inflammation

Inflammation has been called the silent killer. Inflammation is a process in which the body's white blood cells and chemicals help protect us from infection and foreign substances such as bacteria and viruses. However, "When inflammation occurs, chemicals from the body are released into the blood or affected tissues. This release of chemicals increases the blood flow to the area of injury or infection and may result in redness and warmth. Some of the chemicals cause a leak of fluid into the tissues, resulting in swelling. This process may stimulate nerves and cause pain." [1]

"Inflammation as a major cause of disease is not new. It is at least a reasonable consideration that inflammation is involved with, if not the cause of, every other ill from which we suffer as a race. If that has not been true in the past, it is true today. No other cause of disease has a chance to take a foothold. Inflammation troubles have become so dominant that no other process may need to be considered. The cause of this inflammation is chemical toxicity." [2]

Do you suffer from inflammation? Read the article below from Brazos Minshew, Chief Science Office for TriVita, to learn more about inflammation.

Taking the "flame" out of inflammation by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer.

We usually describe the process of inflammation like a series of dominos all set up and ready for something to tip over the first domino and start the chain reaction. The first one tips over the second one, which tips over the third one and so on. This is called the "domino effect." Clever people can set up these dominos in an amazing array of complicated designs.

Inflammation is a process much like that. A single event may trigger a domino effect of inflammatory reactions. While many of the reactions are fairly predictable, many others are not. They seem to involve amazingly complicated patterns unique to the individual. Still, all inflammation exhibits five basic signs caused by four basic triggers.

Signs of inflammation

With tissue injury, inflammation is part of the healing process:

  1. Redness: An injured area needs an increased supply of nutrients and proteins carried in the blood. So, blood supply increases and the tissue turns red (Latin: rubor).
  2. Swelling : The injured area is bathed in healing proteins and substances to control bleeding, as well as an increased supply of plasma for transport of waste. This causes the injured area to swell (Latin: tumor).
  3. Pain: The injured area needs to be protected. We instinctively guard an injury because we feel or anticipate pain (Latin: dolor).
  4. Heat: The damaged tissue now becomes weakened and so it is susceptible to infection. White blood cells rush to the area and defend the fragile cells from microbes. A sign that this is working is heat or fever in the damaged area (Latin: calor).
  5. Loss of Function: This process is accompanied by a reduction in function of the injured area until it is healed (Latin: functio laesa).

The "dominoes" fall in the same predictable pattern if the injury is a sprained ankle or heart attack! No matter what triggers the inflammation, the process is the same.

Inflammation triggers

Inflammation is the response to four basic triggers: trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress. All four of these triggers cause tissue injury. Our body responds to injury with inflammation.

Trauma
We usually think of trauma as a direct injury that causes pain and distress. However, a sedentary lifestyle is also a serious cause of trauma. Why? Because our body was made to move! The more we move, the more we are able to move – and the more we want to move. The less we move, the less we are able to move. Our muscles and other tissues shorten and atrophy. Then, any movement causes injury. So, the less we move, the less we want to move.

Toxins
Toxicity causes cells to rupture in the same way that a needle causes a balloon to pop. Is there any doubt that we live in a toxic world? An article in National Geographic estimated that humans create 700,000 tons of pollution and waste every day! Between these "exotoxins" (toxins created outside our body), and "endotoxins" (toxins created inside our body), we are bathed in inflammation-producing poison every moment of every day. Any successful strategy for reducing inflammation must address the level of toxins we face.

Deficiency
Deficiencies also cause inflammation. For example, an omega-3 essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency leaves the cell walls weak and unable to function normally. Again, cells are like balloons. If the balloon membrane is too thin, even a normal amount of air will make it pop. If the cell wall is too thin because of an omega-3 EFA deficiency, even normal cell activity will cause the cell to pop and trigger the domino effect of inflammation. Similarly, deficiency of other nutrients can have a catastrophic effect on cells within your body. (A deficiency in oxygen, water, sleep and circulation can also trigger inflammation.)

Stress
Emotional distress is also a cause of inflammation. When we appraise a situation to be stressful, our brain releases chemicals called catecholamines that trigger the release of many inflammatory processes. For example, stress causes the release of insulin – a pro-inflammatory hormone. Too much stress over too long a period of time will cause insulin resistance (IR), which is associated with obesity. Other stress-related chemicals reduce circulation to our digestive and reproductive systems and trigger inflammation from blood deficiency. Stress is a serious cause of inflammation!

First steps

We are made with the ability to respond to trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress with inflammation. Therefore, inflammation is not the enemy; however, runaway inflammation is definitely our enemy! Stop the domino effect of runaway inflammation before it starts by learning and living the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness.

  • Reduce basic nutrient deficiencies through our Healthy Aging program.
  • Help reduce the effect of harmful toxins with Nopalea™.
  • Ease the disturbances caused by emotional distress with anti-stress adaptogens.

A word about Nopalea

Once runaway inflammation is triggered it follows an amazingly intricate course leading to catastrophe. It is as if tens of thousands of dominoes are falling in an extremely complex design. Many of the steps are known to medical science, but many are not. One thing we know and have known for thousands of years: stop the runaway inflammation and health will always improve! So, no matter what the "condition" is that is causing distress, reducing excess inflammation will always improve the way we feel.

Betalains in Nopalea are anti-inflammatory nutrients. They help your body do what it does best: repair with controlled inflammation while dousing the flames of runaway inflammation. So, we can say with confidence that if runaway inflammation is the problem, reducing that inflammation is part of the solution. Address the root causes of runaway inflammation by following the 10 Essentials, and taking Healthy Aging nutrients, adaptogens and Nopalea! ** END of ARTICLE **

You do not have to suffer from inflammation, nor do you have to take a risk with this deadly disease. There are ways to fight inflammation, as Mr. Minshew has explained. However, you have to take action.

I'm not a doctor or medical professional, but it seems to me that if we fight inflammation, the cause of much pain, we may not have to suffer from needless pain. So, in my opinion, to get pain relief that lasts, we should fight the source of that pain, and what better way to do that that with TriVita's Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™.

To learn more about fighting inflammation and Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™, click on the previous link.

Jeffrey Sloe
TriVita Independent Business Affiliate, 12871028
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
TriVita Products
Fight Inflammation

Resources
[1] www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/guide/arthritis-inflammation
[2] www.naturalnews.com/025862_inflammation_foods_lifestyle_changes.html

The above information presented herein is intended for educational purposes only. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent disease. Individual results may vary, and before using any supplements, it is always advisable to consult with your own health care provider.

 

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Fat Loss

Health and Wellness -weight loss

If you are like me; then you have a couple pounds that you do mind getting rid of. However what about most people in our society; they tend to have more than just a couple pounds to lose. The sad fact is that most people have no idea about the truth about belly fat. While they know that it does make them look and feel unattractive; however there is a lot more to having excess weight on your body; and I decided to write this article to make you aware of some of the facts about belly fat.

Many people unfortunately seem to struggle to lose weight and the sad thing is that it is not that difficult. However you have to be willing to do whatever it takes to shed the weight. Many people who suffer to lose weight or seem to want to lose weight; are not willing to lose the weight. They have no idea what the excess weight is doing to their bodies and their self esteem. However research has shown that people who suffer from belly fat tend to have a lower self esteem than someone who is not overweight.

However just because you do not like the way you look and feel; should not be the major reason that you want to lose weight. People fail to realize that if they are overweight then they have a bigger chance of getting sick because their immune system is weaker than someone who is healthy. Begin caring about yourself enough to want to take action so that you can live more healthy and feel and look better.

Have you spent your money on diet pills, shakes, bars or even fitness equipment only to be disappointed that it did not help you lose weight? Well that is the point of the weight loss industry is to keep us fat; after all if we all lost the weight that we wanted to; who would purchase all the items that they sell? The truth is that you do not have to purchase any type of pills or anything else. All you have to do is learn how to eat correctly and begin performing the exercises that are going to help you lose weight. Stop making the weight loss industry richer than they already are; they have more money than they need. All you need to stop losing weight is to learn how to develop new positive habits that will replace your old negative habits. If you found this article on “belly fat – discover what you may not know about it helpful” visit our site below.


David Ogden- Helping People Help Themselves
TriVita Health and Wellness
Sonoran Bloom Click Here - New ant-inflammatory, antioxidant and detoxifying drink providing natural pain relief for inflammation
phone 1-386-308-1956 After 6PM EST
Skype seadogs11

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Weight Loss

Health and Wellness -weight loss

Many people ask how much fat and lean body mass should one aim to lose whilst dieting

Experts have determined that:

* During the early weeks of weight loss, At least 75 percent of the weight you lose should be fat loss and not more than 25 percent should come from lean body mass. * As you continue to lose weight, especially if certain types of exercise are included in your weight loss plan, fat loss should be about 90 percent of the weight you lose and lean body mass should be about 10 percent.

FIVE REASONS FOR KNOWING YOUR BODY FAT

* It gives you a better measure of fitness than your weight alone.
* It will give you a better idea of your health risk.
* It prevents you from being misclassified based on your weight. The scale can label you “overweight” even if you are not “over fat” or it can label you “normal weight” even if you have too much body fat.
* It lets you know the composition of your weight loss when you are losing weight. Your health depends on losing body fat and preserving lean body mass.
* It can help you identify fad diets that promote water loss and the loss of your lean body mass, especially muscle.

David Ogden- Helping People Help Themselves
TriVita Health and Wellness
Sonoran Bloom Click Here - New ant-inflammatory, antioxidant and detoxifying drink providing natural pain relief for inflammation
phone 1-386-308-1956 After 6PM EST
Skype seadogs11

Monday, April 5, 2010

What Are Some Inflammation Triggers?

Well, let's first start with a question, what is inflammation?, "Inflammation is a process by which the body’s white blood cells and chemicals protect us from infection and foreign substances such as bacteria and viruses." But what triggers inflammation? That my friend can be best described this way. There are four basic triggers, one is trauma, another deficiency and stress, and don't forget good old toxins. So let's break these down in order to better understand.

When you mention the word "trauma",accidents come to mind, associated with pain and suffering as a direct result of injury. Inflammation is a natural part of the healing process. But did you know that if we don't move our bodies, such as exercising, we eventually become less able to move? Muscles and other tissues weakened, thus any movement can cause injury. It is important to keep your body moving everyday to strengthen and develop muscles and tissues in order to prevent injury.

Our cells are life, they are directly affected by everything we do right down to the foods we eat. Thus deficiencies can and do happen weakening the cells causing a chain reaction within our body, ultimately pulling the trigger of inflammation. Emotional stress can also cause inflammation. In stressful situations our brain releases chemicals that trigger the release of many inflammatory processes, and too much stress over a long period of time will cause major problems. Stress is a huge cause of inflammation.

Our bodies are swimming in toxins. Let's face it we live in a toxic world, it's every where you turn, and in every breath we take. Toxins created inside our bodies and outside, there is seemingly no escape from inflammation producing poison.
Our bodies are truly amazing as it can respond to trauma, deficiency, stress and toxins with inflammation. As mentioned inflammation is the bodies natural healing process, but where it all goes wrong is with runaway inflammation wherein the body can't shut it down causing auto immune diseases and so much more.

So how can you keep inflammation in check? Learn to become a partner with your body, watch the signs that trigger inflammation. Reduce basic nutrient deficiencies by eating healthy foods and taking quality supplements, one positive fighter of inflammation is found in the nutrient called Betalains. Walk, run, stretch, just move that bod of yours, exercise in any form keeps your mind alert and muscles moving. Ease your emotional stress, relax, and rejuvenate.

Get the greatest abundance of all 24 Betalains from the Nopal fruit found in the Sonoran Desert, and find the best source of Betalains in Sonoran Bloom Nopalea. Take the Sonoran Bloom Nopalea Wellness Challenge, and it all starts with the FREE Sonoran Bloom Nopalea Gift of Health! Sign up for your FREE gift today!

 

Kim Buchanan
Helping YOU Reach Optimal Health
& Wealth
530.383.3041

Weight Loss Tips

Health and Wellness -weight loss

If you are planning to follow a regular diet, then concentrate on a few dieting tips that are quite simple and easy to implement. Always consult a physician before starting a diet.

Measure your weight every weekend and see that you do not lose more than 1 or 2 pounds. Remember that you cannot lose your weight within just a fortnight. When you check your weight periodically, you may notice that your weight has remained constant. So, do not become frustrated and observe a fast, but continue your modest diet as before to reasonably lose weight.

Here are a few tips for a healthy and wellness diet

1) Lace mustard powder on your bread instead of mayonnaise that contains heavy dose of fat.

2 Do not consume fried food frequently, so as an alternative boil, bake or roast it.

3) Drink about 6-8 glasses of water a day so that you can flush the toxins out of your body.

4) Limit your alcohol intake as it contains a lot of calories.

5) Make it a point to visit the grocery store only after your meals because you will obviously buy in lesser quantities. Strictly purchase according to the list you have prepared at home.

6) Read the carton carefully to know the proportion of each nutrient present in the food. This way, you can avoid buying those foods that contain high quantity fats or carbohydrates and concentrate on buying items with high content of fibers.

Finally it is an important point to note that starvation will never burn the calories of the body. On the contrary, it slows the process of metabolism and stores fat. Therefore never skip a meal or observe fasting before visiting a restaurant. If you want to maintain the shape of your body, an exercise program is an essential activity. Besides burning the calories from the body, it is necessary to bring your weight under control at all times.

David Ogden- Helping People Help Themselves
TriVita Health and Wellness
Sonoran Bloom Click Here - New ant-inflammatory, antioxidant and detoxifying drink providing natural pain relief for inflammation
phone 1-386-308-1956 After 6PM EST
Skype seadogs11

Nopalea and Inflammation

Inflammation has been called the silent killer. Inflammation is a process in which the body's white blood cells and chemicals help protect us from infection and foreign substances such as bacteria and viruses. However, "When inflammation occurs, chemicals from the body are released into the blood or affected tissues. This release of chemicals increases the blood flow to the area of injury or infection and may result in redness and warmth. Some of the chemicals cause a leak of fluid into the tissues, resulting in swelling. This process may stimulate nerves and cause pain." [1]

"Inflammation as a major cause of disease is not new. It is at least a reasonable consideration that inflammation is involved with, if not the cause of, every other ill from which we suffer as a race. If that has not been true in the past, it is true today. No other cause of disease has a chance to take a foothold. Inflammation troubles have become so dominant that no other process may need to be considered. The cause of this inflammation is chemical toxicity." [2]

Do you suffer from inflammation? Read the article below from Brazos Minshew, Chief Science Office for TriVita, to learn more about inflammation.

Taking the "flame" out of inflammation by Brazos Minshew, TriVita's Chief Science Officer.

We usually describe the process of inflammation like a series of dominos all set up and ready for something to tip over the first domino and start the chain reaction. The first one tips over the second one, which tips over the third one and so on. This is called the "domino effect." Clever people can set up these dominos in an amazing array of complicated designs.

Inflammation is a process much like that. A single event may trigger a domino effect of inflammatory reactions. While many of the reactions are fairly predictable, many others are not. They seem to involve amazingly complicated patterns unique to the individual. Still, all inflammation exhibits five basic signs caused by four basic triggers.

Signs of inflammation

With tissue injury, inflammation is part of the healing process:

  1. Redness: An injured area needs an increased supply of nutrients and proteins carried in the blood. So, blood supply increases and the tissue turns red (Latin: rubor).
  2. Swelling : The injured area is bathed in healing proteins and substances to control bleeding, as well as an increased supply of plasma for transport of waste. This causes the injured area to swell (Latin: tumor).
  3. Pain: The injured area needs to be protected. We instinctively guard an injury because we feel or anticipate pain (Latin: dolor).
  4. Heat: The damaged tissue now becomes weakened and so it is susceptible to infection. White blood cells rush to the area and defend the fragile cells from microbes. A sign that this is working is heat or fever in the damaged area (Latin: calor).
  5. Loss of Function: This process is accompanied by a reduction in function of the injured area until it is healed (Latin: functio laesa).

The "dominoes" fall in the same predictable pattern if the injury is a sprained ankle or heart attack! No matter what triggers the inflammation, the process is the same.

Inflammation triggers

Inflammation is the response to four basic triggers: trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress. All four of these triggers cause tissue injury. Our body responds to injury with inflammation.

Trauma
We usually think of trauma as a direct injury that causes pain and distress. However, a sedentary lifestyle is also a serious cause of trauma. Why? Because our body was made to move! The more we move, the more we are able to move – and the more we want to move. The less we move, the less we are able to move. Our muscles and other tissues shorten and atrophy. Then, any movement causes injury. So, the less we move, the less we want to move.

Toxins
Toxicity causes cells to rupture in the same way that a needle causes a balloon to pop. Is there any doubt that we live in a toxic world? An article in National Geographic estimated that humans create 700,000 tons of pollution and waste every day! Between these "exotoxins" (toxins created outside our body), and "endotoxins" (toxins created inside our body), we are bathed in inflammation-producing poison every moment of every day. Any successful strategy for reducing inflammation must address the level of toxins we face.

Deficiency
Deficiencies also cause inflammation. For example, an omega-3 essential fatty acid (EFA) deficiency leaves the cell walls weak and unable to function normally. Again, cells are like balloons. If the balloon membrane is too thin, even a normal amount of air will make it pop. If the cell wall is too thin because of an omega-3 EFA deficiency, even normal cell activity will cause the cell to pop and trigger the domino effect of inflammation. Similarly, deficiency of other nutrients can have a catastrophic effect on cells within your body. (A deficiency in oxygen, water, sleep and circulation can also trigger inflammation.)

Stress
Emotional distress is also a cause of inflammation. When we appraise a situation to be stressful, our brain releases chemicals called catecholamines that trigger the release of many inflammatory processes. For example, stress causes the release of insulin – a pro-inflammatory hormone. Too much stress over too long a period of time will cause insulin resistance (IR), which is associated with obesity. Other stress-related chemicals reduce circulation to our digestive and reproductive systems and trigger inflammation from blood deficiency. Stress is a serious cause of inflammation!

First steps

We are made with the ability to respond to trauma, toxins, deficiency and stress with inflammation. Therefore, inflammation is not the enemy; however, runaway inflammation is definitely our enemy! Stop the domino effect of runaway inflammation before it starts by learning and living the 10 Essentials for Health and Wellness.

  • Reduce basic nutrient deficiencies through our Healthy Aging program.
  • Help reduce the effect of harmful toxins with Nopalea™.
  • Ease the disturbances caused by emotional distress with anti-stress adaptogens.

A word about Nopalea

Once runaway inflammation is triggered it follows an amazingly intricate course leading to catastrophe. It is as if tens of thousands of dominoes are falling in an extremely complex design. Many of the steps are known to medical science, but many are not. One thing we know and have known for thousands of years: stop the runaway inflammation and health will always improve! So, no matter what the "condition" is that is causing distress, reducing excess inflammation will always improve the way we feel.

Betalains in Nopalea are anti-inflammatory nutrients. They help your body do what it does best: repair with controlled inflammation while dousing the flames of runaway inflammation. So, we can say with confidence that if runaway inflammation is the problem, reducing that inflammation is part of the solution. Address the root causes of runaway inflammation by following the 10 Essentials, and taking Healthy Aging nutrients, adaptogens and Nopalea! ** END of ARTICLE **

You do not have to suffer from inflammation, nor do you have to take a risk with this deadly disease. There are ways to fight inflammation, as Mr. Minshew has explained. However, you have to take action.

I'm not a doctor or medical professional, but it seems to me that if we fight inflammation, the cause of much pain, we may not have to suffer from needless pain. So, in my opinion, to get pain relief that lasts, we should fight the source of that pain, and what better way to do that that with TriVita's Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™.

To learn more about fighting inflammation and Sonoran Bloom Nopalea™, click on the previous link.

Jeffrey Sloe
TriVita Independent Business Affiliate, 12871028
440-725-3729
jeff@internetmarketingadvisors.net
TriVita Products
Fight Inflammation

Resources
[1] www.webmd.com/osteoarthritis/guide/arthritis-inflammation
[2] www.naturalnews.com/025862_inflammation_foods_lifestyle_changes.html

The above information presented herein is intended for educational purposes only. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent disease. Individual results may vary, and before using any supplements, it is always advisable to consult with your own health care provider.