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  Weight Training is Important for Women The benefits of lifting weights — also called weight training, strength training or resistance training — include stronger muscles, a stronger heart, a much leaner physique, a longer life, and a body better able to support your everyday needs and activities.  Women, however, still tend to shy away from this beneficial form of exercise. Ladies, does the mere idea of weightlifting scare you? “I don’t want to lift weights because they’ll make me too big and bulky.” For how many of you is this the reason you’ve never attempted weight training?  It seems to be many a man’s dream to have big, bulky muscles. Why is it then, that men, whose bodies naturally contain much greater amounts of testosterone and growth hormone, lift weights yet DON’T get big and bulky? It’s true!  Unless they are supplementing with dangerous and unhealthful steroids or similar substances, most men do not naturally bulk up hugely by lifting weights regularly.  And neither will

Weight Loss Starts in Your Head  Are you a ‘look-and-lose’ dieter? Have you studied every diet ever created, read a zillion diet books, and yet are still unhappy with your weight? Has your quest for the holy grail of dieting become a substitute for actually making changes required to take the ill health out of your current diet?  If so, you may not realize your thoughts are key to your happiness and success. Do you look at yourself and say, “I’m fat”, or “My hips are too big”?  Many of us look in the mirror and immediately compare ourselves to those ‘perfect’ human specimens we see every single day on TV, in magazines and in the newspapers.  Often we talk to yourself and make excuses, “It’s my genes”, “I’m much too busy to get fit”, “I like myself this”, as a way of protecting yourself from the way we see ourselves now and the way we want to be.  If we were to be truly honest with ourselves most people actually want to lose a few pounds – if we only knew how. The good news is you CAN a

  New Guidelines For High Blood Pressure Treatment Today, high blood pressure treatment emphasizes lifestyle as much as medicine. Approaches to lowering blood pressure may also involve using alternative medicines to supplement traditional medication. In other words, sole reliance on drugs is now being replaced by more comprehensive methods of disease management. One of the centerpieces of this approach is replacing a sedentary lifestyle with a more active one.  Physical activity is very helpful in reducing hypertension. Increasing levels of physical fitness has many benefits including bringing blood pressure closer to normal levels.  Of course, taking up an exercise regimen should be done under medical supervision, particularly if the patient has been leading a sedentary lifestyle.  Exercise also cuts down on excess weight, which is another factor that pushes up blood pressure above normal levels.  There is a strong correlation between obesity and hypertension and the latter can often

  Raw Food Diet Eating raw foods is natural. Our bodies thrive on all that is fresh and vital. A raw food diet (or increasing the amount of raw food that you eat) is bound to bring a feeling of increased wellbeing.  Raw food diets are based on unprocessed and uncooked plant foods, preferably organic, such as a variety of fresh fruits and vegies, nuts, seeds, grains, dried fruit, fresh juices and purified water.  Why Raw Foods? Basically a vegetarian diet, the raw food diet promotes eating and drinking ‘living’ foods. Living foods and juices contain the maximum amount of fibre found in raw produce, fibre that can be lost in processing.  Such foods are easily metabolised and tend to be lower in calories than the average diet. Heating food above 116°F destroys enzymes in food that aid in digestion and in absorption of food, diminishing its nutritional value.  Benefits of a Raw Food Diet A diet of at least 75% raw food offers numerous health benefits, such as increased energy, improved ski