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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....

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. Th...

  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 a...

  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 increa...

  Uncover Emotional Secrets and Live a Happier Life Can you remember a time when you became a little irritated with someone and made a sharp comment that may have hurt, one which you later regretted?  Have you ever writhed in the pain of emotional agony over some loss or missed opportunity? Do you recall a time when you felt so overwhelmed by emotion that you withdrew from everything and everyone?  In any of these cases to a lesser or greater degree the emotional part of your brain has produced a questionable response or perhaps a response that you may have regretted later. Researchers generally agree that there is an appropriate ‘alarm’ system in the brain.  This system effectively overrides the thinking part of your brain in emergencies and causes an action or reaction that can be life saving.  The same system causes you problems when it creates inappropriate and unreasonable responses in your daily life in non-life threatening situations. Maybe your loved one...

  Writing Articles Can Be A Profitable Business Amon…In the world of today, job satisfaction scores over most other factors. They are less inclined to become cogs in the wheel if they can help it. Moreover, one can do so much more today. The growth in the field of communications has opened up many opportunities.  More and more people have begun to give up their day jobs in favor of more flexible work-from-home routines. The unprecedented rise of the Internet has been one of the major factors that have made this possible. Among the groups who are benefiting from this expansion in communication are writers. The world of magazines and ezines are a vast area is open to all. In fact, anyone who can string a decent sentence together can now think of seriously think of writing professionally. These days, anyone can become a writer with a little investment and a certain degree of writing skill. Of course, it is not be all that easy when you are starting out.  But once one does, t...

  Vitamin D: Can it Really Keep You Cancer Free? Can Vitamin D really help prevent you from developing cancer? Once only associated with strong bones and teeth, new scientific research is finding that Vitamin D can cut your risk of development  common cancers by as much as 50%. Says Sara Hiom, head of health information at Cancer Research UK, “There is evidence to suggest that the vitamin (Vitamin D) plays a role in keeping cells healthy.”  Researchers in the U.S. have found that the “natural” form of Vitamin D, D3 or cholecalciferol, can dramatically cut our chances of getting breast, ovarian, colon, and prostate cancers by up to 50%.  As a matter of fact, researchers are telling us that they have known about the link between Vitamin D and a decreased cancer risk for years. Well my question to them is this… what has been taking you so long to tell us?  They say that up until just recently, they did not know the levels of Vitamin D necessary to provide this decr...