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Men’s Health: Running the Bases

June 18, 2010 – 9:06 pm

Let’s face it, men and women are different. It’s a fact. And when it comes to taking care of their bodies, men and women are very different.

Men drink more (alcohol), smoke more and see their doctors less than women do. They are less likely to wear a seat belt (22% of teen men say they rarely or never wear a seatbelt v. 15% of teen women). And they consume red meat at an alarming rate.

All that said, those facts refer to the “average” American male. There are plenty of men, who eat their vegetables, drink the requisite eight glasses of water a day, and kiss there wives and children before they go to bed precisely at 9:30p.m. every night. If you belong to this group, you are perfect, and you need not read a word more.

If you think you might belong to the first (average) group, though, read on. You might just get a peek at what the future holds for you.

The Wake Up Call – 7:00p Thursday

Whether you are a man or a woman, an average Joe or not, at some point, you need to decide to take your health seriously or you may just get an unwelcome wake up call.

Nothing pains me more than to visit my local city park on a week night in early spring. It is there where I will find many of aging brothers hitting the ball around for the first time after a long winter of sitting. It is usually Tuesday or Thursday when the over 40 recreation softball league has its games. It’s a bunch of guys from all walks of life. Some are business men taking a few hours away from the kids and the office to toss the ball around. There might be a high school baseball coach getting his playing time in. You might see the produce manager from your local grocery store and a fireman or a police officer or two.

Before the game starts, you see some stretching, some talking, and one or two having a beer. Then the game begins, and they get to work. The guys are chatting it up, laughing about nothing in particular and razzing the batter. Good clean guy fun. But inevitably at some point, one of those guys pulls something, tears something or pops something out of alignment. The game stops while they help him off the field. And once he’s on the bench (or on his way to the hospital), the game starts up again.

I always wonder what happened to that one guy. Was the injury serious? Or did he spring back in a couple of days? Did he wake up to the fact that he is 47 years old and start working out regularly and stretching before games? Or did he decide he was “suddenly” too old to play kids games anymore and quit?

Over 40 And Going it Alone

Now, if I were more of an opportunist, I would make a point of going to those first few games of spring. And I’d bring my business card and a sign up sheet for treatment. But I can’t bring myself to do it. And anyway, I would really rather get new patients BEFORE injury strikes.

Now, ask yourself, am I the guy on the bench or one of the guys still playing? Don’t know?  

Well, if it’s been awhile since regular exercise and stretching were a part of your routine, you might just be the guy on the bench. You see, within the human body, there is something called “Fascia”, a pliable, protective sheath that covers every cell. To your muscles and  joints, Fascia is like the elastic in your underwear. If it is kept intact and healthy, it holds them up and holds them together, giving them strength and stability. As it ages, though, and if not cared for properly, fascia loses its elasticity, and you lose range of motion and strength. Before you know it, you can’t bend down far enough to catch a ground ball, and throwing to first base feels like a hot poker in your shoulder.

If that is you, don’t walk to my office, run (or move as fast as your tight muscles will allow). I will work with throughout a 10-session series to soften and strengthen your fascia, and ultimately to bring back movement and muscle you forgot you had. By next softball season, you will be in game shape.

Information for this article came from these additional sources:

Test Your Knowledge about Men’s Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services.
Found August 8, 2007 http://www2a.cdc.gov/od/menshealth/test.asp

Joseph Ackerman “Joe Ackerman of www.CoreStructuralTherapy.com specializes in Structural Integration which is a system wide process of deep bodywork and movement education. It is designed to improve the Structural and Functional abilities of the human body in its relationship to the field of gravity.

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8 Quick Fat Burning Tips

May 31, 2010 – 6:02 pm

The statistics are scary – latest research from the IHRSA/ASD Obesity/Weight Control Report shows that 63% of Americans are overweight, and frighteningly 31% are clinically obese. On the other side of the pond, in the UK, the stats are not too dissimilar. According to the British Department of Health 23% of Brits are obese – the highest of all European countries.

With this in mind, just take a moment to think about the health issues of being overweight or obese – we’re all aware of the dangers. Anyone for heart disease or diabetes?

If you are overweight or obese these are very real dangers that could cut your life short. That’s why it’s critical you start including some fat burning tips in your life.

So lets look to some solutions:

Here are 8 quick tips you can include into your daily life to help you burn a little more fat, and get back down to a healthier, safe weight.

1 – Eat a high fibre diet; go for multi/full grain breads instead of white bread. Eating full grain bread will provide your body with the fibre it needs to keep your digestive system functioning properly and your body running efficiently.

2 – Cut out red meat and eat more white meat. White meats such as fish, chicken and turkey are lower in fat content than red meats such as beef and pork. When you are trying to burn fat you need to make the switch from red to white meat.

3 – Slash your sugar consumption. If you take sugar with your tea or coffee, stop. If you eat high sugar foods, cut them out of your diet. High sugar foods cause a peak in insulin secretion leading to storage of glucose as fat.

4 – Don’t eat too much fatty foods. You do need some fat in your diet (the right fats), but you don’t want to go overboard. One gram of fat contains 9 calories, so you can easily see how a few grams of fat add up to a lot of calories. Try to avoid any foods that exceed a 30% fat composition.

5 – Stop eating 3 times a day. Instead eat 6 smaller meals spread evenly throughout the day. You eat smaller portion sizes and keep hunger at bay by eating more regularly. It’ll keep your metabolism running high and help stop you snacking on unhealthy foods.

6 – Cut out butter from your diet. Pick up a healthier margarine; you can choose from many healthier options, such as, lower cholesterol or lower fat margarines. If the choice is available to go for a healthier option, get it.

7 – Eat less salt. Salt will push up your cholesterol levels, which raises your risk of heart disease, which when combined with obesity is a potentially dangerous combination. Eat ‘low-salt’ alternatives instead.

8- Stop frying all your foods. Instead try to bake, boil or steam them. Frying food is possibly the most unhealthy method of preparing food. The other options are far healthier, require little or no fatty oil, and will really help you with your fat burning efforts.

A word of warning…

These tips and strategies for fat burning are not the ‘be-all-and-end-all’. There are a lot of other factors involved in achieving long term fat loss. A healthy diet/lifestyle is just one component. If you are really want to hit your fat burning goals, and get a fit, attractive body, you need a long term proven plan of action, incorporating a healthy diet, cardiovascular exercise and resistance training.

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How To Create Healthy Powerhouse Sandwich Recipes

May 26, 2010 – 9:07 pm

Making healthy sandwiches allows you the opportunity to utilize your creative talents in the kitchen once again. Sandwiches can be created as an entire meal, providing all the nutrients necessary for your healthy living.


To create a healthy powerhouse sandwich, use your imagination, by including herbs such as fresh basil leaves, cilantro or fresh parsley. Fresh watercress gives a sandwich a great nippy taste; in addition it gives an appealing look and has virtually no calories. Did you know that watercress is a good source of beta carotene, calcium, iron and potassium?


Fresh chives, which contain sulphur oil (which may lower blood pressure if one consistently eats a large amount), fresh romaine lettuce, is low in calories and high in fiber. Try to choose the dark green leafy lettuce; spinach which is full of vitamin A and folate, and high in Vitamin C and potassium, is an excellent choice for sandwiches as it is also a vegetarian source of protein.


When creating your sandwiches, try using sliced whole rings of green, red, or yellow peppers, as they are not only colourful, but an excellent low calorie source of Vitamin C.


Try using sandwich style sliced dill pickles (patted dry)or cucumbers sliced. Crisp fresh snow peas, are low in calories and high in Vitamins A and C. Snow peas, besides containing protein, help to create a nutritionally complete meal when combined with whole grain products.


Sliced beef steak tomatoes make a great addition to any sandwich. Try using asparagus or green capers on top of your filler. We have only the a few “green” and some red vegetable and herb ideas to season your sandwiches.


Fillings for healthy sandwiches are where we need to use care in calorie use. Always use a light Miracle Whip, light cream cheese or Dijon mustard. Light Miracle Whip and cream cheese taste just as good as the regular products and are one half or less than the calories and fat.


The most favorite fillings for sandwiches are hard boiled eggs, tuna, shrimp, roast beef, thinly sliced ham, smoked salmon in thin slices with cream cheese and capers, various light cheeses, such as Edam, Light Mozzarella, Provolone, Asiago, avocado sliced or in a spread, artichoke tapenade, Black Forest Ham, chicken salad spread, chicken breast slices,


Avocados, which incidentally, are fruits, are high in the “good” fats, meaning mono-saturated, but always remember they are high in calories and fats. These are only a few ideas, but, add the greens previously mentioned and you will have a deluxe healthy sandwich when a good protein is added to your greens.


The last item I will write about is bread, one of the most important items. The healthy breads to look for are logically the ones that contain whole grains, oat, flax, spelt bread, rye bread. These breads contain the “good” carbohydrates that constitute a healthy food choice.


White flour breads have no nutritional value for our bodies. Please try to introduce these good choice breads to your children at any early age, so they will become accustomed to eating healthy bread for healthy living.


Creating healthy appealing powerhouse sandwiches is a learned craft; you will be using all the necessary nutrients of a healthy meal for healthy living. There are a multitude of other types of healthy sandwiches, party sandwiches, rolled sandwiches, pinwheel roll-up sandwiches and even wraps to enjoy creating for you and your family.


You will be surprised at just how creativity bursts out in you when you start making these healthy recipes. These breads taste marvelous, but, it is sometimes a chore to talk children into them. Start children with a good 100% whole wheat bread that is fresh. I am certain that once you add the choice of good healthy items for the sandwich covered with the good bread, your child will love it. Later on, you can slowly introduce other varieties to him/her.


Fortunately, we now have available to us bagels, crusties, and many breads with 100% whole wheat plus many other nutrients in the breads for healthy living.


If you are making sandwiches with sauces, it is easy to eliminate butter or margarine. Replace it with mustard, low-calorie Mayonnaise, light cream cheese. It will eliminate 100 calories to your sandwich.


We have given you a start on your creative power sandwich making. Use your imagination and run with it.

Learn all about the healthy vegetables and how to use them for power sandwich making for healthy living.

Carole-Anne Stanway has been a creative healthy recipe cook for years and is proud to offer you her recipe secrets. Learn how you too can create and bake many healthy recipes at healthyrecipes

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Is Red Meat Safe to Eat?

January 23, 2010 – 7:50 pm

Eating red meat is an American past time. From the famous steak houses in the biggest cities to the classic backyard BBQ, from the ubiquitous cheese burger at any number of fast food restaurants to bacon rashers served at breakfast, from rump roast on Sundays to pork chops to Bolognese sauce to ham sandwiches-the list of traditional and celebrated means and ways to consume red meat are many. It’s associated with manliness, and is part of the country’s psyche in a way that it’s not anywhere else in the world. But rising obesity rates, the increase in deaths from cardiovascular disease and cancer all prompt us to ask the question: is it safe to eat red meat?

A number of studies have been published within the last decade linking the consumption of red meat to an increased chance of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, stomach cancer, lymphoma, bladder cancer, and prostate cancer. It has also been linked with an increased chance of cardiovascular disease, arthritis, and hypertension. These studies range from conclusions drawn from a new study that examined 500,000 Americans in 2009 to the Nurses’ Health Study which began in 1976 and expanded in 1989 and has been tracking 238,000 dedicated nurse-participants.

Thus the conclusions should be obvious. But if you look closer at the data, you’ll see room for some arguments to be made in defense of red meat. For one, these studies make no differentiation between the kinds of red meat consumed. Whether it’s highly processed hot dogs or pasture fed, free range beef, it’s all lumped into the same category. It stands to reason that consuming red meat that’s been pumped full of steroids, anti-biotics, growth hormones and the like will have a more deleterious effect on your health than the healthiest of naturally grown and fed animals. However, this difference is not factored into the studies, despite the obvious disparity in quality.

Another factor that needs to be taken into account and which is considered by the authors of these studies is the effect that over-cooking has on the quality of the meat. Grilling, searing, or broiling red meat may cause heat-altered chemicals to appear known as heterocyclic amines (or HCAs) which may be carcinogenic if consumed often over time. Thus how you cook your food becomes incredibly important-well done can be a bad idea.

So what should one take from all this? Clearly consuming large amounts of red meat is dangerous. Consuming more than 5.5 oz of red meat/day puts you in the most at-risk group, though even 10 oz/week can slightly increase your risk of developing these diseases. What becomes clear is that moderation is vital, and that we should all seek to consume only the highest quality red meat possible, while also being careful with the manner in which it is cooked. Quality over quantity, and with an awareness that if you can swap in white meat? It might be worth it in the long run.

One of the best ways of promoting health and keeping disease at bay is through exercise, so take a look at Tony Horton’s renowned fitness program, P90X. An intense 90 day workout that will have you lose weight, gain muscle, flexibility and confidence, it’s an excellent way to get in shape. Also, check out Body Gospel, a fantastic new Christian workout coming out soon!Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/is-red-meat-safe-to-eat-1772098.html

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Natural Ways to Treat Red Rashes

January 16, 2010 – 2:42 pm

A red rash creates discomfort and awkwardness socially. Tbe underlying causes of rashes can include bacterial infections, viruses, allergic responses, contact dermatitis, anxiety, fungus and other reasons. The appearance can be patches, red bumps or welts accompanied with mild to severe itching of the skin. Depending on the rash, you may get prescribed steroids or be able to use over the counter items such as calamine lotion, antihistamine creams or medicated moisturizers. There are also natural remedies that people turn to for skin rash problems. Be sure to determine the cause of the rash. If you

have a bacterial infection or fever, it’s important to find out if you need an antibiotic to treat the infection. Certain rashes are contagious and they need to be treated to avoid infecting others.

Herbs have been used in the east as well as by many cultures for centuries to treat various skin disorders as well as other health situations. The internal or external use of certain herbs can provide blessed relief from the discomfort of a rash. You can take herbal capsules, eat the herb raw, or take it as a tincture or a tea.  Stinging nettles are good for rashes caused by allergies, for example. Lemon balm, lavender, mullein, and licorice root are all good for helping with the discomfort, as well. You can also use soothing creams that have these herbs as main ingredients for instant relief. Always check with your physician before engaging with a natural method of healing to see if it is medically advised. Some people can have allergic reactions to different herbs or it may conflict with a medical condition.

You can use herbs in the form of poultices, as well. Fresh or dried herbs are appropriate for this method. Basically, you chop up a cup or so of the herb you think is best for your condition, then wet the mound with hot water. Spread the wet herb mash on a piece of clean cotton cloth and apply to the rash, herb side down. This can bring relief within a short amount of time. Lavender is a very good herb for a poultice, as is mullein. Leave the poultice on until you start to feel relief.

A compress also works well for annoying rashes. It’s similar to a poultice, except you soak a cloth in water that has been infused with a tincture or tea made from the herb of your choice. Then, wring out the cloth and apply it to your rash. Make sure the water you use is warm for best results. If you have any questions about other good herbs for your rash, you can find that information online or in herb books. There are literally dozens of herbs that have been used over the ages. Other natural approaches for rashes include using oils such as flax seed, olive oil and coconut oils on the skin or internally. Both the omega 3 and omega 6 groups are found to be an aid in skin healing.

Learn more about common Itchy Rashes and read about hives, pediatric rashes, and ways to Get Rid of Eczema .

Learn more about common Itchy Rashes and read about hives, pediatric rashes, and ways to Get Rid of Eczema .

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