Nutrition Information

Every spring, people revive their New Year’s resolutions long enough to get themselves in shape for summer sports and swimwear. As national organizations recognize Stress Awareness Month, we are also encouraged to focus on our bodies for reasons other than the competitive or aesthetic. But, with so much noise about improving yourself physically, it’s often difficult to remember that your main goal should be having good health.

Dr Barbara North, medical director for Instead, Inc., a company devoted to developing better alternatives for women’s health, says women have distinct needs when it comes to attaining and maintaining good health. Dr. North says feminine health is often neglected, but that it is key to overall good health. She offers the following tips to help ensure it is not overlooked.

Washing and washes: Everyday cleansing is crucial to feminine hygiene, but certain feminine washes can actually be harmful to your health. Studies have shown douching can increase the risk of pelvic inflammatory disease and cervical cancer. In fact, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends women avoid it because it can hide symptoms of an infection or push the infection farther up into their reproductive tract.

Preventing infections: Women can contract urinary tract infections (UTIs) from seemingly harmless sources. Typical culprits can be bubble baths, infrequent urination, tight clothing or improper wiping. The best protective measures are drinking plenty of water and cranberry juice, and keeping clean with mild soap and proper wiping.

It’s also important to use the restroom as soon as you need too – waiting too long can be both harmful and painful to your body www.softcup.com.

Managing cycles: For some women, tampons and pads can cause more problems than they solve. From irritation caused by fibers or chemicals, to risks of Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), the traditional choices are not always the best solutions. One option is the Instead Softcup feminine hygiene product, which eliminates the threat of TSS by collecting, rather than absorbing, flow, while also promoting comfort. It’s available at www.softcup.com.

Achieving balance: Taking antibiotics can alter the balance of a woman’s system, often resulting in a yeast infection. When killing the body’s “bad” bacteria, antibiotics suppress the naturally occurring “good” bacteria that control yeast fungus. Women who take oral antibiotics or steroids should consult their doctors to determine the best course of action for continuing treatment.

Women need to know how to achieve and maintain good health on a daily basis – both through nutrition and with feminine hygiene. Dr. North says that a thorough understanding of feminine hygiene may be the key to helping more women achieve good health this spring.

Mark Henry
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/tips-to-help-women-establish-overall-good-health-habits-207739.html

Congratulations!

If you want to get a ripped, then searching for “get ripped diet” is the best thing you could have done.

You see to get ripped, you basically have to lower your body fat levels, and 80% of losing fat is determined by your diet.

But dieting sucks!

Most get ripped diets originate from bodybuilders where the diet of the day is, egg whites, tuna, chicken breasts, tuna, protein shake, tuna!

Did I mention that you have to eat tuna!

Yuck!

I have tried these diets many times but my love for food drove my cravings crazy and I wouldn’t last more than 3 days before I would dive headfirst into a bucket load of cereal!

I simply didn’t have the military like discipline and obsession to stick to it. I hated giving up the foods I loved I hated the foods I had to eat, and I hated completely flipping my lifestyle around just for the sake of a diet.

But I still wanted to get ripped!

So I did a ton of research and tried to create my own get ripped diet, that even I, a junk food addict could stick to!

But there were 3 main problems or common beliefs I had to overcome.

1. I hated eating so much lean, dry protein, and spending money on supplements. Every diet I found recommended copious amounts of protein otherwise you will lose muscle mass, your metabolism will shut down and you will stop burning fat.
2. I Love Sugar! Nearly every get ripped diet I found was very low on carbs. And the carbs they did let you eat were bland and boring (brown rice, oatmeal and sweet potato) Also you had to taper them off during the day, eating very little at night…There goes the big pasta dish and ice cream for dessert!
3. I hated eating low fat foods! I was dry reaching every time I was chewing tuna and egg whites.

Well once I stopped assuming what everyone was doing was right and looked for the answers myself I found 3 cool things.

#1: You don’t need protein to get ripped because long before supplements were big business (and steroids hit the market) bodybuilders built their physiques naturally and with very little protein.

Steve Reeves, arguably the greatest physique of all time followed a diet of only 20% protein. This is a far cry from today where bodybuilders consume 50-60% of their calories in protein.

Also Bill Pearl, another bodybuilding legend stated in an interview on bodybuilding.com that the body can only build so much muscle at a time, and if you consume more than half a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight then the excess will be stored as fat, or burnt off as energy.

This is way less than what is now considered the general recommendation of 1-2 gram of protein a day! 

# 2: You can eat sugar and get ripped because I found that if you are dieting to lose fat, and are in a calorie deficit, then you can eat sugar and all those “bad carbs” and still get ripped. This is because Insulin cannot be raised to a level that prevents fat loss if you are in a calorie deficit. It’s that simple!

 #3: You can eat fat and get ripped because eating low fat to lose fat originated because fat is much more calorie dense than protein or carbohydrates. (Fat has 9 calories per gram, where as carbs and protein each have 4.)

So it was logical that if we cut out fat from our diet, it would be much easier to create a calorie deficit. So eating fat doesn’t make you fat, it is just an easier way to create a calorie deficit. In fact eating fat is a great way to boost testosterone levels, helping sped up muscle gain and fat loss.

So look I know this goes against the general recommendation, and I understand if your sceptical but it works. I put this to the test and lost 35 pounds of fat and got ripped for the first time in my life, eating absolutely whatever I wanted. For photo proof as well as a exactly how I did it (so you can too!) possible head on over now to http://www.junkfooddietsite.com

Luke Johnstone
http://www.articlesbase.com/bodybuilding-articles/finally-a-get-ripped-diet-that-allows-you-to-eat-whatever-you-want-1247083.html

hi guys. I have been working out since 6months and been using supplements of several companies till now. Recently i came across british nutritions which offer products at a good low price compared to other products . Now i decided to go on with whey and creatine of british nutritions so any suggestions and reviews regarding british nutritions will be very helpful

The problem with nutrition is that it is bloated and saturated with pseudoscience. I can’t elaborate on it here but there is a brilliant book called ‘Bad Science’ by Ben Goldacre that should shed some more light on this for you. All these supplements you take may very well do nothing. For example most people think Omega 3 is good for you, but all scientists know so far is that it either does nothing or can actually harm the body.

i am a soccer player, and i have a hard time eating before games due to nerves and anxiety i guess, but i end up getting hungry in the middle of my game, so first, what are foods that i can eat a small portion of and they will keep me full for a long period of time, and also in general what are good foods for athletes to eat, to give them energy and let perform at there best? thanks!

Nuts for protein, bananas for carbs and energy. Eggs are good pre game meal.

Took 3 years of sports med + internship

for school im doing a debate and i need to know WHY water is better for you then sports drinks. i cant find anyhting!
please also tell me where you got your sources cause i need to list websites.

well, energy drinks contain sugars and (sometimes, usually) caffine. these are called dieretics. they pretty much make your liver empty all of it’s glucose (energy) into your system to be used up (which is what makes you hyper and so on) when this happens, liquids are being released as well. so pretty much, energy drinks are making you dehydrated.

also all the sugar is unhealthy

I know that I want to help people be healthy, with the use of food; not medication.
I do not know where to start though, or what career choices I have.
If anyone could offer me some advice I would greatly appreciate it.
I am 17 going on 18 so I have time to go to school etc.
Thanks

If you are looking to go into a medical practice, you can take a Naturopath route. Get your license in Internal Medicine and you can then specialize in whatever you choose – like Homeopathy, Nurtition, etc.