Dietician’s Blog

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

If you compete in a sport during hot weather, you may be helped by this tip for recovering between events.

Researchers at Edith Cowan University in Australia showed that you can recover faster and compete at a higher level by soaking your legs in cold water (14 degrees C) for five minutes during rest periods between events (British Journal of Sports Medicine, June 2008). The cooling session dropped body temperature a half degree centigrade and the athletes were able to cycle faster with greater power output.

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

The hottest subject in medicine today is the amazing number of diseases associated with low vitamin D levels. People with low levels of vitamin D are at double the risk for blocked arteries in their legs, called peripheral artery disease (Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, June 2008); markedly increased risk for heart attacks and strokes, angina, and heart failure (Circulation, January and April 2008; Archives of Internal Medicine, June 2008); increased rate of aging of their tissues (The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2007); cancers of the breast, lung and colon (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 2007); diabetes (Epidemiology, May 20, 2008). Other recent articles show that Vitamin D helps pain control (Pain Medicine, April 2008); and vitamin D reduces the risk of falls (Archives of Internal Medicine, March 2008).

Next winter, ask your doctor to draw blood tests called vitamin D3 and D2. If your D3 level is below 40 ng/ml, you are at increased risk for a host of diseases. You can take pills containing D2 or D3. D2 is the plant pre-vitamin D that is so weak that it usually will not help raise your blood level. On the other hand, D3 is the animal pre-vitamin D that appears to be quite effective. Scientists do not agree on the optimum dose for people with blood levels of D3 below 40 ng/ml. It used to be 200 international units per day. Today, many doctors think that it should be at least 2000 international units. You can also meet your needs for vitamin D from sunlight by exposing a few inches of skin for 15 minutes every other day in the summer. However, during the winter in northern climates, the sun’s rays come in at an angle and are therefore markedly reduced by the increased areas of atmosphere through which the sun’s rays must pass. You can solve this problem with a tropical vacation.

I have found that tanning beds provide almost no vitamin D. Ultraviolet light is classified into UVA and UVB. UVB are the rays that cause skin cancer. They are also the rays that cause the skin to manufacture vitamin D. Since manufacturers of tanning bulbs are concerned about skin cancer, they reduce the percentage of UVB emitted from tanning lamps. This also markedly reduces the rays that provide vitamin D. More

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

I’m not overweight; how can I lose the fat in my hips and thighs?First, realize that people who are shaped like pears live longer than those who are shaped like apples (storing fat primarily in their bellies). “Pears” are less likely to develop diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and many types of cancers. As you have already found out, diets are of not of much value to people who are generically programmed to store fat in their hips. For a diet to get rid of your hip fat, you would have to be hungry all the time. Exercise will work, but you may need to exercise more than three hours a day to get rid of hip fat. However, you might not have time for a job or your family.

Have you noticed that most female athletes have large buttocks? People who store fat in the buttocks are often genetically programmed to be gifted athletes. If you can double or triple your workout schedule, you would lose fat. Try competing in cycling, running or weightlifting. The odds are that you will be very successful.
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Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy with Uri Feast

I’d like to share an article written
by David Uri LeBaron,
pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition.

“THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S TOMATO! - Part III”

“After more than 30 years of ‘hands-on’ organic farming
and continuous nutritional research, let me explain why…

this is NOT your grandmother’s tomato!

We ended Part II by describing the unhealthy energy drinks
and all that is put into them that is not good for you.
Then I introduced my best creation called, “The FEAST,”
and today I’d like to share with you the origin of the Feast.

Introducing the Breakthrough Technology That Locks in the REAL NUTRITION Value of Fresh Organic Fruits and Vegetables - Guaranteed!

The origin of the Feast begins back in the late 1970s when my family began a small herb harvesting business in the southwestern desert regions of the United States.

When I was seven years old, I began helping in the family business by harvesting wild herbs…and at that time, my lifelong interest in nutrition was sparked. The business flourished, and soon we were providing wildcrafted herb powders to some of the biggest nutritional companies in America.

In the mid 1980s, we began looking for a superior way to preserve the nutritional integrity of whole foods in order to provide a much higher form of quality nutrients than found in typical nutritional supplements. During this time, we began developing a proprietary process for drying live whole foods and fresh raw juices into powder. We began with cereal grasses and herbs.

We discovered that the best way to preserve the nutritional integrity of these grasses and herbs was to dry them using LOW heat and QUICKLY turn them into powder in seconds at very low temperatures. As our processing technology evolved and continually improved, we then turned to processing organic and naturally grown fruits and vegetables.

I knew that if I could make this drying process work for fresh, organic produce, I would be onto something big. The quality of the nutrient dense products resulting from our proprietary process was far superior to anything produced by other nutritional supplement processing techniques. We realized that our proprietary process could revolutionize how we take, absorb, and benefit from vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients naturally found abundantly in organic produce.

It took years for me to perfect it, but now I’m excited to tell you all about…the PROPRIETARY INSTAFRESH DRYING PROCESS.
In PART IV, I’ll share with you the NEW secret behind REAL whole food-based nutrition.
Until then, keep checking back for the next part…

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

The soreness that you feel 8 to 24 hours after an intense workout is caused by a tearing of the muscle fibers. The fastest way to get muscles to heal is to have your body produce lots of insulin and also provide a supply of protein to repair the damaged tissue. We have known for a long time that insulin drives sugar into cells for energy. Now we know that it also drives protein building blocks called amino acids into the muscle cells to help them heal faster. A study from New Zealand shows that protein loading immediately after exercise helps cyclists recover faster so they can ride harder for several days after an intense workout (Physiologie Appliquée, Nutrition et Métabolisme, February 2008).

On the surface of muscle cell membranes are little hooks called insulin receptors. Before insulin can do its job of driving sugar and protein into cells, it must first attach to these receptors. Hard exercise markedly increases insulin’s ability to attach to insulin receptors and therefore makes insulin more effective. However, this increased response of insulin to exercise lasts only during exercise and for perhaps half an hour after exercise. An hour after you finish exercising, you have lost this added sensitivity of insulin receptors to insulin. So to help muscles recover faster, you need to take a carbohydrate source during a hard workout and immediately after you finish. Any source of carbohydrates will be broken down into simple sugars that call out insulin. Then, as soon as possible after your workout, you should eat any source of protein to supply the amino acids needed to heal damaged muscle tissue.

Entrepreneurs will probably use this information to promote various protein drinks and supplements, but you will get the same results with any sugared drink and any food or drink that contains protein. Soda and cheese or your favorite sports drink and shrimp or nuts will work just fine. More

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

No matter how hard I exercise, my heart rate never gets as high as my husband’s. Should I be concerned? No; it may just mean that you are in very good shape. Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University in England showed that athletes have much lower maximum heart rates than sedentary people and that female athletes have lower maximum heart rates than male athletes (International Journal of Sports Medicine, February 2008).

Most exercisers should not even bother with heart rate calculations. Your training heart rate occurs when you exercise vigorously enough to make your body require more oxygen. You can tell when this happens because you will start to breathe deeper and faster, raising your shoulders with each breath. Once or twice a week, you should try to exercise intensely enough to increase your need for oxygen. If you feel uncomfortable, you should slow down. Non-athletes do not ever need to exercise so vigorously that they become severely short of breath. More

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Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin

Most doctors recommend low salt diets because of the evidence that taking in too much salt can cause high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes. However, this may not be good advice for dedicated exercisers. If you exercise heavily and restrict salt, you will not replace the salt you lose through sweating, which can cause high blood pressure as well as fatigue, cramps and muscle pain. When the body is low in salt, the adrenal glands produce large amounts of aldosterone and the kidneys produce renin, which constricts arteries and can raise blood pressure.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine showed that people on low-salt diets are actually more likely to suffer heart attacks than those on high salt diets (Journal of General Internal Medicine, June 2008). They analyzed data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) of American adults. Dr. Hillel W. Cohen, lead author of the study, stated, “Our findings suggest that for the general adult population, higher sodium is very unlikely to be independently associated with higher risk of death from heart attacks.”

Many years ago, when I was competing in marathon races, I decided to try a low-salt diet. I was surprised to find that my blood pressure rose from a normal 120/ 80 to as high as 160/80, and I suffered severe fatigue and frequent injuries. When I added salt back into my diet, my blood pressure went down to normal and I was able to train and compete again. This is why I recommend a relatively high-salt diet for exercisers. If you decide to increase your intake of salt, get a blood pressure cuff and check yourself for a month. If your blood pressure goes above 120/80, you may have added too much salt. Also, if you stop exercising because of an injury or for any other reason, be sure to cut out the extra salt to keep your blood pressure under control. More

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Submitted by Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy with Uri Feast

I’d like to share an article written
by David Uri LeBaron,
pioneer and innovator of live, whole food-based nutrition.

“THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S TOMATO! - Part II”

“After more than 30 years of ‘hands-on’ organic farming
and continuous nutritional research, let me explain why…

this is NOT your grandmother’s tomato!

We ended Part I of this article with the question:

Why such poor nutritional content in our produce today?

The main culprit is “modern agriculture.” Today, most farmers and big food conglomerates use any eans to squeeze as much produce out of an acre of land as they can. Chemical fertilizers. Herbicides. Manipulation of soil and seeds. Genetic engineering. Pesticides. And they’ve violated time-honored holistic farming methods such as crop rotation and natural pest control and fertilization.

So, over time, our soil gets stripped of nutrients, minerals, and living organisms. No wonder most fruits and vegetables in America are nutritionally deficient.

As I’ll explain, The Feast addresses this problem head on. How? With a proprietary drying system that locks in the nutritional content of organic and naturally-grown fruits and vegetables without synthetic vitamins, pasteurization, and preservatives.

The result? You get a vast spectrum of naturally occurring live whole food-based vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and antioxidants your body needs and deserves.

Still, there another reason why you can’t rely on today’s common fruits and vegetables to give you real nutrition like you could in the past.

SOME OF OUR MOST TRUSTED FOOD SOURCES MAY BE “TAINTED”

Today, our typical food sources, especially fruits and vegetables, are sprayed with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and chemicals on a regular basis. Just consider these eye-opening facts…

* Pesticide use in agriculture and for home and industrial purposes has increased a whopping 50 percent within just the past three decades.

* Vegetables such as corn, lettuce, and potatoes absorb antibiotics when they’re grown in soil spread with manure containing antibiotics.

* Since World War II, more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals have been created and released into the environment, as many as 1,500 new ones each year! These chemicals, even after they’re banned, can last a long time in the environment. For example, DDT was banned over 30 years ago, but it can still be found in the breast milk of women all over the world. And DDT can make its way back into our food supply through foods imported from countries where this pesticide is still used.

*High levels of nutrient pollution used in farming and ranching activities are found in lakes and streams. Is it any wonder there are populations of frogs living in these waters with deformities?

Is it any wonder that according to a recent study, 70 percent of consumers buy organic foods to avoid pesticides.

But as I’ll explain later, The Feast takes all the worry out of the quality and purity of fruits and vegetables. You get the finest quality organic and naturally grown produce free of pesticides and toxins - in a unique, easy to take, delicious form that you’ll love.

If that’s not enough, even…

“NATURAL” JUICES AND ENERGY DRINKS ARE NOT WHAT YOU THINK

Still other folks hope to get some or most of the fruits and vegetables they need from so-called “natural” juices. Not so fast!

Did you know that 98 percent of liquid nutritional products on the market are pasteurized? PASTEURIZATION uses high heat to kill bacteria and harmful microorganisms, but at the same time substantially alters or deactivates the majority of good, naturally occurring “live” nutrients and enzymes!

What’s more, many of these so-called “natural” juices contain ingredients from “juice concentrates” or “puree concentrates” using heat or a vacuum, which also denatures the nutritional integrity of a fruit or berry. And some of these juices contain ONLY TEN PERCENT OR LESS of the actual key ingredient promised on the label.

What about hot selling ENERGY DRINKS?

The truth is most of them are absolutely loaded with high fructose corn syrup and synthetic caffeine - and there’s not much “natural” about these ingredients.

SPECIAL WARNING: A new study at Wayne State University reveals that healthy adults who drank two energy drinks a day saw blood pressure and heart rate levels increase.

As you’re about to see, The Feast retains a high content of naturally occurring live nutrients found in fresh produce - giving you whole food-based nutrition unlike any so-called “healthy’ super juice or green food drink that I’ve ever seen.

How is that possible? Let me explain, starting with a little known story that began more than 25 years ago…

NOTE: I will continue this article in PART 3 in a few days.

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Thank you so much for visiting my health and nutrition blog. Please check back often for my most recent postings on good nutrition and on eating healthy, and consider adding my RSS FEED so that you can be kept up to date on all of these health and nutrition articles. As a defender of your health, I am dedicated to providing you with the Keys to Good Nutrition and Tips to Eating Healthy. I’m also devoted to encouraging you to eat 5-9 servings of fresh organic fruits and vegetables every day, and the next best way to do that is by drinking the Feast, by Uri International, which is a live whole food based InstaFresh juice powder drink by Yuri. For more information, click here: http://www.livesuperjuice.com
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