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Amended Bitter Orange - Ephedra in disguise ?
If you read my last article about bitter orange or citrus aurantium, it was pretty clear how I felt about the herb. I'd read the available research concerning bitter orange, and while there was some evidence supporting bitter orange, the overall...
Chiropractic Care: A Benefit to the Well Individual?
We don't often think of the chiropractor until some part of our
body isn't functioning as it should, most often our back. But
what about chiropractic care for the well individual? Is it a
benefit to the well person, to visit a chiropractor when...
Natural Herbal Remedies-harmful effects and things to avoid
Natural herbal remedies are good medicine. There is no doubt about that fact. What is so amazing about natural herbal remedies is their close association to our modern medicines. Most of our current "wonder drugs" have a botanical connection.
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The Ancient Roots of Ephedra
Herbal ephedra, which is also known as Ma huang, Chinese ephedra and epitonin, is the world's oldest medicine. The Chinese discovered ephedra in the form of the Ma Huang plant more than 5,000 years ago and it is the basis of Traditional Chinese...
Why Do You Say You Want To Lose Weight?
Why Do You Say You Want To Lose Weight? How many of your New Year's resolution start out with "I want to lose x amount of pounds"as if just saying it were some kind of magic mantra. As if the weight would just fall off, in response to the spoken...
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What Are Your Fitness Needs?
As we go about our busy lives, our fitness needs do not often
come to mind. In fact, probably the only thought that is given
to our fitness needs relates to the 15 pounds we think we need
to lose. But even when we are fairly fit, we have needs that
help us to sustain that fitness. Have you ever given thought to
what those needs are?
Meditation, an exercise recommended for everyone, but especially
those of us with hectic, stressful lifestyles, is defined as an
engagement in contemplation, especially of a spiritual or
devotional nature. Meditation has been shown to relieve stress,
and promote overall good health, by simply reflecting upon our
day, and finding happiness within ourselves.
Your nutritional needs levels are dependent upon your eating
habits and whether you use daily supplements of vitamins and
minerals in order for you to sustain optimum physical health.
Much discussion is centered on this topic right now, because our
nation faces obesity problems of epidemic proportions. Our
eating habits make up a large portion of our nutritional daily
intake. What we consume goes a long way to keeping our bodies
fit.
Do we understand what our nutritional requirements are, how to
fulfill those requirements, and how to look for real nutritional
value in our foods? I'm not sure that nutrition has been
successfully addressed in its own right. We hear nutrition in
relation to our vitamin intake, our fortified cereals and milk,
and in the context that we need "nutritional value" from our
food choices.
But what really is nutrition when applied to our daily bodily
functions? Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our
ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to
do. Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food,
vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our
daily life processes. Quite often, our vitamin and mineral needs
outweigh our caloric needs. In those instances, we turn
to
manufactured vitamins and minerals to fill the gap.
Alternative medicine options such as chiropractic care,
acupuncture, herbal cures, and holistic medicine are all ways we
can help to keep ourselves fit. All of these alternative healing
approaches offer ways to incorporate their use into staying fit
and healthy. Of the examples given here, chiropractic and
acupuncture are becoming more widely accepted as complements to
the traditional forms of exercise and nutrition. Herbal
cleansing and healing are used by many to provide for ways for
body keep itself in a state of fitness and optimal health.
What role does exercise play in this process? Well, exercise
conditions our body to keep it in optimal shape. To keep muscles
functioning correctly and build muscle mass. The more muscle
mass we have, the more calories we burn. The more calories we
burn, the better our metabolism is at using up the calories we
take in through food consumption. Can you begin to see how our
body is really a well functioning machine? It's a continual
circle of events, one feeding off the other. When all the events
are coming together properly, we are healthy, happy individuals.
Today, we must determine how much nourishment we need, how much
physical exercise we need, and how best to accomplish those
ends. Calorie needs, nutritional needs, physical needs, and
education about those needs now is information we should all
understand, at least as it applies to our ability to maintain
our fitness levels. If you will visit your local doctor,
library, or fitness center, there is massive amounts of
information available to help educate and to help you make good
health choices, no matter what the ultimate goal, fitness
maintenance, or fitness improvement.
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About the author:
Tony Robinson is a CEO and Webmaster. He has a young family and
a keen interest in health and fitness. Visit his site at
http://www.be-well-and-fit.com
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