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How to beat a soft drink addiction The first thing I need to point out is that soft drinks and processed sugary drinks and meals are addicting. It's the kind of addiction that allows the addict to pat himself on the back and smile because society doesn't condemn that addiction like cigarette smoking and alcoholism. The sad thing people don't realize is that the sugar addiction is just as dangerous as those other addictions and, for some people, worse. Need convincing? Here's what drinking a soft drink does to your body. Here are some tips to help you kick the coke habit and still be happy.

Vitamin D and Your Teeth Studies have linked geographical variations in dental health and tooth loss to sun exposure. Dental caries have been shown to be inversely related to mean hours of sunlight per year, with people living in the sunny west having half as many cavities as those in the much less sunny northeast. As reported by the Vitamin D Council.

Problems with Mercury in Fillings
Mercury fillings are quick and easy to put in. It isn't that composite materials cost more—they just take longer to make. Not only can dentists buzz through a lot of mercury amalgam fillings each day, but these amalgams also require the destruction of quite a lot of good tooth matter, which sets you up for more dental problems down the road… meaning, more dental work, including root canals. It's the gift that keeps on giving, from a dentist's perspective.

Fewer patients coming through the door each day isn't the only issue striking fear in the heart of your mercury-loving dentist. Many dentists are also wary of the possibility that thousands, if not millions, of lawsuits could arise if they—or the FDA—admitted to the damage mercury amalgams have done to public health. Litigation and class action lawsuits could deliver an incapacitating blow to the dental industry. read more

What is Leaky Gut Syndrome?

When you think of body fat you most likely think of cellulite and love handles (subcutaneous fat), but there's another type of fat in your body that is much less visible and actually far more dangerous.

Unlike subcutaneous fat that lies just under your skin and is noticeable, visceral fat lies in your abdominal cavity, under the abdominal muscle, and often surrounds your vital organs. read more

The Cancer Treatments of Steve Jobs Here's a article by Dr. Mercola on Steve Jobs, his treatments, and alternative treatments for pancreatic cancer. It includes an interview with a Dr. Gonzalez a cancer specialists. Steve Jobs died at 56 years old last week from complications of pancreatic cancer. Steve was the charismatic pioneer and innovative co-founder of Apple who transformed personal use of technology as well as entire industries with products such as the iPod, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh computer and the iTunes music store.

Benefits of Garlic Doctor Mercola talks about the many potential benefits of eating garlic. Garlic has been treasured for its medicinal properties for centuries. In ancient times, Greek and Roman soldiers ate garlic before going off to war, and it was reportedly given to the slaves who built the Egyptian pyramids in order to enhance their strength and endurance.

Study Shows More Education Equals More Exercise Study shows the more highly educated a person is the more likely they are to exercise regulary, and the less likely they are to have heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and other chronic health problems such as back pain, kidney and liver disease or migraine headaches.

Music Increases Exercise Performance by 15% A new study published in The Sport and Exercise Scientist found that responses to certain music may have an enhancement effect by either reducing perceptions of fatigue or increasing work capacity with higher than expected levels of endurance, power, productivity or strength.

Why eggs are good for you. Once denounced as terrible for your health due to cholesterol now eggs are on the comeback trail.

Benefits of Cumin
The popular spice cumin has a long history of medicinal use. It has been used to treat various symptoms including diarrhea, flatulence, gynecological, and respiratory diseases. But a new study looked at a different effect of cumin -- its ability to enhance memory and relieve stress.

How to Fight Dust Mite Allergies Like a lot of Americans I found myself facing bad allergies especially in the middle of the night. After going to an allergy doctor and having an allergy test done I was told I was allergic to dust mites. Allergens produced by house dust mites are among the most common triggers of asthma. Studies have shown the mean attributable fraction of adult asthma due to atopic sensitization was 30% and 18% for sensitization to dust mites.  Read more

Aspartame Unsafe But FDA-Approved?

Americans drink more soda than anyone else on the planet -- well over 700 eight-ounce servings each year, on average, and an increasing amount of it is diet soda.

They might be more reluctant to do so if they knew about the safety questions still surrounding aspartame. A number of scientists responding expressed major concerns about aspartame's safety at the time of its approval, and even more indicated areas where they believed more research is needed on aspartame to resolve their concerns -- research on areas such as neurological functions, brain tumors, seizures, headaches, and adverse effects on children and pregnant women.

Mushrooms are a low-calorie food usually eaten raw or cooked to provide garnish to a meal. Raw dietary mushrooms are a good source of B vitamins, such as riboflavin, niacin and pantothenic acid, and the essential minerals, selenium, copper and potassium. Fat, carbohydrate and calorie content are low, with absence of vitamin C and sodium. more about Mushrooms.

Top 5 Health Tips Here's a top five list of health tips to help you get started toward a healthier lifestyle or to serve as a reminder of healthy living ideas you may have forgotten. Here's a hint you can do at least three of the tips maybe four at the same time if you were next to this palm tree right now. Yes a vacation is a great healthy idea, but don't eat out the whole time or there go all the healthy benefits. Read the list to see what the tips are.

The No Diet Diet Called the Replacement Diet  If your 10lbs overweight, 20lbs, 100lbs, ask how did I get here. Taking a wild guess your first idea might be that you didn't exercise enough, and you ate too much. So some of you might start exercising which is great, but isn't enough in and of itself necessarily. It's part of the equation. A lot of you will go on a bread and water diet of some kind and lose weight rapidly only to go back to your normal eating habits that put you in the place where you needed a diet in the first place. This time of course since your body is trying to compensate for your starvation diet decides to conserve another 10 lbs.

A Motivation tip using photos to help you in losing weight.

The Sugar Addiction Just go shopping at Wal-Mart and it becomes pretty evident that a lot of folks are addicted to sugar. Some of them may not even realize they are. Maybe even with all of today's health news and information circulating the web, television, and radio people don't realize that the main cause of obesity is sugar. It's not fat that makes people huge, it's sugar.  Read more on the Sugar Addiction

Cut Down On Carbs to Reduce Body Fat Even a modest reduction in consumption of carbohydrate-rich foods may promote loss of deep belly fat. This could help reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, stroke and coronary artery disease. Excess visceral fat (intra-abdominal fat) raises the risk of these diseases.  more

Facts on Acid Reflux some thoughts from Doctor Mercola on acid reflux one of which that taking antacids in the long run actually makes acid reflux worse, and a recommendation to slowly get off antacids.

Almonds the Healthy Snack A study sought to evaluate the effect of an almond-enriched low-calorie diet on body composition and metabolism in a weight reduction program. The results showed that supplementation with almonds, in contrast to complex carbohydrates, was associated with greater reductions in weight and BMI, waist circumference, fat mass, total body water and systolic blood pressure. That's the good news, but there's bad news too. All of almonds in North America are pasteurized and some may use propylene oxide which is a highly toxic flammable chemical compound, once used as a racing fuel. Read more.

The old classic Buns of Steel workout tapes starring Tamilee Webb have been re-released onto DVD. Now in two volumes you get 6 workouts. What would have been 6 separate VHS tapes back in the 80's and 90's are now more economical that they were then in two DVD sets. Check out how Tamilee Webb looks now.   Read more.

Juicing Benefits

1.Juicing helps you absorb most of the nutrients from the vegetables. This is important because most of us have impaired digestion as a result of making less-than-optimal food choices over many years. This limits your body's ability to absorb all the nutrients from the vegetables. Juicing will help to "pre-digest" them for you, so you will receive most of the nutrition, rather than having it go down the toilet. 2.Juicing allows you to consume an optimal amount of vegetables in an efficient manner. If you are a carb type, you should eat one pound of raw vegetables per 50 pounds of body weight per day. Some people may find eating that many vegetables difficult, but it can be easily accomplished with a quick glass of vegetable juice.  read more

Our spotlight on broccoli a vegetable with a ton of vitamins and minerals.

Reduce Risk for Prostate Cancer - a list of recommendations to lower risk of prostate cancer.

Reasons to Quit Smoking

Lots of reasons to quit like wrinkles, shortened lifespan, hurts your family's health, causes difficulties thinking, hurts your hearing, heart disease, cancer and on and on, and don't forget about the 4,0000 different chemicals in cigarettes. Read more

Natural ways to fight allergies find out ways to lower your allergy symptoms.

Beware of Food from Asia especially food from China, but now there are food items out there from Taiwan that even China has banned.
 

Review of Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred Workout DVD
Review of the levels and the exercises therein, plus my opinion on the DVD as a whole.

Coconut Oil Study Shows Waist Reduction in Women
A study has shown that dietary supplementation with coconut oil may result in a reduction in waist circumference and other benefits.

A randomized, double-blind clinical trial of 40 women divided them into two groups -- one that received daily dietary supplements of soybean oil (group S) and another than received a similar amount of coconut oil (group C). Both groups were instructed to follow a balanced hypocaloric diet and to walk for 50 minutes each day

New Study Shows Using Statins Actually Worsens Your Heart Function A new article from Doctor Mercola may make you question the wisdom of taking aspirin on a daily basis.

Moisturizers May Cause Tumors Another report by Doctor Mercola.

Dolph Lundgren Workout Video - Rocky IV fans check out the forum for a video workout by none other than Ivan Drago himself Dolph Lundgren.

It doesn't include a fight with this guy.

Another couple of categories added to the gallery.

Jillian Michaels

Jack Lalanne

Health and Fitness Good for Marriage - My thoughts on the subject of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle to a marriage.

Three new additions to our fitness gallery

Steve Reeves Gallery

Cory Everson Gallery

Sylvester Stallone Gallery

Has the FDA Suppressed a Cure For Cancer? According to Doctor Mercola they have.

What is the Classic Physique according to Steve Reeves posted by Nick -

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Is Coffee Good for You? by Doctor Mercola

Taylor Lautner's Ab Workout Get abs like that Twilight werewolf guy.

List of Sunscreens to use or avoid this summer

Benefits of Astaxanthin - According to Doctor Mercola astaxanthin is great for the skin protecting us from sun damage, and says studies show it may actually reduce wrinkles.

Glowing Gadgets Hurt Sleep

How to Avoid Kidney Stones

Perfect Plan to Lose Weight It's almost too simple, but some may not think so.

Best Defense Against Arthritis

Foods to buy organic It's important to stay healthy, and it's also important to save money so check out this page for a list of foods you need to by organic and conventional ones you can get by with.

How much exercise is too much? Marathon running might be a place to draw the line.

What does soda do to your body? Just for starters within 20 minutes, your blood sugar spikes, and your liver responds to the resulting insulin burst by turning massive amounts of sugar into fat.

Soy problems Watch out for soy in your protein shake. Some are saying it's not good for you, and might be putting estrogen into your body.

Bench Press Tips - Videos with tips on increasing your bench as well as the basic technique of benching.

Psyllium for digestive health with video commentary from Doctor Mercola.

Overtraining Questions Answered - How long should you train and how often should you do one muscle group.

Video: Jack Lalanne Dateline Interview at age 80
See the type of workout Jack did to stay super fit at age 80.

Aluminum in Antiperspirants May Be Unhealthy

Where's the Blueberries?  You need to watch this video if you  think your getting healthy blueberry ingredients in your processed foods just because it has blueberry on the name.

6 Ways to Protect Yourself Against Alzheimer's and Dementia

Tae Bo Ultimate Bootcamp Review Great fun workout for cardio and kicking flexibility!

Sad news to report - Jack Lalanne Dies at 96

Walmart vows to get healthy

Best Way to Take Supplements - A discussion on some do's and don'ts' in taking supplements.

Tae Bo DVDs a Fun Way to Exercise - Tae Bo is a great way to work on balance, flexibility, and burning off extra calories.

Baldness Drug Risks Men's Sexual Health -  according to Doctor Mercola the drug Propecia does more than just restore hair, and it's not a good thing.

Stretching for Knees - new study in Britain finds that stretching lowers percentage of knee pain in soldiers.

Why Weight Training Hasn't Increased Your Vertical Jump, Yet!

Drugs vs Lifestyle Changes - I was reading this interesting article from Dr. Mercola about the use of drugs vs making healthy lifestyle changes. It's without a doubt that common sense dictates if you can be healthier without pills you should go that route first. It's like watching a Saturday Night Live skit every time they show a new drug commercial. You know what I mean. At the end they go through the huge list of side effects like: headaches, nausea, bloating, vomiting, sleeplessness, acne, and in some cases even death. I swear I've heard them say that before. more

How to do a push up videos

The Relationship Between Insulin to Sugar -  Insulin actually is the body's appetite suppressant.

Older Body Builders Who Stay in Shape Into their 70's and Beyond See video of body builders in their 70s and beyond working out. See one lady in her 70's push more weight than men in their 20's.

 "More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette" Yes, this was TV ad in 1949. See it for yourself. Believe it or not.

Dangers of Giving Antibiotics to Farm Animals  Animals in factory farms are given doses of antibiotics -- both to keep them alive in stressful, unsanitary conditions, and to make them grow faster. The practice leads to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as the now-widespread form of staph (MRSA) known as ST398.

Latest Fish Oil Supplement Findings

Problems with Distilled Water  During distillation, water is boiled and evaporated away from its dissolved minerals, and then the vapor is condensed and the resulting water droplets collected. Distilled water is an active absorber, and when it makes contact with air, it quickly absorbs carbon dioxide and becomes acidic.


Unhealthy Additives You Need to Avoid A top ten list of additives thought to cause a number of issues ranging from just plain bad cholesterol levels to cancer.

Death from Heart attacks down, but procedures up!

Strongest Cities of 2010 What cities did Muscle Fitness magazine pick as the top fitness spots. Give you a hint. Tennessee didn't have any in the list.

 

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