New Bio-Shape Weight Loss Support. Test your knowledge \Trivia -Health and more. Minimum Health or Maximum Health? It's like does anybody really want to earn the minimum wage? The Ruggburns - a new comic. Plus calcium, protein - necessary for weight loss. Zinc is vital to male sex. A superior Vitamin C. Plus removing warts with duct tape.

We analyze nutrition, fitness, exercise, vitamins, antioxidants, enzymes, fiber, diet and dietary supplements and the role they play!

The question is who would want only minimum health (or worse) when they could have maximum health!

• Maximum health is like you feel when you ask that special someone for a date for the first time and they say yes!
• Minimum health is when you ask that special someone out and they tell you, that is the Saturday night when they have to do the laundry and wash their hair!
• Picture maximum health as cruising next to the ocean in a sport car convertible with your lover next to you..
• Picture minimum health as stuck in traffic in your 12 year old station wagon with the air conditioner broken.
• Maximum health is like being on a honeymoon on your own private beach in Hawaii. Running down the beach at night with the one you love with the warm tropic wind in your hair. The huge moon shining down on the palm trees and the tranquil bay.
• Minimum health is stuck working overtime in an un-airconditioned office with a huge pile of paperwork stacked on your desk. In walks your boss - the one with all the personality of a geek with BO. He can't stand going home to his abusive wife so he works 14 hour days and gives dirty looks to his employees when they leave before him. Your boss starts yelling about some stupid unfinished report...
• Minimum health is like living paycheck to paycheck - just getting by, just barely having enough money to pay the bills each month. Minimum health is like "Darling we have a little extra this month - would you like to go out to eat at McDonalds and get a Big Mac?"
• Maximum health is sailing away on a cruise ship to the Caribbean with the one you love while dining in elegance each evening!

Sure the above minimum health situations aren't going to kill you (or at least not immediately), but is this the way you want to live your life? Do you really want to just scrape by when there is an option?

Often people in minimum health are often too tired or sluggish to do things, they are overweight, etc. They don't feel real bad but they sure don't feel terrific.

Actually the attitude of minimum health is like too many other attitudes we have. We are always too willing to sell ourselves short. We are too willing to settle for second best even when we don't have to. Too often this attitude can flow over into our jobs and relationships. This over the course of a lifetime can cause us much unhappiness and cost us a lot of money.

But the real issue here is minimum and maximum health, and what can we do to strive toward maximum health..

To strive toward maximum health requires the following:

1. Proper diet and nutrition - this doesn't mean tofu sandwiches and greens all day long. But does require us to eat responsibly. Certain foods like Big Macs and rich deserts are okay in moderation, but eating them everyday is not healthy.

2. Exercise - We should be doing some form of moderate exercise every week. You don't have to enter the marathon. Simple walking is very helpful, anything but sitting on the couch all week long. The best way to start an exercise program is to think of something that is very pleasurable to you while exercising. By continuing to associate your exercise with pleasurable feelings your brain will learn to associate pleasure with exercise which will make it easier for you to exercise.

3. Water and Breathing - To assure great health and energy and to assure toxins are properly flushed from the body it is important to drink plenty of clean water everyday. Also proper breathing exercises during the day are important. This will give you more energy throughout the day!

4. Life Style Choices - This is not to say you can't have any vises, however, if you eat like a gluten, smoke like a chimney, drink like a fish and use drugs like a drug store you probably aren't going to live to be 100. The key here is to do things in moderation.

Nutrition and Maximum Health

We are now going to discuss a little more here concerning the role nutrition supplementation plays in maximum health. You can get all of the following by eating varied and large assortments of fruits, vegetables and other healthy substances but only a tiny minority actually do. What are some of these important nutrients the body needs? They are:

• Vitamins which are micro-nutrients
• Protein and amino acids
• Good fats in the form of oils from fish and plants
• Minerals - Macro, trace and ultra trace minerals.
• Phyto or micro-nutrients
• Antioxidants
• Fiber and cleansing agents
• Enzymes

And if you're looking for a good comprehensive nutrition product - try Daily BioBasics.

James Sapp
Independent Life PLus Distributor

Low Calcium Seems To Turn On The Fat-Making Gene!

If you want to lose weight, it may be a good idea to make sure your diet is not too low in calcium. It appears that low body levels of calcium "turn on" a gene that tells cells to hold on to fat or make more of it.

Scientists at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville studied mice who contained a gene containing characteristics normally found in human fat cells. Different groups of mice went on a reduced-calorie diet. The mice that received calcium in amounts equivalent to what American women consume "about 500 mg daily) lost 8 percent of their body fat. When the calcium content was increased to the average human dose of 1,600 mg per day the mice lost 42 percent of their body fat.  

Quite Simply Zinc is Vital to Sex

The male sex organs use more zinc than any other part of the body. It's no wonder then that so many men have sexual problems. According to professor emeritus Denhan Harman, M.D. Ph.D. of the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, a large part of the population consumes diets deficient in zinc.

The reason for this is soil depletion. The plants we eat extract zinc from the soil, yet commercial fertilizers don't replace the zinc. Over many decades of farming, no zinc is left in the soil.

Dr. Earl Mindell, the famous pharmacologist and best-selling author, says: "If there's any zinc in raw food, most of it is lost in processing and cooking the food." Zinc deficiency in children causes delayed sexual development, according to studies done by Dr. S.Z. Ghavami at the Pediatric Department of New York's Nassau County Medical Center.

Studies Show the Penis' Can Shrink

Dr. U. Mehta reported in the Indian Journal of Experimental Biology that clinical tests showed the testicles and penises of animals atrophied (shrank) when the animals were fed diets devoid of zinc. In other tests the testosterone levels of men given zinc supplements increased dramatically, according to Dr. L.D. Antoniou.

Increase Your Diet Of Protein To Lose Weight

PROTEIN AND WEIGHT LOSS -- Recent studies indicate that increasing protein intake to 25% of calorie intake increases both fat loss and weight loss. In one study, 65 obese patients consumed a diet containing 30% fat. They were divided into two groups. One group's diet contained only 12% protein and the other group's diet had 25% protein.

After six months, the group eating the higher protein diet had lost 75% more weight and also lost significantly more fat - 16.7 pounds versus 11.2 pounds. (Aminolyze liquid protein and Slender Now Protein Super Shakes are excellent sources of protein!)

Timed Released Vitamin C is Far Superior

Don't be fooled by high mg doses of cheap Vitamin C products. Vitamin C is a water soluble vitamin. Unlike fat soluble vitamins (like A and D) the body eliminates any water soluble vitamins it can't use at that particular moment.

For Example: If you take 1000mg of a non-timed released Vitamin C and the body can only use 200mg at that particular time than you just wasted 800mg. Timed released is given to the body slowly over several hours instead of all at once so you are able to utilize a much higher percentage of the product you are taking.

Also look for Vitamin C products which contain rutin, hesperidin and bioflavonoids. These are evidence of a superior Vitamin C product. Rutin is a natural bioflavonoid which acts synergistically with Vitamin C to help maintain a healthy immune system. Hesperidin, a bioflavanoid found in citrus fruits, is a crucial part of the vitamin C family. Hesperidin nutritionally supports the strength of the capillaries. It has a similar nutritional support as quercetin. It also inhibits histamine release. Bioflavonoids protect cardiovascular tissue health and also act as hormones, hormone precursors, enzymes, enzyme activators, enzyme inhibitors, co-enzymes and others in the body.

Duct Tape Effective for Common Warts in Children

By Darin Ingels, ND

Healthnotes Newswire (November 21, 2002)-The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently ordered the seizure of a dietary supplement that the agency said was falsely being claimed to be beneficial for people with autism.

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