Summer Storm Blues

Tuesday, 06. 22. 2010  –  Category: Exercise

Most people think of summer and they see blue skies, hot temperatures, and the outdoors.  Well, an often-forgotten part of summer in many areas would be summer storms.  Here in Illinois, storms are more than a little common.  We’ve had more days of rain in the last few weeks than of sun!  So what do [...]

Consistency Matters!

Thursday, 06. 17. 2010  –  Category: Digestive Health, Exercise, Heart Health, Weight Management

Regularity is a little thing that can make a big difference.  Most people have their routines, and aren’t very appreciative when they’re interrupted.  Being consistent can be a make-or-breaker in many situations.  Your diet and lifestyle are no different.  Keeping up a good, consistent routine to take care of yourself is key.  This includes exercise, [...]

Don’t Pack on the Pounds at a Desk

Tuesday, 09. 1. 2009  –  Category: Cholesterol Foods, Diets for Cholesterol, Digestive Health, Exercise

I’ve had the opportunity to see two very distinctly-different career styles:  desk jobs, and tough manual labor jobs.  My father did manual labor his entire life.  From the time he married my mother in his early 20′s to his passing at age 46, he gained 5 lbs.  That’s all.  Millions of people around America wish [...]

No Excuses…Get Active

Tuesday, 08. 18. 2009  –  Category: Exercise, Heart Health

Nutrim isn’t the only natural supplement I work with.  In fact, right now, I’m helping with a great joint and bone health supplement that’s getting ready to face bigger markets.  Working with this supplement has sort of given me another view of aging.  It’s primarily for people facing cartilage deterioration…and many of these people, oddly [...]

Community Service and Your Health

Wednesday, 05. 27. 2009  –  Category: Exercise, Heart Health, Research

Helping Others Helps Yourself I’m a strong advocate of community service.  I do work with FFA, 4-H, the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and some other smaller, lesser-known groups.  I do it to help others, but also because of the feelings of fulfillment that I get from my work with these groups.  I also [...]

Getting Healthier Can Be Shockingly Simple

Tuesday, 05. 19. 2009  –  Category: Diets for Cholesterol, Exercise, Heart Health, Weight Management

Complicated Diets Shackle You to Self-Defeating Mindsets If you’re like just about everyone else, you look at health like an all-or-nothing, gigantic goal that’s unattainable. It’s overwhelming so you don’t even start. I know because I feel that way a lot of times. It’s a self-defeating mindset though. Long-term health is negatively affected because it [...]

Heart Disease Gets an Early Start

Monday, 05. 11. 2009  –  Category: Atherosclerosis, Exercise, Heart Diseases, Heart Health, Nutrition, Weight Management

The Earlier You Start, the Better Atherosclerosis and the problems it causes get an early start in life.  Cholesterol starts depositing in the arteries of Americans at an early age.  A study in 2003 looked at the arteries of 17 and 18 year old being assessed for the Austrian army.  The signs of athereosclerosis were [...]

Tell Me About Fat and the Fat Content of Foods

Monday, 05. 11. 2009  –  Category: Cholesterol, Cholesterol Basics, Exercise, Heart Diseases, Heart Health

Get the Skinny on Fat Is fat good or is fat bad?  In America over the last 50 years this question has become more difficult to answer.  Part of the issue is that there is not one statement that can be made that would take into account the complexity of what fat is and what [...]

The TLC Diet

Thursday, 05. 7. 2009  –  Category: Cardio Vascular Disease, Cholesterol, Cholesterol Medication, Diets for Cholesterol, Exercise, Heart Diseases, Heart Health, Naturally Lower Cholesterol, Nutrition, Weight Management

Get Some TLC To help people on the road to lower cholesterol naturally the goverment has created the TLC (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes) diet.  This diet is designed to help the typical American drop their cholesterol naturally.  The government suggests that doctors first recommend the TLC diet, for those who do not have heart disease, to help [...]

Study- Nutrim increased HDL, decreased LDL, decreased fasting blood glucose, and significantly reduced body weight and BMI.

Thursday, 05. 7. 2009  –  Category: Blood Glucose, Cholesterol, Cholesterol Basics, Exercise, HDL - High Density Lipoproteins, Heart Health, LDL Low Density Lipoproteins, Nutrition, Research, Weight Management

Nutrim Offers Hope One pill that does it all.  Isn’t that what most Americans are looking for?  How about a powder that does a lot?  One research study showed that Nutrim powder might be as good as it gets without any crazy side effects.  The Plan The study was carried out in 38 middle aged, [...]

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