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High Protein Breakfast Curbs Snacking Later in the Day!

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Body weight is one of the most basic issues of human life. Medically speaking, not all overweight people are obese. Obesity is defined as weight that exceeds 15 percent of normal weight for height and body type. “Morbid” obesity exceeds 20 percent of optimum weight. An obese or overweight person is at high risk for a number of serious health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, varicose veins, dementia, psychological stress, depression, osteoarthritis, high cholesterol, and diabetes. The body mass index (BMI) is a widely used formula to calculate obesity because body fat is considered within the calculated result. BMI must be 24 or less in order for one’s weight to be considered healthy. An individual with a BMI 25 to 29.9 is considered overweight. Obese individuals have a BMI greater than 30.

 

A GREAT choice for your morning meal is Elite Whey Protein.

High quality New Zealand whey protein from pristine herds in New Zealand!

Whey protein is a naturally complete protein that provides essential and non-essential amino acids to support healing, muscle building, muscle and tissue recovery, energy and the immune system.* Whey protein is a great source of branched chain amino acids for muscle support, precursors for glutathione production as well as alpha-lactalbumin and immunoglobulins for immune system support.*

Each serving of Elite Whey™ contains 21 grams of protein from soy free New Zealand whey protein concentrate and 2 grams of fiber from Fibersol-2™ (a water-soluble digestion resistant fiber).

 

  • Soy Free
  • Gluten Free
  • Yeast Free
  • Rice Free
  • Contains NO artificial sweeteners
  • Contains NO artificial flavors
  • Micro-filtrated
  • Rich in branched chain amino acids
  • Available in Vanilla flavor
  • Great tasting and easily mixed making it the perfect base for any health shake or smoothie
  • Combine with 2 g of Fibersol-2™ brand fiber to support regularity*
  • Low in calories and Lactose

 

 

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Don’t Be Bitter About Weight Loss! Try Bitter Orange Extract!

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Body weight is one of the most basic issues of human life. Self-esteem, acceptance among peers– and perhaps lifelong success or failure—are, unfortunately, all tied to our physical appearance. Medically speaking, not all overweight people are obese. Obesity is defined as weight that exceeds 15 percent of normal weight for height and body type. “Morbid” obesity exceeds 20 percent of optimum weight. An obese or overweight person is at high risk for a number of serious health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, varicose veins, dementia, psychological stress, depression, osteoarthritis, high cholesterol, and diabetes. The detrimental health effects of obesity are more than just a matter of weighing too much. Body composition–the amount of fat in the body compared to the amount of lean muscle–is also important. Body weight and composition are to a large degree determined by the “basal metabolic rate” (BMR), the amount of energy the body burns while at rest. Exercise builds lean muscle. As the ratio of lean muscle to body fat increases, so does the BMR. The higher our BMR, the more calories we burn.

Bitter orange refers to a citrus tree (citrus aurantium) and its fruit. Many varieties of bitter orange are utilized for their essential oil, which is used in perfume and as a flavoring. Bitter orange is also employed in herbal medicine as a stimulant and appetite suppressant. Slivers of the rind are used to give marmalade its characteristic bitter taste.

Researchers from Creighton University Health Sciences Center, Omaha Nebraska investigated the potential of p-synephrine (primary protoalkoloid of bitter orange extract) alone, or p-synephrine plus naringin, or p-synephrine plus naringin and hesperidin, compared to placebo, on the metabolic rate of 50 volunteers. Results of this double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial showed that p-synephrine alone increased the metabolic rate by 7 percent in comparison to placebo. When 50mg of p-synephrine was consumed with 600 mg naringin and 100 mg hesperidin the metabolic rate was almost 18 percent higher than the control group. None of the participants in any of the treatment groups exhibited changes in heart rate or blood pressure relative to the control group and there were no differences in self-reported mood changes between the treatment groups and the control group. In conclusion the authors stated “This unusual finding of a thermogenic combination of ingredients that elevated metabolic rates without corresponding elevations in blood pressure and heart-rates warrants longer term studies to assess its value as a weight control agent.

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The #1 Thing That 26 Million Americans Have In Common…..Diabetes!

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The CDC says about 26 million adult Americans have diabetes and that 79 million more have prediabetes, a condition that raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.

Prediabetes is a condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not so high as to result in a diagnosis of diabetes.

“These distressing numbers show how important it is to prevent type 2 diabetes and to help those who have diabetes manage the disease to prevent serious complications such as kidney failure and blindness,” Ann Albright, PhD, RD, director of CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation, says in a news release. “We know that a structured lifestyle program that includes losing weight and increasing physical activity can prevent or delay type 2 diabetes.”

The report says 8.3% of Americans of all ages and 11.3% of adults aged 20 and older are affected by diabetes. What’s more, about 27% of Americans with diabetes, or about 7 million people, do not know they have the disease.

About 35% of adults age 20 and over have prediabetes.

Diabetes Cases Rising

The number of people with diabetes is apparently rising, according to the CDC. It says that in 2008, about 23.6 million Americans, or 7.8% of the population, had diabetes and 57 million more had prediabetes.

The CDC’s new report says one reason more people have diabetes is that people are living longer with the disease. Better management of diabetes is improving cardiovascular disease risk factors and reducing such complications as amputations and kidney failure.

The CDC says as many as third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by the year 2050 if current trends don’t change.

According to the CDC, type 2 diabetes, in which the body gradually loses its ability to use insulin, accounts for 90% to 95% of diabetes cases. Risk factors include obesity, family history, older age, sedentary lifestyles, race, ethnicity, and having had gestational diabetes, which only occurs during pregnancy.

Groups at greatest risk include African-Americans, Hispanics, American Indians and Alaska natives, and some Asian-Americans and Pacific islanders.

A Costly Disease

A new fact sheet from the CDC says:

  • Most cases of diabetes among children and adolescents are type 1, once called juvenile diabetes. This disease develops when the body can’t make insulin.
  • About 215,000 Americans under age 20 have diabetes.
  • In 2010, about 1.9 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes.
  • Diabetes rates were 16.1% for American Indians and Alaska natives, 12.6% for blacks, 11.8% for Hispanics, 8.4% for Asian Americans, and 7.1% for whites.
  • Half of Americans 65 and older have prediabetes and 27% have diabetes.

The CDC says diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. and that those with the disease are more likely to have heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, kidney failure, blindness, and to need amputations of feet and legs. The disease costs the country $174 billion a year.

The CDC says people with prediabetes can sometimes prevent or delay development of a diabetes diagnosis by increasing their physical activity and losing weight.

In addition to well-known health problems caused by diabetes, periodontal disease also is more common in people with diabetes. About one-third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal disease, according to the CDC fact sheet.

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Staying Active Lessens Age-Related Weight Gain, Especially in Women!!!

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Staying active in young adulthood appears to help individuals lessen the fattening effects of time, with results of a new study showing that physically active young adults do not put on as much weight as their less active counterparts. While some weight gain appears inevitable–even the most active individuals had increases in weight and waist circumference over a 20-year period–maintaining high activity levels lessens the weight gain as people move into middle age, report investigators.

“Preventing weight gain can be something that is appropriate for people who are overweight, normal weight, or obese, so it crosses weight classes,” lead investigator Dr Arlene Hankinson (Northwestern University, Chicago, IL) told heartwire . “And like many prevention strategies, it’s usually easier to prevent something from happening than to treat it after you’ve already developed the problem.”

The study is published in the December 15, 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Analysis From the CARDIA Trial

To heartwire , Hankinson said there has been a lot of work looking at the association between physical activity and weight loss, with clinical trials testing different types of physical activity and their effects on helping obese individuals lose weight. Less is known, however, about what is required to prevent weight gain in the future.

Currently, public-health guidelines recommend regular physical exercise to prevent age-related weight gain. While this implies that higher physical-activity levels can prevent weight gain, said Hankinson, the data supporting the recommendation are based largely on cross-sectional observational and short-term clinical trials. Short-term studies, she noted, can’t account for the changing risk of gaining weight with age. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between habitual physical-activity levels and changes in body-mass index (BMI) and waist circumference over a 20-year period.

In this analysis, the researchers analyzed data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) trial, a prospective, longitudinal study with 20 years of follow-up. The group used an algorithm to compute a total activity score that factored in the intensity, frequency, and duration of the physical activity over the previous 12 months. As a reference, a score of 300 exercise units corresponded to at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity exercise per week, the approximate amount recommended by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Men and women who had high physical-activity levels in young adulthood (ages 18 to 30 years) gained less weight than individuals with low measures of physical activity. Based on BMI, men who maintained high physical-activity levels in young adulthood gained 2.6 kg less than their less active peers over the 20 years of the study, while women who were most active gained 6.1 fewer kg than those with low physical-activity scores.

Similarly, over the 20 years, the most active men and women gained 3.1 and 3.8 fewer cm in waist circumference than individuals with the lowest physical-activity scores in young adulthood.

Overall, men and women who engaged in a high level of physical activity, exceeding the recommended HHS guidelines for duration, frequency, and intensity, gained approximately 9 kg, or roughly 20 lbs over 20 years. On the other hand, men who did not participate regularly in physical activity, those with a “low” physical-activity score, gained nearly 13 kg (28 lbs), while women with a low score gained 15 kg (33 lbs) over 20 years.

“It’s very possible that there are physiologic differences between men and women–the chief among them being pregnancy and menopause–that might account for the differences in weight gain, but there could be other reasons,” said Hankinson. “However, I think there are different ways that women behave compared with men, and we are not able to capture all of those behaviors and account for them in a way that explains the gender differences.”

The overall data showing weight gain in even the most active adults support previous studies suggesting that individuals might need to exercise more as they age to prevent incremental gains in weight over time, Hankinson told heartwire .

Of the 1338 individuals included in the analysis, more than one-third met the daily physical-activity requirements outlined by the HHS. These individuals experienced smaller annual increases in mean BMI and waist circumference than those who did not meet the recommended activity levels. Overall, men and women who exercised for more than 150 minutes per week at moderate to vigorous intensity gained 1.8 and 4.7 fewer kgs, respectively, that those who did not meet the HHS physical-activity requirements.

“The federal guidelines are a great starting point,” said Hankinson. “We used it as an alternative definition to high activity in our study, and we found really similar results. The benefit of those guidelines is to prevent weight gain, and not just weight loss for cardiovascular benefit.”

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Garlic Extract Reduces High Blood Pressure!!!

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Garlic Extract Reduces High Blood PressureA number of previous studies report of science cardiovascular benefits of garlic. Karin Ried, from the University of Adelaide (Australia), and colleagues have found beneficial effects for aged garlic extracts in reducing high blood pressure (hypertension).  The team studied 50 people with treated but uncontrolled hypertension. Subjects either received a daily dose of aged garlic extract of 3.84 grams (equivalent to 2.5 grams of fresh garlic), or placebo, for 12 weeks.  They found a drop in systolic blood pressure of 10.2 mmHg, in the subjects who took the garlic extract, while no effects on diastolic blood pressure were observed. The researchers conclude that: “Our trial suggests that aged garlic extract is superior to placebo in lowering systolic blood pressure similarly to current first line medications in patients with treated but uncontrolled hypertension.”

For more information on this study visit:  The A4M Website