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Are Six Pack Abs Sign of Good Health?

By blogomator on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Yes you have six pack, killer abs. Bur are you sure you are healthy? Of course you can measure a person’s health on their outside appearance, but there are other ways of measuring how healthy you are aside from basing it on the midsection.

Weight of course, can tell is a person is healthy or not. But weight is also not the reliable. Doctors use body mass index or BMI to measure or judge a person’s size against weight. BMI is a calculation of kilograms/meter squared. A BMI between 18 to 25 is healthy. But someone who is very fit and muscular could have a BMI greater than 25. This would classify
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Using Fish Oil as a Supplement

By blogomator on Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | No Comments

There is no question that people who eat more than eight ounces of fish per week live longer and healthier lives than those who don’t. Study after study shows that fish eaters are more likely to avoid illnesses like heart disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, and psoriasis much more than people who only eat one serving of fish per week or less. It has been noted that the Japanese, who hold the world’s record for longevity, eat three times more fish than people in many other countries.

So what about those of us who don’t get enough fish in our diets? The prognosis isn’t great. Non-fish eaters run a thirty percent higher risk of contracting serious illnesses like
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Using Fish Oil as a Supplement

By blogomator on Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Using Fish Oil as a Supplement

By blogomator on Sunday, May 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Are Six Pack Abs Sign of Good Health?

By blogomator on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Cholesterol Reducing Vitamins and Drugs

By blogomator on Monday, May 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Having an abnormally high cholesterol level can put one at risk of developing heart disease. It won’t be an instant thing; heart disease can gradually develop as a person ages and as one continues to maintain a very high cholesterol level. If you plan to live well over your years, then lowering your cholesterol levels at the earliest time possible will be able to help you achieve your goal.

There are certain medications available in the market today that aim to lower cholesterol levels. They are grouped in different classes most notable of which are HMG-CoA Inhibitors or otherwise known as “statins”. The drugs belonging in this group try to block the enzyme HMG-CoA, which functions as one of the steps
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Hypnosis Weight Loss: Some Ways to Stop the Weighting

By blogomator on Friday, May 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Controlling your weight and avoiding weight gain as you get older are important ways to prevent a host of weight-related health problems.

Indeed, if you are more than 20 pounds over your ideal weight, you are at greater risk for a rogues’ gallery of potentially deadly conditions, including diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, endometrial cancer, obstructive sleep apnea, and breast cancer.

What’s more, most people who are overweight tend to avoid exercise, and that avoidance just adds to the toll paid for extra pounds.

If you have a sedentary lifestyle and are overweight, you are at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and other health problems. And, if you already have a medical condition such as high cholesterol, being overweight
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How to lower cholesterol through your diet

By blogomator on Friday, May 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Although most people believe that the trend towards cutting off cholesterol in diets is brought on by the fact that the young generation is dieting themselves to death; it is not so. Limiting the body’s cholesterol levels is not only for appearance’s purposes but also for health reasons. Cholesterol levels in the body, when at a certain level, can cause a host of body complications and disease that can even eventually cause death.

Problems like hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes come in mind. This is especially true with people who are already old and in their middle ages because of the slowing down of the bodily processes particularly the digestive system and the body’s ability to convert fats to energy.
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Understanding Bad Cholesterol

By blogomator on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Cholesterol is a very familiar medical term almost to anyone, particularly the middle age group. It is a common thing the word will never be a part of teen-age lingo. The main reason is, most of the dreaded ailments accompanying “high cholesterol” levels are associated with hypertension, heart failure, diabetes and other long term and acquired conditions, which does not could also happen to younger generation as juvenile complications. To make it clear, when the majority is talking about lowering cholesterol, it is all about alleviating the further progress of bad cholesterol.

There are two kinds of cholesterol accumulating or present in the human body. Bad cholesterol or low-density lipoprotein is harmful because it can cause atheroma.
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Vitamins and Supplements vs. the Doctor

By blogomator on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Medical doctors have very strong opinions about the value of vitamins and supplements. Some of them view vitamins and supplements as helpful with preventing illness. Others see them as a new way to practice alternative medicine. Then there are those who discourage their use entirely, except for taking a standard multivitamin.

This leaves the patient in an awkward situation. This is because if a person is serious about finding an alternative to traditional western medicine, a doctor can’t help them. Doctors can’t prescribe vitamins and supplements like they would medication. In fact, they can’t even recommend that you take them. The vitamin and supplement industry isn’t regulated like the drug industry, so if a
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