Archive for April, 2011

When it comes to eating right it is difficult to know whether you are getting the right about of vitamins and minerals through your foods. Unless you are growing your own and buying organic you really never know how processed food holds its vitamins and nutrients. Trying to follow all the studies on vitamins and health is almost impossible, and having a deficiency in trace minerals can lead to big health consequences down the road. A daily multivitamin is a great way to make sure you’re getting all the nutrients you need to be healthy. The folic acid in most multivitamins helps prevent neural tube defects in newborns; it may lower the risk of heart disease, colon cancer, and breast cancer. Vitamin D from a multivitamin supplement can lower the risk of colon and possibly many other cancers. It’s important not to take more than the recommended daily amounts. While a multivitamin supplement can help fill some of the gaps in a less than optimal diet, too much can be harmful. In general, stick close to standard recommended doses in a multivitamin. And since your multivitamin will likely contain all the folic acid you’ll need, stay away from other foods that are super-fortified with folic acid.

Certainly a multivitamin helps against deficiencies in vitamins and nutrients but it is more important to eat right. Choose a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and healthy oils, and low in red meat and unhealthy fats. A daily multivitamin is an inexpensive nutrition insurance policy and taking one every day is good way to protect your health. In addition to its bone health benefits, there’s growing evidence that getting some extra vitamin D can help lower the risk of colon and breast cancer. Aim for getting 1,000 to 2,000 IU of vitamin D per day. Higher doses of vitamin E may help to prevent heart disease, but in general, the amount in a standard multivitamin is enough to have health benefits. Most multivitamins also have a day’s worth of folic acid, so you should avoid foods that have high amounts of folic acid added to them, but Vitamin D is an exception, as many people need more than the RDA.

Would like to be tan this spring and summer without spending hours laying out or spending thousands going to the tanning bed? There is no doubt having a tan makes you feel better, thinner, sexier and gives you a healthly glow rather than looking like a corpse. Unfortunately lying in the sun is becoming increasingly unpopular as more people realize the sun’s UV rays make skin age faster, and you potentially develope the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma). No one wants that for just a tan. But I love tanning, and I love being tan but don’t want to spend the money on tanning bed visits and when you go to the tanning bed you have to use a good lotion which can cost more money.

So what is a tanner to do? I like to do a combination of tanning, and self tanning lotions. The self tanner work great and are very convient when you don’t have time to get in the sun. Also much like laying in the tanning bed you get a all over tan. If you hate tan lines like I do this is a big plus. Most of the self tanners contain moisturizers which are benficial for keep your skin soft and smooth.

One of my favorites is Glitz Self Tanning Lotion and it is made by Playboy. Whats great about it is that it combines an immediate bronzer along with an advanced odorless self tanning ingredient providing you with a long-lasting natural golden color, without the sun, that looks as good as a real tan.

So with a combination of moderate sunshine exposure, a bronzer, and a self tanner I save a ton of money, I save my skin from over exposure to the sun and I get a great all over tan. The Glitz self will work on its onw but as I said I love to actually be in the sun as well.

In my personal opinion when it comes down to the size of womans breat there are two types of people, those who like big breast and those that lie about it. If big breast were not liked by all why would women be going under the knife, anestisia, risking infection, complications, and side effects? Larger breast make women feel more and attractive, which they are, and feel more confident.

Breast implant surgery is a serious surgery and is not to be taken lightly. Because of this I suggest going the natural route before the breast enlargement before getting your body cut on.

Many women experience an increase in breast size when the go on birth control. This is due to an increase in hormones and this increase in hormones causes many womens breast to grow. There are many products in nature that can boost hormones and that is one line that breast supplements take to increase breast size and overall bust line enhancement. If you are a woman who is looking to increase her bustline and increase her cup size I would certainly suggest giving the natural approach a try before undergoing expensive breast augmentation surgery. Breast enhancement supplements have been around for decades and this alone is a testiment to their effectiveness.

Everyone remembers the very effective ephedra, aspirin, caffeine diet pills (also known as a ECA stack) of only a few years ago. Great supplements like Metabolife, Xenadrene, Stackers and Hydroxytrol. Then came the FDA which claimed that the ephedra in these supplements was audulterated and banned them. They could not prove any harmful reactions to ephedra and it was brought back on the market. Then another court without any evidence ruled against ephedra and it was pulled again.

Ephedra has several names and comes in several varieties such as Ma huang, Chinese Ephedra and epitonin. Ephedra is literally the worlds oldest medicine and has been used for more than 5000 years ago. Ephedra increases metabolism and helps promote weight loss, relaxes the air passages in the lungs to help treat asthma and cough, promotes perspiration to help a person recover from a minor cold and helps promote urination to help relieve edema. Later ephedra was utilized in diet products as a safe and effective weight loss and appetite control supplement.

Ephedra has been widely researched for its fat burning abilities. Ephedra helps promote the loss of fat while helping spare lean muscle tissue, which are the qualities sought after in weight loss products.

Here is the good news. Ephedra is now back on the market and better than ever. The issue in the past was the ephedra was being adulterated in to ephedrine alkaloids, and to avoid that issue the ephedra leaves are just now ground and used in the diet pills. An entire new lineup of ephedra diet pills are coming and real weight loss with out a prescription is possible again. Stop by the ephedra products page on EveryThingAntiAging.com to see the newest and best ephedra weight loss supplements.

To many people in the world when you tell them you are trying to gain weight they think you are crazy, but there are a large group of people who want to gain weight. Their reasons vary from sports, to illness, to aesthetics. What ever their reason, gaining weight can be just as difficult to do as losing weight, especially when you are trying to gain weight but not trying to add a lot of body fat. This task can be quiet difficult.

There are a few ways to gain weight. One way is to increase you caloric intake. Increasing your caloric intake above what your body utilizes can cause your body to begin storing extra body fat. For some this may not be a issue, especially if you feel that you are to skinny or boney. Many athletes need additional weight to play certain sports. Football players in particular often need to put on a few pounds and often basketball players who are tall and lanky need addition weight to be able to fight for position under the goal.

The best way to gain weight is through a combination of resistance weight training, increasing you calories with nutrient dense foods and supplements, and potentially boosting hormones like testosterone and GH. I have written several times about the quality of a particular weight gain supplement called Mass Maker. It is made by Beverly Nutrition, a nutrition supplement manufacturer that has been around for over 40 years. That is unheard of in this industry. They have been around
that long because the make some of the highest quality supplements in the world. Mass Maker works well because it is not a sugar loaded high calorie drink, but rather it is a nutrient dense drink that feeds and repairs muscles to give you additional muscle mass and therebyr more weight.

Do I think that other weight gainers serve a purpose? Yes I do, if you are training hard and need to gain as much weight as possible even if it is partially fat, then the super weight gainers should be added to you weight gaining routine.

So for football players, basketball players, wrestlers, MMA fighters and all other athletes that want to put on lean muscle weight, Mass Maker is an excellent choice for gaining weight.

Spring and Summer are key times to think about moisturizing your skin. Your skin always feels dryer in the winter due to lower humidity, and being indoors, and the use of tanning beds. In spring and summer the sun, and chlorine of the seasons can be more damaging to your skin. As I right this I just came from the beach where the strong sun, sand, salt, and wind have left my skin feeling like leather. So my first move is to grab my bottle of Hempz Herbal Mositurizer.

Hempz age defying mositurizer is an all-day every-day herbal body lotion that helps skin appear smoother, firmer, and younger looking while providing dramatic moisturization and skin conditioning through the use of pure Hemp Seed Oil and Extract. Pure Hemp Seed Oil is a rich sources of essential fatty acids and key amino acids which is perfect for nourishing, hydrating skin. My thoughts are why look older than you are. I love a good tan but I don’t want to look like an old weight belt. Moisturizer keeps the skin from drying out by nourishing the skin. It’s not only good for your skin but is feels good. What I tell people is that moisturizer makes you nice to touch, so if you want others to touch your skin you better moisturize.

It’s Easy To Use

Put Hempz moisturizer on one hand, and apply with the other. Rub it in and your done.
Finally for ladies most of you know this, but moisturizers close your pores, and is important to apply after a cleanser/exfoliator/toner. If you don’t moisturize and apply makeup, you are basically putting makeup directly into open pores which can cause break outs or acne.

Benefits Of Hempz Age Defying Herbal Moisturizer

What can you do to dramatically improve your appearance for less the $20?

Whitening your teeth! Tooth whitening is now one of the easiest and most cost effective procedures you can do to improve your appearance. Now you can can obtain whitening results that was only available from your dentist. The great thing about whitening your teeth in the tanning bed is the multi-tasking benefit. No trip to the dentist or paying the high price of those annoying strips. You’ll save time and money, by using Twilight Teeth. Twilight Teeth brings you the same whitening process used in dental offices, but in a special kit, complete with a mouthpiece and a simple application process with an enjoyable mint flavor. You will receive professional whitening results during your normal tanning sessions. Twilight Teeth has been proven to be safe, effective, and powerful. User report results in as little as one session. With truly dramatic results achieved after several sessions. Once you reach the level of brightness it is easy to maintain by doing a touch up session once a month. The system can be use outdoors as well when you not using the tanning bed.

So for $20 dollars you can improve one of the most prominent features on you body, your smile. For complete information on tanning bed teeth whitening, visit our FAQ page on Twitlight Teeth.

What a great time of year. The snow is finally melting and you can actually see the sun for longer than 2 minutes. The golf clubs come out of the garage and the golf swing comes out of moth balls. The Masters Tournament always signals spring for me and if you have had your body in moth balls all winter you will feel it on your first round of golf this year. Even with the advances in golf club and golf ball technology you wonder why you don’t hit the ball as far as you did a few years ago. Well a possible reason is that you are not working on your most important piece of equipment. Its a piece of equipment that unfortunately you can not trade in on the latest model. I’m speaking of your body. If you have not been exercising and stretching this winter you are only damaging your equipment and hurting your game.

Winter time workouts

Do golfers who lift weights hit the ball further? I have pondered this question for many years and I’m not certain what the correct answer is. I do believe that golfers who weight train hit the ball further as you can see with golfers like Tiger Woods, Phil Michelson, Bubba Watson and many others that have added weight training to their golfing routine. But I don’t think that strength is the largest contributor to driving the ball further. I think that weight lifting gives the golfer a greater range of motion and also gives them more explosive power through that range of motion. It is that explosive power that flexes the shaft of the golf club, which at the point of impact the shaft snaps back creating more club head speed and thus more distance. So would I say that the weight lifter hits the ball further, yes but not in the way you think.

So for every golfer out there that doesn’t get the chance to golf for 5 to 6 months out of the year. Add a solid weight lifting routine to your winter time down time and while you at it you may lose a few of those extra pounds you picked up during the holidays. This will not only help your health but will make walking 18 holes a lot easier.

Detoxification, Detoxifying, or Detox is the physiological or medicinal removal of toxic substances from a living organism. Well for our purposes we are only going to concentrate on the human body. Most people think of detoxing in reference to a drug user going through a difficult period of withdrawal after long term use of an addictive substance. In conventional medicine, detoxification can be achieved by decontamination of poison ingestion and the use of antidotes as well as techniques such as dialysis and chelation therapy.

Alternative medicine practitioners have long been ahead of the curve when it comes to detoxifying the body. They promote various types of detoxification such as diet detoxification, liver detoxing, and body detoxing.

Types of detoxification

Body Detoxification or Cleansing

There many detox products available on the market and are often labeled as alternative medicine. These products which consist of herbs, vitamins and mineral to remove “toxins” from the body. There are even simpler methods of detoxing the body. Water loading will cleanse the the body and fasting or going without food for several days will allow your body to rid itself of toxins. Antioxidants have widely been accepted as a excellent method to rid the body of harmful FREE RADICALS. Well this is detoxifying.

Alcohol detoxification

Alcohol detoxification is very common and utilizes a process by which a heavy alcohol drinker’s system is brought back to normal after long term continual use of alcohol. Serious alcohol addiction results in a decrease in production of GABA, a re uptake inhibitor, because alcohol acts to replace it. Individuals will suffer withdrawal symptoms from long-term alcohol addiction, and without medical help the withdraw can cause severe health problems and could be fatal if not taken care of properly.

Drug Detoxification

Drug Detoxification is used to reduce or relieve withdrawal symptoms while helping the addicted individual adjust to living without drug use. The underlying psychological issues may make detox a lesson in futility. Drug detoxification is not meant to treat addiction but rather an early step in long-term treatment and an attempt to alleviate the physical dependency. I know it seems strange but drug detoxification may incorporate the use medications as an aspect of treatment.

My personal opinion is that detoxing is essential to health. If you don’t believe try water loading, and fasting and using a liver detox supplement for 4 days. The first thing you will notice is how fresh your breath is. You also notice how light and clean your own body feels. You have not body odor, your mind is clearer, and of course you are leaner. I enjoy doing this once a year. Give this a try and email us your results.

Throughout my years of bodybuilding, gym owner, and personal training I have seen eager young weight lifters come and go and most of them go. One big reason that young bodybuilders don’t become old bodybuilders it the fact that most do not reach the goals they had in mind for their physiques. Many give up quickly because they are not the size of Ronnie Coleman after 1 year of lifting weights. Others who stick around longer but eventually quit hit plateaus that they can not get past and feel that they are just spinning their wheels.

One of the critical mistakes I see them make is not having their nutrition routine in place. Someone told me once to match my workout to my nutrition not my nutrition to my workout. I never really knew what that meant for a long time until I hit a plateau. I had been making good muscular gains for a few years but then got stuck around 195 pounds. I tried new lifting routines, negatives, isometrics, explosive routines, training 7 days a week and many other workouts but nothing seemed to help, I was stuck at 195 lbs.

That is when I remembered the saying, “Match my workout to my nutrition”. Sure I was trying to eat more but I was not eating at the right time nor eating the right things at the right time. I never thought about my pre workout nutrition. So I decided to do some research on the how foods help you during times of physical stress. It turns out that eating a good meal and taking good supplements after the physical workout is important but what is also important is having the proper nutrients and glycogen stores in your system and ready to be called upon is critical.

This is how it went down. I would work a 8-10 day and go straight to the gym. I would take a ephedra supplement to get me fired up for the workout but never ate anything because I didn’t want to throw up. This was a big mistake and the sole reason I was stuck at 195 lbs.

I found a product called Mass Maker from Beverly International. I had always thought is was just a weight gainer, well it turns out that it is one of the most complete nutrition drinks available. Yes there are plenty other good ones now but this was 15 years ago.
Once I started using Mass Maker about 2 hours before my workout I noticed my energy was better throughout my workout. I thought I didn’t hit it hard, because I was not exhausted. The next thing I noticed was that my pumps in the gym were fuller. Somethings I like my skin would explode it was so tight. Then finally after about 6 weeks I started noticing weight gain. I jumped across the 200 pound barrier for the first time in my life. This gain in weight continued until I reached about 215 lbs. This took about 6 months. Over the next few years I got my weight up to 240 lbs at 6% body fat and competed for the first time as a heavy weight at 212 pounds at 4% body-fat.

I can think back to how discouraged I was at going to the gym day after day and trying new things only to see the scale read 195 lbs for nearly a year. I would have been very easy to quit but I glad I didn’t. I only wish that there was someone to tell me about pre-work nutrition then. Follow the this link to get my full layout of a preworkout meal plan