Super Food, Yogurt Has Many Health Benefits

Healthy Benefits Of Yogurt Greater Than Milk

Yogurt has nutritional benefits greater than milk. Consistent consumption of yogurt will bring you a variety of health benefits. It is particularly helpful for many intestinal conditions due to the “good bacteria” or probotics that it contains. All yogurts made with live cultures include probotics.  Studies have also shown that the consumption of low fat yogurt can promote weight loss, increase your immune system and bring many health benefits. Many people who have moderate lactose intolerance can usually enjoy yogurt with no side effects. Due to the many healthy benefits that yogurt provides, it is frequently considered one of the top Super Foods.

Easy To Add Super Food, Yogurt In Daily Diet

• You can use yogurt instead of mayonnaise in potato salad, chicken salad or with tuna.
• It tastes great as a topping for baked potatoes or with tacos instead of sour cream.
• Any creamy salad dressing can be made with yogurt as opposed to sour cream, real cream or mayonnaise.

Healthy Benefits Choices

Don’t be afraid to experiment. Be creative. Anytime you can make a better choice you are improving your health. Small choices like putting yogurt on your sandwich or baked potato add up and contribute to your lifelong good health. Next time you pick up the mayonnaise jar, try a little yogurt instead. You can substitute yogurt entirely or try a blend.  Living a healthy life and experiencing the benefits of lifelong good health is a choice that you make every day.  Every diet choice is effecting your health.

Your Body Is A Gift

Natural body builders treat their bodies like a gift.

Natural body builders treat their bodies like a gift. This is the third article in a series on body building. I started these articles in response to the frequent questions I get regarding the bad reputation that body boulders have. Check out the previous articles:
Is Competitive Body Building Healthy?
Body Building Is An Healthy Sport!
This article addresses the other areas of concern that most people seem to focus on in regard to developing a negative attitude about body building. Most people could learn a lot from the body builder mentality. Body builders believe that their bodies are a gift and they treat it as such.

Protein Loading

Most body builders consume their approximate body weight in protein each day during the muscle building phases of their program. Protein increases muscle mass, enhances immune functions, lowers muscle breakdown from weight training and increases strength. Excess protein for a long period of time can cause acidosis. Acidosis is an excess of uric acid in the blood. Most Americans eat to much protein and have acidosis. This can result in many health issues most specifically kidney issues. (See previous post on Acidosis.) Symptoms of acid may include gout, reduced immune system, and basically becoming more vulnerable to disease. People with healthy kidneys do not have adverse reactions to excessive proteins. Older body builders, like myself, need to be more concerned in this area. Eating a diet high in antioxidants will assist the body in reducing uric acid in the blood. Long term use of high protein diets definitely will compromise the body’s ability to fight off disease if acidosis is present. Check out the article on Goji Juice. Goji juice has been my solution to this issue. Goji is the most antioxidant dense fruit in the world. By incorporating goji juice into my meal plan I have been able to keep my uric acid level in line even when protein loading.

Sodium Depletion

Body builders deplete sodium during the last three days prior to competition so that over they can eliminate all excess body water. Sodium holds water. This is a very simple process about three days out of stopping eating eggs, dairy, wheat and other high sodium foods and replacing them with lower sodium rice, chicken, oats, etc. The natural body builder only eats whole foods. This may not be the healthiest practice and I doubt very much if it causes any long term effect when done occasionally.

Dehydration

Body builders do not want any water in their body on competition day. The goal is to have the skin lay right on the muscle without any body water softening the muscle appearance. During the first day of sodium depletion, the body builder continues to drink the normal compliment of water, usually more than half of their body weight in ounces per day. I drink about a gallon a day year round. After reducing sodium for one day, and continuing to drink plenty of water for 36 hours then I will cut back on water to only sips all day. In the last day and a half leading up to the show, I drink maybe 16 per day total the last day and on show day. (As opposed to 126 oz on all other days.) With very little sodium and also a reduction in carbs, the body will let go of all excess water. Is the healthy? Probably not. Is it unhealthy to dehydrate your body? Probably not, if done only occasionally.

Supplements And Vitamins

Yes, there are some body builders that give body building a bad name through drug use. More often though, body builders invest in the finest vitamins and supplements on the market. They understand that when it comes to vitamins, you get what you pay for. Bio Available vitamins, although more expensive are far better value. There are three kinds of vitamins available today. The pills are the cheap vitamins, made from technology invented in the 1930’s. The colloidal vitamins and chelated minerals were invented in the 1960’s and the bio-available vitamins are made with technology from the 21st century. The vitamins are absorbed into your system the way nature intended. Your body is capable of utilizing all the nutrients to keep the body healthy and growing stronger. To learn more about Vitamins. CLICK HERE.

Live Right, Eat Right

The natural body builders stick with the old-school systems of living right, lifting right and treating their body like a gift. Natural body builders will always invest in their bodies first. For a natural body builders nothing is too expensive when investing in their health. Body building is a healthy sport because a body builder understands his/her body and treats it like the gift that it is. Most people could learn a lot from the life style of a natural body builder. There is nothing in life more important than health and we know it and live it.

Goji Juice

The Secret Of The Goji Berry

The goji berry is native to the Himalayas. Because of the extreme weather conditions, the berry has adapted to the harsh environment by storing nutrients. When humans eat these berries the same nutritious properties are transferred to the person eating it. While Western medicine focuses on finding cures and fixes for illness, the Eastern philosophy focuses on preventative living to stay healthy. The goji berry is a power house for any proactive healthy living program. The secret of the goji berry is that it is the most intense, highest quality, most nutrient dense berry on earth. On top of that is the fact that it is also one of the most easily absorbed berry on earth. Check out the previously posted related article on acidosis: Click here

The Many Goji Berry Benefits

Like all berries there are any benefits to eating to eating goji berries. I am going to keep this simple and not get into all the technical, chemical and medical mumbo-jumbo-terminology. These are just some of the changes people have seen and which have been documented when including goji juice into a regular daily diet:

Longevity
Increased energy
Lower blood pressure
Cancer recovery
Relieve headache
Improve digestion
Fight inflammation of arthritis
Improved sleep
Restore ph balance
Maintain healthy cholesterol levels
Increase eye health
Improved immune system
Balance blood sugars
Inhibit tumor growth
Increased calcium absorption

Tenzing Norgay Climbed Everest

Tenzing Norgay was on the top of Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953. He also summited Everest with almost every expedition that climbed Everest over the next 20 years. The fact that Norgay and all sherpas are the packers, the load carriers, to the top of Everest for every foreigner that attempts the summit is a testament to the powers of the goji berry. In areas isolated all across Asia, where the populations consume the native goji berries daily the benefits of the nutrient dense fruit are obvious. Many people live long and energetic lives well past 100 years. Living to the age of 120 is not uncommon. These people are virtually fee of pain and illness. The many conditions that are plaguing the modern world are almost non-existent. Long living people eat a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains. The nutrient dense goji berry juice is an awesome addition to any healthy diet. If it is good enough for Tensing, then it is good enough for me! How about you?

Body Builders, Steak Lovers, Dieters

Body builders, Americans who love their steaks and high protein dieters will all benefit from the goji berries ability to keep the PH balanced in your body. In addition everyone will benefit from the antioxidant rich gogi juice because of it ability to build and support a strong immune system and lifestyle. Click here for more information on goji juice.