Another Key Point to Losing Fat

August 23rd, 2010

The “diet wisdom” that calls for you to eat high carb, low-fat diets is a great contributor to fatter thighs, butts and increased belly fat.  Now there is also, not necessarily new, but a newly known about contributor to these fatter body parts.  I’m talking about endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in your food and water.

These chemicals, which have a structure that closely resembles the hormone estrogen, go from your food into your bloodstream, where they send out the “fat command” to the cells in your body.

The bad news is that your body can not tell the difference between these estrogen mimics and the actual thing. As far as your body is concerned, these chemicals that look like estrogen are estrogen.

Whether you’re a man or a woman, too much estrogen makes you fat, slow, tired, and diseased.

The Endocrine Society, the largest research organization on hormones, said in a recent report:

“The rise in the incidence in obesity matches the rise in the use and distribution of industrial chemicals that may be playing a role in the generation of obesity, suggesting that EDCs may be linked to this epidemic.”

This fake estrogen tends to hit kids the hardest.  For girls, this extra estrogen causes early, or “precocious,” puberty. Their young bodies interpret the extra estrogen as the call to develop breasts and sexual traits, yet they’re as young as 7 and 8 years old.

The next time you’re walking through your local mall, take a look around. Kids have changed. They’re not just heavier and more out-of-shape; they’re turning into “adults” before their time.

Men and women are changing, too, but experience extra estrogen in different ways. Both will get the excess weight, but there are specific differences.

For men it reduces sperm count and also increases the risk of prostate cancer.  It also leads to what are infamously becoming known as man boobs.  For women, besides packing on the weight, (that also happens to the men) too much estrogen can make menopause an extremely miserable experience.  While overall cancer rates are falling, reproductive cancers like breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer continue to rise. Too much estrogen in our environment is a key factor in that rise.

Here are some tips for lowering your exposure to these chemicals:

1. Avoid canned foods as much as possible. Food cans often have high levels of EDCs that leech into the food.

2. Reduce your use of plastic products like bags, bottles, and plastic wraps.

3. Eliminate pesticides from water with a water purifier.

4. Wash your vegetables and fruits before eating.  Also eat organic when possible.

5. You can buy special products at organic food stores made for washing vegetables and fruits.

6. Buy grass-fed or hormone-free meats. If you get meat from other sources, trim off the fat. EDCs collect in the fat.

7. Avoid processed meats; they have fat ground in.

8. Avoid processed carbohydrates like bread, cereals, and pasta. They cause excess insulin, which builds fat and stimulates feminizing estrogen.

9. Eat vegetables high in fiber to absorb excess estrogen.

10. Work with your doctor to reduce or eliminate medications. These interfere with your liver’s capacity to remove excess estrogens.

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Eating the Right Fats Can Help You Lose Weight

July 29th, 2010

Surprising as it may seem to many people, if you eat the right kinds of fat it can actually help you to lose weight.

Fat got a bad reputation back in the 70’s and undeservedly so.  The government, in their infinite wisdom, via its Dietary Guidelines told us that animal fats caused heart disease.  The Guidelines recommended we limit our saturated fat to less than 10 percent of our daily calories. That opened the door to shortening substitutes and low-fat products. Over the next two decades, this advice led to an “an unanticipated epidemic of obesity and diabetes,” says Dr. Michael Alderman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

It’s only in the last decade that the medical community has started to re-evaluate saturated fats. And now the latest science is supporting saturated fats.

A recent study found “no significant evidence” linking saturated fats to cardiovascular disease or coronary heart disease. The study was published in the March edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

A second study, in the same issue, attributed America’s obesity and bad health to carbs – not saturated fats.

Saturated fats are actually good for us and it leads to increased HDL (good cholesterol) which actually helps control heart disease, the exact opposite of what we’ve been told until the last several years as proven out in numerous studies.

Dr. Lawrence Wilson is an M.D. has worked as a nutrition consultant for over 30 years in Phoenix, AZ.  He also supports saturated fats for health.

“My conviction is that the fears about saturated fats are quite overblown,” says Dr. Wilson. “Most knowledgeable nutritionists agree that fats and oils are essential for health.”

“Omega-3 fatty acids are so critical, a deficiency can lead to depression, lack of concentration and a host of chronic diseases including heart disease and cancer.”

“These good fats are some of the raw materials from which our bodies are made…lack of omega-3s may also lead to depression, dementia, cancer heart disease, and diabetes,”

He adds that eating good fats “turns on a different set of genes.”

Eat the right fats and you will:

  • Burn fat
  • Increase weight loss
  • Increase your metabolism
  • Reduce inflammation
  • Become more sensitive to insulin, which will balance your blood sugar.

“If you substitute carbs for fat, your HDL will drop. You don’t want that to happen because high HDL is the most reliable way to prevent heart disease.”

Natural, healthy fat is a strong component in optimum health. The good news is that you can find it in abundance in whole foods. Two good sources of fat are saturated (animal) fat and omega-3 fats.

  • Omega-3s – These are great for heart health. They protect against cardiovascular disease. They also helps to burn body fat. For good sources of omega-3s enjoy wild fish, avocado, olives, cod liver oil, Sacha Inchi oil, and nuts.
  • Saturated Fats –These fats boost your immune system. They also help you to absorb calcium. Find it in grass-fed beef, raw milk, and raw butter.

You can find healthy sources of fat in these 9 foods:

  1. Organic butter
  2. Olive oil
  3. Nuts
  4. Raw milk
  5. Cold water wild fish
  6. Grain-fed beef
  7. Free-range chicken
  8. Eggs
  9. Avocados

The fats you do what to avoid however are vegetable oils, which are generally hydrogenated oils.

Following this advice and you will get a good start on losing unwanted fat on your body.

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Don’t Take the Government’s Advice If You Are Trying to Lose Fat

June 23rd, 2010

Since the government has a lousy record on just about everything it does why would you take their advice on how to lose fat?  As evidence would you let them manage your money?  They are trillions in debt and growing, plus the IRS, who collects the money, is one of the most distrusted organizations in the world.  Would you want the government to tell you how to get along with people, ours has been at war for about the last 10 years, give or take.  Lastly, would you trust the FDA, unofficially owned by the drug companies, to tell you what drugs are safe to take?

I think I’ve made my point.  So why would you listen to them when they tell you how to lose fat by not eating fat.  If you don’t understand the body’s needs or how it works then theoretically it sounds pretty logical.  Unfortunately, it is not.

As you age, you have a good chance of being affected by changes in blood sugar levels.  One in four Americans over 60 has this problem. But here’s something you need to know before you try to fix it.

The American Diabetes Association’s (which I don’t believe is a government organization, but is largely funded by the governmet ,i.e. it is the same breed of cat) recommended diet is like pouring gas on a wild fire. It’s ironic how it sets out to help people with blood sugar issues, yet it just ends up hurting them.

The cornerstone of the ADA’s diet program is to lower fat intake.

But the notion that eating fats will make you fat is a fundamental mistake. For most people, excess insulin makes them fat and not the fat itself.

The ADA also recommends high fiber foods, yet it doesn’t stress caution about starches like whole grains. You might be surprised to know that whole grains spike your blood sugar more than sugary foods, which in turn will make you fat.

To top it off, studies even show that low fat and high carb diets like the one recommended by the ADA just don’t work.

Of protein, carbohydrates, and fats, carbohydrates is the only one that affects insulin levels. Fat and protein don’t. However, the ADA continues to tell you to stop eating fat. In fact, your body needs fat to help slow the conversion of carbs into sugar.

The ADA also provides tips and guidelines for reducing your protein intake. But proteins are critical in sustaining your body and breaking the cycle caused by insulin resistance.

Fat and protein are not the bad guys. The key is to eat the right kinds of fat and the right kinds of protein.

The last thing you want to do is follow the diet advice of the ADA for a low fat diet full of whole grains, or you’ll surely suffer with diabetes for the rest of your life and likely be overweight.

The rules to follow regarding weight loss (and ultimately avoiding diabetes) are to get plenty of lean protein like grass fed beef, free range chicken, and fish.  Don’t be afraid of fats as they are good for you, unless you are talking about trans fats that are in most processed foods, those you should definitely avoid.

Avoid starches like grains including corn, potatoes, and rice. And be sure to eat lots of vegetables and fruits.

It is not difficult to eat a healthy diet.  You just need to be careful not to be lead astray by government or pseudo government advice that will lead you down the path to fatness and ill health.

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Eat the Caveman’s Diet and Do His Workout

June 15th, 2010

As you know if you’ve read many articles on this site it is advocated to eat a cave man’s diet, i.e. meat from grass fed beef and organic meats of any variety, wild caught fish, lots of fruit and vegetables, and nuts and seeds.  It is also a good idea to exercise like a caveman.

I don’t think too many cavemen had a set of barbells over to the side of the cave that they lifted three times a week in order to get in shape for a hunt.  The hunt was the workout.  Whether they were hunting or being hunted by another tribe or animal, getting away from or catching their prey usually required lots of short burst of energy.

Now I’m not dismissing the idea of using weights for your workout just do it in a manner where you are exerting maximum effort for a short period of time, rest in between and repeat the short burst of energy.  And it’s not important whether or not the activity is the same each time.  What is important is that you are getting a half dozen or more reps of that short burst of energy.  That is the best type of workout for losing fat, and improving your overall health and physical condition.

It’s not about running more miles, or stacking up ever-greater weight. It’s about knowing how to challenge your body.

It’s important to work smarter, not harder. Intensity is the absolute key to doing the most effective workout.  Years ago I used to jog one day and workout with weights on the alternate day.  The jog had much less intensity, and being a lazy person (don’t tell) I would look forward to the jog.  It was almost like a day off, basically a wasted workout.

If you want to become a superhero, you don’t need to do hours of aerobic or cardio exercise four days a week.

The key to fat loss and muscle gain is short duration, high intensity exercises.

Don’t spend your summer doing pointless hours of cardio when all you really need is 10 to 20 minutes a day to lose weight, get lean, and build muscle.

Here how to make those 10 to 20 minutes really count:

  • Hit the treadmill at high intensity for one minute. Then slow down to an easy pace to allow rest and recovery. Repeat this pattern five  or six times.

You can apply this to any cardio option: stationary bike, elliptical machine, or even try jumping rope. Mix it up each day with a different option.

Looking to build strength and muscle? Squats are a great option for getting the heart pumping. Try these variations:

  • Traditional Squats: Keep your feet shoulder-width apart and squat down as low as possible. Bring your arms forward, parallel to the floor. Return to a standing position. Repeat.
  • Squat Thrusts: Begin standing with feet together. Squat down so that your hands are on the floor next to your feet. “Jump” your feet back into a push-up position. Then “jump” your feet back between your hands and stand up. Repeat.

The most important principle to remember: use short periods of exertion and follow up with recovery time. Just focus on getting your heart rate up and giving it time to come back down.

Stick to this formula and you’ll make your body into a lean, fit machine in just 20 minutes a day.

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Pyramids are for Ancient Egyptians

June 11th, 2010

Pyramids are where Egyptian mummies are buried.  They are not guides on how a person should eat to be healthy, especially someone who is trying to lose fat or, for that matter, in any other way trying to get or maintain good health.  At least not the food pyramids put out by the government.

It would seem the government can’t do a whole lot correctly and in telling us how to eat they have kept record of ineptness intact.  They will tell you to eat lots of grains and corn and potatoes, etc.  That is a recipe for a fat unhealthy populace.  Maybe that’s the way they want it so then we’ll be too tired to complain about paying our taxes.

According to the USDA’s food pyramid, we are advised to eat six to 11 servings of grain-based foods each day. Grain-based foods are high in starch and carbs and include bread, cereal, rice, and pasta. The food pyramid positions grain-based foods as the foundation of a healthy diet.

It’s advice that directly impacts modern human health. Long-accepted wisdom tells us that high-carb and low-fat diets promote good health. Except they don’t.  In fact, they could not be more wrong.

Following the high-carb and low-fat diet is likely to leave you fat with heart disease and a tendency towards diabetes.  Throw in a higher tendency towards cancer and we seem to have the four corners of the room covered.

High-carb foods raise blood sugar levels. Raised blood sugar levels kick your pancreas into gear, which in turn raises blood insulin levels.

Insulin tells your body that food is necessary for survival. Your body will therefore store excess calories as fat. The more insulin your body produces, the more fat it stores. And you pile on the pounds. Obesity, then can play a major part in developing diabetes.

Going primal (as in eating like a caveman) can change your life. Don’t be duped by the National Health recommendations. If you start to revise your diet today, you can shrink your waist size, enjoy robust fitness, even combat heart disease and diabetes.

Implementing a caveman diet is easy to do. Here’s a guide to the foods you should seek out and those you should avoid.

Foods to go for:

  • Lean meat
  • Fish
  • Fruit
  • Vegetables
  • Eggs
  • Nuts
  • Seeds
  • Dried Fruits

Foods to Run From:

  • Grains
  • Pasta
  • Oats
  • Wheat
  • Barley
  • Cereals
  • Beans
  • Peanuts
  • Dairy products
  • Starchy veggies (including potatoes)

Our stone-age ancestors ate only what the natural world offered them. They didn’t have a choice. They ate the food that fell from the trees or the living creatures they could spear. Processed, artificially enriched foods were 2 million years ahead of them. Farming only took shape 10,000 years ago. And as farming became more robust, our health became less so. We gained weight, lost height, and discovered diseases.

“Neolithic, industrial-era and modern-era foods… underlie virtually all the chronic diseases of civilization: coronary heart disease, hypertension, type-2 diabetes, gout, obesity, acne… and breast, colon and prostate cancer,” according to Dr. Loren Cordain,, a leading authority on Paleolithic diets.

Archaeological records tie the birth of modern human diseases to the same time that our diets became farming-based. Archeologists visited the ancient burial mounds of 800 native peoples in the Illinois and Ohio River valleys. They found a direct correlation between the change in diet and health.  As corn became their main dietary staple, they experienced a 50 percent increase in malnutrition, a fourfold increase in iron deficiency, and a threefold increase in infectious disease.

Eat foods heavy on the “foods to go for” list above and get good exercise and you are well on the way to a healthy, happy life.  And let’s forget about the pyramids unless you are a tourist or into archeology.

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To Lose Fat Avoid HFCS

June 2nd, 2010

If you are trying to lose fat, especially belly fat, then one of the first and most important steps to take is to stay away from HFCS (high fructose corn syrup.)  The fact is, you are better off eating plain sugar rather than HFCS.  Not that you should go crazy over that either but that is the emphasis I want to give to the evils of HFCS.

You’ve probably seen the commercials telling you that HFCS is okay and it is safe because it is from corn.  The fact is that corn is also something you should avoid if you are trying to lose weight.  It will pack on the pounds almost as fast as eating pastries on a regular basis, but that is the story for another day.

The food industry made those commercials because they’ve been backed into a corner by all the bad publicity that HFCS has been getting over the last couple years and they had to come out with something, no matter how stupid it was (They also compared it to sugar, like that would make it good.)  You see HFCS is an ingredient in the vast majority of packed and processed food.  It is a major ingredient in sodas, of course.  They like to use it in food because it is way cheaper than sugar and it has a longer shelf life than sugar.  The commercials are nothing more than protecting their vested interests.  Drug companies also tell you how wonderful their drugs are (and then they spend the second half of the commercial telling you potential side effects, usually so fast you can’t hear them anyway) but that certainly doesn’t make me want to buy them.

A study done at Duke University gathered dietary information from more than 400 subjects with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.  They found that 80% of the subjects drank HFCS beverages and nearly 30% said they did so every day.  Liver scarring was most pronounced in those with the highest intake of HFCS.

Another study from Princeton shows how HFCS might prompt fat buildup in the liver.  (See the article I wrote last week on visceral fat.)

In another study from Princeton, rats that were fed HFCS gained significantly more weight than rats that were given table sugar, even when they were eating the same number of daily calories.  These rats were fed HFCS at levels well below the equivalent of what’s in soda.  And they were all becoming fat, every fat last one of them.  The researchers noted that when rats are fed a high fat diet they don’t all gain weight.  But with HFCS added, obesity was guaranteed.

And the weight gain wasn’t the worst of it.  Long term consumption also led to led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen and visceral fat (again, see my recent article.)  The conclusion?  HFCS is a major player in the current “obesity epidemic”.

Besides all that, there’s growing evidence that  this “el cheapo sugar replacement” can cause or contribute to heart disease, stroke and diabetes, not to mention wrinkles and impotence.  HFCS users can also develop metabolic syndrome, which is a cluster of disorders that sets you up for heart, brain, gonad, skin and kidney trouble.

I think this is pretty good evidence that should make anyone who is interested in his or her health stay away from products with HFCS.  If you have a hankering for something sweet fruit is always a good choice.

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Visceral Fat is More of an Enemy Than Regular Fat

May 25th, 2010

There is a kind of fat that you can’t even see but it is more deadly and toxic that the regular fat that you already don’t like very much.  Visceral fat is like a sniper who is hiding in the woods and taking your friends and family out one at a time.  It’s hard to fight an enemy when you don’t know where it is.

Visceral fat is internal fat. It wraps around organs like your heart, liver, and kidneys. It fills up all the space in your abdominal cavity, so there’s no room left for your organs, nerves, and blood vessels to function properly.

It’s far more dangerous to your health than subcutaneous fat, which lies right beneath your skin. Subcutaneous fat is what you poke at and pinch. Like the “spare tire” you get around your middle or belly fat. It very annoying and can be dangerous but not so much as visceral fat.

Visceral fat is a storehouse for toxins that pump directly into your body. When you have too much visceral fat, you can almost guarantee you’ll develop heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. When you have too much of it, it secretes a substance called adipokine and that causes body-wide inflammation that leads to these diseases.

You don’t have to be overweight to have it. Over 30 million normal-weight Americans have high levels of visceral fat. You can be perfectly thin on the outside and fat on the inside.

Your body chooses the type of fuel it burns during exercise. And any time you exercise at a medium pace for a long time, your body chooses fat as its fuel.

While that may sound like a good thing, it’s really the worst thing you can do. You don’t want to use fat during exercise, because it’s telling your body that you need fat for fuel. Your body hears, “Make more fat!” and it delivers. So, once you’re done exercising, your body continues to make fat and tuck it around your organs. Now you have even more fat to use as an energy source the next time you go to do your typical aerobic exercise such as a long jog.

The best way to get rid of visceral, or subcutaneous fat too, is to use short bursts of energy.  That’s how you create an after burn and it is the best way to get rid of visceral fat.

Short-burst exercise tells your body that you don’t have to make more fat and store it away for the next time. You’re not going to exercise long enough to use it for fuel, so why make more fat? It increases your metabolism and you get rid of fat, both kinds.

You can do nearly any kind of exercise you want using short bursts of energy and you can do it in much less time than a traditional cardio workout.

Here’s an example.  Walk as fast as you can (after a proper warm-up) for a minute or two and then catch your breath while walking slowly for a few minutes.  Then do the fast walk again and continue the cycle until you’ve done the fast walking 5-6 times and that is the end of an excellent fat burning workout.

You can adjust that according to your fitness level and continue upping the gradient as you are able to or it will lose its effectiveness.

Combine this with a diet high in proteins, fruits and vegetables, and very low the junkie carbohydrates and you will lose your fat and fast.

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Stay Young with Exercise and More

May 18th, 2010

As a body ages the muscle in it start to shrink.   And I’m not talking about when you turn 60.  This is a process that starts in your 30’s or much younger depending how sedentary a person is to start out.

Of course, as the muscles start to shrink you become a little less active and then you start to get fatter and the belly fat adds on and it becomes a dwindling spiral of your health.

I didn’t paint a very pretty picture there but there is something that can be done about it.  You can exercise and maintain a good nutritious diet and that will go a long way to prevent aging.

Let’s break down this whole process a little further so it doesn’t seem so overwhelming.  The more you are able to confront a subject or area of your life the easier it becomes to handle it.

You don’t set out to become frail and weak in your old age. But unless you do something to prevent it that’s exactly what will happen to you.

Oxidative stress is what causes your muscles to waste away.  Oxidative stress is when you have too many damaged molecules, called “free radicals,” in your body. They attack your healthy cells. When free radicals attack your muscle cells, they drain them of energy and strength. The cells become damaged, or they weaken and die. It makes your muscles shrivel up, and you become weak.

Your muscles are the key to remaining youthful.

You can protect your muscles if you increase your antioxidants. At least five new studies in the past year point to it. Antioxidants fight free radical damage that causes oxidative stress. They protect your muscles and motor function.

There are a lot of antioxidants. But the most important antioxidant to prevent this oxidative stress in your muscles is Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10).

The reason I focus on CoQ10 for this purpose is because of CoQ10’s role. CoQ10 is the energy molecule for muscle cells. You concentrate CoQ10 in the energy “factories” inside muscle cells.  It’s the fuel and spark plug that is needed to create energy in your cells.

Your muscles need CoQ10 to make energy.  And when your muscles have enough energy, you stay strong and healthy. Then you have the energy to exercise and you are able to keep the excess fat off of your body and you maintain your health and your youth.  And just like that you have you have reversed the ugly dwindling spiral I had described in the beginning of this article.

Your body produces its own CoQ10. But after age 20, you make less and less. Once you’re 50, your production drops off fast. And if you take a statin, it blocks CoQ10 along with the cholesterol.

Beef, from grass-fed cattle is one of the best food sources of CoQ10, especially organ meats are good.  Eggs also contain CoQ10 as do nuts and many other protein sources but that is a thing you would be very wise to also take in supplement form because it is so vital to the health of every cell in your body.

So there you have it.  It’s very simple now that it is broken down.  Get your exercise, eat a healthy diet and be sure to supplement with CoQ10 and you have a good head start in maintaining your youth, or getting it back, whichever the case may be.

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Techniques to Help You Handle Stress

May 13th, 2010

There is no shortage of things that could cause stress in your life.  And stress will definitely tend to make you fat, especially the dreaded belly fat.

And excessive stress is just plain bad for you. According to the Mayo Clinic, stress can cause a whole host of health issues, from back pain to forgetfulness… sleep problems to overeating… high blood pressure to heart disease… and much more. It can also compromise your immune system, making you more susceptible to illness.

It’s not rocket science to understand that you should take specific action to limit the stress in your life. But since you can’t eliminate every source of stress, you should at least take action to prevent stress from affecting your health.

Exercise is one of your primary weapons against stress.  I know firsthand how many health benefits exercise can offer. Sure, exercise burns calories and builds muscle. But it can also help lower blood pressure, protect against serious diseases like heart disease and even cancer and relieve stress. Studies also show that regular exercise can help keep your immune system strong.

“If a person who regularly exercises in moderation is under stress, that person is less likely to get sick than someone who has been sedentary and faces the same challenge,” said University of Colorado at Boulder professor Monika Fleshner in a Science Daily article.

The next total body health improvement technique you might consider is changing your diet. Eating healthy fats and lean proteins, cutting carbohydrates and filling your plate with lots of fruits and veggies can help trim your waistline AND reduce your stress levels.

Australian researchers studied the effect of diet on stress. They concluded that subjects who changed their diets and lost weight were able to help control their blood pressure better during times of stress. The reduction in blood pressure is likely to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in the long term.

There is another way to help reduce stress.  I know many of you will look back at what I already said and think I’m repeating myself this but taking a walk is a wonderful way to reduce stress.  Now, when I’m saying it in this context I’m not talking about the exercise aspect of it, but by walking outside it gives you the ability to look at things and extrovert your attention out of your day to day problems.  I do this daily more than once a day if time permits.  Actually by doing this it enables me to get much more done even though the walk sometimes takes 20-30 minutes.

The important part of this is the extroverting of your attention.  So if you are going to the gym and walking on a machine that will not provide what I’m talking about here.  I do my regular workout but my walks have the specific purpose of extroverting my attention and getting my attention out of my head and onto the physical universe.  You achieve this by looking at things, not at a whole tree, for example, but at one limb or even one leaf.  You look at things near and things far.  Always make it specific things you are looking at not general things.

So if you’ve already done your workout and you are too tired to take a walk then just go outside and look at things.  You don’t have to be walking at the same time it is just fun to do sometimes.

And make sure as you are doing this you are not dwelling on your problems or your other sources of stress.  The whole idea is to get out of that and extrovert your attention.

Give it a try.  You’ll find it will really relax you and it will probably help you sleep better too, while contributing to your improved health and a much less stressful life.

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An Extra Bone(us) to Getting a Good Workout

April 7th, 2010

Here’s an extra reason for getting a good workout that is going to get most men’s attention as well as quite a few of the women.  It can help you get and maintain an erection.

As little as six minutes of vigorous exercise a day can improve your sex life.  The key is increased blood flow.  Short bursts of exertion ramp up blood flow far beyond anything you could get from aerobic exercise.

When you workout vigorously the blood flow in your body is increased which then increases the body’s supply of nitrous oxide.  Nitrous oxide is critical in getting an erection.  It also causes your veins to relax and decreases inflammation in the body.

When you become aroused, your body boosts its levels of nitric oxide. It relaxes the delicate lining of your blood vessels, allowing blood to flow where it’s needed.

And you can’t get an erection unless you release enough nitric oxide. That’s exactly how many of today’s most popular prescription drugs work. By boosting the amount of nitric oxide that flows to the right places and fighting back the enzymes in your body that try and limit the amount of nitric oxide that’s produced.

As you age your body has less of this chemical and it may sometimes cause a problem in the bedroom.  As a result you need a boost of nitrous oxide.

A single good workout can prime your body for sex, says Jim Pfaus, PhD, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, who studies the biology of sexual desire. “When you increase your blood flow, you have a much easier time getting aroused.”

One of the best ways to get more nitric oxide is with a short, high-intensity workout.

Many people don‘t have the time or desire to spend an hour or more working out on a routine basis.

The good news is there is another way that is more efficient and effective than long boring cardio workouts.  If you’ve read my articles before you know what I’m talking about.

A very effective way of getting a fat burning, health giving workout is to do short bursts of vigorous exercise for as short as 15 seconds at a time to up to two minutes at a time.  The amount of time would be dependent on exactly how intense the bursts of energy were.  If you were sprinting full out you wouldn’t be able to do that for two minutes obviously.

What you do is pick an activity you enjoy that will cause your heart rate and breathing to increase dramatically.  Then take a short break to catch your breath and let your body recover, not longer that a minute or two and repeat the activity or one similar.  It doesn’t need to be the same thing as long as it is vigorous.

Repeat this 5-6 times and you’ll get a workout that your lover will definitely appreciate.  And, by the way, it will increase the intensity of the love making for women too.

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