I certainly noticed that I have started taking vitamins, at least until they wore off last night and then in minutes I went from focused and alert to wanting to crawl into bed and sleep for hours.

That is a good thing, though. Rather than feeling tired and unfocused all day, I was awake and fairly focused for most of the day after the vitamins kicked in. And I slept good. Did not wake up until 9am, but that is an improvement. For a couple days before that I was waking at 6am, but before that it was sleep until after noon.

We’re wrapping up the six-part series on Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness this week and one last time I would like to give a big shout-out to The Fitness Nerd for researching this topic so thoroughly.

If you haven’t been following the entire series, I hope you’ll take the time to revisit the previous postings on DOMS via the following links: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V. It truly is a worthwhile read.

Can I Still Workout With Sore Muscles?

While allowing your muscles time to rest and recover after training is critical, there appears to be very little evidence that workout out when your muscles are still sore will cause additional damage or impede strength or muscle gains.

In fact, many people report anecdotal improvements in symptoms of DOMS after performing additional bouts of exercise in subsequent days.

Did you realize that the average woman gains 1 1/2 pounds a year during her adult life? That means women can gain over 40 pounds by the time she hits 50 years old! Women have to combat the roller coaster of hormones, muscle loss and stress that causes a slow down in her metobolism. This wieght gain is NOT inevitable. A proper exercise and diet plan can confront these issues.

My metabolism-boosting plan can help you lose weight while building firm, lean muscle tissue, which is the key to a robust metabolism.

Eating Healthy During the Economic Crisis

Registered Dietitian Offers Nutritional “Bailout” Plan

St. Charles, MO 10/16/2008 07:21 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

Eating healthy is often determined to be too expensive for the average American. Fast food and foods loaded with fat and sugar tend to be inexpensive and always at hand.

Registered Dietitian Jayson Hunter has created some tips for healthy and affordable eating. He is calling it his Nutritional Bailout Plan.”Too many people think they can’t afford to eat healthy, especially during this Economic Crisis”, according to Hunter.

Science Sins and Media Mistakes
What You Should Know About Dietary Supplement News Reporting

By Neil E. Levin, CCN, DANLA

Are male smokers taking beta-carotene really at increased risk of cancer? Are high dosages of Vitamin E really hazardous to your health? Is ephedra, an herb with demonstrated weight loss benefits, really a “killer” that merits its banned status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?

Natural health remedies have a long history of promoting health and wellness, dating back thousands of years. But sloppy science and sensationalist health reporting by the news media make this increasingly hard to believe.

Detoxification

By Neil E. Levin, CCN, DANLA

The EPA tracks about 650 toxic chemicals used in 23,600 facilities in the US. The agency reports that about half of the 4.24 billion pounds of these toxic chemicals are annually released into the air, ground or water. These include chemicals from the mining, smelting and power generation industries, paper production, electronic equipment manufacturing, plastics, pesticides, etc. While the highest release of chemicals is associated with mining and power production, other industries release problematic chemicals into the environment on a daily basis, all over our country.

Certain groups are most at risk (e.g., children, pregnant and nursing women, the elderly).

A recent journal article pointed out the widely-reported danger of smokers using beta-carotene, a natural source (provitamin) of vitamin A, as part of their multivitamins. 1 In this meta-analysis (as in common in such analyses) the researchers have neglected to consider pre-existing dietary and serum levels of this nutrient, making their claim to control by placebo inadequate to properly isolate this variable. In fact, this failure to determine the effects of beta-carotene at a dose-dependent plasma level – and by neglecting to measure total beta-carotene intake along with the relevant synergistic antioxidants associated with it, as opposed to simply measuring supplemental intake - raises serious questions about the validity of these results.

Weight loss is never easy. We always want the weight to come off fast, despite how long it took us to gain those extra pounds. At some point we all go through a sort of stagnant period or hit a plateau. It’s usually when we have our goal weight in sight, and only have those last 5 or 10lbs to go.
Vary your exercise and try something different. If you’ve been walking, try a different route with more hills or focus on walking faster or for a longer period of time.

This past week I attended part of Austin’s Diabetes Summit a continuing education conference sponsored in part by the American Diabetes Association. I learned a lot of great new things about diabetes and how to help my clients.

Dr. Ann Albright, the Director, of the Division of Diabetes Translation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gave a great talk on Pre-diabetes.

According to her presentation there are 21 million people with diabetes and 54 million people with Pre-diabetes in the U.S.

What is Pre-diabetes?