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Eat Fat and Loose Weight

One teaspoon of FAT!

When you are on a diet to loose weight the fear of hunger and the reality of poor nutrition is a concern. A first practice for dieting is eating less. This is a good thing if the quality of nutrition is very high and the absorption rate is effective for good health and energy.

If 1 teaspoon of fat is eaten with every meal the delay in digestion will give less hunger time before the next meal. Fat takes a longer time to digest than other foods. Eaten in combination with other foods delays digestion.

Savoring the taste of fat is pleasurable and will also add to the time taken to eat. It takes about twenty minutes for the brain to get the message of satiety so this slower eating practice will lessen the amount taken in. If you eat without realizing your need you will take in food that is unnecessary. Eat slowly with thoughtful awareness of your need.

Fat is a crucial solvent for Vitamins A, D, E and K. This is not a complete list as there are other nutrients that need the presence of fat to be absorbed and digested. If fat is present then more nutrients are accessible by the body systems and good health is a result. Less food will give good health because of the higher efficiency of digestion. Fat is the key.

One teaspoon of peanut butter is one serving of fat for an average adult. Other nut butters such as almond, sesame (in the form of tahini), walnut, sunflower seeds are good choices also. Some may prefer grape seed or sesame seed oils and saturated fats such as coconut and avocado.

Eat fat and loose weight. Savor the valuable servings of fat.…

Golfing Handicap System – The Basics

What is the handicap system?

When buying golf equipment, it is recommended to ask the supplier what level of handicap the club is best suited for. Some golfing equipment is specifically tailored for scratch players whilst some is more suitable for higher handicap players. For optimum playing it is recommended that golfers find out what their handicap is and find a golf club to suit. This is why understanding the handicap system is so important in the world of golf.

In golf, the handicap system is used to establish fair play between different levels of golfers in tournaments or friendly play. The handicap system is copyrighted by the Council of National Golf Unions (CONGU) and is a recognised system within the UK and Ireland. It basically measures an amateur golfer’s current standard of play. It also stands as a great way of measuring whether a golfer is making progress and highlights areas of a golfer’s technique requiring improvement. The higher the handicap of the golfer, the lower their golfing ability is considered to be.

How does a handicap work?

The extra shots a handicap player is allowed to take ensures that all golfers of different ability levels can play together as equals using a fair system and makes the game more interesting. The number of handicaps is deducted from the handicap golfer’s score on certain holes. Handicap scores range from 1 to 28 for men and 1 to 36 for women.

A golfer’s handicap score represents how many strokes are allowed to be deducted on particular holes. A scratch player is a person with zero handicaps and is expected to complete the course with the same score as the standard scratch score (SSS) of the course. The scratch score of a course isn’t necessarily the sum of par. The County Union calculates the scratch score by taking the length of the course and naturally difficult conditions into account and bases the SSS on that.

What are the methods of applying for a handicap?

Only golf clubs affiliated with CONGU may administer handicaps to amateur golfers. In order to obtain a handicap, golfers have to become a member of an affiliated club and submit 3 or more score cards to the club for calculation. The club will then assess a suitable handicap score using the golfer’s lowest score and calculating the difference between that and the scratch score of the course.

How are handicaps applied to different games?

Handicaps are used differently in match play and stroke play. In match play the handicap score is calculated using the difference between the players/teams’ handicaps and is distributed over the holes to be played. For example on an 18 hole course, if player A has a handicap of 18 and player B has a handicap of 24 then player B is allowed 6 strokes over the six hardest holes with no stroke allowance on the remaining 12. Player A would be regarded as the scratch player. Once …

Cholesterol Versus Homocysteine

Has your doctor ever recommended a blood test to check your homocysteine level?

After you have read this article, I guarantee you will wonder why. Not many people have ever heard of it, yet it is responsible for 15% of all heart attacks and strokes in the world.

Wouldn’t it be worth to know more about this major killer, more so when you realize that you can correct it by simply taking vitamin B? The research on homocysteine was done by Dr. Kelmer Mc Cully, a promising pathologist and researcher, who graduated from the Harvard Medical School in the mid 1960’s.

Dr. Mc Cullly was in particular interested in studies that involved the connection of biochemistry with disease. He earned a strong reputation and became assistant professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Mc Cully discovered that children who had a genetic defect that kept them from breaking down an essential amino acid called methionine. These children showed a tremendous buildup of a by-product, called homocysteine.

Dr. Mc Cully looked at two special cases of two under eight years old boys, who died from a heart attack. When he examined the boys’ pathology slides, he discovered that the damage to the arteries was similar to that of an elderly man, who had severe hardening of the arteries.

This led Dr. Mc Cully to wonder whether mild to moderate elevations of homocysteine that were present over a lifetime could be a cause of heart attacks and strokes in the average patient. Homocysteine is an intermediate byproduct that we produce when our bodies breakdown the amino acid called methionine. It is found in large quantities in meat, eggs, milk, cheese, white flour, canned foods and highly processed foods.

Unlike cholesterol, which the body needs for the production of certain cell parts and hormones, homocysteine provides no health benefit. The higher the level of homocysteine, the greater the risk of cardiovascular disease.

Homocysteine is converted by our bodies into either cysteine or back to methionine again. These products are not harmful, however, the enzymes to break down homocysteine into cysteine, need folic acid, vitamin B6 and vitamin B12. If we are deficient in these nutrients, the homocysteine levels in our blood begin to rise.

Dr. Mc Cully’s theory was shut down and he lost his job at Harvard’s, because at that time the cholesterol- heart attack theory was gaining tremendous momentum and Dr Mc Cully’s hypothesis were a threat to its future.

The cholesterol theory achieved great victory and killed all other threatening theories.

Drug companies made their fortunes and everybody was convinced that heart attacks and strokes were associated with high blood cholesterol levels. Are you? If you have read my article about Nutritional Medicine, you should know better!

Anyway, the medical society and the pharmaceutical Companies did an excellent job selling this to the medical community and to the general public.…

Type 2 Diabetes – High Blood Sugar Levels and Your Heart

People who have Type 2 diabetes are two to four times more likely than non-diabetics to develop heart disease or have a stroke. It is also true approximately three-fourths of all diabetics die from heart disease.

But many diabetics might not be really aware of just how much diabetes can impact their heart, and in how many ways it can occur.

Cardio refers to “heart” and vascular means “blood vessels.” These two go hand-in-hand because the heart is the machine that pumps blood through your vessels. A problem anywhere in your body will affect how the cardiovascular system works.

Why does this happen? The same hormone, insulin, whose job it is to carry sugar into your cells for fuel also helps to lead fat into other body cells for storage. So if you lack insulin, or if it doesn’t work as it is supposed to, fat continues to circulate in your bloodstream. Too much sugar and too much fat floating around in your bloodstream leads to clogged blood vessels.

What is the result? The result is then:

high blood pressure,

clots forming, and

extra strain placed on your heart,

hence heart attack and stroke.

Blood Pressure: When blood vessels constrict and become pressurized, this pressure translates into elevated blood pressure throughout your body and especially in your heart. The damage allows plaque to build up, a condition known as atherosclerosis. This blockage allows even more pressure to build. When your blood pressure increases, even a little, it puts unnecessary strain on your heart making it work harder. But increasing it to this level, the strain it produces is extreme.

When blood pressure becomes elevated it also means there is a restricted flow of oxygen to your brain, other major organs, and your heart. This starving of oxygen also means tissue fed by this blood becomes starved, as well.

As Type 2 diabetes runs out-of-control, it means there are also dramatic negative changes within your blood. Elevated blood sugar levels means elevated LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, lower levels of HDL, or “good” cholesterol, and elevated triglyceride levels, which reflect the amount of fat in your blood. High blood sugar also means there is a significant increase in the likelihood of clotting, which is why diabetes increases the incidence of stroke.

If the person with diabetes also has a sedentary lifestyle, now the odds are increased even more. Add smoking or a high consumption of alcohol and they rise even higher. If these habits are not changed their heart is, in essence, the same as a ticking time bomb, waiting to experience an episode.

This is why it is vital all diabetics maintain ideal blood sugar levels… not only to keep their disease under control, but for all the other medical complications it creates.…

The Value of a Perfect Putting Stroke

There’s not a golfer alive who thinks they shouldn’t putt better. Even the top pros who make 98% of their putts from 5 feet and in miss from time to time so there is always room for improvement. Now just to be fair, a lot of those putts that figure into the 98% number are tap ins. But you could still conclude these great putters have a near perfect putting stroke.

As well they should. They get paid very well to play the game and have spent thousands of hours working on their strokes. They are far more gifted than the average player, both mentally and physically to reach the level they have.

The average golfer does not have the physical or mental skills to obtain the near perfect stroke of the pros. They also lack the practice time and motivation required to get the job done. The truth is, if they had these things they would be professionals, not average golfers.

It is because of the success of the best professionals and their near perfect strokes that the average players believe that a great putting stroke is needed in order to make putts. Thus most will practice putting by working on their stroke.

Here is the problem I have with searching for the perfect putting stroke. It focuses all of your attention on what you are doing BEFORE you hit the ball. Only if you do everything right before and during your stroke will you make the putt.

I look at putting as though it were a target game, but only because that is exactly what it is. In any target game, the focus is on what happens to the projectile AFTER the shot is completed.

For example, a major league pitcher is not worried about arm positions when he is throwing a fastball. He is focused only on the catchers mitt and throwing the ball into it. A dart thrower doesn’t care about anything but the bulls eye. A pool player is focused on the object ball. I could go on and on with examples. The same fundamental rule applies to any game that has hitting a target for its object. The point is, the same fundamentals used in target games are ignored in putting.

The value of a perfect putting stroke is negligible. If you achieve it, you will have achieved perfection on the wrong aspect of the game. It ‘s not what you do before and during the stroke that is important. It’s what happens, and what you want to happen, to the ball after you hit it that you should be concerned with.

And with such a simple game, great putting can be achieved with a less than great stroke.

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Mulberry Leaf May Help Prevent Atherosclerosis

Mulberry another plant form with nutrition magic? This magical nutrient could save your life. It is amazing that such relatively unknown phytochemicals can perform such great magic feats. Mulberry leaf is the one that reverses atherosclerosis lesions.

In a new study researchers studied mice that were deficient in the protein apolipoprotein E. This protein is crucial in lipid metabolism in mice as well as in human beings. The researchers fed the mice a food mixture containing 1% mulberry leaf for 12 weeks.

Those mice which were fed the mulberry-supplemented chow had an unexpected amazing 40% reduction in their atherosclerosis lesions in their aortas. In an additional test tube study, it showed mulberry extract slowed the oxidation of lipids which means an antioxidant reaction against free radicals caused by oxidation. The authors concluded that mulberry leaf might help prevent atherosclerosis.

This caused me to look deeper into mulberry leaf information. Its leaves contain a rather significant amount of flavonoids. These flavonoids are in the quercetin family. If you are not familiar with antioxidants quercetin is a powerful antioxidant found in grapes. This antioxidant in the mulberry plant is also a strong and powerful free radical neutralizer. The better know quercetin extracts are often used in many antioxidant formulas as well as high energy formulas. Other studies have found that mulberry leafs and extracts also have reduced diabetes symptoms in animals.

If you have atherosclerosis or wish to take preventive action, this very inexpensive herb might be a magic nutrient which can help remove vessel plaque. By reducing vessel blockage you reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke significantly. And the slowing of oxidation of lipids as mentioned above may help keep your cholesterol healthy. So if you have high cholesterol, mulberry is a must to keep your LDL from oxidizing. I think we will see much more mulberry research and studies in the future. Mulberry leaf is readily available online and in most health food stores

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Youth Sports and Liability

Sports can teach children the value of teamwork and encourage physical fitness, but they’re also inherently dangerous. That may be scary to think about, but some amount of danger isn’t always a bad thing: who hasn’t skinned a knee climbing a tree? Unlike tree climbing, however, sports practices are supposed to be supervised by multiple adults. On the rare occasion that going to practice means breaking an arm, we expect those adults to ensure the child’s safety. Sometimes they don’t do enough.

Certain risks are to be expected. Stubbed fingers, skinned legs, and bruises are all par for the course, so coaches should be trained in first aid. In the South, especially during the warmer months, going to practices means being at risk for heat stroke and dehydration. Coaches are expected to provide water and chances to cool down to prevent those problems. Heat stroke and dehydration can be fatal, and coaches that do not try to prevent it or do not act quickly enough can be held liable.

In the event of more serious injuries, such as broken bones or concussions, the adults in charge are expected to call paramedics as quickly as possible and keep the situation under control. But some coaches ignore the seriousness of heat stroke or concussions, instead trying to make the child ‘walk it off’ rather than seeking help. As with heat stroke, if their actions prevent a child from receiving the medical attention she needs, the coach may be liable for negligence.

Every year there are young people who are tragically killed or seriously injured while playing sports, but much of that suffering can be prevented with the right precautions and prompt medical attention in the event of a problem. As parents, we expect adults who are in charge during practices to exercise common sense and seek help. If they do not, the emotional, financial, and medical toll on the child and his or her family can be serious.

There are few things more difficult for a parent than seeing their child suffer. If your child or the child of someone you know has been injured or fallen ill playing sports, and you do not think the coach or other adults did not take the actions they should have to help your child, you may be able to win compensation for your medical bills and suffering.

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3 Steps To Improve Your Golf Putting Technique

If you want to improve your golf putting technique and performance on the greens, then I would recommend that you work on the 3 steps below. If you get these 3 elements in place then you are going to be well on your way to lowering your golf handicap and scores.

The first step you want to take to improve your golf putting technique is to develop a putting setup that is reliable and feels comfortable. By doing this you will be creating an excellent foundation on which to build a consistent putting technique.

The putting setup will include your putting grip, where your ball is located in your stance, how you address the golf ball with your putter, where you eye line should be and adopting a comfortable posture that is balanced and correctly aligned.

If you get your putting setup right, then you will have an excellent foundation from which to build a consistent and reliable golf putting technique. The second step is to groove a consistent putting stroke.

There are really only 2 types of putting stroke that are effective, the arc putting stroke or the pendulum putting. I would recommend using the pendulum style stroke, as this is the easiest to master and will ultimately give you the most consistency in your putting technique.

The final step is to create a putting routine for yourself, which will include stages for reading the green, making sure your alignment is correct, having a few practice strokes and then making the putt.

A good putting routine will help you to keep focused and stop any negative thoughts of previous missed putts creeping in, because you will be concentrating on you stages of the routine. It will also give you something to fall back on if you are having a bad day on the putting greens.

If you work on and perfect the above 3 steps to improving your golf putting technique, then you will start to see some consistency and success in you overall putting performance.

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Basic Dental Prevention Saves Lives

Do you put on a seat belt when you drive?

If so, why?

My guess is that it is either because you are compelled to do so by law, or (if you live in the U.S.) you believe the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), who claim that seat belts save about 13,000 lives a year, nationwide.

The few seconds it takes you to snap on your seat belt buckle reduces the chance of dying in a car crash by 45%, and of being injured by about half. Nevertheless, seat belts are not likely to play a big role in saving your life, because chances are you won’t find yourself in a serious automobile accident. Let’s face it, fortunately, most people never find themselves in that circumstance.

On the other hand, gum disease (either gingivitis or periodontal disease) affects up to 80 percent of the population.

In other articles, you may have heard that periodontal disease is the leading cause of tooth loss among adults. The shocking reality is that this is probably the least notable consequence of periodontal disease.

Periodontal disease is a significant risk factor for stroke, heart disease, certain respiratory problems, low birth-weight infants, and some forms of cancer.

While very few people will die in a car crash, a great deal more will die from a heart attack, stroke, or cancer. Addressing periodontal disease via preventive techniques can significantly reduce your chances of dying from any one of these afflictions.

If this simple logic is not enough to convince you of the need to brush after meals, floss daily and eat a healthy diet, it may help you to know that over the past few decades, there have been hundreds of peer-reviewed medical studies published in journals showing periodontal disease to be a risk factor for heart attacks.

While periodontal disease is certainly not the only factor in the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases or cancer, there is definitely a link. The modern thinking regarding the connection has to do with the long-term inflammatory nature of gum disease. In simple terms, periodontal disease is a bacterial infection of the gums and bone supporting the teeth. As with most any infection in the body, this leads to inflammation.

Often having no symptoms that are detectable by the patient, bacteria from periodontal disease can affect blood vessels on the walls of your heart. If you have gum disease, the bacteria can easily invade the blood stream through one of many open portals. Let’s face it, it is a relatively short trip from the mouth to the heart after all.

Bacteria in the blood may also stimulate liver production of C-reactive proteins and fibrinogen. Both these substances have been linked to heart attacks.

Persons who successfully treated their periodontal disease have also been shown to experience improved cholesterol levels and demonstrated lowered blood pressure. Most readers will recognize these as factors frequently associated with cardiovascular disease.

The bottom line: while we generally don’t hesitate to …

Vitamins For Bodybuilding

Vitamins are essential food factors that are chemical in nature and are found in certain foodstuffs. Some vitamins are synthesized commercially. Lack of vitamins in our bodies causes vitamin deficiency diseases.

There is a minimum amount of vitamins that our bodies require daily to remain healthy and undertake internal functions. Our body organs use vitamins in combination with minerals to effect important processes within the body. Such processes result in growth, development and metabolism.

We can effectively employ the use of vitamins to achieve overall fitness bodybuilding. Since vitamins are mainly obtained from the healthy foods and drinks we consume, we can tailor our diets to provide our bodies with sufficient vitamins that will help in bodybuilding. Since it is the muscles in our bodies that we aim to build, we should understand that the muscles are made up of cells in which chemical reactions takes place continuously. For the reactions to be sustained, adequate supply of vitamins must be maintained. Without this, we will be susceptible to diseases and this in effect means that we cannot undertake any bodybuilding program or bodybuilding exercises.

For effective health and bodybuilding routine, we require the following vitamins in adequate supply:

Vitamins A, E, K and D – These vitamins intake may not be necessary on a daily basis as they are normally stored in our body’s fatty tissues. They are also stored in the liver. They are usually referred to as fat soluble vitamins since they cannot dissolve in water. However, we need to obtain them occasionally for their storage to be possible. Vitamin A is required for proper vision and prevention of blindness while vitamin E is required for prevention of sterility and in the development of the muscles. Vitamin D is responsible for the development of bones and it prevents the occurrence of rickets. Vitamin K is an important blood formation agent and helps in blood clotting.

Vitamins B and C – These are water soluble vitamins and are therefore required on a daily basis and in adequate supply. They are not stored in the body. Vitamin C is responsible for the prevention of scurvy and helps in fast healing of wounds.

Other vitamins such as B6, B3, B12 and others are also required by our bodies for different processes. They also help in the prevention of other diseases and conditions.

While these vitamins are required in small daily amounts, they are very important in achieving bodybuilding, regardless of whether it is a fitness bodybuilding, bodybuilding program or for achieving a lean body. We need to daily eat varied foods rich in them. Alternatively, we can obtain them from various food supplements in the market. We however need to be careful with the supplements as some do not contain the vitamins indicated that they contain.

Most effective bodybuilding routines incorporate the use of vitamins by advising on the type of foods one is required to eat while undertaking such a program. These programs are developed by professionals …