Cause Your Health Counts

Cutting out 300 calories a day and exercising for just 30 to 45 minutes 3 to 4 times a week will result in loosing 1 pound. Cutting out 300 calories a day is as simple as not buttering your bread.

As you get older your metabolism slows down. After the age of 30, your body gradually begins to decrease in muscle tissue. If your activity level stays the same and the amount of calories you eat stay the same, you will still gain weight because your metabolism has slowed down. However, if you exercise and weight train a regular basis, you probably won’t notice much of a change in your metabolism as you age.

Strength Training helps increase your metabolism because fat burns less calories than muscle. The more muscle you have, the more calories you’ll burn. (more muscle equal less body fat.)
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The Food Pyramid is a visual image illustrating the percentages of each group of food that make up a healthy diet.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) created the Food Pyramid, which was updated to its current form in 1991. The most recent update represents a shift in thinking in American nutrition. Nutritionists used to recommend a diet high in protein. They now call for the average adult to consume less meat, while recommending greater consumption of vegetables, fruits, and grains.

The Food Pyramid, with its recommended servings, represents what the diet and nutrition experts consider to be the most solid, reliable, well-researched thinking to date. It provides a good model for healthy eating. The basic pyramid, developed by the USDA and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is only one model, however. This pyramid has been adapted for ethnic preferences and there are now pyramids for the Mediterranean diet, the Asian diet and the Latin American diet. Other diets, such as the Hawaiian diet, can also be placed on a food pyramid.
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Training & Fitness

A good exercise program consists of a custom weight training or resistance training regimen based on an individuals overall fitness level.

Weight training strengthens your muscles & bones and is a key element in maintaining a good fitness level. Cardio training is also necessary, however it alone is not enough to have over all true fitness. True fitness incorporates the right combination for your body type. Proper training elevates your metabolism for hours, well after a workout verses cardiovascular training which only lasts as long as the cardio training period itself.

Body Fat & Calories

For each pound of weight that your body carries, it takes about 12 calories per pound per day to keep it alive. If you weigh 150 pounds, you will need about 1,800 calories per day to keep yourself alive and maintain that same weight. Eating more than 1,800 calories per day, will cause the body to turn those extra calorie into fat. It takes about 3,600 excess calories to make one pound of fat.
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Twenty years ago, the food enemy was fat. Today, it’s carbs. From diets to restaurant menus to supermarkets, we’ve become a low-carb nation. Is that good? Depends on how far you take it. Going low-carb without paying attention to total calories may mean you won’t lose weight and you might even gain.

The American Heart Association and the American College of Preventive Medicine both held national conferences recently. The topic of concern on this low-carb trend is that the emphasis should be on the rest of the calories they were taking in–especially those from fat Eat too many calories and you won’t lose weight; you might even gain weight. People that focus on low-carbohydrate intake, are missing this point.

There has been an increase in fat and cholesterol intake while fruits and vegetables have decreased in the past few years.
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Fish Oil Capsules are more than just brain food. Recent studies have found an association between consumption of fish oil and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, as well as improvements in other health conditions, such as psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis. The benefits of consuming more fish is directed at the effects derived from omega 3 fatty acids in many fish species.

Support for the use of fish oil capsules primarily comes from three well�known epidemiological studies, two of which were carried on outside of the United States. One study, conducted in the Netherlands, suggested ingestion of as little as 35 grams of fish per day (a single one-half pound meal of fish per week) might help prevent coronary heart disease, possibly significantly reducing mortality due to cardiovascular disease in a 20 year follow up. Further, it has been suggested a regular diet of fish may decrease levels of plasma triglycerides, plasma cholesterol, low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LOL) , and very low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (VLDL)
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