Fitness 19 Hours

Yesterday when I was helping my son, Thomas, flip from school gear to Karate gear in the gym bathroom, he laid it on me. “You know, dad, if a bathroom is yucky and not very clean, you need to use Kaboom to get it sparkly and shiny.” Yes….my 5-year old son had been told exactly what he needed for a nice clean bathroom during an episode of Power Rangers Samurai. HIYA!!! Cute and innocent? Sure. A Different Message But what if the message isn’t about a clean bathroom? What if the message is about YOU? What if the message is about your health, fitness, self-esteem, and body image? The cuteness starts to fade, doesn’t it? It’s not cute when you are led to believe that fitness what you see on the cover of a fitness or fashion magazine when those images have been cropped, cut, and airbrushed beyond belief. It’s not cute when they show you the digital graphic of the belly fat just shrinking away from that one tiny pill that cures all your weight loss needs. It’s not cute when they tell yo...

It’s impossible to bring up The Dark Knight Rises without mentioning the tragedy that struck those innocent movie goers in Aurora in the same breath. And while this post is not about this terrible incident, I feel compelled to say that my heart and my thoughts are with those victims and their families. I wish them peace in their hearts and minds. Shifting gears. My wife and I did indeed go see the movie. And while we have a difference of opinion on how it ended (I was right ; ), we both agreed that is was very well done. From the acting to the action, nice job! A very good film indeed. And you know what? There was one message that really stuck with me. Tiny spoiler alert! Bruce Wayne finds himself beaten, battered, and imprisoned in an underground prison. The only way out is through a well that leads to ground level, but many men have died trying to escape. Only one person has ever made it to the top. And that person was a child. Failed attempts. Having heard the story of the c...

The world’s largest auto company, General Motors (GM), has released their own diet plan. The General Motors diet plan or GM diet plan is the result of an effort by GM to give its employees a tool to lose Wa weight and be healthier. Since its release, the GM diet plan has become something of a worldwide sensation with thousands of people subscribing to its tenets. The GM diet is basically a low protein, high fruit and vegetable type of diet, low in fat and heavy on fiber. The diet runs in a seven day cycle and is organized upon a strict regimen of combinations of foods and liquids for each day of the cycle. The cycle starts with days one through four that consist mainly of fruits and some vegetables. Meat is not introduced until day five and only allowed in small quantities on days five and six. Day seven switches back to fruits veggies and brown rice before starting over again on day one. It is important on this diet to get plenty of rest, many participants complain of lethargy and ti...

Did you know that most people who are overweight are so because they are dehydrated? Water helps keep your metabolism rate high and a lack of it can contribute to weight gain. Today you can learn about the water diet and how it has helped many people win their battle with weight loss. The water diet has been proven to help people lose weight and increase their metabolism at the same time. Drinking water increases your body’s ability to get rid of toxins and helps promote a healthier body for you as well. Now let’s learn about the diet itself. The diet consists of only 5 days of truly dieting. On day one you must drink 8 glasses of water and can eat nothing but apples. What the apples do is help prepare your liver so that it can get ready to detoxify your body. Keep the water you drink ice cold so that your body will have to warm it up which in turn will increase your metabolism. Stay strong on day one and you should not feel hungry since you can eat apples. On day 2 add two glasses of ...

The prescription drug coumadin is one of the most widely prescribed anti-coagulant medications used in the world today. Appropriate for patients suffering from many vascular diseases including heart attack, stroke and deep vein thrombosis, coumadin treatment is a therapeutic intervention that has helped to save millions of lives from the threat of deadly blood clots .  However, as with many drugs, it is important to know that certain foods can interact with coumadin to reduce its overall effectiveness. Avoiding these interactions and enhancing a patient’s overall health is the ultimate goal of guidelines for the coumadin diet. Of primary concern when looking at a coumadin patient’s diet is keeping the intake of foods that contain Vitamin K very consistent from day to day. Because Vitamin K is known to reduce the overall effectiveness of coumadin, significant changes in the amount of the vitamin in the body will change the amount of coumadin needed to avoid clots. Keeping a steady ...