Its Official... 114 ladies are taking part in our Race for Life training program this year.... watch out for us on the 2nd July... taking our training to the streets of the Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester.
Joe
Saturday 21 May 2011
114 Ladies On Board For The Race For Life Training Program!
Its Official... 114 ladies are taking part in our Race for Life training program this year.... watch out for us on the 2nd July... taking our training to the streets of the Highcross Shopping Centre in Leicester.
Joe
Friday 20 May 2011
How to enjoy a guilt-free holiday
Summer is upon us once again and it’s likely that many of you will be taking a holiday for a week or two. Whether it’s at home in the UK or overseas, the chances are that you’ll be relaxing and having a good time, which will inevitably mean loosening up on your regular diet and exercise routine. In turn this could lead to you worrying about weight gain.
However, providing you lead a healthy lifestyle throughout the rest of the year, one or two weeks of relaxing won’t hurt you at all. I always say that it’s not what you eat between Christmas and New Year that does the damage, but what you eat between New Year and Christmas. The same thing applies with holidays.
There are a few simple rules to bear in mind while you are on holiday:
1) Always eat breakfast as soon as you get up. Then try to eat every couple of hours to keep your energy up and your blood sugar stable.
2) Incorporate protein into every meal
3) Drink plenty of water – especially if you are somewhere hot.
You may be pleased to know that you might even find it easier to lose weight while you’re away, simply because you’re in a better state of mind. Away from the pressures of everyday life – work, home and your hectic schedule – you are more relaxed. Also, the sun does wonders for your mood which means that you’re less prone to eating out of boredom and because you have to bare all you are generally more conscious about what you’re eating.
When you’re at home in your usual routine you are more stressed which is a huge contributor to weight gain, you work long hours and the weather is normally dull, so it stands to reason that a holiday is good for you.
So eat, drink and have a great time on your holiday without feeling guilty if you over-indulge. You will come back feeling so much better for it and can return to your healthy lifestyle when you get home.
Have a great holiday wherever you choose to go!
Joe
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Q&A - Sam, answers our members most pressing questions...
One of the most common questions I get asked by clients is why do you we recommend taking Fish oils, Multivitamins and Food Enzyme as their daily essential supplement and why do we recommend Nature's Sunshine products over any other brands?
Answer:
Reason #1: Insufficient nutrients in our food: We can't get all the essential nutrients we need from food alone. Of course, nature intended our food supply to provide us with the nutrients we need - and those nutrients would have been sufficient in our food of 100 years ago. But our food today is highly processed, genetically modified and prepared in a way that often destroys much of the nutritional content. According to Dr. Rakowski, "Our farm industry's fertilizers often contain only nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium which have lead our soils to be 73% less nutritious. So what happens is this malnutrition in the soil becomes malnutrition in the plants, becomes malnutrition in the animals and becomes malnutrition in humans." This then leads us on to our next point 'Processed and Refined Foods'.
Reason #2: Processed And Refined Foods: When you cook food improperly, such as by using a microwave, you risk reducing its nutritional value. Also, many foods that are used in fast-food restaurants are processed. For example, the processing that converts brown rice into white rice reduces the fibre content by about 75 percent and also reduces nutrients such as iron, niacin, thiamin, folacin, potassium and vitamins E and B6.
This is why it is very important to have the finest multivitamin (Super Supplemental Vits and Mins) which is made with nature ingredients and does not contain any artificial colours, sweeteners or additives like your typical high street multivitamin.
Reason #3: Poor digestion. If our digestive systems functioned optimally, we wouldn't need as many high-quality nutrients in supplement form - but that is not the case. It is estimated that one half of the UK population produces insufficient stomach acid, which diminishes the ability to absorb nutrients from food and can increase inflammation, stomach bacteria and numerous other health issues such as bloating, stomach pain and even depression. Incidentally, one of the reasons for low stomach acid is a deficiency in vitamin B. The product that helps with is called 'Food Enzyme'. This supplement helps to improve digestion and you take 3 per day with each meal and each capsule helps you digest a least 30g of protein, 30g carbs and 20g of fat.
Reason #4: We Live In A Polluted World: The US Environmental Protection Agency published a report in 2002 that said more than 7.1 billion pounds of 650 different chemicals had been released into the air or water - and 266 of these chemicals are associated with birth defects. For the past 28 years Dr. Mark Schauss, MBA, DB, has been studying medical research concerning the effects of toxins on our health. Says Schauss, "In a study by an environmental group on people not working in industry, such as teachers and journalists, the researchers found that the blood of the subjects contained nearly 100 chemicals that did not exist 40 years ago."
Many of these pollutants can be detoxified by natural supplements such as glycine, vitamin C, selenium which can be from Nature's Sunshine.
Reason #5: Inadequate Supply Of Good Fats In The Body: Our seas are one of the most polluted places on earth. As a result it is near on impossible to receive the benefits of omega-3's through food alone. Nature's Sunshine supply us with a product called 'Omega 3'. They extract their fish oils from fresh water fish in some of the few areas we still find healthy fish (salmon and mackerel). It is not cod liver oil as cod feed on the surface of our polluted seas and their oil is extracted from the liver, which is the most toxic place of the fish and taken from cod which is one of the most toxic fish in the sea. Cod Liver is a very poor source of fish oil, which is why it is cheap but will do very little for your health.
My opinion is that the initial goals regarding nutrition should be to strive to improve our diets and to use supplements to ensure we are receiving the essential nutrients. After that, then you can start looking at all the other performance and health benefits of targeted supplementation, such as improving workout recovery, countering the effects of environmental toxins, accelerating fat loss.
Now let us move on to the reason why we recommend Nature's Sunshine Products:
Quite simply, we do not recommend other products because Nature's Sunshine supplements are the best we have found on the market, and if we found any better products, we would recommend those to you instead. These are products that we have researched extensively and I have tried and tested supplement protocols for many years -Nature's Sunshine is without a shadow of a doubt the number product for several reasons of which I am going to reveal to you today:
Reason #1: The Largest Company In The Industry: Nature's Sunshine is the largest encapslator of herbs, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients in the world. They distribute to over 70 countries worldwide and have the largest products range of any supplement company.
Reason #2: Manufacturing Excellence: Nature's Sunshine have led the way and pioneered quality control in the supplement industry. With more than 300 different quality control test on each raw ingredient, Nature's Sunshine far surpass the standard adopted by competitors or any official regulatory requirements. All Nature's Sunshine products are manufactured to pharmaceutical standards, good manufacturing practices and good laboratory practices and finally Nature's Sunshine is a Food and Drug Administration approved manufacturer.
Reason #3: Finest Organic Ingredients: Nature's Sunshine use the very best natural organic ingredients from across the world. Every ingredient is tested for the presence of the contaminants, and if are found then the ingredient is rejected and will not be used. The ingredients are manufactured in their own state of the art, award winning manufacturing facility.
Reason #4: Not all Supplements Are Created Equal: In addition to using the finest ingredients, the correct plants and herbs need to be used, the herbs need to be harvested at the right time of the year and each herb contain a specific profile and quantity of active ingredients. These are standards practises adopted with each ingredients used in Nature's Sunshine.
Reason #5: Team Of Experts: The Nature's Sunshine manufacturing plant extend over 263,000 square feet, sitting on 6 acres, housing extensive research teams of dedicated experts including botanists, herbalist, biologist, nutritionists, pharmacist, pharmacologists and pharmacognosists.
I hope this information has given you a clear insight into why we need supplements and the reason behind why we only supply Nature's Sunshine products. Should you have any questions about the above please don't hesitate to email me sam@resultsweightloss.co.uk
Sam
Reference/Studies:
1. Charles Polquin
2. Nature's Sunshine.
Answer:
Reason #1: Insufficient nutrients in our food: We can't get all the essential nutrients we need from food alone. Of course, nature intended our food supply to provide us with the nutrients we need - and those nutrients would have been sufficient in our food of 100 years ago. But our food today is highly processed, genetically modified and prepared in a way that often destroys much of the nutritional content. According to Dr. Rakowski, "Our farm industry's fertilizers often contain only nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium which have lead our soils to be 73% less nutritious. So what happens is this malnutrition in the soil becomes malnutrition in the plants, becomes malnutrition in the animals and becomes malnutrition in humans." This then leads us on to our next point 'Processed and Refined Foods'.
Reason #2: Processed And Refined Foods: When you cook food improperly, such as by using a microwave, you risk reducing its nutritional value. Also, many foods that are used in fast-food restaurants are processed. For example, the processing that converts brown rice into white rice reduces the fibre content by about 75 percent and also reduces nutrients such as iron, niacin, thiamin, folacin, potassium and vitamins E and B6.
This is why it is very important to have the finest multivitamin (Super Supplemental Vits and Mins) which is made with nature ingredients and does not contain any artificial colours, sweeteners or additives like your typical high street multivitamin.
Reason #3: Poor digestion. If our digestive systems functioned optimally, we wouldn't need as many high-quality nutrients in supplement form - but that is not the case. It is estimated that one half of the UK population produces insufficient stomach acid, which diminishes the ability to absorb nutrients from food and can increase inflammation, stomach bacteria and numerous other health issues such as bloating, stomach pain and even depression. Incidentally, one of the reasons for low stomach acid is a deficiency in vitamin B. The product that helps with is called 'Food Enzyme'. This supplement helps to improve digestion and you take 3 per day with each meal and each capsule helps you digest a least 30g of protein, 30g carbs and 20g of fat.
Reason #4: We Live In A Polluted World: The US Environmental Protection Agency published a report in 2002 that said more than 7.1 billion pounds of 650 different chemicals had been released into the air or water - and 266 of these chemicals are associated with birth defects. For the past 28 years Dr. Mark Schauss, MBA, DB, has been studying medical research concerning the effects of toxins on our health. Says Schauss, "In a study by an environmental group on people not working in industry, such as teachers and journalists, the researchers found that the blood of the subjects contained nearly 100 chemicals that did not exist 40 years ago."
Many of these pollutants can be detoxified by natural supplements such as glycine, vitamin C, selenium which can be from Nature's Sunshine.
Reason #5: Inadequate Supply Of Good Fats In The Body: Our seas are one of the most polluted places on earth. As a result it is near on impossible to receive the benefits of omega-3's through food alone. Nature's Sunshine supply us with a product called 'Omega 3'. They extract their fish oils from fresh water fish in some of the few areas we still find healthy fish (salmon and mackerel). It is not cod liver oil as cod feed on the surface of our polluted seas and their oil is extracted from the liver, which is the most toxic place of the fish and taken from cod which is one of the most toxic fish in the sea. Cod Liver is a very poor source of fish oil, which is why it is cheap but will do very little for your health.
My opinion is that the initial goals regarding nutrition should be to strive to improve our diets and to use supplements to ensure we are receiving the essential nutrients. After that, then you can start looking at all the other performance and health benefits of targeted supplementation, such as improving workout recovery, countering the effects of environmental toxins, accelerating fat loss.
Now let us move on to the reason why we recommend Nature's Sunshine Products:
Quite simply, we do not recommend other products because Nature's Sunshine supplements are the best we have found on the market, and if we found any better products, we would recommend those to you instead. These are products that we have researched extensively and I have tried and tested supplement protocols for many years -Nature's Sunshine is without a shadow of a doubt the number product for several reasons of which I am going to reveal to you today:
Reason #1: The Largest Company In The Industry: Nature's Sunshine is the largest encapslator of herbs, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients in the world. They distribute to over 70 countries worldwide and have the largest products range of any supplement company.
Reason #2: Manufacturing Excellence: Nature's Sunshine have led the way and pioneered quality control in the supplement industry. With more than 300 different quality control test on each raw ingredient, Nature's Sunshine far surpass the standard adopted by competitors or any official regulatory requirements. All Nature's Sunshine products are manufactured to pharmaceutical standards, good manufacturing practices and good laboratory practices and finally Nature's Sunshine is a Food and Drug Administration approved manufacturer.
Reason #3: Finest Organic Ingredients: Nature's Sunshine use the very best natural organic ingredients from across the world. Every ingredient is tested for the presence of the contaminants, and if are found then the ingredient is rejected and will not be used. The ingredients are manufactured in their own state of the art, award winning manufacturing facility.
Reason #4: Not all Supplements Are Created Equal: In addition to using the finest ingredients, the correct plants and herbs need to be used, the herbs need to be harvested at the right time of the year and each herb contain a specific profile and quantity of active ingredients. These are standards practises adopted with each ingredients used in Nature's Sunshine.
Reason #5: Team Of Experts: The Nature's Sunshine manufacturing plant extend over 263,000 square feet, sitting on 6 acres, housing extensive research teams of dedicated experts including botanists, herbalist, biologist, nutritionists, pharmacist, pharmacologists and pharmacognosists.
I hope this information has given you a clear insight into why we need supplements and the reason behind why we only supply Nature's Sunshine products. Should you have any questions about the above please don't hesitate to email me sam@resultsweightloss.co.uk
Sam
Reference/Studies:
1. Charles Polquin
2. Nature's Sunshine.
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