Hot Fitness Trend

While staying healthy and fit is always in fashion, exercise trends come and go. (Anyone remember 

 step aerobics?) If you’re someone who’s happy with your long-time fitness regimen, by all means keep doing it—but remember that our bodies can become accustomed to performing the same exercises over and over, meaning you may see fewer results from your hard work. Consider shaking things up from time to time with one of these hot workout trends:

Indoor cycling classes. While indoor cycling, or spinning, has been around for a couple of decades, the addition of several new features has caused a surge in popularity. The basics remain the same: led by an instructor, you pedal alongside others to a motivating soundtrack, sometimes with the lights dimmed for ambience. But now, new technology that lets you know how hard you’re working. "All [the] bike manufacturers are making power meters," says Pete McCall, an American Council on Exercise (ACE) spokesperson and ACE-certified personal trainer in San Diego. Power meters attach to the bike and display wattage, a unit of measurement that shows how much power a rider is generating with each wheel rotation. Most power meters also display calories burned. This kind of feedback can be immensely satisfyingat the end of a workout, and gives cyclists a way to set goals beyond time and mileage.

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maintaining healthy glucose

Maintaining healthy blood glucose (sugar) levels is the cornerstone of diabetes management. However, data increasingly shows that for diabetes patients 65 and older, aiming for very low daily blood sugars or A1C (average blood glucose over several months) levels may not provide benefits, and may even cause harm.

As the authors of a JAMA Internal Medicine study put it, "Older persons, particularly those with complex medical problems, may derive less benefit from intensive strategies to lower glucose levels and are more susceptible to hypoglycemia [low blood sugar] and its consequences than younger, healthier persons."

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NUTRITION

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Nutrition is a branch of biochemistry that is concerned with the components of food and the processes they undergo to supply the body with energy and nourishment. It quantitatively determines how much of these components or nutrients are contributed by what food and the effect of their deficiency, low or excess supply, on the body.

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FOOD AND WEIGHT.

The human body is living engine, a labyrinth of activities, even at rest or during sleep the body requires energy for the brain to work, for the heart to beat, for the eyes to blink and for the digestive system to work. We all need energy to sweat, breathe, eat, laugh, and perform such daily activities like bathing, cooking, washing, driving, writing, walking. This energy is derived from the food we eat

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Keeping your carbohydrates under control

Keeping your carbohydrates under control

The majority of the foods you’ve come to crave are insulin-including carbohydrate and many foods that have long been considered healthy, like white rice, most breads, baked potatoes and even pasta, can dramatically increase your glycemic response.

Non  insulin inducing carbohydrates, help your body maintain a steady sugar level and do not create a strong gylcemic reponse.

Desired insulin and Glucose levels to promote optimum body fat utilization.

Carbohydrates what is normal?

Your brain nervous system and muscle need glucose for energy. Your body gets most of its glucose from carbohydrate you eat, and it can also manufacture glucose on its own. Most people eat far more carbohydrates than they need to maintain a normal blood sugar level. A healthy adult’s average normal total blood sugar is around 5 grams, which is about 1 teaspoon. Compare that to a single, 300ml soft drink, which packs about 40 grams, or 8 times that amount of sugar.

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sport nutrition

SPORT NUTRITION'S

1. The Energy to Win!

Our cells are like microscopic energy making machines and just like machines; they need to be properly maintained to remain in good working order.

When your cells don’t receive the correct nutritional ‘fuel’ they become sluggish and efficient-and so do you!

Athletes and active sports-people are even more aware of this feeling than the average person. By putting additional physical demands on their body, sports people have increase nutritional requirements. Like so many of us, don’t pay enough to their diet and that can have serious consequence for their performance and long term well-being!

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BODY AND NUTRITION

BODY AND NUTRITION

We all need a daily well balanced diet for optimal health, feeding the body at cellular

level. You need to properly maintain your cells for proper health, with the right daily balanced diet, including foods from all SIX major foods groups. You’re the only one who can supply the essential nutrients to keep your cells in top in working order.

To give your energy levels and vitality a boost, simply give your body the nutrients it requires for healthy cells. It is easy to do this with a daily serving from your 17 diet plan meal which has the secret to cellular energy.

IMPORTANT FACTS

1.Our nutritional diet meal plan dictates what we need to balance our diets with the following :protein, carbohydrates, mineral, vitamins, enzymes.

2.A chain is as strong as it’s weakest link

3.These six links are of vital importance and with anyone missing life is impossible.

4.The majority of people worldwide have a deficiency of one or more of these nutrients

  in their daily diet, making supplement an absolute must.

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