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Vitamin B, The Complex Vitamin(s)

When someone tells you that you should take Vitamin B they normally mean a B vitamin complex. Most people that know anything about Vitamin B know that it takes many forms and serves many purposes. These days you mainly see B Vitamins pitched as the energy vitamin in various drinks that are mainly sugar and caffeine. They are giving B vitamins a bad name. It’s the whole guilty by association type thing. Some people take all sorts of B vitamins thinking that they are doing their body a good thing and most of it just goes to waste.

B Vitamins are a water soluble vitamin. What your body doesn’t need or use, it disposes of through urination. You may find that after you take a B Vitamin or a multi-vitamin with a lot of B Vitamins you urinate a bright yellow or greenish color. That’s waste. That’s what your body does with the things it doesn’t need…that it can dispose of. It’s just too bad that your body doesn’t dispose of excess sugars and fats that it doesn’t need. Instead it stored them for energy later.

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Vitamin Week, Where Better To Start With Than Vitamin A?

Vitamins are an essential part of your diet. If you eat right then you probably get just enough of what you need. If you don’t or you are a picky eater, then you might need to take a multivitamin supplement. Sometimes it’s not a bad idea to take one anyway.

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin, meaning it can be stored in fat cells and is harder for the body to dispose of excess like it can with water soluble vitamins. Taken in excess, vitamin A can be toxic.

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Xanthinol Nicotinate..What The Hell Is That?

I’ve talked about many other supplement ingredients before, mainly the main ones though like Arginine, Taurine, and Creatine. One I’m going to talk about really quick is one that you probably wouldn’t have a clue about unless you looked it up like I did. I’ve seen this before but just didn’t Google it until yesterday. So what is Xanthinol Nicotinate?

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Quitting Is Not Always The Easy Way Out

Depending on what you’re quitting, it’s not always the easy way out. If You’re quitting an addiction or habit it’s not easy. Quitting smoking for some people comes easy and for others it’s the hardest thing they have ever attempted. For some it’s the strong addiction to nicotine that makes it tough to quit. For others it’s the simple habit that seems difficult. For most it’s a combination of the two.

Some people can quit cold-turkey. Some use nicotine supplements as aids to help wean them off of the high addictive and toxic drug. I have a friend that used to smoke two packs a day and quit using the patch. He used to tell me that it should come easy for me because I only smoked a pack every two days or so. If you’ve been doing it for just about every day of your life for the past 15 years it’s never easy.

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The Ab Coaster…The Next "Revolutionary" Overpriced Machine To Target Your Abdominal Muscles.

The next TV ad for the next revolutionary ab machine is The Ab Coaster. A rather large machine that is made to target your abs. It can be yo9urs for on 4 payments of $99.95. Holy crap! $400 for an ab machine? Are you serious?

NOTICE!!! THEY NEVER SHOW AND OVERWEIGHT OR OUT OF SHAPE PERSON USING ONE OF THESE MACHINES EVEN THOUGH THAT IS THE AUDIENCE THEY ARE TAGETING.

Ok, Sorry about the caps lock but that’s exactly who they are hoping buys this. The people actually using this machine did NOT get that way by using the Ab Coaster.

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International Reset Your Life Day

Happy New Year…or as I have just recently heard, International Reset Your Life Day. Remember when you were a kid the video game consoles had a “Reset” button on them. There was no saving, there was only starting over. If you weren’t doing as well as you’d like to you could just hit that button and start all over. Well it’s 2009 now and that button has just been hit. How you play the game is totally up to you.

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Now That Christmas Is Over, Part 2

Hydration: Water, Water, Water. Drink more water. Water won’t necessarily curb your appetite but it may help you feel more full. It’s always good to drink a lot of water, but just remember that there is such thing as too much water. Proper hydration will make you feel better, feel less fatigued and keeps your mind sharp.

Diet And Exercise: Losing any holiday weight or weight in general is not an easy task and it’s often a new year’s resolution that becomes short lived and some keep packing on the pounds. Eating right is the first step, but exercising is key to burning calories. You need some form of physical activity. While saying “I burn hundreds of calories in my sleep” may be a true statement, it still doesn’t hold any water to the fact that only cutting calories will not help you lose weight in a healthy way. Cutting the right calories is also key. Still eating Ho-Ho’s and Ding Dong’s but still cutting your calories is not the right way to go. Cutting fatty and sugar calories is the first step in my opinion. It doesn’t mean that you should cut all fats and sugars out. Consuming the right sugars and fats from the right sources is key.

Don’t Over-Do it: Consult your physician if you plan on exercising but haven’t done so in a long time. Start off at a moderate to slow pace. If you start exercising too strenuous right out of the gate it can back-fire for various reasons. The biggest problem is that people try too hard in the first few days and it breaks them down. You’ll have muscle soreness and fatigue like you haven’t had in a long time and this can be rather discouraging. Don’t over-do it. Keep it fun and keep it simple. Later on you can make your routines more complicated.

Set A Goal: Start off by setting a goal that is believable and achievable. That means don’t set your goals too high. Make them challenging yet achievable. Telling yourself that you’re going to lose 50 pounds by February is something that sounds great when you say it, but when you start trying to make progress it seems like an unreachable goal. If you desire to lose that much weight then tell yourself your going to lose 10 lbs in January. See how you progress at the end of January and set a new goal for February.

There are a variety of ways to get (back) on a healthy track after the holidays or even after living a not so healthy lifestyle for a long time. Finding what works best for you, can be tough but keeping on track is even tougher. And here’s a little secret…you don;t have to wait until the new year to start. It’s all up to you.

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Now That Christmas Is Over, Part 1.

Now that Christmas is over and most of the leftovers are gone, what do we do? Another Holiday right around the corner, but that’s associated with drinking more than it is eating. Some people may still have time off or took vacation during the holidays to stay home and relax. Relaxing can be a great thing but sometimes when you sit around a lot, boredom tell you to eat.

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Beer Might Make Your Boobs Grow

Manswers, the television show that is full of mostly useless information that only men want to know, got me thinking the other night. The segment was titled How Can Beer Make Your Girlfriend’s Boobs Bigger and can be viewed below. I don’t watch this show regularly, but every now and then I’ll surf on it and it catches my interest. This segments was about the way that hops in beer contributes to the growth of breast tissue because they contain phytoestrogens. What does this mean? This actually means that this might work for men too. The more beer you drink that is rich in hops, you may be more likely to develop “Man-boobs” because of these phytoestrogens that act like estrogen agonists that may…or may not cause your body to produce more estrogen.

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President Elect Obama Looking Fit!

President Elect Barrack Obama took his family on vacation to Hawaii recently and the paparazzi didn’t waste a moment to get some snapshots of his family in their bathing suits. I think it’s kind of creepy and privacy intrusive for them to be taking pictures of his young daughters, but that’s the evil of the paparazzi.

Our president is looking quite fit for his age. Many of our presidents have been seen jogging or trying to stay fit in one way or another, so it’s nice to see that our president to be also takes care of himself. Hopefully he’ll take care of our beloved country as well.

Image Credit: Bauer-Griffin

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