Healthy Notes » Energy http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog Helpful Hints For Living Well Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:58:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1
Best Cleanse? Fruit and Juice http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/03/best-cleanse-fruit-and-juice/ http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2010/03/best-cleanse-fruit-and-juice/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:55:01 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=147 It all sounds good on the package, but I just don’t personally buy it. There are people that swear that we should all be doing a couple 2 week cleanses each year, but I believe thy have been sold a bill of goods. It is a nice dream that we can eat crappy all year and then do a 2 week cleanse and undo all of the past year, this is the promise that these cleansing product espouse on there product labeling.

If you really want to detoxify your system for a few days just do a fruit and juice cleanse for 3 days. Eat and drink all the fruit and juice you want. This will give your body a nice break from all the hard to digest foods that we normally eat daily. You will probably drop 5 pounds in the process if you are lucky.

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Our body stores all its reserve protein in our muscles. When we don’t eat sufficient protein in our diets our body will begin to cannibalize our own muscle tissue as its only source of more protein. The body’s metabolic rate is solely determined by how much lean muscle mass we have on our frame. Our metabolic rate is what determines the efficiency of out body’s ability to burn caloric energy. Without adequate protein we destroy our lean muscle tissue and in turn destroy our metabolisms. So, by the time we are 40 we have begun to loose much of our lean muscle tissue and have replaced the tissue with fat. And then we wonder why our metabolic rate is so slow.

When people diet they only increase this muscle loss scenario. Most diet programs today focus only on total weight loss, and unfortunately a lot of this weight loss is loss of healthy muscle tissue. When the diet is over you have lost some weight, but the weight usually comes back on, because your metabolic rate has been decreased by the effects of a diet with low protein. When choosing a diet program to follow you need to pick one that understands this and focuses on protein intake while loosing weight. This is the only type of dieting that is in the long run is even worth pursuing. Otherwise your weight loss will only be temporary.

It is almost impossible for an individual to take in to much protein. The idea that to much protein is a health concern has been completely disproven.  Eat as much protein as you can particularly if you are restricting calories.

]]> http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2009/11/eat-more-protien/feed/ 1 New Form Of B-12 As Effective As Injections? http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2009/11/new-form-of-b-12-as-effective-as-injections/ http://www.guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/2009/11/new-form-of-b-12-as-effective-as-injections/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:51 +0000 admin http://guaranteedtosleep.com/blog/?p=9 For years people have had B-12 injections to help with energy levels. For years the traditional form of B-12 has been available at health food stores worldwide.

The traditional form of B-12 is called cyanocobalamin, and truth be told it never did a darn thing for me in years past. Whenever people told me about the sublingual B-12 helping them I thought it was all in their mind, and I felt that the injections were the only way to truly elevate ones serum blood levels of B-12. It turns out that for the most part I was right in my analysis.

Recent studies have demonstrated that the traditional nutritional supplement B-12(cyanocobalamin) does not increase serum blood levels of B-12 that significantly.  But, there is a new form of B-12 that has been on the market for a couple of years called methylcobalamin. The problem is that most people don’t realize just how vastly superior this form is when compared to cyanocobalamin. Methylcobalamin raises serum B-12 at more than double the rate as the older form.

I use methylcobalamin almost every afternoon when I often get that after lunch energy lull. It is a great alternative for those wanting to cut back on caffeine for energy and a much healthier alternative. I have recommended it to hundreds of people locally and have got awesome feedback. Even to the point of many people opting to discontinue there use of injections in favor of methylcobalamin.

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