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_______________________________________________________ "Nutrition and Exercise Health Tips" From www.NutrActive.com ---Nutrition and Active Lifestyle Center April 21, 2005 _______________________________________________________ In this issue: 1. Top Sponsor's Ad 2. A Word from the Editor 3. Nutrition Tip: ---Food News You Can Use 4. Recommended Nutritional Reading: ---Outwit Your Weight 5. Joke of the Week 6. Advertisements 7. Exercise Tip: ---Spot Reducing Is for the Laundry 8. Recommended Fitness Reading: ---High Performance Nutrition 9. Important Links to NutrActive ---------------------------------------------------- Please rate this Ezine at the Cumuli Ezine Finder http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725411&s=22882856 ---------------------------------------------------- TOP SPONSOR: Enjoy the Spa Experience with the NeoSkin Facial Mask! NeoSkin Pre-formed Moisture Mask features a specially enriched gel base that stays positioned on your skin. The mask cools instantly while continuously nourishing your face with anti- oxidant vitamins A, C and E. Find out more at: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725412&s=22882856 _______________________________________________________ A word from the editor: The Nutrition Tip this week will help better educate you regarding some new products that have hit the shelves. The Exercise Tip covers spot reducing. Can you do it? And, what to do if you can't! Best of health! Laura _______________________________________________________ This Week's NUTRITION TIP: _______________________________________________________ FOOD NEWS YOU CAN USE Gardenburger Wraps Gardenburger wraps are new in stores. We are mentioning them because we believe they are instructional for a food label reading lesson. They claim 4.5 grams of fat, 19 grams of net carbs, 21 grams of protein on the package. Upon reading the food label, we discover they are relatively low in fat (13%) per serving. And the fiber is excellent at 12 g per serving. BUT the sodium is very high at 1,000 mg per serving for only 300 calories. This means you get almost 50% of your day's supply of sodium in only 15% of the amount of calories. Soy foods are an excellent alternative to products made from meat from a saturated fat standpoint, but they are not always low in sodium. Whole Grain Stamp The Whole Grain Stamp was officially launched on January 20,2005, by the Whole Grains Council. *Good Source stamped products must contain 8 grams of whole grains and count as half a serving of whole grains. *Excellent Source stamped products contain 16 grams (the USDA definition of one serving of whole grains). *100%/Excellent Source stamped products count as a full serving of whole grains and contain no refined grain products. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines recommend at least 3 servings of whole grains each day. For more information, visit online at: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725413&s=22882856 Examples of generally accepted whole-grain foods and flours are amaranth, barley (lightly pearled), brown rice, buckwheat, bulgur, corn and whole cornmeal, emmer, farro, grano (lightly pearled wheat), Kamut(R) grain, millet, oatmeal and whole oats, popcorn, quinoa, sorghum, spelt, triticale, whole rye, whole or cracked wheat, wheat berries and wild rice. Shugr Shugr, a new zero-calorie sweetener made by Swiss Company Swiss Research, Inc., has been in stores since March 2005. Shugr is made from a proprietary blend of erythritol and tagatose. Shugr's ingredients carry a "Generally Recognized As Safe" designation by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. For more information, see www.shugr.com. Although this product is heat stable, we do not think you will be using it as a general substitute for sugar for cooking and baking since a 3.4-ounce bottle costs $12.95. A teaspoon of sugar (6 grams) is replaced by 2 grams of this product. We think we would stick with Splenda for the time being for better price and availability. This product would make a good coffee and tea sweetener substitute for sugar. If you read the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, you will see that most of the added sugars Americans consume come from soft drinks and fruit drinks followed by desserts and treats. Yoplait Heart Healthy Yoplait Heart Healthy yogurt comes with 400 mg of plant sterols, which have been approved by the FDA to carry a cholesterol- lowering claim. Two servings of this yogurt a day would supply 800 mg of plant sterols, which is the bare minimum required to show cholesterol-lowering effects. Upon close inspection, though, we found that this product has 250 calories per one-cup serving. We would suggest going with light versions of yogurt that have half that amount of calories. [Source Communicating Food for Health] ---------------------------------------------------- That concludes this week's Nutrition Tip. >> Read on for the Exercise Tip. << _______________________________________________________ RECOMMENDED NUTRITIONAL READING: Outwit Your Weight: Fat-Proof Your Life With More Than 200 Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Help You Defeat Your Diet Danger Zones by Cathy Nonas, RD, Julia Vantine (Contributor) Cathy knows the secret to successful weight loss as she has shared the secret with thousands of her clients, who have lost thousands of pounds between them. In Outwit Your Weight, she'll share this secret with you. You will learn that weight loss has nothing to do with what you eat. The key is how, when, and why you eat. Discover your own unique diet personality and uncover your Diet Danger Zones, the situations that trigger you to overeat. Then arm yourself with personalized tools to overcome them. This book will not tell you what you can and can't eat. Instead, it is bursting with weight-loss-success strategies-- more than 200 ways to keep eating and exercise behaviors on track. Use this book alone, or with any other diet plan, in virtually any situation, no matter what your schedule, habits, or lifestyle. ORDER NOW! Go to: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725414&s=22882856 _______________________________________________________ This Week's Cartoon, Joke, Cool Site, or Quote: Questions to Ponder: >How do you write zero in Roman numerals? >How many weeks are there in a light year? >If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his walkman? >If athletes get athlete's foot, do astronauts get mistletoe? For more jokes like this, visit Christian Unite Clean Jokes at: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725415&s=22882856 Do you know a funny food/nutrition/fitness related joke? 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Go to the following Web page for more details: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725418&s=22882856 ---------------------------------------------------- NOTE: NutrActive is not responsible for the content our advertisers put in their ads. While we do not allow offensive material/subject matter or get-rich-quick schemes, we are not responsible for false or non-scientific information provided by our sponsors. If you find anything questionable, please feel free to submit you specific question to Laura.RD@NutrActive.com. _______________________________________________________ This Week's EXERCISE TIP: _______________________________________________________ SPOT REDUCING IS FOR THE LAUNDRY by Dianne Villano, CPFI www.custombodiestampabay.com ?· Can you give me an exercise that will get rid of the fat on my stomach? ?· What exercises an I do to tone my thighs? ?· Can you recommend some exercises to make my arms, thighs and stomach smaller and also speed up my weight loss?? I hear questions such as this on a daily basis, both from our clients and from people standing in the grocery line with me who want to know what exercises I do for such ???toned??? arms. Spot reduction works only in the laundry room, ladies and gentleman - there is simply no such thing as localized fat loss. The reality is - muscles which are stimulated with exercise will increase in size, regardless of what type of exercise gadget is used to ???tone??? an area. While resistance training is vital to overall fat loss and sculpting the body that you want, ???overtraining??? an area with the hopes of ???toning??? it will lead to muscle being added disproportionately and the area getting larger. If you build muscle more quickly that you strip fat in any area , it will get bigger. Many people focus on exercising a particular body part which is hidden by fatty tissue in an effort to "burn away" the localized fat and expose toned muscles. No amount of dips, lunges or abdominal work will ???burn??? the fat off in a particular area ??“. Unfortunately, most people cannot see their beautiful toned muscles because they are covered by a layer of body fat . That having been said here are the facts regarding ???spot reducing, toning and ???firming??? 1. Body areas which are not ???toned??? simply contain excess body fat. 2. Physiologically, muscle is always firm. 3. Our bodies are genetically preprogrammed to carry a certain amount in a particular body area. 4. The area of the body that first notices a decrease in body fat will vary from person to person ??“ it is genetically pre- determined. 5. In order to lose fat from your body an energy ???deficit??? must occur (i.e. you must burn more calories than you consume. 6. It is impossible to ???firm??? fat , nor can you ???tone??? muscle. 7. No one can predict which area of their body will lose fat first. 8. Eventually you WILL experience fat loss in the more difficult areas. Tips for a ???toned???, firm you 1. Perform a well rounded resistance program at least 2 days a week to add lean body mass (muscle) to your frame, sculpt and shape your body . This will increase your ability to burn fat and food calories as well as your ability to sculpt your body just as you would like it. (each pound of muscle burns approximately 40 calories metabolically, each pound of fat about 3). 2. Perform a minimum of three 30 minute sessions of cardiovascular training each week to stimulate fat loss. 3. Watch your serving sizes and portions, eat a balanced diet of carbohydrates, fats and proteins (The American Heart Association recommends a general guideline of 60% of your calories from carbohydrates, 20% from fats & 20 % from protein) . Calories DO count, if you eat more than you burn you will add fat regardless of the source. 4. Use common sense and keep refined sugars, sodas and processed foods to a minimum. 5. Drink a minimum of 64 ounces of water each day. Copyright ?© Custom Bodies, Inc. 2004 ---------------------- About the author: Article written by Dianne Villano, President of Custom Bodies Personal Training and Weight Loss Programs. Dianne is a personal fitness instructor certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine with over 16 years experience who specializes in weight loss programs and programs for beginners. For more articles or free fitness tools visit: www.custombodiestampabay.com _______________________________________________________ RECOMMENDED FITNESS READING: High Performance Nutrition: The Total Eating Plan to Maximize Your Workout by Susan M. Kleiner, Ph.D., RD and Maggie Greenwood-Robinson This book covers a range of basic nutrition topics important to optimize your performance including carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water. Chapters in this book cover supplements, weight control, and special needs with diet plans and charts mixed throughout the text. It presents useful information on herbs and mineral supplements. ORDER NOW! Go to: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725419&s=22882856 _______________________________________________________ Check out other books on exercise, go to: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725420&s=22882856 _______________________________________________________ Select from the biggest list of Free Newsletters and Ezine on the Internet. Go to WorldMegastore Newsletters: http://srv.ezinedirector.net/?n=725421&s=22882856 _______________________________________________________ "Nutrition and Exercise Health Tip" is written weekly by Laura S. Garrett who is a Registered Dietitian (RD), Licensed Dietitian (LD), and fitness trainer. For questions or comments, please e- mail Laura at: Laura.RD@NutrActive.com. _______________________________________________________ Be sure to check out all the great services NutrActive offers. 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