Foods

An Athlete's Diet

Diet is the sum total of all activity. It includes all the foods, beverages, and snacks that are eaten, which contains all the proteins, carbohydrates and fats, vitamins, minerals, fibers, required... Read more

Pomegranate

The pomegranate (punica granatum) is a fruit bearing plant. The pomegranate is a shrub or small tree. It is cultivated for its fruit. Its history dates back to antiquity where in Ancient Greek... Read more

  • Grass

    Barley grass is considered the most nutritional of the green grasses.   Green grasses are the only food many animals eat. It therefore must meet all their nutritional needs. Grasses are the…

  • Chlorella

    Chlorella is a unicellular, green algae that is protected by a strong cell wall. In order to obtain the algae's library of phytonutrients, this wall must be broken. Some strains of chlorella…

  • Omega-3 Fats

    An ideal diet should obtain between fifteen and twenty percent of its total calories from fat. The American diet provides over forty percent of calories in the form of fats and…

  • Spirulina

    Spirulina is a unicellular, aquatic blue-green algae.  They belong to a group known as cyanobacteria and thrive in warm, alkaline water.  They floursh and are able to survive an extreme…

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Female Athletes

Female Athletes

Women have been part of the main stream exercise world for some time now.   Exercise nutrition however, as it pertains specifically to women, is sorely lacking.   In general, the best way to... Read more

Aging & Fat

One of the unfortunate changes that accompany aging is an increase in body fat.   Increased body fat is the single greatest reason why so many women chose to diet.   Abdominal fat increases... Read more

  • Demands of Exercise

    Demands of Exercise   A female athlete’s metabolic demands are much higher than those of sedentary women.  This is best illustrated in exercise.   During exercise, a woman is exposed to a level of stress that…

  • Bone Health

    A brief review of bone dynamics is included below to illustrate the relationship between mineral metabolism and hormones. Bone tissue contains cells that are responsible for bone formation and degradation…

  • 3 Exercise and Women

     The Female Athlete  The Athlete’s Solution recommends intense exercise and sound nutrition to prevent disease.  The nutrients recommended include colorful complex carbohydrates, omega 3 fatty acids, olive oil and a host…

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    All females need to exercise regularly. At a minimum, a female should participate in aerobic exercise for least 45 minutes, four times per week. In addition, it is a good idea…

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Drugs

Recreational Drugs

Inactivity is America's core problem. Instead of movement, Americans have grown to depend on drugs; pharmaceutical drugs, recreational drugs, any and all kinds of drugs. The biological process by which all these... Read more

Performance Enhancement Drugs

The dietary supplement industry was started by medicinal charlatans. Entrepreneurs, whose expertise was in business and marketing, not health and science. Garage startup, little investment and no regulation, entrepreneurial nirvana for... Read more

  • Designer Drugs

      On September 26, 2012, Sons of Anarchy star, Johnny Lewis killed his landlandy and her cat before taking his own life. Blamed for the tragedy was a drug called 2C-I, which…

  • Opioids

    Opioids are, along with obesity, diabetes and heart disease what I call 'the triumvirate of nutritional diseases', a deadly medley of self-inflicted illnesses. Over the millennia the opium poppy plant (papaver…

  • Cocaine

         Cocaine and amphetamines are psychic stimulants that alter behavior by prolonging the actions of neurotransmitter. Cocaine is a natural botanical alkaloid. It is obtained from the coca plant and its mechanism…

  • Molly

     MDMA (3,4-methylene dioxy-N-methy amphetamine) is a street drug in the amphetamine class of drugs. MDMA, also known as ecstasy, E, X, or XTC, usually referrs to its pill form, which includes…

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Diets

Balanced Diet

  The Athlete’s Diet is a pattern of good nutrition and regular exercise.  Together they make a powerful team to prevent disease. Colorful foods and healthy oils (omega-3s and olive) best fuel and... Read more

Paleolithic Diet

The Paleolithic or Paleo diet, also known as the caveman, stone age or prehistoric diet, are the diets du jour. The Paleo diet is based on Stone age living. A time... Read more

  • High Protein Diets

     High-protein dieting began decades ago. It is represented by the Atkins, Zone, South Beach, Park Avenue, Perricone and Stillman diets. These are the diets that celebrities endorse  These weight-loss programs work by tricking…

  • High Carbohydrate Diets

    High-Carbohydrate diets contain a preponderance of plant-based foods. Some are extreme in that they ban fat.   Heart protective diets are advised to people with a family history of heart disease. The diet is…

  • Diet Wars

    There has been an explosive increase in specialized diets. Diets to repress inflammation and allergies, diets free of gluten and lectins, as well as the slew of medically supervised, elimination diets. They…

  • Heart Protective Diets

    The late Nathan Pritikin, M.D. advocated a diet very high in carbohydrates and with his son Robert Pritikin, created The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise. A diet that included 30…

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Plants

Green Libraries

Carbohydrates are the healthiest foods on the planet.   Carbohydrates are made by plants.   Carbohydrates are the best foods to fuel exercise.    Plant foods also lower the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and... Read more

Food is Medicine

Our ancestors ate more healthy foods than we do today.  That is to say, they ate only natural foods. There were probably a lot less allergies and sensitivities as well. They... Read more

  • Greens

      Colorful foods are not only more efficient in terms of energy exchanges but are also our only source of the important antioxidants that our bodies’ need to properly function.   Antioxidants are…

  • Nuts, Seeds & Grains

      Nuts are dried or dehydrated fruits. Seeds and nuts are covered by a hard envelope that is resistant to digestive enzymes. Once the envelope or shell as we call them is…

  • Receptor Binding

    This site is devoted to the prevention of illness and the improvement of exercise performance. It attributes the forces that accomplish these lofty goal to the cell membrane receptors of the…

  • The Whole Plant

    Colorful carbohydrates are found in the many fruits and vegetables grown around the world.    Carbohydrates are creations of plants.   Their importance to life can never be overstated.    Air and food are products…

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Prevention

American Still Life

America is the epicenter of a world-wide plague; an epidemic of nutritional illnesses that threatens everyone, especially children. Diabetes, obesity and heart disease are rampant in this new, brave new world. And when... Read more

Glucosamine

Glucosamine is one of the great breakthrough supplements to treat and prevent arthritis. Despite a recent study that indicated that glucosamine failed to repress pain and help damaged joints heal faster... Read more

  • Self-Care

    Sedentary living is a prescription for dying. Exercise on the other hand, is a godsend to the living. The fruit of exercise is the metabolic efficiency that results in long-term, improved health…

  • A Good Diet

    There are 10 essential factors in every good diet.   1. Exercise, simply the most important component in any diet. The word is derived from Greek and includes the expenditure of…

  • Arthritis Prevention

    This is a guide to bettering health through exercise and good nutrition. It’s a strategy that anticipates a huge increase in nutritional and oxidative demands based on the increased need of…

  • Cancer Prevention

    Cancer is a broad category of chronic diseases. Like other chronic diseases, cancer is easier to prevent than to treat.  A good cancer prevention strategy depends on a library of compounds. They…

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