WHY TAKING SUPPLEMENTS MAKES SENSE

HOW NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS HELP YOU SLOW AGING, FEEL BETTER AND BE HEALTHIER

You’ve probably heard this: If you eat a good diet, you don’t need nutritional supplements. But there are two good reasons that statement doesn't hold up.

First, the richest sources of nutrition in our diets are fresh vegetables and fruits.
Eating five or more servings of fresh fruits and vegetables per day. Do you eat that many fruits and vegetables? Most people don't. As a result, most of us are nutritionally deficient.

Second, our lives are stressful. Chronic stress, coupled with a poor diet, puts tremendous strain on everything from our immune systems to our hearts, increasing our need for nutrition. If we aren't getting enough nutrients from our diets, were more likely to suffer health problems as a result.

Nutritional supplements are preventive maintenance for your body. Here are four reasons you should take them:

1. Supplements help you age better.
As we age, we often become deficient in key nutrients that our bodies need to function optimally. Some people come up short on calcium and wind up with osteoporosis. Others don't get enough antioxidants, leading to cellular damage and premature aging.
Supplementation replenishes nutrients that we may miss. Research shows that a properly designed supplement regimen can delay or even prevent many of the health conditions that come with aging, like heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis, helping you live longer and with more vitality.

2. Supplements give you more energy.
Are you constantly tired from long work hours, lack of sleep and a So-so diet? When the body doesn't get the right balance of nutrients, it doesn't produce energy as efficiently. Blood sugar levels spike and then dive throughout the day. The result is that we end up feeling tired all day.
Supplements give your cells what they need to extract more energy from food and use that energy better, keeping you vibrant and alert.

3. Supplementation prevents dysfunction.
Heart disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes don't appear overnight. They are the end result of years-long deficiencies in key nutrients. Deprive your body of the nutrients it needs, and it will become dysfunctional. The results: heart failure, type 2 diabetes and a host of other diseases.
By taking supplements when you're well, you prevent deficiency and dysfunction. This reduces your odds of developing age related degenerative diseases.

4. Prevention puts money in your pocket. How much do you think you would save over 20 years if you didn't need prescription medication or expensive surgeries? Giving your body the full range of nutrients it needs can help you prevent disease and reduce the cost of medications, doctor visits, hospitalization and insurance, saving thousands of Money.

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Music and Exercise

If I arrived for a spinning class at my favorite gym centre and learned that the sound system was down, I would probably pack up my shoes and go home. I cannot imagine exercising without music.

The instructor’s choice of music makes the difference between a great class that is over before I know it and one in which I find myself constantly glancing at my watch, wondering when I can leave. Is my preference for exercising to music rooted in some real effect that music might have? Is the best music for exercise simply the music you happen to like the most? Or are there other factors aside from personal taste that make some music especially appropriate for exercise?

This question is harder to answer than you might think,  Olayinka Ajibola Kazeem. (Owner of KC Gym and Creator of Fit4LifeLive4Life) studies and examined different populations, making it hard to get an overall picture.  When the presence of music seems to have a positive effect on exercisers it can be difficult to tell which features of the music prompts the effect. Is it “internal” characteristics of the music, such as tempo, rhythm and timbre, or is it features that are “external” to the music, such as the personal or cultural associations that musical works often carry? And which music should be used in experiments?

The overall impression given by the studies is highly positive. When music is used before athletic activity, it has been shown to increase arousal, facilitate relevant imagery, and improve the performance of simple tasks. When music is used during activity, it has ergogenic (work-enhancing) effects and psychological effects. Listening to music during exercise can both delay fatigue and lessen the subjective perception of fatigue. It can increase physical capacity, improve energy efficiency, and influence mood.

In study after study, the use of music during low- to moderate-level intensity exercise was associated with clear improvements in endurance.

Olayinka Ajibola K. have found that the power of music has definite limits. While music can hamper physiological feedback signals at moderate levels of intensity, it is markedly less effective at high intensity levels. It does not reduce perceptions of exertion when exercisers are pushing beyond the anaerobic threshold (that is, the point at which lactic acid begins to accumulate in the bloodstream). One possible explanation is that at high levels of intensity the body’s physical feedback dominates the nervous system, so that distraction by any means is more difficult to achieve. Also, music seems to be of greater benefit to less-trained exercisers. This could be because trained or competitive athletes tend to work at higher levels of intensity. Or it might be because untrained exercisers are motivated by the positive feelings aroused by music, while trained athletes are more motivated by the desire to perform well and to focus on the specifics of training.

Interestingly, there are times when trainers and coaches should avoid the use of music. When exercisers need to devote their full attention to a task (say, for safety reasons), or when they are learning a demanding new skill, or when they are working at high intensity and need to pay full attention to their physical limits (“listening to the body” in other words) the use of music should be limited. And watch the volume! Studies have found that even moderate-level activity, if accompanied by very loud music (over 100 decibels), can cause temporary hearing loss.