Thursday, December 23, 2010

Tips for Successful Weight Loss

1.) Take a weight management dietary supplement: Used with common sense exercise and moderate changes in your diet, weight management supplements are an indispensible part of any weight management program.

2.) Drink 8-10 glasses of water: To begin with, you should drink a glass of water in the morning first thing, before you eat. You can also add a few drops of lemon or lime juice to your water – but no sugar or sweetener.

3.) Eat breakfast: Breakfast is so important to your good health and to weight control because it increases metabolism – your body’s fat burning mechanism. So, do not skip breakfast.

4.) Eat at least 3 meals & 2 snacks: Eating regularly also helps you curb your bad carbohydrate intake by making sure that your snacks are planned and occur at regular intervals throughout the day.

5.) Eat Slowly & Enjoy Your food: You will feel full and more satisfied if you take the time to savor your food and chew it slower.

6.) Avoid white food: This is one easy way to remember what not to eat. If it is made from sugar, flour, potatoes, rice or corn – just say no. Always look for colorful fruits and veggies to substitute for the white ones.

7.) Control Your Environment: Controlling your environment includes everything from stocking your kitchen with lots of healthy options to choosing the right restaurants. That means avoiding temptation by staying away from all-you-can-eat restaurants.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Great Fat Burning Exercises

Exercise is the best way to remain fit and lean. Fat burning exercises help melt away all the excess fat that accumulates in your body. These fat burning exercises sculpt your body, and make you look and feel much better. What's more, they make you look great! So whether you are wearing your favorite slim fit jeans, an ultra short skirt, or that new bikini, you will have legs that make heads turn. When you choose an exercise plan, it is a good idea to choose it in such a way that you exercise every part of your body. You should create this exercise regimen in consultation with your doctor and trainer. It is not essential to exercise each body part every day. You could exercise some parts on one day and the others the next day.

The 5 Best Fat Burning Exercises:


Exercise for Arms:


The best way would be to tone the arms while at the same time losing weight with basic aerobic exercise. The best exercise for toning the arms are single-joint movements. Examples are curls and triceps kick-backs. These exercises place direct stress on the bicep and trice muscles of the arm causing them to firm up much more quickly. In fact the triceps muscle at the back of the arm make up two-thirds of arm size so it would probably be best to work more at toning the triceps muscle of the arm. Some good triceps exercises to tone the arms can be found here - Toning the arms.

Exercise for Legs:

One part of the body which usually resists fat loss is the legs. Here are a few general thigh exercises that will get you super toned legs:
• Aerobics
• Brisk walking
• Skipping
• Swimming
• Working a cycle exerciser

Exercise for Abs:

Abs crunches are probably the most popular abdominal exercise. However, there's many ways you can crunch these muscles, some of which burn fatter than others. You can start simply with sit-ups and work your way toward abs crunches on a weight machine or on top of a Swiss ball. Augment your Swiss ball abs crunches by holding a medicine ball or other hand weight while you crunch.

Exercise for Back:

You can get rid of back fat rolls by doing some back extensions. Using a back extension station, you can position your legs beneath the leg roller pads and stretch out on the bench, stomach down. Raise your upper body and lower it down again using your lower muscles instead of your arms and shoulders. This will challenge the muscles you don't often use.

Exercise for Your Whole Body:

One of the best ways to burn fat is cardio workouts on a treadmill or elliptical trainer. Cardio will work many parts of your body all at once and help you burn hundreds of calories at a time.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

First Clinical Trial against Macular Degeneration BY ACT

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application to immediately initiate a Phase I/II multicenter clinical trial using retinal cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to treat patients with Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy (SMD), one of the most common forms of juvenile macular degeneration in the world. The decision removed the clinical hold that the FDA had placed on the trial.

Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy causes progressive vision loss, usually starting in children between 10 to 20 years of age. Eventually, blindness results from photoreceptor loss associated with degeneration in the pigmented layer of the retina, called the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). . “There is currently no treatment for Stargardt’s disease,” said Dr. Robert Lanza, ACT’s Chief Scientific Officer. “Using stem cells, we can generate a virtually unlimited supply of healthy RPE cells, which are the first cells to die off in SMD and other forms of macular degeneration. We’ve tested these cells in animal models of eye disease. In rats, we’ve seen 100% improvement in visual performance over untreated animals without any adverse effects. Our studies showed that the cells were capable of extensive rescue of photoreceptors in animals that otherwise would have gone blind. Near-normal function was also achieved in a mouse model of Stargardt’s disease. We hope to see a similar benefit in patients with various forms of macular degeneration.”

The Phase I/II trial will be a prospective, open-label study that is designed to determine the safety and tolerability of the RPE cells following sub-retinal transplantation to patients with advanced SMD. A total of twelve patients will be enrolled in the study at multiple clinical sites. The sites which are currently under consideration are the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA (headed by Dr. Steven Schwartz); the Casey Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon (headed by Dr. Peter Francis of the Oregon Health Sciences University); the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts (headed by Dr. Shalesh Kaushal, Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology); the UMDNJ “ New Jersey Medical School in Newark, New Jersey (headed by Dr. Marco Zarbin, Chair, Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science); additional sites may be considered.

Earlier this year the FDA also granted Orphan Drug designation for the company’s RPE cells. As a result, the company is eligible to receive a number of benefits, including tax credits, access to grant funding for clinical trials such as this one, accelerated FDA approval, and allowance for marketing exclusivity after drug approval for a period of as long as seven years.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Top Fitness Quotes

~ Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. ~
share this Fitness saying Fred Perry

~ Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. ~
share this Fitness saying Franklin P. Adams

~ Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. ~
share this Fitness saying Izaak Walton

~ Happiness lies, first of all, in health. ~
share this Fitness saying George William Curtis

~ Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. ~
share this Fitness saying Charles Caleb Colton

~ Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. ~
share this Fitness saying Hippocrates

~ Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. ~
share this Fitness saying Goethe

~ I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. ~
share this Fitness saying Ernest Hemingway

~ Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food ~
share this Fitness saying Hippocrates

~ The first wealth is health ~
share this Fitness saying Emerson
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity ~
share this Fitness saying John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ Breathing correctly is the key to better fitness, muscle strength, stamina and athletic endurance ~
share this Fitness saying Dr. Michael Yessis

~ Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness. ~
share this Fitness saying Earl of Derby

~ The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit. ~
share this Fitness saying Ken Doherty

~ No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. ~
share this Fitness saying Jean Paul