December 10, 2009
The holiday season proves to be a challenging chapter of the year. With over booked schedules, non-stop holiday parties, and pastries at every turn, it’s no wonder people are stressed out and gaining weight!
According to a study published in the US National Library of Medicine, the average weight gained during the holiday season by Americans is 1lb. Not so bad. However, it is a pound that you will never loose! After thirty five years of indulging in the holiday junk food-a-thon, it’s no wonder the mid-section tends to grow! A second study published a year later showed that obese people gain on average 5lbs! So how do we enjoy the festivities and keep the weight down?
According to an article posted on WebMD, the food choices we make are connected to our emotional state. Our emotional state has a huge influence on what kind of food we decide to eat and how much. If a person is exercising daily and feeling strong, he/she is less likely to over eat. Regular exercise keeps the stress down and the weight off!
Review additional suggestions at WebMD about keeping healthy during the holiday seasons here: WebMD
Balance is the key to a healthy lifestyle and healthy eating habits. At Body for the Ages, we believe in our online Wellness Program which delivers the support and encouragement you need in order to create a healthy balance in your life! The online Wellness Program offers an individually tailored plan to each unique person. Pax Beale, founder of Body for the Ages, believes that with proper nutrition, exercise and supplementation, each person has the potential to live their genetic lifespan!
To read more about the Body for the Ages online Wellness program, go to: www.bodyfortheages.org.
Be Well!!
Donnamarie Alesia
Body For the Ages Blogger
December 3, 2009
Eating Your Way to a Lower Blood Pressure
Dr. Maoshing Ni (Dr. Mao), a Yahoo.com health expert for alternative medicine has tips for what to eat (and what not to eat), when it comes to maintaining a healthy blood pressure level.
It just may turn out that your favorite foods are working wonders for your health and wellness, in more ways than you realize.
Dr. Mao’s cuisine recommendations include fish, cucumbers, and olive oil, for their valuable effects on your circulatory and heart health.
Foods that may raise your blood pressure include salt, refined sugar, and alcohol. Though it’s okay to enjoy these items in moderation, it’s smart to get in the habit of substituting with spices, honey, and plenty of hydrating beverages, such as sparkling water.
Read more of Dr. Mao’s insights here: http://health.yahoo.com/experts/drmao/19535/10-best-and-worst-foods-for-blood-pressure/
Enjoy your favorites, and try some new recipes, but keep in mind that eating healthy is one of the surest paths to increased health and wellness.
As a Member of the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program, you’ll receive a personalized nutrition plan, based on your unique lifestyle preferences and dietary needs.
Learn more about your personalized Online Wellness Program here:
www.BodyForTheAgesNonprofit.org
Melissa Chandler
Body For The Ages Blogger
November 20, 2009
Turning Back the Clock
If you’ve reached middle age and your health habits are less than desirable, don’t give up hope. Making a change at this stage of life will yield significant results, and set you on your way to an improved quality of life now, and in your senior years.
Dr. Dana King, a University of South Carolina professor of medicine, is part of a research team whose findings indicate that changing lifelong unhealthy habits in middle age may yield you a longer life.
“It’s not too late,” says Dr. King. “If you make [healthy] changes now, it has a tremendous impact.”
Dr. King and his team colleagues looked at four healthy habits in over 16,000 people between 45 and 64 years of age. Here are the categories they evaluated: eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables a day, 2.5 hours or more of exercise per week, a healthy weight level, and not smoking.
Dr. King’s research team found that the people who adhered to the four healthy habits were “40 percent less likely to die and 35 percent less likely to suffer heart problems than those who did not adopt the beneficial habits.”
Read more about the findings here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/story?id=5314059&page=1
Body For The Ages is committed to helping you make the health changes necessary for you to enjoy a vastly improved quality of life for years to come.
By becoming a Body For The Ages Member, and participating in the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program, you’ll be assigned your own personal coach via the web. Your personal coach will create a wellness program tailored to your specific needs, and walk you through workouts, nutrition, supplements, and most of all, be a knowledgeable and dependable motivating force, as you reclaim your health.
Visit http://www.bodyfortheages.org/, for details on our Wellness Program, and how to become a Team Body For The Ages Member. Join now. Body For The Ages is here to help you turn back the clock.
Melissa Chandler
Body For The Ages Blogger
November 17, 2009
Have you been meaning to drop those extra pounds?
Whatever your reason, be it aesthetics, athleticism, or heart health, health problem prevention, there’s never been a better time to do it than now.
According to a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, two thirds of adults in the United States are overweight, and about one third are obese. http://win.niddk.nih.gov/statistics/
Extra weight plays a contributing factor in numerous health problems. A report recently released from our nation’s capital states that more than 100,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by excess body fat. Read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/05/obesity.cancer.link/index.html
Weight Loss is not easy, and it takes commitment. But we all know that commitment will pay off, when we see that we’re increasing our extra energy and self-esteem, along with decreasing our health concerns.
Your time is valuable, and the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program will show you how to make it count, with fun workouts, wellness tips and anti-aging tips, valuable advice from our very own Panel of Experts, and an online personal trainer available for guidance 365 days a year.
Are you ready to commit to your health and happiness? It’s the best investment you’ll ever make.
Go to www.BodyForTheAgesNonprofit.org, get your four free gifts, and become part of the Body For The Ages Team.
Melissa Chandler
Body For The Ages Blogger
Are you self-conscious about going to the gym?
Check out this quote from the Apria Healthcare website:
“In today’s weight room, you’re as likely to see a grandmother working her glutes as a quarterback working his quads, now that resistance exercise is recognized as vital to building strong muscles and bones.”
Read more here: http://www.apria.com/channels/1,2748,94-193,00.html
Pax’s Prescription Method of Training will show you how weight-resistance training will not only strengthen your muscles, but your heart as well.
Pax didn’t just treat his heart disease – he reversed it. Now his passion is to show others how to do the same. Why? Because it’s completely unnecessary that 50% of people die from Heart Disease or heart related illnesses. Body For The Ages seeks to eliminate this insidious statistic.
Read Pax’s story at www.BodyForTheAges.com. He’s living proof that you can take control of your health, beat heart risks, and have fun in the process.
Until Next Time,
Melissa Chandler
Body For The Ages Blogger
November 10, 2009
Hey there Folks,
This is pretty helpful for anyone looking for some background information on the practice of anti-aging and exceeding the average human lifespan: Wiki - Anti-Aging.
We at BODY FOR THE AGES place an emphasis on anti-aging through preventative and rehabilitative Heart Health. We do this utilizing a more holistic / fitness regiment [concentrating on Heart Health and fighting Heart Disease], as opposed to some of the more scientific perspectives that are discussed in this Wiki page.
However we do implement the power of Pyruvate and Protein supplementation, found as a portion of our Online Wellness Program, you may visit us there to learn more about our Nonprofit mission or for direct access visit us at our retail Online Store now offering a 2 for 1 special on Pyruvate and 2 for 1Protein !! Visit and learn how Pyruvate can help you prevent Heart Risks.
until next time,
Team Body For the Ages
November 6, 2009
October 30, 2008
“Pax, why isn’t the scientific Body For The Ages Online Wellness “type” Program common knowledge?”
That is a question I hear all the time.
It’s simple. No one has created a program based on a synergistic effect, like the Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program: bringing together cardiology, exercise physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, pharmacology, and a programmed total commitment type of effort based on psychology…and delivered collectively and concurrently under one “umbrella” for the good of the patient.
The Body For The Ages Online Wellness Program relies on a synergistic affect: Best described as 1+1=3.
I’ve been in the medical profession for a third of a century, and I’ve never (not once) seen or heard of a meeting, where all these disciplines were brought together under one roof to collectively (and Synergistically) coordinate a wellness program for patients, Never!
The Body For The Ages Wellness Program reverses that non-functional professional format of only “my profession, or no profession”, which yields sub-par healthcare.
You see our health care is not a dysfunctional system. It’s worse. It’s a non-system.
October 6, 2008
For members of the nation’s workforce, it can be difficult to conjure motivation to hit the gym after putting in a long day’s work. The convenient temptations of vending machines, takeout lunches and sugary, caffeinated drinks loom within arms reach.
I know personally that the thought of physical activity can be unappealing. However, when I think of the relief that comes from working out (the mental wind-down, the increased energy, the sense of accomplishment) it motivates me to head to the gym even on my most sluggish days.
For some lucky professionals, it appears as if employer-funded access to fitness and wellness may become a nationwide blooming trend, gaining attention most recently in the town of Jackson, Michigan according to the New York Times article below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/business/smallbusiness/01HEALTH.html?_r=1&ref=health&oref=slogin
Now isn’t that a refreshing thought? A mutually beneficial scenario in which productivity increases, company insurance costs potentially decrease and employees gain a better quality of life at no charge.
These proposed incentives provide the framework and resources for health betterment.
Unfortunately, employers can’t offer you motivation. We have a gym here at Body for the Ages headquarters. I used it sporadically, until I started myself on the Body for the Ages Online Wellness Program. Now I use it every work day.
If you find that you still need an extra push to get yourself on the health/wellness/self-improvement path, Body For The Ages offers a course of action for improving your fitness level, overall health and waistline through a comprehensive nutrition system, work out and lifestyle plan coupled with inspiring motivation and achievable results.
For more information, please visit us at BodyForTheAges.org.
September 26, 2008
Most books with a tough-love message want a true confession out of an overweight person - an admission that the individual is in a denial state and has an inner responsibility for being overweight. I think that approach is wrong. I think you have to put planks in a platform for success, and show the practitioner of the denial system how to move forward successfully, once that individual is out from under the spell of the denial system. However, overweight people must acknowledge the solution starts at home from within themselves, not from an outside cause. So instead of just beating you “denial system devotees” up, I will show you a practical system to defeat obesity, but damn it, don’t you dare quit on me! I won’t accept it. Stick with me and you’ll get the results, I guarantee.
In general, there are two types of lifestyles. My system is a positive Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness lifestyle for success. Those who are overweight, and don’t want to be, are living the other type - a negative lifestyle destined for failure. When someone tells a person to pursue a positive lifestyle as an option, there is an assumption that they don’t have a lifestyle. They do. It is a lifestyle for failure. No wonder so many find themselves in a position of a psychological dilemma. Follow along with me as we lay several more key planks in the platform for the successful solution to the weight problem, and more importantly, the coping with the torment of failure. Begin a positive lifestyle of quality eating habits, prescription exercise - that’s fun - and add proper scientific nutritional supplements. There is your foundation.
Remember that if you start wrong, you finish wrong. If you start right, you have at least a half-assed chance of finishing right. And I assure you, with effort based on Total Commitment Motivational, Wellness Philosophy and serious focus on a positive lifestyle, I will describe in detail in future blogs, weight-loss success for you is a sure thing.
Want to learn more? Click checkout our Online Wellness Program.