Omega 3 and Herbalifeline

Omega 3 fatty acids come from cold water fish, and in flax, rapeseed and some other plants. Fish are a good source of Omega 3 when cold water plankton, which make omega 3, are part of their diets. For example, farmed salmon fed grain are not as good a source of omega 3 as wild salmon.

Why is omega 3 important?

Many doctors believe that diseases today are diet related. For hundreds of thousands of years man ate a diet rich in omega-3. The ratio of omega 6:omega-3 was 1-2:1. In America today, that ratio is 15-30:1. Supplements help to return that ratio towards what it should be.

Western diets high in omega-6/omega-3 ratio promote many diseases, including heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, narrowing of the arteries, cancer, osteoporosis, and inflammatory and autoimmune disease, such as arthritis, lupus, colitis, Crohn’s disease, and asthma. Increased levels of omega-3 helps prevent these diseases.

Infants of mothers supplemented with omega-3 had higher mental processing scores, psychomotor development, eye-hand coordination and stereo acuity at 4 years of age when compared with other 4 year olds whose mothers did not supplement with omega 3 during and after pregnancy. Intake of omega-3 during preschool years is beneficial in prevention of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and in enhancing learning capability and academic performance.

Omega-3 specifically has been reported in the medical literature to:

· Improve memory

· Decrease risk of Alzheimer's disease by 60%

· Decrease inflammation in the body

· Decrease arthritis pain

· Lower cholesterol

· Lower triglycerides

· Lower blood pressure

· Help prevent irregular heart beats

· Protect the heart from fatal irregular heart beats after a myocardial infarction (heart attack)

· Decrease depression

· Help maintain normal kidney function

· Protect the nervous system

· Provide protection against strokes

· Improve return of neurofunction after a stroke (patients recover function faster)

· Increase intelligence of babies

· Improve vision in infants

· Improve eye and brain function in infants and children

· Help in pregnancy (mother and fetus)

· Improve ADD/ADHD

· Decrease hostility and antisocial behavior in adolescents and adults

· Decrease incidence of recurrent bronchitis in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease - COPD

· Decrease severity of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease

· Decrease platelet clumping, which could otherwise lead to heart attacks and strokes

· Protect against certain types of age related macular degeneration

· Help prevent certain cancers including prostate, breast, uterine cancers

· Help in schizophrenia

· Help in rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus

· Help in prevention of osteoporosis, as does soy protein

· Prevent bone loss in periodontal disease

· Improve asthma

· Decrease incidence blood clots (DVT or deep venous thrombosis) and pulmonary emboli

· Help in management of diabetes

Is it safe? Some have argued that omega-3 is contaminated by dioxin, PCB's (polyphenol hydrocarbons), and heavy metals like mercury. All lots of omega-3 are analyzed for contaminants before they reach the market. Heavy metal contamination of omega-3 does not occur. Heavy metals like mercury are not fat soluble (they are water soluble). Omega-3 is a fat. Processing the oil eliminates this concern. Herbalifeline is pharmaceutical grade omega-3 which has been ultra-refined. It is analyzed for impurities. It meets the safety standards of the FDA and the more stringent standards for purity of the European Union.

Side effects: The fishy taste or burps some complain about after over the counter omega-3 products occur because of oxidation of the omega-3 before it is put in the capsule. This rancid taste does not occur with Herbalifeline because of its purity and manufacturing process that encapsulates the omega-3 before it can become oxidized. If you open a capsule of Herbalifeline you will also notice the absence of an odor as well.

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Best in Health

Jim

Does this Ever Happen to You?

The psychology is simple: you feel a bit fat and unfit so you join a gym in the belief that paying all that money will make your exercise regime doubly effective. You don't go very often, so you feel guilty (as well as fat and unfit). Yet to cancel the membership - thus saving hundreds of dollars a year - is to admit defeat, after which there's nothing for it but to accept life as you are.

This is the thinking that causes so many people to take out a gym membership in January each year - and many of them actually use it a few times - before lapsing back into their old routine. For most: well before they see any actual benefits.

And here's the real kicker - all that explosive exercise a few times per week may not be doing you as much good as you would hope! Aggressive activity such as pounding a Stairmaster burns calories, but the body needs that energy fast to satisfy the demands you are putting on it - so it burns sugars. That may stop you putting on more weight, but it doesn't tackle the fat that you are trying to lose and it generally just leaves you feeling hungry! Being hungry and not having enough energy makes people cranky and that is why most diets fail!

Slower, regular exercise gives the body a chance to start metabolizing the stored energy in body fat, plus it is much kinder to your joints and muscles if they are not used to exercise. So instead of driving down to your local gym, try adding a few of the following into your daily routine:

• Get off the elevator a floor or two early and take the stairs for the rest of the way
• Park your car AWAY from the building entrance and walk a little further
• Put in some time spring cleaning the house - it's amazing how many calories a vacuum cleaner can burn
• Make time for walking in your local neighborhood - could even be some great family time
• Use a nutritional weight loss program such as Shapeworks to lose weight, feel great without fatigue or being hungry all the time!

Make a few small changes in your lifestyle and you will be much more successful at losing weight - and keeping it off long term! For more information contact us at www.nourish2health.com

HEART HEALTH RESULTS

Don’t Be A Statistic!

An estimated 79,400,000 American adults (one in three) have one or more types of cardiovascular disease (CVD), of whom 37,500,000 are estimated to be age 65 or older. (Total CVD includes diseases in the bullet points below except for congenital CVD.)

• High blood pressure (HBP)—72,000,000. (Defined as systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg or greater and/or diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or greater Taking antihypertensive medication or being told at least twice by a physician or other health professional that you have high blood pressure.)

• Coronary heart disease (CHD)—15,800,000.

– Myocardial infarction (MI, or heart attack)— 7,900,000.

– Angina pectoris (AP, or chest pain)—8,900,000.

• Heart failure (HF)—5,200,000.

• Stroke—5,600,000.

• Congenital cardiovascular defects—650,000—1,300,000.

• One in three adult men and women has some form of CVD. (NHANES 1999–2004, NCHS and NHLBI)

• This year an estimated 700,000 Americans will have a new coronary attack and about 500,000 will have a recurrent attack. It is estimated that an additional 175,000 silent first heart attacks occur each year. (NHLBI: Based on unpublished data from the ARIC Study, and the CHS)

One in Three!!!!!

And we can’t leave out the link between high blood pressure and stroke!

Strokes accounted for about one of every 16 deaths in the United States in 2004. About 50 percent of stroke deaths in 2003 occurred out of hospital. Stroke mortality for 2004 was 150,147 (58,660 males, 91,487

females). (Vital Statistics of the U.S., Data Warehouse, NCHS.  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh.htm.)

When considered separately from other cardiovascular diseases, stroke ranks No. 3 among all causes of death, behind diseases of the heart and cancer. (NCHS mortality data)

• On average, every three to four minutes someone dies of a stroke. (NHLBI.)

• Blood pressure (BP) is a powerful determinant of stroke risk. Subjects with BP less than 120/80 mm Hg have about half the lifetime risk of stroke compared to subjects with hypertension. (Stroke. 2006;37:345-350.)

For more information on how NOT to become one of these statistics, contact us at www.nourish2health.com

Best in Health

Jim