Essential mobile health apps!

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Your “Mobile” Health – Essential Smartphone Health Apps

When it comes to living a healthy life, building muscle, burning fat, and eating healthy, it may come as no surprise that your smartphone can double as both your nutritionist and your fitness trainer. Whether you’re an Android aficionado or an iPhone fanatic, your smartphone can help you get in shape and put the exciting back into exercise. Here are ten essential smartphone health apps for the faithful fitness fan.

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Pistachio nuts - do they really help to lower your cholesterol levels?

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Can you lower your cholesterol levels by eating pistachio nuts?

Elevated levels of serum cholesterol represent a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. In fact, there’s actually a direct relationship between not only plasma levels of total and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and coronary heart disease, but also coronary mortality.

In Canada, the current guidelines recommend screening of men over 40 and women over 50 (or postmenopausal) which consists of a fasting lipid profile (total cholesterol, HDL, LDL, and triglycerides).  Additionally, adults who have other risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, smokers, erectile dysfunction, among others, or who have a family history of hypercholesterolemia should be screened at any age.

Target cholesterol levels are often determined clinically using a Framingham risk score.  For those who have elevated cholesterol levels, there are a number of lifestyle changes which are also often recommended including smoking cessation, weight loss, daily exercise, stress management and dietary modifications.

Some dietary approaches or specific dietary supplements have been beneficial at lowering cholesterol levels.  This list includes fish oil (omega 3 fatty acids), soy, red yeast rice, plant sterols, dietary fiber, green tea, as well as diets such as the DASH diet and Mediterranean diet. Read more at www.jarretmorrow.com

 

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Leucine supplementation for athletes?

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Leucine supplementation in resistance training

Leucine is an essential/branched-chain amino acid which has been gaining considerable research attention lately for its potential performance-enhancing or ergogenic effects.  In particular, researchers have been interested in its ability to promote muscle synthesis as well as to reduce muscle loss during dieting.

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