I was present at the birth of a friend’s baby the other day, and as the baby was shown through the glass window, generating the customary crescendos of ohhs and ahhs from the gathered audience, I couldn’t help thinking that here we were witnessing perfect health, the ultimate healthy body without diseases or imperfections, health as it should be, in all its innocent glory!

 

And as I quickly drew a mind map of the baby’s growth amongst us, I was only too painfully aware that just as nature had brought into life a perfect bundle of joy and health so would we turn this healthy perfection into something all too familiar in today’s life:  A nutritionally deficient health in need of vitamins and supplements.

 

Vitamins are living enzymes complexes responsible for the production of natural biochemical reactions in our body.  When taken in their organic form, vitamin can therefore perform the very functions they are called upon to perform unlike the synthetic vitamins which are no more than glorified chemicals quite capable of causing havoc in our body.

 

As a society geared towards consumption, we are confronted with an unprecedented choice of vitamins, as daily supplements or multi vitamin super duper and multi boosted tablets of sheer vitamin power and yet an increasing number of Americans are chronically ill.

 

Even the foods we buy boast products that include vitamins (in fact these “vitamins” are almost always chemicals components).

 

We are what we eat and in a country where billions of dollars of synthetic vitamins are spent on a yearly basis, the overall state of our health seems to indicate that those synthetically produced nutrients are falling short of the promises on their labels.

 

And so as the realization that these synthetic chemical vitamin products are not the real deal gradually becomes evident in our mind, the problem we now face is where to find, the good vitamins that our body craves.

 

The answer to that question is simple.  Just as the food we eat should be organic, so do the vitamins we take as supplements.  If there is one message that one needs to remember, it is that when it comes to vitamins, nothing compares with organic food which when consume provide our body with all the necessary nutrients it needs for its well being!

 

Since we know that not all vitamins are created equal, our recommendation is that organic vitamins are the only vitamins containing the necessary nutrients our body needs for optimal health and therefore should be the only ones used in our daily supplements.

Nature in its infinite wisdom has created a world ripe with organic food that is ideal for our health.  Babies are born as a testimony to this perfect health which is our inherent right as human beings, just like the baby who’s birth I had begun to celebrate..

 

And as I was contemplating this beautiful bundle of joy, image of nature’s perfection, I couldn’t help hoping that those around him, the parents and siblings, the friends and teachers would ultimately remember natures’ lessons and stir baby into a path of organic food.

 

And as time drew nearer for baby to be returned to the peace of his first earthly sleep and we were starting to walk away, some of us rushed to the nearest soda machine where they proceeded to pour themselves one of the very products which nature had never intended.

 

It seemed that this baby would need all the help he could get in the form of organic vitamins and other such organic foods.

Talk about inspired reading..  It seems that everyone and they dog nowadays is a budding writer just waiting to be discovered and whilst more in not always better, there are quality writers out there, troubadours of the pencil, or I should say keyboard.

 

It’s the electronic age alright and we have opinions..  about everything. Take a look at this blog example, extending its specialties from Anchovies to Zurich with every shade in between.  It’s the good versus the bad, the informed fighting it out with the sales pitch, in the peripherals of the mediocre, some rare pearls, articles with substance, not at all like this one!

 

A quick glance at the number of travel blogs available nowadays for example and you realize just how cultured and educated some of those travelers’ writers are. They are the black belts of space travel, that space between here and everywhere and if you are planning on going anywhere, give them a look see!  These Experts of far away destinations have a suit case and a lap top at the ready just in case.  And the collective knowledge that together they make available is breathtaking and truly inspiring.  Like I said before, any one with a vacation in mind would be well advised to read what they have to say.

 

There are travel blogs about everything, from the lurid to the lucid, including this one which is a semi lucid evaluation of holiday apartments and other such vacation considerations where I tentatively present the advantages of renting a vacation home rather than a conventional hotel to the average, tourist, seeker of vacation thrills and holiday discoveries.  Where do I draw this expertise in the field of tourism?  From year of personal experience both as a property manager and then as a plain traveler, moving from place to place and experiencing the discomfort of hotel accommodation when one is traveling with a family or for more that a couple of nights.

 

Holidays are often the object of a forthcoming rest, a break in our day to day activities where a far away destination provides just the right tonic of our yearly mind and soul rejuvenations.  Let not a poor choice of accommodation make it less than it ought to be.  In terms of space and comfort, more is indeed more, and you get so much more from a holiday apartment compared to a cramped hotel room.

 

When planning for your next vacation, don’t forget that a holiday apartment is just about the best way for you to ensure that you and your family experience the very best your forthcoming holiday is likely to offer and just in case you end up in Miami, Florida Vacation Homes are equally wonderful both in terms of comfort and money saved.

Produced by the liver when nutrition and diet is adequate, lecithin is a fat like substance needed by every cell in the body.  It is in fact an essential component of the cell membranes which would harden if Lecithin wasn’t present in sufficient quantities.

Lecithin acts as a protector of cells oxidation and comprises the protective sheaths surrounding the brain.  It plays an intrinsic role in long term memory and helps maintain the nervous system.It is composed mostly of vitamin B, choline, inositol, linoleic acid as well as phosphoric acid. 

As a fat emulsifier, Lecithin is also vital the supporting and maintaining a healthy heart and circulatory system.

Clinicians also use the more powerful Phosphatidylcholine or its derivative drug Glyceryl-phosphorylcholine to prevent and reverse dementia, improve cognitive function, increase human growth hormone (hGH) release, and to treat brain disorders such as damage from stroke. In fact, it is likely that PC and GPC may also contribute in helping build the membranes of our nerve cells.  Finally, it is also thought as a facilitator of electrical transmission in the brain, holding membrane proteins in place, as well as producing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine..

Lecithin was celebrated for years as a wonderful food able to fight a diverse number of ailments such as atherosclerosis, multiple sclerosis, liver cirrhosis, gall stones, psoriasis, eczema, scleroderma, anxiety, tremors and brain aging and in 2001 the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) authorized products containing enough of it to bear labels such as "A good source of choline."

Lecithin is a nutritional supplement that is regarded as safe except for people who are highly allergic to soy.  The late Robert Atkins, MD, advised patients not to take large doses of supplemental lecithin without extra vitamin C.

It is my opinion that if all was being equal and perfect in our consumption of food, we would not need to supplement our diet with nutritional supplements.  Vitamins, minerals are normally produced in sufficient quantities by our body.  The problem arises when these quantities diminish over time creating a disequilibrium which then may cause more serious complications.

Organic Vitamins and nutritional supplements such as Lecithin have been shown to redress this imbalance, thus improving our general health.

We all know that sleep deprivation is an increasing disturbing phenomenon in the US and the affect lack of sleep can have on the performances of the sleep deprived out there!

One of the most common complaints that health professional now hear from their patient is that they are tired.  As a result of this, we do not perform our jobs as well as we could, and as a result, when job performance diminishes, so do production outputs.  The economy as a whole then suffers the consequences.

 

But it is not just the economy that is a victim of our lack of sleep.  Indeed, new evidence indicated that millions of chronically sleep-deprived Americans put their very own health at risk.   There is a definite link between sleep and health, bad sleep and disease.  High Blood pressure for example, a major factor in heart attack risks increases with lack of sleep.  After all blood pressure and heart rate are at their lowest during sleep and so people who sleep less are more likely to see an increase in their hypertension.  This link can also explain other findings putting lack of sleep with an increased risk of diabetes, weight gain and other problems.

 

Yes! Weight Gain!  And if this correlation between weight and sleep surprises you, let me remind you that as the duration of our sleep has diminished over time, this trend has also coincided with an increase in obesity.  In fact, recent research indicates that people who do sleep enough are more like to gain weight.  There is simple and powerful evidence behind this to suggest that sleep depravation causes a reduction in metabolism and at the same time an increase in appetite. How about that then for all of us doing our best to achieve weight loss!

 

Indeed, inadequate sleep duration increases the levels of grehlin, a hormone responsible for making us hungry and decreases the levels of leptin, the hormone responsible for making us feel full!  Sleep depravation is also a factor in our choice of food making us crave for food that is high in carbohydrate and sugar.  This is caused from the fact that sleep loss decreases insulin sensitivity increasing our risks of developing type 2 diabetes. It seems that if you want to lose weight and lose fat, start by making sure you have a good night sleep!

 

With legion of singles, men and women out there, I am always amazed at how some of us behave when it comes to selecting and then meeting a partner for the first time.  It doesn’t matter whether you found your possible match on an online dating site, or through work, friends or whatever, it never fails.

 

Habits forged over a life time are always difficult to dismiss.  After all we are creatures of habits.  They guide us through our lives, make us feel better about ourselves, act as buffers, go-between separating us from the world out there; determining whom we are and how we live and how we lead our lives.

 

But according to a recent poll, a staggering 30 pc of American adults are singles, some having never been married before.  Staggering as these figures are, one thing they indicated that as far as our dating habits are concerned, we may very well be embarked on the wrong path.  They have not brought us any luck so far in our attempts to find relationship and romance, and in all likelihood, they will not bring us any more success in the future.

 

Over time, we become so entrenched in bad habits that we don’t even see them for what they really are: a hindrance to our dating success, a determining factor in the reasons why we are singles.

 

It seems evident then that we ought to re-visit our preconceived ideas about who we are really, and the partners we are looking for.  Let’s not be afraid of learning from past mistakes.  Our expectations, our assessment of the men and women we are and want to meet, all these need to be looked at more carefully.

 

Dating, and online dating is difficult.  It’s not an easy task to find a partner, a soul mate, a companion to spend a life time with, or at least some of it.  For the sake for sanity, let us not make it any more difficult then it already is. 

 

T’is tough to date nowayday.

We have all heard this before. As teenagers from our school coaches who would constantly belt out the proverbial “no pain, no gain” concept, this ridiculous idea that unless we exercised like crazy people, we would not likely see the benefits of our effort, and then from family and friends commenting on our lack of success in weight loss. “If there is a will, there is a way” we were told, or in other words, the reason we were overweight was simply because we just didn’t really want to lose weight.

Yes, we have heard this before. Statements such as: "You willpower is the ideal fat burner!". And with the passing of the years, these ideas have reinforced themselves into our subconscious mind, making it increasingly difficult to get thinner, fitter, and healthier.

Talk to any weight loss doctors who were once overweight and successfully lost their excess weight and fat, and chances are you’ll be told that food cravings and weight gain are not always the result of a lack of willpower.

How about that for an eye opener! Most of us who are chronic dieters have one thing in common then. We are not short of willpower (feels good just writing this again!) and likely suffer from a metabolism that produced too much insulin due to an addiction to carbohydrate.

You are a carbohydrate addict if:

1. You are hungrier after breakfast and before lunch time then if you had skipped breakfast all together.
2. You are tired and sluggish after a large meal (particularly in the afternoon)
3. You have been on diet after diet and have as much weight to lose (or even more) as when you started.
4. You want to eat when you are bored or tired
5. You feel that you are not satisfied, even after a meal
6. You find it harder to lose weight then when you were younger.

If you answered “yes” to any two of the above six question then you are mildly carbohydrate addicted. You are moderately addicted if you have answer “yes to three to four questions, and you have a severe carbohydrate addiction if you said “yes” to five or all of the above questions.

So what do you do if you need to reduce your insulin level? Limit your carbohydrate intake to one meal a day.

Remember: Carbohydrate rich food include breads, grains, cereals, ice cream, milk, yogurt, fruit and juices, luncheon meats, pasta, noodles, rice, snack foods, sweets and starchy vegetables such as beets, squash, carrots, zucchini, corn, tomatoes, peas and potatoes.

Craving reducing foods include red meat, poultry, cheese, tofu, oils, fats, dressings, non starchy vegetables such as Brussels sprouts, greens, peppers, lettuce, asparagus, broccoli and mushrooms.

Of course it doesn’t hurt if you take a fat burner supplement.

I was thinking the other day that soon, I would have to start making plans for my next vacation.  Funny how the mind works though:  as soon as the thought of my future holiday destination entered into my mind, I was transported forward into the future, and with images stored in some hidden recesses of my brain, this time in my future started to shape and form, a reality solid enough that for a moment, nothing else mattered.  It felt like I was there, several months forward, enjoying a well earned vacation! 

So there I was looking through my world atlas for a destination of my dreams flipping through the pages when I came across a map of North America and there it hit me.   At a rate of one State a year, it would take 50 years to explore the US, 50 American Vacations that would not even scratch the surface of this great big land of ours.  Indeed I remember visiting the Grand Canyon with my wife last year when we thought that one week of exploration through this incredibly beautiful land had only enabled us to see but a mere fraction and we had promised each other to return another year.  I remember thinking back then that this magnificent Grand Canyon National Park had been carved by the Colorado River, a body of water moving down from a great distance and it probably took it millions of years to achieve its goal, some 6 million years ago.  A piece of art, millions of years in the making but the greatest architect of all, nature, to bring us this ultimate American Vacation dream.

 

Whether you are the type of tourist that like to remain active and enjoys the outdoor or a more sedentary travelers who prefers comfort and a comfortable bed at end of the day, American Vacation are the leys to a wonderful holiday

 

So: chose a state of interest, determine the areas you want to visit, the type of vacation you enjoy and start planning.  You can get there by car, train, plane, boat and once there you can either camp, stay in a hotel, a cabin or a vacation home.  It doesn’t really matter how you do it, the simple fact is that this American Land of ours is truly a gift of nature and you will likely make this next vacation of yours a holiday of a life time.

 

 

 

So you have been dating this wonderful single woman for sometime!  You have shown yourself to be the perfect gentleman, attentive and kind, ready to and show emotions when required.  You have taken care of how you dressed, made sure you were perfectly groomed and taken her to the places of her choosing because you are just that kind of man really.

You have shown yourself to be the perfect gentleman, attentive and kind, ready to and show emotions when required.  You have taken care of how you dressed, made sure you perfectly groomed and taken her to the places of her choosing because you are just that kind of man really.

 

Oh! How you have longed to kiss those lips, inhale yourself with their taste and yet, at the end of each date, you have kept the inner struggles for the first kiss within yourself.  A polite handshake at the first date, gradually followed by more affectionate embraces when she has let her body be drawn closer to you, a date at a time.

But beware of the first kiss though, my fellow man!  Did you know that the State University of New York had researchers conduct a study on one thousand Albany Albany undergrads about their kissing habits, motives and relationships?

 

Turns out heterosexual kisses, the one you are planning to do on your next date, give women information on everything about their health, their willingness to commit and whilst you may have worked really hard at being the best you can during those first dates, a bad first kiss may send your date packing in a hurry!

 

As if we didn’t know this before, the study found that more than half the men were ready to have sex with just about any women, even those with bad breath as long as long as they found them mildly attractive, whereas only 14 pc of the women said they’d be intimate without a kiss.

 

So next time you get yourself ready to kiss your date for the first time, remember to brush your teeth before going out, have some mints in your pocket for any linger after taste of this spicy meal you just had and don’t even try until you have a dentist give your mouth his drilling attention.

 

Not an easy thing, this dating business.

 

Renting a holiday apartment is a popular idea throughout the world and in Great Britain for example, there are hundreds of cottages privately owned as a second or even third home available for rent on the holiday market.  A whole industry has been built up around English Country Cottages with literally thousands of properties available each year. 

And it’s not just Britain.  Cottages, Converted farmhouses and other such homes are available throughout Europe and in an increasing number of countries around the world.  The truth is that once tourists rent a home for their family vacation, they rarely go back to hotels.

After all, what better way for a tourist to enjoy a piece of the famous British country side than to rent a country holiday cottage for short breaks or longer holidays?  Available throughout the years these cottages are the ideal alternative to any other mainstream accommodation.

 

As a tourist, a holiday apartment or country cottage offers a unique adventure which combines freedom, with comfort. Freedom to do as you please, explore the areas and sites you are interested in, and come home after a long day of fun.

 

Of course you could decide to be traditional and look to hotels for your holiday accommodation but if you are traveling with your family, hotels may prove to be quite an expensive alternative let alone the level of comfort in terms of space that you will get.

 

So if you are planning a short break, or a longer holiday, you can look forward to a unique experience and take your family on a trip of a life time where you will be able to live like the locals and get to know them even better.

 

And of course, renting a holiday home is a whole lot cheaper than a conventional hotel whilst affording the luxury of much more space. You will be saving money on the rental costs alone, compared to those of hotels but additional savings can become substantial when you decide to take a few meals at home rather than in restaurants.  Vacation homes will also often hook you up with reliable baby sitting services and this will in turn allow mom and dad to have this romantic dinner in the Lake District for example which they have always dreamed about. A vacation home is truly unique in the enchantments and possibilities it offers.

 

As an owner of a property that is not producing sufficient income, you might want to look into this avenue yourself. The self catering market is such that no contract is usually required and so you would be able to dispose of your property without any problem in the even that you chose to sell if for example.

 

If you make a decision to rent your home, you will want to advertise your vacation property in order to bring in customers

 

As part of my job, I am in daily contact with health professional, doctors, dieticians etc...  The other day, I found myself in the presence of doctors and their nurses during a dinner organized by a pharmaceutical company.  As all these even are, this particular one was equally as boring and I couldn’t wait for it to end.  As the caterers started to serve the deserts, I could not help commenting that a cheese cake was not the most nutrition food served at a doctor’s table during a health related function.

 

Here is the advice these doctors as a whole were following for themselves:

 

They were all in agreement when saying that they consume moderate amounts of protein and fat, as well as being selective about the carbohydrate they eat.  Protein is the most essential food that our body requires and so they ate at least 10 to 20 ounces of protein per day.  They found their protein in lean red meat, fish, poultry, low-fat cheese, eggs and tofu.

 

They kept their carbohydrate intake to a minimum, 60 to 80 grams daily so as not to have an adverse impact on insulin levels. They found these carbohydrates in a wide variety of fruits and vegetable

 

They take multivitamin to ensure they get all of the nutrients they daily food might miss.

 

And of course, they exercise regularly, by way of high impact aerobic and resistance training, four times a week for one hour.

 

As a side note, I was struck that 3 of the doctors had complete different views on the amount of carbohydrate they themselves felt they needed, with one doctor saying that he had mostly carbohydrate, consisting mostly of whole grains, root vegetable and green and yellow vegetable, whilst he limited the consumption of fruits because of their high sugar content.

 

At the end of the conversation, I could not help asking them what they thought about Phentermine.  This question had some interesting and juicy responses.  A couple of doctors recalled the days of the fen-phen diets when they made quite a living prescribing the then “ultimate” diet pill.  One of them didn’t even know that Phentermine was FDA approved whilst another admitted that she had taken phentermine herself as diet supplement pill in order to help lose weight and that she would gladly do it again.

 

So here you have it..  When it comes to diets,  phentermine might be the catalyst you need in your own battle to lose weight.

Fond as my wife is of a particular TV program which relates the life of a sublime female doctor with more PhDs than I have teeth in the private practice of a Los Angeles private medical care, I made the mistake recently of admitting during a moment of rare weakness that I thought the woman was beautiful!  I mean, this woman seemingly had it all, the complete package so to speak, health, looks, beauty, brains and to top it all, a definite feline quality of a body in supreme shape as she danced semi naked in the darkness of her kitchen.

 

Now I know women (and men) are susceptible to the odd moment of vulnerability, bombarded as we are constantly with images of health products, diet pills, and exercise programs and equipment designed to be the precise and very last missing element in our endeavor of weight loss not to mention Vitamins and Minerals.  And when confronted with perfect people on our TV programs, it is not unreasonable to feel somewhat threatened by the images they project so I was not surprised that my seemingly innocent comment caused my wife to come face to face with her very own boogie man.

And so, thoughtful as I am about sparing you the private details of my married life, suffice to say that much effort in the ensuing argument was spent in the analysis of why this particular doctor actress could afford to be beautiful, thin and sexy.  After all, didn’t she have all the money in the world to afford just about any health product, fitness trainer and more and what woman wouldn’t look her absolute best with that kind of money!

“I am going to show you who is beautiful” she kept on saying, and I, in the wisdom of the defeated husband knew to keep quiet, at hand just in case actions on my part were needed, but discreet.

 

A particular book on lose the fat, burn the muscle was immediately purchased and is being read right as I type these lines. 

 

In addition, my wife ordered a supply of weight loss pills called phentremine which has the promise of accelerated weight loss whilst at the same time being safe.

As for me, I will have to remember to keep quiet the next time, and of course, it wouldn’t do me any harm if I was to lose weight myself.

 

At least that way, I will be able to keep up with my brand new wife, instead of drooling about some gorgeous doctor actress who probably thinks that she is way to fat!

 

The path to Weight loss with phentermine and phentremine !

Have you ever glanced at yourself in a mirror or on a shop window, I mean the sort of inadvertent glances one gives when one’s mind is absent?  Well, I did the other day.  I was walking in Miami, passing by one fashion shop after the other when all of a sudden I saw a reflection of myself which shocked me.  Have you ever experienced this?  Sure you have.

Funny how the mind works though. Tucked away behind the many recesses of the unconscious mind are memories, thoughts even realities that we don’t even know we have until all of sudden, something somewhere triggers one of them and they come to the surface, like an old log that finally pops up after being submerged for a long time.   It’s like a photo album that we keep closed all the time and which quite unexpectedly opens itself on an old photo that we recognize immediately as if it had been for ever present in our mind even though we didn’t consciously know it existed a short few seconds ago.

You may say, that well, at the age of 50, a few extra pounds around the belly is a sign of wisdom, after all, Buddha himself is not known of his 6 packs but still, 50 is young enough to think of as relatively young, both in mind and in body.  And the man that I was looking at in the window had seemingly aged beyond his years and oh boy, that man was me!

And so, even though I had thus far quite enjoyed my life the way it was, I have resolved to be more frugal in my daily culinary festivities whilst at the same time looking for science as means to help me achieve my goal of losing weight.

 

And so with the help of science, I have looked at a newish weight loss product spelled two different ways as if to remind us that it has some roots in another and now defunct weight loss product: Fen-Phen.

 

However they are spelled, they seem to offer similar features of the previously oh so popular fen-Phen fat loss product without the nasty side effect such as the occasional.. well.. death.

 

These miraculous weight loss pills I am referring to are called Phentermine in some publications and Phentremine in others.

Florida boasts some of most beautiful beaches around notwithstanding the obvious popularity of our theme parks in and around Orlando. Miami in particular with its rich diversity of people from Latin America, the Caribbean Islands, Europe and elsewhere is a unique melting post of cultures and languages. 

Getting to Miami is increasingly easy and if plans are made in advance, it is possible to find air fares that can indeed compete with more local travel fares.  Accommodation is usually provided in the forms of hotels and motels, with varying degrees of amenities, services and budget. 

 

However, if you travel to Miami with your family, then you will know that staying in crammed hotels, however luxurious or fancy they might be, may not be the solution for you and your family.  Renting a room with 4 beds may prove to be attractive when you are sitting comfortably at home making plans for your next vacation, but once you’re there, you will wish you had looked at another alternative.

 

One such alternative of course is renting a holiday apartments and as luck would have it, this is precisely what you can do in Miami as well.  And just in case you are asking yourself why you should consider renting a Miami Holiday Apartments, just think about the one hotel room scenario, your wife, your kids and you. But there are also other considerations, less romantic perhaps but nonetheless important, particularly in you are on a budget, or simply not eager to throw good money away.

 

Miami Vacation Apartments are an ideal alternative for you and your family.  They may not provide room service although some hotels have suites that are equipped with the usual amenities provided by conventional apartments, but they provide more room for your money.

 

Miami Holiday Apartments come in all regular combination of sizes, number of room (from one bedroom to 3 bedrooms and sometimes even more).  They are fully furnished and equipped and boast the usual kitchen, lounge and dining room available in any home.

 

They are truly your home away from home, and with the additional space they provide, they will also most likely enable you to save a whole bunch of money on nightly rates when compared to hotel accommodation but also savings on meals taken at home rather than hotels for example.

Families can travel and explore their holiday destination and then come home to relax and rest in the privacy of their own bedrooms.

 

One last thing to consider when searching for a holiday apartments is that they are also called Vacation Condos, Miami Holiday Accommodation or even Vacation Apartments. 

 

Miami Holiday Apartments:  Don’t travel without them!

 

If you are planning on taking a vacation anytime soon, then you'll probably be looking to find the best deal available for you and your family. Of course, you could opt for a complete package deal which includes airfare and hotel, and whilst this option may be appealing at first glance, it is not necessarily the one that will save you the most money.

Holiday apartments rentals provides the ideal alternative to hotels for vacationers interested in saving money as well as seeking more comfortable and spacious accommodation finding a home. The advantages are numerous be it size, price and other considerations. And whilst hotels usually boast room and other personalized services to their customers, vacation suites and apartments are now competing with that as well making renting an apartment for your next vacation a very competitive proposition indeed.

Business travelers have often opted for hotels, but even this industry is gradually showing interest in short term serviced apartments Renting a one bedroom holiday apartments for one week for example is cheaper than a hotel room, and it has the advantage of providing a full lounge/dining room in which to hold meetings with customers or work colleague.

Families though have traditionally been the ones to take advantages of this vacation rental opportunity. In addition to the extra room, the holiday rentals offer substantial savings over hotel, not just on the cost of the actual rent, but also on savings achieved by taking some of your meals at home rather than in restaurants. 

 

Holiday Apartments are an ideal alternative to hotel accommodation

 

Organic foods have to be produced according to various producing standards which for example prohibit the use of pesticides, human waste, artificial fertilizers and sewage sludge. In addition, the processing of organic food has to be accomplished without food addictives or ionizing radiation and organic produce cannot be genetically modified.

 

In a world where the bottom dollar is the ultimate ruler, the trend for big farming conglomerates was to maximize production levels to the detriment of quality.  Somore did not necessarily mean better and an increasing health conscious population began to demand more quality.

 

Consumers all over the "modern" world are now more and more concerned about health issues and paramount amongst those are the methods of producing food products, including diary and meat product from cattle. This trend is gaining ground in the US where industrialized food chains have been known to consider chicken manure an acceptable source of protein in cattle feed. "You are what you eat" is often repeated to our children and perhaps we ought to say instead that we are what we feed our crops, our vegetable gardens and even our cattle."

 

And so, by natural progression, the food we used to consume is now being replaced by Organic products, grown to retain their natural properties, and certainly not cultivated with hormones and various other harmful elements.

 

Organic food is better for our health and even taste better.

 

Whilst the quality of our food is improving, we, as a society is ironically still showing signs of mal nourishment and the rate of obesity, diabetes and various other illness often times related to poor nutrition is increasing and therefore the use of vitamins and herbs is still recommended by most experts. 

 

A daily supplements is often times needed for restoring balance to our body and what better supplements than an organic one?  The good news is that food is not the only organic product anymore. Organic Vitamins can now be found!

 

A recent introduction into our organic market is a line of vitamins, minerals and nutritional supplements produced "organically".

 

Such organic multivitamins are manufactured with the highest quality control and are usually certified by Organic Certifiers in accordance with the USA-NOP National Organic Standards.

If you were planning to come to Miami for a spot of sun catching, now is not the time, unless you are a duck of course, or some other amphibian creature. You see, it’s been raining solidly in Miami for what it has felt like weeks. 

Fitness enthusiasts who pound the streets of Miami on their daily jogging routines and other outdoor exercise folks have to look elsewhere for their daily supply of fitness sweat and adrenaline, but luckily for them, there are other possibilities.

 

So if the outdoor is out of bound for the time being, and you are intent (as you should be!) on exercising then going back to your gym might not be a bad idea.  After all you might have been paying your monthly membership for months now and cannot really remember the last time you set foot at the gym so a rainy day, or more, might just be the reason you need to get your act together.

 

But whether you exercise in the open air or indoor, one thing is certain:  there is a good way to do it, and unfortunately a bad way, and my guess is that for most of us, the latter is the case!  Now let me say this:  any exercise is better than none and don’t let the fear of not knowing how best to do so distract you.  But if your aim is to lose fat and regain your fitness, then you could do much worse than following the advice of well known body builder who has written a book in which he reveals his secrets for achieving a lean, fit and healthy body through exercise and nutrition.

 

Written by a well known bodybuilder, this books is packed full of advice and how to methods on how to restore your body to its original intended optimal health!  As far as fitness books are concerned, there is no other like it, for it is more than just a manual about how to lose fat and become fit again.  This one suggests a complete re-assessment of ones’ life and encourages making some changes in order to redress the balance we have lost over the years to improper training methods, bad nutrition and so on.

 

If you are considering going on holiday or vacation with your family, then you’ll know by now that this type of trip can be expensive. Of course, you could choose a tourist destination in your own country and many people do! As a fairly new American citizen, and given the size of my adopted country, it is my choice to stay in the US and spend my vacation “at home”. Of course, if I choose one state a year to visit I might simply not have the time to make it to the end before embarking on my next celestial vacation, a more final destination but that is another story.

Even within US though, you might want to look for a more exotic place for your next holiday adventure, and then staying at home is just not going to cut it!

This of course entails several decision making processes where budget and destination will certainly play a big role. You could for example decide to hop in your car and drive to your destination, staying at inns, hotels or bread-and-breakfast establishment along the way which would be perfectly fine provided you didn’t have kids in the back of the car asking constantly when you’ll get there! If road adventure is your calling and you do have a family to bring along, then a mobile home or Winnebago might be a better bet!

Popular amongst many travelers are budget holidays where everything is included in the starting price such as the plane fares, the hotels and in some cases tourist park attraction once you have reached your destination. The advantage of this possibility is of course that you don’t have to do much. All you do is chose a budget that fits in with your own financial realities and choose the destination available within that budget. The restrictions are obvious but at least you don’t have to do much deciding and you think you are saving a bunch of money!

But what if your expectations of a memorable vacation, the holiday of a life time simply go beyond a package deal? What if you are selective in your choice of destinations or simply what if you are bringing with you wife and kids and do not think you can last your next holiday in the confinement of a hotel?

Well, for you, oh selective traveler, seeker of the unusual thrills, but eager to preserve some sort of home comfort at the end of each day there is an ideal opportunity to have your cake and eat it!

Holiday apartments also called self catering or furnished suites are the ideal alternative. Fully equipped and furnished to offer home comforts reminiscent of the home you have left behind they offer much more buck for your money notwithstanding the fact that with the savings you’ll also make if you stay at home for at least a meal a day, you’ll probably be able to take your family on that last shopping trip you might not have been able to afford other wise.

To find the vacation home you could start by visiting holiday apartments where you will find quite a large selection of properties throughout the world. Not an agency this website’s income comes in the form of advertisement on the part of the property owners and thus you can deal with them directly!

Have you ever wondered why is it so difficult to lose weight! Dieters spend a lifetime dieting and if you added all pounds lost per dieter chances are it would come up to be more than the current body weight of those dieters. How about that! To hop from one diet to another over years of efforts trying to lose weight and what is the result? When all is said and done, most might as well have not even tried!

So should the right question really not be about losing weight, but rather: Why is it so difficult to keep the weight we have lost of?

One positive aspect of this trend is that as a whole, dieters are successful in their endeavor. They can and do lose the weight, only to put it right back overtime, and sometimes with a vengeance!

Truth is, as we all know, diet don't work if they do not go hand in hand with lifestyle changes both in terms of nutrition but also in terms of exercises.

But if diets as we know them don't work, what is there left to do? Ask any doctor that question and you'll more probably be fed with the regular party line! “Eat healthy and exercise!”

It doesn't matter if you have genuinely stayed away from hamburger, don’t even remember what pizzas taste like, have banned chocolate and sweets from making it to you home, or if exercise regularly, if you have managed to keep the weight of so far, what can you do now to change this trend.

It is fair to say that we, as a society are quite knowledgeable when it comes to nutrition, supplements, vitamins and the like and yet as a society, we are indeed getting fatter.

Let's recap so far. We know how to lose weight (most of the time) with diet and exercise and yet don't know how to keep the weight off. If there is a lesson to be learned here, it is that the knowledge we have is not complete, or even flawed.

This is precisely what I discovered after purchasing a book called: “Burn the fat, feed the muscle”. Written by a bodybuilder, this book is more than a how to lose fat and lose weight manual. It is the recipe for a life style worth of changes which guides its readers safely on the right path to knowledge about nutrition, weight loss and fat loss. After all, who better than a bodybuilder to tell you what works and what doesn't’t?

As books go, this one is written with the layman in mind. You'll not find scientific explanation about the workings of our body, metabolism and muscle, although it is clear that the author knows more than his fair share of the subject. So no pompous terminology, things are called by their names, quite simply, and the reader is taken on a breathtaking journey of knowledge and experiences gathered during a lifetime of body building by this very engaging writer.

If you didn't know how to lose fat and stay trim, by the time you are through with this book, you will know exactly what to do. Provided you actually endorse your newly acquire knowledge by deeds, you will be successful.

And a final note of encouragement. Dieting and exercise (that is the right way to diet and exercise) is a state of mind. It requires a state of readiness, the optimal psychological platform from which to launch your efforts and what better platform than one of the most efficient diet pill available in the market today.

So here I am at the beginning of my new life and to help me further in quest to become health again, I have also started to take a new, “all natural” weight loss pill called Phentermine-Hoodia. Do you remember the fen-phen phenomena of a few years ago when finally a miracle weight loss cure was introduced into the market only to be withdrawn because of some nasty side effects which involved heart failures?

Well, Phentermine is the phen of the fen-phen so to speak and it turns out that taken separately it is still quite a potent weight loss formula without the heart attacks.

The one I am taking has been further improved with the addition of Hoodia Gordoni, a known appetite suppressant and so far things look good.

Of course, as usual before embarking on any weight loss program, you should really consult with a doctor. Don’t take Phentermine if you are trying to get pregnant or you are pregnant. Stay away from it if you are lactating and keep it safe from kids under the age of 18!

Foods that fight fat

We've all been there..  Once upon a time, we could eat anything and not put on weight.  It didn't matter what we ate, we would not gain an ounce!  Those were happy days, the days of our youth, and those days, seemingly have gone.  I don't know about you, but there is an object in my bathroom that I have come to hate.  I am sure you have one.  Some call it a scale, I call it the bearer of bad news..

For most us, as we leave youth behind and get caught in the aging process, so does our body's ability to process all these fatty food that we over consumed as effectively as it did before.  And we put on weight. 

This just in . . . Want some smart advice? Eat blueberries. That’s what researchers told the National Institute on Aging's Gerontology Research Center in Baltimore, Maryland. According to their findings, a blueberry-enriched diet prevents an age-related increase in a protein (NF-kappaB) that responds to oxidative stress, a probable cause of brain aging. A second study presented at the same conference found that blueberries can help lessen some of the functional damage caused by brain injury. In the second study, researchers fed one group of young rats a diet supplemented with a 2 percent blueberry extract; another group was fed the same diet, but without the extract. After three months, all the animals received chemically-induced lesions in their hippocampus, a region deep within the brain that plays an essential role in learning and memory. Damage to the hippocampus results in an inability to remember recent events. The researchers then tested the animals' ability to learn a complicated maze task. The rats that had been fed the blueberry extract were significantly less impaired at performing the task than those that did not receive the extract. To boost your blueberry intake, add them to smoothies and blended juices. Or try them for a low-cal, antioxidant-rich dessert. Just place a mixture of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries in a goblet. Cover the berries with sparkling water and serve. It’s a simple, yet elegant dessert that’s healthy as well as delicious.

And thus start the process of yoyo dieting, the obsession to embark on the brand new diet craze, good intentions coupled with our desire to start an exercise program that'll take us right back to where we were when we were 20!

With my advancing years, there is one thing I have come to realize when it comes to dieting:  Diets don't work!  Oh yes, I know, I am not the one who pinned that phrase but hey!  It's true and I'll stick with it.  And now that I am wiser what lessons have I learned?

Instead of relying on a trendy deprivation diet, and obsessing on this and that trend, the quality of the food that I eat is indeed the element that impacts my weight and my general well being the most.  That and of course, how much of it I put on my plate.

We all know that foods high in sugar and fat not only undermine your health – they can quickly put on the pounds. But the following foods can fill you up, boost your nutrient status and help us trim down.

More information on food that fight fat

Great grains:  Packed with fiber they are a great tool in our fight against expa pounds.  For starters they make us feel less hungry and thus less likely to over eat, and in addition, they have been found to be highly efficient as a method to stop the weight gaining process.

Vegetable:  If ever there is something that constantly repeated at the dining table is the phrase:  "Eat your vegetables, they are good for you!"

 

One last thing . . . Substituting these fat-fighting foods for high calorie junk foods can help fat melt away. But, when it comes to taking off – and keeping off – those excess pounds, diet isn’t everything. Exercise is vital to keep you both healthy and trim. Indulge in at least 60 minutes of exercise every day. The best workout combines 30 minutes of weight lifting and 30 minutes of aerobic exercise. Not only will this routine keep your weight down, your bones strong and your muscles toned, it can reduce the effects of free radical damage by increasing your circulating antioxidant levels.

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Yours in health and happiness

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FLU vaccination

Every year, at around this time, mainstream medicine steadies itself for Flu season.  Pretty soon, every one will be once again advised to get the Flu vaccine, but do we really need them?  Can a simple flu shot really protect against the annual aches, sore throats and fever that are the Flu's companions.

The simple answer is not really, unless you are a high risk candidate for the Flu with yearly fights against it which be accompanied by high fever and even sometimes a trip to the hospital.

Protection or Panacea

The flu vaccine contains two or three inactive or "dead" viruses (out of a possible 200 flu strains) that were prevalent the year before. On this basis, it seems that the vaccine does afford some protection, but of course,   since these strains are constantly changing, vaccinations can at best be partially successful in preventing outbreaks of the disease. In other words, medical science is constantly playing catch-up, hoping that last year’s strains match those in circulation this year.

If they are a match, the vaccine can prevent 70 to 90 percent of flu cases in people under the age of 65. But if you’re over 65, protection can drop to as low as 30 percent.

What about the risks

In addition to the above, the vaccine also contains other ingredients made up of a combination of additives, including thimerosal (a mercury derivative), formaldehyde (a carcinogen and neurotoxin) and aluminum (a neurotoxin that has been implicated in Alzheimer’s disease).  For those of you who are allergic to egg, it is worth noting that the vaccine also contains egg protein. Getting a flu shot could cause a drop in blood pressure, wheezing, breathing difficulty and hives in people with this allergy. But you’re doctor may not be aware of this ingredient, so if you do suffer from an egg allergy, make sure you talk to your health care professional before you agree to a flu shot.

But there is worse still…  There is evidence that seemingly links the flu vaccine to serous eurological side effects. The flu vaccine is known to have caused  Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and other autoimmune conditions. GBS is a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system. The first symptoms of this disorder include varying degrees of weakness or tingling sensations in the legs. In many instances, the weakness and abnormal sensations spread to the arms and upper body. These symptoms can increase in intensity until the muscles cannot be used at all and the patient is almost totally paralyzed.

While the CDC claims that the risk is small (one in 100,000), this wasn’t the case in 1976. Of the 46 million people who were vaccinated against swine flu that year, 532 developed GBS and 32 of those died. At least one other study has also found a link between GBS and other strains of the vaccine.

Ok.  No shot for me..  What about nasal sprays?

At first this solution seems to be the perfect choice, easy to administer, and of course, no needles are involved so it’s painless.  One such nasal spray is FluMist, a recently FDA approved product, but the problem is that it’s been approved for healthy people between the age of 5 and 49, the very people who need the vaccine last! Besides the drug’s age limitations, FluMist has other drawbacks. Side effects include sore throat, coughing, nasal congestion and runny nose. (Funny, that sounds an awful lot like the flu.) And people with asthma or respiratory diseases need not apply. It’s also not cheap.  A point of concern for me is that FluMist contains live influenza virus, diluted of course, but still potent enough to pose a risk to those with a weakened immune systems.

Fortunately, it is relatively easy to guard against the flu.  The key of course is to boost your immune system before the season starts.

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Yours in health and happiness

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