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GET FROM FAT TO FIT! Foods That Will Help You Reverse Your Heart Disease. Simple Ways to Eat Less Without Noticing. Stumble! Mens Health Smoothie Selector: Pre-workout Smoothies. Foods for Workouts: Cardio. An all-around healthy diet is best for any exercise routine, but cardiovascular exercise requires a balance of special nutrients.

Foods for Workouts: Cardio

If you get cardiovascular exercise regularly (and we all should) – here’s how to fuel up. Cardio Basics Cardio exercise like walking, running and biking require energy from both carbohydrates and fat. Carbohydrates are the body’s #1 go-to source, but healthy sources of fat also give ample doses of energy. As exercise intensity changes (like due to an increase in speed or running uphill, for example), the body switches back and forth between carbs and fat to provide energy. Since you can’t completely control how and when the body needs what nutrient, it’s best to have adequate amounts of both as a regular part of the diet. What Your Poop and Pee Are Telling You About Your Body. *Alert* The Glowing Lean System Registration is OPEN… CLICK HERE to learn more Have you ever wondered if your poop looked “normal,” but were too embarrassed to ask anyone else what their poop looks like? Or has your pee ever smelled a bit putrid but you were too mortified to utter a word to your best friend, let alone your boy friend?

Poop is an important part of health and affects your beauty, as everything in your body works as an interrelated system. Well don’t worry, because here is a guide to anything and everything you may have wondered about your pee, and yes, your poop. Click on the infographic below to view a larger image: You’re One Click Away From Reading This Article… Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells, leaves healthy cells unharmed. Nearly 12,000 people will die of head and neck cancer in the United States this year and worldwide cases will exceed half a million.

Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells, leaves healthy cells unharmed

A study published this week in the journal Carcinogenesis shows that in both cell lines and mouse models, grape seed extract (GSE) kills head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells, while leaving healthy cells unharmed. "It's a rather dramatic effect," says Rajesh Agarwal, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmaceutical Sciences. It depends in large part, says Agarwal, on a healthy cell's ability to wait out damage. "Cancer cells are fast-growing cells," Agarwal says.

"Not only that, but they are necessarily fast growing. Grape seed extract creates these conditions that are unfavorable to growth. "Yet we saw absolutely no toxicity to the mice, themselves," Agarwal says. Again, the grape seed extract killed the cancer cells but not the healthy cells. Apple vs. Peanut. Jamie Eason Official Website - Jamie’s Suggestions for a Healthy Grocery Shopping List.

Jamie’s Suggestions for a Healthy Grocery Shopping List Proteins Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast Tuna (water packed), or White Meat Chicken (water packed) Fish (tilapia, cod, halibut, and on occasion salmon and sea bass) Shrimp Extra Lean Ground Beef or Ground Round (92-96%) Buffalo steak (lean) Protein Powder (lactose free) Egg Whites or Eggs. 7 Foods for a Whiter Smile. 10 Best Foods and Drinks for Exercising. The 10 Best Foods for Your Looks - Lifestyle.

You can slather yourself from your forehead to your pinkie toe in organic lotions, but if you think that alone will make you glow, we have some bad news.

The 10 Best Foods for Your Looks - Lifestyle

From its well documented health benefits to its undeniable impact on physical beauty, good nutrition is the pillar of every kind of healthy lifestyle. That doesn't mean you need to swear off bacon and beer or anything. The trick is finding the right balance. But with new studies coming out every month about what we should put in our mouths—not to mention the unending discovery of mysterious superfruits from deep in the forests of wherever—it can be hard to keep track of what, exactly, we should be eating. To simplify things, here's a can't-go-wrong shopping list. This is the tenth installment in a series inspired by No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics, a book by GOOD's features editor Siobhan O'Connor and her co-author Alexandra Spunt.

Read more on their blog. Calorie Counters. Primal Diet. 100 Ways To Change Life. Dr. Oz's 99 Healthiest Supermarket Foods. 11 Prescription Foods To Cure Your Illnesses. Fellatio. Friday, October 3, 2003 Posted: 9:19 AM EDT (1319 GMT) (AP) -- Women who perform the act of fellatio and swallow semen on a regular basis, one to two times a week, may reduce their risk of breast cancer by up to 40 percent, a North Carolina State University study found.

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Doctors had never suspected a link between the act of fellatio and breast cancer, but new research being performed at North Carolina State University is starting to suggest that there could be an important link between the two. In a study of over 15,000 women suspected of having performed regular fellatio and swallowed the ejaculatory fluid, over the past ten years, the researchers found that those actually having performed the act regularly, one to two times a week, had a lower occurance of breast cancer than those who had not. There was no increased risk, however, for those who did not regularly perform. "I think it removes the last shade of doubt that fellatio is actually a healthy act," said Dr. Dr.