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Dark-Chocolate Is A Powerful Source Of Antioxidants

A recent study conducted by scientists at Cornell University found that cocoa powder, the base from which chocolate is made, contains nearly TWICE the antioxidants of red wine, and up to three times the antioxidants found in green tea.

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1 comment July 13th, 2008

Fighting Altherosclerosis With A Good Diet

Imagine hundreds of cars zooming down an eight-lane highway. One lane disappears, and then another, until the same cars crawl bumper-to-bumper along a one-lane country road. That’s sort of what happens when you have atherosclerosis. Your arteries, the highways for your blood, harden and narrow, and the same amount of blood has to make its way through a much tighter space. This traffic jam in your arteries leads to all sorts of trouble, including heart attack and stroke.

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Add comment June 21st, 2008

Super Foods and Nutrients for Optimum Health and Fitness

Did you know there are 45 known essential nutrients (nutrients must come from outside, sources) 13 kinds of vitamins, and at least 20 kinds of minerals that are required in specific amounts for the body to function properly?

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Add comment June 13th, 2008

The Prograde Nutrition’s FitClub

The Prograde FitClub is, by far, our most popular program. Almost all our clients choose FitClub for a few simple reasons…

1. FREE Shipping: All your products are shipped to you every month for FREE! You will save $5 or more on shipping charges alone.

2. Save More Money: In addition to saving money with our free shipping, all FitClub products come with discounts of up to 30%.

3. Convenience: As a FitClub member, you benefit from having your products shipped to right to your door every month, so you’ll never run out. No more last-minute runs to the store – it’s delivered directly to you!

It’s Easy to Get Started.

All our products are offered via FitClub.

You will notice the discounted price and the words “FitClub” on the checkout box. Simply choose that product and you are automatically enrolled. A fresh supply of your product(s) will be shipped to you every month and you’ll automatically receive the discounted rate(and you’ll get FREE SHIPPING every month too!).

It’s the easiest and most cost-efficient way to get on the Prograde program! Click Here to Shop our Combo Packs- the Best Values in the FitClub Program.

Add comment June 8th, 2008

PROGRADE High Quality Nutrition- Get Serious, Get Results

Prograde Nutrition, the only nutritional company built from the ground up for athletes and fitness enthusiasts!

With Prograde, you never have to worry about inferior products. Our products are made at our GMP-certified, “A” rated manufacturing facility. We use a 2,500 acre farm to grow our whole food supplements. Make sure to check out our video below. We also have Certificates of Analysis for each product to prove that what we say is in the bottle, is in the bottle.

PROGRADE Nutrition Video

Add comment May 15th, 2008

Importance Of Daily Calorie Intake To Weight Loss

Calorie counting, height and weight, and the concept of “weight loss and the scales” are outdated and misleading paradigms that encourage one of the most destructive human behaviors - dieting.

Dieting is guaranteed to make you fat. When you go on a typical diet and cut your calories, you are effectively starving your body. Your body responds to this diet as a threat and a series of very powerful survival responses quickly go into action, which in effect cause your body to store as much fat as possible.

First, your metabolism slows to a crawl. Your body then releases cortisol , a very powerful survival hormone which facilitates the burning of your lean muscle mass, (depleting your body’s calorie burning engine), and the storage of fat. When you come off your diet, your body quickly stores fat and you not only gain back all the fat you have lost, your body becomes more resistant to your next diet.

Even though you may have lost weight, you may actually be fatter, because your body fat percentage - the relationship between the amount of fat to the amount of lean body mass (muscle) - may increase. The key to permanent fat loss is not to count and restrict calories and deprive yourself.

Rather, the key is keeping your blood sugar stable, so you eliminate cravings and hunger, which in reality will result in less caloric intake, simply because you don’t eat as much. Never eat carbohydrates alone. Always eat them in combination with lean proteins and/or raw fats/oils, to slow down the conversion of carbohydrates into glucose.

Increase your lean protein portion if you still feel hungry or sluggish after. Starting your day off with an Advanced Metabolic Optimizer, a balanced blend of the highest quality of lean protein, raw fats/oils and unprocessed carbohydrate, will keep your blood sugar stable, keep you energized, eliminate cravings, and turn your body into a fat burning machine.Brought to you by: PROGRADE NUTRITION and PHIL B’s ONLINE PERSONAL TRAINING AND FITNESS PROGRAMS. Make fitness and good nutrition your way of life.

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Add comment May 8th, 2008

How can I tell if a vitamin-mineral supplement is of high quality?

It is difficult to tell quality simply by looking at a tablet. Many factors (most of which are hidden to the naked eye) go into a high quality nutritional supplement, but one of the three main variables is quality of the science behind the product: the human body has often been compared to an extremely complex and wonderfully efficient machine.

To function normally, it is extremely dependent upon a large variety of raw materials such as protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and so forth. If any of these critical substances are lacking in sufficient quantities, the efficiency of the “machine” suffers.

The therapeutic use of nutrition supplements usually involves combining as many of these rate-limiting nutrients together as economically and physically possible, to provide everything required to focus on a particular health goal.

If the nutritional supplement is poorly designed, key nutrients may be left out, or less important “window dressing” may be added that doesn’t provide benefit. The product may then be inadequate to meet the therapeutic goals, or may be more expensive than needed.

A reputable company will be able to provide scientific studies to support the formulation and its therapeutic value.Quality of the ingredients: the same nutrient may be available in different forms. For example, vitamin E can be a natural (derived from food) or it can be synthetic (manufactured). The natural, food-identical vitamin E is called d-alpha tocopherol, while the synthetic form is called dl-alpha tocopherol. That “l” in the dl-alpha tocopherol is the only way you can tell a natural from a synthetic vitamin E by looking at the label, but science has shown that there is a significant difference in the way the body uses it.

Natural vitamin E is significantly better in its biological activity that the synthetic. Another example is found in minerals such as calcium or iron. Minerals are not found alone in supplements but as chemical compounds. The nature of that compound is related to the ability of the body to absorb and use the mineral. For example, calcium may be found as “calcium carbonate” which is inexpensive but relatively more difficult to absorb. Other forms of calcium, such as calcium citrate may be more expensive as raw materials, but may also be much better utilized by the body.

Quality of the manufacturing process: even if the supplement is well-formulated and has high quality ingredients, care must still be exercised during the manufacturing process to ensure a quality finished product. If the supplement doesn’t break down properly during the digestive process it doesn’t matter how well it’s designed or what is used as ingredients!

A manufacturer of high-quality nutritional supplements will perform a number of different tests before, during and after the tableting process to ensure quality in the finshed product, and should be able to provide you with documentation to support their processes upon request.

Why do some supplements cost more than others that look like they contain the same ingredients?

Simply looking at the ingredients does not necessarily provide enough information to assess value. For example, the same amount of elemental calcium can be found as, among others, citrate or carbonate, but have significantly different absorption dynamics.

Carbonates are much cheaper, and so are often used by supplement manufacturers, even though the more expensive citrates are better absorbed. Frequently, higher quality comes with a higher price. An example is Prograde VGF25+ formula for men and VGF25+ formula for women. It is really not a multivitamin at all because it is made from 25 fruits, vegetables and greens. It provides essential fatty acids, amino acids, enzymes, and phytonutrients.

It is not a multivitamin, but rather a daily nutritional foundation coming from foods instead of synthetic formulations.

• Highest quality nutritional product manufacturing: Awarded GMP Certification by the Natural Products Association
• Transform your body: our products and fitness experts will help you take control of your health so you can reach your goals.
• Pure: Natural ingredients grown on our untainted 2,500 acre farm in Florida
• Easy: No trumped up shipping charges. No confusing ‘supplement stacks’. Just simple, straightforward nutrition you can trust with zero hassle.

It’s almost impossible to tell which supplements are truly the best quality. How do you know that they weren’t concocted in someone’s basement?

PROGRADE SOLUTION: With Prograde, you never have to worry about inferior products. Our products are made at our GMP-certified, “A” rated manufacturing facility. We use a 2,500 acre farm to grow our whole food supplements. Make sure to CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO HERE. We also have Certificates of Analysis for each product to prove that what we say is in the bottle, is in the bottle.

Add comment April 21st, 2008

Study shows Positive Effects Of Marine Omega-3’s On Muscle Mass

ScienceDaily (May 9, 2007) — A research team led by Carole Thivierge, from Université Laval’s Institute of Nutraceutics and Functional Foods, shows that omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil have a positive effect on the metabolism of muscle proteins. This finding, published in a recent edition of the Journal of Physiology, could have significant implications in the fields of animal farming as well as human health.

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Add comment April 20th, 2008

“Not all omega-3 oil products are created equal!”

There is no question that you can benefit from taking a high-quality fish oil.

However, EFA Icon offers clear advantages to fish oil in a number of important ways. You get all the same multi-system health benefits of omega-3-rich fish oil, including crucial EPA and DHA.

Plus genuine Neptune krill oil — which you can be certain you are getting with EFA Icon — is much better absorbed than fish oil.

This means you can take 1/5 the dose and get by with two small capsules rather than ten large ones. The phospholipid binding increases the bioavailability of omega-3s, improves the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio and supports healthy cell membrane functioning.

Superb Antioxidant Protection

EFA Icon contains potent and unique antioxidants, including astaxanthin and a novel marine flavonoid that may protect you from damaging free radicals.

Pollution-Free

Krill are at the bottom of the food chain and collected far from the pristine seas surrounding Antarctica. Because of this, you don’t have to worry about an unsafe accumulation of mercury, PCBs, heavy metals or other toxins.

Safe Processing Method

With EFA Icon, you can be assured you are truly getting oil made from Neptune krill (be very careful of other claims out there!) and that it is processed safely to ensure your health using a special patented process. This cold organic solvent extraction method:

• is free of harmful additives or preservatives
• preserves the biologically useful properties of krill nutrients by avoiding the use of heat in processing
• produces highly stable, safe, bacteria-free products

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Add comment April 20th, 2008

Daily Fitness Tip

Fitness Tip: Blueberries, Raspberries and Strawberries - Do you love your berries? Awesome, because your favorite berries are actually good for your healthy balanced meal plan. They contain plan nutrients called anthocyanidins. These are incredible antioxidants and some have high levels of resveratrol, which helps fight heart disease and cancer. The next time you want something sweet, juicy and good for you; reach for blueberries, raspberries or strawberries and Eat Guilt Free!

Add comment April 8th, 2008