Summer Sports Nutrition for Maximum Healthy Workouts

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The long, warm days are inviting us to get outside and get active. Now is the time to kick your fitness regimen into high gear whether you are an experienced athlete or a weekend warrior. And Shaklee is here to support you every step of the way with tips and product suggestions. Put on your tennis shoes and get ready for a healthy, fit, and active summer!

Optimize Your Workout by Staying Hydrated Did you know that 46% of exercisers are likely to go to the gym dehydrated? This is according to a study published in 2006 in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism. Dehydration reduces aerobic endurance and can result in increased body temperature, increased heart rate, disorientation, and even physical collapse. Whether you are going for a long bike ride or are simply gardening for the day, the best way to stay hydrated this summer is to drink Shaklee Performance®. Shaklee exclusive OptiCarb® formula contains carbohydrates for endurance and electrolytes for quick hydration.

Eat a Light Meal Before Your Workout Eating a large meal prior to a workout may leave you feeling sluggish or with cramps because your muscles and digestive system are competing for energy sources. On the other hand, not eating can cause low blood sugar levels leaving you feeling weak or faint. For optimal performance, try a Cinch™ Snack Bar or Meal-in-a-Bar one to two hours prior to your workout. The nutrients are rapidly absorbed and Cinch Bars are powered by Leucine™ to help preserve muscle.     Replace Protein After a Workout Have you ever strayed from an exercise regimen because you didn’t recover quickly enough from a workout? Most of us have. But you can enhance recovery by replenishing your body with protein and carbohydrates immediately after a workout to replenish glycogen stores that are depleted during exercise. Stick to your exercise regimen by drinking Shaklee Physique® immediately after your workout. Physique contains Bio-Build® to give you the nutrients you need to rapidly recover and repair muscle tissue. Shaklee Cinch Whey Shakes  are also a perfect post-workout option. Whey protein is a complete protein and is one of the richest known sources of naturally occurring branched-chain amino acids, including leucine which plays a critical role in muscle protein synthesis and muscle growth.

Keep your Joints Healthy Getting that last mile in, struggling for that last weight-lifting rep, or playing that extra set of tennis can be tough on joints. Joints, the junction where one bone meets the other, are protected by cartilage, a resilient shock absorber. Joint health can be affected by many factors, including exercise and simple day-to-day activities. Help put the spring back in your step with Joint Health Complex . Joint Health Complex* contains glucosamine, a key building block for larger molecules such as proteoglycans, which give cartilage elasticity, strength and resiliency. And when you overdo a workout this summer, try rubbing  Shaklee’s Joint and Muscle Pain Cream into the affected area to provide temporary relief for occasional joint and muscle pain.     Daily Nutrition is Key to Every Workout Athletes need to make sure that their bodies are in top form and that means getting important vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients every single day. For example, antioxidants are critical to prevent free radical damage caused by increased oxygen utilization during exercise and the B vitamins convert the food you eat into fuel for working muscles. Shaklee Vitalizer™ is the perfect supplement for daily nutritional support. Vitalizer contain more than 20 antioxidant compounds and essential vitamins in it’s comprehensive approach to health, wellness, and vitality. For other tips and suggestions, click here.

Shaklee is proud to announce its partnership with the Ultra Marathon Man, Dean Karnazes. Karnazes is an endurance runner extraordinaire and has been saluted by Outside magazine as “America’s Greatest Runner”. He has also been hailed as one of the “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World” by TIME magazine and Men’s Fitness says Karnazes may be the “fittest man on the planet”. Karnazes is also author of the best-selling autobiography Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner.Here are just a few of Dean’s accomplishments: Winning the Atacama Crossing, a brutal 6-day race across Chile’s most inhospitable desert; winning the Badwater Ultramarathon, 135 miles through the bowels of Death Valley in July; running a hellish minus-40-degree race through the South Pole (in running shoes); running 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days and finishing with the NYC Marathon (which he completed in 3 hours flat); swimming across the San Francisco Bay; climbing Yosemite’s Half Dome; mountain-biking for 24 hours straight; and surfing the monstrous waves off Hawaii’s coast. Learn more about how Dean relies on Shaklee products to train and compete in endurance running! Click here to read Dean’s bio

Shaklee has sponsored a number of other world class athletes like Craig Blanchette (Handcyclist – Wheelchair Racer) Kent Bostick; (Cyclist) Eli Bremer (Pentathlete); Bethany Hart (Bobsledding and Hammer throw); Carla Overbeck (Soccer Player); Carly Piper (Swimmer); Shannon Porges (Triathlete); Carl Rundell (Marathon Runner); Darin Shapiro (Water Skier and Wakebaorder); Michelle Simpson (Water Skier); U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Team. Check out the complete list of Shaklee partner athletes here   The Shaklee difference begins with exhaustive research performed by our in-house team of over 70 professional scientists including experts in chemistry, medicine, nutrition, and human performance. That’s why leading athletes, world-class explorers, and millions of people rely on Shaklee everyday to achieve great things. Fifty-four (54) gold medalists have been powered by Shaklee Seven (7) of TIME-LIFE BOOKS’ 25 Greatest Adventures of All Time have been powered by Shaklee Elite world-class explorers like Will Steger, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Jacques Cousteau have used Shaklee on their expeditions.

Woman to Woman

WOMAN TO WOMAN

Take charge of your health

 

Join Dr. Jamie McManus, M.D., Shaklee Chairman of Medical Affairs, Health Sciences and Education and Sloan Barnett, consumer advocate and TV journalist, as they discuss some of the most critical health issues facing women and children today.  WE WILL SEND YOU THIS VALUABLE DVD.

This is life-changing information that can have a big impact on your health and the well-being of your family and friends.  Please take advantage of this DVD, our gift to you in honor of all women this month.

 

This Women to Women interview is another great gift idea to help Women in every phase of their lives health filled suggestions on their health and also a segment on Children’s Health that you will enjoy viewing.  Call now and request one of these DVD’s.  You can view this over a cup of tea and a few refreshments and your female friends will thank you.

May is a magical month celebrating new birth, new growth and a perfect month to honor all women and especially Mothers.                    Happy Mother’s Day! 

Low fat vs. low carbohydrate diet, a case for Vitamin E

According to Dr. Steve Chaney, adding vitamin E to your diet  is a key factor in protecting the cells from free redical damage.

He states:
“With all this talk about whether low fat or low
carbohydrate meals are better, we tend to loose sight
of the fact that the average American diet is high in
both fat and carbohydrates. Almost anything is better
than that.
One of the reasons that high fat, high carbohydrate
meals are so harmful is that they dramatically increase
the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS),
otherwise known as free radicals.
Moreover, new research shows that high fat, high
carbohydrate diets are particularly harmful to the
obese.
Dr. Paresh Dandona from the University of Buffalo
recently published a study in the Journal of Clinical
Endocrinology and Metabolism in which he looked at free
radical production over a period of three hours after
the consumption of a Big Mac, large order of French
fries, a large Coke and apple pie (an 1,800-calorie
meal composed of 62 percent carbohydrate, 30 percent
fat and 8 percent protein).
The results showed that free radicals increased
significantly in both groups at 2 hours, but continued
to increase at 3 hours in the obese subjects, while
levels dropped to baseline in the normal weight
subjects.
A MacDonald’s “Happy Meal” is not good news for your
health under the best of conditions, but apparently
it’s even worse if you are overweight.
NOTE: Previous studies have shown that consumption of
vitamin E or other antioxidants along with this type of
meal significantly decreases free radical production.
I would not suggest for a minute that antioxidants can
offset the bad effects of obesity and poor diets on our
health, but this is one of the many reasons why I
recommend vitamin E and other antioxidant supplements
as part of an optimal health program.”

I think this is very interesting that free radicals continue to increase in obese individuals while the
they decrease to base line in normal weight subjects. It’s another reason why vitamin E and supplementation is so important.

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