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Are soybean products
healthful or harmful?
Posted January 13th, 2007 at 8:00 AM by Martin Kennedy
Section: Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Health & Fitness
All plants contain chemicals that are healthful and chemicals that can harm us. Fortunately for us, our ancestors learned which plants are edible and healthful, and taught us to avoid those that are poisonous. However, if you eat very large amounts of one food, you can poison yourself, even though reasonable amounts are harmless or beneficial.
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Are there drugs for athletes that increase strength and are not banned?
Posted December 14th, 2006 at 2:30 PM by Martha Jones
Section: News & Results, Nutrition, Supplements, Health & Fitness, Drugs In Sports
Some athletes take estrogen blockers and human chorionic gonadotropin (Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 2006), which have not been banned by sports authorities such as the Olympic committee.
Estrogen blockers such as Tamoxifen, Arimidex, Aromasin, and Femara are used to treat women with, or at high risk, for breast cancer. Evidently lowering the female hormone, estrogen, may act the same way as raising the male hormone, testosterone, to help athletes recover faster from hard workouts.
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Lifting Weights Can Also Make Your Bones Stronger
Posted October 29th, 2006 at 7:00 AM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: Health & Fitness, Exercise
An interesting study from the University of British Columbia shows that lifting weights strengthens the bones of women in their late sixties.
The women were asked to use several weight machines three times a week for one year. At the end of that year, the women gained a tremendous amount of muscle strength, and they also had denser bones.
If a woman lives long enough, she will certainly develop osteoporosis which can shorten her life. This study shows that it is never too late to strengthen bones. Read the rest of this entry »
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Why are you flogging this junk? What will be next - first we have flavored water - now jazzed...