Senior Dilemma: Fixed Income vs. Variable Prices

The key to the success of any plan for healthy eating is to eat what you like, but to eat in moderation when it comes to the less healthy foods. Improving your health and fitness does not mean ignoring a piece of chocolate cake.. it does mean, however, just one piece. A healthy diet must contain all types of foods.....carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and oils.

When shopping, it is usually better to opt for less processed foods. For instance, 100% fruit juice would be better than a fruit juice blend that may contain as little as 5% or 10% fruit juice. And plain frozen vegetables would be healthier than vegetables in a butter sauce. When shopping for meat, try to buy fresh meat whenever possible. Frozen meat products, or those already seasoned, heat and eat products, often contain unhealthy ingredients as well as preservatives.

Yet, in this Recession, with many Senior Citizens on a fixed income (retirement, social security) food purchasing becomes quite a chore. What was planned to be sufficient for retirement, in many cases, just isn't enough. So, the real issue facing the “Baby Boomer” generation can be summed up in answering these questions:

Do I eat a wide variety of foods?

Do I recognize the importance of cereals, breads and other grain products?

Do I eat lots of fruits and vegetables?

Do I eat a good breakfast every morning?

Do I choose low fat foods over higher fat alternatives?

Do I drink plenty of water?

A healthy living plan for seniors is one that includes balance in diet and nutrition, strength training for exercise, plenty of fluids, and good restful sleep. One must try to achieve the balance within the budget one has available.

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Conventional vs. Organic - Which Are You?

First, you don’t need organic produce to be healthy. A live, conventionally raised salad over an organic white flour pasta can be most rewarding, as well as cheaper. Food that is alive has more power to nourish us than dead-processed organic food any day. So, consider conventional produce, IT IS ALIVE. And if you are at the point in your life where you can afford to choose between dead and alive, choose alive conventional produce.

Second issue, Cost. Where are you at financially, can you really afford organic in this recession? Although the margin of cost difference is decreasing, it is still a reality that organic is more expensive. This cost is offset by the more nutrients available in the organic production and growing.On the flip side, does going for organic place such a strain on your budget that you feel like you can’t get very much, if any at all?

If this is where you are, and the question is conventional produce or no produce, buy conventional. The road to being Truly Healthy is paved with live vegetation. Keep your house full of produce, because that matters more than whether or not it is organic.

The decision to go organic is going to depend on you as an individual.Where you and your family stand in this recession, and what you can afford to buy. Start to add in produce of fruits and vegetables as you can afford.. try to get off of processed foods, white flour, sugar and dairy, focus on that. If you truly desire to be eating healthfully and the price between an organic salad and a non organic one is substantial,stay with the conventional. What is ultimately important is to increase your diet of fresh vegetables, fruits and nuts, and reduce those processed foods!

Lose That Belly Fat Fast and Safely

Our society today certainly struggles with a weight epidemic. The media is more than confusing when it comes to this dilemma. While we are flooded with fast food adds, we then see how unbearably thin our entertainers are becoming. It's an odd situation. People continue to stuff their faces with pizza and burgers, yet always seem to want that size six waist. There is probably no ideal solution to this age-old problem if dieting is the only approach.

When it comes to our weight and health, a reasonable diet and sufficient exercise always prove superior. We all have different nutritional needs on some level. While some of us need more fiber in our meals, others need more protein. Yet, do we really know why some people can lose weight faster than others, why we seem to plateau at a certain weight and can't lose anymore..no matter what diet we try?

While exercise, a controlled dietary intake and good nutrition are important to overall health and weight control, other factors come into play. The truth of these factors will surprise you! For a thorough and comprehensive look at what REALLY PREVENTS you from losing the weight you want to lose, visit the site below:

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Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes

One of the most undemanding and the most workable ways to knock over
blood sugar amount, eliminate the dangers of “cardiovascular disease,”
and perk up health and welfare in general is exercise.
In spite of that, in today’s inactive world where almost every
indispensable job can be carried out online, from the ergonomic chair in
front of a computer, or with a streaming line of messages from a fax
machine, exercising can be a hard argument to win over.

The good news is that it is never too late to get moving, and exercise is
one of the easiest ways to start controlling your diabetes. For people
with type 2 diabetes in particular, exercise can improve insulin
sensitivity, lower the risk of heart disease, and promote weight loss.

Diabetes is on the rise. The number of people diagnosed with diabetes
every year increased by 48% between 1980 and 1994. Nearly all the new
cases are Type 2 Diabetes, or adult-onset, the kind that moves in around
middle age. Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes include increased thirst,
appetite, and need to urinate; feeling tired, edgy, or sick to the
stomach; blurred vision; tingling or loss of feeling in the hands.

The causes of type 2 diabetes are complex and not completely understood,
although research is uncovering new clues at a rapid pace. However, it
has already been proven that one of the reasons for the boom in type 2
diabetes is the widening of waistbands and the trend toward a more
deskbound and inactive lifestyle in the United States and other developed
countries. In America, the shift has been striking; in the 1990s alone,
obesity increased by 61% and diagnosed diabetes by 49%.

For this reason, health experts encourage those who already have type 2
diabetes to start employing the wonders that exercise can do for them.
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that over
80% of people with type 2 diabetes are clinically overweight. Therefore,
it is high time that people, whether inflicted with type 2 diabetes or
not, should start becoming more active.

Its hard to get started, and hard to think of something that may prove to
be long term to gain the good health that one wants. It is certainly
easier to think in terms of weeks or days. In this vein, I suggest that
one consider short term trial programs of 30 days or less and check for
improvement. It your body, your health, your life - what do you have to
lose?


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Diet and Fitness - A Powerful Combo

Diet fitness is as essential as exercise itself. Diet for fitness provides the essential nutrition one needs to restore worn-out muscles and should never be taken for granted. With the popularity of keeping fit, many different views, methods, programs and dieting strategies have been formulated by many professionals. Among these are high carb diets and high fat diets. Which one is more effective and which one should one choose to follow?


Diet fitness is not all about losing fat - one must also consider his diet in order to keep fat away. Research shows that sustainable loss of weight can only be achieved on a diet which suits the individual food preferences, lifestyle, medical profile and satiety signals. Diet programs overall can help you shed off excess pounds, but only one diet can help you stay sexy, healthy, and fit and it is the one that satisfies you most.


Diets for fat loss and fitness should be in moderation, with balance and variation. One must be careful not to leave out important nutrients and other substances necessary for healthy body functioning. There should be an additional and emphasized focus on nutrition (and supplements when necessary). Achievement of fitness goals can only happen when the body has all the nutrients it needs to sustain your efforts.

Low fat high carbs, high carbs low fat; the question is not which diet program will work out but which is it that will work for you. Striving for a sexy and healthy body does not have to burden an individual, diet fitness does not have to mean sticking to the same kind of food for life. There must be variety and adventure. After all, why did you go to all the effort to make the change?

Nutrition and Fast Fat Loss

Deal or No Deal?

One doesn't need to look very far on the Internet to find someone doing research on the benefits of Multivitamins and Supplements. Their studies conclude that "you don't need to supplement a good diet", that "they don't add benefits", or that "they are beneficial"..results conflicting at best. Yet, the real question remains "When did you last read a report on the nutritional benefits of the produce you buy, or the meat products?"

Many talented researchers are wasting their efforts on vitamins and supplement research without answering the question of "why are they needed in the first place?" Wouldn't their time be more appropriately
spent on discovering why nutritional values of meat, dairy, and produce have been falling over the past ten years?

Much has been written about the benefits of a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, but to what avail when the core elements (vegetables) are consistently losing nutritional values due to the manner in which they are grown? How beneficial is it when vitamins and supplements are needed to achieve the MINIMUM Required Daily Intake?

The consumption of vitamins, minerals, and supplements to insure RDI is the only Deal when this Recession forces families to change their normal diet to a cheaper one. Ignoring the RDI for one's health is No Deal at all.

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America's Very Dangerous Vitamin Craze

Americans have gone crazy about vitamins and herbal supplements in reaction to the many health reports on the benefits of taking vitamins C and E, beta-carotene and other nutrients. While taking a daily multi-vitamin with minerals supplement is generally safe, getting too much of certain vitamins in excess of the RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance) or RDI (Reference Daily Intake) can have extremely toxic effects.

While the need for taking a multivitamin cannot be overstressed, with nutrient levels in our produce and manufactured foods falling daily, we need to be especially mindful of the side effects that can be created by consuming high doses on a daily basis. The mindset that “A little is good, more is better” should not apply to our supplement intake.

Excess amounts of Fat Soluble vitamins like A, D, and E are not flushed from the system through urine. Overdose can cause liver problems, kidney stones, joint pain, nausea,, constipation, blurred vision, and, in extreme amounts, even death. Water Soluble vitamins like C, B-3 (niacin), Folic Acid, and B-6 are largely flushed from the system daily, but this process can take several hours, and very high doses (10 times the RDI or higher) often have toxic effects.

The Bottom Line....Since its hard to tell how much of any vitamin we are consuming throughout the day, it's safest to limit intake of any supplement to the RDI or RDA as stated on the container. After all, supplements are intended to be as their name implies...added to the nutrients we consume.

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The Way We Eat is Making Us Sick

Our health is an issue not to be taken lightly. Many of us are afflicted
at some point in our lives by sickness, disease, or minor health problems,
especially as we age. When such things occur, it may be essential to
adapt a new lifestyle or diet.

Three major health issues that a number of Americans grapple with on a
daily basis is diabetes, obesity, and arthritis. Once these health issues
occur, the individual will typically need to diet - develop a new and
improved routine that decreases any further risks or complications.
Nutrition then becomes an imperative, not just a desire.

Americans certainly need to be concerned with these issues. The fact that
the number of cases of Diabetes is on the rise seems to be linked with
the fact that Americans are overweight! The fact is that thin is healthy,
whether people want to hear it or not.

You don't have to be supermodel thin, but you need to maintain a healthy
weight. Eating right is always a concern. Once you have acquired
diabetes, you will need to diet for it. This means less of things you may
love, and ditching all of those refined sugars to increase your health
and life span.

So does the arthritis sufferer need to change from those foods which
aggravate and cause them pain and discomfort.All of those rich foods like
cake, cookies, and fast foods have to be monitored. Reduce the weight to
a comfortable size, exercise regularly to aid in increased metabolism,
and thereby reduce the excess weight more rapidly.

Exercise for fitness is more than just for appearance, it reduces the
chances of other debilitating diseases, increases self-awareness,
self-image, and self respect. Your body, your life - why not make a
commitment to yourself in a new lifestyle which makes you feel good about
yourself?

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