Friday, June 11, 2010

How To Measure Your Own Body Fat At Home

How To Measure Your Own Body Fat At Home With The One Site Skinfold
Test
Skinfold self-testing is now possible because instead of using the traditional three
or four site skinfold formulas that require a second person, the Accu Measure only
requires a skinfold to be taken at ONE SITE - the Illiac crest (also known as
"suprailliac" or top of the hip bone), and you can measure that spot yourself!
Based on this single measurement, you simply refer to a body fat interpretation
chart for an accurate estimate of total body fat.
Some people wonder whether the one site iliac crest pinch test is inaccurate,
especially if they store more fat in their lower bodies than they do around the
waist. The truth is, it doesn't matter where you store the most fat. What matters is
that you have a method you can use regularly, which gives you consistent readings
you can use to compare one week's results to the next, and the Accu Measure does
that beautifully.
Studies have shown that measuring at three or four sites does increase accuracy
slightly, but not greatly so – so don't worry that the Accu measure only requires
pinching one spot. Research has also shown that measuring more than four
skinfold sites does not always increase accuracy further. In fact, if the tester is
inexperienced, it can actually increase the margin for error).

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Can Vitamin C Decrease the Incidence of Cancer?

Can Vitamin C Decrease the Incidence of Cancer?
Among all of the vitamins, perhaps vitamin C has received the most
attention as an anticancer agent. Much of the research involving vitamin
C and cancer in people has been correlation studies, which are used to
determine an association between the two or more entities. In regard to
cancer of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, and colon, as the vitamin C
content of the diet increases, the risk for these cancers decreases two to
three times. In more direct research studies it seems that individuals get-
ting less than 80 milligrams daily appear to be at greater cancer risk
than individuals with higher levels of intake. The true impact of higher
levels of vitamin C intake is difficult to assess on an individual basis and
thus a more general recommendation of 400 milligrams of vitamin C
daily seems reasonable for general health promotion. One important con-
sideration for vitamin C consumption is recognized in smokers.
Researchers have reported that it may take as much as a four to six times
greater vitamin C intake for smokers to achieve the same blood level of
vitamin C as nonsmokers. This is especially important as cigarette smoke
contains an abundant supply of free radicals and free-radical-creating
substances, and appears to increase the risk for many cancers, especially
lung cancer.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Certainly any great building

How Do We Begin to Understand Nutrition?
Certainly any great building must be constructed upon a solid foundation.
So let us go ahead and commit ourselves to building a solid scientific
foundation to explore nutrition. So, before we begin to learn how to
nourish our body, we need to have a better understanding of what needs
to be nourished. Our body is the product of nature and as such it must
adhere to the basic laws of nature. In fact, you can think of nutrition as the
scientific offspring of more basic sciences such as chemistry and biology.
Therefore, understanding the what's, why's, and how's of nutrition will
be a lot easier once a few basic areas of chemistry and biology are appreci-
ated. What follows are some fundamental principles of chemistry and
biology and a description of their relevance to nutrition and the body.
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