Most everyone knows about the importance of cardiovascular activity, but not everyone is getting as much exercise as they should. Cardio in particular is important for improving the health of your heart, helping you burn fat and lose weight if you need to, and giving your body a jump start so it burns more calories throughout the day.

If you don’t exercise because you think you’ll have to join an expensive gym and spend all your free time around hard bodies, think again. You can get a wonderful cardio workout without taking a lot of time out of your busy day, and you don’t even have to leave your house.

Dancing is the ultimate exercise for busy people because it can be done almost anywhere, from your living room to your favorite dance club. Moving to the rhythm of the music doesn’t really feel like exercise, but doing the right moves can work your whole body and give you that feeling of having worked hard even though you were having fun doing it.

Dancing is easy on the body compared to running or other cardiovascular activities you might have tried, and it can strengthen your muscles as well as your bones, which is good insurance against fractures in the future.

Using dance as exercise is great for any group of people. You can dance alone in your living room or work out with your kids or a few friends. You won’t even feel like you’re working out because you’re enjoying the music, but you can burn as many calories as you would running or riding a bike.

So many people shy away from exercise because they think it has to be boring. I’m here to tell you that you can have the time of your life while working out. Moving to the music will get you laughing and smiling as well as sweating and shrinking.

Dance exercise can improve your self image and confidence levels, as well as your balance, coordination and heart health. You don’t need any special equipment or skills to dance—anyone can do it. So put on your dancing shoes for the most fun you’ve ever had while working out.

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According to the Center for Disease Control (the CDC), over 910,000 people die from heart disease every year. This makes heart disease the number one killer in America. While almost one million individuals die of heart disease annually, many more millions are stricken with the disease and some of them unknowingly. As a result, doctors and physicians alike encourage anyone, and especially those at risk, to understand the warning signs of heart disease and take measures to prevent the onslaught of the disease. But, as drugs, manufactured chemicals, and fatty foods inundate the marketplace it becomes increasingly more difficult to find natural preventatives. In recent years, doctors and scientists have come up with natural, effective methods to preventing heart disease.

The most obvious method to preventing heart disease is to have annual and regular check ups. This means that individuals need to seek medical attention prior to any symptoms. Like many diseases, patients can go years without showing signs of heart disease before being diagnosed with the condition. Blood pressure and cholesterol are the most widely known factors attributed to heart conditions but these are only some of the quantitative tests performed on patients. By scheduling regular checkups with doctors, patients can not only have their system’s checked, but also determine the effectiveness of other preventative measures.

Individuals need to take into consideration their overall health and maintain healthy habits while naturally preventing heart disease. This means that not only do they need to focus on healthier eating habits and exercise routines, individuals need to focus on specific foods and activities that regularly promote heart health. For example, maintaining low cholesterol is not, in itself, enough. Individuals need to focus on the different kinds of cholesterols and recognize that low-density lipoproteins (LDL) need to remain low while high density lipoproteins (HDL) can remain higher. Since they both perform different functions, its important to know how to maintain proper levels of both. This can be attained through both diet and exercise programs supported by the individuals doctor.

When considering regular exercise, individuals need to consider routines that involve cardiovascular workouts in addition to strength building. Since the health of the heart is the primary focus of preventing heart disease, individuals need to perform exercise routines that help strengthen the heart muscles and the surrounding tissue. Furthermore, by expanding the exercises to include the lungs, people can increase the oxygen capacity in their blood, helping build and heal cells throughout the body, including the heart.

In addition to regular diet and exercise, many people take supplements to help prevent against diseases. There are hundreds of different natural supplements available for people looking to prevent or treat all kinds of illness and disease, but few specific to heart disease. Although there are many different supplements designed to help with strengthening the heart, individuals may decrease the effectiveness of the supplements by taking them together in the wrong quantities. When combined, some of these natural vitamins can offset each other, resulting in little to no positive effect, and sometimes even negative effects in the patient. Consequently, Dr. Carlon Colker M.D. has produced an all natural supplement that contains a variety of ingredients balanced to enhance the effects each and create an environment in which the heart can flourish.

Doctors, physicians and scientists have developed a myriad of ways to help people treat and prevent heart disease, the leading killer of Americans today. As a result of this need, communities of professionals have come up with natural methods for individuals to prevent the disease by means of diet and exercise. By incorporating healthy eating habits, exercise, and supplements such as Lipistat (Visit: http://www.lipistat.ws ) into their daily routine, individuals now have the power to prevent this deadly disease.

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In the last hundred years, our society has had to endure an ever-increasing plague affecting the lives of millions. Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in the form of ‘Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease’, which is also known as ‘Atherosclerosis’ or ‘plaquing’ of the arteries is affecting younger and younger people with each passing generation. The disorder leads to the majority of our heart attacks, strokes and the spiraling costs of healthcare. It remains today as the leading cause of death by disease in the developed world.

Medical treatment of choice continues to be cholesterol-lowering drugs (statin drugs). Add to this the prescriptions for chest pains, high blood pressure, blood thinners, calcium beta-blockers, triglyceride etc. and you have a toxic cocktail mix taken by millions of people with only a poor prognosis to show for their efforts.

What can we do?

A world-renowned biochemist Linus Pauling PhD (1901-1994), two-time unshared Nobel Prize Laureate, and recipient of more than 40 honorary degrees is regarded by many of his peers as one of the world’s greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. In his last interview with the British journal of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition he spoke these prophetic words:

“I think I know what the answer is… we can get almost COMPLETE CONTROL of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes by the proper use of this therapy …even cure it.” — Linus Pauling (1992)

The “therapy” he spoke about was formulated after decades of scientific and clinical research and introduced following issues of his patents (1990 and 1991) for the reversal of ‘Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease’. Add this to his 1989 ‘Unified Theory” of heart disease and we have an effective way of eliminating the majority of suffering caused by this major scourge of our times.

Medicine’s silence is deafening!

Mainstream medicine and big Pharma continue to remain silent as to Pauling’s discovery and one might be inclined to believe that their focus on profits might be the motives for their suppression of his research. Heart disease is big business.

How does Pauling’s formula work? It’s rather quite simple. It starts with the scientific facts that CVD is predominantly a Vitamin C deficiency disease. Also lacking is, a couple of key amino acids L-lysine and L-proline. Add to that a few supportive A, B, & E vitamins, minerals like magnesium and selenium, a little CoQ10 and plenty of Omega 3 oils, and there you have it. A formula which when taken therapeutically, can stop, reverse and help the body heal the majority of CVD cases.

Following up on 1985 Nobel Laureates Brown and Goldstein’s scientific work of the early 1980’s, Pauling re-confirmed that all plaque in the arteries is laid down as temporarily repair material for damaged or injured blood vessels. This sticky cholesterol plaque, which the body uses to seal up the cracks and fissures, is a “special” kind of cholesterol made in our livers and not the cholesterol we ingest from fatty foods. LP(a) cholesterol plaque is manufactured as a necessary emergency ‘secondary response tissue’ to deal with the damaged blood vessels. This happens only when the body is malnourished.

The ‘primary’ healing tissue for blood vessels is “collagen”. Collagen needs high levels of Vitamin C and amino acids such as lysine, proline, to be properly and adequately synthesized. Also, L-lysine and L-proline act as LP(a) binding inhibitors.

So there is hope for the majority of those who suffer with this chronic degenerative disease. The results of using the Pauling protocol are predictable and measurable.

Start by getting a full blood profile for heart risk factors. Once you have your ‘numbers’, start taking a well formulated ‘Pauling formula’ product (Cardioflex Q10) up to three times a day with juice or water. (Water only if you are diabetic) You will start to notice a difference in your wellbeing within only a few days to a few weeks.

Note: Check regularly with your doctor as to the continued need for your prescription drugs. Within 6 to 18 months, the majority of patients should be off most of their heart drugs and will have reduced by up to 80-90% all of their CVD risk factors identified in the blood tests.

Adopting a healthier diet and a regular exercise routine accelerates the process and puts you on a fast tract to a lifetime free of heart disease.

You no longer have to be a casualty of the CVD plague.

Dr. Gerry Bohemier DC

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High Blood pressure is a worldwide epidemic affecting millions of people around the globe. It is estimated that within the next 20 years, there will be over 1.5 billion people affected by high blood pressure.

Two key reasons for the explosion of high blood pressure epidemic are sedentary lifestyle, and a diet rich in high sodium, and processed foods. While diet is a contributing factor for high blood pressure, there are foods that can actually help lower blood pressure, and one of these miraculous food is no other than dark chocolate.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a group of volunteers were randomly divided into two groups. One group ate about a quarter ounce of dark chocolate daily for five months, while the other group was given white chocolate. The group who ate dark chocolate had lower blood pressure readings than those who ate white chocolate.

What makes dark chocolate such a beneficial food for lowering blood pressure?

Dark chocolate contains flavonoids, a group of chemical compounds found in plants that have antioxidant properties. Flavonoids have been shown to promote several beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system; including, flushing out the accumulation of cholesterol in blood vessels, preventing the clustering of blood platelets which contributes to the risk of blood clots that produce stroke, and heart attack, decreasing the body’s inflammation in the body, and relaxing the blood vessels.

When you’re choosing dark chocolate, look for chocolate that has at least 70 percent pure cocoa content. Very dark chocolate is not as sweet as milk chocolate, and it may be somewhat bitter. You may have to try different ones until you find one that you like. However, dark chocolate is becoming very popular, and nowadays, it’s easy to find a variety of good quality dark chocolate with cocoa content as high as 85%.

Portion control is the key to getting the health benefits of dark chocolate without consuming too many calories because dark chocolate is high in fat and calories. Just remember that all you need is a very little piece of it, about a quarter of an ounce, to enjoy its blood pressure lowering benefit.

If you’re looking for ways to lower your blood pressure naturally, dark chocolate can do the trick. For now, all the studies show that there’s little doubt that dark chocolate consumed in moderation, and in conjunction with a healthy diet, and exercise is one of the ways to lower blood pressure, and improve your overall cardiovascular health.

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Many people that suffer from high blood pressure are not always happy to be prescribed a plethora of different drugs. There are many stories about the sided effects of using these drugs and obviously this worries many. All is not lost though. There are a number of things you can do that will help overcome high blood pressure. That’s not to say we are suggesting you stop taking any prescribed medication. Always consult with your doctor before making any changes.

Lowering Your Intake

Something that can be done relatively easily is to lower your salt intake. Many processed foods contain a lot of salt and you can certainly compound this problem by adding more salt to your meal, either by adding at the preparation or by adding as a condiment. I would suggest trying to buy more fresh food and vegetables. That way you can monitor your intake more effectively. Eating more natural products is an easy way to start reducing that high blood pressure.

Another really simple idea is to cutout refined white sugar. It is widely accepted that eating processed sugar increases the blood pressure so I suggest using a sweetener alternative. Sweeteners have come a long way and nowadays you can get some that even taste good on breakfast cereal. These are a great alternative and your taste buds won’t even know the difference.

Learning to lower blood pressure is fairly straight forward if you follow a well balanced nutritious diet that is full of fibrous foods. You can start by eating more fresh vegetables which contain plenty of antioxidants and have high potassium content. These are two ingredients that are extremely good for your health and will make a big impact in lowering that high blood pressure.

A diet of fresh fruit and vegetables combined with a low salt and sugar intake will really start to make an impact on that blood pressure. So much so that after consulting with your doctor you maybe able to reduce the amount of medication you take.

Lastly there is one big thing you can do to lower high blood pressure, exercise! I am not saying you should start preparing for a marathon but some gentle exercises done on a daily basis will really help to reduce that hypertension. Just try something simple like Tai Chi, or light aerobics. Even a daily jaunt in the fresh air with the dog is better that lazing around on the couch. Just something to raise the heart rate slightly will work wonders.

As we said previously always consult your doctor before embarking on any new diet or considering lowering your medication. Your doctor knows best but I guarantee if he sees a difference in your blood pressure by altering your lifestyle he will almost certainly consider lowering your medication.

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Can Cayenne Pepper actually lower your cholesterol? Yes it can. Cayenne pepper is one of the most powerful herbs in the world yet most just think of it as a condiment. Its uses and tremendous health benefits, however, go far beyond its culinary uses. It is a proven herb that has been used for decades by wise herbalists and home health practitioners.

Cayenne is extremely beneficial for the entire venous structure and for the heart. Its nutrients are what give Cayenne such proficiency. In fact, it’s not only a very nutritional herb but it’s a medicinal herb as well. It is very high in Vitamins A, C, and the B complexes. It also is teeming with assimilable calcium and potassium. Its abundance of potassium is one of the reasons why it is so beneficial for the human heart.

So, why is it so helpful in the lowering of cholesterol? Cayenne is an herb that once digested by the body, helps to clean the bloodstream of unwanted elements. How specifically? Cayenne somehow processes fat without absorbing it and it helps the body excrete the fats through normal bowel movements. Its speed and efficacy in which it works is nothing short of amazing. If taken daily, it will not only strengthen the heart, but will lower cholesterol by scouring the blood. The therapeutic value of cayenne has been repeatedly validated, but don’t take my or various scientific studies’ word for it. Use it for 30 days and you’ll have your own story to tell.

The Cayenne Pepper Detoxification Drink — How to Take It
I’d advise you take it in warm water. The warm water is much faster than tablets, capsules, or cold water as the warm cayenne water opens up the cell structure. It makes the cells expand and utilizes the cayenne that much faster. Famed herbal and homeopathic Dr. John Christopher testified repeatedly in his writing of the virtual instantaneous nature of cayenne upon the heart. If someone were having a heart attack, if they can drink the warm concoction of very warm water and cayenne pepper, it will in about 15 seconds take the person out of the heart attack. While a severe cut or lesion is not related to lowering cholesterol, if one can put some cayenne pepper into it and perhaps drink some, it will stop the bleeding in literally 10 to 15 seconds

You may be surprised to hear about the medicinal efficacy of cayenne pepper but in truth it’s been used as a medicine (as well as an herbal condiment) for literally centuries all around the world. Due to the stranglehold Big Pharma has upon the medical establishment, not to mention the hold modern Western medicine has upon our healthcare, the benefits of cayenne pepper and other herbs remains relatively unknown, and herbalist practitioners are persecuted and prosecuted by the healthcare powers that be.

Money, Money, Money
So why haven’t most heard of cayenne’s amazing therapeutic abilities? Money. The number-one-selling drug in the US is Lipitor — ostensibly sold to reduce cholesterol. In 2005 alone, Lipitor had 12.2 billion in sales. According to CNN, Lipitor totaled 13 billion. Needless to say, Cayenne pepper could eliminate all that. Consider the difference: it costs anywhere from $10 to $20 to buy a pound of cayenne pepper. The average price dosage of Lipitor is $80. When you’re making $13 billion a year in sales on one drug, you don’t want to give that up, nor do you want others to know about something that works better. Now you know in part why herbal medicine is publically mocked by the medical establishment and criminalized by the government. Of course, herbal medicine has been respected for years among true health practitioners and cayenne pepper

The cayenne pepper detoxification drink as I call it takes some getting used to, but its benefits are tremendous. Your cholesterol will lower, your heart will strengthen, and you’ll experience other health benefits as well. Drink the cayenne pepper detoxification drink. It’s inexpensive and while drinking a glass of warm cayenne pepper water seems odd, its health benefits will be noticeable. Don’t rely on doctors to “cure” you of lower cholesterol. Take matters into your own hands; be self-reliant about your health. Doctors can certainly be a great blessing, but by learning of alternative means to help your health, you will benefit greatly.

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