LivingFuel SuperHealth: Less Exercise – More Results

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Posted on 25th March 2010 by admin in Super Health

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Dear Living Fuel Family,

Welcome to Part 2 of our special LivingFuelTV series with elite strength and fitness trainer Andy O’Brien.

Do you avoid exercise thinking that you need to spend hours in the gym or on the treadmill to gain significant fitness results? This is not the case! As with many things in life, exercise is more about the quality, not the quantity of your efforts. It’s often what we do the 23 hours away from our workouts that can most determine our results.

Today, we discuss how a lean body, a low resting heart rate and ample energy thoughout the day are results of your body adapting metabolically and hormonally to the physical stress you place on it during your workouts, along with what you do with the other 23 hours. What does this mean to you? You can maximize these adaptations with less time exercising by applying what you’ll learn from today’s video.

Click here to watch the interview.

For more information, visit www.livingfuel.com or call 1-866-580-FUEL (3835).

Here’s to your SuperHealth,

KC & Monica Craichy
Founder & CEO
Living Fuel, Inc.


LivingFuel SuperHealth: Improve Your Health While You Sleep!

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Posted on 22nd March 2010 by admin in Super Health

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To have the health of your dreams, you need to spend more time dreaming. Research shows that one of the best ways to improve your health tomorrow is to get a good night’s sleep tonight – at least 7 – 8.5 hours. That may sound simple enough, but the fact is that Americans have racked up a huge “sleep debt” through the years. On average, people living in the United States get at least one hour less sleep per night than they did 20 years ago. After several days, weeks or months of sleep debt, we have trouble concentrating and making important decisions about everything from our job to homework and paying bills.

The director of the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research in Bethesda, Maryland was recently quoted as saying that sleep is just as important to our overall health as a healthy diet and exercise. Sleep deprivation has been linked to many health-related problems including chronic fatigue and obesity. It’s also blamed for an increased risk of causing an auto accident. You can’t do your best driving on the road without a good night’s sleep!

Sleep is without a doubt one of the most important aspects of our daily routine as far as the maintenance of health and prevention of disease is concerned. After all, sleep is when the body regenerates itself, thereby making it ready for a whole new day of activity. It gives your body a chance to rebalance itself. People who sleep well feel better, look younger, live longer, and are more energized and motivated throughout every physical and mental challenge of every day.

If the body is deprived of sleep, even a little bit, a person’s overall degree of health can easily become compromised without them even knowing it. When you wake up tired, you feel irritated through the day. Combine a lack of sleep with a high level of stress and we start to make mistakes and forget things. You can’t “burn the candle at both ends” and do your best in life.

Sleep is not a luxury. It is crucial, and chronic sleep deprivation is dangerous. Sleep is an essential key to super health. Make it a priority in your life.

Natural Remedies to Help With Sleep

• Melatonin helps to make us drowsy and regulate sleep. Sleeping in total darkness aids in the body’s natural production of melatonin, which is released by the pineal gland from within the center of the brain when one is asleep. One way that many people have found to improve their sleep is to take melatonin in supplement form (I buy my melatonin from Life Extension Foundation – www.lef.org).
• Another terrific natural remedy for sleep disorders is the calming amino acid l-tryptophan. Tryptophan is now widely available in the U.S. without a prescription (you can buy from Life Extension Foundation). If you have trouble getting tryptophan itself, you can get the next best thing, which is known as 5HTP.
• Create a sleep sanctuary. Make your bedroom comfortable and quiet, with beautiful drapes and pleasant, peaceful pictures (such as golf photographs or paintings). Create a place where you feel relaxed and peaceful as soon as you enter. When you sleep, keep your bedroom completely dark or wear a sleep mask to ensure maximum natural melatonin production. Wear ear plugs if you are easily awakened by small noises. Invest in a comfortable bed. If it is too quiet, listen to a recording of nature sounds or soft music. Find a temperature that is most conducive to your sleeping—many people find that cool temperatures help to promote a restful sleep. Don’t allow the room to get stuffy. Keep the air circulating with a fan in your bedroom.
• Relax with a bath in Lavender Epsom Salts (which is magnesium that also helps with inflammation and numerous other functions in the body).
• Consider socks: warm feet = deep sleep.
• Embarking on the Four Corners Program for Optimal Nutrition is probably the single best step you can do to help improve the quality of your sleep (www.livingfuel.com/Four-Corners-Of_Superfood_Nutrition.aspx).
• Get regular exercise
• Drink lots of water and minimize alcohol, sweet drinks and empty foods (particularly fast foods).

Getting Started—Sleep

Recommended: 7 to 8.5 hours

1. Are you preparing properly for sleep with a healthy diet and limiting fluids and caffeine prior to bedtime?
2. Have you created a “Sleep Sanctuary” for yourself and your family?
___ Comfortable mattress
___ Pleasant interiors (curtains, shades, lamps, pictures, rugs, pillow)
___ Climate control (air conditioning, heating, fan)
___ Lighting
___ Fragrance
___ Music
___ Sleeping mask
___ Ear plugs
3. Traveling can interrupt your natural sleep schedule. If you’re having trouble sleeping or just want to reset your sleep time when changing time zones, consider taking natural supplements, such as melatonin and/or tryptophan. Melatonin is the best supplement for resetting your sleep time by taking 1.5 times the amount you would take at your home time zone to help you sleep. Take melatonin one hour before the time you want to be your sleep time. The way to tell your optimal dose is to test at home. Some people do well on ½ mg while others do best on 6 mg. You will know if you have taken too much if you feel drowsier than normal when you awaken. Just be sure to set an alarm so you don’t miss getting your day started on time. If you feel a little too drowsy in the morning, decrease your dose the next night.

Here’s to your Super Health!

K.C. Craichy
Founder & CEO


LivingFuel SuperHealth: Performance is for Everyone

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Posted on 18th March 2010 by admin in Super Health

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Dear Living Fuel Family,

This morning, most of us are not warming up for Spring Training batting practice in sunny Florida or recovering from last night’s bruising overtime hockey game. However, we can learn much from professional athletes. Specifically, applying their tested and proven training, fueling and recovery strategies can help you take giant steps in your personal journey to Super Health!

Today, meet elite performance coach and trainer Andy O’Brien from The Edge School in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Andy’s resume includes Strength and Conditioning Coach for the National Hockey League’s Florida Panthers and work with NHL and Olympic star Sidney Crosby, 5-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres and other elite athletes. Just like you, professional athletes rely on their health to maximize their performance on the field, course, ice or pitch. So, whether your “game” is on the field or in the office, on the course or in the house, enhance your performance today by applying insights from Andy to your own health regimen.

Join the conversation today and click here to watch.

For more information, visit www.livingfuel.com or call 1-866-580-FUEL (3835).

Here’s to your SuperHealth,

KC & Monica Craichy
Founder & CEO
Living Fuel, Inc.

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Can You Really Get All Your Nutrients From Food?

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Posted on 15th March 2010 by admin in Health Alerts

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How does the human body do all the amazing things it does? Think about the biological mechanics that go into every movement we ask our body to do each day. We call on trillions of cells every time we stand, walk, reach down to pick up something, cook, clean, drive, work, study and exercise.

Here’s another important question – how can our mind and body deal with stress effectively? One of the most important answers is nutrition. Science has identified more than 50 essential nutrients needed by the human body to perform at optimal levels. The body cannot produce any of these nutrients on its own, thus they must be obtained from food sources and dietary supplementation. If a person is deficient in any of these essential nutrients, the result is dysfunction and disease. Complete absence results in death.

There are also many well-known nutrients, enzymes, coenzymes, and phytochemicals that are extremely important, but not considered essential, and are found primarily in fruits and vegetables. For this reason, many nutritionists and dietitians advocate obtaining essential nutrients through whole foods rather than supplements. It would be fantastic if we could get all essential nutrition just by eating food because there are a lot of junk supplements out there, including vitamin pills, that use the cheapest available nutrients that have been isolated from their natural co-factors.

Unfortunately, getting all essential nutrients from food is virtually impossible. If it were possible, not only would you have to be extremely knowledgeable about nutrition, but you would also have to eat far too many calories to get sufficient amounts of every essential nutrient. This, of course, would be extremely unhealthy and defeat the purpose.

In order to get all of the required nutrition from your diet, you would have to eat only the freshest organic foods, a dozen or more daily servings of vegetables (mostly greens and bright colored vegetables), fruits and whole foods along with clean, naturally raised protein sources in addition to taking high-quality dietary supplements. The majority of our food supply is from over-commercialized farming sources that have been depleted of their nutritional value. Even the biblical Old Testament advocates the cycling and resting of farmland for one full year every seventh year to allow time for the soil to be replenished. Current farming methods do not allow farmland to rest at all and instead use fertilizer that contains only a few minerals.

The average time between when produce is harvested (prior to peak nutritional value) and you purchase it in the grocery store is approximately 14 days or longer. This results in further degradation of nutrient value. Canned and frozen foods can be even less nutritious.
Super Health can only be obtained by the regular consumption of every known essential nutrient along with their cofactors and with numerous other vital and beneficial nutrients whose greatest concentrations exist in nutrient dense Superfoods.

Since it is virtually impossible to get all of the required nutrition from food, the key to getting everything your body needs is to combine the most powerful superfoods with the most bioavailable forms of all essential nutrients. The result is you get every nutrient we know about, plus many nutrients contained in foods that we don’t even know about yet. We call this Superfood Nutrition, which is the basis for Living Fuel’s line of optimized Superfood nutrition products (www.livingfuel.com).

Here’s to your Super Health!

K.C. Craichy

K.C. CRAICHY is Founder & CEO of Living Fuel – The Leader in Superfood Nutrition, and the best-selling author of Super Health – 7 Golden Keys to Unlock Lifelong Vitality. He is a health advocate and expert on natural health and performance nutrition. His extensive study of leading-edge health research and collaborative work with top medical and nutritional practitioners and researchers to solve his wife’s health problems led him to the founding of Living Fuel, Inc. KC is committed to changing lives through nutritional and multi-media lifestyle education combined with leading-edge high impact superfoods. He also serves on the Clinical Nutrition Review Board (the certifying body of the International and American Association of Clinical Nutrition). KC lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife Monica and their five children.


LivingFuel HealthAlert: From The Ground Up

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Posted on 8th March 2010 by admin in Health Alerts

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We’re only a couple of weeks from the official start of Spring and for a lot of people it means planting their vegetable gardens. The month of March is also National Nutrition Month, so it is a good time to think about what we eat. This year’s theme is “Nutrition From the Ground Up” and that’s the right place to start.

The nutritional value of vegetables and fruits begins with the quality of the soil. Soil has been defined as the characteristics that support life. Unfortunately, much of the soil used in the United States and around the world is nutrient-poor. Why? Among other things, it is because of gross mismanagement of the soil by many of the companies that grow the majority of the nation’s food supply. The methods companies use to grow food (including maximum yield mass farming) have removed most of the nutrients from the soil without replacing them. We have lost about 90% of the mineral content from our soil and fertilizer only replaces a small amount. Some farms are already 100% depleted. That spells nutritional disaster for our country!

In addition to the problem of soil depletion, we also have to deal with soil contamination. Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbacides have destroyed most of the precious microorganisms necessary for growing food from the ground up. Soil contamination (pollution) is another national disaster. We’ve allowed big companies to use and dispose of contaminants with little consequence. We’ve poured and sprayed toxic chemicals all over the soil that we now need so desperately for our food supply. You can learn more about the problem of soil depletion and other causes of the serious degradation in the quality of our food supply at http://www.livingfuel.com/Health_Alert_Our_Food_Supply.aspx .

Fortunately, there is an answer. It’s called organic farming. It uses crop rotation, compost, mechanical cultivation, green manure, and biological pest control to rebuild the nutrient value of soil. The growing demand for organic fruits and vegetables has seen an increase in organically managed farmland. It’s still only about 1% of the world’s farm land, but it is growing in size.

Living Fuel is committed to supporting organic farming and the improvement of our soil and food supply. We use only the best natural ingredients for our products to ensure Living Fuel’s potency, purity, quality, and bioavailability (www.livingfuel.com).

Here’s to your Super Health!

KC



LivingFuel HealthAlert: New Study – Vitamin Combo May Delay Aging

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Posted on 2nd March 2010 by admin in Health Alerts

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A cocktail of vitamins, minerals and herbals may delay the major aspects of the aging process and extend lifespan by 10 per cent, according to a new study from Canada.

Mice fed a supplement containing 30 dietary ingredients did not experience a 50 per cent loss in daily movement like other non-supplemented animals, according to findings published in the current issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine.

Researchers say the benefits were linked to increases in the activity of mitochondria, the power plants of the cells, as well as by reducing levels of free radicals produced by the mitochondria.

Lead researcher David Rollo of McMaster University said these findings could help people live better longer.

“This study obtained a truly remarkable extension of physical function in old mice, far greater than the respectable extension of longevity that we previously documented. This holds great promise for extending the quality of life of ‘health span’ of humans,” Rollo added.

Read more here.


LivingFuel HealthAlert: Do CT Scans Cause Cancer?

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Posted on 1st March 2010 by admin in Health Alerts

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The last several months have presented one worrisome story after another regarding the dangers of CT scans… including more than 200 patients receiving radiation overdoses while undergoing brain scans at a California hospital… unpredictable and widespread variation in radiation dosing for cardiac scans from one hospital to the next… and a new research report revealing that the cancer risk from radiation in a CT scan may be far higher than was thought. Two studies on this topic were published in the December 2009 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. One of the studies reports that just one scan can deliver enough radiation to cause cancer and predicts that 29,000 new cancers will develop that can be linked to CT scans received in just the year 2007. Making matters much worse is the fact that the use of CT scans in medicine has grown explosively — more than tripling in the US since the 1990s, with more than 70 million given each year.

Read more here.


LivingFuel HealthAlert: Multiple Sclerosis Risk Changes With The Season

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Posted on 1st March 2010 by admin in Health Alerts

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Previous studies have shown multiple sclerosis (MS) patients are more often born in spring than in any other season, indicating that there is an environmental risk factor for the disease.

One likely contender is vitamin D, which influences expression of the HLA-DRB1*15 allele. One reason more babies born in the Spring had MS later may be that the majority of the pregnancy was in Winter months which would virtually ensure lower sun exposure and lower vitamin D levels.

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LivingFuel SuperHealth: Tocotrienols are Effective Bone Builders

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Posted on 1st March 2010 by admin in Super Health

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A new animal study compared the effectiveness of various forms of vitamin E in the quality of bone formation. The study found that gamma tocotrienol was the best form that supported multiple aspects of bone integrity during the process of normal bone formation.

The experiment involved male rats that were fed a diet bolstered with plain vitamin E (alpha tocopherol), delta tocotrienol, gamma tocotrienol, or control (olive oil). After 4 months the animals were sacrificed and the quality of their bone architecture was analyzed. While all forms of vitamin E showed better quality bones compared to the control group, the gamma tocotrienol group was best.

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