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• Plant-based nutrition and herbs for health and fitness
• New Jump Swing Jump rope fitness/cross-training techniques
• Social security disability how to apply and win your case
• Career planning, development, and advancement
• How to protect yourself from workplace harassment
• Overcoming Minority health disparities through diet, fitness, and self-actualization

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Importance of exercise

“There are many facets related to maintaining bone health, including genetic, intrinsic, and environmental factors, but physical activity is by far one of the strongest means to develop and maintain healthy bone mass,” explains Ron Zernicke, PhD, DSc, director of the Bone & Joint Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Zernicke reviewed research from 1961 through 2009 by searching PubMed, Web of Science, and relevant edited books. The study found that three factors—strain magnitude, strain rate, and strain frequency—are important to the impact exercise has on bone health.

Dr. Daniel W. Barry, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, at Denver, and a researcher who has studied the bones of the elderly and of athletes, states  “An emerging scientific consensus seems to be, that “large forces released in a relatively big burst” are probably crucial. The bone, he says, “needs a loud signal, coming fast.” For most of us, weight lifting isn’t explosive enough to stimulate such bone bending. Neither is swimming. Running can be, although for unknown reasons, it doesn’t seem to stimulate bone building in some people. Surprisingly, brisk walking has been found to be effective at increasing bone density in older women, Dr. Barry says. But it must be truly brisk. “The faster the pace,” he says — and presumably the greater the bending within the bones — the lower the risk that a person will fracture a bone.” His message regarding activities that strengthen bones is ““Jumping is great, if your bones are strong enough to begin with,” Dr. Barry says. “You probably don’t need to do a lot either.”

The New Jump Swing method of rope jumping / fitness incorporates all three methods of increasing bone density.

Importance of vegetables

Position of the American Dietetic Association - Vegetarian Diets

Abstract

It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes. A vegetarian diet is defined as one that does not include meat (including fowl) or seafood, or products containing those foods. The results of an evidence-based review showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with a lower risk of death from ischemic heart disease. Vegetarians also appear to have lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension and type-2 diabetes than non vegetarians.