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To achieve a toned and well-sculpted body through muscle building, proper exercises with the right equipments, an obliging diet as well as a good muscle building supplement are essential. Muscle building requires specific workouts especially for the major muscle groups such as the abdominis, the quadriceps, the deltoids, the pectorals and the biceps. These parts of the body can be fashioned to be toned and well-sculpted as the muscles are elastic. Weight lifting is ideal for building muscle mass as well as other exercises such as swimming, running and brisk walking. When building the muscles, body fat is initially eliminated therefore there may be a need to reduce calorie intake.

Through the course of the muscle building regimen, it is necessary to add nutrients such as carbohydrates and proteins in the diet. Carbohydrates is essential for energy maintenance during workouts. Proteins, on the other hand is the most required nutrient for developing the muscles. Rich sources of protein are chicken, beef, pork, fish, eggs, dairy foods as well as nuts, seeds, beans and lentils. Aside from sufficient nutrients, a muscle building supplement should also be included in the regimen to augment vitamin and mineral intake. During the past decades, one of the most widely researched muscle building supplement is bee pollen.

It has been conclusively found in studies that bee pollen as a muscle building supplement contains twice as much iron as any other food. On a per calorie basis, bee pollen has been found to have more beneficial effects than fruits and vegetables alone. Bee pollen as a muscle building supplement promotes the effective flow of oxygen throughout the body. With protein being the most essential nutrient in muscle building, the bee pollen muscle building supplement contains twice the amount of muscle building protein found in beef. A remarkable amount of antioxidant vitamins such as Vitamins A, C and E are also contained in the bee pollen muscle building supplement.

In fact, bee pollen has been found to include the maximum amounts of Vitamin A than every known food except tomatoes. The bee pollen muscle building supplement also hold three essential forms of Vitamin B including thiamin and niacin. Studies carried out in 1992 showed results of bee pollen being an excellent source of calcium. A high level of dietary calcium is necessary for the development of strong and sturdy bones. As skeletal muscles need to be stimulated for successful muscle building, it goes without saying that the bee pollen muscle building supplement is beneficial for this endeavor. It is by far too broad and expanse to discuss the particular ingredients of bee pollen in augmenting the development of muscle mass.

It is interesting to note, however, that the bee pollen muscle building supplement contains the highest level of folic acid than any of today’s common foods. Folic acid has an indispensable function in cell generation and prostate gland support. In increasing stamina and energy levels in athletic performances, the bee pollen muscle building supplement also performs a vital role. Muscle building supplements are taken to boost muscle size, increase the rate of fat loss, improve joint health and to prevent potential nutrient deficiencies. Scientific consensus supports the effectiveness of only a small number of commercially available muscle building supplements when the consumer is healthy and physically active.

When resorting to the bee pollen muscle building supplement a barrage of other supplements need not be taken as it is complete in itself.

Acai berries are a special gift - a unique fruit loaded full of anti-oxidants, minerals, vitamins, and other substances shown to help aid weight loss and enforce nutrition. This is helpful to maintain heath and also offers benefits in losing weight. The acai berries have a number of other benefits which have been shown. Acai berries can be taken in various forms, including fresh, powdered, capsule, and freeze dried, and retains its medicinal properties no matter how it is prepared or preserved. Although the freeze dried form of the berry has been shown to be the most potent, the acai berry is just as effective in its various other forms as well. If you’re just starting to take them, however, simply start with whichever form feels right to you.

There are so many benefits of acai berry that can better your health, but perhaps one of the most well known is the ability of the acai berry to reduce your cholesterol level. With more and more people suffering from high cholesterol, many individuals have jumped on the acai berry band wagon after seeing how it can dramatically bring your levels down when taken on a regular basis. For individuals who prefer natural alternatives, the acai berry may be a viable way to lower cholesterol.

Another of the acai berry benefits is being highly useful as a potential digestive aid, clearing toxins from the body and reducing inflammation throughout the body. Acai berry purifies your body, especially of xenobiotics. Xenobiotics are negative, foreign substances that can have a deteriorating effect on the body. There are bad substances in your body called xenobiotics, which lead to decreased brain function. Another valuable acai berry benefit may prove to be its ability to improve eyesight due to the berry’s naturally concentrated vitamin and mineral composition.

Those who suffer from arthritis pain have found that daily consumption of the acai berry can relieve the pain associated with this condition, and it has also shown promise in helping injuries heal faster. Sufferers who have taken acai berry everyday have reported less pain from their arthritis. Acai berries also shows promise in healing injuries faster, although there is not yet conclusive evidence of that.

Acai berry benefits are not only limited to your physical body, but can also help you both mentally and emotionally. The acai berry has been shown to aid in relieving depression, and can help regulate the body’s nervous system and to keep hormones in balance.

Weight loss may be the main reason most people first start using this supplement for the acai berry benefits. The acai berry is a natural colon cleanse, helping to get rid of excess water and toxins and thus allowing you to shed off pounds quickly and easily. Other acai berry benefits include its ability to act as an appetite suppressant, and to speed up the metabolism.By ramping up the metabolism, any calories you do consume is burned much more quickly and efficiently.

Acai berry benefits are many and highly effective. It is little wonder that the acai berry is quickly becoming known as a miracle supplement. When acai berries are consumed on a regular basis, many physical, mental, and emotional benefits can be gained.

Colorado-based Natural Grocers is the latest natural and organic food retailer to enter the market with the grand opening Saturday of its first store in Richardson at the northwest corner of Coit and Campbell roads.

The company plans as many as four stores in the Dallas area and more in other Texas cities, said Kemper Isely, a son of the chain’s founders, who operate the 28-store chain with his siblings. He’s looking along Greenville Avenue in Dallas, Flower Mound, Plano and Southlake. A store opens in Amarillo in November.

The Richardson store is about 14,000 square feet and specializes in dietary specific needs including gluten-free, dairy-free, vegan and kosher. The company’s roots are in vitamin and mineral supplements, but the store carries groceries, health and beauty supplies, fresh meats and poultry, dairy, fruits and vegetables, frozen foods and baked goods.

The stores offer no paper or plastic bags, except in produce, but boxes are on hand for shoppers who forget to bring reusable bags.

The store is located across the street from a Sprouts Farmers Market. Sprouts, a chain of natural food stores based in Phoenix, opened its first area store here in 2005.

The Isely family founded privately-held Natural Grocers in 1955 as the Vitamin Cottage. The company operates stores in Colorado, New Mexico and enters Utah next year.

Sunflower Farmers Market, a Colorado-based organic and natural supermarket chain is also expanding here and in Texas.

Austin-based Whole Foods Market Inc. has two stores under construction in Dallas in Lakewood and Park Lane.

Mr. Isely said the market is growing as more people become aware of organics and the benefits of natural foods. The company’s best store is 100 feet away from a Whole Foods in Boulder, he said.

Marketing manager Nancy Flynn said the company has an online store and already had a strong customer base from the Dallas area.

Registered dietitians know that vitamin and mineral supplements can be both harmful and helpful. Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide recommends that, in addition to healthy food choices, women who could become pregnant and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding need a multivitamin supplement containing folic acid every day. Men and women over 50 need a daily vitamin D supplement of 400 IU. For these population groups, the benefits are clear. However, there can also be a down-side to supplements used in excess. Dietitians of Canada has reviewed the scientific literature and weighs in on the benefits and risks of supplemental vitamins and minerals. The research grant which provided the evidence for this document was provided by the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research (CFDR).

“Our aim is to raise awareness on the benefits and risks of high doses of vitamins and minerals, says Susan J. Whiting, PhD, author of the review. Our understanding of the function of nutrients now goes beyond just prevention of classical deficiency diseases to possible prevention of disease. For those people for whom vitamin and mineral supplements are needed, we want to assure them that the benefit out-weighs the risk.”

The review describes the recent evidence that shows how certain supplemental vitamins and minerals have benefits to health with respect to prevention of diet-related chronic disease. And it also addresses recent evidence showing large intakes of certain vitamins and minerals can negatively impact health. For instance, supplemental folic acid or vitamin E show both benefit and harm.

Dietitians of Canada represents almost 6,000 dietitians across Canada and is committed to promoting the health and well-being of consumers through food and nutrition. For trusted information on nutrition and healthy eating and to register to receive DC’s regular nutrition updates, visit Dietitians of Canada award-winning website athttp:// www.dietitians.ca.

The Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research (CFDR) was created in 1991 by Dietitians of Canada to support applied nutrition and dietetic research. CFDR has awarded more than $1,005,000 in grants through its annual grants competition since 1993.

StarGate Nutrition today announced that Vitamin C is not ascorbic acid. Ascorbic acid has been successfully sold as vitamin C for many decades now. However, even the man who discovered Vitamin C, Szent-Györgyi, knew ascorbic acid on its own as an isolated synthetic chemical, was not Vitamin C. He saw no improvement when he fed ascorbic acid to scurvy patients. Scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency disease. When he gave them lime and lemon juice they did recover. This proved to him that there was more to Vitamin C than ascorbic acid.

Over 90% of the ascorbic acid now produced and sold in the world is made in China and exported out to be packaged as different brands. This industry in China producing these isolated synthetic chemicals has been accused of producing impotent drugs and food products that poison.

StarGate Nutrition CEO Ralph Quinlan Forde said that,” With all our nutrients consumers can be guaranteed they are taking real nutrients not isolated synthetic chemicals. Our nutrients are in a form found in nature. Your biology understands what we produce. You can take as much ascorbic acid as you like but you body will never recognizes it as vitamin C.”

He went on to say,” Nutrients need to be delivered in a form that they are found as in nature. We have developed a nutrient rich food material that delivers all your vitamin and mineral requirements safely and guaranteed. In fact in scientific studies we have conducted we have seen our nutrient material such as Vitamin C is 16 times more effective than what is currently available on the market and its safer.”

Today over one in three people take some of nutrients on a daily basis. Ascorbic acid sold as vitamin C has long been popular in the treatment of colds, flus and heart disease.

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UroToday.com - Many of the 10 million cancer patients in the US are taking nutritional supplements, but an accurate assessment of the frequency is not well appreciated. In the February 1, 2008 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Christine Velicer and Cornelia Ulrich report a systematic review of supplement use among US cancer patients. Prostate cancer patients are among the lowest users of supplements.

A total of 32 studies published between 1999 and 2006 met the criteria for review of prevalence of vitamin and mineral supplement use among patients undergoing active cancer treatment. The review revealed that a range of 64% to 81% of survivors reported any vitamin or mineral supplement use and 26% to 77% reported using any vitamins. Nine studies reported use among breast cancer survivors, and use of any vitamins or minerals was 67%-87% and multivitamin use was 57%-62%. The increase in use after breast cancer diagnosis was up to 32%. Complimentary and alternative medicine (CAM) use was associated with younger age, higher education, greater physical activity and psychosocial factors. Use of any vitamins was 38%-43% for colorectal cancer patients and 60% for lung cancer patients.

In comparison, use of any vitamins among prostate cancer patients was 26%-35% and multivitamin use ranged from 13%-23%. Megavitamin use was 4%-24%. CAM use for prostate cancer patients was associated with higher education and higher income, but not cancer stage. Age and ethnicity were not clearly associated. In one study, 15% of patients undergoing radiotherapy used high-dose vitamins, but the treating physicians actually estimated that less than 5% were using them. After a diagnosis of prostate cancer, 15% of patients began using CAM (57% were already using CAM) but only 51% informed their physicians. In one study 20% of patients reported that their treating urologist or radiotherapist never raised the issue of CAM use with them.

The authors point out that while some therapies such as St. John’s wort may interfere with drug metabolism, a great understanding of the effects and utilization of CAM among cancer patients is needed. At the very least, physicians should gather intake about CAM use among their patients.

Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor Christopher P. Evans, MD, FACS Professor & Chairman Department of Urology University of California, Davis, School of Medicine Sacramento, CA

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CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(Natural Products Expo West, Booth # 1995) – SGN Nutrition, the company dedicated to providing the highest quality nutritional products using the best available all-natural ingredients, today announced the launch of their new Vita System and Vita System ENERGY drinks. Unlike many other drinks and waters supposedly containing healthy ingredients, one serving of Vita System not only tastes great, but contains five times the vitamins and minerals of the closest competitor, with no sugar and thus, no calories.

“We wanted to create a product that tasted unbelievable, and also gave people the nutrition they need,” said Anthony Misner, CEO of SGN Nutrition. “Vita System is the result. It has great nutritional value and does a lot for the health of the body in the face of today’s problems with poor nutrition and obesity. At the same time it is great-tasting and very refreshing; we know from our research that people will not sacrifice taste for nutrition, and with Vita System, people can have both.”

Extensive testing.

Vita System is the result of two years of development and product testing to find just the right balance of nutritional efficacy and outstanding taste. SGN Nutrition worked extensively with the country’s best flavor consultants to produce a product that would be beneficial to health as well as flavorful and refreshing.

Vita System contains fresh, individually sealed vitamins and minerals that have not, like some competitive products, gone through a hot-fill process of 180 degrees, which kills the efficacy of the vitamins. The Vita System Vitamin and Mineral formula includes 100% of essential ingredients for daily adult health such as Vitamins A, C, E, B3, B6, B12, and D3, as well as minerals and nutrients such as Calcium, Magnesium, Chromium, Selenium, Biotin and Molybdenum. The formula also contains healthy amounts of other vitamins and minerals recommended for health, such as Folic Acid, Potassium, Lycopene and Lutein. The fresh and individually-sealed aspect of the vitamins and nutrients in Vita System preserves their efficacy due to their ability to be more efficiently absorbed by the body than those contained in the average multi-vitamin pill. Vitamin pills are often full of fillers to increase their size, contain binders to glue the ingredients together, and are coated with a hard shellac. The top three competitive vitamin pills are composed of up to 60% fillers, binders, coloring, wax, lubricant, and coating, all of which serve no nutritional purpose.

Environmental health, too.

The powdered drink mix, which is offered in a choice of Orange Citrus and Mixed Berry flavors, is sold in individual packs which can be poured into the accompanying reusable 19-ounce bottle and mixed with filtered or tap water. The inclusion of the bottle follows the ideals of SGN Nutrition, which not only strives to develop products that help people be healthier, but also hopes to have an impact on people’s attitudes toward the environment.

“People in the U.S. consume more packaged drinks per capita than any other country,” said Clegg Hubbell, Director of Business Development for SGN Nutrition. “Unfortunately, very few of those containers, be they cans or plastic bottles, make it into a recycling bin. With Vita System, people can buy our powder mix, shake it up in the bottle with some water and they are good to go. With our system, people can use just one bottle per month, as opposed to 30 cans or plastic bottles. We’re helping them develop not only healthier habits for themselves, but also for the environment.”

Vita System is also available as Vita System Vitamin and Mineral ENERGY formula, which, compared to other energy drinks, offers ten times the vitamins and minerals, while still providing an energy boost. Vita System ENERGY also has a pleasant-tasting Orange Citrus or Tropical Berry flavor, and again eschews calories and sugar for fresh vitamins and minerals that are easily absorbed. Vita System Vitamin and Mineral ENERGY formula is also packaged with a reusable bottle.

Vita System Vitamin and Mineral formula will have an average retail cost of $.70 per serving, and Vita System ENERGY formula will have an average retail cost of $.80 per serving. Both prices are very affordable compared to competitive products. The Vita System powdered drink mixes will be showcased at the Natural Products and Expo West to be held in Anaheim, CA March 14-16, 2008.

About SGN Nutrition

SGN Nutrition is a privately held company that develops and sells innovative, progressive, and natural nutritional supplements. Since initiating operations in August 2004, SGN Nutrition has become a rapidly growing nutritional supplement company. SGN Nutrition has a simple goal: to create the highest quality nutritional supplements utilizing current day scientific research. Studies have shown a rapid decline in the overall health of humans due to the consumption of foods low in nutrients. SGN Nutrition develops proprietary formulas that help individuals easily acquire nutrients and optimize their health. SGN Nutrition is headquartered in Carlsbad, California and distributes their products internationally.

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