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November – National Diabetes Awareness Month

Did you know that diabetes can lead to heart attack and stroke, blindness, or kidney failure? Since November is National Diabetes Awareness Month we thought this would be a good time to review this condition that’s rapidly becoming a national level risk to the health of Americans.

Consider that:

• 24 million children and adults in the United States live with diabetes
• 57 million Americans are at risk for type 2 diabetes
• 1 out of every 3 children born today will face a future with diabetes if current trends continue

Too much glucose, a type of sugar, in your blood can cause diabetes problems over time. High blood glucose can cause heart and blood vessel disease, which can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Damage to the eyes can lead to loss of sight or blindness. Nerve damage and poor blood flow can cause foot problems, sometimes leading to amputation.
Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. People with diabetes have problems converting food to energy. After a meal, food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Cells use insulin, a hormone made in the pancreas, to help them convert blood glucose into energy.
People develop diabetes because the pancreas does not make enough insulin or because the cells in the muscles, liver, and fat do not use insulin properly, or both. As a result, the amount of glucose in the blood increases while the cells are starved of energy.
Although researchers do not fully understand why some people get diabetes and others do not, it is clear that certain factors increase your risk. You may be at an elevated risk for having diabetes if:

• Your mother, father, sister, or brother has diabetes
• You are African American, Hispanic American/Latino, American Indian, Native Alaskan, Asian American, or Pacific Islander
• You have high blood pressure (at or above 130/80)
• You have a history of diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) or gave birth to a baby weighing more than nine pounds at birth
• You are overweight or obese
• You are inactive or have a sedentary lifestyle
• You are more than 45 years old

If you have one or more of these risk factors, even if you are experiencing no symptoms, your doctor may want to test you for diabetes.
What can I do to stay healthy with diabetes?
Controlling your blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol can make a big difference in staying healthy. Talk with your doctor about what your ABC goals should be and how to reach them. A stands for the A1C test-a measure of what your blood glucose has been for the last three months. B is for blood pressure, and C is for cholesterol.
You can take these steps each day to reach your ABC goals:

• Follow the healthy eating plan that you and your doctor or dietitian have discussed.
• Be physically active for 30 to 60 minutes most days.
• Take your medicines as directed and keep taking them, even after you’ve reached your goals.
• If you smoke, quit now.
• Ask your doctor if you should take aspirin to prevent a heart attack or stroke.
• Check your feet every day for cuts, blisters, sores, swelling, redness, or sore toenails.

For more information, please visit: American Diabetes Association and The National Institute of Health

Champions Call - Arginine Extreme

If you haven’t listened to one of AdvoCare’s Champions Calls, you’re missing out on some great information. One of our most recent calls featured a high powered trio consisting of Dr. William Kraemer, Dr. Robert Hackman, Dr. Ken Goldberg, M.D., all members of our Scientific and Medical Advisory Board. This triple threat of noted experts share some of their combined expertise concerning one of our newest products, Arginine Extreme. You can listen to it here.
Some of the topics discussed are:
Dr. Kramer:

“Arginine Extreme is made up of a very unique combination of essential amino acids and other nutrients which allow it to help in the repair, rebuild and remodeling process. So in this case when you exercise, essentially breaking the muscle down – the tissue has to be rebuilt.

• Dr. Hackman: “That’s great for these elite athletes. But what about just for the average recreational exerciser. Is Arginine Extreme going to have any affect for them?”
• Dr. Kraemer: “The damage that occurs in the untrained is even more dramatic than it is for the elite athlete. In effect it’s the same process going on. Arginine Extreme is playing the same role in the repair and recovery process no matter whether you’re just starting an exercise program or if you’re an Olympic athlete.
• Dr Goldberg then explains that there’s a key chemical called nitric oxide that appears to mediate the response of the vascular endothelium‡. “Well, nitric oxide is the messenger that tells the vessels and endothelium what to do. And specifically arginine is a precursor for nitric oxide production. A high intake of arginine helps promote short term increases in nitric oxide that supports the feeling of health and of energy and helps maintain the cardiovascular system.”

The Champions Call takes place twice a month on designated Wednesday nights – get the full details here (AdvoCare login required). Plus, if you’d like to listen to mp3s of previous calls, check out the full list on AdvoCare Audio (login required).
For more information on this powerful product see Arginine Extreme at AdvoCare.com
‡The vascular endothelium is the interior smooth lining of the blood vessel that is very similar to the smooth lining on the inside of our mouth. It is a key factor in regulating blood flow.

Origianl post was at Supplementalscience.com

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Mental Vitamins - Taking a Picture

You must "see" it in your mind before you can have it in reality; that's the way progress is made and that's the way to start any journey toward something better.

A lot of people who join AdvoCare take the position of, "I'll try building a business for a few months and see what happens." With that kind of an "entry attitude" I can tell you what will happen; not much! Now, there are of course a few exceptions; a person "gives it a try" and things just seem to come together to the extent that the new person is both shocked and confused - shocked at how fast it happened and how large it's becoming, and confused at what made it possible. They still don't understand the marketing plan, they don't fully comprehend what's making their check grow and they aren't certain about what products to take in the beginning, but they just keep moving forward. I've often suggested that "action must precede results" and that's certainly true. But don't count on "being lucky" or about getting off to a fast start. AdvoCare is a marathon, not a sprint; it's a process, which means that we keep taking action, we keep talking to people, we keep making contacts, we keep taking the products, we keep listening to instruction, we keep accepting constructive criticism from those who know more, and - we keep our faith in the eventual positive outcome. In the final analysis, things will work out for you not in your time, but in God's time.

But there is one thing that you absolutely must do to enhance your chances that you are going to enjoy a much better future because of your AdvoCare journey, and that is that you must know why you are involved and you must know and see in your mind's eye what your purpose is and what your goals are. Without "seeing the future in advance" you're like the building contractor who has all kinds of materials delivered to an empty lot and then saying to his construction crew, "Ok, let's see what we can put together with all this stuff?" There are no building plans, no consideration has been given to how many rooms, how many square feet or anything specific, just "let's everybody start throwing some pieces together to see what we can come up with."

Just as the building contractor and the architect needs to see the finished product in advance by having a set of blueprints, so you must have your "Why I'm involved," your goals, and your purpose written on paper. I know you may be convinced that you already have it in your mind, but that isn't enough; you need to capture it on paper, because everything that exists or that will exist in the future is always finished twice - once on paper and once again in reality, when what was on paper is now complete. The only exception to this rule may be how God created all things; he may have finished it all on paper before he started and maybe he didn't, but we're humans and we have to do things differently. However, here's a word of caution; you can make contacts, you can share your product and your opportunity story, you can conduct Mixers, you can make some retail sales and you can begin building your team of people while you are putting together your blueprint for your better future; better than a perfect plan put together next month is an imperfect plan put together today, and combined with consistent activity; now, what is it that really drives you to want to make AdvoCare your vehicle for changing your life? Take a clear, focused picture of what you see and let it serve as a map for what you intend to do; that long-range goal will help you over, under, around and through the many short-term obstacles.

Originally posted By Ron Reynolds On Facebook 

Multivitamins & Birth Weight Study

Multivitamins & Birth Weight Study

Everyone knows that taking a good daily multivitamin is beneficial to our health, right? Well, if not, we’ll save that for another day. Here’s another story in the expanding knowledge base regarding the health benefits of multivitamins.

This interesting study published in the New England Journal of Medicine details an experiment where the researchers reported multivitamin supplementation in Tanzanian women helped reduce incidence of low birth weight, especially relative to gestational age.
Based on the potential role of micronutrient deficiencies in prematurity, infant mortality and low birth weight, researchers randomly assigned 8,468 pregnant, HIV-free women (gestational age of fetus, 12 to 27 weeks) to receive daily multivitamins (including multiples of the recommended dietary allowance) or placebo; all participants also received prenatal supplemental iron and folic acid.
Incidence of low birth weight (defined as less than 2,500 g) was 7.8 percent in the vitamin group, compared to 9.4 percent in the placebo group. Supplementation reduced both the risk of a birth size that was small for gestational age and the risk of maternal anemia, although the differences were modest. Considering these results, they suggested multivitamins should be considered for all pregnant women in developing countries.
We have to believe that research such as this continues to underscore the benefits of taking a good daily multivitamin right here at home. And it’s safe to assume that more studies will continue to be performed and released that further support the need for filling your nutritional gaps. If you’re still not one of the millions of Americans who don’t take a good multi-vitamin like CorePlex everyday, you’re missing out (literally). And as the study shows, adding iron to that multivitamin is very important for pregnant women (check out CorePlex with Iron).

Post was originally made on www.Supplementalscience.com

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Spark's unique combination of ingredients gives you fast-acting energy and B-vitamins enhance your body's natural energy-sustaining processes.*

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B-vitamin complex (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6, vitamin B-12 and pantothenic acid), taurine, L-tyrosine, choline, caffeine, GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid)

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Good news just keeps on mounting for Omega-3's

It seems that hardly a week goes by without new information being released regarding the positive health benefits of regularly consuming omega-3 essential fatty acids.

The first study we want to bring to your attention demonstrated that science behind the cardiovascular health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids supports recommended daily levels of 500 mg, according to a recent review. “Compelling evidence” from studies involving almost 40,000 participants supports daily EPA plus DHA intakes of at least 500 mg per day for healthy individuals, while people with known heart disease or heart failure should aim for up to 1,000 mg daily, according to a review published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

“This isn’t just hype; we now have tremendous and compelling evidence from very large studies, some dating back 20 and 30 years, that demonstrate the protective benefits of omega-3 fish oil in multiple aspects of preventive cardiology,” said Carl Lavie, lead author of the review and medical director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans.

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