IBS doesn’t have to turn your world upside down…
Guaranteed, you know someone, most likely many people, who suffer from IBS, or Irritable Bowel Syndrome, but chances are you and quite possibly even they themselves, have no idea. It is believed that IBS affects anywhere from 25 million and 45 million people in the United States, with an exact number impossible to determine as so many cases simply go unreported.
This quite common disorder affects the large intestine (colon) and often causes abdominal pain, cramping, bloating, diarrhea and constipation. The exact cause …

This has to be one of the scariest new fads to hit the wellness industry in quite some time!

While hCG is a naturally produced hormone in women during pregnancy, medical experts not only agree that there is no proof to back these new overly-hyped weight loss claims, this new fad is downright dangerous.
Irrelevant of the use of hCG, anything that recommends such a restriction in daily caloric intake is unhealthy and the hCG diet does just that, with merely a 500 calorie per day recommendation, a near starvation diet.
Anyone who …

KAPALUA, Hawaii — AdvoCare Endorser, Jonathan Byrd wins the PGA Tours opening event in a playoff!

Congratulations Jonathan! Many more to come!
Byrd now has five career PGA wins, but this was by far his biggest to date! He automatically earns an invite to the 2011 Masters, and with his second win in the last two months, he is exempt for the U.S. Open.
What Jonathan says about AdvoCare products:
“I highly recommend Advocare products to everyone. They have so many quality products that can help you stay healthy and feel your best. It’s …

Changing Lives for Almost Two Decades
You have seen or read the horror stories. Everyone knows someone who has done this diet or that diet, losing some weight, only to put it all back on, if not more. And let’s be honest, the gym setting is not for everyone. This is why the Challenge provides results! It can be altered to meet your goals, lifestyle and schedule and more importantly, it has been proven to work for almost two decades now.
Year after year, people are constantly making promises to themselves and …

Are you one of the 90% who miss it or are you a part of the 10% who get it right? If you want to reach whatever goal you have set, faster, more efficiently, you have to get your post-workout nutrition down! It’s simple…..and convenient!
Nutrition really doesn’t have to be complicated! Guys and girls alike can make drastic improvements in their progress by simply taking a couple of simple steps at the right time……..
Seriously…..are you looking to maximize your gains from your training efforts and ensure you aren’t simply wasting …

“There are a Number of Reasons We Choose Spark instead!”
By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is challenging makers of alcohol-infused energy drinks to prove their beverages are safe, citing complaints that the products can cause risky behavior and injury.
The FDA issued a letter Friday to 30 beverage manufacturers, giving them 30 days to provide evidence that the combination of caffeine and alcohol is safe.
“Today the FDA has listed caffeine only as an ingredient for use in soft drinks,” said Deputy Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein. “The …

The Right Multi Maks a Difference
Just how important is proper nutrition? Extremely! We believe it to be responsible for 80% of the way you look and feel. How often do you see people in your gym, that have been “working out” for months or years with little to no change in the way they appear? Quite often! Why? Simple, they are not putting the necessary emphasis on their nutrition.
In today’s society, with the advances in food preparation and packaging, we unfortunately, have lost quite a bit of the natural nutrients …

New York City health officials have battled trans fat and high-calorie fast food. Now, they’re taking on salt.
The health department planned to release on Monday draft guidelines suggesting the maximum amount of salt that should be in a wide variety of manufactured and packaged foods.
New York City’s program is modeled in part after a similar initiative in the United Kingdom that has been underway since 2003.
The recommendations call for sizable reductions in the sodium content of many products, from a 20% drop in peanut butter to a 40% decline in …

Fast-Food Nutrition Better Than What We Serve Our Children? How Sad!

In the past three years, the government has provided the nation’s schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn’t meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat it buys for the National School Lunch Program “meets or exceeds standards in commercial products.”
That isn’t always the case. McDonald’s, Burger …

ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — The fight against fat is going high-tech. To get an inside look at eating and exercise habits, scientists are developing wearable wireless sensors to monitor overweight and obese people as they go about their daily lives.
The experimental devices are designed to keep track of how many minutes they work out, how much food they consume and even whether they are at a fast-food joint when they should be in the park. The goal is to cut down on self-reported answers that often cover up what’s really …