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Shaklee Health Wise By: Les Wong June is just about my very favorite month of the year.  Not only does it mark the beginning of summer and family vacations, but there’s also  Men’s Health Week , which occurs each year during the week leading up to—and including—Father’s Day, with a goal of heightening awareness of preventable health problems that affect men and boys. This is a great cause and one that I support wholeheartedly! Simple things we can do to help prevent important men’s health problems include staying physically active, getting sufficient sleep and rest, eating a healthful diet, achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, managing stress, and getting regular medical checkups. I love to eat, so let’s focus on good nutrition and healthy weight in men.   According to the World Health Organization, the prevalence of obesity in men worldwide has doubled since 1980 . Many of us have settled into sedentary lifestyles, and we tend to gain weight as abd

When:  Date: Wednesday, June 13th Time: 5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET Dial-up #: 1-512-225-3211 / 724411# (Please note the new Dial-up #!)    Join Dr. Jamie McManus, Shaklee Chair of Medical Affairs, Health Sciences andEducation, Les Wong, Vice President of Health Sciences, and Pamela Riggs, MS, RD., Director of Medical Affairs, for this month's Health Sciences Conference Call. With the arrival of summer, many of us will increase physical activity levels for both fun and fitness. As we're walking, cycling, swimming, or playing more golf or tennis, applying science-based nutrition strategies can improve the results obtained from working out. The Shaklee Health Sciences team will share with you today's sports nutrition guidelines to help you make the most of your summer activities. In addition, we'll also be sharing exciting updates about some of our Shaklee star athletes on the Pure Performance Team! All Shaklee Family Members and th

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With the arrival of summer, many of us will increase physical activity levels for both fun and fitness.   As you are playing and working more outside in the heat, applying science-based nutrition strategies is sure to improve your results. Today's sports nutrition guidelines are well-grounded in science and focused on proper hydration and smart nutritional intakes before, during, and after your workouts. Even if working out isn't what you plan to do this summer, following these sports nutrition guidelines even when just mowing the grass will help keep you healthy and have extra energy to spare to enjoy a fun grill out with friends later. Here are some great articles for you on Sports Nutrition: The Evolution of Sports Nutrition Sports Nutrition Before, During, and After Workouts Smart Hydration for Better Workouts *For more information on health and wellness as well as our full line of Sports Nutrition products including   Performance   – a great

Did you know the human body is made up of 60% water? Physiologically, fluids assist in the transportation of oxygen and nutrients through the bloodstream, provide lubrication in our joints and cushioning for our organs, and carry heat generated by exercise to the skin where it can be dissipated as sweat to cool the body.  An adult loses about 2 liters of fluid per day through sweat, urine, respiration, and bowel movements, and that's why we often make the recommendation to drink eight glasses of water daily for proper hydration.  But as individuals, we all have different metabolic rates, we all live and exercise in different environments, and we all experience unique rates of sweat loss.  Failure to replace lost fluids raises the risk of dehydration and increases the chance athletic performance and even health can be compromised. In addition to water, sweat contains electrolytes such as sodium and potassium that need to be replenished to support optimal fluid balan

We all know regular exercise is an important component of fitness and health, but how many of us know that what we ate last night and this morning can have a huge impact on the quality of today's workout? Sports nutrition, the science of using simple dietary practices to help optimize athletic performance, combines all the best nutritional components and strategies to ensure your diet will efficiently fuel your exercise regimen—not slow it down. Let's look at the components of a healthful training diet that supports athletic performance: • Fluids   help maintain normal body temperature and deliver energy and nutrients to hardworking muscles, so it's no surprise that well-hydrated athletes perform better and can sustain longer than their poorly hydrated counterparts. • Carbohydrate   is the fuel of choice for both recreational and competitive athletes because it is the most readily available fuel for working muscles. In fact, low-carbohydrate fuel stores are a

The world's best athletes will come together for two weeks this summer in London at the 29th Summer Games. There is certain to be a tremendous amount of focus on proper diets and nutritional regimens in an effort to optimize athletic performance, but how far back do we need to look to find the origins of modern-day sports nutrition? Two thousand years ago, meat was a staple of the athlete's diet. Even alcohol was accepted for use during training and before competition. It has been reported that marathon runners drank cognac to enhance performance in the 1908 Games, and at least one German long-distance walker is said to have consumed 22 glasses of beer and half a bottle of wine during competition! At the 1904 Games in St. Louis, Mo., the gold-medal winner in the marathon was given only egg whites, brandy, strychnine, and a wet sponge to suck on over the entire 26.2-mile course. And in the 1952 Games in Helsinki, Finland, the average athlete consumed a high-fat diet

Forget the tie. Nix the aftershave. For Father’s Day give the gift of good health. June is Dad’s month, but you don’t have to be just a dad to be a great guy. That is why June is about all men, not just dads. Think about all the men in your life and how they have helped you. This month we would like to highlight men’s health. They do so much for others it’s time to help them back. Visit our website – ToBeHealthy.com to help you take care of the men in your life (and help yourself, too) by making sure they take care of themselves. Here are some great articles for this month: Shaklee Performance & Kidney Stones All About Stanols (and how they can help you lower your cholesterol naturally) Natural Bodybuilding Thinning Hair and the Power of ProSanté Meet the world-class Shaklee-sponsored athletes on the Pure Performance Team - Pure Performance This video spotlights the amazing adventures and athletic feats that Shaklee Sports Nutrition produ

The CHALLENGE: The effects of common internal and external stresses—including stress, poor diet and nutrition, oxidation from free radicals, and environmental pollutants—can shut down or depress hair follicles, shortening the active phase of hair bulbs and causing more and more bulbs to experience an extended resting phase. Over time, the result is thinner, weaker, and less manageable hair. What’s more, heat and chemicals from styling and processing can severely damage hair. 50% of all men and 40% of women by the age of 35 will experience hair damage and thinning related to that damage. Independent clinical studies have shown the following results with consistent use of the ProSanté system of products.                                                                         30 Days      60 Days     90 Days Reduction of hair loss during combing      11%             54%             65% Decrease in the number of broken hairs   37%             61%             7

by T.S. ESCHHOLZ, Jr, President of Fitness Crafters located in Rockville,MD In response to the query about natural body building and Shaklee products, I will provide some of my own insight and recommend that you also contact Bobby Brandenburg in Fayetteville, NC. He was a NPC drug free Atlantic Coast bodybuilding champion. To give you some background, I am a Shaklee Senior Supervisor and a certified strength and conditioning specialist. At this point, I will not accept anyone for training unless they use Shaklee products. I can say without reservation, those people that I have trained over the years who have used Shaklee products are more consistent in their gains, suffer fewer injuries, and recuperate more rapidly than the people who do not use Shaklee products as the base of their dietary/nutrition program. If I am training someone and that person is not in, or striving to obtain optimal health, that person can never attain the true peak performance of which he/she

Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney If you have been looking for natural approaches for lowering your cholesterol, you've probably been hearing a lot about plant stanols and sterols lately. Just what are plant stanols and sterols and why does the National Institutes of Health (NIH)  recommend them as a natural approach for lowering cholesterol? Stanols and sterols are natural substances found in plants that have a structural resemblance to  cholesterol. Because they look a lot like cholesterol, they compete with cholesterol for absorption from the intestine into the bloodstream. The NIH recommends that people with elevated cholesterol consume 2 grams of plant stanols and sterols a day because over 80 clinical studies have proven that they work. Two grams a day of stanols and sterols is sufficient to lower LDL cholesterol (the bad kind) by 9 to 13%. And many other clinical studies have shown that lowering LDL cholesterol by that much will lower your risk of a heart

Author: Dr. Stephen Chaney When you are the leader in the natural food supplement industry, people sometimes test your products without you even knowing about it. That was exactly what happen with a recent study comparing the effects of Shaklee's Performance and Gatorade on the risk of kidney stone formation. This was the ultimate independent study. Shaklee didn't initiate it. They didn't support it. And, in fact, they didn't even know about it until it was published a couple of weeks after it was published (J.W. Goodman et al, Urol. Res., 37: 41-46, 2009). Before I get into the results of the study, perhaps I should start with an explanation of why you would even want to do that kind of study. Let's start with the problem - kidney stones. They are extremely painful, and they can damage the kidney - particularly if they form over and over again. To a urologist the solution is simple - just drink two liters of water a day.