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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...

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 Member...

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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...

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 f...

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 ...