Maintain a healthy pH balance in the body helps your body get pumped naturally and effectively. Try to consume 80% alkaline foods and 20% acidic foods. That way your body achieves optimum benefits, becomes leaner, when you eat high alkaline food such as fruit and vegetables.

That means you have to keep a healthy eye on your body’s pH balance. The best way to do that is to use pH Test Strips, available at pharmacies and health food stores.

Another great and successful way of raising your alkaline diet is to list all of the high alkaline fruits and concentrate on eating them. Lemons, limes, papayas, watermelons, mangoes and grapefruit are acidic but turn to alkaline in the body.

A fresh squeezed lemon in glass of water before your breakfast helps your body become a lean machine. Keep in mind that even though limes, lemons and grapefruit are acidic fruits when digested by the body, they leave an alkaline ash.

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V.E. Irons, founding father of the National Health Federation and Yale graduate, contracted a condition of arthritis at the age of 40.  He became a student of natural health out of sheer desperation.  What Irons found was that in order to regain vital, youthful health, detoxification of his body was the first step.  Irons dedicated his life to teaching people to take charge and change their approach to health. 

He was convinced that the colon of the average American had gotten so distorted through all the years of poor eating habits and improper elimination.  He believed that unless all fecal matter is removed from the colon, no amount of drugs, surgeries, vitamins or food supplements would rid the body of all chronic ailments.

Bodybuilders and athletes in general need to be cognitive of overtraining. If you have ever been or are a bodybuilder or competitive athlete, you have some time in your sports career experienced overtraining. It happens frequently in athletes who train for competition or a specific event. They train further than their bodies are capable of recovering. 

Bodybuilders and athletes regularly exercise longer and harder with the purpose of improving their abilities. There is nothing wrong with this type of training. Yet, if bodybuilders train without sufficient rest and recovery, these training programs flop and in reality reduce the body’s strength, immune system and overall performance.

Training means conditioning the body, which requires a balance between overload and recovery. Every athlete needs to watch for too much overload and not enough recovery, which results in physical and mental exhaustion.

A few symptoms are:

Irritability

Tiredness

Frequent Colds or Flu Like Symptoms

Restless Sleep

Increase in Muscle Pain

If helping your body run as efficiently as possible is a priority to you, then read on. If not, go out, get yourself a cheeseburger and some fries and sit in front of the TV.

In 1988, the Surgeon General determined that “eight of the top ten causes of disease are directly related to our diet.”  Among the top ten diseases are heart disease, coronary heart disease, cancer, strokes, chronic lung disease, diabetes, liver disease and atherosclerosis.

Webster’s dictionary defines health as a “condition of wholeness in which all of the organs of the body are working at perfect efficiency 100% of the time.”

Over the generations, our body has been guided by our nervous sensory system.  With our sense of taste and smell we determined what to feed ourselves.  With our sense of intelligence we have been able to create items of better taste and smell thus fooling our own bodies into desiring things that are not of optimum benefit to our own healthy living. And to what end?  We have tricked ourselves into consuming the very items that are now poisoning our systems.

Oftentimes it is difficult to accept responsibility for our own health.  If we become ill, we blame luck, fate, genetics, germs or viruses, though our intelligence may hint to us that it could be our own actions that violate natural health laws.

We have the power to increase our health and energy level thus reducing stress, fatigue, headaches and heart disease among common ailments.  Nutrient deficiency and autointoxication are the two conditions from which all other symptoms and maladies stem.

THE IRON MAN IFBB PRO IS BACK FOR ITS 20TH YEAR AND BETTER THAN EVER!!!
Join in on the Bodybuilding fun on Saturday January 24th, 2009 as we present Southern California’s only professional bodybuilding competion LIVE!! from the Los Angeles Convention Center.

I love going to the shows. You get  to meet all of the bodybuilders, take pictures, and get great deals on supplements. If you are in the L.A area, I suggest that you make your way to The Iron Man. It is going to be awesome!

Toney “X-man” Freeman Signs multi-year endorsement with Muscletech

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Toney Freeman finished the 2008 competitive season with a 5th place finish at the Mr. Olympia contest. The X-man can now add another notch in his belt of accomplishments by inking a multi-year deal with Team Muscletech.

“Toney has been a fan of Muscletech products for years and we have been big fans of Toney since he earned his pro card at the 2002 NPC Nationals” notes Dave Conlon, Manager of Talent Relations at Team Muscletech Headquarters.

“We have had Toney on our radar for quite some time and his impressive showing at this years Mr. Olympia competition, on top of his consistent placings in 2008 instantly confirmed that we had to add him to our already stacked roster of the worlds greatest bodybuilders, we couldn’t be happier to have him on the team.”

When asked how it feels to be a member of Team Muscletech, Toney said…

“It gives me great pleasure and it is also an honor to finally become a part of Team Muscletech.  My goal is to live up to and exceed all expectations. This is a very special time for me and I will continue the great tradition established by the great champions before me.  “Muscletech made the X-MAN the Next Man”

Congratulations Toney. Another great addition to Team Muscletech.

2008 NPC National Bodybuilding and Figure Contest
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Many of us are coming in to see the biggest NPC show of the year, with a ton of IFBB pro cards given out to the top class placers in bodybuilding and figure. It is going to be a great contest in Atlanta, Georgia on November 21-22, at the Grand Ballroom Hyatt Regency.

Mens and Womens bodybuilding prejuding starts at 4:30pm on Friday, while figure begings at Saturday at 8am. All finals will starts at 6:40pm on Saturday.

You can call Pam Betz for tickets at 407-876-4467, or email her at pambetz@aol.com

To get leaner and build your mass it’s conducive to add detox food to your diet because it not only helps you feel refreshed and healthier it lowers your weight and cleanses your body. You’ll even look better, which is a great byproduct. 

To help you begin enjoying more detox food, here are some detox foods you can buy at the grocery store.  Once you add these foods to your diet you’ll reap the benefits. 

Keep in mind to drink lots of water while you add detox foods to your diet because water flushes out toxins. 

First of all, consume green leafy vegetables. Eating them raw is better, but if you must add them to warm broth. Leafy vegetables contain a wonderful element called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll cleanses environmental toxins like heavy metals and pesticides.  It is a very effective liver bodyguard. 

Every morning drink water with fresh lemon juice.  Lemons contain vitamin C. Vitamin C is a detox vitamin. Amazingly, lemons take toxins, convert them to water-soluble substance that flushes out of the body.

Your body has an immune system ready to defeat any threat to the body’s health such as the common cold, burns, bruises, cardiovascular disease, cancer and infections. Boosting the immune system is so vital today that increasing your immune system couldn’t hurt. 

To boost your immune system start by increasing your antioxidants to prevent disease, boost the immune system, and slow the aging process. This means take the time to eat plenty of apples, oranges, leafy greens, broccoli, cantaloupe, brown rice and olive oil.  That way you will protect your body from allergies, arthritis, cancer, cataracts, the common cold, the flu and heart disease.

You need to stick with a low-fat diet. High-fat diets cause all sorts of problems for the body. Being a bodybuilder this is a cinch to reduce fat in your diet and cut down on dairy products, red meat and eggs.  Don’t go near high-fat desserts.