Krill Oil

The benefits of Krill Oil are tremendous. They are an excellent source of healthy Omega 3 nutrients and can actually help you fight chronic inflammation and pain.

Krill Oil and actually has 48 times the potency of fish oil.

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New AHA Guidelines

In case you missed this in the news, the American Heart Association recently announced some new important guidelines. Here is a highlight of some of the recent changes:

- Recommended lifestyle changes to help manage blood pressure include weight control, increased physical activity, alcohol moderation, sodium restriction, and an emphasis on eating fresh fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products.
- Besides advising women to quit smoking, the 2007 guidelines recommend counseling, nicotine replacement or other forms of smoking cessation therapy.
- Physical activity recommendations for women who need to lose weight or sustain weight loss have been added – minimum of 60–-90 minutes of moderate-intensity activity (e.g., brisk walking) on most, and preferably all, days of the week.
- The guidelines now encourage all women to reduce saturated fats intake to less than 7 percent of calories if possible.
- Specific guidance on omega-3 fatty acid intake and supplementation recommends eating oily fish at least twice a week, and consider taking a capsule supplement of 850–1000 mg of EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) in women with heart disease, two to four grams for women with high triglycerides.
- Hormone replacement therapy and selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) are not recommended to prevent heart disease in women.
- Antioxidant supplements (such as vitamin E, C and beta-carotene) should not be used for primary or secondary prevention of CVD.
- Folic acid should not be used to prevent CVD – a change from the 2004 guidelines that did recommend it be considered for use in certain high-risk women.
- Routine low dose aspirin therapy may be considered in women age 65 or older regardless of CVD risk status, if benefits are likely to outweigh other risks. (Previous guidelines did not recommend aspirin in lower risk or healthy women.)
- The upper dosage of aspirin for high-risk women increases to 325 mg per day rather than 162 mg. This brings the women’s guidelines up to date with other recently published guidelines.

You can read more of this report at the AHA's website.

Weight Loss Pills and the FDA

You may assume that weight loss pills on the shelves have undergone a thorough examintaion by the FDA, but you would assume wrong. Just because a store sells a particular weight loss pill, does not mean it has undergone any kind of testing by any agency. In fact, what appears on the side of the bottle may not be the same as what appears inside the bottle. A company can bottle anything and sell it, until someone finally comes along and sends it off for lab tests. Don't be fooled America! We spend $35 Billion on weight loss products each year; don't get caught up in the wrong thing.

So now that I told you what not to spend money on, what should you spend your money on. The smartest thing you can do is begin to eat smarter and exercise first. After you have gotten past the initial weight loss, then you can start exploring supplements. Do the basics first. I'm not recommending anything on supplements right now. When I run across the miracle pill, I'll let you know.

Weight Loss Supplement Ads

Calorie Lab posted a great article on supplement ads. We spend millions on weight loss supplements every year. It's good to see some truth published out there.
Great Read!