Fitness Related Benefits of Massage

Written by Jon Gestl


Ask someone their reason for getting a massage and you're likely to hear "because it feels good". We all know that a massage can relieve stress, help to make sore muscles feel better and even reduce anxiety, but can it help us achieve our fitness goals? Research shows thatrepparttar massage you get to relieve stress can also have a positive effect on your muscle-building capabilities and fitness level.

1. Massage improves circulation and general nutrition of muscles. This appears to berepparttar 115373 most valuable fitness-related benefit. Massage is accompanied or followed by an increase interchange of substances betweenrepparttar 115374 bloodrepparttar 115375 tissue cells, which increases tissue metabolism. After a muscle is exercised, vital nutrients must be supplied in order for it to increase in size. Massage maximizesrepparttar 115376 supply of nutrients and oxygen though increased blood flow, which helpsrepparttar 115377 body rebuild itself. 2. Massage improvesrepparttar 115378 range of motion and muscle flexibility. This results in increased power and performance, which helps you work efficiently and with proper intensity to facilitaterepparttar 115379 body's muscle-building response. 3. Massage helps to shorten recovery time between workouts. Waste products such as lactic and carbonic acid build up in muscles after exercise. Increased circulation to these muscles help to eliminate toxic debris and shorten recovery time. 4. Massage can help prevent over-training. Massage has a relaxing effect onrepparttar 115380 muscles, as well as a sedative effect onrepparttar 115381 nervous system. This can prevent over-training syndrome which has limiting effect on muscle building.

Weight-Loss-Review.com shares 7 Buyer Beware tips about "low-carb" foods.

Written by Michael Huddleston


With new year weight-loss resolutions in full swing, consumers are discovering new "low-carb" food choices onrepparttar grocery store counters. Micahel Huddleston, president/publisher of Weight-Loss-Review.com, a popular weight-loss site, is pleased to present these seven useful tips for "low-carb" foods.

Low-cab foods are spendy, trendy, and tricky. In fact, "low-carb" is not what it seems. Benefits these foods might offer for weight loss or nutrition are debatable, at best.

Hundreds of newly available "low-carb" foods may actually make weight loss more difficult. Dieters are falling intorepparttar 115372 trap of thinking that eating "low-carb" foods will automatically cause pounds to drop off.

1. You may conclude, logically enough, that a food lower in carbs is also lower in calories. If you replace carbohydrates with protein (that’srepparttar 115373 main change), you still have just as many calories, if not more.

2. You may also conclude that "low-carb" claims must be true and meaningful. In reality, labels are, essentially, misleading. The FDA has no definition of "low-carbohydrate" and has never approved any "low-carb" labels. Any food can be so labeled. Food companies – not nutrition experts or government sources – have generated terms like “net carb” or “effective carb” to promote new products.

3. These products often have nearly as many carbs as conventional products, however,repparttar 115374 labels disguise this fact with several tricks. Most often carbs, are actually seperated into two listings resulting in a lower "carbohydrate" number, labeled as "effective carbs" or "net impact carbs." Fiber, for instance, doesn’t affect blood sugarrepparttar 115375 way other carbs do, so "low-carb" manufacturers do not count it. If a food has 10 grams of carbs, but 6 grams are fiber,repparttar 115376 manufacturer simply subtractsrepparttar 115377 6 and claims only 4 "net impact" carbs.

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