Vitamin D overdose

Too much of good stuff is usually worse than no stuff at all :-) As I said long time ago, balance has to be found in everything you do: be it in sports, sleep patterns or in your diet. It seems that vitamin D is not an exception to this rule.

Recently, high vitamin D dosages of +3,000 IU have been linked to kidney stones and nausea. So by taking too much of it out of the bottle might eventually be counter-productive and even harmfull! The findings are yet to be proven, which won’t happen till the mids of 2010, but you’re better off using your common sense and keeping your “the more the better” philosophy in check. It doesn’t matter whom to blame: the general public ignorance or industry’s abusive disinformation campaigns. You are resonsible for yourself. No one else.

And while the world is getting more and more complicated everyday and you seem to lose track of what is truth and what is a lie, you need just a few simple rules that will always keep you on the safe side. Rule #1:  too much of anything is never good.

This is an absolute rule that applies to anything. Vitamin D is not an exception. Just take a 20 minutes walk in the sun, which will give you some 1,500-2,000 IU of Vitamin D. This way you’ll avoid the bottled supplements and do something for your fitness in the process.

Keep it safe bodytweakers!

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3 Rules for Fitness for Life

It has been a long time since the last bodytweaker’s post. Many things in our lives have changed: new place, new work, new circumstances. The rush of day-to-day issues and projects doesn’t leave much time for fitness and sports, even less for writing a blog. There were weeks we couldn’t squeeze even 10 minutes of free time out of our daily schedule. Yet, we keep our heads up and stay true to our BodyTweaker’s principles:

1. Focus on the basics and the rest will follow by itself

Each of us has different roles and interests in our lives. So, it’s hard to say that something that is good for me will be the same for you or somebody else. That’s because we are so different, have different background and aims. However, there are certain “areas” in your life that do apply to everyone and have a great impact on anything else we have to deal with.

So is diet and fitness, which will increase your self-esteem, give you tough lessons on persistence and goal-setting, teach you control over your ego not to mention the huge changes in your body and mind that will give you more power and concentration for your tasks. Hence, this very “basic” change leads to a series of positive changes in the rest of your life and will consequently have a huge impact in other areas such as relationships, work, etc.!

Fitness for life

Fitness for life

So, by taking care of your “physical core”, which could be as simple as 10 minutes workout/day and staying away from crap-food, you can achieve tremendous chain reaction of positive changes in your life. That is what I (as a guy with financial background) call a superb investment of your resources with astronomical returns. Which leads us to the second principle:

2. Do not spend too much on junk or save on quality.

Don’t waste your resources (time, money and effort) on useless things. Get the most out of them. BodyTweaking was built on the idea that staying fit could be completely free. That you can be healthy without buying all the fitness junk that is being heavily advertised all over the TV, internet and magazines. Now, we still think that there is no quick-fix for years of bad habits and that you can’t get a quality body and mind overnight. Quality that lasts has to be built gradually. Step by step. This natural progress will teach you lots of things and will change the way you think and see yourself tand your daily issues, forever. It’s a bonus for living your life as it should be lived :-)

On the other side, you shouldn’t get into a scarcity mindset. If there’s something you need and you know it will be of a huge benefit and far more useful that the price you are paying, then you should definitely get it! For example, take some good cross-country running shoes for $300 that will last for the next 8 years. That is by far better choice than buying $70 shoes that you’ll have to trash in one year. Not to mention the knee problems and bad running experience which could lead you to give up completely. All for trying to save money today with catastrophic results in the long run.

3. Don’t be short-sighted. Keep in mind the big picture

Follow your workout plan and keep in mind the vision where you will be in two years instead of worrying why you didn’t lose those 3lbs before the pool-party next weekend.

Step by step, with your head up, your predator’s eyes and your mind focused on the desired result. Onward, bodytweaker!

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Fitness is always a Fashion: How True?

fitness and fashionBeing fashionable is not exactly referred to as a behavior of necessity.  People like you can live without being too much fashionable.  In fact, you might even save more money if you won’t buy fashionable clothing and accessories so much. And yet, being fit to become fashionable somehow makes it to the top of the list of priorities for the average person.  Why is this, exactly?

Well, for one thing, if you are fit and fashionable, then you are cool and healthy. Plus, not many people attain that good body structure and healthy well-being in order to make a strong fashion statement.  Those who are too young to wear fashionable clothes but practice a healthy lifestyle are already in the right track.  Those too old and are putting their health at risk by engaging in unhealthy lifestyles, no matter how beautiful they may look, will ultimately suffer in the end.  In short, the combination of being healthy and fashionable has a mass appeal. They carry an image with them; an image of a person with a comfortable and healthy lifestyle.
If you are both healthy and fashionable, then you are able to earn the respect and confidence of your colleagues because of your fantastic physique and excellent fashion sense. Thus, you are able to encourage others to become healthy and fashionable themselves and improve their self-esteem along the process through the establishment of smart and achievable health goals and objectives.

Again, health is still the most treasured and sought-after wealth. What you do to yourself is related to the condition of your health. Accordingly, you must protect and preserve your well-being. Besides, money and other miscellaneous earthly desires cannot totally bring back the perfection of your body mechanism. In general, health among individuals should not only be based on physical wellness or in the absence of diseases, rather mental, social, intellectual and other miscellaneous determinants of health should also be considered.

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