Health & fitness

[JTrader]

- http://www.goddessmums.co.uk/index.php?pid=2

Sperm diet
Environmental Estrogens

The meat we eat is filled with hormones, unless it is organic. Estrogens are now found in our drinking water. Plastics also give off estrogens. Do not microwave plastic, and try to drink from glass containers. If you are drinking water from a plastic bottle, try to limit its exposure to the sun

 

[Jack o'Clubs]

"Sperm diet "

Are we back to Jenna Jameson videos again?

 

[rols]

"Sperm diet "

Are we back to Jenna Jameson videos again?

Come for dinner, perhaps?

 

[JTrader]

...so predictable .
Definately not funny though, if you were sat listening to a specialist who is telling you that your sperm just isn't up to the job & you are a jaffa .

 

[Jack o'Clubs]

...so predictable .
Definately not funny though, if you were sat listening to a specialist who is telling you that your sperm just isn't up to the job & you are a jaffa .

it's a load of nonsense JT. I've fallen foul of all the sins listed in that article, and I have definitive proof I'm not shooting blanks. In fact I'm just off to take them to the Sea-Life centre this afternoon...

 

[rols]

...so predictable .
Definately not funny though, if you were sat listening to a specialist who is telling you that your sperm just isn't up to the job & you are a jaffa .

Never mind eh.

Probably for the best. :cheesy:

 

[JTrader]

it's a load of nonsense JT. I've fallen foul of all the sins listed in that article, and I have definitive proof I'm not shooting blanks. In fact I'm just off to take them to the Sea-Life centre this afternoon...

You're probably right. I imagine the medical world knows nothing in comparison.

 

[shadowninja]

Medical science isn't an "exact" science. I mean, if you smoke 20 a day, you aren't guaranteed to get cancer. It all depends on your lifestyle.

 

[Jack o'Clubs]

You're probably right. I imagine the medical world knows nothing in comparison.

The medical world? What on earth has 'goddessmums' or whatever other sites you frequent got to do with the medical world? I 'spose you could argue that being goddessmums, they are omniscient...

 

[JTrader]

The medical world? What on earth has 'goddessmums' or whatever other sites you frequent got to do with the medical world? I 'spose you could argue that being goddessmums, they are omniscient...

The point is, its potentially useful/beneficial info for someone who otherwise wouldn't come across such info by themselves.




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[the blades]

The point is, its potentially useful/beneficial info for someone who otherwise wouldn't come across such info by themselves.




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I drink too much alcohol*, smoke too much, eat too much, drink too much caffeine.

I have three noisy examples of how healthy my man fat is.

UTB

* contrary to medical science, this isn't possible.

 

[TheBramble]

I drink too much alcohol, smoke too much, eat too much, drink too much caffeine.

I have three noisy examples of how healthy my man fat is.

OK, I'm following on two, but what other orifice do you use?

 

[the blades]

OK, I'm following on two, but what other orifice do you use?

I find an occasional stroll down the bourneville boulevard is quite pleasurable.

UTB

 

[JTrader]

Urban myths exposed - shaving does NOT make hair grow back thicker, faster or darker.

http://www.bodyhairremovalnews.com/Does-Hair-Grow-Back-Thicker-When-You-Shave.htm

 

[JTrader]

Got some lovely hemp seed oil from asda - a unique balance of omega 3 & 6 - that is ideal for the human body - it also contains omega 9. Tastes really good also - very nutty. Half price at £3.50 for 500ml, on the olive oil aisle.

Hemp seed oil does come from the canniboids/cannabis family of plants, but the legal limit for industrial hemp seed oil production is around 1% the strength of weed in terms of pscho-active properties

http://www.cannabis.net/faq/cannabisfaq.html#1-4

 

[JTrader]

The Radiation
Poisoning Of America

 

[JTrader]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-new-and...ryZ36448QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

These types of massage chairs are superb - had a go on one recently, and could have spent all day on it! This one looks like a bargain.

 

[JTrader]

http://www.heart1.com/news/mainstory.cfm/174

Doctor Says Weight Training Can Rip Aorta

December 15, 2003

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bill Linski was lying down watching television when he felt as if something in his chest was being ripped apart. The largest artery in Linski's body, the aorta, was splitting. It took a major operation to keep him together, and his surgeon thinks Linski's weight training triggered his brush with death.

The pain began in the middle of Linski's chest, went away for a half second, then returned, racing up through his neck and into his jaw, leaving him wheezing.

Linski was only 21. He had worked out that morning to prepare for competitive bodybuilding, and at first tried to pass it off as muscle pain or heartburn. But his father had died of a massive heart attack at age 38, and "in the back of my mind, I pretty well knew something was going on," he said.

It turned out that Linski had an aneurysm, an abnormal swelling of the blood vessel. Next to his heart, his aorta had stretched to twice its normal size. And it had begun to dissect - bleeding through the blood vessel wall into the chest.

The Quaker Hill, Conn., man was treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where Dr. John A. Elefteriades, professor and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Yale University School of Medicine, operated on him. The damaged part of his aorta was removed and replaced with Dacron tubing. He also has a metal heart valve to replace a valve that had to be removed during the surgery.

But Elefteriades, himself a weight trainer, had noticed something: Linski's case was part of a pattern. Over two years, the doctor collected five cases - three at his hospital, who survived, and two elsewhere, who did not. Two patients had been weight training, two had been doing push-ups and one had been trying to move a heavy piece of granite.

A report of five cases does not constitute proof, but Elefteriades believes the aortas in all five were unable to withstand spikes in blood pressure resulting from the strain of the patients' activity.

A normal blood pressure measurement gives a reading of 120 millimeters of mercury as the heart is beating. "Powerlifters get up to 370 to 390," Elefteriades said. While most powerlifters can do it with no harm done, he considers it risky.

Elefteriades and his colleagues wrote a warning letter, published in the Dec. 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "The risk of weightlifting as a cause of aortic dissection has generally been underappreciated," it said.

One reason is that cases can be misdiagnosed as heart attack, Elefteriades said.

Another is that the reasons why the aorta weakens are not well understood. Elefteriades is working with a research company, Celera Genomics, to seek new genetic links. However, it is known that aneurysms can develop in people with Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that can affect the blood vessels. High blood pressure also can be a factor, especially as people age.

With the exception of one person with a family history, none of the five cases noted in the letter had those problems, he said.

The cases should teach some weight trainers to be cautious, the JAMA letter said. These include patients with known aneurysms or connective tissue disease, a family history of aneurysm or dissection, underlying high blood pressure or being middle aged or older, it said.

Elefteriades recommended lifts that don't send blood pressure into giant spikes. "If you limit your lift to 50 percent of body weight, you don't exceed 200 millimeters of mercury," he said.

Just the same, lifters like to lift at least their own body weight, Elefteriades said. "I bench press 120 and I weigh 175, and I do my body weight once a month, just to prove I can do it," he said. "But do your own body weight and the pressure gets very high."

People who intend to do high-intensity lifts should get their aortas imaged to make sure they don't have aneurysms, Elefteriades said.

However, the costs of those screens would be high compared with the small number of cases they could be expected to pick up, said Dr. Gerald Fletcher, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and a spokesman for the American Heart Association. The letter in JAMA is reason to consider scans but not to require them, he said.

Lifters also can modify their techniques while still getting solid results, said Tom Cross, strength conditioning coach at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kan. A case in point is the squat, in which the lifter builds leg muscles by moving down into a sitting position and then back up. "We are going to squat very heavy, but we are not going to squat to push our brains out," he said.

As for Linski, after a lengthy recovery from his trauma in 1999, the 25-year-old is a graduate student at Sacred Heart University, studying to be a teacher, and he is back weight training.

Linski had entered the hospital at 205 pounds; today he weighs 184 pounds, which he considers healthier. And he has modified his regimen. While he used to bench press 250 to 300 pounds, he limits those chest, shoulder and arm workouts to no more than 225 pounds. And he keeps an eye on his blood pressure.

"I'm able to customize my workouts," Linski said. "One thing I don't want to do is strain. With age grows wisdom."

 

[JTrader]

For all u fitness fanatic, my body is a temple gym-going traders...

If u use machine weights for upper body, i say ditch them and switch to free-weight dumbells :clap:.

Here i was stuck in a rutt for a few months on the machine weights, lifting near the max levels, yet not getting any stronger, and disliking the tedium of it all. I then ditched the majority in favour of 6 or so dumbell exercises, 4 of which only use 8-12kg dumbells , and i have seen significant improvements in the last 2 weeks .
Remember traders, its not how much you lift, its how u lift it! lifting 10 reps of 20KG in 20 seconds, is no more useful than lifting 5 reps of 10kg , in 20 seconds IMO. Its also about working smarter, and not harder :smart:.

The good thing about the 8-12kg dumbell exercises is i am much more confident that they are putting much less strain on my body, aorta etc.
In my gym the dumbells are on a nice long rack, in weight order, ranging from 2-50kg. The barbells are organised in the same way.

 

[tune]

I don't have the quote to hand but according to Arnold don't go near the weights until you can do all manner of calisthenics. Getting the body very ready first is the idea.