Since there is no pain associated with early osteoporosis,  its important to be aware of the risk  factors,  so that you can head off the disease by taking precautions now.  A simple  15  minute test called the  DEXA  scan  (dual energy x-ray absorptiometry)  measures your bone density and tells whether you’re at risk for osteoporosis.

Ask your doctor about having a DEXA scan if you:

• Are thin and small boned
• Have irregular menstrual periods or fewer than ten cycles a year
• Have a history of eating disorders
• Have a family history of osteoporosis
• Take corticosteroids,  anticonvulsants like phenytoin ( Dilan-tin), thyroid medication or blood thinners
• Have generalized bone pain and tenderness
• Experience frequent fractures

If  you’re  45  years old or older and think that it’s too late to start worrying about osteoporosis,  think again:  The earlier you think about it,  the better.  According to doctors who specialize in osteoporosis,  this disease could easily become yesterday’s news if,  starting now,  you eat calcium – rich foods and engage in regular weight – bearing exercise.

Osteoporosis is  100%  preventable.  Women bodies were originally designed to not last much past menopause,  when estrogen production slows and finally ceases.  The lack of estrogen triggers an increase in bone resorption – in other words,  bone loss.

BANK BONE NOW

The good news is that the time to lessen your osteoporosis risk is right now.  Doctors offer these proactive measures to prevent or slow the progression of the disease.

Bone up on calcium  – Pre menopause women need at least  1000  milligrams of calcium a day.  Once past menopause,  women should be getting  1200  to  1500  milligrams a day.

The best sources of calcium?  Low – fat dairy products.  Nonfat yogurt ( one cup has 452 milligrams),  skim milk ( one cup has 302 milligrams)  and part – skim mozzarella cheese ( 1 ounce has 181 milligrams ) top of the list.  Of  course,  taking calcium carbonate,  calcium gluconate or other forms of calcium supplements is the easiest way to ensure that you get what you need each and every day of the week.

Vitamins  –

• Magnesium  one of  calcium’s best friends
• Vitamin D  is a must for the absorption of calcium
• Vitamin K may be of value for preventing or reversing bone loss
• Manganese is another foundation nutrient that helps build bones

Other supplements that helps reverse osteoporosis are

• Zine
• Copper
• Boron
• Silicon
• Strontium
• Vitamin B
• Folic acid
• Vitamin C

Stay  (or get )  active. Incorporate activity into your lifestyle now.  The  most important thing is to do something active every day -  for example  Never sit when you can stand,  or ride when you can walk.  Any exercise is better than no exercise at all.

Take a walk  – Everyone should have a program that includes weight-bearing exercise.  And one of the very best and easiest is walking.

Schedule yourself  for a daily  20 minute walk.

Join a smoking-cessation program  – Smoking cigarettes can lower estrogen levels,  and it has a negative impact on bone density.

A  study on female twins  suggested that someone who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day may experience a  5  to  10%  reduction in bone density at the time  of  menopause,  a deficit that could increase the risk of fracture.

Skip coffee and alcohol  - Put both alcohol and caffeine on your no – no  list.  Both are diuretics that leech calcium from your bones.

In addition,  alcohol may be toxin to bone-forming cells and may interfere with intestinal absorption of calcium.  Plus,  drinking affects your balance and ,  as you get older,  increases the chances that you’ll fall and break a bone.

Roberto Garcia (Health & Fitness Specialist) 
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Consult a doctor if you experience all or most of these symptoms for more than a week.

• Chronic fatigue unrelieved by rest.
• Unexplained chronic muscle pain or joint pain.
• Dry eyes and mouth.
• Fever
• Rash
• Mouth or skin ulcers
• Swollen glands

See a doctor immediately if you experience:

• Chest pain
• A seizure
• Shortness of breath

If  your like most people diagnosed with lupus,  the first thing that you’ll do when you leave the doctor’s is to look it up on the internet.

You’ll discover that Lupus Erythematosus-  the full name  -  is a complex autoimmune disease.  Autoimmune means that your body turns on itself  -  and in the case of  lupus,  inflames the blood,  kidneys,  skin and joints and other tissues and organs.

The Internet may or may not mention that nine out of  ten people with lupus are women,  and each women who has lupus will experience the disease in a very individual way.

For some people lupus begins with fevers and achy muscles or joints,  these symptoms are likely to persist throughout your life.  But lupus can affect other women with more sinister problems,  which include kidney,  blood and brain complications.

While there is no cure for lupus ,  it can be managed with medication and self – care.   The most important thing for people with lupus is good medical treatment.

HEALING WITH REST,  WRAPS  AND YOGA

Once you have been diagnosed with lupus,  there are a variety of strategies that you can use to manage it and keep it under control.  The best advice follows.

Brace painful joints  – Wrapping painful joints in an elasticized bandage may help keep down the swelling and relieve the discomfort.

Jump into a whirlpool or heat up the bath   – Many women find that they sleep better after spending  20  to  30  minutes in a  Jacuzzi or a hot bath.  The heat and swirling water soothe joints and muscles .

Try a vinegar – and – water soak  – I don’t know how it works,  but many people  insist  that soaking their aching hands in a basin of warm water with a few tablespoons of white vinegar relieves pain.  It might be from nothing more than the action of the warm water.  So it’s worth a try.

Alternate heat with cold   – Since every person experiences a different discomfort with lupus,  the treatment to relieve that discomfort will vary,  too.  Many people like heat packs over aching  joints or muscles,  while others prefer cold packs,  and some people get relief  by alternating between hot and cold.

Exercise:  YOGA    – Use a good Yoga  DVD and do it a few times a day, it is better to do it often than one long session.

Yoga not only works to stretch and strengthen muscles, but it can help you lessen pain by making you aware of what brings it on.

Learn your limits   – Each person will have there own limits.  Learn what triggers flare – ups and avoid those triggers.  For example,  people who are sensitive to the sun sometimes have flare – ups after being outside too long.  Others are prone to flare – ups under stress.

HOW DIET CAN HELP

If you have lupus,  a healthy diet,  built on the principles of the Food Guild Pyramid,  will strengthen the disease – fighting abilities of your immune system.

The food guide Pyramid is a nutritional plan calling for  6  to 11  servings of bread,  pasta,  cereal and other grain foods per day;  2  to  4  servings of fruit;  3  to  5  servings of vegetables;  2  to  3  servings of meat,  fish,  poultry or other protein foods;  2  servings of dairy products and a bare minimum of fats and sweets.

To help build your lupus -  fighting diet ,  try these additional tips.

Shun fat,  seek carbohydrates   – Make sure that your diet is low in fat  -  no more than 20%  of your caloric intake  -  and high in complex carbohydrates.  That means concentrating on bread,  pasta,  cereal  and other grain foods,   plus potatoes and starchy vegetables like carrots.

Count to ten  – If you have lupus,  it’s easy to fall into the routine of eating a few handy foods,  day in day out.  But you’ll fare better if you include at least 10  to  15  different foods every day to make certain that you get a broad range of nutrients.  Be sure to include five,  or better yet,  nine fruit and vegetable servings every day.  They’re rich sources of  beta -  carotene  ( a form of vitamin A  found in plant foods ) and other nutrients vital to strong immunity.  Since lupus is an immune disorder,  your body needs plenty of  foods that help strengthen the immune system.

Roberto Garcia (Health & Fitness Specialist) 
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If you have a problem,  and you treat only the symptom and not the underlying cause,  you may experience temporary relief.  But the symptom will likely return…again… and again.

Sound anything like your extra pounds?  The pounds you’ve lost and regained…again…and  again?

Overweight is the symptom of fundamental imbalances in your body,  emotions,  and mind.  These imbalances include:

• Emotional imbalance,  in which food is used as a substitute for love or a way to ” stuff “  your uncomfortable feeling back inside you.
• Nutritional imbalance,  with the body crying out for the nutrients it needs for optimal functioning–nutrients that your food choices are not supplying.
• Physical imbalance,  such as stored toxins in the digestive tract that drain your energy and cause you to eat  ” stimulating ”   foods like sugar that make you even more toxic in the long run.

• Mental imbalance,  in which your thoughts anxiously or angrily or sadly dwell on the past or future and you’re never mindful of what you’re doing–now including what you’re eating.

When you’re in balance you naturally and easily make food choices that support your overall state of health.  Here are some of the best,  tested methods for correcting the imbalances that are the underlying cause of overweight.

FOOD:  A Smoothie That Stops Cravings

Having a blender drink for breakfast is most important balance-restoring step for many weight-loss people.

The drink is a total infusion of essential vitamins,  minerals.  It’s  great to cut down on actually giving  your body the nutrients it needs.

Just put the following ingredients in a blender,  mix,  and drink:

• 1 cup skimmed milk
• 1 cup soy milk
• 1 cup apple juice,  orange juice, or any other fruit juice
• 1 banana 4 strawberries
• 1 tablespoon Acai berry juice  ( If you can’t get it replace it with Acai berry tablets to take with your smoothie).

The Best Weight-Loss Exercise

Jumping on a small trampoline is a particularly good exercise for trying to lose weight or if you do not have one you could try using a Pilates Gym  Ball as they drain the body system of toxins and support stronger immunity.

A Supplement Strategy That Cures Cravings

There is a link between overeating and the levels of key chemicals in the brain.

You are using food as self-medication because you are low in certain brain chemicals. Your food cravings,  as well as depression,  irritability,  anxiety and many other emotional and mental problems,  are signs that your brain doesn’t have enough of them.

When the brain is deprived of these chemicals, it sends out signals that overwhelm your willpower,  triggering you to eat a drug like food  ( usually carbohydrate ) that substitutes for the missing chemicals and makes you feel better– for a little while.

These brain chemicals, which include dopamine, a natural energizer: Endorphins are a natural painkiller and serotonin, a sleep promoter and mood and attention stabilizer, are deficient for a number of reasons.

They range from genetics and stress to overeating refined sugar and flours and eating too little protein.  You can easily correct those deficiencies with nutritional supplements that boost those brain chemicals.  That in turn will stop your cravings,  soothe your emotional and mental problems, and start you on the road to permanent weight loss.  Specifically,  the supplements are amino acids, the building blocks of protein.

Scientific studies have confirmed the effectiveness of using  just a few targeted amino acid “precursors”  to the brain chemicals,   thereby eliminating your cravings for food as well as your depression,  anxiety,  irritability,  obsessiveness and mental dullness.

There are ,  of course,  many factors that can cause overweight which could include low-calorie dieting,  blood sugar disorders,  low thyroid function,  food allergies, hormone imbalances,  infection with the yeast candida and a deficiency of fatty acids.

Correcting your brain chemistry with amino acids is the first and most important step in eliminating food cravings, so you can then address all the health problems that contribute to overweight. You can safely take all of the following supplements until you reach your goal weight or for a year,  whichever come first.

GLUTAMINE:  Balance Blood Sugar, Stop the Cravings

Food cravings, particularly for sweets and starches,  are often caused by low blood sugar,  or hypoglycaemia.  But you can stabilize the delivery of blood sugar to your brain–and stop the cravings by taking glutamine three times a day.

TYROSINE:  For Low Energy and Poor Concentration

You feel fatigued and brain-fogged nearly all the time,  and you use coffee and sweets (and maybe cigarettes)  to give you a lift. If that description fits you take tyrosine three times a day.

D-PHENYLALANINE:  If You Eat to Overcome Emotional Pain

If you overeat to help yourself deal with emotional pain–if you’re sensitive,   cry easily,  crave comfort and love certain foods– you may need to take the amino acid d-phenylalanine.

That’s because this supplement builds up your brain’s reservoir of endorphins, the natural opiates that helps to create feelings of pleasure and reduces physical pain.

Fats That Can Help You Lose

Fat supplements?  For a person who’s trying to lose weight, the idea of taking fat in a pill sounds like a cruel joke.  But here’s what you need to know:  A deficiency of certain types of good fats,  called essential fatty acids (EPA\DHA)  that your body requires can lead you to crave and overeat the bad kinds of fats and put on extra pounds.

Yes saturated fats in animal products and trans-fat in processed foods are bad for your health. But not getting enough of the good fats– the essential fatty acids found in foods like fatty fish,  certain oils,  leafy greens,  avocados and nuts and seeds–is also bad for your health.

The different types of  EPA\DHA actually stimulate fat metabolism so that your body burns more fat,   trigger the production of hormones that make you feel full,  and balance your body’s levels of insulin ( the hormone that burns sugars)  so you don’t crave high-calorie sugars and other fattening carbohydrates.

Therefore it is recommended that you take 1000 millgrams of omega 3  and omega 6 fatty acids a day with meals three times a day to help reset your body’s thermostat to normal level so you burn excess calories.  They also help normalize insulin metabolism, thus reducing sugar cravings.

Roberto Garcia (Health & Fitness Specialist) 
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Prescription tranquillizers such as  diazepam ( Valium )  aren’t all bad.  They can help you cope with acute anxiety.  When you take tranquillizers day by day to control chronic anxiety,  they can actually cause the very problem they’re suppose to treat.

That’s because tranquillizers are addictive.  Your brain and body may develop a physical dependence on them within 4 weeks of daily use.  Then, if you try to stop using them,  the inevitable period of physical withdrawal produces  anxiety.  Therefore if you have been taking prescription tranquillizers daily for more than 4 weeks,  you need a program to help you stop taking the drugs,  since the symptoms of sudden withdrawal can be overwhelming.

Tranquillizers have another drawback.  They convince you that you need a medication to control anxiety rather than being able to tap into your own inner resources to deal with the problem through alternative home remedies such as deep breathing and relaxation techniques.

Using tranquillizers interferes with the pursuit of treatment that is truly effective.

Before you start using these methods,  through,  you should know that there’s nothing abnormal about being a high- anxiety person.  High – anxiety people tend to be more intuitive,  great listeners,  and very sympathetic.  They only need to learn how to manage their anxiety better.

RELAXATION:  A Response to Calm You Down

Techniques that create the relaxation response -  a calmer mind and a more relaxed body -  are great for high – anxiety people.  A common and effective one is the focal – point technique.

Sit quietly and comfortably in a place where you won’t be disturbed and repeat a word,  such as  calm or  relax, each time you exhale.  When your mind wanders ( as it inevitably will ),  don’t worry;  just bring it back to your breathing and the word. Do this technique for  10  to  20  minutes every day.

RELAXATION:   Take Your Cue

The only problem with relaxation response techniques is that they don’t help you much when you really need them,  when you’re out and about and feeling anxious.  That’s why cue – controlled relaxation is  recommended,  which is a means of practising your relaxation technique so that you can produce the same results even when you can’t do the technique.  Here’s how it works.

As you’re practising the focal – point technique,  also perform your cue.

It could be simply placing your thumb and index finger together.  Then, when you experience anxiety during the day,  perform the cue.  Over time,  you’ll notice that your body and mind will start to relax on cue.

YOGA:  A Revitalizing Visualization

Yoga is an ancient and comprehensive form of spiritual self- discovery. In the broadest sense by using mental techniques to purify and vitalize the body and mind.

Regardless of which techniques are used,  yoga therapy aims to calm the nervous system,  which,  optimally,  helps to balance the body,  mind and emotions.

Yoga poses provide effective relief of anxiety. They work by relaxing tense muscles and oxygenating your entire body,  which quiets and calms your mood.

The following pose is known as the sponge.  Do it three times a week or even daily if you notice that your anxiety symptoms respond particularly well to it.

First lie on your back with a rolled towel under your knees and your arms at your sides,  palms up.  Close your eyes and relax your whole body.  Inhale slowly,  breathing from your diaphragm.

As you inhale visualize the energy in the air around you being drawn through your entire body.   Imagine that your body is porous and open like a sponge so it can draw in this energy to revitalize every cell.

Exhale slowly and deeply,  allowing every ounce of tension to drain from your body.  Stay in the pose as long as you’re comfortable.

BREATHING:   Short – Circuit Those Panic Attacks

High – anxiety people may start worrying that they’ll lose control,  because they don’t understand the cause of their anxiety symptoms.  When those symptoms occur,  these people can become so flustered,  jittery,  and physically upset that they precipitate a full – fledged panic attack.  Soon, the mere anticipation of a panic attack can trigger one.

Many people who have panic attacks are hyperventilating – taking short,  rapid breaths that produce such classic symptoms as dizziness or faintness;  difficulty swallowing; shaking or muscle spasms; numbness and tingling of the mouth,  hands,  or feet;  heart palpitations;  and a feeling that they can’t get enough air.

In those situations,  it is particularly helpful to do deep,  diaphragmatic breathing.  It is an effective technique for controlling anxiety symptoms.  To overcome panic disorder,  however,  you must also work toward a change in your thought process so you no longer fear the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks.

Practice each of the following phases for 5 minutes twice a day:

• Phase one:  Lie on your back on a bed or carpeted floor.  Place one or two pillows on your stomach.  Watch the top of the pillows from the corner of your eye.  As you breathe in,  your diaphragm should expand,  raising the pillows.  When you breathe out,  the pillows should move down again.
• Phase two:  Lie on your back without the  pillows and put one hand over your navel.  Look at the ceiling or close your eyes.  Take deep breaths.  With your hand,  feel your stomach moving up and down.
• Phase three:  Repeat phase two,  but keep your attention on your diaphragm and feel it move up and down.  Become one with your breathing.
• Phase four:  Sit on a sofa,  leaning back so that you can watch your stomach area.  Watch your diaphragm move up as you breathe in and down as you breathe out.
• Phase five: Sitting straight,  repeat phase four.  Be sure that your upper chest and shoulders are perfectly still; that’s a sign that you’re doing the exercise correctly.
• Phase six:  While standing, repeat phase five.

Roberto Garcia (Health & Fitness Specialist) 
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High Energy secrets to wipe out Fatigue.

Fatigue isn’t a disease.  It doesn’t show up on diagnostic tests.  No drug can cure it.  There isn’t an operation that will cut it out of the body.  Some conventional doctors,  who are trained to detect illnesses with tests and solve them with drugs or surgery,  may dismiss fatigue as incurable.

Some doctors simply tell their patients that fatigue is as natural a consequence of growing older as grey hair and wrinkles,  they say you simply have to live with it.  That is sheer and utter nonsense.

Lack of energy is a symptom of a fatigue-causing lifestyle,  particularly a nutrition style that loads ( and overloads)  the engines of our bodies with low quality fuel.

We push our bodies through the day without the right food as though we were cars that could run without gasoline.

It’s easy to banish fatigue and restore energy,  because high-level energy is your natural state.  Energy is scripted into every cell of your body.  The question is :  Are you allowing that energy to flow forth so that it literally moves fatigue out of the way?.

If you want to answer that question with a hearty  “Yes”  try these energy-releasing remedies.

ACETYL-L-CARNITINE:  A True Rejuvenator

This amino acid transports nutritional fuel into the mitochondria,  the energy factories in every cell.  It also removes waste from the mitochondria so the operation of the factories isn’t slowed by toxins.

Without carnitine,  the body can’t produce energy,  and the average diet does not  supply enough.

You will fell and look reinvigorated within days  of  taking carnitine in tablet  form twice a day,  take them with a glass of water with your breakfast and lunch.  The older you are the more you need.

CO-ENZYME Q10  :  The Perfect Complement to Carnitine

While carnitine carries fuel into the mitochondria,  co-enzyme Q10 ( coQ10 ) helps the mitochondria use the fuel to make energy.  Scientists have focused primarily on coQ10′s ability to revive the cells of the heart.

Studies have shown that it may help reverse life-threatening congestive heart failure by restoring the energy of the muscle cells.

It appears,  however,  that coQ10  energizes all the cells in the body,  not just those of the heart.  Without sufficient co-enzyme Q10 you will not be able to produce enough energy to maintain optimal health.

To get a truly therapeutic dose from your diet,  you would have to eat  huge amounts of foods– more than 6  pounds of beef,  14  pounds of peanuts, and 6 pounds of sardines daily, so take 30 milligrams twice a day,  at breakfast and lunch.

MAGNESIUM:  Relief for Tired Bodies

Magnesium is a mineral that’s crucial for energy production. If you have a lot to do but can’t seem to rouse your body to action,  try taking  magnesium at lunch along with carnitine and coQ10.

GLUTAMATE:  Beat Brain Fatigue

If you have mental fatigue that makes it hard for you to concentrate or think clearly,  you may want to start taking a glutamate supplement.

Glutamate  is a amino acid that helps stabilize blood sugar levels. This prevents the sharp dips in blood sugar that can contribute to brain fatigue, take  with breakfast and with lunch.

OMEGA – 3  FATTY ACIDS:   Energize Your Mood

Fatigue and depression often go hand in hand.  To help blue mood take  omega – 3 acids,  which are essential for normal brain function.  Take the supplement every day at breakfast.

FOODS THAT FIGHT FATIGUE

When it comes to having all the energy that you want and need,  eating the right foods at the right times is as basic as getting enough sleep.  But, don’t worry about what you shouldn’t eat.  Instead,  focus on foods and drinks that power you with high-octane energy fuel.

Water:  Avoid the Main Factor for Fatigue

Dehydration-  not drinking enough water every day – is one of the main reasons that people are fatigued ,  if you do nothing else in your quest for energy but begin to drink  between 4  to 5  pints of water every day and you will experience a phenomenal boost in energy.

FOOD:  Eat Often for Energy

Eating small amount of food throughout the day helps keep blood sugar levels – and energy levels – from plummeting.  Those mini – meals should supply carbohydrates and protein for maximum energy,  since the glucose from the carbohydrates and the amino acids from the protein individually will fuel you for only a few hours.  Plus, choose low-fat foods,  since high fat translates into low energy.

Here’s what a day of mini-meals might include.

• Breakfast- oats cooked in fat-free milk and fruit  juice.
• Mid morning- a piece of fresh fruit or 1 to 2 ounces of low-fat cheese with crispbread.
• Lunch-  a turkey sandwich on whole-grain bread with Dijon mustard,  a large green salad with chickpeas and feta cheese,  or a piece of chicken with broccoli and sweet potato. And for dessert,  fresh mango and strawberries.
• Mid afternoon-  a snack of baked tortilla crisps with bean dip and salsa.
• Dinner-  fish or chicken, brown rice, a green salad,  vegetables and a fruit-sweetened yogurt for dessert.
• Evening- a snack of whole grain cereal with fat-free milk.

FILL YOUR LIFE WITH ENERGY

WARM COLOURS:  Energizing the Brain

Surrounding yourself with warm colours will send impulses to your brain that can boost your energy.

Eliminate cool whites, blues, and blacks that cause  energy to dip.

Then add yellow,  orange, or red. Any warm colour will do the trick:  a plant of yellow flowers,  a poster with sunny colours,  a warm painting.  Choose calming blue or green.

NATURAL SCENTS:   Stimulate Alertness

Pleasant scents stimulate a nerve in the body that triggers wakefulness.  You don’t need fancy pot-pourris or an aromatherapy dispenser, through.  Just keep a basket of oranges or lemons on your desk and slice one when you’re felling fatigued.

SOUNDS:  An Earful of Energy

Noise is an invisible fatigue factor in today’s world.  Use foam earplugs if you can’t eliminate energy-sapping sounds in your environment.  The best brain response will come from listening to music with gentle rhythms,  such as that of the piano or flute,  and without lyrics or loud drums.

ELIMINATE FATIGUE FACTORS

SLEEP:  Refresh yourself

Restful sleep can become part of your energized lifestyle prescription.  To improve your sleep,  here’s some suggestions:

• Try to go to bed and get up at the same time every day,  since the body craves regularity.
• Don’t have coffee after your evening meal since caffeine can sabotage sleep.
• Avoid high-fat food in the evening because fat can make it harder to get to sleep or stay asleep.
• Sleep in a cool, dark, quiet room;  it’s the best environment for snoozing.  Sleep on your side;  you’ll breathe easier and reduce snoring,  which can make for a restless night.

EXERCISE:  Ten Minutes  Equals   Two Hours of Energy

• A brisk 10 minute walk can energize you for 2 hours,  take  3 walks a day ( if possible )  to keep your energy levels constant.

• Add some stretching and weight lifting to your program to keep your muscles loose and toned,  which is a must for maximum energy.

• If you’re extremely fatigued, however,  you may want to start with more restful types of exercise, such as yoga.

• If your body is already depleted,  aerobic exercise can leave you more tired than when you started.  But if you start with an exercise routine using yoga,  you’ll gradually build your energy over a month or so.

Roberto Garcia (Health & Fitness Specialist) 
http://www.newhealthandfitnessdvds.co.uk

Specialist provider of Health and Fitness information and products including Fitness DVDs, Health & Fitness Books and Specialist Health & Fitness Supplements.