April 12, 2008
Women in our culture are sometimes advised to avoid spicy or “gassy” foods when nursing. Or they are told that chocolate, citrus, carbonated beverages or dairy causes problems in all nursing babies.
As a breastfeeding educator, I often see women warning other Moms that they need
to avoid certain foods while breastfeeding. There are also websites that give
unproven breastfeeding advice that claim that women must eat a certain kind of
diet in order to make quality milk for her baby. So what is the truth?
Does a nursing Mom need to restrict her diet?
Are there foods that a Mom should avoid while breastfeeding?
Generally speaking, a nursing Mom does NOT need to restrict her diet.
Obviously, drinking heavily or excessive caffeine consumption (meaning several cups
of coffee a day) is a no-no, but other than that, there is no reason for a
breastfeeding Mother to assume that she needs to avoid any foods.
So called “gassy” foods do not affect the nursing infant because the undigested
carbs that cause gas in Mom do not pass into breastmilk. It is literally impossible
for “gassy” foods to cause gas in babies except in the rare case of an infant being
allergic to one of these foods.
Interestingly, according to the La Leche League (considered the world’s foremost
authority on breastfeeding) website, “In Italy, mothers are often told not to eat garlic,
cauliflower, lentils, and red peppers. In India most mothers eat all these things and
breastfeed very happily. Actually, in parts of India they believe that garlic helps a
mother to breastfeed successfully!”
There are even a couple of studies that showed that babies nursed longer and with
more vigor when their Moms ate garlic.
The advice given to a nursing Mom varies according to local culture and the popular
“old wive’s tales”. Women all over the world eating a wide variety of foods produce
good quality milk and have thriving babies. There is not a shred of evidence that
supports the idea that eating a special diet helps make breastmilk “richer”.
Consequently, there is no one food that all breastfeeding Moms should avoid.
Breastfeeding women should eat a variety of healthy foods, just as they did
while they were pregnant.
The only exception would be if your baby has food allergies/sensitivies, which is
rare but not unheard of. If your family has a strong history of allergy to a
specific food (such as peanuts), you might consider avoiding that food while nursing
and during pregnancy.
Enjoy nursing your baby!
Carrie Lauth publishes a free newsletter for Moms who do things the natural way. Get your copy plus free subscriber goodies at http://www.natural-moms.com
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Finding a health routine that will work best to suit your body’s
needs can be hard. This is why it is so important to thoroughly
research your options before you begin.
In addition to whatever you decide to do, it is usually a good
idea to improve your diet and reduce the amount of processed
food you eat.
You can also incorporate natural health tonics into your natural
health lifestyle. These are there to help you reach and maintain
your health goals. You will be amazed at how much energy you
will get.
Natural health tonics also help you clean toxins out of your
body and revive your immune system.
Natural health tonics will give you the everyday boost you need
when you have to eat on the go and keep working. They help you
when your body’s supply of energy and health status is very low
due to a lack of time.
They are also good in that they work with your body. With
natural health tonics, you only get the best of nature. If your
life is fast paced and you need to be constantly one step ahead
of the competition, then you can use natural health tonics to
help you.
All you have to do is to put in just a few hours in doing your
research. This is also a good way to stay committed to your
natural health way of life.
Natural health tonics don’t even require you to be fit in order
for them to do their work. Although it is advisable that you
make at least a moderate attempt at establishing a naturally
healthy lifestyle, the natural health tonics will work whether
or not you do.
You can start by purchasing a natural health book and then you
can use the advice to make your life healthier. After you have
done that, you can then bring in the power of natural health
tonics. Your future and your health are at stake; would you dare
to risk both through inaction?
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Ever wonder why the super affiliates are
raking it in and you’re still struggling
with affiliate programs?
Okay, it is an advantage to have a web site
with good traffic and a program related to
the theme of the web site.
It is also important to have a large list
to which you can recommend your program.
However, super affiliates do not get rich
for these reasons alone.
The main reason super affiliates succeed so
well is that they choose to promote programs
that have residual or lifetime commissions
and NOT commissions for single sales only.
What happens in most affiliate programs is
that the company which owns the product
pays the affiliate for a single sale only.
Sometimes, these programs are 2-tier.
However, the principle remains the same - one
sale, one commission.
Therefore, super affiliates choose to promote
programs with residual or lifetime commissions.
That is, they make a sale of a product which
requires constant renewal - such as web hosting
every month or a health product for a specific
remedy.
That way, the affiliate does the work once and
gets paid over and over in the future on the
basis of that one sale.
The best programs are the small number that
offer lifetime commissions. These programs
allow you to keep the customer for life after
you make one sale to that person.
So you may sell an ebook in the first instance
and the customer comes back in perhaps a year
or two and buys something else from the same
company. As the customer is “yours”, you will
get the commisssion.
In this way, the residual and lifetime
commissions mount up and continue to grow for
the same amount of work. Definitely, a case
of “work smarter, not harder”.
Many of these super affiliates could stop work
now and continue to earn an income similar
to what they are making today on the basis
of these residual/lifetime programs.
Super affiliates know that to struggle to
make one commisssion for one sale is hard
work. Shouldn’t you join them by promoting
programs with residual or lifetime commissions?
(c) John Lynch
For an affiliate program that offers residual and lifetime commisssions, SiteSell is a leader in internet marketing promoting the top selling web site design software. http://affiliates.sitesell.com/finian.html )
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Is your driving distance going down and down? Does your back hurt after a round of golf? Do you feel like you’ve lost power in your golf swing? Improving your strength specific to golf may be the missing link.
Golf is no longer just the leisure game it used to be. It is now recognized as an athletic sport. As with all other athletic sports, your body’s strength plays a crucial part in how well you play the game.
FACT: A stronger body plays better golf. Most strength-building workouts can be beneficial to some degree, but there are golf-specific strength exercises that enable you to hit longer — and straighter — drives with less effort and hit more accurate shots, which will consequently lower your scores.
GOLF TIP: Strengthen Your Back and Prevent Low Back Pain — so that you can play 18 holes without fatigue
Did you know that doing even just one exercise will greatly improve the strength of your back so that you will be able to play 18 holes, or hit balls all day without any pain?
I call this powerful little exercise the “Lying Superman.” You won’t believe the amazing difference this exercise can make in your strength until you actually do it — so go for it! All you have to do is lie on your stomach on the floor with your hands at your sides. Raise both your upper body (chest), arms and legs as high as you can. Hold it for a count of 10. And that’s it! Just do this simple exercise for 2 sets every day and you can say goodbye to low back pain!
Playing golf at an optimum level requires muscular strength, power, and endurance. Contrary to what most people think, long practice sessions and hitting hundreds of balls will not improve these components. In fact, they will only result in physical injuries (from overuse) and a great deal of frustration.
Benefits of Golf-Specific Strength Training
Strength training is the obvious solution for taking your golf game to the next level. The benefits of golf-specific strength training have been well documented. Golfers have significantly increased their driving distance, lowered their handicaps, and reduced injuries. Therefore, it is advantageous for golfers of all ages and fitness levels to start a strength training program.
The “Lying Superman” is just one of the many results-producing exercises compiled into one revolutionary golf fitness program that I personally designed for golfers, and which I’ve trademarked the Power Performance Program.
About the author:
Mike Pedersen is a certified golf fitness expert and founder of the Power Performance Program at www.golf-trainer.com
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How much can one spend on a wedding favor? This question looms large on every couple when they plan out their wedding budget. The true fact is that wedding favors need not be expensive to be good ones.
What matters most in a wedding favor is how personal the wedding favor is and this means even a cheap wedding favor would do. Cheap wedding favors need not necessarily look cheap. They can also look elegant, if you pick the correct cheap wedding favor. Ideally you can have anywhere between 2 to 10 percent of the total wedding budget allocated for the wedding favors and this keeps changing based on the number of guests and also the type of wedding favor.
How much to spend on a wedding favor is left up to the couple to decide, but the couple has to remember that wedding favor plays an important part for their wedding day to be remembered by the guests. This ultimately means that the couple has to select a wedding favor after much discussion and also ensure that they don’t end up spending a lot for the wedding favor.
In the end most couples find a nice wedding favor, the cost does play an important part in this shopping consideration, but rest assured that one can find cost free favors.
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Although the issue can be debated, bodybuilding physiques have come a long way over the past twenty years. Besides the increased muscle mass, the other primary characteristic that separates today’s bodybuilders with their counterparts of 20 or 30 years ago is body fat percentage. Back in the sixties and seventies breaking the 10-percent barrier was considered phenomenal. But the average pro bodybuilder these days is stepping onstage with body fat percentages down in the 2 to 3 percent range. As much as we’d like to say that better nutrition and more advanced cardio machines are the reason, we can’t. Just as steroids lead to dramatic increases in muscle growth, so too have many bodybuilders turned to modern pharmacology to “rip” their physiques and promote fat loss; and often the drug of choice is Cytomel.
The first thing we should point out is that Cytomel is not an anabolic steroid but a synthetic thyroid hormone. It has been designed to resemble the natural thyroid hormone tricodide-thyronine (T3). In a healthy person the thyroid produces two hormones, L-thyroxine (T4) and L-trilodine~thyronine (T3). Since Cytomel is a synthetic version of T3, it causes much the same effects in the body as if the thyroid were to naturally increase T3 levels
Physicians use Cytomel to treat thyroid insufficiency (hypothyroidism); the symptoms of which are rapid weight gain, chronic fatigue, and numerous metabolic disorders. Bodybuilders use Cytomel to stimulate their metabolisms, particularly to promote lipolysis or fat burning. Initially Cytomel was only used a few months before a bodybuilding contest to promote fat loss, but now days many bodybuilders use the drug to stay “hard” year round. Many bodybuilders also report that low dosages of Cytomel increase the effectiveness of steroids. As with Growth hormone and insulin, there seems to be some sort of synergistic effect taking place.
How effective is Cytomel?
It may shock you to hear that many of the huge, rock hard pro bodybuilders who are featured in the muscle magazines, practically live on junk food! Their over-stimulated thyroids literally burn calories like a furnace. The next time you hear that some pro bodybuilders are still eating 5000 calories a day in the weeks before a contest, you’ll understand why.
Besides bodybuilders, Cytomel is also popular for fat loss among female fitness contestants. Since females normally have slower metabolisms than males, it is much harder for them to obtain the extremely low body fat percentages that seem to be rewarded for at contests these days. Drastically cutting food and calories often leaves the individual drawn and emaciated-looking. But all this can be avoided by using Cytomel.
Fat loss - but at what risk?
It may sound like the perfect solution to fat loss, but its not. Bodybuilders and fitness competitors who abuse Cytomel over a long period of time are at great risk for developing chronic thyroid problems. As a result, the individuals might become dependent on thyroid medication for the rest of their lives. This is similar to male bodybuilders taking steroids, the higher the dosage, and the longer the cycles, the greater the risk of shutting down natural hormone production.
Other side effects of Cytomel include:
heart palpitation
trembling
irregular heartbeat
agitation
shortness of breath
excretion of sugar through the urine
excessive perspiration
diarrhea
weight loss
trembling of hands
nausea
headaches
increased perspiration
We are not going to continue to preach to you about the evils of Cytomel. But be aware that the drug can produce the previous side effects. With the science of supplementation becoming so advanced there are now products that promote fat loss just as effectively as Cytomel. Bodybuilders report that most of these steroid alternatives will produce muscle building and fat burning effects that are similar to steroids. These safe legal analogs have been designed with the purist pharmaceutical grade ingredients to maximize your bodybuilding potential. Check them out!
The previous information has been created by experts to help you increase your knowledge base about bodybuilding training and drugs. Be knowledgeable. Be informed. Make the right choice!
Bob Howard expert on bodybuilding and steroids. Are you
looking for more of his Cytomel articles?
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