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Alright ladies and gents, now you can do your work out or run that mile while also monitoring your heart and it doesn't have to be a hassle or a nuisance. A sports bra, men's cardio shirt or racer tank and heart monitor in one. Heart rate training is extremely important and beneficial to everyone who cares about their fitness routine.

Special sensors are knit into the fabric of the sports bra, men's cardio shirt or racer tank. The textile sensors maintain contact with the body, sensing your heart rate and relaying it to a tiny transmitter.

The transmitter is snapped into a pocket in the front of the garment. It captures the heart rate data and transmits it to a heart rate monitor watch.

The heart rate monitor watch instantly displays the heart rate for the you to see.

Five Great Reasons to Wear A Heart Monitor

1. Improve Your Health
You don’t have to be a serious athlete in training to benefit from wearing a heart rate monitor when you exercise. Whether you’re working out to control weight, tone muscles, build endurance, strengthen your heart, relieve stress or simply maintain good health and fitness, a heart rate monitor can help you find the right pace and intensity of exercise to achieve your goals.

2. Lose Weight
A heart rate monitor can tell you if you are exercising hard enough –– or too hard –- to burn stored fat.

3. Make the Most of Your Limited Exercise Time
If you’re juggling a busy schedule and have limited time for exercise, a heart rate monitor can help you maximize your workout to achieve the best results.

4. Exercise Safely
Those who regularly exercise with a heart rate monitor can be the first to know if they are developing a health problem.

5. Be Your Own Coach
If you’ve ever found it difficult to exercise by yourself without the encouragement of a friend or trainer, a heart rate monitor may be just the thing you need. Set your watch to beep when you fall below your target, and your heart rate monitor will urge you to pick up the pace.

The NuMetrex Heart Sensing Racer Tank offers the same cycling heart rate monitoring capabilities as the NuMetrex Heart Sensing Sports Bra, which was named 2006 Sports Product of the Year by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association.

Just to give you some background info on who you would be buying from and why you can trust their product... The NuMetrex line of heart rate monitor athletic apparel was created by Textronics, Inc.

Textronics was established in June 2005 by a team that left the corporate world with the mission of bringing new technologies to market faster. Spinning off from INVISTA S.a.r.l., formerly DuPont Textiles and Interiors, Textronics started out with a rich technology portfolio based on the integration of textiles and electronics.

Labels: fitness, heart rate

Almost all animals and plants synthesize their own vitamin C except humans and a small number of other animals, including, apes, guinea pigs, the red-vented bulbul, a fruit-eating bat and a species of trout.

This morning in some of my reading I came across an article which discusses the use of vitamin C in treating cancer patients.

Drs. Cameron and Pauling's wrote a book "Cancer and Vitamin C" and it provides 26 case histories of patients with various cancers who received a benefit from vitamin C including: brain, breast, prostate, bladder, lung, stomach, ovarian cancer, leukemia and mesothelioma.

"Vitamin C has many roles that may be associated with fighting cancer including: acting as an anti-oxidant and scavenging free radicals, supporting the various immune cells, modulating cell growth and differentiation, helping to synthesize carnitine which is essential for the transport of fat to mitochondria, and possibly even strengthening collagen."

Scientists found that intravenous vitamin C in the form of ascorbate killed cancer cells in lab tests. Even if large amounts of vitamin C don't always cure cancer, it is extremely interesting to know the benefits of this vitamin.

I'm sure there will be a constant argument when it comes to treating cancer. I do hope that whatever ends up being most beneficial to the patient is what gets done. Pharmaceutical companies shouldn't refute these studies just because it may or may not effect their bottom line. A human life is priceless.

Source

Labels: cancer, vitamin c, vitamins

Oh gross! Man see why did I even read this, because now I'm totally freaked out.

Studies have shown that your keyboard and mouse are some of the most germ-ridden devices you own, surpassing even doorknobs and toilet seats.

Take the quiz!

2,336,880How Many Germs Live On Your Keyboard?

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure e-mails hit my inbox at least once a week with the latest news and events pertaining to their cause. Today the one I was received had some interesting facts that I thought I'd share with you in light of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

"One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. In 2007 alone, more than 40,000 women and 450 men will die from breast cancer."

The call to action right now is in regards to the upcoming Komen Leadership Summit on Breast Cancer in New Hampshire on November 6, 2007. Even if you can't make it, you can help by making sure the next First Lady (or First Husband) is there to show that this issue is of national importance. The presentation will challenge the candidates to make breast cancer a priority in their campaigns.

The presidential field has taken a part in funding research for breast cancer in the past and we need to insure this stance continues.

Lady Bird Johnson helped get Project Head Start off the ground. Rosalynn Carter fought for - and won - sweeping mental health reforms. Barbara Bush was a strong supporter of adult and child literacy in the US - she not only pushed for the National Literacy Act, but also founded a private foundation for family literacy. Bess Truman, a breast cancer survivor, secured critical cancer research funding for the National Institute of Health.

Send your letter/invitation now!

Labels: breast cancer

This morning on my drive into work I heard a report on how a study was done to show that if you have a good marriage your heart is healthier and if you have a bad marriage you are 34% more likely to have heart problems.

"Those in a negative relationship were 34% more likely to have a coronary event in the 12 years of follow-up," says Roberto De Vogli, PhD, MPH, a researcher for the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

I'm sure it's all stress related and the study could be done if you have a child who is sick or something like that, too.

But, I was thinking about it and I think it's about time someone began medically showing the connections between a "valentine" heart and your "physical" heart.

People may mentally "replay" the negative interactions, De Vogli and other researchers suspect. "It can activate emotional responses, including depression or hostility," he says, in turn boosting heart disease risk.

See to me that thought is intuitive. I am perfectly aware that a lot of things are mind over matter. You can make yourself feel one way or another in a lot of cases. If you consistently dwell on something negative and play it over and over again in your head it will naturally take a physical toll on your body in some form or another.

Interesting.

SOURCE

Labels: heart, love

Many of you know about my younger brother having been assaulted when he was in college a couple years ago. He ended up having surgeries on his mouth for over a year to fix the damage to his teeth, gums and jaw.

The pain he experienced is beyond upsetting to me even now. I know what a toothache feels like, let alone to have your teeth knocked out so forcefully that it damages your gums and breaks the roots.

Something like Dentemp OS might not have helped the situation entirely, but it could have lessened the annoyance of times when the caps would slip or something else would come loose. Plus it provides fast, temporary relief of pain and discomfort.

Not everyone has been through an experience like this, thank goodness, but that doesn't mean you would be able to use Dentemp OS. It replaces lost fillings and may be used to temporarily cement loose crowns. We all know the pain of losing a crown, when the air touches the exposed root. OUCH!

Labels: toothache

"The president has rediscovered his long lost inner fiscally conservative self," said Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Oregon, in a mocking tone. "After an orgy of borrowing, spending and misspending on many dubious things, his target? Ten million low-income kids."

Why the disdain?

This morning, President Bush vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years. The bill would have extended a health insurance program for children of the working poor. The Senate still has a chance to override this veto.

The veto is the fourth of Bush's presidency. After not using his veto power at all during his first four years, the president has vetoed three other bills in his second term: two on stem-cell research legislation and one on a war funding bill with a Democratic timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

About 9 million children in our country are uninsured.

Add that 9 million to the amount of people who have lost their lives in the Iraq war...the total number of people our dear President is screwing over is growing by the minute.

He is such a creep.

Labels: children healthcare

About.com sent out a message about 10 natural aphrodisiacs. Item number two on the list is called "Horny Goat Weed."

2) Horny Goat Weed
According to folklore, horny goat weed's reputed aphrodisiac qualities were discovered when a Chinese goat herder noticed increased sexual activity in his flock[ after they ingested the weed. ]

Apparently I am completely immature this morning because this has me cracking up!

"Horny goat weed also appears to act by inhibiting the PDE-5 enzyme, which is the same way that the popular drug Viagra works."

ROFLS!

Labels: aphrodisiac, herbal