Red Bank, NJ
APRIL 2008
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APRIL 2008 |
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3 Rounds for the best time 5 Burpees At
the end of April, FT clients will be competing in the April Fitness
Challenge of the Month. This brutal challenge consists of 5 burpees,
10 box jumps, and 15 MB thrusters. The best time after 3 rounds wins.
To keep the clients motivated, we have a special prize in store for
the winner. Good luck to those clients participating in the challenge.
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In This Newsletter
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Every month, the staff at Fitness Together picks one client to highlight their recent fitness achievements and congratulate them on their current and future success in reaching their fitness goals. But this month is different. When discussing who should receive the honor of Client of the Month for April, we found a number of clients that have achieved great results in such a short period of time, we couldn’t pick just one! We want to recognize the following clients for their recent achievements: Denise Benedickson -10
lbs, -11.25 in Great
job everyone! Keep training hard! Our friends at SkinScience would like to offer you a $39.00 introductory
50 minute massage. In addition to the Skin Science program of
substantially improving the appearance of your skin, Skin Science
is a state-of-the-art luxury
spa, including facials, chemical peels, microderm-abrasion, massages, body
treatments and even tanning sessions. Their professional staff and
beautifully appointed facility is located at 73 Broad Street. They also
provide the same level of client service that you have become accustomed to
at Fitness Together. Give them a call at 732-741-7878 and let them know
you are a client at Fitness Together. The
FT staff wants to wish good luck to those participating in the Rumson
Fair-Haven 5-mile and 3k Fun Walk-Run on May 4, 2008. If you have
been training for this event, we know your hard work and dedication
to training will yield you fast times on race day. The FT trainers
are running at Hartshorne Park in Middletown on Sunday mornings,
we encourage both clients and non-clients to join us. There’s
only a few weeks left until the race, so get out there and run! Fitness Together
trainer Jack Wolff loves to practice what he preaches.
Jack has been lifting competitively for the past 10 years now, and
needless to say, it shows. Jack holds many national records in his
power lifting class, Men’s Masters 148 lbs, and he doesn’t
plan on hanging up the weight belt anytime soon. On March 22, 2008,
Jack competed in the USAPL Nationals Qualifier in Little Egg Harbor.
With a 288 lb squat (twice his body weight), 188 lb bench press,
and a strong 388 lb deadlift (more than twice his body weight) he
qualified for the National USAPL Competition on May 2-4, 2008. We
want to wish Jack good luck on his attempts of 300, 200, and 400+
in the squat, bench press, and deadlif,t respectively. We know you
can do it Jack! Forget Myths,
Folklore and Magic Bullets: The Best Approach to a Healthful Lifestyle
Is the “Total Diet”
Don’t eat after 8 p.m. Avoid carbohydrates, even fruit. A piece of cake on your birthday will ruin your diet. Right? Not exactly. There are no bad foods, no good or bad times to eat and no magic bullet for maintaining a healthy weight. The fact is, it’s your total diet approach that matters in living a healthful lifestyle. March is National Nutrition Month®, the perfect time to take a fresh look at the big picture. The theme for National Nutrition Month 2008 is Nutrition: It’s a Matter of Fact and the American Dietetic Association reminds consumers to focus on the total balance of foods you consume, rather than any one food or meal. - TOP - Mouse study shows dopamine blocks tumor-feeding blood vessels ROCHESTER, Minn. — A study published in the March 13 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (http://www.jci.org/) shows that dopamine, a drug currently used to treat Parkinson's disease and other illnesses, also might work in cancer patients. The study, which was done in mouse and laboratory models, shows that dopamine could possibly prevent new blood vessels from growing and as a result, slow cancer progression. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain that regulates movement and affects behavior. In its synthetic form, dopamine is used to treat heart attack victims, Parkinson's disease and pituitary tumors. But it wasn't known until now that dopamine worked by blocking the growth of new blood vessels (a process called angiogenesis). "Researchers now can test this concept in solid tumors where angiogenesis plays a critical role in the growth and progression of these cancers," says Sujit Basu, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic scientist who conducted this study with Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, Ph.D., a scientist with the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Calcutta, India.; and, Debanjan Chakroborty, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in biochemistry at Mayo Clinic and CNCI. - TOP - If you're one of the 70 percent of Americans who regularly eat at their desks, stay healthy by following these food safety tips from the American Dietetic Association. Keep Your Cool Follow Fridge Safety - TOP - What is a Stroke? To check if someone is having a stroke, ask the person to give you five: Walk, IS THEIR BALANCE OFF?
- TOP - Turkey and Roasted Red Pepper Wraps with Tarragon Cream Cheese Ingredients: For the wraps: Cooking Instructions Serving Size: 1 wrap - TOP - Forget Myths,
Folklore and Magic Bullets: The Best Approach to a Healthful Lifestyle
Is the “Total Diet”
...continued from above. No single food or meal makes or breaks a healthful diet. Your overall pattern of eating is the most important focus. A wide variety of foods can fit within this pattern, if consumed in moderation, in appropriate portions and combined with regular physical activity. No one food or type of food guarantees good health, just as no single food is necessarily detrimental to health. It doesn’t matter if you eat after 8 p.m. What’s more important is how many calories you ate the entire day, not when you ate them and splurging on cake and ice cream during a party isn’t going to ruin a healthful eating plan. Pay attention to the portion of your treat and enjoy it in moderation, exercise a little longer the next day or plan ahead to save calories, like skipping your morning latte. Develop an eating plan rich with fruits, vegetables and whole-grains for lifelong health. Too often, people adopt the latest food fad rather than focusing on overall health. Get back to basics consult a registered dietitian and use the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans and MyPyramid at http://www.eatright.org as your guide to healthy eating. A registered dietitian or certified personal trainer can help you look at your total diet and learn the balance and moderation needed for success, and can dispel the myths and legends that get in the way of healthful eating. Source: http://www.eatright.org - TOP - ...continued from above. "Sometimes new drugs may not be the answer. We looked instead at a novel use for an established product and have found very promising results," Dr. Basu says. The study has not been replicated in humans, but the results are encouraging,
he says. Researchers discovered that dopamine stops the transfer of endothelial progenitor cells from the bone marrow into the circulatory system by binding to a specific receptor on the surface of the progenitor cells. This binding suppresses the activity of matrix metallopeptidase 9 (MMP-9), an enzyme that enables these cells to move out of bone marrow. In their experiments, they found that treatment with dopamine significantly decreased mobilation of the progenitor cells from the bone marrow, and it also decreased MMP-9 expression. "This is the first time it has been shown that an important neurotransmitter
like dopamine is regulating the mobilization of these progenitor cells
from the bone marrow. This is very important and represents why these
findings are so unique," Dr. Basu says. This research was supported by grants from the Department of Biotechnology, the Government of India; the National Institutes of Health; and the U.S. Department of Defense. To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news. - TOP - ...continued from above. Talk, IS THEIR SPEECH SLURRED OR FACE DROOPY?
Reach, IS ONE SIDE WEAK OR NUMB?
See, IS THEIR VISION ALL OR PARTLY LOST?
Feel, IS THEIR HEADACHE SEVERE?
Source: http://www.giveme5forstroke.org/patients/ - TOP - |
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