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Irritable bowel syndrome is never pleasant for anyone to experience. It can ruin a person’s day. Frequent trips to the bathroom, diarrhea, water retention, abdominal cramps, bloating, all of the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome can just make a person want to stay in bed. Imagine how these problems affect someone who has a job that requires them to be active all day. Image in the postal service letter carrier, the mailman. If the mailman suffers from irritable bowel syndrome how can he do his job delivering the mail? He is out and about all day long, walking to deliver the mail. He doesn’t have a convenient bathroom right around the corner. The same holds true for the florist who spends a big part of his day delivering flowers. Image the florist entering a hospital to delivery flowers and having to immediately find a bathroom. Imagine the discomfort and embarrassment the poor florist must feel, and the inconvenience the mailman goes through. Then think about someone who drives all day, like a bus driver or a taxi driver. It is hard to keep a bathroom in your car and very difficult to concentrate on the road and on safety when you have abdominal cramping and pain.

For so many of these people who depend on mobility and being free of discomfort for their professionals a product like Bowtrol Colon Cleanser is the solution to their needs. For many of the people, who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, the solution to the problem is maintaining a clean, healthy colon. That’s where Bowtrol Colon Cleanser comes in, and what it does best. The human body should have two or three good bowel movements per day in order to discharge waste. Bowtrol Colon Cleanser assists in that process and helps many people have regular bowel movements that are effective in discharging old fecal matter that are breeding grounds for bacteria that attack the body and can cause fatigue and harm to the colon and other organs. Bowtrol Colon Cleanser helps the colon stay cleansed and clean, and therefore to stay healthy. With all of the nerves in the colon that connect to so many other vital organs, having a method of keeping the colon clean is quite essential, and so many people who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome have found that Bowtrol Colon Cleanser is the best way for them to do this that they make a habit of telling their friends about it.

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Colon health is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Many people spend hours in the gym or health club, take walks every night, do power walking or jogging, endless push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks and crunches, and go out of their way to become healthy, but never give a minute’s thought to their colons. The heart, live and lungs are all thought of, but the colon is often ignored, and that is a shame because the colon is one of the most important organs in the body, and one of the most complicated. Witness the fact that the colon contains more nerves than any other organ in the body other than the central nervous system itself, the brain and spinal column. The colon serves as a focal point for all food that enters the body to provide nutrients, and is the area where this food leaves the body in the form of waste or fecal matter.

A problem with fecal matter is that it can become backed up in the colon, so keeping the colon cleansed is a major part of keeping it healthy, and gaining the benefits of a healthy colon for the rest of the body. Imagine if you will the walls of the colon lined with aging and deteriorating fecal matter. Not a pleasant thought, but a necessary one. This fecal matter contains bacteria which multiply. They in turn release toxins into the body. These toxins are poisons that can make you sick. This results in a condition called spastic colon, or irritable bowel syndrome. This irritable bowel syndrome can result in constipation, diarrhea, headache, body ache, water retention, bloating, cramping and abdominal pain and discomfort. These symptoms can be alleviated through proper cleansing of the colon. Proper cleansing is done through a healthy diet, high in fiber, low in fact, containing healthy foods like whole grain bread, whole grain pasta, brown rice, green leafy vegetables like spinach and lettuce, and legumes, like black beans, pinto beans, green beans and even peanuts. Use of the supplement Bowtrol Colon Cleanser is also an important practice for cleaner and healthier colons. Using Bowtrol Colon Cleanser along with healthy eating should result in more thorough and more regular bowel movements, hopefully two or three times a day. Using Bowtrol Colon Cleanser can help flush out the system and remove these harmful toxins. Bowtrol Colon Cleanser can help get the poisons out of your system, and should be used on a regular basis by those really concerned with their health.

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The little red fruit that has been enjoyed by countless millions offers more than great taste.

Are cherries truly fruit for a healthy you? Recent studies have revealed that cherries offer an assortment of health benefits including the ability to offer natural relief from joint pain caused from gout, arthritis and joint inflammation.

So what makes the tasty red fruit so beneficial? The wonder of the cherry is the anthocyanins. According to research from Michigan State University tart cherries contain anthocyanins and bioflavonoids, which inhibit the enzymes Cyclooxygenase-1 and -2, and prevent inflammation in the body. These compounds have similar activity as aspirin, naproxen and ibuprofen. Further investigations revealed that daily consumption of tart cherries has the potential to reduce the pain associated with joint inflammation.

Many consumers are choosing to drink cherry juice, eat cherries or consume tart cherry pills to starve off the pain of gout, arthritis and joint inflammation.

Linda L. Patterson is a living testimony of the soothing affects of cherries on her joint pain. “I enjoy crocheting and lately my hands have been so painful, I couldn’t crochet for more than about 30 minutes.”, says Patterson. In an attempt to find relief from her pain, she located Fruit Advantage Tart Cherry capsules, a supplement made from red tart cherries. “Within the first week of taking the tart cherry capsules my hands felt so much better.”, says Ms. Patterson. “I am now able to crochet without the pain in my hands.”

In addition to the health benefits offered by cherries, many people are just eating the fruit for the taste. John Simms, a life-long resident of Indianapolis, Indiana, eats cherries for the convenience and taste. “As a short-haul truck driver, my diet isn’t the best, I would eat fast food every day. A year ago, my wife bought some dried cherries and I began eating them to keep my weight down. Now I eat a handful of cherries instead of eating fast food.”

Traverse Bay Farms (www.traversebayfarms.com) offers fresh cherries, dried cherries, tart cherry juice concentrate and Fruit Advantage Tart Cherry capsules. The learn about the natural health benefits of cherries and other foods, visit the information-only site at
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“I can’t… I’m on a diet!”

Statements like this tend to be said with sighs of regret. After all, we think of dieting as a punishment from above, or - at best - a necessary evil. It’s as if the words ‘Dieting Is Evil’ are carved in stone. We’ve come to accept them without question. After all, what can be pleasant about being on a diet?

This is partly down to all the media guff that goes with the latest (unhealthy) dieting quirks: gluten free, grapefruit, New Totals, high fiber… You name it, there’s always some variation on the dieting theme. Nobody really likes the sound of these diets, and we fully expect them to be unpleasant… but that’s okay, they’ll ‘do us good’.

But can we rely on them?

At first you could be elated by a rapid loss of weight. But sorry to say… all evidence suggests that most people quickly give up these diets. Not only that, they revert to their old eating patterns - and then some! This shouldn’t surprise us. How long can you expect to avoid practically everything you like and keep your spirits up?

Give Me Answers Now!

Do you remember the old song by Queen: ‘I want it all, I want it now’? We’ve become so used to this mentality that we apply it to dieting regimes as well. Are we sick of the sight of our bodies? Is our weight affecting our health? Okay, let’s put it right - here and now! Often we suspect a certain program can’t be good, but the advertisers and copy writers know how to push our buttons. So we part with our cash, telling ourselves we’ll just give this rapid (but unhealthy) dieting plan a try.

The drive to reduce weight rapidly can be so strong in some dieters that they will choose stomach bypass procedures. They know these operations were designed for the extremely overweight, but they nevertheless choose to ignore their own doctor’s advice and seek private treatment.

Counteracting Unhealthy Dieting

Deep down every dieter knows what has to be done, but they are often reluctant to face the facts. So let’s - gently! - spell them out. Two things are required to gain a healthy, well-shaped body. One is to eat an appropriate amount of foods from the various food groups in order to meet our body’s needs… The other is to subject the body to a reasonable amount of physical exercise.

Hold on, this is not necessarily bad news! Forget the diets that stick to one thing. You can indulge your passions. There’s no need to feel deprived. As long as you have a regulated plan and stick to it, you’ll feel great - and your health and weight will be fine.

Right now take all those morbid and unhealthy dieting regimes and ditch them. And with them goes all that physical misery and emotional hell. Bid a fond welcome to your new improved self, your shapely body and your emotional serenity. The cheese board or cookie jar are no longer forbidden territory - provided you stick to your limits and keep on the move. Down with unhealthy dieting plans… They suck!

Over the decades, athletes have tried many different approaches to enhancing their abilities, from sports drinks to steroids. But with new theory surrounding the glycemic index and athletic endurance, athletes are now given a new way to safely and legally enhance their performance. With athletics becoming more and more competitive, many hours of research have gone into determining the best way to foster increased endurance and higher quality performance.

What is the Glycemic Index?

Since the early 1980’s, researchers have been working to determine the glycemic index, or rate of increase in blood sugar levels, for many foods. This is important information to consider when we consider the two major hormones at play: insulin and glucagon.

Insulin comes into play when we need to lower our blood sugar levels. It latches onto the sugar and either utilizes it or stores it in the form of fat. Conversely, glucagon breaks down fat and turns it into sugar so that it can be used by the body as fuel.

The glycemic index is usually established by considering how quickly blood sugar rises after eating a carbohydrate.

How Does the Glycemic Index Relate to Athletes?

At Loughborough University in England, a study gave evidence to support that athletes participating in endurance sports (activities lasting at least two hours) could see some profit in eating a low glycemic meal before their event (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, August 2006).

Most scientists and coaches agree that eating low glycemic meals for a few days before one of these endurance-based events aids in filling your muscles with sugar. This is important because the presence of sugar in your muscles is a key factor in determining how long you can exercise pain-free (e.g. endurance).

Of course, it takes longer than a few minutes to fill your muscles completely with sugar (it takes at least 24 hours), so that is not why the pre-competition low glycemic index carbohydrates are needed.

The Best Time to Eat a Low Glycemic Meal

When an athlete eats a low glycemic meal around two or three hours before a test of endurance, the new study shows that the body allows the muscles to perform longer because it first utilizes stored fat rather than the sugar stored in the muscles.

Because of this, the sugar is not depleted as rapidly which gives the athlete increased time before muscle pain occurs. As of this time, there has been no evidence to show that low glycemic index meals provide any added benefit to athletes not requiring significant endurance.

What About Other Non-endurance Sports?

Although eating low glycemic index is most beneficial to endurance athletes, the studies being conducted are very promising in other arenas as well. With the competitiveness of sports steadily rising, it is important that we find ways for our athletes to excel while still protecting their health and well-being. By utilizing the low glycemic index as a method of enhancement, athletes can safely and efficiently enhance their endurance to give themselves the edge they need in such a competitive arena.