Last week’s giveaway winner, Michael L, mentioned in his comment that he was starting the Couch to 5K training program, and his knees hurt. Here are a few suggestions to help anyone getting started with jogging. Running Shoes? If you are just getting off the couch, you probably do not have a decent pair of running shoes. I am definitely one of those people that gets knee pain if I…
Michael L. is the winner of this week’s Perfect Supplement Giveaway! We will contact you by email to find out which supplement you would like to receive and we will ship it on Monday. Thank you to everyone who entered to win, and please try again next week. Perfect Supplements will select a new winner every Friday at 2PM for the next 8 weeks, so you still have many chances…
Last year Perfect Supplements employee, Kristen, trained for her first marathon and ran the Disney marathon in January 2011. This month, Kristen and her sister and training partner, Kara, convinced me (64 year old, Alice) to train for my first running event ever, a 5K. We are using the Couch to 5K application that several people told us about. It is a training program designed for true beginners with no…
The Fateful Fork – Each Bite of Food Takes You to Disease…or Health written by Eve Gabriel, M.S. clearly explains why “cheap” food isn’t really cheap if it makes you sick. Medication, doctors, and hospital visits due to poor dietary choices are very expensive (heart burn, headaches, allergies, heart disease, high blood pressure, etc). Making Better Choices There is no doubt that the fresh-picked apple from the local orchard is…
Our family enjoys a long tradition of picking our own apples when the weather turns cool here in lovely New England. I loved visiting the orchards when I was a kid, and now I share the joy with my children. This year we had the pleasure of finding a local orchard that sprays pesticides only when absolutely necessary. The fruit looked imperfect, but tasted delicious! Here is a picture from…
Simple question for you: Do you know how to be a happy person??? According to researchers, happiness is 50% genetic, 10% influenced by life circumstances, and 40% influenced by how we think and act on a daily basis. Here are a few things you can try to be a happier individual: 1. Spend a few minutes every day focusing on the things that make you happy. These moments will provide…
A case study conducted by Dr. Mary Newport of Spring Hill, Florida demonstrated the dramatic response that her husband Steve, an Alzheimer’s patient, experienced after taking coconut oil. Dr. Newport goes so far as to say that the Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT) found in non-hydrogenated coconut oil may even cure this debilitating disease! Wow, that’s impressive! “Further, this is a potential treatment for Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, multiple sclerosis and…
It’s not very pretty, but it is powerful. Cordyceps Sinesis is a rare medicinal mushroom that has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 2000 years for it’s many valuable health benefits. Because Cordyceps Sinensis was found only in the high altitudes of the Himalayas, it proved to be difficult to harvest and therefore very expensive to purchase, so only members of the Chinese nobility and their families were…
Those of us over 40 know how hard it is to maintain a healthy weight after we hit the BIG 40!!! We can’t eat all those yummy things we used to eat without putting on a few pounds. Many of us will blame it on a change in metabolism. But just how true is that? What is metabolism and are there fat-burning foods that can rev up metabolism and really…
Oxy-Powder has been rated as the best all natural colon cleanse. It has a unique formulation that uses oxygen in combination with magnesium, organic germanium-132 and natural citric acid to gradually cleanse your colon in 12 to 18 hours. Most people are not aware that an unhealthy digestive track that is overloaded with toxins and impacted wastes can cause bloating, backaches, mood swings, poor appetite, lack of energy, and other…