By Ryan Healy

Ryan Healy is a personal trainer for the Lynch/van Otterloo (LVO) YMCA in Marblehead. She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA, and earned her BS in Exercise Sports Science from Elon University. Find more posts by her in conjunction with the LVO YMCA at yhealthandwellness.wordpress.com. She can be reached at healyr@northshoreymca.org.

Remember; please consult your doctor before starting any exercise program.

These days we are inundated with a constant flow of information, opinions, and so called experts through a multitude of media outlets. We have more access to information than ever before. When it comes to reading about health and fitness, its hard to figure out where to look for truthful, practical, and helpful information. To help you sort through all the potential resources out there, Ive compiled a list of useful and trust worthy sites to help you on your journey to wellness. There are a plethora of great sites on the web, but here are a few of my personal favorites.

Nutrition 1. Precision Nutrition: Ive had much personal experience with this company and their nutrition education and coaching. I signed up for their womens Lean Eating program in January 2012 and over the course of 10 months have lost the 40lbs of baby weight and more I needed to. It changed my life in so many great ways. Heres a link to their free 5 day fat loss courses for women and men, which are filled with helpful tips and documents. Their website also has many free articles that address a broad spectrum of well researched nutrition topics. 2. Ask Georgie: This Registered Dietitian (RD) is famous for her mouth watering healthy recipes, in addition to her scientific yet practical approach to nutrition, which is evident when you read any of the free articles on her website. 3. Brian St. Pierre: I first read Brians contribution to Bostons own, Eric Cresseys Show and Go Training: Nutrition Guide. I was very impressed at his logical principles and knack for simplification of what can be a very confusing and overwhelming subject at times. His site is filled with great articles, blog posts, and even an extensive resources section. 4. Cassandra Forsythe: Another wonderful RD with a strong educational foundation in fitness and nutrition. She has contributed to numerous major health magazines, and authored several books, and many online articles. 5. Lose It: A great app available here that allows you to set goals, and track your food, weight, blood pressure, hours of sleep, and more! A convenient way to track everything in one place. It even allows you to scan the bar codes on your food so that theyre instantly added to your food log. Exercise 1. Experience Life Magazine: This magazine and online source of copious articles and information is dedicated to no-nonsense healthy living and wellness. From nutritious eating to training advice and fitness programs, this publication sorts through all the fluff and gets down to what really matters! 2. Ace Fitness: Not only is ACE a certifying body for personal trainers, but their website offers wonderful resources in terms of their ask the experts section in addition to their fit facts and large exercise library that organizes exercises by body part. 3. Core Performance: If youre looking to improve your fitness or sports performance, this site is for you! It extensively covers functional fitness, flexibility, corrective exercises, warm-ups, mobility exercises, nutrition, lifestyle habits, and much more. They even offer a personalized exercise program for those that want one on one coaching. 4. Alwyn Cosgrove: Owner of one of the most successful gyms in the country, Alwyn is a scientific journal scouring, common sense, pragmatic person and trainer. Hes written many fantastic articles that might make you rethink the way you workout, and has authored several books and other publications. 5. Nick Tumminello: Dedicated to the education of fitness enthusiasts and professionals, Nick owns Performance University, which offers articles and educational products to enhance your learning and understanding of exercise.

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Holly Paige - Pineal Gland, Nutrition and DMT
A SiriusConferenceVideo.com production. Summary: Researcher Holly Paige describes how different types of foods and chemicals effect the brain. Certain foods and supplements can improve brain function and though processes. While DMT, a powerful hallucinogen is produced from within the brain itself, in a gland called the Pineal Gland. In ancient times life was enhanced by a greater production of DMT in the brain but in modern times substances like fluoride calcify and inhibit the functionality of the pineal gland. Plants like passion flower can be used to affect amino acids in the brain which allow DMT to have an enchancing effect upon perception. Larger doses of DMT and MOAI #39;s (which Holly explains) can lead to seeing beings in the spirit world like angels. You can check out Holly #39;s web site: http://www.foodforconsciousness.co.uk/From:SiriusConferenceVidsViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:29More inNonprofits Activism

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Sportsideo, the rapidly growing sports social network announced today the launch of its Nutrition & the Athlete series of articles today to provide nutrition information to athletes, parents, coaches, and conditioning trainers designed to help improve their nutritional status for healthier living and their athletic performance.

Huntington, NY (PRWEB) November 30, 2012

Steve Vesce, Managing Director of Sportsideo commented, Sportsideos growing community is made up of all of the people who participate in sports athletes, coaches, scouts, trainers, healthcare professionals, new reporters, and fans. We have learned that the members in our community athletes and non-athletes alike - have more questions than answers about good nutrition and there are many misconceptions surrounding this important subject. We all find ourselves asking questions about basic nutritional facts, as well as questioning the many new diet and supplement fads that seemingly arrive on the scene every day. Thanks to the work of Colleen Dawkins and Kimberly Ellison, Sportsideo will provide our readers with a series that can reference important information regarding basic nutritional information to improve health and performance, as well as provide insights into the latest popular diets and fads, Vesce concluded.

Colleen Dawkins commented We are excited to have the opportunity to work with Steve and the Sportsideo team. We appreciate the chance to communicate our expertise to such a broad and engaged audience. Our goal is for the information we provide to dispel myths and also allow the reader to not only improve his or her athletic performance, but also become healthier overall. It is important that people make a shift towards being empowered and knowledgeable consumers, patients, and athletes.

Kimberly Ellison added You are what you eat, so make it count! Food is fuel for the body and anyone looking to achieve athletic goals should know how to fuel their body properly."

You can read the Nutrition & the Athlete Series of articles at Sportsideos OT on Sportsideo starting this Friday, November 30th.

About Kimberly Ellison

Kimberly Ellison, MS, RD, LD practices as a Registered Dietitian in South Carolina working with bariatric surgical patients. Kimberly completed her BS in nutrition at Louisiana State University and her MS in nutrition at The University of Southern Mississippi. She also completed a certificate of training in Adult Weight Management. In her free time, Kimberly runs, cooks, and generally kicks butt.

About Colleen Dawkins

Colleen Dawkins, MS, BSN, RD, RN, CNSC practices in Georgia as a Clinical Dietitian. Her BS in nutrition is from The University of Southern Mississippi, her MS in nutrition was completed at The University of Alabama, and her BS in nursing at Emory University. In her free time, Colleen is obsessed with all things football, dreams about traveling, and is pursuing a MS in nursing at Emory.

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Bikaner, Nov 30 (IANS) Manju Wadhwa, eminent scientist, Department of Animal Nutrition, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University, Ludhiana, has been conferred the Fellow of Animal Nutrition Association award for her outstanding contribution to the field of animal nutrition.

The recognition of her contribution came at the Animal Nutrition Association's eight biennial conference held at Rajasthan University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences here November 28-30.

Wadhwa is known for her pioneering work on improving efficiency of nutrient utilization in poor quality crop residues as also nutritional status of dairy animals in Punjab.

Her work in reducing global warming by animals led to breakthrough studies on the methane production potential of feedstuffs available in the region and development of methane mitigation strategies and has won her peer and global accolades.

Wadhwa has published over 80 research articles in national and international peer reviewed journals, a number of technical bulletins and popular articles, in addition to successfully guiding MSc students.

She has served as the editor of the Indian Journal of Animal Nutrition for two consecutive tenures besides contributing to academic discussions and conferences in Canada, Malaysia, China and Thailand, contributing to the cause of science.

An alumnus of Punjab Agricultural University, Wadhwa pursued post-doctoral research at Memorial University of New Foundland, Canada.

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New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- World's biggest nutrition scheme, Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS), is riddled with corruption in giving contracts in four big states. Also, the ready to eat food being provided is nutrition deficit, a Supreme Court appointed committee has found, urging the court to constitute a special investigation team to look into the "politician-bureaucracy and contractor nexus".

The report of Biraj Pathnaik, principal advisor to the office of SC's food commissioners, based on a ground study in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka and testing of food samples by central government's Hyderabad based National Institute of Nutrition, says the "rot is systematic" and people responsible for "stealing food from children of poor and marginalized communities" in the country should be booked.

The report shows that how Uttar Pradesh government helped Great Value Foods owned by Ponty Chadda, who with his brother Hardeep Singh were killed in their farmhouse in south Delhi last month, to garner contracts for providing supplementary nutrition under the Central government's ICDS scheme in violation of Supreme Court orders.

Despite the Supreme Court banning procurement of food from contractors in 2004, the report said, the UP government gave contract to Great Value Foods, which set up a processing plant in Bahraich district for supplying ready to eat food to anganwadis in Gorakhpur and 11 other districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh.

"The food being supplied does not contain the nutritional ingredients it claims to contain and the weaning food is not particularly suitable for babies," the report said with reference to Chadda's company. The company with registered office in Delhi was not available for comments despite repeated attempts. The report also pointed out the government favoured other private contractors through its tendering process.

In Karnataka, the report quoted state Lokayukta police to claim that three state women and child development department officials received bribe from a private contractor for tampering with the tendering process and later for supplying poor quality food. They "acquired properties" from the ill-gotten money, the report said.

The report also belied the impression has been created in Karnataka and Gujarat that the ready to eat food was being supplied by women self-help groups. It said the reality was that the contractors were supplying substandard food to anganwadi centers and in Gujarat the tendering process excluded women groups from bidding by seeking special blending of fortified food.

The claims of the state government and private producers of children getting good quality food had fallen flat with the National Institute of Nutrition certifying most samples to be nutrition deficient on several counts.

The vitamins were below detectable limit in all samples from Maharashtra and UP. Similarly, samples from all four states were deficient in proteins. "The energy level was 40 % less in samples for Gujarat and 30 % less in Maharashtra," the report said, adding that the results show serious gaps in quality of ready to eat food being supplied in anganwadi centers.

"We reiterate our concern for the health, nutrition and life of millions of children in India, in the larger public interest we again request the Supreme Court to set up an independent Special Investigation Team (SIT) to enquire into the matter," said NC Saxena and Harsh Mander, special commissioners of the court.

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