Orthotics for Sports Performance

August 30th, 2010

Orthotics are custom made shoe inserts designed to:

  • Reduce the risk of injury
  • Help rest an injured area
  • Reduce foot Pain
  • Improve back/hip/knee pain
  • Improve gait/performance
  • Cushion/overload painful areas on the ball of the foot

Orthotics can be off the shelf, semi bespoke or fully bespoke devices.

For some people the correct off the shelf orthotic is enough to treat their foot pain for others they need fully bespoke devices custom made for the feet. Like a having a pair of glasses prescribed, custom made orthotics are prescribed for you by a fully qualified, HPC Registered, Specialist (Musculoskeletal) Podiatrist, who will carry out a biomechanical assessment (gait analysis) and take moulds of the feet.

There are a wide variety of foot orthotics online, the best thing to do is consult a trusted mobile podiatrist / chiropodist in your area to ask for advice.

Benefits of Udo’s Choice Beyond Greens

August 1st, 2010

Beyond Greens is August’s Offer off the month on Alkaline Supplements. Here’s why it’s a great green drink:

Beyond greens  combines the finest green foods, essential fatty acids, fibre, whole food concentrates, phytonutrients and digestive enzymes, to help you achieve a balanced diet.

Beyond Greens blends quickly and easily, making it great for people on the run who need an instant, nutritious boost or a quick pick-me-up. It’s the easy and convenient way for anyone to ensure a well balanced diet packed full of Greens.

Benefits of Beyond Greens?

Beyond Greens gives your body premium greens from barley, alfalfa, oat and rye grasses, plus spirulina and chlorella. These greens are rich in detoxifying chlorophyll and provide a spectrum of nutritional components, helping support optimum health. For example, barley grass contains many nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, selenium, B-vitamins, carotene and vitamins C and E.

Beyond Greens also contain a high content of essential fatty acids (EFAs). Each tablespoon provides more than 1000mg of high quality flax, sunflower and sesame seed oil, derived from the same seed mixture used to produce Udo’s Choice Ultimate Blend Oil. EFAs are required by every cell of the body for proper development, optimal function and structural renewal. Furthermore, EFAs are a source of energy and endurance.

Beyond Greens supplies soluble fibre, which carries cholesterol out of the body and feeds friendly intestinal bacteria, and insoluble fibre which provides the necessary bulk for promoting regularity.

Beyond Greens Ingredients

The key to the strength of Udo’s Choice Beyond Greens is its carefully selected ingredients:

Greens: Barley, Alfalfa, Oat and Rye Grass powders, Chlorella, Spirulina.

Defatted seed and fibre: Brown flax seed, sesame seed, sunflower seed, oat bran, rice bran, golden flax seed (whole), psyllium husk.

Food Concentrates: Carrot, Soyforce™ powdered sprouted soybeans, tomato, beet powder, broccoli, kale, parsley, Udo’s Choice Ultimate Digestive Enzyme Blend powder (amylase, lipase, protease, cellulase, glucoamylase, invertase, malt diastase, lactase, pectinase (with phytase) and bromelain in a base of beet root fibre.

Phytonutrients blend: Cinnamon bark, ginger root, peppermint leaf, bilberry leaf, licorice root, red clover blossom, lemongrass, artichoke leaf, dandelion root and leaf, rosemary leaf, thyme herb, standardized grape seed extract.

Nutritional Data

Serving Size : 5g (1 Dst spoon)
Servings per 255g : 51
Item per 100g per 5g ( Dsp sp)
Energy 423 kcal / 1770 kJ 21 kcal / 89 kJ
Protein 25g 1.25g
Carbohydrates 46.2g 2.31g
of which Sugars 5.2g 0.26g
Fat 16.3g 0.82g
of which:
Saturates 2.2g 0.11g
Monounsaturates (Oleic Acid) 3.4g 0.17g
Polyunsaturates 10.0g 0.5g
of which:
Omega 3 fatty acids 6.3g 0.32g
alpha linoleic acid (LNA) 45g 13.5g
Cholesterol 0g 0g
Fibre 20g 1.0g
Sodium 83mg 4.1g

You should enjoy 1-2 dessertspoons as you choose – mixed in water, juice, cereal, yoghurt – the limit is your imagination!

Buy Beyond Greens at a discounted price today!

Doc Broc’s Power Plants for Anti-Aging & Anti-Cancer!

July 15th, 2010

Eating 3/4 of a cup of Broccoli 4 times a week has been found to turn on the anti-cancer gene that makes proteins which kill prostate, breast and colon cancer cells.

Broccoli is key to anti aging and anti cancer and Doc Brocs Power plants are loaded with Broccoli sprouts, ensuring you get your daily dose of Broccoli as well as man other alkalising greens!

Doc Brocs Power plants are this months special offer at alkaline supplements.

Doc Brocs 1/4lb

For more information on the Anti cancer properties of Broccoli, check out Dr Robert Youngs Article.

Spirulina The Superfood

June 8th, 2010

Why Has Spirulina Been Named a Superfood?

Spirulina has the highest concentration of Beta Carotene (an antioxidant found in carrots), a great anti-cancer nutrient.

Spirulina has a high concentration of plant based protein, as it is 60% protein.

Its dark green colour comes from Chlorophyll (the blood of the plant) and chlorophyll has an almost identical structure to our blood, apart from a central atom of magnesium instead of iron. Fortunately Spirulina is also rich in iron, therefore, Spirulina is great for building blood. Making it ideal for women, especially pregnant or nursing mothers.

Spirulina is also contains the rare essential fatty acid GLA, found in mothers milk.

Alkaline supplements has just made a spot for this amazing superfood in our store. Click here to find out more or buy a potent, organic Spirulina and get 10% off by subscribing to our store.

June’s Special Offers on Alkaline Supplements.

June 1st, 2010

Check out our special offers page for the latest discounts on alkaline supplements. Get pHion pH Booster and pHion Green Superfood Capsules at a reduced price and….

…get an additional 10% off these reduced items and all other products in the store, simply by becoming a member of alkaline supplements.

Click Here or visit our home page to register as a member and start using your 10% discount today!

Boost the pH of your water with pHion pH Booster and turn ordinary water into an ionized, alkalised, oxygenated health tonic. Our body’s generate energy by conducting electricity from cell to cell. Ionized water also conducts electicity and will even light up a light bulb, ordinary tap water will not do this. If you want more energy then you need to alkalise and ionise your water! Watch the pH Booster light a bulb in this YouTube video.

Alkalising for Acid Erosion of the Teeth

May 31st, 2010

Acid erosion is a common tooth problem seen by dentists.

Dentist even know that food has a large part to play in it. Acidic foods like fruit, sugar and fizzy drinks cause this acid erosion. Click here for a list of acidic foods.

Dentists will sell you a toothpaste to  help combat acid erosion, they also tell you the damage is permanent. What dentists don’t usuall tell you is that you can prevent or even reverse acid erosion with an alkaline diet. It’s so simple eat more alkaline food and less acidic foods and the acid cannot erode the teeth. Increase your uptake of alkaline minerals such as Dr Robert Youngs pHour Salts. Use baking soda or the pHour salts as a mouth wash. These are highly alkaline and will neutralise acid in the mouth.

At my last visit to the dentist, I was told one of my teeth had re-mineralised, so there had been a hole and it had repaired itself. I put it down to my increased intake of alkaline food and supplements.

pHion Green – Capsules

May 29th, 2010

Highlights:

pHion Green Superfood Capsules

  • Super alkalizing
  • Contains over 30 alkalizing ingredients
  • Includes grasses, veggies & sprouts
  • Super concentrated
  • Contains Cerecalase® to increase bioavailability
  • Easy to swallow capsules

Reasons to buy

  • Super alkalizing. pHion Green Superfood contains the most complete blend of over 30 different alkaline forming foods – including alkalizing organic grasses, veggies and sprouts aimed at neutralizing damaging acids found in your system.
  • Raw. Our gentle, low heat process insures that all of the nutrients in pHion Green Superfood stay intact.
  • Super bioavailable. Because our formula contains Cerecalase®, a patented blend of enzymes, the ingredients are up to 48% more bioavailable than the greens in other products.

pHion Green Superfood YouTube Video

Buy pHion Green Superfood Here.

  • Convenient. pHion Green Superfood capsules are easy to swallow, and a convenient way to “pop” alkalizing greens into your mouth all day long!

pHion pH Booster – Alkaline Water

May 28th, 2010

Check out the benefits of pHion’s pH Booster. Boost your energy and remove acidic toxins by alkalising and ionising your drinking water:

pHion pH Booster YouTube Video

pH Booster Highlights:

  • 72 activated ionic minerals
  • Best formula of liquid electrolytes available
  • Ionizes and alkalizes
  • Alkalizes your water to an optimal pH of 9.5
  • Infuses your body with charged ions…the carriers of energy
  • Tasteless and odorless
  • Treats over 15 gallons of water

Reasons to use pHion pH Booster:

  • Alkalizing. pHion Booster contains 72 alkalizing minerals that boost your water up to a pH of 9.5 — over 500 times more alkaline than regular water with a pH of 7.0.
  • Ionizing. pHion Booster infuses your water with a wealth of ionic minerals — and drinking water that is ionized, or electrically charged, may improve your cells’ ability to conduct electrochemical signals.
  • Oxygenating. pHion Booster actually increases your water’s content of oxygen — which is necessary for fueling all human activity — because alkaline water is higher in oxygen than water with a pH of 7.0 or below.
  • Tasteless and odorless. Best of all, pHion Booster provides all these benefits without affecting the taste or odor of your water.
  • Long-lasting. Each pHion Booster kit contains 250 servings that will treat 8, 8oz Glasses of water each day for 1 month

I’ve been using this product for over 3 years and it has help me recover from exercise quickly with no DOMS the day after a hard run.

I’m now pregnant and I’m still continuing to use this product to keep me and my baby healthy, so far so good, 22 weeks and I’m feeling great, still cycling and horse riding!

Buy pHion pH Booster Here.

Fantastic Figs

May 27th, 2010

In the bible, Adam & Eve used Fig leaves to cover themselves!

The Spartans (as seen in the movie 300), maintained a high physical standard in their population and used Figs as a staple food. Athletes ate them in high quantities for strength.

Figs are noticed for their sweetness and soft texture – they have soft, pliable skin, enclosing a sweet, even softer fleshy interior full of edible seeds.

Figs have the shortest life span of any fruit on the market. They have to be picked when ripe, giving them a high nutritional content, unlike other fruits which are ripened on our shelves. Once they are picked, they only last about a week, therefore, 90% of our Figs are dried to preserve them.

Dried Figs make a fantastic, healthy and alkaline snack, offering us a very dense nutritional package!

Dried Figs are well known for their laxative effect. Figs are high in Vitamins A, B1 and B2. Vitamin B is essential for intesine regulation.

They are very high in fibre, potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron. These vitamins and minerals play a key role in kidney function, bone strength, oxygen uptake, digestive, muscle and heart function.

The mineral content of a Fig closely resembles that of human milk!

Figs are also high in antioxidants, these protect us from cancer and slow the aging process.

Fresh or dried figs are delicious sliced over porridge.

Enjoy your Figs!

Alkalising & Sport – Up your game!

May 26th, 2010

Alkalising increases athletic performance, provides energy, builds stamina & muscle!

Your blood has a slightly alkaline pH (7.36). Intense exercise and a diet high in meat, dairy, sugar and carbohydrates, causes an excess of acid in your body.

This acid is removed using calcium and magnesium from your bones and muscles, making them weaker. Acid also affects the muscles ability to absorb sugar (glucose), reducing your energy!

Therefore, by eating more alkaline foods and drinking highly alkaline green drinks, your muscles will be stronger and you’ll have more energy!

Other benefits of alkalising include:

  • Increased Strength, Endurance & Stamina
  • Faster Recovery
  • Reduced Sickness
  • Peak Fitness Levels

Better performance, more time on the pitch & less time off through illness or injury = More GOALS & More WINS!

The international Journal of Sports Medicine (2008) showed that by alkalising the blood of elite swimmers, they were able to;

significantly improve their performance times!

Stu Mittleman ran from San Diego to New York in 56 days, running approximately 2 marathons a day! He did it powered by alkaline foods, supplements and several daily green drinks!

Athletes also benefiting from greens; Tottenham, Amir Khan, Leicester Tigers & the UK Olympic Team.

Green Drinks

Mega Greens Plus MSM is a nutrient dense energising, green drink. It is in powder form, which you add to water and contains a special combination of;

34 highly nutritious, vegetables, grasses, sprouted grains and herbs, plus vitamins, minerals and MSM.

Formulated to provide you with the vitamins, minerals, proteins, and antioxidants for a massive boost in health, Energy Levels & performance!

MSM is found in healthy tissues and joints. It is added to mega greens to improve the; flexibility, tone & strength of your joints, muscles & bones.

For optimum alkalising, a pH Booster is also added to the water, this;

  • Highly alkalises
  • Ionizes
  • & Oxygenates the water

The pH Booster infuses your water with a wealth of 72 ionic minerals (liquid electrolytes)

Replacing the electrolytes lost in sport, which you need to create energy!

Adding pH Booster to your water fills it with; energetic, dissolved oxygen which is immediately absorbed into the blood. Oxygen is also essential for energy!

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