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Walk Around – The best exercise to live a life free of illness and have an ideal body weight

Walking is considered to be the best exercise and medicine for slowing the aging process, reducing the chances of illness and slashing down body fat. Walking is the best no stress, no sweat answer to lifelong conditioning. All you need is a good pair of shoes, a little time, a few guidelines from some fitness expert. Walking has always been one of the best ways to strengthen the bones, control your weight, tone your muscles, maintain a good posture and eventually improve your self image.

- Walking involves almost every muscle of the body. Blood circulation to joints is improved and massages the blood vessels keeping them more elastic.
- Walking helps to maintain efficient metabolism.
- Walking in convenient too as you do not need a gym or any special equipment.
- Weight loss from low calorie and especially low carbohydrate diet consist mostly of water and muscle. When the weight returns, it comes back as fat. To avoid getting fatter over time, you must increase your metabolism by exercising daily.
- Walk at a steady and brisk pace as it burns more fat because it burns more calories. Increase your pace over time.
- To lose weight, it is ideal to alternate the walking sessions between high intensity and lower intensity days. Walk on the first day with a steady and moderate pace. Increase your speed the following day. You can also break up your walk with some sets of squats, lunges, bench push ups or other body weight exercises to make it a real cardiovascular and muscle blaster of a workout.
- Make walking a fun and keep it up consistently.
- Slow and casual walking has benefits but you will not get as much out of walking at a very slow pace because we all have a built in mechanical advantage for walking long distances at normal speeds.
- Always walk after each meal. It prevents from building up of fat.
- Climbing two flights of stairs a day burns off half a pound of body fat in a year.

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Histidine – Essential Amino Acid for tissue Growth and Repair

Histidine is regarded as an essential amino acid during the period of growth. However, as healthy adults are capable of synthesizing it according to their requirements, it is termed a non-essential amino acid in adult life. This amino acid may also be required in the diet during old age and in those suffering from de-generative diseases. Histidine is metabolized into histamine, an important physiological substance which is normally freely present in the intestine.

- Histidine is essential for growth and repair of human tissues.
- Histidine is necessary for the conversion of glucose into glycogen in the liver.
- Histidine converted into histamine stimulates the secretion of hydrochloric acid in the stomach.

Histidine is found in :
- Fruits such as bananas and grapes.
- Meat and poultry.
- Milk and milk products.
- Root vegetables and all green vegetables but in lesser quantities.

A deficiency of histidine can cause :
- Pain in the bony joints.
- Low urine concentration of histidine has been reported to accompany rheumatoid arthritis.

HEALING PROPERTIES
Taken orally, histidine is likely to depress the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. Histidine helps to dilate the blood vessels and has therefore, been found beneficial in the treatment of cardio-circulatory disorders. The release of histidine from body stores is considered a prerequisite for sexual arousal. Hence, histidine supplementation may prove helpful in this regard.
Histidine has also been found to be beneficial in allergic conditions, in the treatment of anemia , and disorders of the auditory nerve.

PRECAUTION:
Taken orally, histidine has a tendency to stimulate hydrochloric acid secretion in the stomach. Thus, persons who already suffer from over-abundance of acid in the stomach and those who have ulcers should avoid taking pure histidine.