Author: Zak Bezo

Listen to the Most Relaxing Song Ever

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Listen to the Most Relaxing Song Ever

Most Relaxing Song EverIf you fell stressed, frustrated and anxious, if you have high blood pressure and fast hart rate or you can’t sleep for some reason there is a song that could help you in 8 minutes.

Sound therapy has been used for thousands of years to help people relax, sleep and improve health and well-being, but according to the British Academy of Sound Therapy, the song ‘Weightless’ is the most relaxing song ever recorded.

The institution, in collaboration with band Marconi Union carefully arranged harmonies, rhythms and bass lines creating melody that slows the heart rate, reduces blood pressure and lowers levels of cortisol – the stress hormone. The UK scientists claim that “Weightless” is so effective at inducing sleep it should not be listened to while driving. The song also slows breathing and reduces brain activity. The study “found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or a cup of tea”. Read more

Fitness and Motivation Quotes

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Fitness and Motivation Quotes
  • Commit to be fit. – Author UnknownFitness and Motivation
  • Will is a skill. – Jillian Michaels
  • Strive for progress, not perfection. –  Author Unknown
  • You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
  • The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain
  • Energy and persistence conquer all things. – Benjamin Franklin
  • Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart. – Gene Tunney
  • I’m so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James! – Ellen DeGeneres
  • You want me to do something… tell me I can’t do it. – Maya Angelou
  • The finish line is just the beginning of a whole new race. – Unknown
  • Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. – Norman R. Augustine
  • Fear is what stops you… courage is what keeps you going. – Unknown
  • Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. – Animal Crossing
  • A good woman keeps her mind right and her body tight. – Habeeb Akande
  • It’s never too late to become what you might have been. – George Eliot
  • Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. – Astrid Alauda
  • The only valid excuse for not exercising is paralysis. – Moira Nordholt
  • If your dog is fat, you’re not getting enough exercise. – Author Unknown
  • Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. – A.A. Milne
  • Fitness – if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. – Cher
  • Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. – Jim Ryan
  • If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it. – Arnold Schwarzenegger,
  • It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. – Anonymous
  • I consider my refusal to go to the gym today as resistance training. – Author Unknown
  • While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves. – Valerie Jeremijenko

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Which Apple is the Healthiest?

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Which Apple is the Healthiest?

Which Apple is the HealthiestThe Apple is one of the best fruits you can get. Apples are not only tasty, but they have a lot of benefits for our bodies. The saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is not far from the truth. Apples are rich in antioxidants and other nutrients that guard our health.

Eating Apples can prevent high blood pressure, reduce bad cholesterol, protect against colon cancer, reduce risk of asthma, protect bones, reduce skin diseases, improve heart health, reduce the risk of diabetes, prevent dementia and promote weight loss.

As we can see, the benefits of apples are numerous, but are all apples the same? Read more

Quotes about Beauty

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Quotes about Beauty
  • “Beauty surrounds us.” – RumiPull Yourself Together Marilyn Monroe
  • “Beauty is the promise of happiness.” – Stendhal
  • “Beauty fades, dumb is forever.” – Judy Sheindlin
  • “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” – John Keats
  • “Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness.” – Dr. SunWolf
  • “Close your eyes and see the beauty.” – Author Unknown
  • “Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.” – Roseanne
  • “A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.“ – Karl Kraus
  • “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
  • “As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.” – Simone Weil
  • “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
  • “Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait.” – Ninon de l’Enclos
  • “People are more than just the way they look.” – Madeleine L’Engle
  • “Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” – Rosalind Russell
  • “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.” – Author Unknown
  • “Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.” – Florenz Ziegfeld
  • “I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.” – Author Unknown
  • “Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”  – Marcel Proust
  • “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” – Johann von Goethe
  • “Don’t let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with.” – Author Unknown
  • “We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.” – Mary Oliver

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Quotes about Food and Nutrition

Zak Bezo Nutrition
Quotes about Food and Nutrition
  • “Eat little, sleep sound.” – Iranian ProverbAn Apple a Day
  • “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – Proverb
  • “One should eat to live, not live to eat.” – Moliere
  • “An empty belly is the best cook.” – Estonian Proverb
  • “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it” – Common sense
  • “A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.” – George Rosenbaum
  • “You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” – Paul Prudhomme
  • “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” – Hippocrates
  • “You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?” – Julie Murphy
  • “True healthcare reform starts in your kitchen, not in Washington”
  • “Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.” – Garrison Keillor
  • “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.” – W.C. Fields
  • “After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile.” – English Saying
  • “I am a better person when I have less on my plate.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • “As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.” – Joan Gussow
  • “It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.” – Margaret Mead
  • “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” – Anthelme Brillat Savarin
  • “You can do a lot for your diet by eliminating foods that have mascots.”-Ted Spiker
  • “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” -Michael Pollan
  • “Life is too short not to eat raw and it’s even shorter if you don’t.” – Marie Sarantakis

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Quotes about Health

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Quotes about Health

Quotes about Health

  • “The greatest wealth is Health.”
  • “The best doctor gives the least medicine.”
  • “Health is merely the slowest way someone can die.”
  • “Just because you’re not sick doesn’t mean you’re healthy”
  • “Health is not simply the absence of sickness.” ~ Hannah Green
  • “The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” ~ Plato
  • “Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.” ~ Dutch Proverb
  • “If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?”
  • “Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.” ~ Joseph Addison
  • “Health is a relationship between you and your body” ~ Terri Guillemets
  • “In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
  • “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.” ~ Astrid Alauda
  • “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” ~ Jim Rohn
  • “The ‘i’ in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness is ‘we’.”
  • “Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” ~ William Shakespeare
  • “The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.” ~ Robert C. Peale
  • “Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.” ~Napoleon I

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Grapefruit Juice Promotes Weight Loss and Fights Diabetes

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Grapefruit Juice Promotes Weight Loss and Fights Diabetes

grapefruit weight loss diabetesCan drinking grapefruit juice induce weight loss and lower the risk of developing diabetes?

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California-Berkeley claims that Grapefruit juice may help combat the negative effects of a high-fat diet. The research published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE suggests that the fruit could replace “metformin”, a medicine used to treat type 2 diabetes, and may also be helpful in preventing weight gain as well as decreasing blood glucose levels.

Previously, several studies have also claimed that grapefruit could be used for cancer prevention, cleansing, detoxification, cellular regeneration, lowering cholesterol, heart health maintenance, Lupus nephritis, rheumatoid arthritis and weight loss. However, Andreas Stahl and Joseph Napoli, the UC Berkeley faculty members who led the new study say that validity of such studies can be questioned Read more

What You Must Eat To Build Lean Muscle

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What You Must Eat To Build Lean Muscle

Building lean muscles is often perceived as an easy task that would be gained by simply eating anything to everything that comes your way. Well, this is one of the biggest mistakes that most people make when trying to achieve their goals.

Must Eat To Build Lean Muscle

Building lean muscles all depends on what you choose to eat. There are certain foods that are highly recommended and yet there are those that should totally be avoided. For example, junky foods should not be in your list of favorite foods if you are planning to build lean muscles. In addition to eating a lot of calories, serious training should be part of your regular routine.

When building lean muscles, the main target that should be on your mind in terms of your diet plan is taking foods with minimal fat content. Doing this is quite beneficial in a variety of ways including the fact that you would be saving your heart from diseases such as heart attacks and strokes. Also, your metabolism would be improved and your joints strengthened. Below are top foods to take when planning to build lean muscles. Read more

The Wondrous Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds

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The Wondrous Benefits of Pumpkin Seeds

Benefits of Pumpkin SeedsThe first thing that comes to mind when pumpkin is mentioned is just Halloween. Pumpkin is popular during Halloween seasons since they are used to make Jack o lanterns, sweet soup and even pies that can be shared among friends and families. Most people store pumpkin seeds so that they can use them later to grow other pumpkins. Well, this is a good thing to do but have you considered the benefits that these seeds have to the body? Below are some of the benefits of pumpkin seeds to the body:

Solution to heart problems
Pumpkin has got substantial amount of magnesium which is very essential to the body’s physiological growth. This is inclusive of the heart’s proper functioning, bone formation, DNA synthesis, bowel function and tooth formation. Furthermore, it is worth pointing out that magnesium is a vital relaxation substance in the body.
¼ serving of magnesium carries approximately ½ the recommended amount of magnesium that a human being should take in. this magnesium carries out several physiological functions including: RNA and DNA synthesis, ATP (adenosine triphosphate) creation and the mere function of relaxing the blood vessels as earlier mentioned. Read more

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