High Blood Pressure Treatment by Drugs, Lifestyle Changes and Natural Remedies

High blood pressure (hypertension) is one of the most common diseases affecting the western world. High blood pressure is usually symptomless whilst slowly damaging the eyes, brain, and kidneys. Many governments have initiated policies to raise public awareness. The aim of this article is to give the person suffering (or who may be suffering) hypertension some knowledge about the condition enabling them to make objective decisions regarding their treatment.

High blood pressure appears not to have a clear-cut cause. It is more common in people who smoke, drink excessive alcohol, are overweight, and are sedentary. However, non-smoking teetotal athletes can suffer from hypertension. Certain ethnic groups have a very high incidence of high blood pressure, with research not revealing any reasons for this.

Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) To Treat High Blood Pressure

ACE (Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme) Inhibitirs: enalapril maleate, captopril, quinapril, lisinopril, amongst others.
Function: to block an enzyme in the bloodstream that produces angiotensin II, a chemical that raises blood pressure by constricting blood vessels.
Side effects: long-term cough, acute swelling of face, lips, and throat.

Angiotensin II Blockers: candesartan, irbesartan, losartan potassium, valasartan.
Function: to block the effect of angiotensin.
Side effects: are rare.

Alpha Blockers: clonidine, prasozin, doxazosin, terazosin.
Function: to chemically block responses to stressors that causeraised blood pressure and heart rate.
Side effects: dry mouth, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, impaired sexual function. Alpha blockers can precipitate dramatic increase in blood pressure treatment if suddenly discontinued.

Beta Blockers: propranolol, betaxolol, carvedilol, atenolol, metoprolol, labetolol.
Function: to block chemical processes that lead to increased heart pressure and heart rate. Often given after a heart attack.
Side effects: tiredness, excessively slow heart rate, impaired sexual functioning. Beta blockers can precipitate dramatic increase in blood pressure if suddenly discontinued.

Calcium-Channel Blockers: amolodipine besylate, diltiazem, verapamil, nifedipine.
Function: to relax blood vessel walls to make them dilate (expand), lowering blood pressure.
Side effects: are constipation, dizziness, nausea, fluid retention.

Diuretics: bendrofluazide, bumetanide, cyclopenthiazide, frusemide, hydrochlorothiazide, indapamide, metolazone, mefruside.
Function: is to stimulate kidneys to excrete more salt and water, lowering blood volume and blood pressure.
Side effects: are low levels of potassium and magnesium, elevations in uric acid, increases in blood cholesterol.

Hypertension Friendly Lifestyle

Hypertension has been shown to be related to many causes. So a change in lifestyle, other than one single thing, often helps someone lower their blood pressure. Three things that research throws up again and again is that people who drink to excess, smoke and are overweight are at a much higher risk of developing high blood pressure. If you eat fewer calories yo will soon start to lose weight, just don't expect to be as thin as Lance Armstrong in two weeks! For the heavy drinker cutting down on alcohol consumption can have many benefits, it will help lower your blood pressure, it will help you lose weight, and it will save you a fortune. Smoking has, for many decades, been known to be generally bad for health. The reason it raises blood pressure is that it causes a constriction (narrowing) of the arteries. If you really can't stop smoking, at least cut down. Research indicates that eating 'empty' calories (refined carbohydrates, sugar, sugary drinks,'junk' food) can be a cause of high blood pressure and contribute to being overweight. Try eating high-fiber foods such as whole grains and raw vegetables. Fibre makes you feel full, so in turn you may actually eat less and lose weight. Eating deep-sea (cold water) fish rich in essential fatty acids (EFA's) such as mackeral, cod tuna, and salmon have been shown to help with blood pressure. It is thought that the omega-3 fatty acid in these relax artery walls and make blood thinner. Eat foods rich in magnesium, potassium, and calcium such as nuts and seeds, green leafy vegetables, whole grains, legumes, amongst others. One area that every professional agrees upon is that engaging in regular aerobic exercise for 30 minutes 3 times per week will help lower blood pressure.

Natural Remedies To Treat High Blood Pressure

Dandelion: Taraxacum officinale: is a popular remedy for fluid retention. By increasing urine flow dandelion also helps lower blood pressure. Dandelion benefits from not causing potassium loss, which pharmaceutical diuretics usually do. Make sure that if you use dandelion leaves that they have not been treated with pesticides.

Garlic: Allium sativum: has been used for 1,000's of years for many conditions. To get the best from garlic, 3 cloves should be eaten raw everyday. The same effect can be achieved by taking garlic gel capsules.

Reishi: Ganoderma lucidum: is a mushroom. Scientific studies have shown that reishi lowers blood pressure. The mushroom itself is nearly inedible and is usually taken in capsule form.

Hawthorn: Crataegus spp: lowers blood pressure by relaxing and dilating artery walls. Hawthorn can take many weeks or months to show any effect.

Hypercet: is a proprietary blend of many natural ingredients including the following active ingredients. Calcium A recent article by Christopher Ott describes the many ways calcium protects your health, including the role it plays in protecting your heart.

Gene Spiller, PhD, the Director of the Health Research and Studies Center says, "In fact, your calcium intake may be almost as important to blood pressure as your sodium intake," He is co-author of Calcium: Nature's Versatile Mineral (Avery, 2000)

Spiller also said, "An adequate supply of calcium helps muscles-including your heart muscle-do their work of contracting and relaxing. Calcium also appears to help your nervous system regulate the level of pressure in your arteries."

Calcium is a naturally occurring mineral with no known side effects.
Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body, and is essential to good health.

A diet high in green leafy vegetables such as spinach, whole grains, nuts, and some legumes supplies magnesium. Tap water can be a good source, if the water is "hard." "Soft" water contains fewer minerals.

Magnesium is a naturally occurring mineral with no known side effects

Malic Acid
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." There's more truth in that old saying than you might think. Malic acid is derived from tart apples and grapes, and is an essential part of the magnesium support team.

Malic acid is an important part of the Krebs cycle, a series of chemical reactions carried out in the living cell, and is used by the body to increase ATP, an enzyme that supports muscle health, reduces muscle stress, and assists to improve energy levels in the body. Malic Acid is a naturally occurring substance with no known side effects.

Citric acid, although acid in its fresh form (lemon and limes) transforms during metabolism into alkali. This is helpful to your blood. Our American diet tends to be overly acidic from coffee, sodas, alcohol, and certain proteins. An acidic condition tends to be more inflammatory. Citric acid is essential to the Krebs cycle, Citric acid, together with malic acid, are involved with complex chemical actions, resulting in the production of carbon dioxide, and its removal from the cells. Citric acid is also used as a natural preservative to maintain freshness of many products, and serves this role, as well, in the Hypercet BPF. Citric Acid is a naturally occurring substance with no known side effects.

Glycine is a non-essential amino acid found naturally in beans, brewer's yeast, dairy products, meat, seafood, nuts and whole grains. It's involved in the production of glucose in the liver. Glycine is plays an important role in supporting healthy blood in your body. It is involved in the manufacture of nitrogen to process many other amino acids, and usefulin the processing of hemoglobin, glutathione, DNA, and RNA. It helps with brain function, and is important for a healthy prostate gland. Glycine is a naturally occurring substance with no known side effects.

It has been shown that there can be many causes of high blood pressure, not just one. Treatment is similar in that a lifestyle switch is usually better than a pharmaceutical cure. For the non-smoking, teetotal athlete who suffers hypertension the pharmaceutical may be the only way left open. For the rest of us who may be a little overweight, drink a little too much (I include myself in this group!), or smoke, have options available. Take some natural remedies, take a little more exercise, eat a little healthier, cut back on the cigarettes, and cut back on the booze. Try to change one thing at a time, within a few months your lifestyle could be dramatically more blood pressure friendly.

The reader who suffers with high blood pressure should now have some more knowledge about their condition and the different therapies available to them, enabling them to make objective choices in their own treatment.

ATP World Tour Uncovered Rome Review

In season 2, episode 17 of ATP World Tour Uncovered... The ancient city of Rome, the Italian capital, is a fitting location for the Internazionali BNL D'Italia, which in 2010 celebrated the opening of a new centre court and the centenary year of the Italian Tennis Federation.



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Automating MS Excel Using Visual Studio.NET

Introduction

I have written this article to address requests I have been getting through e-mail on how to automate MS Excel. Most people who are looking at this article might also be interested at the following articles for automating MS Word documents. Here is the link for Automating MS Word using C#, and here is the link for Automating MS Word using C++.

Back to the main subject, there are many spreadsheets in the business world, and more and more of them are being created and sometimes used in ways that simply Excel was not designed for, for instance storing sensitive and crucial data for laboratories and etc...

To start with, this article will not get into the very advanced automations available in Excel, but it will give a framework that hopefully can be used by others to improve on and make it more expansible. The framework will allow you to create an Excel object and control some of the basic functionalities such as getting worksheet information and extracting data from the worksheet given a range.

The program that I had to develop has a larger scope, I will just be concentrating on the Excel portion. But there are a few neat classes which I developed for file system navigation using threads. If there is enough request for such an article, or if I get a chance to do it, I will go ahead and post it. In the meantime I hope that the following article benefits you.

Background

Having enough understanding of OOP and familiarity with the C# language.

Using the code

I will provide the Excel wrapper class that can be used in your project. The code will be discussed below. I will not get too much into the Excel object model, first because it is a huge task, and second because there is already documentation done by Microsoft. Before we start, here is a quick start for beginners who need to know how to setup an Office Automation project:

Create a new project, for simplicity, create a Windows application, go ahead and right click on References in the Solution Explorer, and select Add Reference... When the Add Reference window comes up, select the COM tab. This will list all Component names which are available on your machine. Since we are going to use MS Excel, you will scroll down until you find: Microsoft Excel 11.0 Object Library.

Note: Yours might be a different version depending on the version of Office installed on your machine. This is for MS Excel 2003.

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Collections;

using System.Threading;

using Office = Microsoft.Office.Core;

using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;

using System.Diagnostics;

namespace ATPMain

{

///

/// Project: Code Project Demo

/// Author: Vahe Karamian

/// Date: 03/01/2005

/// Version: 1.0

///

public class VkExcel

{

private Excel.Application excelApp = null;

private Excel.Workbook excelWorkbook = null;

private Excel.Sheets excelSheets = null;

private Excel.Worksheet excelWorksheet = null;

...
using Office = Microsoft.Office.Core;

using Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel;

You will need to include these two so you can use the Excel object in your code. So we need to have an Excel.Application object, Excel.Workbook object, Excel.Sheets object, and Excel.Worksheet object. These object will be used to control and extract data from Excel. So we declare the following variables to represent the mentioned objects: excelApp, excelWorkbook, excelSheets, and excelWorksheet.

....

private static object vk_missing = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

private static object vk_visible = true;

private static object vk_false = false;

private static object vk_true = true;

private bool vk_app_visible = false;

private object vk_filename;

#region OPEN WORKBOOK VARIABLES

private object vk_update_links = 0;

private object vk_read_only = vk_true;

private object vk_format = 1;

private object vk_password = vk_missing;

private object vk_write_res_password = vk_missing;

private object vk_ignore_read_only_recommend = vk_true;

private object vk_origin = vk_missing;

private object vk_delimiter = vk_missing;

private object vk_editable = vk_false;

private object vk_notify = vk_false;

private object vk_converter = vk_missing;

private object vk_add_to_mru = vk_false;

private object vk_local = vk_false;

private object vk_corrupt_load = vk_false;
#endregion

#region CLOSE WORKBOOK VARIABLES

private object vk_save_changes = vk_false;

private object vk_route_workbook = vk_false;
#endregion

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/04/2005 - Excel Object Constructor.

///

public VkExcel()

{

this.startExcel();

}

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/04/2005 - Excel Object Constructor

/// visible is a parameter, either TRUE or FALSE, of type object.

///

/// Visible parameter, true for visible, false for non-visible

public VkExcel(bool visible)

{

this.vk_app_visible = visible;

this.startExcel();

}

...
In the above block, we have predefined some constants that will be used to open a given Excel file. To find out more about what each parameter represents or does, you should look into the documentation that comes with Excel.

We have two constructors: VkExcel() which by default will start Excel hidden, and the other VkExcel(bool visible) which gives you the option to specify if you would like to see the Excel application or not.

...

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/04/2005 - Start Excel Application

///
#region START EXCEL

private void startExcel()

{

if( this.excelApp == null )

{

this.excelApp = new Excel.ApplicationClass();

}

// Make Excel Visible

this.excelApp.Visible = this.vk_app_visible;

}
#endregion

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/23/2005 - Kill the current Excel Process

///
#region STOP EXCEL

public void stopExcel()

{

if( this.excelApp != null )

{

Process[] pProcess;

pProcess = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("Excel");

pProcess[0].Kill();

}

}
#endregion

...
The above code starts and stops the Excel Application. startExcel() checks to see if the excelApp object is initialized or not, if it is then just make sure its visibility is set to the visible property. If not, it goes ahead and initializes the object for us. stopExcel() also checks to see if the object is currently in use, and if it is then it will go ahead and kill the process.

Note: pProcess[0].Kill() will make sure that Excel is gone for good! Some people that do Excel automation always complain that after they quit the application, Excel disappears but the Excel process is still in the task monitor, this code will take care of that for you!

...

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/09/2005 - Open File function for Excel 2003

/// The following function will take in a filename, and a password

/// associated, if needed, to open the file.

///
#region OPEN FILE FOR EXCEL

public string OpenFile(string fileName, string password)

{

vk_filename = fileName;

if( password.Length > 0 )

{

vk_password = password;

}

try

{

// Open a workbook in Excel

this.excelWorkbook = this.excelApp.Workbooks.Open(

fileName, vk_update_links, vk_read_only, vk_format, vk_password,

vk_write_res_password, vk_ignore_read_only_recommend, vk_origin,

vk_delimiter, vk_editable, vk_notify, vk_converter, vk_add_to_mru,

vk_local, vk_corrupt_load);

}

catch(Exception e)

{

this.CloseFile();

return e.Message;

}

return "OK";

}
#endregion

public void CloseFile()

{

excelWorkbook.Close( vk_save_changes, vk_filename, vk_route_workbook );

}

...
Alright, so the above code allows you to open Excel files. OpenFile(string fileName, string password) takes two parameters, the filename, or FULLNAME which is the path + filename, and a password parameter, which is used for protected sheets. Notice that the open function takes a bunch of parameters, which we have defined in the class. CloseFile() will goes ahead and closes the file.

Note: The code provided is for MS Excel 2003. For earlier versions, the parameters are a little different, you will need to check the documentation. If you need help on that send me an e-mail and I will try to help you out.

...

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/20/2005 - Get Excel Sheets

/// Get the collection of sheets in the workbook

///
#region GET EXCEL SHEETS

public void GetExcelSheets()

{

if( this.excelWorkbook != null )

{

excelSheets = excelWorkbook.Worksheets;

}

}
#endregion

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/21/2005 - Find Excel ATP Worksheet

/// Search for ATP worksheet, if found return TRUE

///

/// bool
#region FIND EXCEL ATP WORKSHEET

public bool FindExcelATPWorksheet(string worksheetName)

{

bool ATP_SHEET_FOUND = false;

if( this.excelSheets != null )

{

// Step thru the worksheet collection and see if ATP sheet is

// available. If found return true;

for( int i=1; i

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/22/2005 - Get Range from Worksheet

/// Return content of range from the selected range

///

/// Range parameter: Example, GetRange("A1:D10")
#region GET RANGE

public string[] GetRange(string range)

{

Excel.Range workingRangeCells = excelWorksheet.get_Range(range,Type.Missing);

//workingRangeCells.Select();

System.Array array = (System.Array)workingRangeCells.Cells.Value2;

string[] arrayS = this.ConvertToStringArray(array);

return arrayS;

}
#endregion

...

GetRange(string range) is the function that actually retrieves the data from the Excel sheet and we convert the returned values into a string[]. This is done by the next function call: this.ConvertToStringArray(array). Then the string[] is passed back to the caller who can consume it in any way they want.

...

///

/// Vahe Karamian - 03/22/2005 - Convert To String Array

/// Convert System.Array into string[]

///

/// Values from range object

/// String[]
#region CONVERT TO STRING ARRAY

private string[] ConvertToStringArray(System.Array values)

{

string[] newArray = new string[values.Length];

int index = 0;

for ( int i = values.GetLowerBound(0); i

Monfils vs Nalbandian Davis Cup 2010 Highlights

2nd Rubber



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyVUwahQTno&hl=en

(HP 720p) Rafael Nadal vs Julger Melzer - R3 Rolex Shanghai 2010 Masters 1.000

Puedes ver el partido completo en alta definicion desde www.RafaNadalPartidoaPartido.com / You can watch the full match in high definition from www.RafaNadalPartidoaPartido.com



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzPYpYwx04&hl=en

Australian Open 2010 Final Federer vs Murray Full Match (5/18) HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouB0KYdNko&hl=en

Tennis Champion Rafael Nadal Arrives in Bangkok

World tennis champion Rafael Nadal arrives in Bangkok to play at the ATP tournament this month. Organizers have been trying to get the athletic superstar to travel to the country for several years now. World number one tennis player Rafael Nadal arrived in Bangkok on Tuesday ahead of his first match of the ATP tournament at the end of this month. [Khun Suwat Lipatapanlop, Thailand Lawn Tennis Assoc.]: "Thai fans have been waiting for Nadal for over two years. This is the third year that we invited him, and he finally comes and brings his great honor as world top tennis player. His arrival will motivate the development of tennis in Thailand, and he also brings his happiness to Thailand. And more importantly Nadal brings a good tourism image to the country." Joining Nadal at the PTT Thailand Open 2010 will be former US Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro, Olympic champion Fernando Gonzalez of Chile and Ernests Gublis, along with other renowned players. The tournament starts on September 25, but the official opening will be on September 30, during which Nadal will play the first match.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQ30_EOiGI&hl=en

Davydenko vs Nalbandian Davis Cup 2010 Highlights

Davis Cup QF in Moscow



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho_VVwmK-qo&hl=en

US Open 2010 Final Nadal vs Djokovic Full Match (16/18) HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQ6Fg3dywU&hl=en

Murray exhausted Nadal Toronto Masters SF 2010

Murray beat Nadal www.tennis24.gr



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbDNfsadchs&hl=en

M-Drive for Men Male Enhancement Pills

Up until recently when it came to male enhancement pills the only real options you had where the type of sexual enhancement products that were making claims of enlarging your penis and enhancing your sex drive in a variety of different ways.

However, if you are like a lot of men, truth be told, what you really want is a male enhancement pill that is going to reinvigorate your entire state of being.

Perhaps, you have heard about M-Drive for Men and how it was specifically created for men who are in their 30's and up and are looking for a way to increase their overall stamina and endurance in all ways, both in and out of the bedroom.

That's why you will be glad to know that in this article you will discover everything you need to know about M-Drive for Men male enhancement pills and how this amazing supplement will transfer your entire life.

M-Drive for Men Male Enhancement Pills

Simply stated, M-Drive for men is a daily supplement that has been designed specifically for men looking to increase their strength, stamina and overall vitality.

In fact, M-Drive for Men is a powerful blend of highly concentrated extracts that were developed to support healthy testosterone and a man's overall health; you will also find that M-Drive for Men strengthens your internal core by giving your body the building blocks that it needs in order to help you perform at your peak.

The Ingredients of M-Drive for Men

Vitamin B12
Fenugreek seed extract
Cordyceps Sinesis Extract
Maitake Extract
Maca Extract
American Ginseng Extract
Damiana Extract

As you can see the ingredients of M-Drive have been shown to support healthy testosterone levels in addition to increasing your energy at the cellular level. Simply stated, if you are the kind of man that is in the habit of living your life at the highest level possible then M-Drive for Men is going to help you accomplish even more than that naturally.

The Benefits of M-Drive for Men

Helps increase your strength
Improves and enhances your overall stamina
Increases your sex drive
Enhances your muscle mass
Helps assist your recovery time
Improves your respiration
Helps you maintain much more focus in all aspects of your life

You will also be glad to know that unlike certain male enhancement pills that use stimulants like caffeine, ephedrine and other stimulants that ultimately result in a long term energy deficiency. M-Drive uses the kind of ingredients that increase both cellular ATP levels and oxygen utilization that allows your body to release energy. In other words it allows your body to experience an increase in the energy that is available to the body rather than the perceived energy increase that takes place when you use stimulants to increase your energy.

In the end, if you are looking for a way to naturally increase your energy, stamina and overall health in addition to increasing your sex drive then you are going to want to consider taking M-Drive for Men on a daily basis and feeling the difference that it makes in your entire state of being each and every day from now on.

Bodybuilding and the Five Food Groups

If you've studied Biology or Dietetics then you should have a fairly good idea of the roles of various food groupss in our diet, if you were an A-grade student you may even recall the five major food groups. For those of you more prone to chatting at the back here they are again: carbs, protein, dairy, fruit and vegetables and fats. Handily that's also arranged in order of recommended quality so you need lots of carbs in order to function properly and few fats.

Essentially the main food groups we're interested in for bodybuilding can be categorised into those used by the body as fuel (those used in metabolic functions) and those used by your body to build and repair (those used in anabolic functions). Obviously for bodybuilding both are highly crucial; you use the energy to go and lift stuff at the gym and then you use the building blocks to build back the 'microtears' you cause in the gym (more on that later). In the latter case you literally are what you eat. When it comes to energy and building blocks what we're really talking about are the carbohydrates and the protein respectively. Protein - amino acids - makes you what you are, while carbohydrates are converted into glucose and then ATP for energy.

Other food groups are still important too though for bodybuilding - for instance fibre is highly important for keeping our blood pressure down (which can be a problem if you are eating a lot of protein that may be high in cholesterol such as eggs), while fruit and vegetables provide us with essential minerals that help our body to perform repairs, strengthen bone and tendons and use energy. Even fat is very important and helps our body to synthesise the protein we eat. As such then, an understanding of the major food groups, and getting all of them in the right proportions, is highly important for successful muscle building.

Hands On CPR - The New CPR Guidelines

Everyone needs to know CPR, whether you are a new mom, taking a position as a lifeguard, or if you are taking over the local Brownies Troup. We never know when we may need such precious life saving knowledge until, sometimes, it's too late. It's easy to say that we will not be in that kind of situation, justifying further by thinking of all the times that we haven't needed this in the past. In the meantime, the regulations and guidelines have changed and changed again. If you do nothing else today, take a look at these changes and at the very least, enroll in an online course for CPR, though many of us will require a hands-on approach.

In the beginning, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation was the only technique discovered for reviving victims, and this was only known to work for drowning victims (in 1740). In 1891, a doctor performed the first recorded chest compression and in 1903, Dr. George Crile was the first to have success with the technique. He perfected it the following year. Fifty years later, James Elam found that the old air remaining in the body from pre-trauma could sustain the body. In 1956, James paired up with Peter Safar and laid the groundwork for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as we know it today. In 1960, CPR was invented and the American Heart Association came to the forefront, spreading the word to the general public. Shortly after, the EMS was created so that trained CPR professionals could walk people through the steps by phone in an emergency.

More recently, The AHA has been focusing on perfecting the methods, taking in statistics from medical facilities and 911 operators, etc. These numbers have caused the AHA to realize that they needed to change the guidelines for CPR, decreasing the amount of casualties as a result. In the early 90's, the guideline was 5 compressions and 1 breath. In the late 90's, the compressions were raised to 15 with 1 breath. In 2005, the amount of compressions was raised once again, to 30 compressions with 2 breaths. On March 31, 2008, hands only CPR was introduced to the guidelines, targeting laypersons, as it was the untrained bystanders that was apparently causing the greater portion of the issue with casualties. This would not be such an issue, however, if more people were concerned with getting trained. Just some thoughts to leave you with:

o 75-80% of cardiac arrests (out-of-hospital) happen at home.

o Brain death begins 4-6 minutes after cardiac arrest, are you prepared?

o CPR, when performed correctly doubles the chance of survival.

o Death from cardiac arrest does not have to be final. If more of us knew CPR, more lives could be saved.

o Approximately 900 Americans die daily due to cardiac arrest that occurs outside the hospital and in the ER.

Still think you don't need to know CPR?

ATP Madrid Masters 2009 Final Federer vs Nadal Full Match (11/11) HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4pmFkPMcQ&hl=en

London 2010 - "Bobarazzi" Bryan Vlog 2

In the second of the Bryan brothers' daily vlogs from the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, the twins warm up with Maroon 5's James Valentine and take a peek inside Novak's 'crib' at The O2.



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Coq10 Helps Bodybuilders Perform Better

With all of the nutritional supplements aimed at packing on muscle, people seem to overlook the fact that simple coq10 helps bodybuilders. Weightlifting for mass or just fitness takes a tremendous amount of energy, and producing cellular energy in the form of ATP is exactly what coenzyme q10 does. This nutrient can be a boon to anyone performing athletic activity that requires sustained energy over an extended period of time.

If your body does not have sufficient levels of coenzyme q10 present, there is no production of ATP. The body generally only has enough ATP to allow sustained vigorous exercise for a period of five to ten minutes at a time, and after that time energy levels drop dramatically. Most of us suffer from a deficiency in coenzyme q10, because our diets don't supply us with enough of this essential nutrient.

The amount of coenzyme q 10 that we could obtain from our diet alone would probably not be enough for you to truly see an improvement of athletic performance. Aside from energy production, one of the unique ways that coq10 helps bodybuilders is its ability to assist in insulin sensitization. Repeated insulin spikes due to periodically heavy carbohydrate and sugar intakes cause the body to become increasingly insulin resistant.

Insulin is one of the most powerful anabolic agents in the world, and by spiking insulin levels bodybuilders increase muscle protein synthesis. Becoming insulin resistant can mean less overall muscle mass for these athletes. Taking in more coenzyme q 10 allows you to drive more nutrients into working muscles, without having to later burn off the additional fat that is produced by taking in massive amounts of sugars and carbohydrates.

Coq10 helps bodybuilders in other ways as well, such as the preventing the development of heart disease. Deficiencies in coenzyme q 10 have been proven to be related to congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and high blood pressure. Coenzyme q 10 has also been proven to reduce the damaging oxidation of LDL cholesterol, which allows for the cholesterol to build up on the inside of our arteries.

The role of coenzyme q 10 in preventing Alzheimer's disease, and preventing stroke has shown promise as well. Studies have concluded that increasing the amount of coenzyme q 10 in your system can not only prevent critical heart conditions and stroke, but it may also reverse the conditions. Some studies have found that even patients expected to die within two years can experience substantial clinical improvement.

Scientists suspect that coq10 helps bodybuilders and others by potentially increasing their lifespan, especially when taken in combination with fish oil. In order for you to get the most benefit from supplements, I would advise taking a DHA omega 3 fish oil formula along with a quality multivitamin which features coenzyme q 10, resveratrol, and folic acid.

Coq10 helps bodybuilders in many ways, as you can see. Make sure that you are ingesting plenty coenzyme q 10 daily, in conjunction with the other nutrients I suggested. That should help you to get everything you can out of your training, and your life.

ATP World Tour Uncovered Fans of Australian Open

In season 2, episode 3, ATP World Tour Uncovered joins the colourful fans at the Australian Open as the ATP's best prepare for the year's first Grand Slam and also join efforts in the Hit for Haiti charity exhibition.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjimYLudot4&hl=en

London 2010 Monday - Bryans Vlog3

Bob and Mike Bryan take you behind the scenes at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. See how the players eat, relax and travel.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqkfcxmKQ60&hl=en