for your
health
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cise, but teach you how to exercise properly
to build muscle and lose fat.”
The DVD also teaches people how to
kick some serious butt.
I’ve watched Lillian slip on her boxing
gloves and spend 45 minutes executing precise kicks and punches—and she seems
to love every minute of it!
“I never thought I’d be able to do it, but
it really is easy,” Lillian says. “I’m learning
techniques that I can use for self-defense,
and it’s an awesome cardiovascular workout. The program also has taught me to
become more accountable in many aspects
of my life.”
Best of all, she says she feels better about
herself.
“I’ve been physically and mentally
trapped in my body for too long,” Lillian says.
“Instead of beating myself up over being
overweight, I’m learning to change my old
habits, meal by meal, workout by workout,
day by day. It’s a feeling of empowerment.”
For information or to purchase the Lean
& Fit DVD, go to
www.leanandfit.com, or
call (253) 531-1963. C
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The immunity cops
Macrophage. Traveling through the
lymphatic system, these types of white blood
cells immediately respond to the invader,
surround the infected cells and then send
messages to other cells to come for backup.
T cells and B cells. T cells, which
mature when you are young in an organ called GARY HALLGREN
the thymus, attack offenders head-on, while B
cells, which are made in the bone marrow, cre- start to feel better. If you don’t, you may
ate substances like bullets to shoot down and not have killed all of the offending bacte-
break apart the offending cells. ria, which gives them the chance to return
even stronger.
Citizen’s arrests Take a C. Taking 500 milligrams of vit-
Wash up. High fives and bribes aren’t the amin C twice a day will boost your immune
only things that pass from hand to hand. system. (It will also help lessen the duration of
Germs do too, and the best way to prevent the common cold; zinc and chicken soup
infections is by washing your hands to avoid are the only substances, other than a few
picking up germs from, say, a doorknob or antiviral drugs, shown to do that.)
shopping cart and then transmitting them Get a food boost. Vitamin-like sub-
into your bloodstream by touching your stances called flavonoids have been shown
mouthor nose. to help the immune system. Foods that
Finish your meds. If you’re taking include higher doses of flavonoids include
medicine for a bacterial infection, finish the oats, onions, broccoli, apples, cranberry juice
entire course instead of quitting when you and tomato juice.
