Weight Loss and Exercise For Training In Your Ballet Shoes and Pointe Shoes
While you are growing, you will have weight and strength fluctuations. This can be distracting, but it is always temporary!
Fresh, unprocessed foods are the only foods worth eating! Is that bad news? That doesn't mean you can't have a piece of pizza on the weekend like when you're with friends, but daily, you need some good lean proteins, (soft cooked eggs, meats, chicken, fish, tofu if you like it --) fresh vegetables, fruits and salads, at least 50% raw. You can get into making some yummy dips, from lemon juice and olive oil, grated cheese or sour cream, and add some ranch flavoring, or flavor it as you like with other herbs.
Nuts, celery, fruit and yogurt are great snacks. If you have strong sweet cravings, you will have to avoid sweets for a couple of weeks altogether to make that go away. You may have headaches and energy highs and lows during that time, but it's kind of like drug withdrawal. Sugar acts like a drug in our bodies. Our system has to get used to running on real food again, with minimal sugar.
Packaged diet foods and artificial sweeteners are not good. They are full of unhealthy chemicals. Do you know that when medical researchers want to quickly fatten mice up for an experiment they give them artificial sweeteners? The same kind of food chemicals that are in diet foods. Those additives make you crave carbs!
A great book that explains youthful metabolism and how to build strong muscles is "Slow Burn" by Frederick Hahn. It's really for older people, but the information in it is vital if you are seriously training.
You should never be hungry or feel deprived - but what you choose to snack on makes all the difference in the world. Any carbs like chips, crackers, and breads are almost useless calories. They do not build your bones and muscles, or brain cells. Most commercial sodas leach calcium from your bones.
"protein Power" by the doctors Eades and Eades explains how the body metabolizes efficiently - that is, creates energy for you. The body can do this without any sugar at all! In fact, meats and vegetables have carb content, and that is enough for us.
Oils and fats are extremely important to eat - choosing the healthy ones is what counts. Flax seed oil and olive oil are the most common oils to make salad dressings from. most store bought salad dressings have heavier oils in them, and nearly always sugar. (And chemicals). Butter is good for you, and so is the fat in eggs, but keep the yolks soft. Not eating any fat is BAD for you. How much is too much, is relative to how often and how hard you exercise.
This is just the overview. Read about health and diet and explore what will work for you.
Dianne M. Buxton is a graduate of the national Ballet School of Canada. She taught at, and choreographed for The national Ballet School, york university, and George Brown College, in Canada, and taught at Harvard university in the U.S. Click here for ballet shoes, pointe shoes, strengthening exercises, dance news, dance books, diet and health for dancers,DVD's and more.
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Comparing The Playstation 3, Xbox 360, And Nintendo WII
Finally, theyre all here. The Xbox 360 has had the next generation gaming market to itself for a year. Now its two competitors, the Playstation 3 and nintendo Wii, are here. No more speculating about speed. No more guessing about memory. Now we can take a look and see exactly how they stack up compared to each other.
Let the console wars begin again.
price
The ps3 has two configurations much like the Xbox 360. The ps3 comes in a $499 version that comes with a 20 GB hard drive and a $599 version that comes with a 60 GB hard drive; Wi-Fi; and memory stick, SD, and Compact flash slots.
The Xbox 360 has two configurations. It comes in a $299 core version and a $399 version that comes with a 20GB hard drive.
The nintendo Wii is the cheapest of the bunch with just one configuration that costs $250.
Processing Power
The Playstation 3 comes with its Cell processor. Its a PowerPC based core that runs at 3.2 GHz that also have seven DSPs that run at 3.2 GHz. This configuration can do about 2 Teraflops.
The Xbox 360 has a Custom IBM PowerPC processor. This processor also runs at 3.2 GHz. However, Xbox went with a true 3 core processor compared to the one general processor of the Cell and seven additional DSPs. This configuration can do about 1 Teraflop.
The nintendo Wii includes its Broadway processor, a PowerPC based processor running at 729 MHz.
disc Media
Part of the reason the ps3 is so much more expensive than the Xbox 360 is because the Sony decided to include a Blu-ray drive on the system. The drive can play both Blu-ray movies and regular DVDs. The Xbox 360 comes with a DVD player and an HD-DVD add-on is planned. The nintendo Wii uses a DVD drive; however, the system will not work for playback of movies, just nintendo games.
Backwards Compatibility
The Playstation 3 is just like the PS2 was. Youll be able to play both PS2 and PSone games on the PS3. nintendo is taking things a bit further. Their system will be compatible with the gamecube games and also the gamecube controllers since the two systems use very different controllers. Not only that, but the Wii will also have the ability to download games from the original nintendo (NES), Super nintendo (SNES), and the nintendo 64.
Sweet Features
If you want high definition gaming, then the PS3 is the way to go. It comes with a Blu-ray drive built in and can output in 1080p. Although the PS3 controller may look familiar, its had some updates. The controller is now motion sensing so in some games youll be able to move your character or fly a plane just by moving the controller.
The Xbox 360 was built to work with Windows XP media center. If you have a computer that already has media center on it, youll be able to view pictures, videos, and even recorded TV by using your Xbox. You wont need to put your PC in your living room to take advantage of having a Media Center PC.
The nintendo Wii decided to completely change the way gaming controllers are built. In the past, one controller was always held with both hands. The Wiis controller looks more like a TV remote control than a game controller. It has a built in motion sensor so, for example, to swing a sword, you simply move you hand just like you were really swinging a sword.
Hopefully this review has helped you compare the three next generation gaming systems. Each has its pluses and minuses, and feature that are unique to it. Ultimately, your decision will likely come down to which system has the games that most appeal to you. And that is a decision that only you can make when deciding on a system to buy.
Gary Ruplinger is the editor of http://www.ps3asap.com, a resource for getting the in demand PS3 system. He also is a writer for http://www.gamesystemreviews.com where you can learn about all of the next generation systems.
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