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Dr. Mauro G. Di Pasquale: Weight and Fat Loss – Effects of Calcium, Magnesium, Vitamin D
Reprinted with kind permission from Dr. Mauro G. Di Pasquale
From MetabolicDiet.com

Calcium, while generally considered a key element for maintaining bone density and strength, also has other health benefits including reducing blood pressure,[1] and more importantly for both men and women losing weight, the prevention of any adverse effects of dieting on bone mass and a preventative effect on osteoporosis.[2]
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Back to the Rock Pile: Don’t Mess with the Formula
By Dalen Randa
For www.EliteFTS.com

In a sense, back to the rock pile is the basics – the fundamental parts of a training program that make it work. I had been a periodization style single ply lifter for about ten years. I thought this was the basics for me, and I stuck to the fundamentals of this for all that time. I made small gains over the years until I was a medium level lifter with best lifts of a 551 lb squat, a 501 lb bench, and a 589 lb deadlift.

I was resistant to change because this was all I knew. I kept reading about Westside Barbell and the conjugate method of training. However, I also kept hearing from other lifters that those training methods were meant for lifters supplementing with anabolics. They told me that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with recovery and that I would fail at it. I knew that there was a gym 30 miles away from where I lived where they trained using those styles, but I just knew that it wasn’t for me. But then circumstances changed.
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WorldNetDaily: The trouble with soy, part 4
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Reprint from WorldNetDaily: The trouble with soy, part 4
From World Net Daily Source Article
This is the fourth column in a troubling series on the damaging levels of toxicity in soy. You really need to read this. But read Part 3 first.
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Guard Your Thoughts
By Billy Mimnaugh
For www.EliteFTS.com

November 13, 2005 is a day that I will never forget. I was competing at the IPA nationals in York, Pennsylvania, and on my opening squat attempt, I lost my balance. As I stepped back, the barbell shifted to the side and crushed me to the ground. My right patella tendon was fully ruptured, my kneecap was broken in three places, and my right ankle was fractured. Looking back, I now know there were numerous reasons for this incident.
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Editors Note: the articles that are reprinted here are not necessarily the views of this web site. These articles are for information only and are reprinted here to add to your knowledge of strength training. Always consult a physician before undertaking any strength training program.

Reprint from WorldNetDaily: The trouble with soy, part 3
From World Net Daily Source Article
This is the third column in a troubling series on the damaging levels of toxicity in soy. You really need to read this. But read Part 2 first.
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Editors Note: the articles that are reprinted here are not necessarily the views of this web site. These articles are for information only and are reprinted here to add to your knowledge of strength training. Always consult a physician before undertaking any strength training program.

The Big Picture: Jim Rutz
Reprinted from World Net Daily
From WorldNetDaily: The trouble with soy ? part 2

Last week’s column (“Soy is making kids ‘gay’”) got a lot of attention ? 500 e-mails and three dozen media interview requests ? because it blindsided the overwhelming majority of readers.
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Healing with water: the work of “water cure” pioneer Dr. Batmanghelidj

By Mark Adams for www.TargetNews.com

Editors Note: The following article is printed with permission of Target News. This blog does not necessarily endorse any of the content at Target News. However, their information appears to be very well sourced and vetted. We therefore recommend their site as a good source of information.

Those of you who are familiar with the work of the late Dr B. may own his book called “The Water Cure,” or “Water for health, for Healing, for Life: You’re Not Sick, You’re Thirsty.” He’s also the author of “Your Body’s Many Cries for Water.” Essentially, Dr. B is the foremost authority on the relationship between the consumption of water and states of health or disease in the human body.

As he explains in great detail in his many books, most common diseases (for which there are a variety of names such as asthma, arthritis, hypertension and so on) are really just names given to patterns of symptoms created by the body’s drought management system. When the human body begins to get dehydrated, it initiates a drought management system that seeks to conserve water. The symptoms characterized by this drought management effort are given disease names by conventional medicine and then treated with toxic prescription drugs.

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By Dave Tate for T-Nation

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The Band Man

A couple months ago, I was paid a visit by a friend of mine known as “The Band Man.”

Dick Hartzell is the master when it comes to band training. Most coaches, lifters, and trainers view the bands as a means of adding resistance to barbells, and much has been written in regards to the application of band in dynamic and max effort strength development……..see link below

Click Testosterone Nation – The Band Man for full article.

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