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Swing Into Shape with a Kettlebell Workout

Try this kettlebell workout to help you build strength and shred the kilos. Do 3-4 sets of 8-10 reps, if it’s a single arm exercise, then don’t forget to switch arms. Note: If you don’t have a kettlebell you can substitute it with a dumbbell.

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Get Defensive: Immunity & Exercise

Liz Applegate, NeoLife SAB Ph.D., Nutrition, Sports Nutritionist We all know the drill: wash your hands, avoid touching your face and eyes, stay at home and stay at least 1.5 – 2m apart when in public to maintain physical separation. These along with other guidelines are in place for our own safety in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus. But wait!! What about one of our best defences against illness? Exercise!! Regular moderate to vigorous activities like walking, jogging and dancing adding up to 150 minutes weekly, play a critical role in supporting your immune system and

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Keeping up your Vitamin D Levels

Dr. Arianna Carughi SAB Member, Nutritional Scientist One of the most important things we can do these days is keep up our vitamin D status (or levels in our blood). Coming up to winter and with “lockdown” and “stay-at-home” orders we should redouble our efforts to obtain vitamin D in our diet. Why? Because studies show that optimal levels of this vitamin appear to protect and improve the time course of difficult-to-treat viral respiratory tract infections such as influenza.

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Improving our Immune Resilience: Role of Phytonutrients

By Dr. Arianna Carughi SAB Member, Nutritional Scientist A strong, well-functioning immune system is the cornerstone of good health. Continuing on SAB member, Dr. Diane Clayton’s article Supporting your Immune System and SAB Director, John Miller’s article Human Immune Function: Facts and Realities for today, and always, I wanted to focus on the role of phytonutrients in improving our immune resilience. These powerful food components play an important role in our health, supporting and modulating immune function to keep us healthy and prevent specific diseases.

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Supporting your Immune System

By Dr. Diane Clayton, International V.P. and NeoLife SAB There is powerful evidence to support the strong role that nutrition plays towards our health. And what in life is more precious to us than our health and that of our family! We must all do the maximum to build up and protect our health. Together our immune system provides biological, biochemical and even chemical weaponry to keep our body defended and to help it repair and recover from challenges. We need to improve our RESILIENCE as much as we can! Optimum nutrition plays a powerful role here.

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Human Immune Function: Facts and Realities for today, and always

By John Miller SAB Director, Product Technologist, Researcher As everyone in the world comes to grips with the realities of the COVID-19 pandemic I thought it would be a good time for us to remind ourselves of how important our immune system is, how much we take it for granted and how much it is dependent upon our ability to provide it with the nutrition it needs to deliver its highest level of protection. This is a message the NeoLife Scientific Advisory Board has been delivering for decades, but it has never been more appropriate than right now.

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Back to School Nutrition: A Smart Start to the School Year

The school year has started and the lives of families everywhere become a hectic scramble once again. Despite the many things demanding our time and focus, there is one thing we need to maintain sight of. Our goal as parents is to set the stage for a successful school year and wholesome nutrition is an integral part of the plan.

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