Every individual requires some kind of massage.  Over time the body tightens up from  exercise, injury, poor nutrition, stress, even a sedentary lifestyle.  This can cause the tissues in the body to stick to each other and cause a decrease of fluid flow through out the body.  Hypertonic tissues can also cause deviation in the the skeletal posture disrupting the nervous system and increasing the change of injury in joint articulations.

Excellence is proud to have massage therapist Heidi Frank on its team.  Heidi Specializes in:

- Sports Massage

- Hot Stone Therapy

- Postural Improvement

To read more about Heidi click here to read her biography.

To make an appointment email us at excellencefitness@live.com or call us at 206.290.0953.

Proper nutrition is absolutely necessary for optimal health.  Here at Excellence Health and Fitness we know that nutrition is more than just what you eat, and that the quality of your food is only as good as your ability to digest it.

Our Clinical Nutritional Therapist Elias Roberts will not only help you find the proper foods for your goals, but will help you feel better, more alert, reduce/end craving, lose weight, and gain energy.  Through natural techniques and diet modifications you can feel better and live healthier.

Elias specializes in:

- Improving Digestion

- Balancing Blood Sugar

- Weight Lose

- Improving Moods

- Hormonal Balance

Click here to read Elias Roberts, NTP Biography

To contact us email us at excellencefitness@live.com or call us at 206.290.0953

Excellence Health and Fitness is proud to have Byron Dondoyano on its team.  Byron is Seattle’s most elite sports trainer.  He has coached some of the best athletes in pro athletics, has assisted many high school athletes achieve scholarships, increased the speed of many track and endurance athletes,  and helps the passionate recreational athlete better the game.

Bryon understands the bio-mechanical difference between working out and what it takes to push the body to its highest athletic potential.

Byron Dondoyano has coached:

- Professional Basketball players: NBA and International

- Ultimate Frisbee Players

- Collegiate Track Athletes

- Marathon Runners

- Golf Athletes

Byron works with kids and adults.  If you are looking to increase your sport potential Byron is the trainer you want to work with.

Click here to read Byron Dondoyano’s Biography

To contact us email us at excellencefitness@live.com or call us at 206.290.0953

Excellence Health and Fitness has brought the greatest minds in Seattle’s fitness industry together into one place.  Our team is highly educated and passionate about living healthy and all of the parameters required that it takes to exist that way.

We Specialize in:

- Strength Gains

- Weight Lose

- Body Sculpting

- Increased Flexibility

- Sports Performance

- Cross Fit Training

- Post Rehabilitation

- Lifestyle Change

what ever you goal the right trainer for you is here at Excellence.

Click here to look at our team of  trainers.

To contact us email us at excellencefitness@live.com or call us at 206.290.0953

It is always fun to have the King 5 production team videoing, there is always a ton of laughing and light-hearted energy.

Here are some behind the scene photo’s and a link to the video.

Click Here to check out the Mister Steamy Video at King5.com

Dear Friends,

It will be interesting to see how the FDA’s tune about stevia changes once Coca-Cola has plunked down the hefty chunk of change required for “approval” of the all-natural sweetener. The soda giant is teaming up with another company to get a version of stevia called Rebiana approved for use in some of its products. But that hasn’t happened yet, and in the meantime, the FDA continues to make life miserable for other manufacturers using stevia in their products.

The most recent company to come under attack is Hain Celestial Group, which produces Celestial Seasonings tea. One of the products in the company’s “Zingers” line, a “tea to go” drink mix, uses stevia to sweeten the beverage. But since the company hasn’t forked over any ransom payments — I mean “approval fees” — to the FDA, the agency has insisted that Hain Celestial discontinue referring to the product as beverage or drink mix and re-label it as a “dietary supplement.”

The warning letter to Hain Celestial also stated that “data and information necessary to support the safe use [of stevia] have been lacking. In fact, literature reports have raised safety concerns about the use of stevia…”

It’s nice that they’re so concerned for our welfare, and protecting us from those “safety hazards.” Except for the fact that they only bother doing it when it’s convenient for them.

We both know that there ARE no real safety concerns with stevia use — that’s just a nice hook the FDA can hang its hat on for now, while it holds out for its fat paycheck from Coca-Cola to clear. And once it does, I have no doubt that the agency will suddenly be convinced, beyond a shadow of a doubt, about what we’ve known all along: that stevia is one of the best, and safest, sweeteners available.

To Better Health!

Reed Davis

Bones and Hormones.com

According to an article appearing in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, (2000 Feb;19(1):61-67), a diet that consists mainly of whole and unrefined foods, like whole grains, dark green and yellow/orange-fleshed vegetables and fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds, contains high concentrations of natural antioxidants and phytochemicals. The whole-food diet was compared to a highly refined diet. Twelve women with high cholesterol ate a diet high in refined foods for four weeks. After consuming the refined diet, the women spent four weeks eating a healthy diet high in whole grains, dark vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds.
Total calories and fat were similar in both diets. The healthy diet consisted of 61% less saturated fat. Dietary fiber, vitamin E, vitamin C and carotene intakes were 160%, 145%, 160% and 500% more, respectively, than during the refined-food diet period.
The healthy diet caused a drop of 13% in total cholesterol and 16% in low density lipoprotein-cholesterol. Erythrocyte superoxide dismutase decreased 69% and glutathione peroxidase dropped. Colon function was improved on the phytochemical-rich diet.
The authors concluded that a diet abundant in phytochemically-rich foods beneficially affected lipoproteins, decreased need for oxidative defense mechanisms and improved colon function.

Dear Friends,

As you’re probably aware, food that comes from free-range animals is a much healthier choice than food from animals raised in factory farm conditions. (And if you aren’t aware of this, stand by for a quick refresher.)

But it’s important to remember that safety is the flip side to the free-range/factory farm debate. I recently came across two excellent articles that show why food from free-range animals is clearly the safer choice.

Beef it up

If you only needed one reason to eat beef from free-range livestock, omega-3 content would be an excellent reason. Grass-fed animals produce meat that’s very high in omega- 3 fatty acids compared to factory-farmed animals that are fattened with grain feed. This is one reason why meat-eaters of a century ago were generally in better health than meat- eaters of today.

But omega-3 is just one of the healthy benefits. Here are six more reasons to choose grass-fed beef over factory-farmed beef:

*    Higher vitamin E content

*    Higher vitamin A content

*    Higher conjugated linoleic acid content

*    Lower caloric content

*    Lower levels of chemical pesticides and herbicides

*    Little chance of picking up antibiotic residue in meat

When animals are free to move about in large pastures, disease risk is low, so the need for antibiotics is dramatically reduced. But in factory farming, disease is so common that virtually all animals are given antibiotics. Then antibiotics end up in the meat, consumers eat the meat, and this contributes to our society-wide resistance to antibiotics.

That alone is disturbing enough. But there’s more: E. coli – the bacteria with certain strains that prompt severe illness.

According to a report in The Union (Nevada County, CA), a Cornell University study has found that grain-fed animals contain about 300 times more E. coli than grass-fed animals. In addition, something about the grain feed makes E. coli more acid resistant, so the bacteria are more likely to survive the trip through our stomach acids. Harmful E. coli in grass-fed beef is neutralized more efficiently in the stomach.

A good egg

Like beef, the egg has gotten a bad rap over the past couple of decades. But nutritionally, the egg is a thing of beauty.

Alternative medicine pioneer, William Campbell Douglass II, M.D., considers a farm- fresh egg to be a “perfect food.” And there’s plenty of evidence to back that up. Eggs provide a powerhouse of nutrients: essential amino acids, riboflavin, vitamins B and D, and minerals, including calcium, potassium, and iron.

By “farm fresh,” Dr. Douglass means free-range, of course – which makes a big difference

*    1974: Free-range eggs contained 50 percent more folic acid and 70 percent more vitamin B12 compared to factory-farmed eggs

*    1988: Free-range eggs contained 13 times more omega-3 fatty acids compared to factory-farmed eggs

*    1997: Free-range eggs contained higher omega-3 and vitamin E levels compared to factory-farmed eggs

*    2003: Free-range eggs contained three times more omega-3, twice as much vitamin E, and 40 percent more vitamin A compared to factory-farmed eggs

And free-range eggs are less likely to contain salmonella, the bacterium that’s the primary culprit behind most cases of food poisoning.

A UK government survey of chicken operations shows that nearly 25 percent of farms that cage their birds tested positive for salmonella, while only 6.5 percent of free range flocks tested positive, and less than five percent of organic flocks tested positive. The highest levels of salmonella were detected in the largest flocks. Factory farms often have 30,000 birds or more, and the largest farms may have as many as half a million chickens – all kept in cramped cages.

Less risk of bacteria consumption and better nutrition? Whether you’re talking eggs or meat, the free-range choice is a no-brainer. Especially when you consider one more element: the environment.

Here is a chart showing the increase of algae blooms aka “Dead Zone”at the mouth of the Mississippi River from Feed Lot Cattle Farming, corn and soy agriculture, and city pollutants.

According to the Sierra Club, large factory farms produce 500 million tons of animal waste every year in the U.S. Quite often this waste finds its way to rivers and streams, increasing the risk of contaminating drinking water. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that waste from these giant farms has contaminated 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states, and groundwater in 17 states.

To Better Health!

Reed Davis

www.BonesAndHormones.com

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