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Living a healthy, happy life requires exercise. Attaining and maintaining your optimum body weight is an integral part of a happy, healthy lifestyle.

While most people understand the need for exercise, there are many misconceptions pertaining to weight loss and cardio programs. All of those machines we see lined up in gyms everywhere! People climbing stair masters, riding stationary bikes while reading People magazine, running for miles on treadmills with their Ipods! What is everyone trying to do? And should I be doing what everyone else is doing?! Probably not!

Seems it is human nature to think more, bigger, better. This is not true with cardio weight loss initiatives. Most of the cardio equipment in gyms today have computerized settings and heart rate monitors. I was really surprised to find out that

My optimum weight loss heart rate zone was well below the straining, cardio fitness levels. Your target rate is a formula of age and current weight. You will want to consult with your physician about your goals and have a medical physical prior to jumping into a new cardio exercise and diet program.

Like most things in life, exercise is more fun with a friend. Make it a part of your everyday routine. Be consistent. The rewards are substantial, beginning with an improved sense of self-esteem!

Different diets can have some confusing and seemingly contradictory methods. For instance, at first you may be encouraged to eat more! Or at least more often. See, by eating more often you actually speed up the bodies’ metabolic rate. Determining what to eat and when to eat it is an essential element of any weight loss plan.

The hardest part of any new exercise program is starting one! Start yours today! Do forty five minutes of cardio exercise within your desired heart rate range, you will feel better, look better, live longer. I promise you! Do it with heart monitor or Polar F11.

If you want more nutrients and high fiber in your diet then an easy way is to use a hand juicer on a daily basis. Food supplements are good but they are nowhere as good as hand squeezed fruits and vegetables. That’s because the freshly squeezed juice gives the body easier access to ready to absorb nutrients.

Have you thought about how much more advantageous manual juicers are compared to the powered versions? Since manual juicers don’t require electricity, you will save money on your power bills. Manual juicers are also easier to clean, are less expensive to buy, and are just as easy to use.

If you want to know which manual juicer to buy, it is a good idea to look at currently popular items. So here are three of the bestsellers in the manual juicer market today.

• Get the aluminum enameled lemon squeezer from Amco if you want to have the best squeezed lemon or lime juice in your diet, without the seed or pulp. You will enjoy its design since it was made to be used even by arthritic hands. Buy this lemon juicer and try the three easy steps that will get you the best squeezed juice that money can buy.
• For a do-it-all commercial juicer, you can’t go wrong with the Jupiter juice press. This juice press can squeeze fruits and vegetables. Even though it is small and compact, it can withstand a lot of pressure, so you can press on it as much as you like.
• For a masticating wheat grass juicer, there is the manual, hand powered, Healthy Juicer. Masticating means that you are not shredding the fruit or vegetables, instead you are squeezing it entirely to get the most nutrients out of it. This item is so easy to use that you only need to push a lever to get the juice you need.

When you want to be healthy and full of life, you need to eat healthily and exercise daily. The first step you can take toward your new healthy lifestyle  is to get a hand juicer and add freshly squeezed fruits and vegetables to your diet.

You might be surprised to learn that many people are choosing to buy manual juicers instead of electric ones to use at home. Surprised, because there are so many fantastic electric machines on the market these days. Why would anybody bother with a manual machine? The truth is that in most situations electric juicer is the best choice, however, there are several instances where a manual juicer is definitely the best choice to make.

The first of these is foot to producing wheat grass, and similar leafy green herbs. There are various reasons you might want to juice these things, the most likely being that you are on a detox program, or doing so in conjunction with a weight loss diet. Wheat grass, and many herbs are very rich in antioxidants, difficult to obtain nutrients, and dissolved minerals.

A manual juicer is best for these ingredients, because you generally only need to make the juice in small quantities. An electric juicer represents no real advantage, because you are only talking about making 20 to 40 ml of juice at a time. This only takes about two minutes, even working slowly by hand.

Another excellent application for a hand powered juicer is producing citrus fruits. Again, there are various reasons for doing this in the kitchen. Not only citrus juice delicious pie itself (or mixed as lemonade, or in cocktails) but it is called for in many recipes. Squeezing lemons or limes by hand is hard work, so a compact hand juicer can be a real help to have. The most economical citrus juicers to buy are hand-held models, which are similar in design to a nutcracker, that is they consist of two hinged handles, and a cone shaped sieve of for crushing half a fruit at a time.

Similarly to a wheat grass juicer, these hand powered gadgets are at an advantage over electric ones because they are faster and easier to clean out, and do not take as much valuable storage space.

Perhaps the biggest positive point to take away is that hand juicers are much cheaper than electric equivalents. A wheat grass juicer can be bought for as little as $20-$40 (the latter being top-quality stainless steel model) while a hand-held citrus juicer can cost as little as $5-$10.

If you intend to make very large batches of juice, an electric juicer will obviously be necessary, but for the average user, a hand powered juicer machine can really be the best choice.