Dealing With Cholesterol and High Blood Pressure

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Cholesterol: The best foods to lower your cholesterol and protect your heart

High Cholesterol - Overview

Lowering cholesterol: Could your diet use some TLC?

Trans Fats Dirty Dozen

Best Ways to Bump Up Your 'Good' Cholesterol

High Cholesterol - What Increases Your Risk

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Pollution Leaves Women at Greater Risk for Heart Disease, Death

ABC NEWS Article:
Study: Pollution Leaves Women at Greater Risk for Heart Disease, Death
Regarding a study by the New England Journal of Medicine

Harvard School of Public Health: Protein: Moving Closer to Center Stage

The importance of protien:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/protein.html

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Training Articles

http://www.eas.com/training/trainingTips.asp?cmsId=485

Places To Get Out And Go !

http://www.traillink.com/

http://www.railtrails.org/

Sports Medicine / Medicine Online Links

The Physician and Sports Medicine Online
http://www.physsportsmed.com/index.html

Medline Plus
http://medlineplus.gov/

Sports Medicine Web "magazine"
http://www.sportsmedicine.com/

Nutrition Facts & Calorie Counter & BMI Calculator

Excellent site for getting the facts on food:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/ck_fat_calorie_calculator

Calorie usage:

http://www.ilovecurves.net/calorie%20burner.html

Body Mass Index calculator:

http://www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/bmicalc.htm

Health Status

Here is a link for helping you figure out your health status plus other items of health interest:
http://www.healthstatus.com/

Great Site for Logging Your Personal or Team Bike Milage.

This is a great site. It is free. Even free membership has a ton of options. You can keep a running log of your miles, compare to other in your area, state, country, world, or team. There is a lot of other neat stuff for free.

http://www.bikejournal.com

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Cool Site for Calculating Milage

Here is a cool site for calculating milage:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

1.) Put in your state and city at the top and click go.
2.) Left click and hold on map to grab it and move it around.
3.) You may need to zoom in.
4.) On the left, click "start recording" then double click your starting point, any turns along the route and your final destination. Accumulated milage will show in window on the left.

Weight Training and Cycling Web References

From some of the posts at www.bikeforums.net I gathered the following links.

One post contained a bunch of references to weight training in conjunction with cycling. The following were recommended for reading and I have gone through about half of them so far ( my current reading) and found them to be outstanding:

Aphrodite - Strength Training Improves Aerobic Power In Seniors

Edmund R. Burke, Ph.D (USA national-team coach) - Strength Training for Cycling

NSCA - Resistance Training for Cyclists

Ultra Cycling - Resistance Training for Endurance Cyclists

SpokePost - Training with Periodization (Part 3 of 8: Hypertrophy Phase)

PTS - Strength Training: Building a Bigger Engine

RunnersWeb - Multisport: Strength and Power Training for Endurance Athletes

Journal Of Applied Physiology - Explosive-strength training improves 5-km running time by improving running economy and muscle power

Trinity Endurance/Fitness - Cross Training for Triathletes - Part 1

Power Running - Resistance Training for Runners

Bicycle Safety Sites

Here are a couple of bicycle saftey sites that members of bikeforums.net posted a couple of days ago:

http://bicyclesafe.com/

http://www.bikexprt.com/streetsmarts/usa/index.htm

Hope For Bigger People

I just ran across a great site for those of us who are larger and are worried that perhaps bicycling will be difficult. I think you will appreciate the straight forward approach to helping you become a successful cyclist :)

Here is the link: http://bmob-bwob.tripod.com/

Here is a good Diet and Weight Loss Link:
http://caloriesperhour.com/

And a good calculator for figuring calorie loss on a cycle:
http://www.kreuzotter.de/english/espeed.htm

Yoga for Vibrant Life

The following site is one I found that has some decent Yoga exercises to help stretch, tone and trim.:

http://www.will-harris.com/yogaindex.html.

May this be of benefit to you in your daily life and cycling.

Stretching and Flexibility

Here is a good site on everything you wanted to know about stretching:

http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/docs/rec/stretching/