A few kids have actually died from the flu this year here in Colorado one of them 15 years old! Being healthy is one thing I know I often take for granted until I get sick, that is. I've found that it's easier to stay healthy than it is to get healthy again once you're sick, too. With that in mind (and the season just getting underway), here are some quick tips for staying healthy this wrestling season:
Eat well. This means eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, the best way to get all the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy.
Avoid sugar! Sugar depresses your immune system. Soda pop is probably the #1 culprit for most people, so do yourself a favor and have a water or fresh juice instead. (Dads and coaches, alcohol also depresses your immune system.)
Supplement with vitamins/minerals. Vitamin C and zinc, in particular, have been shown to strengthen the immune system.
Get enough sleep.

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If you were a lucky kid and had a happy childhood, you may have attended summer camp and now have many fond memories of those moments during the summers of your youth. For adults there is a new kind of camp called a Fitness Camp and these are the places to go to in order to regain part of what has potentially been lost as you got older, i.e. good physical fitness. Good physical fitness is important especially if you are overweight. Being overweight puts more stress on the body and obesity causes all kinds of problems because it contributes to the causes of many other diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and high or low blood pressure. It is very possible that a person may die much younger than they should have simply due to the fact that they are seriously overweight and do not maintain good physical fitness.

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When many people think of a world class resort, they imagine round-the-clock pampering, expansive gourmet meals and all kinds of recreational activities. But there is a new kind of five-star resort and that is the Fitness Resort. Places where one used to go to lose weight were unflatteringly called fat farms in the past. They were more like torture camps, than anything that could be called a resort. The more modern approach is to create diet intensive experiences, combined with physical activities and nutritional counseling that are designed for participation in beautiful resort settings. If one wishes to look more like the beautiful people, then why not be in a setting that is of the level of quality where beautiful people like to congregate?

The Fitness Resort setting is designed in such as way to be motivational, calming, and restorative.

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