Graduates of AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association) certified college programs of veterinary technology are known as “veterinary technicians”, or “vet techs” for short. Graduate vet techs can take a national examination for vet techs and become registered, certified or licensed in their home state.

Vet techs are trained in surgical assistance, anesthesia, veterinary nursing, pharmacology, lab techniques, dentistry, radiology and a lot more. The vet tech always works under a veterinarian’s direct supervision and are not allowed to diagnose illnesses, prescribe medicine or perform surgery.

Private Practice

Most vet tech graduates work in small, private animal practices. The particular duties of the vet tech vary based on the type and size of the practice along with the state laws. An animal practice which employs just a few veterinarians might also need the vet tech to perform office management and receptionist duties.

In larger-sized small practices, vet techs may conduct physical examinations upon patients, prepare equipment and animals for surgery and take radiographs. They might also polish and clean teeth, obtain blood samples, perform lab tests, anesthetize animals and perform approved medical treatments.

The vet tech is normally responsible for client education and for managing other members of staff. Delivering nutritional info and advice for animal training is an essential part of the job that a technician does. The vet tech plays an important role in helping to recognize a client’s needs and in making certain the client receives a satisfactory service.

Vet Tech Specialist

Some vet techs decide to become specialists. Many of these specialized areas require extra training, such as short-term programs or seminars, after graduation. Some training might be completed on site with a veterinarian that specializes in the technician’s key field. These specialized areas include advanced dentistry, critical care and emergency nursing, zoo veterinary technology and veterinary anesthesia. Vet tech specialists might work at a small practice or in a specialized clinic.

An Exciting Career

Veterinary care is an exciting and continually changing field. Vet techs play a vital role in caring and nurturing for animals whilst delivering invaluable services to animal owners. So when you next visit the veterinarian’s office give thanks to the vet techs too – they really make a difference in the caliber of veterinary care for your animals.

So, what are whole juices?

A whole juice is created with a blender, rather than a juice extractor. This means that a whole juice is a whole food that includes fibre, but is made with rich-in-water fruits to provide a considerably lighter consistency compared to a creamy, thick smoothie.

Whole juices are ideal for consuming first thing or in-between meals. They’re particularly good at times of illness. Juice replenishes important minerals and vitamins with a low-in-calorie impact, so they help those trying to shed fat.

Juices are fantastic cleansing and detox foods, however, I do not advise a lengthy juice-only diet plan.

Making Whole Juice

The key to making whole juice in your blender is to choose fruit with a high water content like citrus, grapes or pineapple and blend together with green vegetables, celery and other vegetables. You will add more water, freshly-squeezed fruit juice or coconut water than you otherwise wood for smoothies to obtain a juicy consistency. Include fresh ginger, lime or lemon for a little extra kick.

Here are two great recipes with instructions that you can make at home:


Green Citrus Juice Recipe

Indeed, this recipe features broccoli! Before you pull a gag face, allow me to say that a sweet, juicy tangerine sweetens up this juice nicely.

This juice recipe is packed with minerals and antioxidants. Broccoli is loaded with calcium, a mineral that helps build stronger bones and could help protect against osteoporosis. It is also loaded with potassium, a mineral that helps reduce high blood pressure. The antioxidants in celery also with lowering blood pressure.

You can make use of a sweet, big orange if you do not have a large tangerine on hand. Oranges contain more vit. C, but they are not as flavorful and sweet. An great optional ingredient for this recipe is some fresh ginger!

This recipe produces about 24 oz. or 1 single serving of juice. I call it the “whole juice” since it is made with a blender, this makes juice that includes fibre (pulp) without the thickness of a smoothie.

Ingredients:
8 chopped broccoli florets
4 chopped stalks of celery
1 large tangerine (or 2 small), desseded and peeled
8 to 10 oz. of filtered or mineral water
1/2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger (optional)

Place all ingredients into a blender for 40 seconds on high or until there are no more big chunks.

Green Nopal Juice Recipe

I have come to truly enjoy the distinct flavor of nopal (the prickly pear cactus) in both juices and smoothies, but particularly juices!

One of the major advantages of nopal is that it is shown to decrease post-meal and fasting hyperglycemia. The insoluble and soluble fibre in nopal also inhibits fast simple sugar absorption into the blood during digestion.

This recipe produces about 24 oz. of green, refreshing juice.

Ingredients:
1/2 a chopped nopal leaf
1/2 cup of strawberries
1 large tangerine, desseded and peeled
2 chopped cups of fresh spinach
8 to 10 oz. of mineral or filtered water

Place all ingredients into a blender for 40 seconds on high or until there no large pieces left.

Check out the vid below for another great recipe!

Whey Protein – What is it?

Whey protein is a liquid byproduct of cheese making. When cheese is made, this whey is drained and processed for beverage and food products. However, whey is not only 1 protein but rather a blend of protein fractions and beta-lactoglobulin (55-65% total) is the most common followed by alpha-lactalbumin (15-25%) and glycomacropeptide.

Research indicates that whey concentrate can regulate immune system function in a laboratory environment and, lots of animal studies suggest the immune system enhancing effects of whey. A number of live fractions of whey give rise to its immune enhancing potential including alpha-lactalbumin, beta-lactoglobulin, lactoferrin and glycomacropeptide.

Dairy based foods are excellent for sports nutrition devotees. They naturally possess the best protein sources for muscle (casein and whey), minerals and vitamins (fortified milk is among the best vitamin D sources) and some possess probiotics (particularly yogurt, Bio K and Yakult).

But, if you cannot cope with the headache of keeping dairy food cold whenever you are on the road or if you would like more protein and a few immune-system-boosting substances as well, go for whey.

How Whey Protein Boosts Immune System Health

Protein Builds the Immunity

The protein you consume does a great deal more than just build muscles. It’s responsible for initiating chemical reactions with in the body, works as a structural element of all cells and manages immunity.

Whey Protein is a Great Immune Boosting Vehicle

Probiotics are friendly bacteria – the type that populate the intestines and fight off harmful bacteria. Even so, not all probiotics have the exact same function neither do they all make it into the intestines without getting killed first, However, whey protein powder, because of its pH, might be probably the greatest vehicles for carrying probiotics into the intestines whilst they’re still intact. Additionally, a few whey proteins possess probiotics (usually acidophilus, bifidobacterium, bifidophilus).

Dieting Can reduce Immune System Function And Increase Protein Requirements

Dieting takes a toll on your immunity. And, the less calories you consume, the greater your protein needs. These two factors makes whey perfect.

Whey Contains Live Substances

We understand a little bit about a number of the live substances in whey, however time will tell just how they may boost immune action in various populations.

Whey protein is not a cure all. You need to still look after yourself, avoid individuals that are sick and frequently wash your hands. But, it may offer a boost to the immune system that helps your body deal with the germs in encounters every day, from close quarters at subways, to your employer sniffling then offering to shake your hand, to the individual bagging your groceries but sneezing a storm.

Germs abound and the greatest defense includes a great offense. So stock up on a top quality whey supplement and use at minimum 1 serving a day. At the least you will be getting the amino acids needed for muscle tissue, Also, you might be boosting your immunity at the exact same time.

Even though you can juice fruits, if you’re obese or overweight, have elevated blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, then it’s best to limit fruit juice until these conditions are normalized.

Limes and lemons would be the exceptions since they contains hardly any fructose, the fruit sugar that can cause metabolic issues. In addition, limes and lemons are great for balancing out the intensely bitter flavor of dark green leafy vegetables that provide the greatest juicing benefits for health.

Great Reasons to Drink Juice:

There’s 3 primary reasons for adding fresh vegetable juice into your diet.

• We can absorb all the nutrients from vegetables. This is an important point, since many of us have sub-par digestion resulting from less-than-great food choices over the years. This limits the body’s capacity to absorb all the nutrition from whole vegetables. Juicing helps ‘pre-digest’ vegetables so that you’ll receive the majority of the nutrition, rather than it passing straight through you.
• Juicing permits you to consume an optimum amount of vegetable efficiently. If you’re a carb type, then you should consume a pound of raw vegetables for every 50 lbs. Of your body weight each day. A number of people might fine eating that many raw vegetables difficult, however this can be easily achieved with a glass of veggie juice.
• You can include a greater variety of raw vegetables in your diet. A lot people eat the same vegetables over and over again. This does not promote the practice of food rotation and raises your chances of developing allergies to specific foods. Yet, when juicing you may juice a wide range of vegetables, which you would not otherwise consume in their whole state.

If you are a new-comer to juicing, then option for a mid-priced juicer machine is a good idea. Cheaper centrifugal juicers, such as the Juiceman or Jack LaLanne machine, produce lower quality juice, and are loud too. They don’t last so lone either.

Single gear juicers are a great option, such as the Omega VRT350HD and Hurom Slow Juicer. These are fairly fast, more inexpensive and much easier to clean up than pricier twin gear juicer or the Norwalk juicers that cost around $2000.

Most people initially believe that juicing is a bit of a chore, but most of them are pleasantly surprised to discover that it’s a lot easier than they first thought.

Vegetable Juice Isn’t a Complete Meal

It’s important to make clear that vegetables juice contains hardly any protein and practically no fats, so by itslef it’s not a complete food source. It should really be used as an addition to your standard meals and not in place of them.

So unless you’re undertaking a special detoxification or fasting plan, then it’s probably a bad idea to use juice as replacement for meals. Ideally it can be taken with a meal or between meals as a snack. First thing in the morning befor breakfast is great to, since there is no other food in the stomach to compete with for digestion.

Listening to Your Body is Important

This is in part because you should start juicing vegetables that you enjoy non-juiced. Juice should have a pleasant flavor and not bring about nausea.

It’s extremely important to listen to your own body when you drink juice. You should have a pleasant feeling in your stomach throughout the entire morning. If it’s growling, churning or making its self known, you most likely juice something you shouldn’t be eating.

Directions

1. Create for yourself an overall diet and exercise program. Green tea weight loss only helps you burn an additional 60 – 80 calories per day, so it is necessary to eat moderately and exercise regularly to actually achieve weight loss.
2. Buy green tea in bulk from specialty shops of health food stores to make certain it’s fresh. Green tea that is fresh holds onto more of its antioxidants and tastes better than stale tea, and in bulk green tea is easier to brew just as you like it.
3. Consume a pot of tea at breakfast. Green tea has some caffeine, so it can take the place of your coffee, although it features about half the caffeine of coffee.
4. Prepare iced green tea for a tasty refreshing drink that you can drink throughout each day, particularly if you feel a little hungry. Sometimes, we can mistake feeling hungry for feeling thirsty, and drinking green tea can help you avoid reaching out for unnecessary snacks.
5. Supplement your weight loss green tea plan with green tea extract supplements. Choose a supplement that features high levels of a specific polyphenol antioxidant called EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate), the main fat burning ingredient in green tea.

Some Advice

Research shows that you need to consume about 7 cups of green tea daily, or ingest the similar with green tea extract to achieve the maximum weight loss benefits. Green tea isn’t going to help you slim down if you add calorie-heavy extras like cream, milk or sugar. Should you need to sweeten the tea a little, then use natural and safe sweeteners like stevia. Float lemon or orange slices in your tea as you brew to enhance flavor naturally and without calories.

Green tea may make you jittery if you are caffeine sensitive. If this is the case opt for caffeine free green tea extract, but avoid decaffeinated green tea. Decaf green tea has less of the EGCG weight loss antioxidants.

To become a personal trainer, you can get certified through one of the popular certification programs.  ISSA, the International Sports Sciences Association, is one of the more popular certification programs.  They offer a nationally accredited certification program for $499 that teaches you the scientific background of personal training.  Graduates of the ISSA program have gone on to successful careers at popular fitness centers such as Curves, Lifetime Fitness, and Urban Active.

As a personal trainer, you will help people achieve their personal health and fitness goals as well as motivate them and inspire them to live healthier lives.  Some personal trainers go on to get additional certification or degrees so that they can teach fitness classes or offer advanced nutritional advice.

If you’re interested in helping people live healthier lives through personal training, contact a certification program like ISSA, AFPA, or ACE.  Best of luck on your future career path!

She had a living will, but she only specified three situations in which someone else could make medical decisions on her behalf, and her current state did not qualify.  State law only allowed her son, who only had an eighth grade education, to make decisions on her behalf.  Her mother, who is a registered nurse, would have been a better candidate for making the choice, but state law did not allow her mother to make the choice on her behalf.

She was happy with the choice that was made after she regained consciousness, but the situation could have turned out differntly.  Now that she is out of the hospital and on her way to recovery, she has created a health care power of attorney that names her mother as the agent in case anything happens in the future.

Don’t wait until it’s too late to create a health care power of attorney like my co-worker did.  Her situation turned out fine, but you don’t want to risk your future health when the solution is simple.

E-cigs deliver doses of nicotine in a non toxic vapor which approximates tobacco smoking without the attendant carcinogens. They produce no toxic second hand smoke and have a proven track record of being an effective means for hard core smokers to quit, with a good many two packs-a-day smokers never going back once they’ve tried vaping. E-cigs, by any other measure would seem to be the ideal flagship product for the US Government to endorse and recommend. And yet, the pundits in D.C. have routinely tried to ban, outlaw and regulate the availability and use of electronic cigarettes. From having them banned as a drug delivery device to prohibiting their use on airplanes—their efforts have been unstinting.

Why?

The folks with the most to lose should tobacco be outlawed completely and a safe and accessible alternative be put in its place would seem to be Big Tobacco itself. Conventional cigarettes have been delivering the demon drug nicotine for a few centuries now, and while tobacco smoking has fallen out of favor, there has been no effort to have paper cigarettes outlawed as a “drug delivery device”—even though nicotine isn’t on the Drug Enforcement Agency’s list of controlled substances; and yet, e-cigs have faced just that designation battle. Tobacco products have resulted in the deaths of millions— both smokers and those afflicted by cancers, emphysema and other illnesses by second hand smoke, and yet for all the public place smoking bans and Surgeon General’s warnings—cigarettes are one of the least regulated products in the nation.

It should come as no surprise that for all the rhetoric, Big Tobacco is a strong lobbying presence in the nation’s capital. The parent company to Philip Morris USA spent almost $14 million dollars last year alone in lobbying efforts aimed at the federal government. And you can bet that the continued harassment that e-cigs face is a result of a good bit of D.C. palm greasing.

Instead of trying to block and outlaw an increasingly popular and effective smoking cessation device, the United States Government should be ratifying the US signing of the global tobacco treaty and approving the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act – H.R.1256 , which seeks to subject tobacco to the same regulation as almost all other products in the marketplace.

Maybe it’s time to demand a little accountability from our legislators when it comes to who is accepting Big Tobacco money and find out just how far those we send to enact laws to protect us, are doing just the opposite!

Each one highlights a habit or an activity that will increase your susceptibility to infection by a dermatophyte fungus. We realize that some habits will be harder to break and some behaviors harder to change than others.

Your two key preventative strategies include avoiding contact with infected people or surfaces and keeping your nails dry and ventilated at all times.  You’ll see one of these theme underpinning each of the bullets below.

Are your habits putting you at risk?

• Do you pick your nails or the skin that surrounds them? Any injury or trauma to the skin may reduce your local immunity and provide an easy entry point for infected fungal spores.
• Do you wear tight feet that press against your nails. Again this may increase your likelihood of infection.
• Do you have one pair of favorite shoes that you wear day in and day out? (If you can’t bear to throw them out, get hold of some antifungal powder and shake this into them on a weekly basis).
• Do you wash your socks on the cold cycle?
• Do you own plastic shoes that are not well ventilated. (Remember fungi do best in damp, protected, warm and dark environments)
• Are your socks made from synthetic materials? (Natural cotton is best)
• Do you walk around barefoot in public shower rooms or locker rooms? (Take extra special care where floors are damp.)
• Do you suffer from repeated athletes foot infections that you ignore rather than treat? (It’s caused by the same fungus)
• Do you exercise, get sweaty but then wait a few hours until you change into fresh clothes, shoes and socks?
• Do you forget to dry yourself thoroughly after showering?
• Do you participate in contact sports?
• Do you share personal items with other people (for example towels, nail instruments, socks?)
• Do you go to low cost nail salons without checking that nail instruments are sterilized property between customers?
• Do you hate the idea of using an antifungal soap on your feet?
• Do you have an occupation that requires you to keep your hands and feet wet for long periods of time?
• See more at http://fungusfacts.com

I’ve noticed that a lot of people in my life turn to food, alcohol, prescription medication, or cigarettes as their best friend.  So many people are dependent on some external factor to get them through their days.  Rather than ignoring the true issues, what would happen if we all confronted our problems as they happened?

I started doing that when I started down a path to intuitive eating.  Instead of putting restrictions on food and jumping back and forth between overeating and under eating, I decided to start paying attention to my true feelings.

It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done.  Feelings and emotions are not easy, but we have to pay attention to them or we’ll never get where we want to be in life.  Putting off working through the difficult moments only guarantees we’ll never really get anywhere.  Since I’ve started eating intuitively, I’ve experienced every single emotion you could imagine.  I’ve also made more progress in my life since starting on the journey than I had in the last five years.  Instead of delaying progress, I pushed through.

What is the crutch that gets you through life without feeling your feelings?  What would happen if you let go of it for a day, a week, a month, a year?  You might be surprised at what’s on the other side.