Ideal Curve

By Josef Strong

 For many years, most people have considered syphilis to be a rare, limited problem. First coming into notice during the heyday of the bohemians of the 19th century, it was known to manifest only in the rarest of circumstances. In fact, to the average person, syphilis was hardly enough of a concern to be considered a major sexual health problem. Even the disease’s most famous victim, Al Capone, was better known for his criminal empire than for having the disease. Artists from the heyday of the bohemian movement, like Charles Baudelaire and Paul Gauguin, were suspected of having died from the illness, but there was never any confirmation of such. However, if reports from Europe are any sort of indication, then this might not be the case for very long.

The latest sexual health statistics show that the number of cases of people having syphilis are on the rise across Europe. What was once among the rarest diseases, sexually-transmitted or otherwise, may become a more common public health concern, according to some members of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. In yet another break from the traditionally-held tendencies of syphilis cases, the disease is starting to appear in more women and heterosexual men, as opposed to previous instances where the cases were largely confined to homosexual men, with only the occasional straight man found in the mix. The disease, with was once seen as the sexual health equivalent of the Black Plague, was largely removed from the public eye by the widespread use of penicillin.

There has been an unexpected return of cases of the illness in Europe, however, and not in the cities that one would expect. British cities seemed to experience a resurgence of the problem, with an almost tenfold increase in cases for both men and women in London alone. Other cities, such as Amsterdam, Berlin, and Paris also experienced similar events, though most had them on a smaller scale. There are also some experts that believe the trend is starting to make an appearance in the US, with the Center for Disease Control effectively scrapping the plan to eliminate the disease entirely due to the 9,800 reported cases in 2006 alone. European doctors were even reported to have been so off-guard about the problem that most didn’t even realize they were looking at cases of syphilis.

Some believe that HIV and AIDS, as well as the treatments for the above, are partially to blame. The introduction of effective treatments that delay the inevitable effects of HIV may have resulted in the public becoming more lenient with regards to protection from sexually transmitted disease. For the time being, most of the cases seem concentrated on gay men who sought other gay men, with statistics showing that most of them were HIV positive. Whether or not this was related to the emergence of websites where HIV-positive men could seek other HIV-positive men for sex is still uncertain, though preliminary analysis of the pertinent data seems to suggest just that.

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Get The Curves That You Want With Your Body

What Supplements Should I Take After I Workout?

By Josef Strong

 You’ve just finished an awesome workout, and you’re feeling pumped. You have plans with friends, so you move on to the locker room, hop in the shower, don your street clothes, and you are out the door thirty minutes later. You fight traffic for an additional thirty minutes, and finally meet up with your friends. Your window of opportunity has passed. You did not get the post workout muscle supplements that you needed to enhance muscle growth.

Muscles are in a constant state or activity. They are either breaking down, or building up, and what you are doing and consuming determines which process is going on at all times. Simply put, if muscle protein synthesis is not taking place, the muscles are breaking down.

This is where high protein muscle supplements can come in handy. If consumed immediately after a workout - within sixty minutes - you will be amazed at the benefits of these muscle supplements. When you are training with weights, there is an increase of amino acids and glucose through the muscles. This uptake continues for approximately sixty minutes after you stop working those muscles. By injecting more protein into that process, you are essentially ensuring that your muscles are quickly getting a nice dose of protein right away.

By using a muscle supplement right after a workout, you will not only be greatly enhancing the effects of your workout, with almost immediate results, but you will also be speeding up the muscle healing process that always takes place after a workout.

The best muscle supplement to use after your workout should be a high quality carbohydrate and protein mix. Many bodybuilders get this carb/protein mix with the use of a shake - because it is quick and easy. There are numerous high quality muscle supplement shakes on the market, and this is definitely an investment that you will want to make. Furthermore, we know that liquids work through your system much faster than solids.

The muscle supplement shake that you choose should have 30 to 40 grams of protein, with 25 to 30 grams of carbs. These can be purchased in liquid form, but it is generally cheaper to buy this in powder form, and mix it with water. Water is just as important as the carbs and protein, because water is the vehicle that actually moves nutrients through the muscles.

The use of post workout muscle supplements is one of the best kept secrets in the bodybuilding world. Those big muscles that you see are not due to steroids, as many people mistakenly assume. They are due to understanding how the body works, and making sure that the process of muscle building is enhanced as much as possible, through your own actions.

Those bodybuilders who do take advantage of this sixty minute window of opportunity following a workout usually notice a vast difference within a few hours - not only in how they look, but also in how they feel. Make sure that you include post workout muscle supplements to your regimen.

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