How to Have a Good General Healthy Body

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Diet, General Health, How Your Body Works, Sensible Eating | 0 comments

In today’s hectic world that we live in, maintaining our good health care is very important for us to keep up with today’s economy lifestyle. All of us need to be healthy regardless of our age or gender. In order to be considered us as overall well being healthy, we should have a disease free body, fit and fill with abundant energy. Follow the healthy tips illustrate below for your general health benefits.

Steps

  1. Practice healthy living styles with proper food habits and exercise. To achieve a healthy body, we cannot be lazy and lethargic. We need to work hard, both physically and mentally to be fit and healthy. Exercise and eating healthy foods is essential to promote a healthy body.
  2. Avoid junk foods which make us lethargic and dull. Check and follow your healthy weight chart for maintaining healthy weight to an optimum body weight in order to be healthy. You will stand a much higher percentage of suffering from health problems if you are overweight and obese. 
  3. Consume a healthy diet, such as vegetables, fruits, fish, nuts, lean meat. Don’t forget to intake 8 glasses of liquid. Take minerals and vitamins supplement and get some healthy recipes that you prefer. Take some healthy snacks between meals. Avoid refined and junk foods. The main source for poor health and sickness is improper healthy eating habits. Many people suffer from sickness like diabetes, cancer, obesity and etc because of this. Changing your bad diet will contribute a great difference within a short period and can improve your health benefits drastically. Try to avoid smoking and heavy alcoholic drinks, moderate alcoholic drinking will benefit you.
  4. Exercise 30 minutes 5 days a week. Exercising in the morning can leave you with a refreshed feeling throughout the day and can put you in a good mental health and it will be easier for you to think positively and generate a better appetite. You can also get involved in activities such as swimming, biking, walking or playing your favorite sport in order to keep you healthy. Go for activities that you enjoy and not force yourself to activities that you despise, whereby you will lose interest and stop exercising and try to do your activities in the open air. In this way, you will feel more refreshed. You should start off with small changes and make sure you enjoy it. You should not make drastic changes excessively in your lifestyle. Try to make small changes over a period of time pursuing it into your regular habit in order to achieve long term success. Besides exercise, you need to have good sleep and rest in order to be healthy. A good sleep can refresh your mind and make you feel healthier.
  5. Realize that positive thinking is very essential in order to be healthy. Clear out your mind of all negative thoughts and fill it with positive ones. You will have to remove all the depressing and negative emotions and thoughts from your mind and replace it with healthy and positive thoughts. These positive thoughts can be extremely energizing and always lead to good things in life. You can get involved in practices such as meditation and yoga to get rid of the negativity and force yourself with positive thoughts.

Tips

  • All these small changes in your lifestyle can improve your health and fitness and certainly lowering your health care bill. You will feel a sense of well being, both emotionally and physically. It is very important to improve your health in order to be happy and enjoy life.
  • Reading can improve your mind, and widen your vocabulary. It’s always good to pick up a good book by good authors, such as George Orwell, Stephen Fry, and perhaps a screenplay by Shakespeare.

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Want To Learn How To Start Power Walking For Fat Loss?

by | Apr 12, 2013 | Exercise, General Health, Weight Loss | 0 comments

If you’ve been unaccustomed to exercise for any length of time then it obviously pays to be careful about how you start exercise again. Where you start will often depend on how heavy you actually are and how fit you are right now.

Most of us will and if your extra pounds haven’t given you sore knees, ankles or hips then perhaps walking as a means of exercise is probably a very good first step. Just getting the body moving again for many people can be a bit of an eye opener.

Obviously the first thing to do is play it safe and just have a chat through with your doctor saying that you want to start getting your body in shape again and as a first step in doing that you want to start walking just to see if they’ve got any objection or advice.

The golden rule about any new type of exercise is to make sure that you pace yourself and push yourself. By pace yourself I mean that you do what you can do without overdoing it. Push yourself means that once you get comfortable doing something do a little bit more.

For instance you might start walking and eventually get yourself to the point where walking around the block is a breeze. So that’s the time to introduce maybe a flight of stairs. You’ll often find them outside the city hall or the local court house and a brisk walk up a flight of stairs like that towards the end of your walk if you can do it that way around is something that will get the heart pumping just that little bit more. And that really is the secret – it’s getting the heart moving a little bit more than it’s used to without overdoing it.

Once you get comfortable doing that obviously you can add in distance, you can add in more steps, you can pick up the pace, you can do so many different things when you start walking. The hardest part about walking is starting in the first place but once you get to a point and you want to try and get  a bit more benefit out of getting from A  to B on foot then you can move on to power walking.

The article below takes you through the very first steps of power walking. First steps I hope that will lead on to a new you.

A lot of people just don’t think they have the time to go to the gym to work out with the equipment there. There are also those that do already go to the gym but want to know what else they can do to be more fit and lose weight. Learn how to start power walking for fat loss by following this article.

Always be sure that you’re wearing the right kind of shoes for power walking. Since this exercise is all about moving around on your feet, you have to make sure that you’re getting the most out of it by not having sore feet while you’re walking. Get some shoes that aren’t too tight or too loose. They also need to be a little bit flexible. Don’t wear shoes that are too nice either since they are going to be in rough shape quickly from all of the walking you’re going to be doing.

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Figure out where you’re going to be doing your power walking routine. You want to go somewhere with a lot of space. If you have a membership with a gym you may be able to use the track that they have set up in there. You need to be mindful of your surroundings in the gym because there may be other people around you. You could also just power walk around where you live. Look at a map and see if there are any interesting places near you and make it a goal to walk there and back as fast as you can.

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Make sure that your body is in good enough shape before you start power walking for fat loss purposes. If you have any trouble with your heart or problems with your legs, then you may want to speak with your doctor before starting. While this kind of exercise isn’t too hard on the body, you don’t want to make any physical problems you may be having already any worse than they are.

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You could get a treadmill if you have room for one where you live. There are a lot of options out there. The most popular kind of treadmill is one that you can use to adjust walking speed and that’s about it. The more pricier options will allow you to set an incline so you get more of a workout for your upper legs. Before buying a treadmill it’s important that you know whether or not it’s any good. Read a few reviews about various treadmills before making a decision so you can find one that meets your needs. Don’t spend extra money on features that you’re not going to be using.

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You should now have some knowledge on how to start power walking for fat loss. It’s a great way to get yourself into shape and it takes barely any equipment to get started. If you’re ready to get started then use what you’ve learned here and put it into practice.

Smaller Plates Could End Childhood Obesity

by | Apr 10, 2013 | Obesity, Sensible Eating | 0 comments

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There’s a lot of research that shows that when we serve ourselves on smaller plates we tend to serve smaller portions which obviously means that we eat less in the long run. Most of this research is being carried out with adults however a team of researchers recently set out to find out if the same holds true when dealing with children.

Worldwide studies over the last few years have consistently shown that in the west up to a third of children and adolescents were overweight and many of them were significantly overweight to be counted as obese wherein they have had a huge accumulation of excess body fats.

A recent study that has been featured in the American Academy of Pediatric Journal reports on a research study that monitored 42 first graders during their lunch meal time for two sets of 4 days. One of those set of days the children used child size tableware and on the other 4-day period they had adult sized tableware.

The results of the study were actually very interesting and surprisingly enough confirmed the expectations leaned from the adult studies. In those children who used larger plates and bowls were apt to serve themselves more food in one sitting when compared with those children who used the child sized plates and bowls.

Dr. Thomas Robinson said that the results from the study are very interesting and confirmed our expectations that the impact of plate size on adults in the laboratory also applies to children. He goes on to say that “this study provides very important preliminary evidence that using smaller dishware may help reduce children’s energy intakes.”

It should be noted however that the authors of this study were keen to point out that these findings were at the best preliminary and more research was needed which I personally find a bit strange because to my mind it stands to reason that if children have followed a similar pattern to the adults, taking part in similar studies then it’s quite likely that the conclusions from those studies – that smaller plate sizes results in people eating less, will also prove true for children as well. And as much for the adults serving children on smaller plates would be one way of reducing the problem of obesity that we are seeing more and more in our youngsters.

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Small changes in daily lifestyle can be as good as going to the gym

by | Apr 10, 2013 | Exercise, General Health | 0 comments

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Here’s a study that I agree with wholeheartedly. If you have been following what I have been saying for any length of time  you’ll know that I’m a fervent advocate for making small changes in different parts of our lives simply because each of those small changes that we make will overtime add up to a big change. I’ve seen that happen both in my life and the lives of many of those who I’ve encouraged to do the same.

Dr. Paul Loprinzi who is the assistant professor in the Department of Exercise Science at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky conducted an interesting study that monitored over 6,000 adults and much of their research was backed up by 10-minute a day philosophy. So as I more or less wholeheartedly agree with it I would suggest you follow the link below and have a good read.

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New Research Suggests Friendly Bacteria May Shrink Tumours

by | Apr 10, 2013 | Degenerative Diseases, Natural food, Vitamins & Supplements | 0 comments

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Here’s a fascinating little snippy bit of a story which suggests another use for your favorite probiotic drink. Apparently researchers from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland have been looking at the way that Lactobacillus casei which is commonly found in the human mouth and gut and it should be added is one of the most common ingredient used in many probiotic drinks is affecting the way that cancer tumors grow.

According to their research L. casei as it’s often known could actually inhibit tumor growth. If this is found to be true it obviously opens up a huge range of possibilities of how these bacteria that are generally safe to humans can be used to treat tumors from the inside.

So far the researchers have grown the bacteria in small beads immersed in a growing solution and their understanding today is that the bacteria produced certain molecules that appeared to be toxic to cancer tumors. Wanting to test this further still, researchers then injected this encapsulated bacteria into the tumors of mice that had cancer and apparently the bacteria significantly inhibited the growth of the tumors within the mice.

Obviously if this research tends out to be of further merit then it holds great promise. Of course one of the best ways of diminishing your chances to develop cancer is to follow a low carb way of living. This has the advantage of diminishing the amount of sugar and other carbohydrates that you eat which are the food that cancers thrive on which like a good probiotic is food for thought.

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