Exercise & Diabetes
March 31, 2009
You are no doubt aware that exercise can help prevent the serious complications that often come with diabetes and heart disease. Research has repeatedly shown that regular physical activity helps reduce the likelihood of having a heart attack or a stroke, aids in weight loss, and improves mood.
But do you know that exercise can also help you reduce your blood glucose levels?
That’s right. In people with type II diabetes, exercise may improve insulin sensitivity and assist in lowering elevated blood glucose levels into the normal range.
Here’s how. When you exercise, your body uses more oxygen — as much as 20 times more — and even more in the working muscles, than when you are at rest. So the muscles use more glucose to meet their increased energy needs.
At the same time, exercise improves the action of insulin in the peripheral muscles, making it more efficient, so you get more out of the insulin your body is producing.
In older people with diabetes, the decrease in insulin sensitivity that comes with aging is also partly due to a lack of physical activity. So regular exercise benefits you now, and for years to come.
How to Spot False Weight Loss And Diet Advertising Claims
March 30, 2009
Flip through a magazine, scan a newspaper, or channel surf and you see them everywhere: Ads that promise quick and easy weight loss without diet or exercise. Wouldn’t it be nice if - as the ads claim - you could lose weight simply by taking a pill, wearing a patch, or rubbing in a cream? Too bad claims like that are almost always false.
Doctors, dieticians, and other experts agree that the best way to lose weight is to eat fewer calories and increase your physical activity so you burn more energy. A reasonable goal is to lose about a pound a week. For most people, that means cutting about 500 calories a day from your diet, eating a variety of nutritious foods, and exercising regularly.
When it comes to evaluating claims for weight loss products, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recommends a healthy portion of skepticism. Before you spend money on products that promise fast and easy results, weigh the claims carefully. Think twice before wasting your money on products that make any of these false claims:
“Lose weight without diet or exercise!”
Have You Had A Good Cry Lately?
March 30, 2009
Have You Had A Good Cry Lately?
by: Jack Zavada
A “good” cry–the kind that can make you feel better–as opposed to the kind you have when peeling onions–is one of your body’s most important defense mechanism, it seems.
That’s because tears shed due to emotional upset or stress contain chemicals that your body builds up during nervous tension. According to Dr. William H. Frey II, a researcher at the St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center in Minnesota, emotionally-induced tears contain protein-based hormones as well as leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller.
Frey and his team concluded that when a person is under stress, his or her body needs to get rid of those chemicals through crying. In most cultures, women are readily forgiven for crying, but men are often expected be stoic and bottle up emotional outbursts. Some scientists think men have more stress-related illness because they resist crying.
Bringing Heaven to Earth: Becoming a Spiritual Scientist
March 29, 2009
Would you like an exciting and wonder-full resolution for the new year? Become a spiritual scientist. Choose to learn the skills of self-mastery, so you can shift out of story-based reality and cocreate your personal heaven on earth.
As the world’s of science and spirituality merge our quantum brothers and sisters are saying what mystics for centuries have proposed ? life is not what it seems. The reality that you think you experience every day is simply a facade ? like the fake western town built as a backdrop in movies. You create this facade by assigning meaning to what you perceive. You make up stories or meaning to circumstances and situations and your emotions become addicted to certain stimuli. If you haven’t had your ‘fix’ in awhile, you will create a situation, in your inner or outer world, that produces that emotional response - even if it’s painful!
Wait, there’s hope! You can create an entirely different response inside and change your reality. How?
Let me explain…
Group Therapy Tips
March 28, 2009
Group Therapy Tips
by: Christos Varsamis
Group therapy has proven to be effective in mental health. While some counselor will start out with one on one therapy, they may finally refer the patient to group sessions. Many services and support groups available offer help to those with mental health problems.
Group therapy allows the patients to freely discuss their issues, problems, and even find social influences that share the same symptoms or similar symptoms. When two or more people are together and can relate to each other, this is often more effective than one on one sessions
Group therapy sessions allows the patients to meet once or twice each week, meeting many others that share common illnesses, thus promoting association. If a person is suffering and has difficult to meet in public places, or even go grocery shopping this is a great source for healing.
Some people with mental illnesses often avoid socializing simply because they feel that other people do not understand and it is embarrassing for them to go in public when they are at risk of erupting from their diagnose. Triggers are often what cause a mental ill individual to suffer interruptions, and many times people care less about what may trigger another individual.
Movement That Matters: Exercise With a Greater Purpose
March 27, 2009
You’ve seen the commercials Ive fallen and I cant get up! While this has been a topic of many jokes and late-night comedy skits, the reality is falling is a very real danger for many people. Too often falls can lead to broken bones, hospitalization, and sometimes life-threatening illnesses due to being confined to a bed while recovering.
A less extreme, but still real situation is when a person lacks the leg strength to get out of a chair. Or someone who throws out their back just picking up a child or the groceries from the trunk of the car.
Did you know that this is not inevitable? With consistent and effective exercise, you will maintain your daily activities without injury well into your sixties, seventies, eighties, and beyond.
You may have heard the buzzwords functional training and core training mentioned in the latest fitness magazines. While these terms sound complicated, they are really terms for the most effective and exciting system of strength training being used today.
Lose Weight And Get Healthy; Can Laughter Be A Cure For Obesity?
March 26, 2009
Once there were these two Nuns and they…just kidding! Do you feel any thinner or healthier? Well, according to recent studies, you might not in the beginning but over the long haul, you could actually drop weight.
Now, if you are laughing because you are binging on some kind of pastry or you getting trashed on alcohol, this might not work for you but if you are laughing for other reasons, it could pay greatly by reducing fat around your waist and thighs.
First of all, I am going dispel a few myths regarding the Cortisol fighting snake-oils that are being advertised.
Cortisol is caused by physical and emotional stress! Cortisol is a hormone released by your adrenal glands in response to either physical or emotional stress and that is the reason it is referred to as the “stress” hormone. Whether it’s a lot of missed nights of sleep, an extremely low calorie diet or getting caught in a traffic jam, your body responds in much the same way. It secretes cortisol into your bloodstream, which can cause even more problems.
Three Keys to Managing Your Stress Every Day
March 25, 2009
Three Keys to Managing Your Stress Every Day
by: Karin Vibe Rheymer Stewart
Stress in small doses, and linked to positive events, helps you be more productive, active and happier. However, when stress reaches a certain level, it starts to have adverse effects. Adrenalin floods the body, breathing becomes shallower, your thoughts become less clear - everything is framed in terms of fight-or-flight responses. If this state persists for extended periods of time, irreversible physical damage starts to happen in your body - including the brain.
Some sources of stress you can avoid, but many you unfortunately can’t. However, you can make sure that you regularly and actively reduce your stress level, so that you don’t suffer its adverse consequences.
The first key to stress management is good sleep. Yes, it does make a difference: If you sleep enough, you will be able to better handle things that come your way, and your stress response will be muted. So make sleep one of your priorities, and avoid late nights at work as much as possible.
Mineral Supplements - Reasons For Taking
March 25, 2009
Mineral Supplement ? be healthy.
Why is mineral supplement so important? Minerals are key to maintaining a good health. But if you do not consume enough minerals with the food, mineral supplement would be the answer. Minerals play a number of roles in your body. For example, they help your body to use the energy from foods. You need to control the amount of minerals that you consume with food, since the shortage of minerals in your body can harm your health.
Mineral Supplement ? sources of minerals.
Mineral supplement is the answer when your intake of minerals is lower then the norm, but before using any supplements you should try to maintain a well-designed diet. There are many types of food that can provide your body with minerals. For example, fruits, vegetables, and animal products such as meats, fish, and poultry are the major source of minerals. Many health organizations suggest getting at least 5 to 10 servings a day of fruits and vegetables.
Mineral Supplement ? reasons for taking.
How To Be A Big Fat Loser In 2005
March 24, 2009
Now that the temptations of the Holiday season have passed it is time to stop feeling like a big fat loser and become one by losing all the fat you gained. And I am here to tell you how to do it in seven easy to follow steps.
1.) Cut all the sugar out of your diet 2.) Reduce the size of your portions 3.) Always eat breakfast. 4.) Never let yourself go hungry, it slows down your metabolism 5.) Never eat after 8 pm. 6.) Drink a minimum of 64 ounces of water everyday 7.) Get at least 30 minutes of exercise each day
It is just that easy. It takes a little discipline and some support from family and friends but, you can lose as much weight as you want to over time.
First and foremost I would like to make the point that weight loss is created in the kitchen not the gym. So, we need to stop eating foods that are putting weight on us and start eating foods that will help us shed pounds.
