Monday, November 12, 2007

Ways to Raise Energy & Increase Vitality

Here's a few wellness tips to consider:

Stop imbibing sodium carbonates and start imbibing H2O and sparkling H2O instead. Drinking sodium carbonate is simply not wise. The pH scale of sodium carbonate is around 2. When the body's pH is too acid, it Fosters a genteelness land for bacteria, fungus & virus, and robs you of natural energy. In fact, acquire your pH degrees alkaline for optimal health.

Limit refined refined sugar intake: Might sound eccentric but sugar gives you instantaneous energy, but a few hours later, and in the long term, it will only do you more than tired.

When you experience stressed take 10 deep breaths. Focus on your breathing. Remember, in through your olfactory organ and out through your mouth. Slow and deep.

Exercise at least 30 proceedings a day. It's as easy as a walking around the block. Don't exert close to bed time.

Drink Green Tea instead of Coffee, or take a healthy energy supplement.

Sleep around 6 hours a night, but avoid sleeping more than 7-8 hours.

Stay away from Hydrogenated Oils. Read the ingredients on the dorsum of merchandises you purchase in the supermarket.

STOP exploitation THE MICROWAVE! It kills all nutrient value (118 grades and all enzymes die) that tin supply energy and nutrients, and we won't advert all the other dangers that have got been ignored about their use. Your nutrient will not nourish you if it have been nuked. Instead, it will remain undigested inside where it putrefactions and causes disease. Eat biologically healthy and active nutrients for optimal wellness and energy.

Surround yourself with positive and supportive people.

Eat fruits with your breakfast and eat veggies with your luncheon and dinner.

Meditations or avowals before you travel to bed and when you wake up will bear down you with the right energy.

Listen to your favourite song whenever you necessitate a pick-me-up. Music transports energy and is a fast manner to acquire stimulated.

Eat breakfast. It will increase your energy and productiveness at work.

Don't be too busy for lunch. Researchers hold that public presentation tons dip when people lose lunch.

Take short interruptions throughout the day. Get up from your chair and take a small walk. Stop looking at the computing machine screen. Stretch. Go acquire a cold drink of water. Short interruptions aid you refocus and re-energize.

Check for nutrient intolerances or allergies: Most people with low class nutrient allergic reactions and sensitivenesses are unaware that they have got them because the symptoms are as elusive as low energy and trouble losing weight.

Eat protein at every meal: One of the most of import ways to maintain your blood refined sugar balanced and energy degrees high is to include protein at every meal, breakfast and bites included. The best protein beginnings include fish, organic meat, chicken, eggs, yogurt, and milk whey protein powder.

Make certain you're getting adequate key nutrients, such as as Carnitine, CoQ10, magnesium, B-complex, and Omega 3's for optimal energy and wellness levels.

Check for barm giantism in the intestines: Gas, bloating, and saccharide or refined sugar cravings are often caused by barm giantism which in bend causes low energy levels.

Make certain you make not have got any medical statuses that tin cause fatigue. These include low thyroid gland function, low iron, high Fe (hemochromatosis), and a scope of other complaints which can be determined by blood tests.

Maintain emotional stability. This is of import to avoid emphasizes to the body. Learn ways of promoting healthy states of mind. This volition always function you best and militate against disease which when you interrupt it down is a consequence of Dis - easiness (when you are not at ease.)

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

The Return of Sci-Fi - Texas Hospital Patients May Soon Be Talking To Robots

Your physician may soon be a robot, or so the whisperings warn. Sound like something out of a bad science-fiction movie? Well, maybe you should inquire whichever doctor shows up on-screen of the RP-7 Distant Presence Robotic System by InTouch Technologies, a maneuverable robotic system designed to let doctors to videoconference with their patients from distant locations.

Dr. Alex Gandsas, of Baltimore's Mount Sinai Hospital and holder of stock options with InTouch Technologies, introduced the machine to infirmary decision makers as a manner to closely supervise patients after the weight loss surgeries in which he specializes. Since its introduction, the length of his patients' corset have been shorter. In Gandsas' survey published earlier this calendar month in the Diary of the American College of Surgeons, 92 of 376 patients had further robotic visits, and all 92 of them were medically cleared to go back place faster than those who did not have check-ins with the teleconferencing system. Shorter patient remains would be a welcome alteration for hospitals, wellness coverage companies, and patients alike -- all of which have got a vested interested in sending patients place faster.

While additional surveys should, without a doubt, be performed by doctors who make not throw a fiscal involvement in the technology, these preliminary consequences make show promise. The robotic visits were not used by Gandsas to replace his personal check-ins with patients -- only to add to them. Neither InTouch Technologies, nor Dr. Gandsas visualizes the "Bari," or so it's nicknamed, as completely replacing personal visits with healthcare professionals. Instead, the joystick-controlled system, which uses cameras, a picture screen, and microphone, is intended to supplement physicians' traditional visits, and to let patients and healthcare workers to have advice from qualified doctors and specializers when it may otherwise be impossible. Doctors may soon be able to supply their patients with further day-to-day check-ins and reply inquiries much faster, all piece sitting in their ain places or while away from the area.

Sinai Hospital isn't the lone 1 with this technology, however. In fact, automatons have got been in usage for some clip to help with patient care, including guiding shot patients through therapy, and helping them play video games. Many prosthetic devices are now at least partially robotic, and if it weren't for a certain amount of robotic technology, the public would not be able to pass on with such as great heads as Steven Hawkins.

Johns Mark Hopkins also have a robotic teleconferencing system to assist pass on with patients who necessitate a transcriber when one is not available at the infirmary itself. Use of such as engineering could have got tremendously positive personal effects on Texas' healthcare system -- particularly in Dallas, Houston, and Capital Of Texas -- which manages a high volume of patients who make not talk English. Lack of adequate communicating is a major obstruction to receiving quality healthcare for many immigrants in Texas. Lack of quality healthcare, in turn, can take to serious populace wellness issues, including the transmittal of communicable diseases.

Approximately 120 RP-7 Distant Presence Robotic Systems are currently in usage around the world, with programs to implement many more than in the approaching years. People'S Republic Of China is already using similar systems to assist trade with the deficiency of medical attention in rural, unaccessible areas.

Dr. Joe Louis Kavoussi, president of the urogenital medicine section at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, took a particular involvement in this new tendency and conducted a survey monitoring the consequence of the engineering on patient care. The survey showed no lessening in patient satisfaction, and no addition in complications owed to teleconferencing visits. The technology, Kavoussi said, is "rudimentary," really, in comparing to other development systems. The demand for fearfulness is minimal.

There are relatively few of InTouch Technologies' systems available, and additional surveys have got yet to be conducted. If robotic teleconferencing is used as a addendum to personal physicians' visits, however, it have the possible of dramatically improving many facets of healthcare -- from how quickly patients' inquiries are answered, to how many visits, in total, they receive, to whether or not rural occupants have proper care, to how well (or even if) they are provided with a transcriber to explicate their symptoms. States like Texas, in particular, with deficits of docs and high volumes of patients who make not talk English, base to benefit. So maybe automatons in infirmaries aren't something 1 necessitates to fear. In fact, they may even acquire your unpleasant stay over with a few years faster.

Being aware of medical engineering is an of import portion of taking attention of your health. How you take attention of yourself will certainly impact you as you age, and eventually your wallet, as well.

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Monday, June 11, 2007

The Breathing Gurus Have Got It Wrong! Four Common Myths About Breathing

It seems like every time you read about a health issue in a magazine or website lately some alternative health guru is giving out breathing instructions. These can range from the totally ludicrous to the simply misinformed. Much breathing advice is a perfect example of misguided information that "sounds" right and gets repeated so many times that it takes on the ring of truth. This is how myths are formed.

The only thing true about common breathing beliefs is that breathing is indeed a marvellous healing tool - when done naturally and correctly. So it's especially sad that so much of what passes for sound advice can often do more harm than good. Here are four of the most common misconceptions about breathing:

"Deep breathing exercises are beneficial" Deep breathing is probably the most popular advice to be heard on this issue. Unfortunately, the way these exercises are described will only lead to hyperventilation, not improved health. The symptoms include dizziness, light-headedness, confusion, and nausea. And to imagine that this is the most common advice given to relieve panic attacks!

"We don't get enough oxygen" Shallow breathing high in the chest supposedly robs us of oxygen. But, fortunately, we get more than enough oxygen. In fact, we're more often oxygen saturated and what we really need is to slow down and get more carbon dioxide!

Users of the Buteyko Method have convincingly debunked the oxygen depletion myth by applying this principle in the treatment of asthma. Slow breathing to lower high blood pressure works on a similar basis that is clinically proven.

"Inhale to a count to 4, pause for 2 seconds, then exhale... (and all similar)" Typical breathing instructions include some variant of a counting procedure. Counting your breathing is counter-productive! Every benefit to be derived from healthy breathing demands total relaxation and there's no way to relax while counting. The same goes for following any type of external timekeeper.

"You must breathe with your abdomen" This is usually accompanied by an explanation that babies breathe naturally with their abdomen and that somewhere along the way we've been corrupted into breathing with our chests. This is one of those things that "seems" so convincing. Until you really think about it. The reason we don't breathe like babies any more is because we've developed into adults!

Most activities require chest breathing and the only time when abdominal breathing is appropriate is in a state of deep relaxation. Abdominal breathing, in fact, can be very beneficial but it follows naturally from a healthy and natural form of breathing.

You can easily find a lot more breathing silliness such as breathing through one nostril and out the other but these are absurdities that don't need comment. They mostly have to do with over-complication.

Complicated or exotic breathing methods may be great challenges for yoga or meditation but are unsuitable for most purposes. They can be especially off-putting for the uninitiated who could most benefit from an easy and rational breathing method.

Simple, healthy breathing comes naturally, despite what some say. Using a simple, natural form of breathing as described below while relaxing for 15 minutes a day is clinically proven to produce a wide range of important health benefits.

Natural, healthy breathing is slow and gentle. Easy does it!

"Deep breathing" is a dangerous and misleading description that usually does more harm than good. A better way to visualize healthy breathing is "slow and gentle". You should forget about getting more oxygen, which you don't need at rest, and focus on breathing more slowly. Slow breathing is the key to health. When you do slow breathing 10 breaths per minute is the absolute maximum and with practice you should be able to get down to 6 breaths a minute.

The second key word is "gently". Breathing gently helps slow you down, relaxes you and also prevents hyperventilation.

Timing is crucial - but don't count on it!

Your breathing pattern is just as important as the rate. You should exhale for approximately twice as long as you inhale. A short pause of a second or two between phases is natural. But there's absolutely no need to count or follow a timekeeper! It's simply not possible to relax deeply while counting or focusing on time. Staying relaxed is far more important than precision timing.

Besides, your internal clock can easily figure it close enough and keep you on the right cycle. Just internalise the formula: inhale, pause, exhale twice as long as inhale. It's easy!

The emphasis is obviously on exhaling. When you exhale relax into it totally and let the air pressure expel itself instead of using muscular force. If you do it right you should feel an incredible release of tension in your chest. This is what opens up blood vessels and lowers blood pressure.

Abdominal breathing - it's only natural

Abdominal breathing is very healthy while relaxing but it follows naturally as a result of slow and gentle breathing. For some people it comes quickly and easily; for others it takes longer. But to try to instill it right off the bat is to put the cart before the horse. It only disturbs the relaxation you need to benefit from this type of breathing in the first place.

So don't worry about abdominal breathing. Follow my easy breathing method for 15 minutes a day and you'll be breathing like a baby again without even realizing it. You'll also discover lower blood pressure, lower levels of stress and anxiety, improved sleep, better moods and any other of the many health benefits that come from the power that lies hidden in your breathing.

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Monday, May 21, 2007

Liquid Vitamins are Best

Vitamins. We all need them. But how to get them is the question. Wonder no more. Now liquid vitamins are available.

What is so great about liquid vitamins? Well, for one thing, more absorb. Your typical pill absorptions is only about 10%. They have found lots of undigested pills in sewage treatment plants. That means you are getting 10% of the nutrition (maybe) and losing 90% of the money you spent on the vitamins.

Liquid vitamins have a much greater absorption rate. Why is this true? For the most part, people have poor digestive tracks. The powers of digestion are weakened. Why? For one thing, most people do not have enough digestive enzymes to digest their food properly. For another, due to the diet of refined foods, there is a "caking" of the intestinal track. Have you ever held a piece of white bread in your hand and squished it? What happens? It becomes a gooey glob. Well, when you eat refine food it gooks up your intestinal track. Gross, but true. And, this gook hinders nutrition from getting through. So, liquid has a better chance of absorption. A good cleanse would help as well. Eating fiber would help as well.

Another thing about liquid vitamins is that they are convenient. It is a lot easier to drink your vitamins than swallow a handful of them. Have you ever had vitamins stick in your throat?

So if you care about your health, go liquid, take liquid vitamins on a regular basis and be healthy.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Living with Asthma - A Personal Story

My story of living with asthma started when I was about seven years old. Up until that point in my life, I had lived an asthma-free life.

Then, for reasons unknown, one day I got my first asthma attack when running up a grassy hillside while taking a walk with my mom and dad at a local park.

I actually can still remember the event fairly clearly, because it was a completely foreign feeling to my body at that point. I remember as I got further up the hill and exerted myself more, I felt a tightness encase my chest area, and a sudden inability to breathe in and expel the air that I was so used to easily processing with my lungs.

As I reached the top of the hill, I remember folding over and holding onto my legs, trying to reposition myself so that I could breathe easier, but the breath just felt like it had been wrung right out of me.

I now realize that this "repositioning" was instinctual for me, and would become a ritual with every subsequent asthma attack after that first one for years to come. I began to wheeze, and when asked what was wrong by my parents, I had no idea how to explain to them what was happening to my body other than the fact that I "couldn't breathe".

It just so happened that this was in the spring time, at a time when the pollen counts were high in that area, and this still is the hardest time for me to deal with my asthma today, although I have it well under control now.

So, I was off to the doctor's office for a checkup soon after that, and was quickly diagnosed with asthma. I was prescribed an inhaler, whose medical name escapes me, although I know it wasn't the albuterol inhaler that is prescribed so often today, and I remember feeling shaky and nervous after using it with almost every dose.

After that day at the park, my life did change. I suffered from what I'd describe as moderate, short-lived to severe, long lasting asthma attacks on a fairly regular basis.

They seemed to be brought on by physical activity, especially when the air was cold, which limited my winter time activities outdoors, and would definitely be worse during seasons where pollen counts were high. So, needless to say, my asthma medication came with me everywhere I went, because I never could tell when an attack would happen.

I do remember a few severe attacks that would not subside, no matter what was done. My mom would try every trick in the book along with the medication, which seemed to be rendered useless when the attacks were severe.

We would try coffee, supposedly because of the stimulant properties, it would help open the lung's passages up. I especially hated this home remedy, because as a kid I hated coffee.

We would also try putting me in the bathroom with a steaming hot shower, hoping the hot steam would help my bronchial passages to relax and open up. This one would sometimes help a little, but it never helped my bronchial tubes dilate enough to make me comfortable again.

I remember one particular evening, I had a friend over-night, and probably just due to sheer excitement, I got one of the most severe asthma attacks I had ever experienced. Nothing would work to take the pressure off my chest and restore my breathing to normal, so my mom ended up taking me to the emergency room, where I was given a shot of adrenaline.

Getting that shot was one of the most visceral experiences in my life thus far, and I still remember exactly how it made me feel, even more than twenty years later. Immediately as I felt the needle in my arm, it was as if my body was shocked to life.

My lungs instantaneously opened up, bringing immediate relief to my rigid, sore back and constricted lungs (from trying to breathe, your back does lot of work, and after a serious attack, your back can often be sore), and my body sort of felt like it was going to jump out of it's skin.

Shots of adrenaline I believe are still used when all else fails in severe asthma attacks, although now, looking back, I do wonder how safe that can be for your heart and your body in general, although if you're having a severe asthma attack, it literally can be the difference between life and death.

And what are the odds that asthma can actually kill you? While they are slim, and the percentage is relatively low of deaths among those with asthma, there are a few thousand deaths recorded each year here in the US that are caused by asthma. As far as I'm concerned, that's a few thousand too many, and I'd rather be safe than sorry in controlling my asthma attacks.

This is why it is important to seek immediate medical attention if you have an attack that will not subside on it's own or even with the use of your usual medication.

It is probably not a good idea to self medicate for asthma, and I've actually heard that over the counter medications for asthma can many times do more harm than good in the long run because of the types of stimulants that are used in them, so it's imperative that if you have asthma, you see a doctor, and have a medical prescription for when you need it.

Other than that, common sense should be followed as far as your personal asthma triggers. Avoid foods that you think may cause an attack. For me, I believe that excessive dairy products and excessive sugar consumption aggravates my asthma, so I avoid it.

As you grow and your body changes, your triggers may change as well. Stay attuned to what these triggers are. Take notice of when you have an attack, and try to correlate that to an activity, food, or environmental condition, and you should be able to avoid asthma attacks and prevent them from happening in the first place.

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Health Benifits Of Drinking Water

Water is the most common and important compound found on the Earth without which, the thought of survival of life is futile. H2O, commonly known as water, consist of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen. Almost 70% of the human body is made up of water. If we study the physiology and anatomy of the human body, we'll find that water is responsible for almost all the vital processes occurring in the human body whether it's the digestive system, circulatory system or some other.

For years our ancestors have admonished us with the importance of water. Perhaps even more importantly, nutritionists and health experts confirm that the health benefits of water are numerous. The most common health malady that occurs in our body due to lack of proper amount of water in our systems is dehydration. This dilemma may provoke many other diseases. Heartburn, headache, back pain, pain in the legs, daytime fatigue, and rheumatoid pain are some of the adverse effects of dehydration. Dehydration generally occurs when the body starts squeezing water from its tissues, brain and skin. All these problems could be eliminated easily by adding proper amount of water in our daily diet. Additionally we can have shinny and healthy skin rather than ragged and dry skin due to dehydration. It's chronic cellular dehydration that kills the cell, but it has a simple solution and that is to drink half of your body weight of water everyday.

Water works as a lubricant for our joints and it flows as a river through our veins, arteries and capillaries. In short it fills nearly every space of our body and acts as a protective shock absorber for our body. It also helps to form the structure of protein and glycogen. Meaning that water is the source that carries nutrients to our cells in each part of our body and also help to transport the waste out of the body. It has been proved advantageous for the functioning of the kidneys, and drinking more of the precious yet abundant fluid could lower the risk of developing kidney stones and gallstones.

Water serves to regulate the internal temperature of the body and maintains a constant fluid balance. Thus it acts as a thermo regulator that is why we can adapt ourselves in any of the Earth's habitats. The electrical stimulation of nerves and contraction of muscles are the result of the exchange of electrolyte minerals dissolved in water. It reduces the risk of cancer as well as being a means of preventing diseases in general by not leaving the body's cells weakened gasping for the water they so desperately need.

Water is a universal solvent and thus plays an important role as a media to carry and distribute the metabolites, hormones and other material around the body and within the cell. Many solutes are also dissolved within it, so it's also essential for health, growth, stamina, building muscle and development. Energy reactions also take place in this medium.

It is good to substitute a cup of coffee in the morning with a glass of water as at this time the blood is most viscous and strokes particularly prevalent. During and after exercise it is also better to drink water to maintain the body's level of hydration. This will also reduce the chance of heart attack at this time of day. Water is the best source to regain the hydration loss due to certain beverages as coffee and tea.

Considering the importance of H2O, it is better to sip it at regular intervals throughout the day regardless and not waiting for thirst to encourage you to take a drink. That will keep you well hydrated. Although it is advisable to drink eight to twelve glasses of water a day, it depends upon various factors as gender, age, physical activity, temperature, physiological condition, etc. There is little to no doubt in the fact that a correct regimen regarding water will help the body to keep the cells, digestive track, joints, and skin hydrated and healthy.

Keeping all this in mind, not only does it make since to drink water and plenty of it, but to give your body the purest water free of pathogenic bacteria, cysts, parasites, trihalomethanes (abbreviated THM's), radiologicals, and heavy metals such as lead and mercury. You can find out more about the health benefits of drinking water and the home water purification systems offered by visiting us at http://www.h2osopure.com/

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Stress Management and a Power-Nap

A recent study in Greece showed that working men who had a nap after lunch had a 74% reduced rate of heart attacks over those who did not rest.

We are all subject to stress in one form or another and need to devise ways of reducing and avoiding it.

You will be less subject to stress if you are well rested and eat proper nutritious food. Many fast foods cause your mind and body to become hyperactive and then reverse this rapidly to a considerable down. The best food to eat is dominantly natural carbohydrate of fruit, vegetable, cereals, rice or pasta. This is absorbed slowly and keeps your blood sugar at a good level for a prolonged time.

The body and mind need more short periods of rest than we have been accustomed to allowing ourselves. Even a few minutes total relaxation will refresh you so that you can continue with what you were doing in a much more effective way. You can learn to relax fully and to have a power-nap quite easily in the comfort of your own home.

A power-nap will put you into a refreshing phase of sleep, but not so deep that you wake up feeling even more tired than before you started. A power-nap should last from a couple of minutes up to a maximum of twenty minutes and can be done anywhere - even in the middle of a meeting, as long as you know you have a period that doesn't involve you.

You should relax all the muscles of your body from the top of your head down to your toes. Imagine yourself to be in a warm and comfortable environment that has happy, relaxing memories for you, and gently will yourself in to a relaxing sleep. Say to yourself I am relaxing and drifting gently asleep, and repeat this slowly, and quietly. You will drift off in to a gentle sleep.

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You will learn to set your own internal alarm clock which will wake you up in the number of minutes you set it at. You will then gradually wake up to a bright sunny day, feeling rejuvenated.

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