Posts Tagged ‘Health’

July29

3 Tips to Reduce Your Stress in a Stressful World

By: Ririan

Everyone gets stressed on a day-to-day basis. We typically can’t stop worrying about problems that we should have already put behind us. Things that were already past concerns build up and can soon become overwhelming. If you do not make an effort to overcome stress, it will quickly take over your life. Try these three tips that make a big difference in your stress level and teach you to handle your issues so you can better get on with your day.

Tip # 1: Focus on the here and now. Take a moment to simply let all your previous concerns go and think only about the present moment. Take three slow, deep breaths, and you will quickly start to relax. Tell yourself that you will be able to address your problems individually in time and their presence in your mind will start to fade. Take this further and find a place in yourself where you can be at peace. Stay there until you calm down and your problems start to feel more manageable. Do this whenever you need to relax.

Tip # 2- In addition to finding your own quiet place, it can also be comforting to think of certain actions you do on a regular basis that help put you at ease. You can rock your baby, rake leaves, or take a walk. This offers another opportunity to take a moment for yourself, and provides you with an escape route from the pressures of every day life. Step away as soon as you start to feel like the stress is coming too much and, like before, focus completely on what you are doing without letting other thoughts break into this peace.

Tip # 3- The most important thing you can do for your mental health is also the most important thing you can do for your physical health. Simply eat well and take care of your body. Eat and drink what your body needs, being careful around things like sugar, salt, and alcohol. Exercise gets you in shape and helps you relax. Make sure you are getting a full night’s sleep every time you can, because exhaustion will only make you feel worse. Breathe properly and don’t be afraid to laugh even when you feel on the edge. When it comes to defeating stress, focus on your soul as much as you do your body.

Find balance in your life and your stress will quickly start to fade. When you reduce tension towards issues that are already present, you will be more able to deal with the new ones that arise. Take the things that cause you stress and solve them on a one-by-one basis. Always be sure to have hope and know you can overcome your problems.

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December23

The Pros and Cons of Getting a Flu Shot

By: RirianProject

Influenza (“the flu”) is a respiratory illness that affects millions of North American’s every single year. There are a variety of strains of influenza that circulate world wide throughout the year, and in North America, the flu season generally runs from November to April. It’s estimated that up to 25% of the population get the flu each year.

Flu vaccines have been available since sometime in the 1940’s and it’s made from fragments of inactivated influenza viruses. Since the flu virus is capable of changing from year to year it is very important that the vaccine is updated on an annual basis.

The term flu is often used to describe illnesses that may be a cold or a case of food poisoning. True influenza begins with a headache, chills, cough, and are accompanied by loss of appetite, a general achy feeling, fatigue, fever, runny nose, sneezing, watery eyes and an irritated throat. Although uncommon in adults, children can also experience nausea, vomiting and diarrhea as well.

There are certain classes of people who are deemed to be high risk and, according to the experts, should get the flu shot regularly. They are as follows:

People over the age of 65
Residents of nursing homes
People with serious illnesses such as HIV, cardiac illnesses, asthma, diabetes, and cancer
Those traveling to destinations where influenza is prevalent
Anyone who work or come into contact with those listed above
Children between 6 months and 23 months of age

It is not recommended that children under the age of 6 months or those with egg allergies get vaccinated.

Although getting the flu shot can reduce your chance of contracting the virus by 70-90% in healthy adults, there are some groups of thinking that believe that we should avoid receiving the flu shot.

The vaccine does contain mercury from Thimerosal which is a preservative that is added to the vaccine to prevent bacterial contamination. One of the problems associated with Mercury is the toxicity to the brain and the link to Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss and birth defects. In fact, according to one immunogeneticist, if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots the chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease is 10 times higher than if they had no shots.

Another reason that people avoid vaccinations is the list of toxic ingredients that are found in them such as ethylene glycol (antifreeze), formaldehyde, and aluminum.

Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, there are things you can do to reduce your chance of contracted the flu this year. Strengthen your immune system by eating a healthy diet including lots of fruits and vegetables, wash your hands frequently, exercise regularly, get adequate sleep, and increase your intake of Vitamin C.

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December21

Fad Diets – Why they work, and why they don’t

By: RirianProject

Have you ever wondered why on Earth people would try some of the fad diets that are knocking around? I once knew someone who swore by The Marshmallow Diet. She insisted that it was a tried and true diet where you only eat marshmallows. In case you are wondering, I do not recommend that you only eat marshmallows. However, being the diligent reporter I am, I did Google the diet and found absolutely nothing on this so called diet. You may not have ever been tempted to try The Marshmallow Diet, but some of the following diets may have caught your eye.

The Low Fat Diet sounds reasonable enough. Eating fat would make you fat, right? That’s why a lot of people try the diet, and in theory, it should work because there is actually 9 calories for every gram of fat; but carbs and protein are probably closer to 4 calories. So why doesn’t the diet always work the way we had hoped? Because the chances are, you won’t replace it gram for gram. Eating a reduced fat diet is a good idea, but please remember not to add two helpings of your low fat replacements to your plate!

A Mini Fast (also known as the Hollywood Diet) sounds like it could work for a lot of people. Most of the people I know who are trying to lose weight give up because they don’t see results quickly. A mini fast sounds like it would be right up their alley especially when they find out that the diet is only 2 days long! The problem is that the weight you are going to lose in those two days is all water weight. You see, if you don’t eat food, or if you take a diuretic, your body will flush out water. Since our bodies are made mostly of water, you can see how you can drop “weight” quickly.

Magic Food Diet is a category where a diet consists of eating one type of food. There’s the cabbage soup diet, the grapefruit diet, and I’m sure this is even where we could add the infamous marshmallow diet. The general problem with all of these types of diets is that by severely restricting your intake of healthy foods, even over a period of only 7-12 days, is just not healthy. The weight you take off in that time will never stay off because you will resume eating the way you did before the fad diet started.

Each and every one of you knows exactly what it takes to lose weight. Reduce calories and/or increase activity. It’s the only sure fire way to lose the pounds and the inches and keep them off.

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October6

Tips for Getting Back Into Shape

By: RirianProject

Get in Shape!

When you’re younger it’s a lot easier to find the energy and time to fit exercise and fitness into your life, but as you age it becomes more and more of a hassle. I want to take some today and offer you all some simple tips that you can implement today to help get your bodies back into shape. Even if you’re still in shape you could always use some more exercising in your life which is why these tips are so important.

With long hours being spent at work and more time being spent commuting from work to home there isn’t much time left in your day. You still need to eat dinner, do any errands that need done and for some of you out there you always have children to take care of. This can make it seem nearly impossible to find time for exercising but I’m going to share some tips with you so that you can find time to exercise and get back in shape today.

• Try to wake up a little bit earlier each day if possible and either do a small workout or go for a walk outside. You’d be surprised how nice a walk outside in the morning is to get the brain and fluids flowing. Not to mention that you’ll be doing yourself a huge favour and getting great exercising in while enjoying the outdoors.

• If you’re out of shape at the moment then don’t try losing all the weight right away, take your time and be patient. You need to be consistent when you exercise or else you’ll always get out of shape again so don’t worry about rushing into getting in shape. Take your time and get into a routine, and sooner or later you’ll not even notice the time you use for exercising.

• Workout in front of the television at night instead of lying on the couch. If you spent half an hour which is one television show doing push-ups and sit-ups and what not then you’d be surprised how fit you get. You can also do things like yoga in your own home as well as use exercise equipment in your basement. You can basically have your own gym at home nowadays for under a couple thousand dollars and then you won’t have any excuse not to get in shape.

• Get the family to exercise as well, this way you’ll be spending time with them and making sure you’re all healthy and fit. You could get a family gym membership or buy gym equipment for your home and set away a time each night for the family to workout. You don’t need to be pushing a bunch of weights in your workout, all you need to do is move your muscles and do some light lifting or anything you want depending on your age and sex.

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