Health Tips: 2013

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Are You Scared You'll Eat All the Halloween Candy?

Well it's that time of the year when everywhere you look you see candy, treats and sugary temptations all about. If you are in the Zone - meaning on track with your healthy habits - this may not even faze you. But if you aren't look out! This seemigly innocent holiday is loaded with abandon and regret. Sure it tastes good for a minute or two and then you are fiddled with guilt and remorse wishing you could have more self control. Well don't worry it only lasts a few weeks right? However, you could let this type of snacking take over and it could last well into Thanksgiving and beyond. You'll end up crying in front of your mirror when the actual holidays come around and you are unable to fit into the new dress you just bought a few months back.

OK - I will not go on about this potential disaster any longer but rather give you some strategies of how to overcome the temptations.

Here are your 5 strategies on how to handle Halloween and even have a healthy one...

5 Halloween Strategies:

Strategy #1 Don't go down the candy aisle. I witnessed today while shopping that during Halloween there is no designated candy aisle - there is literally candy everywhere you turn. So take a breathe and focus on why you went shopping in the first place to buy chicken, eggs and some fresh vegetables - lots of them. Write out a list if that helps and don't buy off the list. If you don't feel that strong - give the list to your husband, neighbor or teenager (yes, some will) and ask them to go shopping for you. Enroll others help. Or munch on an apple before you go into the store - that will curb your sweet tooth. Also drink some water as that will reduce hunger. You'll end up making wrong choices if you shop when you're hungry.

Strategy #2 Give something else. You might be someone who loves to hand out candy to neighborhood kids so this strategy won't work. My husband and I lived in rural Malibu for many years and actually seldom had children come by on Halloween for their yearly trick or treat. We kind of got used to not having candy around because we didn't need it on that Hallowed Eve.

An End to European Health and Safety at Work Week

European Health and Safety at Work Week has now come to an end, with events and activities across Europe to mark the occasion and highlight awareness of the importance of being safe in the work place.

In the UK it is the Health and Safety Executive who are responsible for ensuring employees adhere to the Health and Safety at Work Act. Established in 1971, it is designed to protect employees within the workplace and ensure businesses offer a duty of care to their staff.

In 2011/12 there were over 1 million work related injuries, resulting in over 27 million lost working days. This is a huge figure and has a huge impact on businesses in being able to trade efficiently, as without staff a business cannot expect to be successful or indeed operate.

Some injuries are more common than others in the workplace, with each environment having its own set of potential hazards.

Slips and Trips

This is one of the most common types of injury sustained within the workplace, either from slipping on a wet floor or tripping over a hazard in a walkway. Injuries from slips and trips can vary in their severity, from simple sprains and strains to broken bones with the most common affected areas being the wrist and ankle.

Wrist injuries are common after falls as we are programmed to put our arms out when we fall to protect our face, therefore the hand and wrist receives the full force of the impact. A sprained wrist can be very painful and hinder your ability to work, especially if it is your writing hand which is damaged. These are largely self-limiting conditions and the inflammation and pain should subside within a few days, allowing you to regain full control of your wrist. It is clear to understand the importance health and safety when a minor issue such as a sprained wrist can lead to a few lost working days.

Another method of rehabilitation from wrist injuries is the use of a wrist support, designed to offer protection and support of the joint following injury. There are different types of wrist supports depending on the nature of the condition you wish to manage, from breathable materials designed to manage inflammation to rigid designs which restrict movement of the joint to minimise the risk of further injury.

5 Surprising Ways Toilet Paper Hurts the Environment

Many people are becoming more aware of the environment these days, trying to find ways that they can help the world be a healthier place. But there is something that most people use that is actually very damaging to the environment, which is considered to be necessary by millions of people. This item is toilet roll.

Let's look at the effects that toilet tissue has on the environment.

Toilet paper destroys trees

One of the biggest effects on the environment is that toilet paper destroys trees. Although a lot of companies are making toilet paper with recycled paper, it still has a big impact on trees. This is because millions of trees are still being cut down every year to satisfy our insatiable demand for loo paper which isn't recycled.

Even though recycling has helped with this problem, it still is a huge problem. It's estimated that over 7 million trees are cut down annually to make toilet paper just for the United States. How about the UK, Australia, Canada, Europe? Millions more trees needlessly cut down.

Chemicals are used in toilet paper production

Another big issue with toilet tissue production is that chemicals are needed, such as chlorine and bleach to whiten the paper. These chemicals often enter the environment once the manufacturing is complete and can affect the plant and wildlife that comes into contact with them.

Toilet paper clogs our sewage systems

One of the biggest problems with loo paper is something that most people are not aware of. Toilet paper and wet wipes clog our sewers and septic tanks. It's especially bad with septic systems, since when the septic tank overflows it can go into the land and into the water, making animals and humans sick.

How to Reduce Stress in Your Life Before It Hurts You!

Everyone suffers from stress now and then; however, there are things you can do to reduce stress, especially if it interferes in your daily activities.

To reduce and manage stress, it is important to take charge of your emotions, thoughts and the way you look and deal with problems. Managing stress begins by finding out what the sources of stress are in your life. Many things cause stress such as not knowing how to handle certain situation, worrying about your work or putting off things that need to be done. To find out what is causing stress in your life, look carefully at how you handle problems and your daily habits.

Many have found help dealing with stress by starting a stress journal. By keeping a stress journal you can keep track of what is causing you to be stress out, how you acted in response to the stress and what you did to make yourself feel better, more relaxed.

There are many ways that unhealthy when coping with stress such as smoking, eating too much, using pills to relax or sleeping too much. It is important to note that there are healthy ways to manage stress such as avoiding the stressful situation or person, alter the stressor, adapt to the stressful condition or accept the stressful condition or person.

The Various Benefits of Consuming Natural Health Foods

Nowadays, more and more people around the world are realizing the importance of a healthy diet. Overdependence on fast food has led to a massive increase in obesity, diabetes and other health problems all over the world. Most fast food chains use high amounts of oil to make their food, which leads to high cholesterol and heart diseases as well.

There are a number of natural health food products available in the market these days. These products promise to be just as tasty and filling as fast food items, and do not cause any harm to the body. While apple chips, organic fruit preserves, etc. are partially processed foods, they do provide almost as many benefits as the real thing.

Foods like burgers, fries, cheese, and certain desserts have a high amount of unsaturated fat, which could lead to clogged arteries and heart diseases. A lot of fast food joints have started to offer healthier items on the menu. However, what most people don't realize is that some of the components used in such foods such as sauces and dressings, minimize any benefit you get from eating healthier items.

Now Is The Time To Lose Weight

So you really want to shed those extra pounds clean off. But you never seem to get to it and instead push your goals farther back until it becomes one failure after another. Well, I'm here to tell you that you can start right here and right now. Don't put it aside any longer.

You drive past the same old workout building everyday on your way to work. You look through the windows and see people lifting, running, pulling, whatever they are doing to becoming better human beings. As you continue on, a part of you wants to be in there right now exerting and challenging yourself. But when are you going to find time for that? If you have a busy schedule you know what this feels like. But let me tell you that you don't need a gym to get fit, or even an exercise ball.

It all starts in the mind. Stop putting yourself down and feeling frustrated. That's not going to help you one bit. What you need is hope. Purpose in your mind that failure is not who you are. Make the most of the one life you have to live. It flies by faster than you know. Look at exercising as an opportunity to live life to the fullest, to reveal the real you under all that weight. And when does that start? Right now.

Important Advice on Hygiene

Use The Bum Gun Bidet Sprayer:

Using The Bum Gun after every trip to the bathroom can dramatically decrease the amount of bacteria on your hands. Put some distance when doing 'your business' between bacteria and your hands.

Wash your hands:

Always wash your hands after going to the toilet, even when you use The Bum Gun. Wash your hands regularly throughout the day. Having clean, hygienically clean hands is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

We all should know how important it is to wash our hands after using the toilet, but fewer than 50 percent of people actually do it. A lot of research suggests very few actually wash their hands properly. Wash for at least 20 seconds, but 30 to 45 seconds if possible, scrubbing between fingers and under nails. And if possible pick up that soap for a second time, and lather, rinse and repeat.

Public Bathrooms:

Don't close the taps with your bare hands after washing. Use a hand towel.

Don't open the door with your bare hands after washing. Use a hand towel.

Use Hand Sanitizer:

Use hand sanitizer at your desk at home, and especially at work. When you get to work use it. After any breaks use hand sanitizer. And basically when you just haven't used it for a while. You can't be too clean.

Don't use the same cloth for everything:

Most people often use the same cleaning cloth to clean everything in the kitchen. The worktops, washing the dishes, and the chopping board. How many mums also use that same cleaning cloth to wipe their kids faces?

Prevent cross-contamination:

To prevent cross-contamination. Use a different implement for each cleaning task in the kitchen and bathroom. Disinfect cutting boards after each use.

When Beauty Works With Science

A combination of common to unique qualities that project an enchanting aesthetic sense most especially to the sight, this is what beauty means.

Now what does science mean? Or what comes into your mind when talking about science? Science is anything that involves intellectual activity or something that speaks of practicality that touches the systematic system of how something is being structured.

Now what if beauty and science cross paths? What would be the end result when beauty and science are to combine together and work as one? Well that gives one a tough question.

When science came in conjunction with beauty one of the end results is innovation. Yes, innovation in the sense that some so ordinary can be further enhance through science to let its really beauty show off. Science and beauty may be the best opponents in facts and at some point in subjectivity but when they work together they indeed promise good outcomes. Both can bring together advancement in science and technology and can further make both beauty and wellness something that people can easily and better access.

Ways To Keep Young Tennis Players Motivated

It can be challenging at times for parents, coaches and tennis trainers to keep young tennis players motivated. Let's look at some factors that affect their motivation and enthusiasm.

1. Over training or Burnout leads to fatigue (mentally and physically) this is caused by training too much or not resting enough. I would say this is one of the main reasons young players lose motivation but it can be avoided by having a structured tennis fitness plan.

2. External distractions. By external distractions I mean, the opposite sex, computer games, spending time with friends, other sports and discovering other interests. It is important too that you realize things will change from time to time as young players develop so too do their interests and desires. More often than not the more you try and restrict certain things the more they may rebel or be inclined to loose interest in the things they have been focused on for years.

3. Communication. Asking questions like; what are you enjoying about your lessons/ tennis training program, what do you enjoy about tennis, what do you feel we need to change to make things better. It is important to have an open line of communication and get them thinking about their tennis, not just doing it.

4. External negativity. Parents, coaches, trainers, friends and relatives that display impatience, aggressive behavior or dismissive body language towards young players, will have a detrimental affect on their attitude and motivation. These negative behaviors can ruin their confidence and self-belief.

Setting short-term attainable goals is important when trying to keep young players motivated. When we start a new tennis fitness program with a young player we discuss the objective and set some attainable goals for them to strive for. We call this "The buy in" and it works really well because they feel they have helped set the goal and as long as it is kept challenging and enjoyable they will do their best to achieve it.

We do not recommend giving food or treats as rewards to young players as a form of motivation; it sets up a bad platform for the future. Every time they do well you don't want them thinking, YES, I get to have McDonald's tonight. If they have been doing well, trying their best or achieved a goal, it is best to reward them with an experience (massage, time with friends or a movie)

10 ways to keep young players motivated.

1. Get involved and enthusiastic about tennis yourself. Watch matches on T.V, follow the professional tours, and plan trips to watch tournaments. Young players take in a lot from adults, they can feed of our enthusiasm and attitude towards things.

The Basic Symptoms of Renal Problems

Are you tensed about kidney diseases?

If one can recognize the kidney disease at an early stage, the treatment would become much easier for the doctors. Nowadays a number of people are suffering from kidney problems. You need to identify the symptoms and then go to the doctor for proper cure. Actually the symptoms are kind of silently occurring changes in the body which is difficult for the person to understand. There are various kinds of symptoms. Mainly basic symptoms are the lighter ones. But if the disease has reached a higher stage, then there are complex symptoms. But is it possible to assess your body on your own? For that you need to know about the basics of kidney symptoms.

The signs of danger

The symptoms which are generally associated with the kidney diseases mainly occur due to the less quantity of lecithin. The deficiency of lecithin results in the gathering of calcium in the tissues of the kidneys which leads to swelling. These swellings prohibit the kidneys form normal functioning. The kidney is basically the organ which helps in purifying the blood. Any effect on the kidney will lead to impure blood.

The symptoms include:

• Blood in urine
• Swelling of body parts

Understanding the Fundamentals of Renal Issues

What are kidney diseases?

Kidneys are very important organs of a human body which are bean shaped and located on both the sides of your spine just above your waist. Kidneys are very crucial for a human being as they perform several functions. Their main function is to purify the blood by removing the excess fluid and waste materials from the blood. The kidneys help in maintaining a balance between the salt and mineral levels in the body. They also help in regulating the blood pressure. When the kidneys are damaged, the excess liquids in the body emerge out in the body in the form of swellings. You feel fatigued. The other symptoms are vomiting, poor sleeping pattern, weakness and short breathiness.

What are the causes of acute injury of the kidneys?

The loss of the function of the kidney is termed as acute kidney injury or renal failure. These can happen due to the following points:

• A bad injury with excessive blood loss.
• Reduction of the flow of blood to the kidneys.
• Kidney damage due to shock.
• Enlarged prostate in males which obstruct the urine flow.

The Healing Energy Of You And Your Family And Your Friends

What is the true relationship between you and your family and friends?

You must realize right away that you are NOT your brother's keeper... or your sister's or your mother's or your son's or your best friend's...

While you can provide a soft shoulder for them to cry on and give advice (I do these things quite often) you must realize that you are only responsible for yourself and your own actions. Likewise, everyone else is responsible for their actions as well.

Giving advice is OK if done for the right reason but you should never, NEVER expect anyone to take your advice and live by it.

You are responsible for your own health and well-being. I am of the mind that if you have a problem that you cannot solve yourself you should ask for help. If the help offered by someone is not "helpful" or doesn't sound right to you, don't stop there -- Ask someone else!

For example: If in seeking help someone tells you that your problem is caused because you have cancer and you are going to die next month, don't take their word for it. As a friend of mine likes to put it, "Cancer is a noun, not a sentence." I fail to understand people who have such a problem and do not search every possible avenue, no matter how farfetched it may seem.

Family Carers Don't Have To Be Alone With Home Care Assistance

It has been estimated that there are over 5.5 million carers across the United Kingdom providing varying levels of care for friends and family. These people are commonly known as family carers. This type of care can range from providing round-the-clock care for a disabled loved one, to simply checking on an elderly relative - to ensure that they're okay. Being a family carer is tough; it requires dedication and full commitment, but can be incredibly rewarding. In the most severe of cases, family carers will work 50-hour weeks, leaving them with little time to relax in a quiet environment, Although carers, in a fully committed mind set, will typically consider everyone else's need but their own, it's important for a break to be taken; or at least for some of the strain to be taken from their shoulders.

The home care assistance offered by many care agencies is great for these purposes. Though, some carers are wary about disrupting the care recipient's routine, home care assistance typically consists of a professional carer coming in to provide care. There's absolutely no relocating the care recipient to a care home. So, there's no need for a family carer to worry about having to move their loved one in an environment they're completely unfamiliar with, so they can take a break - regardless of how short.

Why Having a Food Wash in the Kitchen Is Important to Your Family's Health

In today's world, we hear more and more horror stories regarding the contamination of food products. Whether it's salmonella found in a fresh chicken supplies or E.Coli lurking in our produce, these bacterial contaminants can cause severe illness or even death in some cases. This is why it is imperative to ensure that a good quality organic food wash forms part of your list of kitchen cleaning supplies.

Types of Food Wash Available
Over the years, many food wash products have claimed that they are suitable for all types of food. However, this may not always be the case. Different types of food are susceptible to different types of contaminants, which is why it is important to use the correct product for each food type. A fruit wash and veggie wash will ensure that your fresh produce is left clean and bacteria-free, while a meat wash product will assist with the removal of various harmful contaminants from your fish, chicken and meat products.

Removing Unwanted Contaminants
When it comes to purchasing food products, it is impossible to determine how often it has been handled during the shipping, storage and packing processes. This makes the food vulnerable to contamination via physical contact. It is also possible for fresh food supplies to become contaminated by simply being exposed to existing stock on store shelves and in refrigerators. Ensuring that your purchases are thoroughly washed and dried prior to being packed in your refrigerator or pantry will go a long way in preventing contamination and the spread of harmful bacteria to your family.

4 Ways on How to Relieve Hip Pain

The hip joint is essentially a ball and socket joint that is designed to provide a near unrestricted range of motion and withstand this cyclic process and the wear and tear it brings along. Due to the frequency of usage, the hip joint can break down easily. The soft tissues located in the hip will be overused and injuries such as fractures and sprains can then happen, leading to hip pain. We will discuss about some ways to relieve hip pain in this article.

Stretching exercises

Stretching exercises help to keep the target group muscles warm and flexible. Exercises will increase blood flow to the area, bringing more nutrients such as oxygen and aiding repair works. Hip exercises such as bridging can help to relief hip pain. You simply have to lie down on your back and raise your butt off the ground while contracting your abs muscle. Hold in this position for 10 seconds and repeat for 3 sets.

Tips on How to Take Control of Your Weight

1. Cleansing the body

This should be the first step for anyone embarking on a weight loss journey. This is a process of removing toxins from the body. The following are different ways of cleansing the body. These are:

a) Detox diets
b) Fasts
c) Colonic irrigation
a) Detox diets

Detoxification has been practiced for a long time by various cultures around the world. It involves resting cleaning and nourishing the body from the inside to the outside. This way, toxins are removed and eliminated and after that the body is fed with healthy nutrients. Detox helps you to renew your ability to maintain good health.

Despite their benefits, detox diets should be done carefully after consulting a doctor.

A good detox diet is one that nourishes your body with the right nutrients to keep our systems working smoothly and to aid in removing toxins from our bodies. Detox diets help the body's natural healing process by,

i) Resting the organs
ii) Stimulating body organs to remove toxins from the body
iii) Improving blood circulation
iv) Refueling the body with healthy nutrients

There are many detox diets in the market that involve extremely low calorie intake, which can rob the body of essential nutrients causing dehydration fatigue dizziness nausea and even colon damage. They also place the body in starvation mode, which, basically slows down your metabolic rate. These detox plans should be completely avoided.

What Is IV Nutrition Therapy?

Eating clean food and exercising regularly is not always enough to stay healthy, especially for people who suffer from immunity problems or who have diseases that weaken their body's ability to absorb nutrients. In order to maintain a proper internal balance, supplements are often seen as a necessary option. One method many natural health clinic providers have turned to as a means for treating their patients' ailments is IV nutrition therapy.

If you have ever been in the hospital, chances are you were hooked up to an IV machine. These devices are instrumental in providing the body with vital nutrients in the right doses. However, the best thing about IV nutrition (and why virtually every medical provider has them on hand) is the delivery method.

The Advantage of IV Nutrition Therapy

While oral supplements have equal amounts of vitamins and nutrients, they can sometimes be rendered ineffective when problems with digestion occur. It is not uncommon for people who have low amounts of hydrochloric acid (stomach acid) and digestive enzymes to experience minimal nutrient absorption, which basically makes the process counterproductive altogether.

More About Life and Physical Science For Chiropractic School Requirements

When you are looking to enroll in a chiropractor college, you will usually need to have completed at least 90 credit hours in an accredited program. Chiropractic school requirements generally encourage a focus on health and science courses, and investing in these classes and doing well in them can increase your chances of being accepted for admission. These classes can include:

Anatomy or Anatomy and Physiology - This choice gives students a solid foundation on the physical structure of the body and how each part works together.

Biology - The general study of biological systems takes students on a tour of everything from the inside of the cell to an overview of all living things on the planet. This will be a good introduction to some of the concepts you will learn more about in your chiropractic courses.

Physics- Knowledge of physics demonstrates solid scientific thinking. On a more base level, the manual correction of subluxations shows a solid understanding of physical force applied specifically and practically and for best results in patient care.

Three Great Reasons To Choose a Chiropractic Career

A chiropractic career can be incredibly rewarding, which gives people many motivations for why they may embark on that path. However, even beyond the work itself, here are some of the top reasons people take up this career path:

1) Positive influence over the lives and well-being of patients

As a chiropractor, you will help patients achieve better health and over all well-being. Your hands-on adjustments will be key to their sustained health, as you help their bodies work their best. Furthermore, you will be trained to communicate with patients to assist them in healing in a supportive environment. This is another specialty of the field, with chiropractor training to sit down with patients and make sure they understand every step of the process, as well as emphasis on follow-up and a detailed patient history.

When it comes to helping people, a good chiropractor college typically starts you on this path early by having you work directly with patients during your education. The best schools have an on-campus clinic with x-ray machines and other equipment like thermography scanners. Students get a chance to view real cases and then work under the supervision and support of practising chiropractors. This lets them experience all the challenges they will encounter later, as part of their careers.

Easy Ways to Assess Your Health

When seeking to understand and evaluate your health, there are some key things we should all look at. Strength, height and weight, clothes size, and stress levels just to name a few. And while these things certainly matter, there are some other pieces of the wellness pie that we need to consider when looking at holistic health. Check them out below.

Essential Numbers
When was the last time you had blood work done? Have you been putting off your yearly physical because you are afraid of what your doctor might say? It is critical that you know and understand your own personal health as indicated by blood pressure, heart rate, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar. Knowing these will help you establish an effective plan for better health and wellness, and it will give you a baseline from which to base your progress. So educate yourself, and aim for healthy ranges.

Recovery Time
How long does it take you to bounce back from a tough workout, from climbing a set of stairs, from doing 20 jumping jacks? Knowing how quickly you recover and regain a normal, unlabored breathing pattern can be a great indicator of your current fitness level. If you are huffing and puffing for minutes post-workout, keep up the good work and shoot for progress. If you can go for a hike and maintain stable breathing, you might be better off than you thought. Whatever your current state of health, there is always room for progress or different goals.

What Is Chiropractic Care All About?

The skill of chiropractic has been in practice since 1895, when D.D. Palmer in Davenport, Iowa founded it. Although it has been a never ending care plan that has been questioned, it also is a course of treatment that has been in practice since that time. the controversy that surrounds chiropractic profession is partially due to its metaphysical origins.

While there is a general scientific consensus that chiropractic is as effective for lower back pain as other treatments, it is yet to be proven to be effective on other medical conditions. Chiropractic subluxation has been proven to help with low back pain and similar problems, it is rumored to have adverse effects on some areas of the circulatory system, it is considered safe and helpful by those who take advantage of the treatment.

Most insurance companies cover chiropractic care to some extent. In the United States, Medicare will pay for subluxation by a chiropractor. This is the process that adjusts the spine to a state of well-being. When the spine is out of alignment, there is pain. By using firm, gentle pressure along the spinal column, the chiropractor can ease the pain and spasm of an uneven spine.

Initially, chiropractors felt that spinal subluxation was responsible for allowing the body to heal itself. While it is still considered an important step in good health, it is not stated to cure every illness. Many chiropractors have incorporated other treatments in their practice.

Special Treatment For A Weekend Injury

There is never a good time or convenient time to suffer an injury or illness. But families with active children know that kids can pick the most inopportune times to fall from skateboards and bicycles or sprain an ankle sliding into second base. Generally these types of mishaps occur on a Saturday when both parents have their honey-do lists and trying to find a doctor to see a young patient on short notice is almost impossible. Then they think of their neighborhood Urgent and Primary Care Clinic. They have been there for a stuffy nose but the sign on the door says 'Urgent" and this is an urgent matter.

The Urgent and Primary Care Clinics are not just for kids. They can see and help a mother's adult kid, too. How many husbands begin the day with their to-do list and by Noon it has become an oops list? Thank goodness the clinic can help him with the back ache from carrying too many garbage bags, banged knuckles from trying to build that tree house, and the awful allergic reaction to the yellow jackets that stung him while he tried to trim the shrubs. While some injuries can be the result of poor judgment, an illness like the allergic reaction can become quite serious without proper treatment.

Fun Ways to Get In Shape Now

For most people, the thought of getting in shape is not all that desirable. You may be thinking that you have to get out and run really hard each day in order to be successful at losing weight. This is not the case. The way you approach losing weight will make It a lot easier for you to succeed. Not only will you be able to lose weight, but you'll also be able to keep it off for good. Living a healthier lifestyle is a lot less difficult with the right approach and mental attitude. Running does not have to be the only way that you try and lose weight. There are other ways that you can get in better shape that do not involve as much rigorous activity. Have you ever thought about playing tennis? What about riding a bike? These are a few things that do not involve getting on your running shoes and sweating like crazy.

If you do not enjoy running, consider the other options that you have to get in shape. Physical activity does not have to be boring and strenuous. Playing tennis can be a fun thing for you because it may not be something that you're not used to doing. There are a lot of people that enjoy playing tennis and this is helping them to get in better shape. You may find that other people are also trying to get in shape and they are not even the most skilled tennis players. You may find that playing tennis can be a fun way for you because it is not as boring as running. You will get a lot of exercise because you will be running back and forth on the court. You may not realize how much running you are doing because chasing the ball will take your mind off of how much running you are actually doing.

Healthy Ways To Beat Type 2 Diabetes

If you have discovered that you have Type 2 Diabetes, this can be a shocking and frustrating discovery - one that brings up far more questions than it does answers, and that can even cause a fair amount of fear (furthermore, you may be living with Type 2 Diabetes and not even realize it - something that, believe it or not, occurs for many people); hopefully in stumbling upon this article, however, you have made a decision to not simply settle down with your fear and concern, and have instead chosen to find ways to beat your Type 2 Diabetes. And while it may not always be possible to completely get rid of your Type 2 Diabetes for good, there are plenty of healthy choices you can make to get back to a place where you are healthy, and where you are no longer affected and held back by this disease.

Exercise is important: One of the most important things to realize, when it comes to beating this disease, is that starting to become more active is one of the best things you can do - and this does not necessarily mean you need to install a rigorous workout routine, either, as even just going for a walk each day can make a huge difference in your health; the results from your exercise may not come right away, but over time you will discover that you are losing weight and are lowering your fasting blood sugar levels to a more normal range.

What Is Dementia? And What Are Signs and Symptoms of Dementia?

Dementia is not a single disease in itself, but a general term to describe symptoms such as impairments to memory, communication and thinking.

While the likelihood of having dementia increases with age, it is not a normal part of aging. Before we had today's understanding of specific disorders, "going senile" used to be a common phrase for dementia ("senility"), which misunderstood it as a standard part of getting old.

Light cognitive impairments, by contrast, such as poorer short-term memory, can happen as a normal part of aging (we slowly start to lose brain cells as we age beyond our 20s3). This is known as age-related cognitive decline, not dementia, because it does not cause the person or the people around them any problems.1 Dementia describes two or more types of symptom that are severe enough to affect daily activities.

Symptoms that are classed as "mild cognitive impairment" - which, unlike cognitive decline, are not a normal part of aging - do not qualify as dementia either, since these symptoms are not severe enough.1 For some people though, this milder disease leads to dementia later on.

An analysis of the most recent census estimates that 4.7 million people aged 65 years or older in the US were living with Alzheimer's disease in 2010.5 The Alzheimer's Association has used this analysis to number-crunch the extent of the disorder in its 2013 report. It estimates that:

Just over a tenth of people aged 65 years or more have Alzheimer's disease.

Do Resistance Bands Serve As Reliable Fitness Products?

Health and fitness has been an increasing dilemma in our current society. Nowadays, the world is facing a lot more diseases as well as other problems, compared to any previous era. Being overweight, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes are just some of the immediate conditions that can be forcing people choose the more fit side of life.

In the attempt to become healthier and happier, many people are considering different food options, exercise programs, and weight-training. A particular method of body building that has become gradually favored nowadays will be the resistance band training. If you are not really acquainted towards the stated method, as soon as you scan this informative article, you're going to be.

Resistance workout is really typical. It can furthermore be looked at as an alternative or maybe counterpart for weight training, since many men and women use weight lifting, dumbbells, and/or other gym weights to reinforce and firm up muscle mass. Though not latest in existence, it's kind of new in interest as a possible action instrument, and it has emerged from the world of fitness to be well-known as the resistance, or stretch band. At most simplified means, this particular instrument can be described as a rubber band. But, it is not the traditional small rubber band that a person use to bind things up. It is a thicker, garter-like elastic band or the item might be longer and also have holders. It is specifically constructed for body building.

How can the elastic band function?

The particular use of the resistance training band is definitely to assist an individual build and also enhance your muscles through invulnerable force. One particular side of the elastic band will be held down by way of the foot or by one hand, while the other palm pull on it just like forcefully expanding out the farthest way possible. Should an individual assume of it, it really does appear just like a good manner to tire yourself off. Stretching out one elastic band using your own hands is usually kind of an exercise routine.

How does it compare to body building?

It is not exactly identical to body building. First off, the method of making use of this tool is extremely unusual. Weights already posses a particular mass that you will probably carry, just like ten pounds. Regardless of what you should do, this weight isn't going to vary. But, when it comes to resistance bands, you can find simply resistance. This resistance is definitely developed by just your own human body when you hold the elastic band down.

Being Powerless - Illusion of Alcoholics Anonymous

Hi there beautiful being - welcome to the world of power. In this world, judgment of you stops & you reclaim your personal potency, knowing you are not victim to anything and no longer have to look to others for your answers. Potency is innate power without using force and minus control.

I am wondering -

√ Have you struggled with addictions?

√ What if you could stop judging those addictions as wrong?

√ What if your purpose were to remember that you were created in perfection and to acknowledge who you are with every choice?

We have been taught from infancy to believe we are powerless - that others have the control. We have been programmed to give our power away to our families, our religious institutions, our schools and governments. Even AA, has encouraged you to give away your power with its first step, "We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable."

Oh my goddess, what a blatant lie! I am here to assure you that we are powerless over no - thing, nothing. Rather, we are the POWER, our own SUPER POWER - we are powerful creators who create our life's experiences by our thoughts which ultimately bring about our feelings. Everything is energy... our experiences validate what our thoughts have been vibrating.

10 Fitness Tips for Busy Moms

It's not just a saying that "... Being a mom is truly the most important and the most difficult job on earth." Moms are almost expected to be super-human: maintaining a home, cooking, homework, bathing and caring for little ones, caring for not-so-little ones (depending on how self-sufficient your husband is) and, very likely, going to work. It's no wonder most of us don't have time to get back our pre-baby bodies. When do you fit a workout (or even a shower for that matter) into that kind of schedule?

But, here's a little secret you might not know: if you manage to fit some exercise into your ultra-demanding schedule, it will get easier... not easy, being a mom is never easy, but it will make it easier to accomplish all the things you have to do in a day. One of the many benefits of getting fit is that it boosts your energy level. So here are 10 tips that might help you to fit working out into your schedule and to stick with it:

Work around your schedule. Don't reschedule your life to fit in a workout, schedule your workout to fit your life. If you can only workout 15 minutes on a given day, then get in that 15 minutes. Doing something is always going to benefit you more than doing nothing.

Do a workout that will give you the most benefits in the least amount of time. The workout that will do this for you is resistance training. Simply put, muscle burns fat - even at rest, a person with more muscle will burn more fat than a person with little muscle. This doesn't mean that you have to look like a body builder. A toned, healthy physique is the key.

Change it up. Workout boredom is one of the main reasons people quit working out. Get some variety in and don't repeat the same workout over and over again. Not only will your muscles adapt to it thus decreasing its effectiveness, but you won't stick to it if the thought of doing it bores you silly.

Make it fun. Blast some motivational tunes, dance and sing out loud between sets (okay, maybe not if you're working out at a gym), post some motivational posters in your workout space. Heck, give yourself some positive feedback. When you finish an especially hard set yell "I ROCK!!"

Tips to Improve Hormone Imbalances

Have you been feeling tired lately, more than normal? Do you find it difficult to wake up in the morning or perhaps fall asleep easily at night? Have you noticed any dramatic weight fluctuations? If you have answered "yes" to these questions, the problem may lie in a hormone imbalance. So it is important for you and your health that you understand the potential severity of this issue and why it is imperative to treat it accordingly.

What are Hormones?

In the simplest terms, hormones are the body's natural chemical messengers. They interact with every process and come in many different types. Growth, reproduction, mood, and metabolism are just a few of the things hormones have a marked impact on, and as such, the quantity of their production has a direct effect on how these processes are carried out in the body. Hormones are produced by the endocrine glands (pituitary, adrenal, thyroid, etc.) and consumption of healthy fats and cholesterol is what facilitates/regulates hormone release.

The Effects of Abnormal Hormone Production

Herein lays the problem. Very few of us are perfectly healthy-far from it actually. The majority of people in the U.S. experience the negative effects of bad diets (we can blame fast food for that), and one of the major ones is an imbalance in the natural production of hormones. This happens in one of two ways, neither of which is positive. Too little or too much of any hormone can cause adverse side effects such as fatigue, rapid weight gain, infertility, and a number of other problems. Thus, keeping your body's hormone production cycle in check is paramount, and here is how to do it.

Got Constipation? Maybe Probiotics Can Help!

If you tried the three tried-and-true methods for relieving constipation:

Investigating the possibility of an obstruction or disease in the colon
Slowly increasing fiber from whole foods in your diet along with your water intake and
Getting out of your chair and engaging in regular exercise

and you still have irregularity problems, then maybe you don't have the right balance of bacteria and yeast microbes in your digestive system to deal with the increased fiber and help your digestive system run more smoothly. The beneficial bacteria and yeasts are called probiotics.

If you haven't tried probiotics for constipation, then they may be the answer you seek. Probiotics are live organisms that deliver health benefits to the host. Probiotics can be found in many cultured foods, fermented drinks, probiotic-fortified foods and drinks, and probiotic supplements. They ferment some of that healthy fiber that you are eating from whole foods and convert it into substances that either your colon cells can use for energy or to other helpful materials for your body.

Scientific data is available which shows that the kinds and numbers of bacteria and yeasts in the digestive tract differ between healthy individuals and those that experience chronic constipation. People with chronic constipation usually have higher levels of the more pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes than healthy people. This imbalance of microbes is called "dysbiosis" and it can lead to constipation.

Bringing Back From to Life From First Aid

Have you ever been in a situation where you find someone dealing with health problem or an accident and you don't knows what to do? Although, it's very common to find people around you suffering from ailments while travelling or going to work, moreover it gives you a very warm feeling when walking down to the person, sharing your small knowledge turns out to be a life saving. Where this life saving knowledge can only are learnt from the education imparted on First Aid. First aid is not a training given for medical extensive but with this, it can be rest assured for making a difference when it is the matter of life and death.

In UK every year, thousands of people die or curiously injured in accidents. Many of these deaths could have been blocked if first aid was to the injured at the scene of the accident before waiting for the emergency services arrive. The first few minutes after an injury are very crucial for the survivor, thus if given some first aid instantly can lower the risk 100 times.

There were 24, 690 serious injuries and 2,222 fatalities on the UK's roads in 2009
The British Heart Foundation predicted that there are approximately 124, 000 heart attacks each year in the UK.
Road accidents are one of the top ten causes of death in all over world.

15 Simple Ways to Enjoy Your Life

Many of us assume that we need to make drastic changes to our habits, routines and/or bank balances to be happy. In reality, however, that's not the case. Often, we already have everything we need to enjoy life-it's just a question of prioritizing what's really important. Here are 15 simple ways you can enjoy your life more, starting today!

1. Focus on yourself
Other people will always be on hand to offer up their opinions and advice. Ultimately, however, it's we, and we alone, that have to live with the consequences of our decisions.

2. Make time to relax
Making time to relax and reconnect with ourselves leaves us better equipped to deal with more challenging periods.

3. Avoid the news
It's all too easy to get sucked into public drama, online and offline. Trust that if something important happens, you'll know about it. Otherwise, save yourself energy and spend your time on something more worthwhile.

4. Nurture your positive relationships
Make time to nurture the positive relationships you have with friends and family. Identify the people who lift you up and focus your energy on them.

5. Meet new people
Community is one of the most important needs we have. Making a consistent effort to meet new people helps us fulfill that need and introduces us to new ideas and perspectives.

6. Explore new places
New places and cultures offer a different perspective on the world and add a healthy dose of inspiration and possibility to our lives.

11 Points For Mental Health Care Reform

Due to greater understanding of how many Americans live with mental illnesses and addiction disorders and how expensive the total healthcare expenditures are for this group, we have reached a critical tipping point when it comes to healthcare reform. We understand the importance of treating the healthcare needs of individuals with serious mental illnesses and responding to the behavioral healthcare needs of all Americans. This is creating a series of exciting opportunities for the behavioral health community and a series of unprecedented challenges mental-health organizations across the U.S. are determined to provide expertise and leadership that supports member organizations, federal agencies, states, health plans, and consumer groups in ensuring that the key issues facing persons with mental-health and substance use disorders are properly addressed and integrated into healthcare reform.

In anticipation of parity and mental healthcare reform legislation, the many national and community mental health organizations have been thinking, meeting and writing for well over a year. Their work continues and their outputs guide those organizations lobbying for government healthcare reform..

MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY

1. Mental Health/Substance Use Health Provider Capacity Building: Community mental health and substance use treatment organizations, group practices, and individual clinicians will need to improve their ability to provide measurable, high-performing, prevention, early intervention, recovery and wellness oriented services and supports.

2. Person-Centered Healthcare Homes: There will be much greater demand for integrating mental health and substance use clinicians into primary care practices and primary care providers into mental health and substance use treatment organizations, using emerging and best practice clinical models and robust linkages between primary care and specialty behavioral healthcare.

3. Peer Counselors and Consumer Operated Services: We will see expansion of consumer-operated services and integration of peers into the mental health and substance use workforce and service array, underscoring the critical role these efforts play in supporting the recovery and wellness of persons with mental health and substance use disorders.

4. Mental Health Clinic Guidelines: The pace of development and dissemination of mental health and substance use clinical guidelines and clinical tools will increase with support from the new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and other research and implementation efforts. Of course, part of this initiative includes helping mental illness patients find a mental health clinic nearby.

Who's Paying For Health Care?

America spent 17.3% of its gross domestic product on health care in 2009 (1). If you break that down on an individual level, we spend $7,129 per person each year on health care...more than any other country in the world (2). With 17 cents of every dollar Americans spent keeping our country healthy, it's no wonder the government is determined to reform the system. Despite the overwhelming attention health care is getting in the media, we know very little about where that money comes from or how it makes its way into the system (and rightfully so...the way we pay for health care is insanely complex, to say the least). This convoluted system is the unfortunate result of a series of programs that attempt to control spending layered on top of one another. What follows is a systematic attempt to peel away those layers, helping you become an informed health care consumer and an incontrovertible debater when discussing "Health Care Reform."

Who's paying the bill?

The "bill payers" fall into three distinct buckets: individuals paying out-of-pocket, private insurance companies, and the government. We can look at these payors in two different ways: 1) How much do they pay and 2) How many people do they pay for?

The Cons of Group Health Insurance

Group Health Insurance Cons

Group health insurance can be more expensive than individual health insurance. ln fact, if you don't factor in the employer's contribution towards premiums, then individual plans are almost always more affordable than group plans. However, as we discussed earlier, not every one can qualify for an individual plan.
What happens if your employment is terminated (by you or your employer)? Yes, you will likely have some benefit continuation rights (through COBRA or state continuation programs), but these benefits can be very expensive and the term limited. So, eventually, you either have to secure another job with benefits, an individual health plan (assuming you are insurable), or possibly join a government health insurance program for the uninsured (if you are not insurable).

The Pros of Group Health Insurance

The health insurance marketplace is certainly challenging, but count your lucky stars that at least you have choices. To that end, this article is going to explore the pros and cons of group health insurance.

Group Health Insurance Pros

Who is Responsible For the Health Crisis in America?

BLAME-STORMING THE HEALTH CRISIS

Who is responsible for the health crisis in America? Is it the government? The state of the economy? Parents? Schools? What about you and me? Restaurants? Grocery stores? Or is it our busy schedules? How about those get-togethers and parties you attend? Maybe the presented food choices are to blame. Yes! "Blame." That is the word I was looking for! We are looking for someone or some institution to blame for our health crisis.

IS THERE A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY?

Is there a government conspiracy? If so, just who are the conspirators? Let us get one thing straight. You and I do not need anyone's help in creating a health crisis. There is a reason for this. You and I are the greatest conspirators of our own lives. We have received more than enough information to let us know what to do to enhance our health and yet we, in many cases, do not act and make the changes. I think that clarifies the conspiracy theory in a nutshell. When I speak of this health crisis, I am not talking about medical insurance or medical costs or treatment. True, this is an important issue. However, this issue only touches on the surface of the problem. How we think, eat and live is the real cause. So who or what is responsible? Do you have an idea? Who is the villain or culprit?

Health Care Reform is Not Healthy

Health insurance premiums are driven by the success or failure of actual health recovery maintenance and the costs required to deliver of service. Harris L. Coulter, Ph.D., of Washington, DC, and editor of the 8th edition of the HPUS,is an internationally renowned medical historian and author of over 30 books and essays, which include: THE DIVIDED LEGACY, a four volume epochal history of medicine, which covers its origins to present day.

"Society today is paying a heavy price in disease and death for the monopoly granted the medical profession in the 1920's. In fact, the situation peculiarly resembles that of the 1830s when physicians relied on bloodletting, mercurial medicines, and quinine, even though knowing them to be intrinsically harmful. And precisely the same arguments were made in defense of these medicines as are employed today, namely, that the benefits outweigh the risks. In truth, the benefits accrue to the physician, while the patient runs the risks."-Harris Coulter, Ph.D., (Divided Legacy Vol 3)

There is no question we need reform in the areas of disease elimination improvements in Health, better delivery of health care when it is needed and health insurance parity. Personally, am all for reform, but let those reforms ring with the clarity of Truth and illuminate our way through the fog obfuscation.

Overall chemo-therapy and radiation are documented to be an absolute failure in the so-called war against cancer. The long-term survival rate of cancer patients using orthodox therapies remains abysmal and the statistical reportage is obfuscated.

20 Health Foods That Are Sabotaging Your Weight Loss & Health Goals

How can you expect to manage health & weight, when you've never been taught how to? It's not you!
It's a broken approach.

There is a reason our society is getting sicker...today you see more illness, obesity, allergies, digestive disorders, cancer, diabetes, immune & thyroid disruptions, neurological conditions, etc. You may fail to understand how nutrient imbalances deeply effect your health, because you THINK you're already "eating healthy", but you're not choosing foods that provide life, energy & health to the body because you've never been taught how to.

So, you're actually creating & struggling needlessly with poor weight, health issues & food cravings by "eating healthy"!...*Read on for our "health foods" to avoid in order to control health & weight.

BOMBSHELL...The following "health foods" are NOT healthy for managing your body weight, energy or illness!

The following are NOT "healthy foods", nor will they support a healthy body weight, a strong immune system to avoid illness & disease, or balanced energy & mood for your busy life! If you're consuming these masquerading "health" foods, their ingredients may be keeping your body in a state of hormonal & nutrient imbalance which generates a physical food addiction with uncontrollable food cravings, while disrupting your bodies natural ability to stay thin & healthy! Take a look at these foods posing as "health foods" that are DEFEATING your health....

5 Expert Insider Steps to Begin Transforming Your Health & Body Today!

1. When you change your (health & body) thinking, you change your (health & body) beliefs.

If you think what you've been taught is healthy by the mainstream media is where your learning stops, then don't expect to achieve great illness-free, authentic preventative health because they don't teach proactive health approach, they teach reactive wait til you get sick & then act health approach. Begin to change your thinking to change your belief system about your body and health potential.

2. When you change your (health & body) beliefs, you change your (health & body) expectations.

Once you begin to expand your thinking, start to also seek out experts in areas of health & body who have shown & continue to show PROVEN ABILITY TO CREATE TRANSFORMATION RESULTS in their own health & body that you would like to emulate. Begin to sponge knowledge from them vs. what mainstream media claims leads to great health results, & you'll in turn raise the bar on what you expect from your own health. You'll see your new mentor/s are just ordinary people too like you, who decided to blaze their own health path about the quality of health they wanted to achieve for their life by taking the road less followed for their own health in life, and YOU CAN TOO - if you follow in their footprints.

3. When you change your (health & body) expectations, you change your (health & body) attitude.

Once your mind becomes opened by experts to your new health possibilities, you'll have a renewed attitude & confidence about your abilities & empowerment around your personal health & begin to realize that anything you put your MIND to, your BODY can achieve -with the right tools in your toolbox. And THAT is exciting!

Understanding the Definition of Health Related Fitness

Being a Health and Fitness Professional, it is my job to understand terms and definitions which are commonplace to this industry, as well to keep abreast of evolving trends. Through my experience, I have found that a number of terms deserve a little more clarification than that which they are granted.

Aside from clarifying the definition of Health Related Fitness, this article intends to shed some light on a few of the associated terms, and to show their respective distinctions.

Is it simply all in a name?

The fitness world seems to use the concept Health Related Fitness like a generic fitness principle - interchangeable with others like "Physical Fitness", "Health and Fitness" or simply "Fitness."

While all of these terms can be included under the broad term Health and Physical Fitness, they individually refer to different aspects - both generic and specific. Unfortunately, references to these and other fitness-related terms are often vague, while consistency in their intended use is meager at best; there is a kind of "generally accepted" use for them, but individuals often rely on own interpretation, and this can lead to confusion.

With that said, does Health Related Fitness simply infer fitness by means of good health? Not quite. That is why we need to understand a little more behind these words before digesting the definition.

Seven Good Reasons to Work With a Health Coach

Health Coaching is a new model for total health and wellness in the individual. Health Coaching is not something you only do when you are sick. Health Coaching is about optimization of human potential and has a philosophy of ever expanding possibilities. Health Coaching recognizes that there is an innate intelligence within you, an inborn wisdom that governs all healing, function and repair and that the purpose of all health and wellness practices is to remove interference to this intelligence so your body can heal itself. The 7 good reasons to work with a Health Coach below will outline clearly how you can reach that state of health and wellness in your life right now.

1. You need to be held accountable.

As children there is always someone there to make sure we're doing what we're supposed to. As adults, we're supposed to be able to do this for ourselves. But what if we can't? What if we keep making other things more important than our health and well being and not moving forward? A health coach can help by checking and asking the right questions and by being a gentle reminder to keep you moving toward your health and wellness goals.

Also, in most traditional models of seeing a health practitioner, we tend to see that person as an expert - they know more about our body than we do and they can tell us exactly what we need to do to get better. This system encourages us in a sense, to place our health in someone else's hands. We are no longer responsible, the health practitioner is. We are not really accountable, the health practitioner or the pills they told us to take are. In health coaching, you are the best and only expert on you and the only one qualified to know if something will work or not.

2. You want to get your health and well being on track once and for all

Far too many of us have joined gyms or started a diet in the past feeling initially excited only to watch our enthusiasm drain away a few weeks later. We can feel disappointed with ourselves, with the money we've wasted and with the lack of results we've achieved. Things change, our responsibilities change, time we have available changes and our health and wellness goals. What is it that's stopping you from committing to a path of improved health? A health coach will help you figure out those answers once and for all and help you find real-life solutions that not only work for you but keep working for you in the future.

3. You know what you need to do be healthy but you just can't seem to stick to the changes

So, it's not a question of good health education - the majority of us understand clearly what we need to do to stay healthy - eat lots of fruit and veggies, minimize red meat, exercise regularly and don't smoke or drink too much. Simple right? Why aren't more of us doing it then? Before we make any changes in our life we need to agree with the changes, they need to be congruent with our values and they need to make sense in the context of our lives.

Hiring a Home Health Care Employee

Providing the primary care for an elder loved one can be difficult. When you cannot deliver all the elder care yourself and support from friends, family, and community organizations is not enough, it may be useful to hire a home health care worker. He or she can offer care from a few hours a week to 24 hours a day, and can provide many other helpful services. Types of in-home health care services include:

General Health Management like administration of medication or other medical treatments
Personal care such as bathing, oral hygiene, dressing, and shaving
Nutrition help like preparing meals, assisting eating, and grocery shopping
Homemaking services including laundry, dishwashing, and light housework
Companionship for example reading to the senior or taking them on walks

Recruiting and Interviewing Applicants

There are many avenues for hiring a home health care employee. Generally, home health care workers can be hired directly or through an agency. Home health care agencies often have a staff that includes social workers and nurses that will manage your care. However hiring an independent home health care worker is generally more cost effective, it will also give you more control over the type of care you receive.

Senior home care workers should be carefully screened for proper training, qualifications, and temperament. Fully discuss the needs of the elder care recipient during an interview with a prospective home health care employee. There should be a written copy the job description and the type of experience you are looking for.

7 Reasons Why You Should Start a Health Network Marketing Business

More and more people are looking into starting a home based business. The unstable economy, low job satisfaction and the high cost of living are some of the many factors driving people to explore ways to create additional income. Even network marketing doesn't seem to have the stigma it used to as people are starting MLM businesses more than ever.

If this describes you then I congratulate your entrepreneurial spirit! I admire people who seek ways to improve their lives and those of their families. I also encourage you to do your due diligence before leaping into just any MLM company if that's what you're considering. I've been in many network marketing companies and I learned what to look for (and what to avoid) in MLM companies through painful trial and error.

There are a huge variety of multi-level marketing companies out there offering almost any product or service you can imagine including travel services, legal services, nutritional and health products, weight loss products and many more. But I personally recommend you seriously consider starting a health network marketing business rather than any other. And I have seven really good reasons which you'll never forget because they form the word HEALTHY.

A Prescription For the Health Care Crisis

With all the shouting going on about America's health care crisis, many are probably finding it difficult to concentrate, much less understand the cause of the problems confronting us. I find myself dismayed at the tone of the discussion (though I understand it---people are scared) as well as bemused that anyone would presume themselves sufficiently qualified to know how to best improve our health care system simply because they've encountered it, when people who've spent entire careers studying it (and I don't mean politicians) aren't sure what to do themselves.

Albert Einstein is reputed to have said that if he had an hour to save the world he'd spend 55 minutes defining the problem and only 5 minutes solving it. Our health care system is far more complex than most who are offering solutions admit or recognize, and unless we focus most of our efforts on defining its problems and thoroughly understanding their causes, any changes we make are just likely to make them worse as they are better.

Though I've worked in the American health care system as a physician since 1992 and have seven year's worth of experience as an administrative director of primary care, I don't consider myself qualified to thoroughly evaluate the viability of most of the suggestions I've heard for improving our health care system. I do think, however, I can at least contribute to the discussion by describing some of its troubles, taking reasonable guesses at their causes, and outlining some general principles that should be applied in attempting to solve them.

THE PROBLEM OF COST

No one disputes that health care spending in the U.S. has been rising dramatically. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), health care spending is projected to reach $8,160 per person per year by the end of 2009 compared to the $356 per person per year it was in 1970. This increase occurred roughly 2.4% faster than the increase in GDP over the same period. Though GDP varies from year-to-year and is therefore an imperfect way to assess a rise in health care costs in comparison to other expenditures from one year to the next, we can still conclude from this data that over the last 40 years the percentage of our national income (personal, business, and governmental) we've spent on health care has been rising.

Despite what most assume, this may or may not be bad. It all depends on two things: the reasons why spending on health care has been increasing relative to our GDP and how much value we've been getting for each dollar we spend.

Staying Healthy With Natural Health Care

With the growing number of medical issues surrounding the current health care system, people are becoming increasingly frustrated with treatment results and the expense of maintaining personal health. Are you concerned about or wondering if it's possible to naturally treat health issues without killing yourself? A growing number of people are turning to alternative medicine and natural health care and doing so very successfully. Natural, everyday, common sense methods of preventing illness and maintaining optimal health do exist.

What does your body need to maintain proper health?

This is a question that continues to be asked, why, I don't know, because there are no hidden secrets about this. In fact I'm sure you probably already know the answer.

o Proper diet

It is known that many health problems (heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and others) are exasperated by improper and poor diets. We live in a fast paced world driven by extreme commercialism that bombards us with images of super sized hamburgers, fries and extra large sodas. Many of our foods come in boxes loaded with artificial ingredients and real, un-natural, man-made chemicals to help us exist in our fast paced life. The first thing we need to do in maintaining our health is to get back to a healthy natural food based diet.

Improve Your Well-Being - How Your Attitude to Health Can Help

What is Health?

How do you define health? Is it a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being? Is it merely the absence of disease or infirmity? Or is health a resource for everyday life, rather than the objective of living; a positive concept, emphasising social and personal resources as well as physical capabilities?

Good health is harder to define than bad health (which can be equated with the presence of disease), because it must convey a concept more positive than mere absence of disease, and there is a variable area between health and disease. Health is clearly a complex, multidimensional concept. Health is, ultimately, poorly defined and difficult to measure, despite impressive efforts by epidemiologists, vital statisticians, social scientists and political economists. Each individual's health is shaped by many factors, including medical care, social circumstances, and behavioural choices.

Health Care

While it is true to say that health care is the prevention, treatment and management of illness, and the preservation of mental and physical well-being, through the services offered by the medical, nursing and allied health professions, health-related behaviour is influenced by our own values, which are determined by upbringing, by example, by experience, by the company one keeps, by the persuasive power of advertising (often a force of behaviour that can harm health), and by effective health education. Healthy individuals are able to mobilise all their physical, mental, and spiritual resources to improve their chances of survival, to live happy and fulfilling lives, and to be of benefit to their dependants and society.

Health Care - What If We Play the Games Differently?

Twenty-plus years ago I worked for an attorney who said that whatever didn't require his law degree to do, could-and should-be done by someone else. He trained his staff as paralegals. I started my professional career learning to think strategically and ask different kinds of questions--about a lot of things. Today that includes health care, health insurance, and the increasing costs to both employers and consumers.

I'm a business and human resource professional, a consumer, educator, and wellness coach. I know that people behave and act based on motivators and rewards. In general, wherever the incentives are placed, and or monitoring is done, action will take place and the monitored results will be achieved. Parents know this; teachers know this. It's a basic principle of education.

The answers will not come out of one essay. The subject is complex and as individualized as its participants. And it's unrealistic to think one solution will fit all contingencies. My objective here is simply to tap the interests, experience, and expertise of the players, and get all of us thinking outside the "rules" a bit. Like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle, we all have important pieces of information and experience to contribute.

In childhood, we learned the value of playing outside the rules once in awhile to achieve the objectives we wanted. I did. Our family version of Monopoly included IOU sheets. Mom invented them so she and all of my siblings could stay in the game and play as long as we wanted (allowing her to keep us occupied and together where she could see us)-her desired objective at the time.

Asking questions is key. Different questions get you different answers. Knowledge is interesting and empowering. Here are some questions I'd start with:

Health Care

What requires a doctor's medical degree? What doesn't? What medical, health, or wellness practitioner has the expertise needed and is the most practical (and cost-effective?) resource to address your condition?

What is the best utilization of RNs, for example, and other health and wellness practitioners? Now? In the future?

Key to Optimal Health

Optimal health means more than the absence of pain, sickness and disease. As important as it is to be physical healthy it is equally important to be mentally, emotionally and spiritually healthy as well. Optimal health, therefore, in context of what is being written here, is a balance of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of health. Let us take a look at each of these aspects, beginning with physical health.

Physical Health

So much has been written about the subject of physical health in the categories of health and wellness, diet and weight loss, fitness and bodybuilding etc. In this article I will primarily deal with physical health in its internal aspect which includes building a healthy immune system, detoxifying the body, healthy and quick elimination, and nourishing the cells with proper nutrition. Aging itself can be slowed down by keeping the internal aspect of our physical health up to par. Wouldn't you love to have a healthy, youthful, energetic, strong, lean body which is free of disease, sickness and pain well into adulthood beyond the age of 40? It all narrows down to what type of food we put into our bodies - either food filled with toxins and poisons, or healthy, living, vital food.

How Does Exercise Improve Mental Health

Exercise is not only good for the body, it is good for the mind. People suffering from depression and/or anxiety in particular seem to respond well to exercise. Research quoted by the North Lincolnshire Mental Health Service showed that 83 percent of mentally ill people found that exercise put them in a better mood. Exercise is not a cure for mental health problems, but rather a tool that can be used to help a person feel better.
There are a few theories as to why exercise benefits mental health. The theories include: an increase in self-esteem, better physical health, distraction from life problems, increased serotonin and endorphin levels, and social interaction.

Exercise can lead to a person having a better body image. When a person feels good about the way they look, they often feel better about themselves as a person. A lack of self-esteem can cause depression. High self-esteem can lead to healthy and positive thinking.

Where Can You Get Affordable Health Insurance?

What is health Insurance

The main reason why you need an affordable health insurance is to help you plan ahead in case of unexpected costly emergencies. The only way you can accomplish this is to compare prices from most leading insurance companies and also choosing a health insurance plan that best suits you. Back in the days, getting a cheap health insurance plan was simply unaffordable. But these days, individuals, small groups, families and students can choose a health insurance plan that is best for them, e.g. like acquiring a help insurance plan that ensures that an individual suffering from any previous medical condition is not excluded.

Private health insurance plan is totally an unrestricted open market, so those who do not yet have a health insurance plan should consider taking out a plan. For those who are seeking good medical health insurance program, having one is possible through the help of specific companies which specializes in providing health care insurance for individuals and also meeting their requirements and also staying within your budget.

Also for individuals who do not want to use a company, then they can use the internet. One major way Americans get health insurance coverage is mostly through their employers. Many employers them receive health insurance coverage for their workers for a limited time thus enabling them receive health insurance coverage. The internet provides an option for a cheaper health insurance. There are lots of companies that provide all types of health insurance plans, making it possible for you and your family to have a specific reasonable and affordable health care insurance plan. Finding out what kind of reputation the company has and how long the company has been in business is a smart idea.

Having a kind of ideal they have for you is advisable also making sure they have been licensed in your state, because it is of no use getting an insurance with a form which has no license and cant get the exact health insurance you want, many agents will help work hard for you, so you could have an affordable health insurance plan which you and your family could live with without great cost. Everyone wants the best health insurance both for themselves and for their families, but only the best health care insurance can do this with low premiums and full coverage.

A New Idea To The Health Insurance Crisis In America

Lack of health insurance coverage for over 41 million Americans is one of the nation's most pressing problems. While most elderly Americans have coverage through Medicare and nearly two-thirds of non-elderly Americans receive health coverage through employer-sponsored plans, many workers and their families remain uninsured because their employer does not offer coverage or they cannot afford the cost of coverage. Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) or HAWK-I here in Iowa help fill in the gaps for low-income children and some of their parents, but the reach of these programs is limited. As a result, millions of Americans without health insurance face adverse health consequences because of delayed or foregone health care and extending coverage to the uninsured has become a national priority.

The Easy Guide To Finding The Best Health Insurance Coverage

Health insurance coverage is a major necessity for today's active consumer. Taking the chance of not setting enough money aside in order to pay your monthly health insurance premium is basically gambling with your financial and physical well-being. Typically, health insurance benefits and coverage vary widely among the many different health insurance providers. However, they all have one common trait or feature and that is they all pay for a pre-determined amount of incurred medical cost for the policy holder or insured individual.

Health insurance may not seem as important to you right now and in many cases most people don't acknowledge the fact that they even need health insurance until it's to late. This usually happens right around the time when a consumer requires significant medical attention or assistance. For some folks even routine doctor's exams and medical appointments can be the catalyst or wake up sign that health insurance is very vital to living a health and stress free life.

The United States health care system is unique in its own right due in large part to the privatization that has occurred in the medical and health care community. This is spurned the demand and need for an adequate health insurance policy and coverage system. Many other countries actually use a government-sponsored form of health care that doesn't require insurance coverage in any form.

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