All Entries Tagged With: "Health"
Get off your fat arse and start walking.
Walking has been proven to improve health.
In fact, walking 10,000 steps a day has been suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO) for promoting good health.
You can check out more of the WHO resources and facts here.
Studies on people who took the Global Corporate Challenge to walk 10,000 steps daily indicated that the walking significantly [...]
Stress Breathing Techniques – Do NOT Take A Deep Breath
When we begin feeling stressed, we tend to also begin breathing faster and more shallowly, which reduces the volume of carbon dioxide in our blood and causes blood vessels to constrict. More often than not, this can lead to hyper-ventilation, which throws our metabolism completely out of sync!
Coaches and athletes appreciate and understand the need [...]
Great health resource and article on Cholesterol
Regular readers of my blogs and people who know me will know of my preference for high quality sources of information, services and products.
For health information, Health.com is a great resource. Here is a helpful article on the subject of Cholesterol for example:
10 Easy Food Swaps Cut Cholesterol, Not Taste
One of the things I like [...]
How to Relieve Stress
Stress can have a number of adverse affects on your health, both short-term and long-term. If you have some of the following symptoms, it could indicate that you may benefit from some advice on how to relieve stress before your health suffers further. Feelings of anger, fear or helplessness are common indicators of [...]
Depression Slideshow: Tips for Exercise, Diet and Stress Reduction
The depression slideshow is on an interesting site called WebMD – “Better Information – Better Health”.
It might be worth your considering signing up for their free newsletter – personally; I find the website very useful and enjoy their newsletter.
The depression slideshow is a useful tool even for those who do not suffer from the condition. [...]
More on my exercise program and an unexpected health diagnosis.
Yesterday I continued with the PACE exercise program and had a surprise from a health perspective, whilst in the recovery phase.
You see, since I was young, I have suffered from a burning chest when doing aerobic exercise. I was not diagnosed with Asthma until I was about 36 or 37 years of age, yet I [...]
My right knee was like a rusty old gate
Today I started the PACE exercise program which I mentioned in a recent blog post:
Exercise – what is the best method?
When I started skipping (first time I think for about 23 years!) my right knee gave out on the first and second jump – it was like a rusty old gate. The experience was quite [...]
Exercise – what is the best method?
Exercise! This is an area of current ‘weakness’ in my life. Excuse the pun! LOL.
Regular readers will know that I am on the Strip That Fat Diet System. More of my articles about weight loss can be found here. One aspect of the is Strip That Fat Diet System balanced exercise.
Readers of my articles on weight [...]
Health benefits of green tea.
Just a quick comment…
If you are interested in the health benefits of green tea, then you might be interested in a post I wrote yesterday on another blog:
Green tea – some key information.
Weight loss update
Currently I am down to 94.9 Kg.
This last month I have lost 100g.
Not terrific in one sense I know, however having a nasty bout of Urticaria did not help; the management of which hindered my diet situation. Examples include: 1) having to eat a big meal before taking steroids, and then more on top, 2) [...]
Are you getting enough of nature?
For many years now I have known of the benefits of nature from a personal development, health and mental perspective.
By nature I do not necessarily mean trekking off to a wilderness area. Nature is usually not far away, even if it is a park.
But don’t just listen to me.
Professor Frances Kuo from The University of Illinois [...]
Physiotherapy advice online for injuries!
Self manage your injury with expert physio guidance – online!
I know that at first thought this may seem ‘iffy’ or even ‘bad for you’. Things however, are not what they might seem.
A key focus with anything worthwhile in life should be on getting it right – not messing up yourself, or others. We all want [...]
Be careful how you use language – in speech and thought.
These days more and more people are becoming aware of the power of thoughts, and to a lesser extent, the power of speech.
Personal development and spiritual adepts will of course have an in depth understanding of the power of thoughts and speech.
This subject is worthy of much deeper study – by everyone from those who [...]
Poor customer service by professionals, health insights and positive thinking.
Yesterday I wrote a post about being gracious and commented on the poor attitude of the computer games salesperson.
Today I will be telling you about a very poor recent experience with a sales assistant who was actually an educated professional – in this case a Pharmacist (Chemist). I will also provide some health insights and [...]
Want to be nagged about losing weight?
Some people find being nagged, or reminded, about losing weight to be helpful.
Whatever works for you, provided of course that it is sensible, legal and doesn’t harm you or others is probably a good bet.
Here is where you can arrange to be nagged once a week about your weight via email. It’s free. They also [...]
Are your lungs dying?
Good health is the most precious aspect of life. Worst case scenario is that without it you are dead!
And those lungs of yours? How are they keeping? You rely on them for so much.
When I was young I suffered from Asthma, however it was not actually diagnosed until I was in my mid 30’s. It [...]
Progress with my healthy weight loss.
I survived!
What you say?
The Christmas and New Year festivities! All that food and drink; well, for some anyway. Oink.
My weight is now 95.8 Kg which is 0.3 Kg higher than my best weight of 16th of December.
Disappointing in one sense that I have not made further progress; that said I did eat and drink more [...]
Exercise, diet and health – simple ideas.
Personally I have had “challenges” maintaining physical fitness in the past (for a lot of my life), mainly because I find exercise incredibly boring. As exercise and associated excellent health is a life essential I had to find a way to overcome this. I never really enjoyed sports and the only exercise [...]
