Showing posts with label body. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body. Show all posts
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Woman goes to the gym for 100 days and makes this timelapse video.
Lakeisha Shurn recorded a video diary every day for 100 days on her efforts to lose weight and boost her self-esteem. In this timelapse video, she explains why she decided to take on this challenge and shows off her inspirational progress.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
The Eight Essentials
The Eight Essentials www.behealthconscious.webs.com
Eat five portions of fresh fruit and/or vegetables a day. This will get you the essential nutrients (vitamins and minerals) you need to keep fit, keep cool and fight disease. Plus the fibre from the freshies helps you clear out waste and absorb the benefits from otherfoods.Keep the refrigerator and fruit bowlstocked. Either eat them as snacks or discipline yourself to eating one meal a day of just veggiesor fruit.
Drink at least 1 litre of water a day. Water is beneficial to your health and to your looks. It flushes the system of toxins and waste by preventing constipation, and it therefore helps protect against bowel cancer too. Plus, water moisturizes the skin from the inside out. You can cut down on expensive creams by upping your intake of water. Guzzle your litres for a week and you’ll see the difference in your skin. You’ll notice it not only on your face but also on yourlegs! //
Get fat wise. Fat is essential to your daily diet but we eat fat too much, often without even knowing it (it’s hidden in lots of processed food, for example). You know the damage it does, including clogging your arteries and cutting your life short. Be aware of when you are adding fat into your diet via cooking, spreads and dressings. We can get what fat we need from lean meat and fish, whole grain
starches and vegetables. Limit saturated animal fats (butter, cheese, cream) and opt for vegetableoils in cooking such as olive, sunflower, linseed, soya and hazelnut.
Stock up on antioxidants. These are the super-vitamins of our age, known to gobble up nasty free radicals (internal pollutants) in our bodies. Free radicals, if left unchecked, can weaken our DNA and cause heart disease and cancer. By eating your daily fruit and vegetables
you are getting what you need. But if you are bombarded with added external pollution from smoking, bad air, radiation and stress, consider a supplement. Beta-carotene in the form of vitamins A, C and E and the mineralselenium, are the prime antioxidants.(especially young ones) are also a good source of antioxidants, but a glass or two is all you can justify as medicinal!//Limit caffeine to the morning and to three cups max. Caffeine is found in coffee, tea and many cola drinks. It makes you jittery, inhibits the flushing out of toxins (allowing cellulite to build up) and causes headaches. As with most dietary dangers, it comes down to discipline and learning to enjoy it in moderation. If you haven’t discovered the delights of herbal teas (peppermint after a meal, chamomile after a hard day and lemon and ginger to cleanse the system any time). Why not try them now?
Restrict alcohol to four days a week, max. For those of us who love a drink, it is all too easy to find ourselves in the routine of drinking daily. This is when the alcohol can control you, not the other way round. The limit for women is 21 units a week (a small glass of wine being a unit), but women of slight build should aim lower before signs of liver damage set in. Like caffeine, alcohol is a toxin, but alcohol is also a source of unwanted, often uncounted,calories. So those sprawling hips or jellythighs might be down to drink rather than food. Dependency can creep in unwittingly, resulting in mood swings, plunging energy levels and a weaker immune system. By all means, relax and enjoy a drink. Just keep it in control and detox your system three or four days a week with other beverages.
Graze! If you suffer from energy highs and lows or have an irregular system, eating smallmeals
throughout the day will help you to metabolize food more effectively and keep you feeling energized all day long. High-energy natural snacks, such as dried apricots and prunes, bananas, fruit breads (e.g. date and walnut) and oatcakes, are filling and clear the head faster than anything. Even if you have a big, night out planed, better eatsomething beforehand rather than gorging yourself all at once later. Overstuffing your gut means a restless night and days of trying to get back on an even keel.
//Know your Body Mass Index (BMI) and keep it in check. Your BMI accounts for your weight (in kilos) in relation to your height. The ideal index is between 20 and 25. Below 20 could be worryingly underweight and should be watched. If your index is over 35 you need to do something about the excess kilos before you develop serious health problems.
Try abiding by these eight essential rules for good health, an alert mind and a beautiful body.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The number one way to improve your memory
The number one way to improve your memory www.behealthconscious.webs.com
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In fact, there’s only one practice that’s been proven, without question, to preserve your memory: exercise. "Aerobic activities tend to show larger effects than non-aerobic activities," University of Pittsburgh psychologist Kirk Erickson tells Yahoo.
Working up a sweat helps your mind stay fit better than any crossword puzzle--unless you're doing that crossword on a treadmill.
[Related: 18 memory tricks you need to know]
[Photos: First photographs of 'ghosts']
The good news is that you don’t need to run a marathon. Just walking six miles a week can ward off memory disorders caused by aging, according to Erickson's research published this month in the medical journalNeurology. "It appears that if people start exercising their memory may improve and if you continue to exercise, that might delay, or offset, the age-related decline in memory," he explains.
And you don't need to lift any heavy barbells either. Erickson and his team monitored 300 senior adults over a period of 13 years, and found that those who walked between 6 and 9 miles a week—whether to work or with the dog--had half the brain deterioration of those who didn’t. "Exercise seems to enhance some of the more fundamental properties of our brain," Erickson explains. "It increases the growth of new cells and improves cellular processes associated with learning and memory." To put it simply, walking keeps your gray matter from shrinking. And the more matter, the more mind.
Another study published earlier this year suggests exercise can actually help your brain grow. A moderate workout may generate new brain cells. And not just any brain cells, but cells that specifically help to distinguish between memories, so each recollection stands out. It’s the kind of function you rely on every day, says Tim Bussey, one of the authors of the Cambridge University study. "[These cells help with] remembering which car parking space you have used on two different days in the previous week."
But exercise isn't the only way to keep tabs on your parking spot. There are some supplemental practices that doctors recommend in addition to a regular walk-a-thon. Diets rich in Omega fatty acids are instrumental in keeping your brain from aging. Two servings of salmon a week, provides ingredients that support brain tissue and enhance nerve cell function. Balancing fish with the other elements of a Mediterranean diet, like fruits and vegetables, has been found to lower the chances of cognitive decline. When it comes to memory retrieval, self-testing can be beneficial. In other words, pausing between paragraphs of an article and asking yourself to paraphrase the information, or repeat a fact. It can't hurt if that article is written in another language. Bilingualism, says one new study, helps ward off Alzheimer’s for up to four years. But it doesn't prevent the disease altogether. Your best bet: Walk it off.
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