Friday, October 11, 2013

Staying healthy is what it all about

With health care on the minds of most of the country these days, people are beginning to focus more and more on their health. Health insurance and doctor’s bills can be scary areas for families that aren’t wealthy. Of course, there is a very obvious solution to not sweating the health care issues that saturate our news:

Do your very best to stay healthy!

It isn’t as hard as you may think to live a healthy lifestyle. All it really takes is a little determination and a helpful guide to follow. With a proper diet and an exercise regiment within your realistic abilities, staying in shape is not hard to do. Additionally, with your diet, if you follow it closely and get the recommended intake of daily vitamins, your immune system stays in tip-top shape and you rarely ever have to battle illnesses. True, keeping anti-bacterial soap close at hand—in your car or even your pocketbook—is a great idea, but isn’t there so much MORE you could be doing?
Given all of that, do you know where to go for dieting and exercise advice? Your doctor is a pretty good source of information since he gets paid to know what is healthy and unhealthy for you. But, as we all know, doctor’s visits and consults can be pricey. And who wants to go to a doctor unless you absolutely have to?!
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It seems that everyone is determined to stay in their best shape these days. You can’t even drive down the street without seeing someone running or power walking. This need to stay in shape goes beyond exercise though; it also has most people watching what they eat. And this, of course, leads to going on diets.
Diets are extremely popular these days and there seems to be some new fad diet that comes out every other month or so. But as of late, many doctors have spoken out against fad diets—particularly ones that promise to have you dropping large amounts of weight in very little time. These sorts of diets are proof that not ALL diets are healthy. In fact, if you aren’t in great health from the start, some diets can actually be very bad for you Then of course, there are diets that are centered around calories, others on carbs and other still that are more concerned with heart healthy foods.









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Friday, July 29, 2011

Skin care tips.

Top 10 skin care tips

Healthy skin is really one of the most important ingredients for beauty enhancement. This article on skin care tips is an effort to bring the 10 best skin care tips to you. The list of skin care tips has been restricted to 10 because anything more than that would not only be difficult to remember, but also shadow the more important skin care tips. So let’s see what these top ten skin care tips are.
1. Knowing your skin type is one of the most important skin care tip. This is important because not every skin care product suits everyone. In fact, all the skin care products specify the type of skin they cater too.
2. Drink a lot of water. This will not keep your skin moist but will help in overall upkeep of your health & in turn your skin. It might seem a bit awkward to some, however, this is an important skin care tip.
3. Cleanse your skin regularly (1-2 times everyday). A very effective skin care tip that helps in getting rid of the dirt & other harsh elements from your skin. Cleansing is especially important when you have been out of your house (and hence exposed to pollutants, dust etc). This skin care tip also advocates the use of Luke warm water for cleansing (hot and cold water, both, cause damage to your skin)
4. Be gentle, after all it’s your skin. Don’t scrub/exfoliate too hard or too often. Similarly, don’t apply too much or too many skin care products. A must-to-follow skin care tip.
5. Keep your skin moist at all times. This is one of the most important skin care tip. Don’t let your skin get dry. Dryness causes the outer layer of your skin to break, leading to a rough and unattractive appearance. Use moisturizers/ emollients. Moisturizers work best when applied while the skin is still damp.
6. Avoid the use of soap on your face. Soap should only be used from below the neck. A small but important skin care tip.
7. Use sunscreen to protect yourself from sun’s harmful UV radiations. You can use day-time moisturizers that have sunscreen built into them. Use them even when it’s cloudy. UV radiations are known to cause skin cancer, so follow this skin care tip without fail.
8. A bit of exercise and good sleep are essential too, not just for skin care but for your health as a whole. Lack of sleep can lead to formation of wrinkles below your eyes and lack of exercise can cause your skin to slack. Moreover, exercise and sleep also help in beating stress. So besides being a skin care tip, this is also a health care tip.
9. Treat skin dilemmas with care. This skin care tip is about not ignoring any skin dilemmas. Consult your dermatologist before you go on to use a skin care product (lest you do end up harming your skin even more).
10. Beat the stress. The harmful effects of stress are known to everyone, however, sometimes stating the obvious is essential too (and hence this skin care tip found its place here). Yes, stress harms skin too. So, take a break or indulge in a warm bubble bath or just get good sleep.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

The heart

Here’s yet another reason to follow a smart diet and get plenty of exercise: Keeping your heart healthy just might slow down the aging of your brain.

A study released Monday found that people whose hearts pumped less blood had smaller brains—a symptom of aging—than those with the strongest blood flow. This was true even in people with no obvious signs of heart disease.

As the brain ages, it begins to shrink and lose some volume. More severe brain shrinkage occurs in those with dementia, including Alzheimer’s.

The results, published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association, came from a survey of 1,504 people ages 34 to 84—54 percent of them women—in the decades-long Framingham Heart Study, a multi-generational research project.

Angela L. Jefferson, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, led a team that recorded each study participant’s cardiac index, a measure of heart output. The team then used MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging) to measure each person’s brain volume.

In the study group, 30 percent met the criteria for low cardiac index, and their brain volume on average was significantly lower than people whose cardiac index was the healthiest.

“Lower cardiac output means there is less blood leaving the heart and circulating through the body, including the brain,” Jefferson says. “With less blood flow to the brain, the brain may be compromised.”

Because brain volume slowly declines with normal aging, Jefferson and her colleagues could estimate that the brains of people with poor cardiac output were more aged—by about two years—than those with the healthiest blood-pumping capacity.

Surprisingly, people in the middle group—who had low but still normal levels of blood pumping from the heart—also showed almost two years more brain aging than those with the healthiest cardiac index. “That’s a little concerning,” says Jefferson.

While abnormal brain shrinkage is associated with mild cognitive impairment and dementia, Jefferson says, more studies are needed to determine “whether or not cardiac output is a risk factor for dementia and whether or not this is something we should be modifying or assessing.”

That caution is echoed by William Borden, M.D., a cardiologist with the Perelman Heart Institute at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, who pointed out that cardiac output is only one measure of heart fitness.

“The take-away from this is there’s a suggestion that poor heart function can potentially lead to poor brain function,” Borden says. “It gives more motivation to patients to pay attention to their diet and exercise and work with their physicians to control the risk for cardiovascular disease.”

Michael Haederle is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in People, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.