Health and Fitness – Fitness Made Easy

Prescription tranquillizers such as  diazepam ( Valium )  aren’t all bad.  They can help you cope with acute anxiety.  When you take tranquillizers day by day to control chronic anxiety,  they can actually cause the very problem they’re suppose to treat.

That’s because tranquillizers are addictive.  Your brain and body may develop a physical dependence on them within 4 weeks of daily use.  Then, if you try to stop using them,  the inevitable period of physical withdrawal produces  anxiety.  Therefore if you have been taking prescription tranquillizers daily for more than 4 weeks,  you need a program to help you stop taking the drugs,  since the symptoms of sudden withdrawal can be overwhelming.  Read more...

Nutritional Supplements that can clear up Acne

Ask any number of dermatologists if poor digestion is a cause of acne,  and you’re likely to get the same answer from each: No

This is precisely why dermatologists don’t always cure acne.

Acne has generated a list of very potent  and expensive medications,  including topical and oral antibiotics.

Yes,  these medications can control acne,  as long as you continue to use them.  Many cases of acne could be cured – cleared up for good -  by improving the health of the digestive tract.  Read more...

High Energy secrets to wipe out Fatigue.

Fatigue isn’t a disease.  It doesn’t show up on diagnostic tests.  No drug can cure it.  There isn’t an operation that will cut it out of the body.  Some conventional doctors,  who are trained to detect illnesses with tests and solve them with drugs or surgery,  may dismiss fatigue as incurable.

Some doctors simply tell their patients that fatigue is as natural a consequence of growing older as grey hair and wrinkles,  they say you simply have to live with it.  That is sheer and utter nonsense.  Read more...

Probiotics and probiotic supplements are also know as friendly intestinal bacteria.

If you want to increase your live FRIENDLY BOWEL BACTERIA intake by 4 BILLION, you can either eat 8 FULL POTS of a leading supermarket brand of yoghurt

or take 1 capsule (minus all the added sugar, dairy, fats and calories).

4 BILLION viable (living) probiotic organisms per vegetable cellulose capsule – probiotic (friendly bowel bacteria) strength is guaranteed for 12 months.  Read more...

Heal Brain Cells Naturally to Stop Memory Problems

You’re over 40 and you seem to have developed a Bermuda Triangle in your brain,  a place where names,  facts,  and even recent events seem to mysteriously disappear.

That  ” triangle ”   is called age-related memory loss.  If  you ask most conventional doctors what you can do about it,  they’ll probably tell you that it’s normal,   it’s inevitable,  and you should learn to live with it.

Forget about it !  Read more...

Yoga without doubt will create a more relaxed feeling as well as supplying your mind with positive thoughts.

Yoga  is still popular in India today, and is considered to be a spiritual exercise. Those who practice Hinduism believe that Yoga is away of getting close to God. Practitioners will often chant, and may perform breathing techniques as well. Samadhi is a complex mental state where a person can achieve ecstasy.

Here are  just a few of the benefits of using yoga:  Read more...

The vast majority of colds aren’t very serious and will go away on their own.  In some cases,  however,  what begins as a cold turns into a more serious kind of infection,  such as bronchitis or sinusitis.

A cold that doesn’t get better within 2 weeks and is accompanied by wheezing:  pain in the ears,  sinuses,  or chest,  or a cough that brings up greenish or bloody mucus needs to be seen by a doctor.

Uncommonly Strong Remedies for Common Colds  Read more...

You should seek immediate  medical attention if serious symptoms of allergy develop after eating.  These include severe hives, itching, swelling, light headed, wheezing,  shortness of breath, and difficulty swallowing.

Identifying  and Relieving FOOD ALLERGIES

In the past it was thought that food allergies are relatively uncommon, occurring in less than 1  percent of the population and mainly in children.  Read more...

“The attitude of men toward animals is this: Once having seen them alive, he can’t bear to see them die, and once having heard their cry, he can’t bear to eat their flesh. This is why men keep their distance from the kitchen.” wrote the Chinese philosopher Mencius For millennia, men have cooked up excuses not to do the cooking. But two dozen centuries after Mencius, most of these excuses have grown pretty old. Now, a lot of us not only carve the occasional bird but stuff and truss it as well. And we whip up the gravy, sauce the cranberries, and convert actual pumpkins into pie. In fact, many men have discovered that they can get their kicks in the kitchen, Cooking turns out to be a lot like fooling around with your kiddy chemistry set, but better.  Read more...

Natural, fast relief from chronic headaches.

The biological or physical cause of  headaches is a genetically based deficiency of  the brain chemical serotonin.  This deficiency alters the physiology of the  blood vessels,  pain receptors, and other elements in the brain to produce a headache.

This single cause produces a variety of headaches.  The two most common are migraines and tension headaches.   There are many headache triggers, from food to stress to hormones to weather changes,  but you probably have to be genetically predisposed to chronic headaches for the triggers to affect you time and time again.  Read more...

OK. this is not really related to my usual health and fitness blog, but this story was so great, it had me in stitches and I just had to share it.

Here are two letters, according to the story both real, the first allegedly sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan; the second is Mr DeVries’ amusing response. The letters provide a great example of the dangers of making assumptions and jumping to conclusions, and also how to reply to a false accusation with humour and style.  Read more...

Maybe you think of cholesterol as a kind of evil plug.  The usual story goes like this.

You eat too much cholesterol or animal fat, which is converted to cholesterol in your body, the cholesterol clogs your coronary arteries, and blood and oxygen can’t get through to your heart, causing a heart attack.

The idea is that if you lower your cholesterol, all will be well.  Read more...

Yoga is an ancient and comprehensive form of spiritual self-discovery.

Yoga therapy is the art and science of healing according to yogic principles. It uses specific techniques designed as a form of therapeutic intervention specifically directed at an individual’s interrelated systems for balance and harmony.

Yoga therapy aims to calm the nervous system, which, optimally, helps to balance the body,mind, and emotions. This in turn helps to reduce or eliminate physical pain and mental and emotional suffering.  Read more...

When you stand in front of the mirror, what do you see?

The first thing that many men tend to focus on is their bellies. After that, the areas of most concern are the biceps, shoulders, and chest.

While vanity fuels much of the attention that we give our bodies, there are other reasons for keeping them strong. We don’t think of needing upper-body strength in a lot of things we do, especially if we have desk jobs. But once we get outside or start doing sports or hobbies, having it contributes immensely. Also, the more efficient we can make our upper bodies, the less energy we will expend. We’ll have a greater quality of life.  Read more...

Walking has never been accorded much respect. Traditionally, it has been considered useful locomotion but infective exercise. Worse, it is decidedly lacking in glamour. People shaped like bowling balls walk.

This is many peoples attitude to walking.

People who walk 3 miles a day, 5 days a week, at a 5-mile-an-hour pace produce the same cardiovascular gains as joggers running at an 8 to 9 miles-an-hour pace. Indeed, jogging at a moderate pace will burn 400 calories an hour; race walking will burn about 600. The fact is, walking is much better exercise than most people believe.  Read more...