Health and Fitness – Fitness Made Easy

High cholesterol inside your arteries, a dangerous change has taken place in the balance of  fatty substances that circulates in your bloodstream.

To keep your arteries from getting clogged up and prevent them from getting any more clogged up  -  you’ll need to lower your cholesterol.

But not all cholesterol is harmful.  Low density  lipoprotein  (LDL) cholesterol is the bad stuff;   high density lipoprotein  (HDL) cholesterol is beneficial, as it removes LDL from the blood. Often changes in diet and lifestyle are enough to bring cholesterol  levels back to a healthy balance.  Read more...

MENOPAUSE

Menopause – in years proceeding menopause, called the prime menopause, her ovaries are producing less of the female sex
hormones oestrogen and progesterone,  while ovulation  (the monthly release of an egg)  also become less frequent.

This hormonal fluctuation can result in a variety of uncomfortable symptoms,  including hot flushes and night sweats,
vaginal dryness,  mood swings,  sleep problems and unusually light or heavy periods.  Read more...

Since there is no pain associated with early osteoporosis,  its important to be aware of the risk  factors,  so that you can head off the disease by taking precautions now.  A simple  15  minute test called the  DEXA  scan  (dual energy x-ray absorptiometry)  measures your bone density and tells whether you’re at risk for osteoporosis.

Ask your doctor about having a DEXA scan if you:  Read more...

Consult a doctor if you experience all or most of these symptoms for more than a week.

• Chronic fatigue unrelieved by rest.
• Unexplained chronic muscle pain or joint pain.
• Dry eyes and mouth.
• Fever
• Rash
• Mouth or skin ulcers
• Swollen glands

See a doctor immediately if you experience:
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If you have a problem,  and you treat only the symptom and not the underlying cause,  you may experience temporary relief.  But the symptom will likely return…again… and again.

Sound anything like your extra pounds?  The pounds you’ve lost and regained…again…and  again?

Overweight is the symptom of fundamental imbalances in your body,  emotions,  and mind.  These imbalances include:  Read more...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Let’s deal with the weight loss issue right off, because if we don’t, you might bypass one of the best exercises around.

Swimming, tradition has it, is not a good way to lose weight – an enduring piece of misinformation that admittedly isn’t dispelled by newspaper photos of Hindenburg-size marathon swimmers stumbling from some frigid ocean.  Read more...

Many people have tried Running, and many people have hated it. The roots of this displeasure can be traced to the running boom of the 1970′s, when running proponents, caught up in a near orgiastic buzz, loudly pronounced that the best approach to running was longer, faster, and harder, and they did exactly that – until succumbed to debilitating injuries.  Read more...

Five kilometres  rounds out to about 3.1 miles.It’s the shortest of the distance races, but it’s long enough to give people, especially beginners, a good challenge.

Making running a 5K your goal can be an excellent motivational tool. The eight weeks leading up to the 5K is the best time to train your body to be able to perform well on race day. While many runners sign-up for 5K’s to compete for first place, a lot of people do it just for fun. It is a group fitness event that can provide people with the incentives they need to stay healthy and workout regularly.  Read more...