25 Uses for Essential Oils in Your Daily Life by Paula Polman Aromatherapy is a growing area of interest as North America continues its search for alternative and complimentary applications of natural medicines. The use of herbal supplements in our daily lives is one excellent example of this. Aromatherapy, however, is still in the realm of uncertainty. People are familiar with the term, most have heard of essential oils, but still few know how to use them in practical applications. Here's a short list of some examples of ways to enhance your daily life wi ... The Role of Obesity by The Icon Reader You would have to be a hermit not to know about the dramatic rise of obesity levels in North America. Health issues have been plastered around the media non stop for the better part of the last five years. The problem is that for the most part the message has been falling short of its mark. There are more obese people in 2004 then there were in 2003. The number of diet related health complications is growing and children are ballooning at a rate comparable to their adult counterparts. On the f ... Tips and Motivational Advice for Keeping Fit One Day at a Time by Beverley Brooke Let’s face it…. Losing weight and feeling great isn’t easy. BUT the journey is well worth it! Many people commit to their health and well being via a New Year’s resolution. Why not? The New Year is a great time to make a fresh start and commitment to your health. How do you remain motivated however for an entire year? The single most important piece of advice I can offer you is this: Don’t give up, and pick yourself back up when you stumble or fall. Everyone slips here and there. Just because yo ... Weight Loss Hypnosis by Paul Gustafson RN BSN CH Obesity is a national epidemic. 58 million Americans are overweight and 80% are more than 25 lbs overweight. 70% of heart disease and 80% of all type II diabetes is directly attributed to obesity. 15% of children are obese and 70% between the ages of 6-8 believe that fast food is healthier than home cooked meals. Today’s children could be the first generation whose life expectancy is less than that of their parents. Much of the problems associated with obesity begin in childhood. We make concre ... Help Beat Winter Cold & Flu Bugs with Aromatherapy by Paula Polman 'Tis the season alright. Flu bug, cold bug, sniffles, sneezes, stuffy heads, runny noses. Chances are you've already been hit by at least one of these symptoms. If you're like my family, you've been hit with them all. Here's a few essential oils that may help alleviate some of the symptoms and make everyone feel just a little bit better. Clear the Air An easy way to make the air in your winter enclosed home feel fresher and help beat off the bugs is to diffuse oils into the air. You can do with ... Focus: A Weight Loss Strategy by The Icon Reader I just finished working my quads on a weight machine. My head races and my body hums all in an attempt to lose weight. Only moments ago, my legs worked so hard that they began to fail. They worked so hard that my muscle tissue cried out in pain and began to tear. Now having just finished, my body sweating with the effort, I can rest for a couple of minutes before doing it again. Each day this week I will have targeted a different group of muscles. Each day I will work them, stretch them, and te ... Dieters Need More Calcium by Marilyn Pokorney Women on diets need more calcium than normal to avoid bone loss, say Rutgers University researchers. Studies showed a weight loss diet of 1.5 pounds a week for 6 weeks cuts absorption of calcium. In 57 postmenopausal dieters it was discovered that those women who took 1,800 mg of calcium a day absorbed 78 percent more calcium than those who took only 1,000 mg a day. To prevent bone loss, women dieting after menopause should get 1,700 mg of calcium a day, the experts say. For people on low-fat, ... Home Gyms, Worth the Money or Not? by TC Thorn Home fitness is a huge industry, and most people these days have purchased at least some sort of exercise equipment or fitness video for home use. A lot of it ends up in a closet, in the garage, under the bed, etc. and is never seen again. Reasons vary. Some people just don't have the discipline to work out regularly from home while others realize the miracle-wonder-ab-slimmer (or whatever) isn't quite the high quality piece of equipment the midnight infomercial promised it would be. What about ... Boring Ol' Cardio by The Icon Reader Cardio is a very important aspect of any work out. There are numerous benefits to a good cardio routine. In the real world, there are many ways to get a good cardio workout. You can jog, play sports and get chased by the police. In the gym cardio usually revolves around a handful of machines. There are the stair climbers or steppers, the elliptical trainers, tread mills, and bicycles. That's about it. A good cardio routine can last anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour and is really intensive. The ... How to Get The Most From Your Home Workouts by Rick DeToma A recent study found that home workouts may do even more good than workouts at a gym. This is good news for people who are time crunched and find it's too much trouble to make it to a health club. So how do you get the most from your home workouts? Follow these suggestions: 1. Have A Plan. Know exactly what it is you want to accomplish and how you intend to get there. Plan out the exercises and the amount of reps and weight you will use. If time is a factor, make sure the volume of your workout ... Grunting: The Dreaded Free Weight Room by The Icon Reader I am new to the world of the gym. Having resolved to make my health and fitness a priority, spending time at the gym is becoming a staple in my weekly routine. While I find that I am getting well acquainted with different exercises and exercise machines, there is one area of the gym that I fear to tread. Behind a partial wall, tucked to the rear of the building, away from the cardio machines, spinning rooms and yoga mats, is the free weight room. When I work the weight machines I am a stones ... Thinking Too Much: How to Motivate Yourself to Lose Weight by The Icon Reader It's winter and it's cold. In the winter the mornings are very humbling. The nights are long, the floor is cold and it sucks leaving the house in the dark. Getting the morning paper involves a blast of cold air from the front door that really motivates one to crawl back into bed. It's days like these that getting beyond the duvet is hard. It's even harder to drag yourself through the wintry morning to the gym. It's the kind of thing I think about before I go to bed. I think about it when I'm wak ... A Startling Fact About Losing Dangerous Belly Fat-- Without Exercise by David L. Kern The story broke in the international press on October 4th, 2004. Scientists in Japan announced that laboratory rats lost large amounts of organ fat, and increased muscle strength, when a portion of their diet was replaced by a new fruit extract. Could this new discovery be Exercise in a Pill? These unexpected results left the researchers puzzled. No drug or food had ever shown the ability to target and dramatically decrease dangerous organ fat, also known as visceral, or belly fat. In fact, on ... The Lowly Crunch: Defining Your Abdominals by The Icon Reader So there I was, a gangly, ungainly guy standing in a giant aerobics studio surrounded by mirrors. Next to me on the floor was a fitness ball. I had never used a fitness ball, in fact I had never even heard of a fitness ball. None the less, there I was. My work out partner, in far better shape then I, was going to show me how to use the ball to make my ab routine more excruciatingly effective. The whole premise of this heightened routine was to center around the crunch. For those of you who don' ... Congestive Heart Failure And CoQ10 by Greg Post Since the 1960’s there have been numerous controlled clinical trials concerning the relationship between congestive heart failure and Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). As its name implies CoQ10 is a coenzyme that is necessary for the proper functioning of other substances, one of the most important of which is ATP (adenosine triphosphate). ATP is necessary for the production of cellular energy. By proxy CoQ10 is likewise essential for this process. Clinical trials have attempted to study the relationship b ... Treatment of Heart Disease with Coenzyme Q10 by Greg Post Since its discovery in the late 1950’s Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) has received much attention as a necessary compound for proper cellular function. It is the essential coenzyme necessary for the production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) upon which all cellular functions depend. Without ATP our bodies cannot function properly. Without CoQ10, ATP cannot function. This connection has made CoQ10 a very important object of study in relation to chronic disease. In many cases the presence of chronic disease ... Are Ducts Making You Sick? by Ed Bishop If you have a heating or cooling systems that uses air ducts, you could have a problem. There are many duct systems that are poorly designed and installed that have the ability to bring pollutants into your home. Some are ducts are located in wet or damp crawl spaces and basements. I've seen some of these areas and some look like an open sewer. Having ducts that are not properly sealed or insulated in these locations can draw moisture, mold, bacteria and even carbon monoxide into the building. U ... Everyone Wants To Be An Underwear Model by The Icon Reader After a particularly grueling workout I find myself sitting in the steam room taking stock of my aching body. I spent the last hour of my life breaking down my muscle fibers, forcing them to rebuild. I spent the last hour of my life sweating my way through a few hundred gut wrenching ab exercises. My shoulders, pecs and triceps are warm and slightly numb with fatigue. My abs are a whole zone of dull ache. Not only does my body ache but my ego has been busied as well. I am by no means like most ... Why Do You Say You Want To Lose Weight? by Yvonne Finn How many of your New Year's resolution start out with I want to lose x amount of poundsas if just saying it were some kind of magic mantra. As if the weight would just fall off, in response to the spoken words! Why do we not want to pay the price for anything? Gaining weight is not an overnight effect and it will NOT be reversed overnight. The price for losing weight is choosing a proper diet plan and exercise routine. And it takes discipline and, yes, WILLPOWER! No matter what you do eat, yo ... The History And Usefulness Of Coenzyme Q10 by Greg Post Throughout my childhood I was aware of the importance of eating well and taking my vitamins. But the science of dietary supplements has come a long way since those days. And one of the stars in this scientific progression is Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). CoQ10 is not a drug. It is a vitamin-like substance that is found in small amounts in a variety of foods and is synthesized within our body tissues. Enzymes are compounds in the body that are absolutely essential for the many processes necessary to kee ... The Best Diet for your Body Type in 5 easy steps by Helen Laxton Common sense (not to mention professional medical opinon!) suggests that a 'balanced' diet is best for almost everyone. By 'balanced', we mean that you strictly control your consumption of saturated fats and refined sugar, and be careful about how much protein you eat. Kind of makes the Atkins Diet look a little shaky, doesn't it? The Atkins Diet, and other 'crash' diets are a knee-jerk reaction to a disturbing Western diet phenomenon - in short, our diet is getting worse, and we are ALL getting ... Menopause and Osteoporosis by Cathy Taylor We know that our bodies require calcium and vitamin D in order to build and maintain powerful bones. According to his recent book entitled, “Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis,” by Dr. Alan Gaby, it takes more vitamins than we think to prevent brittle bones including Vitamins K and B; as well as minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus, fluorine, silica and boron. The idea is to provide enough combined supplementation for our bodies to make an abundance of healthy collagen which is the connect ... Does Walking Bore You? by Jennifer Clare Everybody walks in different ways at different times. Sometimes people walk as the easiest way to get from one place to another. Other times they walk to exercise, to de-stress, to think (or not to think!). Sometimes it’s a social event, where you catch up with a friend. And yet some people are bored by walking. They find it pointless, and dull. How about you? How do you take your walks? Do you set your watch, plug in your headphones and power off vigorously? Do you amble along, noticing what’s ... What is Eustachian Ear? by Jane Kriese Eustachian Ear is the name given to the medical problem that arises when the Eustachian tube in the middle ear is blocked. In the ear, the Eustachian tube normally allows the middle ear to drain into the throat. There is drainage because the middle ear has a fairly constant liquid which keeps the middle ear space moist and allows the liquid to drain down into the throat. This tube can be blocked for many reasons; common cold, sinusitis, nasal allergy, throat infection, food allergies and someti ... How To Incorporate Exercise Into Everyday Life by Jed Turner With many of us having sedentary jobs that demand little or no exercise at all, finding time outside of our work environment for exercise has become increasingly important. Lack of exercise is linked to many conditions and illnesses, such as obesity, cancer, diabetes, and heart disease. Exercising sufficiently does not mean you need to become a workout wonder at the gym, or that you need to jog five miles a day. Exercise can be incorporated into your daily life so that it feels a natural part o ... |
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