Stress and falling hair

Falling hair and gradually losing hair is a significant problem among women. We can identify a lot of reason why hair falls out and becomes thin. One of the main reasons is stress. Women experienced stress with their day-to-day life activities. A hormonal analysis determines only the hormone level balance but not the root cause of the problem. Your hair doctor needs to determine the reason for the hair fall to be able to develop an effective treatment plan. One may perform a pencil test to evaluate the alopecia or early hair loss for some patients.

Measure the space after parting your hair. The problem could be hair loss if the space shown is as wide as a pencil. When parted hair does not show significant space and it looks thin, this is likely a normal hair loss. When your ponytail becomes half of your usual ponytail diameter, you have an occurrence of abnormal hair loss. Cure your slow hair loss and try to regain growth cycle by reducing stress, performing physical activity or exercise, and following proper diet.

Improve the health of your hair cells and skin by trying to balance your blood sugar level and reduce your insulin level. Insulin resistance or an elevated insulin level causes hair loss. Develop a diet plan that works for you because like drugs food tends to work for you or against you at times.

Burnout, stress, and wrinkle control

Stress is the worst health problem any individual may have without being aware of it. Stress is inescapable and could develop to chronic or severe forms that it is considered detrimental to health. Stress is the emotional, mental, social and physical effects of an individual’s interaction with his immediate environment. Stress is the feeling that goes on inside an individual as one process, interpret or react to what is going on around the environment.

Stress can be very unpleasant at times. It can cause wear and tear. Most of the time, people develop stress because of work overload, domestic and workplace problems, human interactions issues, and lack of physical activity or exercise. We need to keep ourselves healthy and smart without breaking our self confidence. We need to maintain or at least increase physical activity to keep us healthy.

A person under stress manifest reduced productivity, irritability, and is becoming withdrawn. You can also see the difference between a person suffering from stress and someone who is able to manage balance with life – skin and wrinkles are evident! To prevent getting dry skin and developing more wrinkles, manage your stress and avoid developing burnout. You have much to lose when you are at this severe stage. You will lose yourself!

It is true. It would be hard to get back that peace and self confidence again if you actually let your self esteem run to zero level. It would be difficult for you to maintain your job, maintain your composure and maintain your poise. Walking could be a good start to get your reflexes moving in a day. Embark on good eating habits. I am not telling you not to eat or anything like that. Just don’t eat if you are not hungry for a start. This will make a difference in your life.

Reduce chronic pain

Chronic pain is crippling and frustrating. The condition could be stressful and may suck your self-esteem out of you. More medications and treatments often times sometimes cause you more pain. True – pain in your body and pain in your pockets! It is not easy to spend for your physical therapy in rehab clinics. Health insurance may help with the cost. Really there is a way to get through with your body pain that is easy, slow, and sure – diet and physical activity!

A combination of fruits, vegetables, fish, low sugar, and little meat could help you manage your chronic pain condition and weight. Make your diet rich in olive oil, vegetables and whole grain. Drink plenty of juice and water. Try to make it a habit to eat only when it is time for you to eat or when you are hungry. Never think of food each time you are idle. Eating is habit forming. Try to curb it down until your body and stomach get use to your new eating habits.

Physical activity greatly improves your health and how you feel. The question is how much physical activity do you need to lose weight, maintain weight, keep your health, and feel better. Depending on your need, I would advise you to seek the help of a fitness doctor for a customize exercise program before you go to the gym or personally plan your own physical activity. Before I started my own physical activity, I made an appointment with a fitness doctor and I was given a customized exercise program. Although, I was not able to follow the gym and machine program, I was able to understand more on the diet aspect of the program.

Instead of going to the gym, I went to walk and jog at the park every morning. I improved my health greatly and was eventually able to manage my pain. I ate a lot of fish, oatmeal, fruits and vegetables. I lessen my intake with rice and chocolate cakes. I tried not to drink a lot of colas too. Fortunately I was able to curb it to half glass a month. Salt should be limited too. I began to steam my fish and just put some sauce in it. Sometimes it taste yukkss but you’ll get over it. This is only the start.

Improvements will be seen in a couple of weeks if you are consistent with your habit. I lose weight in about 2 months. Dieting and exercise needs consistency or you won’t be able to reach your target at all. The answer is pre-occupation when you think of food. Occupy your mind with work. This could be difficult at the start but once you have your mind set and are slowly getting use to the new habit, you will enjoy eating less and being physically active.

Chronic low back pain

Chronic low back pain is located in the low back portion. Bending, prolonged sitting, sneezing, coughing or even turning over in bed can make it worst. The pain normally radiates to the buttocks down to the leg. Unfortunately the exact event or injury responsible for it is undetermined at times which include effective treatment. Non steroidal inflammatory drugs along with physical activity or exercise management are often given in rehab clinics to moderate severe chronic low back pain. This concept made it impossible to design a program that will correspond in the order that they occur for patients with low back pain. Please note that interventions applicable to or recommended for acute or subacute low back pain may not be appropriate for chronic low back pain nor one can apply it vice versa.

Appropriate intervention in the early stage of the problem directed in the pursuit of prognostic risk factor may reduce chronic disability. The knowledge of this prognostic risk factor is valuable for direct management and consideration of other issues or domains. Demographic and clinical features like frequency, duration of pain and leg pain are significant predictors of poor outcome. Patients that tend to develop chronic pain are usually depressed, focused on their complaints, unable to cope with their pain and most of the time experience fear aggravating their pain. Disability is not only dependent on the severity of the pain but one can tell that it is an outcome based not only of their pain but also of their response to their pain.

Manage your pain before it manages you! Repeated low back surgeries often do not result in pain relief. Stop bending and stop lifting weights that could increase your discomfort. Management of chronic low back pain with chronic sciatica can be identified as those experiencing pain radiating past the knee. Walking in balanced alignment with good posture pumps a steady, ample flow of oxygen to the discs with the rhythmic muscular contraction and expansion of every step.

Today’s modern chair-bound lifestyles cramp the discs into a stressed position and starve them of oxygen for hours at a stretch. This weakens abdominal and back muscles while reducing hip flexion and range of motion. Along with this are factors of being overweight, out of shape or being a smoker which may help worsen the condition. No doctor can take away your stress. Listen to your body better and treat small injuries before they become big ones. This could be some form of lifestyle problem punishing your backs with prolonged chair sitting. Low back pain needs a recovery program that gives first aid to injured muscles and discs, tune up poorly developed muscles and tendon in your hips to reset the balance between core muscle groups.

Remember that a healthy back is a back in balance being the supportive center of every imaginable movement. The back’s function is to support balanced movement and posture to protect the nerve bundles within the spinal cord. First stage care could be a combination of rest, medication, heat and ice or gentle rehabilitative exercise. Second stage care for ongoing low back pain that does not respond to first stage care may involve injection of saline solution to inflamed areas of fluoroscopy to selective nerve root epidurals which delivers directly to the source of pain a carefully calibrated dose of lidocaine and corticosteroid with the aid of fluoroscopy. Fluoroscopy is usually given to those who are suffering with low back pain and leg sciatica. These injections effect are still temporary even if combined with icing and exercise.

Stage 3 care could be radio frequency denervation. It is done by heating the nerves which innervates SI joints. This halts pain because the nerves are made inactive for a couple of years. Stage 3 care could also be intradiscal electrothermal therapy, nucleoplasty, micro-discectomy and laminectomy. The last two are surgical procedures which attempt to remove the herniated portion of the disc.

Whatever stage you are in right now, it always pays to go to your doctor and request for some form of rehabilitative exercise program that could help you ease your pain. In my case, proper posture, weight control, early morning walk or jog and managing pain not to sit for more than an hour helps. When you think you are likely to reach an hour sitting, stand and stretch a little and perform stationary walk right at where you are standing. This will help get your blood and oxygen flow to your body. The contents of this post are from various materials in my research. This may help you understand what your condition is and what you need to do to avoid progressing to stage 2. Exercise and proper diet…. This is always the case…. And proper posture!

Asthma triggers

Illnesses like cold, flu or sore throat triggers asthma. Respiratory infections are popular trigger for children and adults with asthma. No geographic location is safe from asthma triggers. Various weather conditions set off asthma attacks. However crying, anger, frustration, yelling even laughter and any emotion that involves deep rapid breathing can cause asthma.

Asthma is not contagious but it does affect the whole family when someone is suffering from the wheez. The technique is to have daily cardiovascular exercise but not too much or strenuous. This will slowly disappear and the attack may not happen often. I am asthmatic and I observed that the more I stay at home with not much physical activity the more chances I am going to have an attack. So every day I do my early morning walk and it makes my breathing easier without hearing any slight wheez.

Prevention of chronic disease

Energy expenditure through physical activity is an important part of a person’s day-to-day activity that balances and maintains body weight. This emphasizes consideration of the impact of physical activity along with the aspect of diet, nutrition and health. Physical activity has great influence on body composition and is one of the major causes of overweight and obesity. Your diet plan and exercise programs are the most cost effective, affordable and sustainable course of action to combat chronic diseases. Modern dietary patterns like fastfoods and physical activity patterns like escalator and elevator are communicable risk behavior affecting us globally. Technology no matter how much convenience and comfort it has given us makes us pay the other way round – our health. Technology oftentimes makes us lazy to do more physical activity which makes us all the more susceptible to chronic diseases. Learn to walk those stairs on your way to the office and be able to breathe in and out and maintain your abs. Hmmnn are you aspiring to be sexy? Walk the stairs and trim those tummy and be healthy!

Never too late to start exercising

There is no “from” period and “to” period starting out an exercise and creating better health habits. The moment you get aware of the benefits it brings to your beauty, career and outlook in life – do it! When you start walking or even just use your treadmill and stationary bike at home you improve your exercise efficiency. You get to have a lighter effect, change in mood and change in the way you think and decide on things. Your mind seems to work when you burn those fats out instead of sitting on them!

Those who maintain physical activity burn more fats and lose less muscle than those who focus on pure diet plans without exercise. People lose lean muscle mass with age. Losing much could be risky and may interfere with daily living. Exercise produces metabolic changes which require burning of calories to perform physical activity. Tablets, pills or multivitamins do not and can never replace proper diet and physical activity. Grow old healthy and mentally alert – exercise daily!

Prevention of chronic diseases

Please don’t go to the doctor when you have them already. It is best to develop healthy eating habits including physical activities to keep you in good shape. Diet and nutrition in the prevention of chronic diseases plays an all equivalent role of importance with exercise and daily burning of fats and calories. The best way I can think of preventing chronic diseases is to discipline and teach your own selves to practice thinking about diet, nutrition, fruits, vegetables and walking or any sweat-it-all physical activity.

We don’t rely on doctors to do this for us because the main thing that they do is type in our complaints and save it on their PDAs. They are on to monitoring and giving treatments if we go back to their clinics. They don’t guarantee health. They only help us keep ourselves getting healthy. So where do we go from here if we don’t make ourselves responsible enough to keep us healthy?

Being healthy is not a matter of getting consultations from the best doctor in town. Being healthy means how you take care of your health and your diet. Well we better start now if we don’t want to be kept on queues in their clinics. Who wants to be my health buddy?

Managing stroke

Relieve pain and restore self to good health – never let frustrations sink in!

In desperate moments you have everyone near your heart to call on. But if they won’t come don’t let frustrations topple your confidence down. Life has its own meaning and events serve you with a purpose. Try to keep yourself at bay from negative emotions and try listening to music first.

Yes music therapy has a lot to do with your emotions, moods and thinking. Give yourself the chance to feel light to overcome stress. Listen to music and maybe try to sing along with it like you are singing with a karaoke. Music helps to make you feel good even if you go up and down with your mood. It does help ease the pain.

When you hear the sounds daydream a little and you will notice that your mood will elevate. There you are…. You feel lighter now….. Can you snap you fingers? Snap and go with the beat.

Then move your feet… move your legs… that’s it… little by little…. Stretch your arms…. Go …. Go… you are doing well…

Stroke is not easy to deal with but the most critical part is the confidence and the will to survive. Take it easy and listen to the music. Go with the beat and stretch… there you are… stretch again….

Having fun?

I have experienced dragging my left leg five years ago while walking going to the office to report work. And it was not easy. I did not have a stroke but my herniated disc was causing me much pain. My left leg was all numb sometimes I can’t feel with my leg and it was so frustrating because I was still in my 30s at that time.

I had my moments and frustrations but tried to survive by undergoing physical therapy and going to an early morning walk everyday, swim at the sea on weekends and then danced with Britney Spears songs any time when I am at home. It was great help because I am still walking until now without undergoing surgery yet. And by the way, it will make you slimmer and look sexy too. I guess that’s the bonus!

Perfect body

Say hello to a perfect healthy body and say goodbye to chronic diseases the easy way – diet and nutrition!

Diet and nutrition are critical to the promotion and maintenance of good health throughout your entire life course. The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing globally as such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and dental diseases. But let me ask you guys… Are you not aware that chronic diseases are largely preventable diseases?

Yup darlings they are preventable diseases. Modern dietary patterns and physical activity patterns are risk behaviors affecting one population to another and are considered as communicable at the risk factor level. You may have notice that traditional largely plant based diets are being replaced by high fat energy dense diets with a substantial content of animal based foods at fast food counters while physical inactivity proves to be increasingly affecting a lot of people because of technology and a lot of mechanical innovations to promote comfortable living.

Yesireee comfortable living is giving as an edge to win the marathon race to the doors of early onset of chronic diseases. Lifestyles should be managed and balanced in a way that we used much of our strength to strengthen our muscles and stamina and for cardio purposes. And most of all this gives us the perfect body we need when we decide to start sweating it out.

Food strategies could well be spelled in diet and nutrition. It’s repetitive but we always go back there. Food, diet, nutrition, physical inactivity could be improved by eating lots of fruits and vegetables and doing daily exercises.

Who wants sexy abs?

Leaner, sleeker, sexier, trimmer and tighter tummy are the kind of abs we want to have. And it is great news to be able to tell you that we can work toward a more amazing abs from flab to fab (fabulous!). But at the moment while you are still working on it please don’t wear jeans that are too small or too tight or it will make your belly or abs protrude.

Our goal is to slash your weight then trim your abs. How do we do that?

Makeup, accessories or any other alternative to make your abs appear lighter with a thinner look may do for a while but may not give you that good look and healthy feeling. It would be best to do a real good walk everyday to trim those fats off.

To progressively increase the training stimulus of your abdominal muscles you may want to perform abdominal curls on a decline bench rather than on a flat bench. Weightlifting exercises your muscles at greater than normal workloads. This produces microscopic tears in the muscle cells and connective tissues. Your body responds by producing new muscle proteins and cause muscle growth while increasing strength.

Please take note that there is a need to rest the exercised muscles between workouts for these changes to occur. Substantial improvements are seen to people who lift weights every other day or maybe 2 to 3 times a week. Lifting weights everyday may risk your muscles by overtraining.

A split routine may be created so you won’t be exercising the same muscle groups everyday and to avoid excessive muscle soreness and overuse injuries. You may also opt for calisthenics as a mild form to strength training. If you have a low back pain like an herniated disc injury then avoid the steps where you need to twist and bend. It may be helpful to alter training stimulus weekly or daily to be able to change combination of intensity, repetition and sets.

Designing your weight management and body composition program is never easy. The help of fitness professional is needed to give it the desired workout intensity and nutrition balance your body needs. But to start toning your body you may want to do an hour a day walking and eating lots of fruits and vegetables.

Promising cancer cure and genetic changes

Researchers were able to tracked 30 men suffering from low risk prostrate cancer who did not submit to conventional medical treatments like surgery, radiation or hormone therapy. The men were quite firm on their decision to make a major lifestyle change instead of submitting to conventional medical treatments.What they did was performed at least 30 minutes a day of moderate exercise like walking including meditation. Meditation has greatly helped them to manage their stress levels. Their diet was also composed of more fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and soy products.

As expected they were successful in losing weight and had managed to lower their blood pressure for the past three months. The most intriguing find is the increased in their activity of disease preventing genes and the decrease or shut down of a number of their disease promoting genes.

I am happy to tell you guys that exercise is the cheapest and the most effective cancer preventing activity you can count on. Why not make this a healthy habit then? Find an exercise buddy and get on with your lifestyle change.

The truth about ultimate body transformation

Extreme makeover from flabby to fit using both the expertise of a personal trainer and plastic surgeon could be costly. Quick fix in a short period of time could be damaging to your health too. The safest good way to transform your body is always diet, nutrition and exercise. No matter how you slice and restructure your butt and your fats, you still end up listening to the three important fixes of your life and health. So let’s start with diet and nutrition and try to figure out what’s the best diet plan available for us. Given the right exercise and nutrition plan, people can achieve stunning results depending on how strong they are to stick with their plans. Anyone can make his or her body and life. This life transforming experience will drive you through life’s toughest challenge and that challenge is – SELF! The challenge to change is all about you.

What are the factors that you need to know before you embark on your much coveted diet plan and exercise? Have a thorough check up on your medical condition first. See a doctor and know your heart condition and everything that needs to be checked before doing any slimming exercise and diet plan. Know what your body needs because it might not be what you think you need. Consult a professional and be happy choosing which diet plan perfectly fits you. I would consider a diet plan like Zone diet which takes major consideration on the work of glucose on your body or take a look at the DASH diet plan recommended by the government. Whichever suits you and is easier to follow you stick to the meal plan. It pays to really really stick to one diet plan and observe the results. Just be a good boy or girl and you’ll get the body transformation you desire.

The human body

The human body is designed for movement and strenuous physical activity. Prolonged physical inactivity exposes individuals at greater risk for developing chronic diseases such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, cancer, obesity and musculoskeletal disorders. It has been noted that regular physical activity is the best defense against development of many diseases. To expend approximately 1000 kcal/wk you need to exercise 150 min/wk. Don’t you know that women who walk briskly for 1.25 to 2.5 hr/wk reduces their risk for breast cancer by 18%? It is apparent that health benefits of exercise depend on the frequency, intensity and duration of the physical activity. As you grow older you should be able to at least maintain or increase the volume of your physical activity. A listing below may help you calculate the amount of physical activity you have been doing and enjoy doing.

Gardening for 30 to 45 minutes, washing and waxing a car for 45-60 min, walking in 35 min, basketball for 30 min, cycling for 30 min, dancing fast for 30 min and water aerobics for 30 min are considered as less vigorous activities. The more rigorous ones are swimming laps for 20 min, running and stair walking. These activities are easy to do and do not need any expensive gym memberships to complete. I have a client at the bank before who walk or jog early morning then go to swim late afternoons. My God at the age of 50 she looks young like 30s or late 30s and very sexy. Believe me she looks healthy as she looks sexy. Now isn’t that a good motivator ladies?

prevention is more important for healthy individuals

Today medical practitioners are more on the tasks of prevention rather than treatment. They would want to assess the physical fitness and physical activities of apparently healthy individuals rather than those who have suspected or documented cardiovascular disease. There are great benefits that one derives from regular physical activity in terms of disease prevention and health improvement. Physical inactivity I believe is now a global issue. When people are too busy fulfilling other commitments, health is always taken for granted. WHO reported that 60% of the global population does not meet the daily minimum recommendation of 30 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity. Government and medical practitioners are faced with the challenge of educating and motivating people to incorporate physical activity as a regular part of their lifestyles.

So let’s take a look at our lifestyle. Physical activity is easy to incorporate in our lives. Start taking the stairs rather than elevators or escalators. This will improve your cardiovascular health. Go to the gym at least three times a week if possible. If you find it difficult to manage time then maybe you would want to buy a bicycle and spend an hour or two at the park to sweat it out. Then take a good walk or a good jog to stretch the back and the upper muscles too. Stretch and sweat it out! Your body needs to keep those sweat glands working. Devise any physical activity that could stretch your muscles, improve your cardiovascular health and most of all easier for you to do like a treadmill at home.

Prevention of chronic diseases

Prevention of chronic diseases and the reduction of their impact are seen to be related to dietary and lifestyle changes. The role of diet is essential in preventing and controlling morbidity. Since rapid changes in diets and lifestyles have occurred with industrialization, economic development and market globalization, progress has significant impact on health and nutritional status of population. With the increase of inappropriate dietary patterns and decrease of physical activity is the corresponding increase of diet related chronic diseases. Changes in the world food economy are practically reflected in the shift of dietary patterns. Because of these changes, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, stroke and cancer are increasingly fast becoming causes of disability and death.

Trends in shifting dietary patterns and increasing sedentary lifestyle are major risk factor for noncommunicable chronic diseases. Along with the increased tobacco use are the corresponding increased of diet related chronic diseases which is more common among the poor people. Nutrition is fast coming to the fore as major modifiable determinant of chronic diseases. Any alterations in diet have both positive and negative long term effects on health and life. Dietary adjustments may very well determine any person’s tendency to develop diseases like cancers, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes in later life. This is to reiterate the importance of nutrition, diet and exercise in a person’s life even at a very young age. Developing recommendations for diet and nutrition and the need for sufficient physical activity is still best in the prevention of chronic diseases.

Inactivity and chronic low back pain

There are several conditions that are disabling which greatly affect an individual’s mobility. Injuries of the spine, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, herniated disc and many others are some examples of disabling diseases which make it a daunting task to accomplish some forms of work even exercise. Let us assume that they can still perform light exercises. The question then is to seek the kind of exercise and the best diet that is best for people managing with chronic pains and other disabilities? Long periods of sitting may result to pressure sores, osteoporosis, skin breakdown along with the feeling of muscle strain and tightness which normally occurs at the neck, upper back and shoulders and the pelvic area.

The pelvic floor muscles lie just inside the pelvis and can become painful if they are tightened for longer periods. One common symptom is the problem of burning discomfort at the entrance to the vagina which is often misdiagnosed as a chronic yeast infection. To elevate the condition, one must avoid wearing tight clothing and sitting longer than 15 minutes to an hour at a time depending on pain intensity. Muscles are capable of producing optimum strength which allows optimum strength and function for the body. Muscle strength and function changes with a change in length. Take note that muscles that are excessively shortened or lengthened changes joint function and predispose any individual to injury.

This is especially true when you retire and stays at home. Physical activity like exercise is a requirement for good health and mobility. Make sure you still sweat and do those cardiovascular exercises even an hour a day. Walking on a treadmill is advisable but an early morning walk with lots of good fresh air is best.