Posts Tagged ‘Exercise’
Hearing Loss
Presbyterians (old-age deafness) happens when your sensitive inner-ear hairs stop sending messages to your brain.
Prevention
A diet high in antioxidants can have a protective effect on long tern hearing. So eat seedy fruit like pomegranate. Better for your ears than seedy nightclubs.
Prostate Cancer
The most common cancer in men over 75. As the gland swells, side effects include incontinence and erectile dysfunction.
Prevention
The Australian Cancer Council found ejaculating more than five times a week in your 20s and 30s cuts the risk of prostate cancer in later life by a third. The report said masturbation is more effective than sex, so take matters in hand.
Sciatica
Lower back pain affects 70% of men over the age of 55. Build core strength now to ensure you’re in the lucky 30% who don’t suffer.
Prevention
Your piriformis muscle controls hip rotation and is the most common cause of sciatica. Keep it loose with regular stretches: lie on your back with bent knees, Lift your right ankle over your left knee and pull into your chest.
How To Make Sure Your Meal is Balance & Healthy ?
Yogurt with cereal or whole-meal toast with peanut butter and banana, with honey drizzled on top Indulges in sausages, eggs and baked beans with Pierre once a week
LUNCH
Savoury oats with vegetables, mushrooms and minced pork or chicken
DINNER
Steamed cod with fresh ginger, chili and spring onion.
Steamed green vegetables seasoned with a dash of oyster/scallop sauce and topped with browned shallots.
Mixes brown rice with white rice.
Indulges in Pierre’s favorite beer battered fish and chips once every two to three months
How to Get Yourself Inner Calm? (Part 2)
Way 6: Let There Be Light
Daylight regulates our bio-rhythm, and is responsible for our psychological equilibrium. If you spend all day in an office and finish late, you could be denying yourself calming, healing light. Get out at lunchtime, and take long walks on weekends to increase your light quota.
Way 7: Balancing Your Brain
Developing your intuition helps you achieve inner harmony by balancing the right and left sides of your brain, using it productively is essential in keeping you rooted and bringing you a sense of calm.
Make creative ideas work, follows your hunches, and actively use visualization and meditation methods —these will all help you connect with your intuitive source. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Get Yourself Inner Calm? (Part 1)
Way 1 : Expand Your Vision
Find a point opposite you, just above eye-level, and keeping your eyes on that point, begin to slowly broaden your field of vision to notice more of what’s on either side of that point, so that, eventually, you’re paying attention to what’s visible in the corners of your eyes.
You should begin to feel your breathing moving lower in your chest, slowing down, becoming deeper. You’ll also feel your facial muscles relaxing. This “peripheral vision” technique activates a part of the nervous system that restores inner calm.
Way 2: Healthy Meal
Complex carbohydrates — whole-wheat, cereals and rye — produce serotonin in the body, which has a effect on the brain’s chemistry. Vitamin B6 is also essential in serotonin production, so eat B6-rich foods — bananas, raisins and sweet potatoes — regularly to give your body the necessary fuel to help soothe you the nutritional way. Read the rest of this entry »
Comfort Zone In Your Office / Working Place
On Your Hot Seat
- Sit with your feet comfortably flat on the floor and elbows level with the keyboard.
- Keep your arms parallel to the floor.
- Recline chair slightly to reduce pressure on the lower back.
- Push your hips very close to the back of the chair.
- De-clutter the area below your desk so you have room to stretch your legs.
On the phone
- Avoid holding the receiver between the shoulder and the ear as it strains the neck.
- Use a headset if you use the phone frequently.
- Make sure the phone is within easy reach to avoid over-stretching.
- Use both thumbs to type messages on your mobile phone to minimize the strain on one thumb. Read the rest of this entry »
How To Fight With Your Flab?
What should I do??? Most people facing the same problem with: Whenever they sit down, their stomach spills over my pants, skirt or jeans. How can they get rid of this roll of fat?
Eating a balanced diet and cutting down on your intake of carbohydrates will help reduce overall body fat. Regular exercise will also help increase energy expenditure and tone abdominal muscles.
Fat that doesn’t budge with diet and exercise can be treated with Slim Laser Body Contouring, which is suitable for areas like the abdomen, love-handles, thighs, arms and back. It is a minimally invasive procedure with minimum downtime. It uses a powerful io-watt Nd:YAG laser to melt and destroy fat cells before they are removed from the body. Read the rest of this entry »
