HEALTH & WELLNESS

Exercise Boredom? Hit Refresh On Your Fitness Routine

17Sep

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Exercise Boredom? Hit Refresh On Your Fitness Routine

(BPT) - With summer in full swing, it’s time to enjoy more sunshine, warmer temperatures, and extra time with family and friends outdoors. Yet, with so many vacations and barbecues on the books, it’s easy to take a detour from your fitness goals and resolutions (remember those?) for those more ‘fun’ options. If you want to breathe new life into your exercise goals and find meaningful strategies that help you feel motivated to make health changes all year long, you're not alone. Katy Neville, Head of Fitness Programming for Amazon Halo, wants to help by sharing her top tips for re-committing to your wellness journey. Try a program with a path in mind Working towards a new fitness goal can be exciting, but knowing how to kick off and actually sticking with it can be more challenging. Pick...

12Sep

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, TOP FOUR

To Shroom Or Not To Shroom

Mushrooms, toadstools, fungus. They may look alike but if you're an amateur, you should refrain from picking them in the woods. Many fragrant tasty species grow wild and add a pungent flavor to soups, stews and casseroles. White button mushrooms are grown domestically, offer less flavor and can be found in the produce section of your local food store. But they are not veggies. They reside in the fungus family. While certain species can be cultivated commercially, others grow only in the wild. Although fat-free and low- calorie, mushrooms do offer some nutritional value and add flavor and volume to many dishes. Although you love their culinary value, don't run out after the next rainfall and pluck those little toadstools sprouting on the lawn for your morning omelet. Many are highly poison...

5Sep

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Dreams – Showing The Real Me?

Brain-scientists have discovered that during dreams, the brain is electrically active like when we are awake. However, it is active in a chemically different way. Certain chemicals present during waking are reduced by half during non-dream sleep and are absent altogether during dream sleep. And so, science explains dreaming as just a by-product of these chemical changes in the brain. This seems to link with the philosophical idea of materialism that the world of physical matter is the only world there is. This states that to understand anything, including subjective consciousness, we only need to see it in terms of physics and chemistry. In contrast, Sigmund Freud believed that the content of the dream is meaningful. He thought it reveals something in a disguised form about our unconsciou...

22Aug

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, SELF

The Amazing Benefits Of Pilates

There are many exercise you can do but few focus on the core, breathing and control like Pilates. Pilates is a physical fitness system developed in the early 20th century. It is practiced all over the world especially in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The Principles of Pilates Breathing: Full inhalation and complete exhalation are encouraged and deemed important when doing Pilates exercises. Pilates felt that this encouraged the intake of oxygen and the circulation of this oxygenated blood to every part of the body. Pilates breathing is described as a posterior lateral breathing into the lower rib cage. Pilates instructors try to properly coordinate this breathing practice with movement. Concentration: Intense focus is imperative and considered more important than the ...

22Aug

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

CBD: Rising Star Or Popular Fad?

Cannabidiol, or CBD, has become a household name. On many social media sites, people suggest “but have you tried CBD oil?” on posts pertaining to any health-related issue. CBD, a minor constituent of marijuana, is widely touted as nature’s miracle by CBD enthusiasts. It does not get people high, unlike marijuana’s main constituent, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). However, given the recent surge in its popularity, you’d think the molecule is magic. We are behavioral pharmacology scientists, and we study how drugs act on the body. Specifically, we have an interest in developing new drugs for the treatment of pain that possess lessened drug abuse potential, and therapeutic interventions for drug abuse. Although there is scientific interest in the use of CBD for both pain and drug addict...

Alcohol’s Harms Are Easy To Document, But Health Benefits Hard To Prove

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, Journalism, TOP FOUR

Alcohol’s Harms Are Easy To Document, But Health Benefits Hard To Prove

Alcohol is the most widely used drug in the world, including in the United States. About 70 percent of adults in the United States report past-year alcohol consumption, with over 37 million drinkers reporting binge drinking (defined for women as four or more drinks per occasion, and five or more drinks per occasion for men) at least once a week. The prevalence of past-year drinking has increased in the past two decades, from 65.4 percent in 2001 to 2002 to 72.7 percent in 2012 to 2013. Partially because it is such a commonly used substance, heavily marketed and glamorized in pop culture, Americans’ comfort with and acceptance of alcohol is high. Should it be? I research alcohol use and the associations between drinking and a wide range of problems. While the rising opioid epidemic has ...

Lift And – Oops! Spontaneous Accident While Exercising

18Aug

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, TOP FOUR

Lift And – Oops! Spontaneous Accident While Exercising

Wow! There's nothing quite like a really good workout to make a guy feel good. Sure, he may feel tired, but he also has gotten his blood flowing, his heart pumping and his body that much more fit. In some cases, though, there can be an embarrassing consequence of exercising - spontaneous ejaculation, or spurting semen in the gym shorts without consciously stimulating the penis. Spontaneous ejaculation is a fairly uncommon penis health issue, but that doesn't make it any less awkward when a guy tries to cover up a wet spot as he quickly exits the gym floor and hurries to the locker room. Spontaneous ejaculation There aren't really statistics kept on how common spontaneous ejaculation is, but it seems to be fairly rare. It also is rare for one person to have what might be termed recurrent ...

10Aug

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, TOP FOUR

A Short History Of Cheerios

Cheerios are famous breakfast cereal in a distinctive 'O' shape made from puffed oats. They are popular among children and adults since the 1940s. A US based cereal company called General Mills owns the Cheerios brand and is also marketed by Nestle in as many as 130 countries including UK. Cheerios has a variety of styles and flavors; it is advertised as a nutritious and healthy breakfast. The breakfasts of the 19th century were typically made up of toast, fried eggs, bacon and sausages. Healthy diet was not considered as important. However, some doctors had noticed their patients responded better to urinary tract problems and bowel even to mood swings if they had a better balanced diet of cereals and vegetables. Unluckily, cereals turned out to be difficult to be made into convenient mea...

4Aug

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

What To Consider While Exercising During Pregnancy

While exercise is often said to be safe to do while pregnant, with so much information out there, it can be hard to figure out just how much exercise you should do – and if there are certain exercises to avoid. Exercise is good for the mother and her baby, but given all the changes that happen to the body during pregnancy, it is advisable to take it a bit easier when exercising. One of these changes is how our cardiovascular system functions. Because the baby needs a constant supply of oxygen to develop – and because of how quickly it grows – the mother will experience a 45-50% increase in blood volume to carry this much-needed oxygen to the baby. The mother’s heart rate also increases to ensure the baby gets enough oxygen. This could put an extra strain on the woman’s heart and lungs w...

28Jul

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HEALTH & WELLNESS, TOP FOUR

Am I Addicted To Drugs?

If you are asking yourself this question, consider it a good sign. If you are addicted, it means you've come to the point of looking at your habits and behavior with a critical eye. Believe it or not, that is a big step and is the first requirement for recovery from addiction. If you are not addicted, asking yourself this question is also an important indication. It says that you are in danger; danger not only from the damages of drug use or abuse, but it says that you are approaching a critical point where your habits could take you down into a new realm in which you may not have the luxury of self-examination. So what are the indications of addiction and do they exist in your life? 1. There is no question about whether or not I'm going to use today. If daily use for you is a given, t...