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Apr
23
Can we be as harmonic as those seven fictional characters on their way to mine their day away when we have a back ache? Can we obtain relief or do we have to endure a day of aches and pains while on the clock?
An article I recently viewed on the ArgusLeader.com website, indicates that back pain is the second leading reason people miss work. Truck drivers repeatedly have to deal with back pain from the continuous vibration of the spine while behind the wheel. Heavy lifting of patients and children puts nurses and parents at considerable risk. Statistics obtained from OccupationalHazards.com reveal that in the
Now it’s understood that the career we choose can have an adverse effect on our physical health. You can sit behind a desk all day long in air-conditioning, you can drive a tractor-trailer down Route 66 daily, or work in the hospital emergency room. Simultaneously, you are putting severe strain on your neck and back. Can we take the time to heal ourselves before our issues escalate? Can we do something to alleviate the pain if it is already present? Is there anything we can do?
What is Yoga? It’s a system of exercises practiced for thousands of years as used to promote control of the body and mind.
Why Yoga? Because it can help. It has consistently been used to cure and prevent back pain by enhancing strength and flexibility. As many practitioners can attest, Yoga can offer effective healing that’s relatively free of side effects. The slow movements and gentle pressures reach deep into troubled joints. Additionally, the easy stretches in conjunction with deep breathing exercises relieve the tension that binds up muscles and tightens joints. Yoga is exercise and relaxation rolled up into one.
Who is a candidate? Each year, millions of Americans suffer from debilitating back pain. Both acute and long-term stress can lead to muscle tension and exacerbate back problems. Despite Western medicine’s phenomenal advances and powerful technology, two of the most commonly prescribed solutions—painkillers and surgery—do little to address the underlying causes of pain and can potentially cause side effects. In truth, a one-size-fits-all solution is impossible given that the causes and manifestations of pain—arthritis, strained ligaments, scoliosis, and herniated disks, to name a few—vary widely.
How does Yoga assist pain management? Yoga helps reduce pain by helping the brain regulate the
secretion of natural painkillers into the body. Breathing exercises commonly used in Yoga can also help reduce pain. Muscles tend to relax when you exhale, because of this lengthening your time of exhalation can help produce relaxation and reduce tension. Maintaining a certain awareness of ones own breathing helps to achieve calmer, slower respiration and assist in relaxation and pain management.
What do I do to get started? First, rule out potential serious causes of the back pain. See your primary care physician and speak to her/him of your concerns. He will know how to proceed from there to investigate the cause of your back pain. Then, also inquire as to whether or not it is safe for you to practice Yoga as part of your recovery program.
Treat the injury with extra care. When you are in a lot of pain, usually the tissues are inflamed, it’s critical that you proceed at a slow pace. If you work in an aggressive fashion in order to improve your strength or flexibility too early on, it can cause you even more pain.
Looking for an experienced teacher with substantial training and experience should be your next course of action. A Yoga therapist will assist you by creating a program that is specific to your needs and limitations, especially those pertaining to your injury and medical condition. They will observe your form and practice, and track how you respond to the exercises. He or she will gauge which elements are likely to be helpful and determine whether modifications are necessary.
Studies have shown that strict bed rest can cause you more harm than good. Go ahead and try breathing exercises and practice a gentle asana as soon as you experience pain.
Stomach crunches are often prescribed by doctors in order to prevent recurring episodes of back pain. Looking at this from a yogic perspective this is imprecise. By doing to many crunches or ab exercises you can increase the tightness in the hip flexors, and potentially making the back problems worst. With Yoga, the approach is to examine which muscles need to be strengthened and which ones need to be stretched, and finally designing a program that would work on those specific needs.
Do avoid poses that worsen or aggravate your problem. If you have a lumbar disk problem, be careful with forward bends, especially those that include some form of a twist. Also, during transitions take care, attention tends to wander. Sudden changes of position should be avoided and stepping rather than jumping should be the standard.
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Apr
23
Find new Sexual Pleasure with Cialis
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Apr
23
Beat the Heat and Survive the Summer
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The “Dog Days” of summer are almost upon us and record temperatures are sweeping the country. Unfortunately we have the highest number of elderly and medically fragile people in history, and an aging infrastructure that is feeling the strain of heavy electrical use as our senior citizens struggle to stay cool.
We’re here to give you tips and tricks to help you beat the heat should you be susceptible to extreme temperatures, or should your power be out. Here’s a short list of suggestions:
1. Drink plenty of cool water to keep yourself hydrated and reduce your body’s core temperature. (Warm water won’t do this, and cold water might be a shock to sensitive systems.) Drink regularly, every hour, even if you don’t feel thirsty. Avoid soft drinks and alcoholic drinks that are actually diuretic and rob your body of the water it desperately needs.
2. Eat small, light, non-spicy meals. Eating heavy meals cranks your metabolism and can raise your body temperature. Also, digestion robs you of energy. Since the heat is already robbing you of some energy, you don’t need to add to this drain by taxing the digestive system. However, don’t skip meals since it’s food that replenishes the electrolytes you lose through sweating and increased water consumption.
3. Some sources suggest you wear “light colored, loose fitting clothes.” However, that’s only if you’re going outside. If you go outside, go with that rule and also wear a loose fitting hat or carry an umbrella for shade. Forget the fashion rules, follow the heat rules. (By the way, royal blue and/or white are the best colors to wear for their heat reflective qualities. Ever wonder why most tarps and boat awnings are blue? This is why.) For indoors though, forget all those rules and go with the “bare as you dare” notion. The more exposed skin you have the more efficient your cooling-by-sweating process can work. Also, be sure to tie up long hair, and if you have a beard, consider shaving in order to remove all that facial insulation.
4. Though “bare as you dare” is the way to go indoors in limited AC, most of us would prefer to have good air conditioning. If yours is out, or if power sources are uncertain, go someplace that has AC like the mall or other places that don’t mind people coming in and hanging around a while. Also, you can “AC pool” with friends just like you’d car pool. Go to a friend’s house who has a good AC system.
5. Failing to find another source of AC, and considering that the power might be out, here are a couple more tips. First, stand-alone floor unit air conditioners aren’t that expensive and can run off regular household current without the need for the special 220 volt outlets. This means that they can be operated using the smaller gas-powered electric generators. Can’t afford a generator? You can probably afford a power inverter which can sometimes be found for under twenty dollars. They plug into your car’s cigarette lighter and, using an extension cord, can power an appliance like your stand-alone AC, or at least some fans. Speaking of your car, if nothing else, if your car has AC you can ride around during the hottest hours of the day, providing you can afford today’s gas prices. If absolutely nothing else, go to your nearest “dollar store” and see if they have any of those little battery-powered fans.
6. Can’t afford a stand-alone AC but you have a generator? Your generator or power inverter can also power your fridge and/or freezer where you should have two-liter plastic bottles full of water filling up every empty space in both the fridge and freezer parts. Having cold water is a great thing. You drink cool water and use cold water to soak towels to wrap around your neck, wrists, and ankles where the veins and arteries are closest to the surface. This is one of the best ways to reduce your body temperature. Also, setting up a few of the frozen two-liter bottles in front of a fan can blow a nice cool breeze your way. (Write us at info@disasterprep101.com and we’ll email you instructions for a homemade AC unit that uses these two-liter plastic bottles.)
lign=justify>7. Now that we’ve talked about keeping you cool in the heat, let’s backtrack a bit and talk about reducing the heat you might experience. Naturally, the first rule is “block the sun.” Do what you can to reduce the sunlight that hits your house or comes in through the windows. Keep the shades drawn, and you might even consider hanging a white sheet or blue tarp as an outside awning on the side(s) of the house that catch the most sun. These tarps are also effective if placed on the roof as they’ll reflect the sun’s rays.
8. Next in cooling the house come ventilation and insulation. If you have an attic, and the power is on, you should have a vent fan that keeps air flowing through the attic. Along with that, we suggest you have roof vent turbines, or a ridge vent (your home supply store can tell you all about these). In extremely hot weather, you might set a garden sprinkler on your roof and let it run for the hottest couple of hours of the day provided your area is not on water restriction. As for “insulation” one way to insulate parts of the house is to close off seldom-used rooms (especially those on the sunny side of the house), and close off their AC vents if any. This blocks heat and also reduces the area that your limited AC has to cool.
While we’re here, we’d be remiss in our duties if we failed to give you the symptoms of sunstroke and heat exhaustion, both of which require medical attention:
Heat Exhaustion: Symptoms include heavy sweating, and skin may be pale, cool, or flushed. The victim will also exhibit a weak pulse, with fainting, dizziness, nausea, or vomiting.
Sun Stroke (sometimes called heat stroke): Symptoms are high body temperature, hot, dry, red, skin (usually with no sweating), rapid shallow breathing, and a weak pulse. Sun stroke is the more dangerous of the two.
The most immediate first aid for either of these is to get the victim into a cool spot, and reduce their body temperature with ice-cold wet towels around the neck, wrist, and ankles. You can also put them in a bathtub of cool water. Don’t use cold water in the tub as that will shock the system. Regardless of your first aid measures, you should seek immediate medical assistance.
Remember, hot weather is nothing to ignore, even if you’re not among the elderly or medically fragile. Heat can affect everyone. Play it safe, stay cool, avoid exertion, and stay healthy. Also, when considering heat safety, don’t forget your pets.
Apr
23
The Body’s Energy Centers
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Eastern philosophy and medicine, originating in ancient India and China, have traditionally regarded body structures and the life processes occurring within as inseparable. Their terminology resides halfway between structure and function and identifies certain entities in the human body, representing the flow of life energy and, in some sense, conduits for that flow that do not correspond to anatomical structures recognized by Western science and medicine. The chakras are the energy centers in a person’s biological field and are responsible for his or her physiological and psychological condition as well as certain groups of organs. All vital functions of the human body are determined by energy that spins in the chakras. These can be defined as “whirlpools referred,” and in Indian, they are considered ”energy bursts” or “wheels.”
The process of energy transformation happens exactly in these centers. Vital energy, along with blood, circulates around the meridians in the chakras and fuels all organs and systems in the human body. When the circulation in these meridians stagnates, the human body becomes susceptible to various disorders. An excellent preventative method, designed explicitly to battle such stagnation is Chi Gun, an ancient Chinese method for self-healing which activates the energy centers. Chi Gun teaches people to release the energy themselves by massaging specific areas corresponding to the different chakras.
There are 49 chakras mentioned in the Vedic Canons, seven of which are basic; 21 are in the second circle, and 21 in the third circle. According to the Vedis, there are multiple energy channels leading to different locations from the chakras. Three of these channels are basic. The first one, called “shushumna,” is hollow and is concentrated in the spine. The other two energy pathways, “ida” and “pingala”, are located on either side of the spine. These two channels are the most active in most people, while “shushumna” remains stagnant.
The seven basic chakras spin at high speeds in the body of healthy individuals but slow down in times of sickness or with advancing age. When the body is in a harmonious balance, the chakras remain partially open. Closed chakras are unable to receive energy, leading to various disorders.
The first basic chakra, “Muladhara,” is located at the base of the spine in the tailbone area. Life energy, which is at the core of a strong and healthy immune system, is stored in this chakra. It is impossible for a person to become sick, old or even to die, before exhausting his or her reserves of this vital energy. The very will for life is controlled by Muladhara. It is also in charge of the bones and joints, the teeth, the nails, the urinogenital system and the large intestine. The first symptoms of a malfunctioning Muladhara are unreasonable fear, faintness, lack of security or faith in the future, leg and foot problems, and intestinal disorders.
The interrupted activity of the Muladhara chakra causes lack of energy, digestive problems, diseases of the bones and spine, and nervous tension among others.
The second chakra, “Svadhistana,” is located at the level of the sacrum, three or four fingers below the belly button. This chakra regulates the pelvis, the kidneys and sexual functions. We also feel other peoples’ emotions through this chakra. Symptoms of a malfunctioning “Svadhistana” are kidney problems, cystitis and arthritis.
The third chakra, “Manipura,” is found in the solar plexus area. This chakra is the center for storing and distributing energy produced by digestion and breathing. It is responsible for vision, the gastrointestinal system, the liver, the gall bladder, the pancreas and nervous system. Symptoms of a stagnant “Manipura” are as follows: increased and constant worrying, as well as stomach, liver and nervous disorders.
The fourth chakra, “Anahata,” also called the heart chakra, is located in the chest area. We generate and receive love through this chakra. It is in charge of the heart, the lungs, the bronchi, the hands and the arms. Symptoms of stagnation include depression and cardiovascular imbalances.
The fifth chakra, “Vishudha,” is located at the throat level and is the center of analytical skills and logic. This chakra sustains the skin, organs of hearing, along with the trachea and lungs. Symptoms include a lack of emotional stability, discomfort in the cervical spine, soar throats, difficulties communicating, and esophagus and thyroid ailments.
The sixth chakra, “Adjna,” is located between the eyebrows and is called the “third eye.” Here is the throne for the human brain. “Adjna” circulates energy to the head and pituitary gland and is also responsible for determining our harmonious development. If a person’s “third eye” cease
s to function properly, one might notice a decrease in intellectual ability, headaches and migraines, earaches, olfactory illnesses, and psychological disorders.
The seventh chakra, “Sahasrara,” is found at the very top of the head and represents the apex where an individual’s energy vibrates with the highest frequency. It is considered a spiritual center and the entrance to the body for cosmic energy. A stagnant “Sahasrara” can result in a decrease in or lack of inner wisdom, as well as a lack of basic intuition.
With this basic knowledge of the first seven chakras, we can address the question: “How do we use this information to locate the causes of our troubles and problems, and with the help of Eastern Medicine, learn to control the functions of the chakras ourselves?”.
From the perspective of Eastern Medicine, our health depends on the distribution of our energy-consciousness informational field. A shortage of energy inevitably causes ailments. According to Tibetan Medicine, the only difference between youth and old age, and between a sick and healthy individual, is the difference in the rotating speed of the whirlpool energy centers of the chakras. If these different speeds are balanced, old people will rejuvenate and sick people will heal. Therefore, the best way to preserve and keep our health, youth and vitality is to restore and maintain a balanced movement of the energy centers.
The easiest way to keep the chakras balanced is through a set of physical exercises. Yannis called these not simply exercises, but rituals. These rituals allow the human body to mold its energy centers to an ideal level of function. The seven rituals, one for each chakra, must be performed together every morning and when not possible, in the evening. Skipping rituals unbalances energy distribution, and so for the best results, no more than one day per week should be missed. The daily chakra rituals are necessary not only for revitalizing the body, but also for achieving success in every facet of life. “Once you learn how to transform your energy, you will also become happier,” concluded Yannis.
For learning these rituals (which have transformed many peoples’ lives throughout the world), seeing them in action is much more effective than trying to follow written descriptions or diagrams. A DVD, available from Helix 7, Inc. (www.FeelingOfHappiness.com), includes actual demonstrations of these rituals.
Another method of keeping the chakras balanced and in their optimal half-open state is meditation. Meditative methods are universal to the human experience; they have accumulated over the ages through many different cultures and have proven their value in attaining peace, clarity, equanimity and in transcending despair. People who meditate on a regular basis are usually calmer, more secure, more joyful and more productive human beings. They are more effective in their everyday lives because they use their mental and physical p
otential, abilities and skills to their fullest extent. All too often, we humans fail to realize the great latent powers which are, as yet, unawakened in our bodies. We must learn how to revive and utilize them. This can only be achieved through meditation. Eastern men of wisdom, who believed meditation to be a vital necessity, stumbled on this discovery more than 1000 years ago. They learned to influence their inner organs and control their metabolism with the power of their minds. Meditation is to the mind what exercise is to the body; mental strength can be built up just like physical strength. Just as in athletics, it is important for an individual to train his or her body, it is important for an individual to train his or her mind through meditation.
The best time for meditation is early morning, preferably at dawn. Do not meditate when you are sad, aggravated, desperate or sick, because these intense emotional and physiological distractions make an enlightened state of mind impossible. For an effective meditation session, it is preferable to arrange for the undistracted silence of a quiet, clean room with flowers, or the soothing sounds of Mother Nature – near a lake, river, waterfall, woods or fields. Many different mental practices, having their origin in historical traditions, fall under the general heading of “meditation.” These paths of mental development can involve emotional and intellectual facets and may also be coordinated with specific movements. Meditation can be structured or unstructured, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer writes in his book Real Magic, “The process of meditation is nothing more than quietly going within and discovering that higher component of yourself … Learning to meditate is learning how to live rather than talking about it…”
Apr
23
POST AB-SOLUTE DEFINITION
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As with all muscle groups, the abs can “get used to” the stress placed on them by a set exercise routine.
After a few months you may wish to incorporate some of the following exercises into you ab routine.
Extra Exercises: Cable Crunches
Yes, another “crunch” movement! The reason there are so many crunch exercises in ab work, is simply because they work. Like the ab crunch, the cable crunch is a strict contraction movement of the abdominal muscles.
The additional ability to adjust resistance with the weight stack makes this a unique and very effective movement.
At advanced ab training levels, bodyweight alone may not provide you with enough resistance to build up your abdominal muscles.
With the cable crunch, you can load on as much weight as necessary to make your abs burn!
Start position: Use a high pully or a triceps/cable crossover using a rope or a machine small v-grip handle.
From the kneeling position, keep your thighs at a 90 angle to the floor and your torso parallel to the floor.
Grip one end of the handle in each hand, positioning it near to your forehead and pull the rope straight down.
Use a weight that allows a full contraction for 12-15 reps. Contract your abs keeping your pelvis and lower back stationary, curling your head toward the floor, in towards your knees.
Squeeze at the peak contraction point then slowly unfurl your body allowing the weight, with control to take you back to the starting position.
At the top, allow the weight to pull you slightly beyond horizontal, slightly arch the back and “stretch” your abs. Now go back and do it again.
CAUTION
1. Using too much weight will bring the “psoas muscles” into play. These connect the spine to the long bone of the thigh. This places undue stress on the spine, and can be seen by the sharp arch in the back.
This is no good for your abs and is bad for your back. Stick to a weight that only allows 12-15 reps.
2. Remember not to pivot at the hips, keep your lower hips and back stationary. Use your abs.
TWISTING TOE TOUCH
Lie on your back with your Legs and feet together. Now raise your legs up to a 90º angle from your upper torso. Raise your arms straight above you. Reach out with your left arm and shoulder off the floor and touch the outside of your right foot. Return to the start position and repeat with the other side.
THE BICYCLE
This movement is so called because it is similar to riding a bike. Keeping your feet and Legs together, while Lying on your back, bend your knees and bring your thighs up, until they are 90º to the floor. Keeping a continual motion, move your left knee to your right elbow and vice versa. Continue at a steady pace, holding for a count of 2 at the moment of peak abs contraction.
SIDE KNEE UP
While lying on your side, place one arm behind your head, and the other arm out to your side, propping you up. Raise both Legs up, along with your torso. Try to bring your knees and chest together. Slowly lower your Legs and torso to your start position and repeat. After completing your set, change sides and repeat.
FAT: THE FACTS
Developing your abdominal muscles and getting rid of fat are two distinctly different objectives. Basically, to remove unwanted fat one must perform aerobic exercise and adjust one’s diet so more calories are burned up than consumed. The exercises that you do requires the muscles to work. The body obtains that energy from the food that you eat and your fat stores. Therefore decreasing food intake whilst increasing energy output leads to fat loss.
Q+A
Q – I already do some of these exercises what’s so different about Absolute Definition?
A – “Doing some” and doing a scientifically designed program is not the same thing.
Absolute Definition is a series of exercises which, when performed in the manner explained, give results that doing the odd abs exercise could never attain.
Q – I don’t have anywhere to do the hanging exercises, what should I do?
A – Use a doorway chinning bar, available at most good sports stores.
Q – How do I know when I’m ready to go up a Level?
A – Stay at each level as long as possible. You can only benefit from this, as you will have a foundation on which to build future training success. As long as one level is giving you visible results. Stick with it.
Q – Can I get rid of the love handles on the side of my waist by using Absolute Definition?
A – Absolute Definition tones the mid section and the abdominal muscles. Losing the love handles involves Losing body fat. See the Aerobics section.
Q – How come you don’t have seated twists and side bends in your program?
A – These exercises (where people put a bar on their shoulders and twist, or “dip” from side to side holding weights) are absolutely not recommended. They will cause your obliques to grow, causing your waist to grow wider and they do this very effectively and quickly.
The net result is that your chest will not look as wide because you will also have a “wide” waist.
Absolute Definition is ideally presented in the context of bodybuilding. Bodybuilders strive for the classic V, inverted triangle upper body shape. Wide shoulders/chest, tapering down to a narrow waist.
Performing these overt oblique exercises could seriously inhibit your potential to achieve this V shape. So don’t do them.
AB-SOLUTE DEFINITION: ROUTINES
Now that you are familiar with the exercises, we will go into the routines. They range from beginner to advanced. If you are a total newcomer to exercise, start at Level 1, otherwise Level 2 or 3. Each Level becomes progressively “harder”. Never move up a Level unless you feel that you are no longer benefitting or feeling “tested” by your present Level.
Remember, as stated at the beginning of this programme, if you have large fat deposits, you must incorporate an adjusted diet (lower calories) and aerobic exercise (performed constantly for at Least 20 minutes) alongside your Ab-solute Definition exercises.
Remember to perform all exercises with correct form at the proper pace, the Ab-solute Definition programme contains combinations exercise which when of followed through exactly as described will give fast explosive results. Best of Luck!
LEVEL 1
Horizontal Leg Raises – 15 reps
Semi Sit-Ups (Accelerated) – NO REST — 25 reps
Horizontal Leg Raises – 10 SECOND REST – 12 reps
Semi Sit-Ups (Accelerated) – NO REST – 20 reps
LEVEL 2
Horizontal Leg Raises — 25 reps
Horizontal Leg Raises — 15 SECOND REST — 20 reps
Straight Abdominal Crunches – NO REST — 25 reps
Semi Sit-Ups (Accelerated) — NO REST — 10 reps
LEVEL 3
Hanging Knee-Ups — 10 reps
Hanging Knee-Ups — 15 SECOND REST — 6-8 reps
Straight Abdominal Crunches — NO REST — 25 reps
Straight Abdominal Crunches — 15 SECOND REST — 20 reps
LEVEL 4
Horizontal Leg Raises – 15 reps
Hanging Knee-Ups — NO REST — 15 reps
Hanging Knee-Ups — 15 SECOND REST — 10 reps
Straight Abdominal Crunches — NO REST — 20 reps
Semi Sit-Ups (Accelerated) — NO REST — 20 reps
LEVEL 5
Hanging Knee-Ups — 20 reps
Hanging Knee-Ups — 15 SECOND REST — 15 reps
Horizontal Leg Raises – NO REST — 20 reps
Horizontal Leg Raises – 10 SECOND REST — 15 reps
Straight Abdominal Crunches — NO REST — 35 reps
Semi Sit-Ups (Accelerated) – NO REST — 15 reps
Apr
23
The number of penis enlargement programs and products has drastically increased due to the great demand and popularity this market niche has reached over the last years. Despite the numerous ways to increase penis size, there is always the question: “How to increase penis size naturally?” The keyword here is naturally.
Men search for natural ways to boost their natural endowment with the help of penis enlargement products and programs. Natural means close to the nature of men, made of herbs, harmless, or obtaining better results, etc. you name it. The fact is that the natural increase of penis size is truly the safest penis enlargement method that delivers permanent results.
There is one natural way to make your penis look bigger using a small trick (without actual penis enlargement) – to shave or trim the pubic hair. This will give you an extra half inch or more. You will be truly amazed how big you penis could look if you’ve never shaved it before. You can use this technique to impress your sex partner. I am sure she’ll be glad, because women don’t really like those hairs very much.
Can you think of another and better natural way to increase penis size than the one mentioned above? I can – using all natural herbal supplements. Now we are talking about actual penis enlargement using 100% natural products like penis enlargement pills.
Yes, you can gain an inch in length for a couple of months, and a few inches for up to half a year and more. All you need to do is take your pills on a regular basis. You will see the positive results soon enough to make you even more determined to go on.
However, results vary from one man to another – one might gain only 1 inch in length, while others – 2 or 3 inches for the full period of taking the pills. Nevertheless, don’t get discouraged, on the contrary – stay focused, stick to your penis enlargement program and you will succeed.
You should get used to the idea that penis enlargement is a marathon, not a sprint. If any penis enlargement product or program ever offers you unbelievable results in no time – don’t believe them, the
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Apr
23
Pilatesis the exercise of choice for dancers, gymnasts, and a host of famous
Pilatesincredible popularity can be traced to the fact that it provides its faithfulpractitioners with benefits that you simply cant get through traditionalaerobics/strength training format.
1. Makes You into Muscle Man
If want along, lean look without bulky muscles, but with all the strength. Would youlike to build strength and endurance without getting the muscle man look? Ifso, pilates may be just what you have been searching for.
Theres areason that pilates is the exercise of choice for gymnasts and professionaldancers. Most conventional workouts tend to create bulky muscle. Why is this?In most workouts, the emphasis is placed on repetition and building strongmuscles.
Thiscauses already-strong (think: big) muscles to get even strong, and thus bigger.Pilates does not rely on frequent repetition, and thus no overgrown muscles.Pilates focuses on the whole body, not just on sections of muscles.
2. Increases the Strength of Stabilizer Muscles
There aremany benefits that one can achieve through a proper use of the pilates program.One of the most significant points of the pilates program is it’s ability toincrease the strength of stabilizer muscles that may not commonly be worked outin a standard exercise program.
Also,since pilates stresses the use of graceful and fluid movements, it can be agreat way to get a better sense of the kinesthetics of your body. The sense ofbody that you can achieve through pilates is quite significant, and many findthat they are better able to balance themselves regardless of the position thatthey are in.
3. A Mind-Body Workout That Strengthens Your WholeBody
Anotherone of the benefits of Pilates is that it engages the mind and enhances bodyawareness. Like yoga, tai chi, and Asian martial arts, Pilates is not just aworkout for your body. Joseph H. Pilates studied yoga, martial arts, and otherancient mind-body activities and included a strong philosophical foundationinto the practice of Pilates.
Pilatesnot only helps tone your body, but your mind and spirit as well. The smooth,precise and flowing movements of Pilates are designed to make you more mindfulof your body.
Breathmovement is also emphasized to put you in touch with how breath moves throughyour body. Pilates has been demonstrated to reduce stress, anxiety, and helpslift depression. The mind-body connection is fundamental to the study andpractice of pilates.
4. Pilates Strengthens Your Core like No OtherExercise
Anotherone of the benefits of Pilates is that the increased amount of strength thatone can achieve in the ‘core’ of the body. The term core refers to the musclesin and around the area of the abdominal muscles and the back.
Properbreathing control is also stressed in pilates, adding to the numerous list ofbenefits that one can attain through regular use of the exercise program.
5. Prevents You from Future Injuries
Pilatesstrengthens your body and helps prevent future injuries. Pilates helps tocondition the whole body, not just certain muscles. This helps balance themuscle and strength of the body. Since no set of muscles is ever over or undertrained, there is less risk for injury. The body becomes more fluid and supple,protecting against injury.
6. Helps You Become Efficient With Your Body
Last, butnot the least one of the benefits of Pilates is that it teaches you how tobecome efficient with your body. Very few exercises can help your body becomemore efficient in its movement.
Why isefficiency so important? Being efficient means that your body moves in a way,that is smoother, safer, and less prone to injury. By practicing pilates on aregular basis, you can train your body more to move in a much safer and moreefficient manner.
Benefits of Pilates for Older Adults
Thebenefits of pilates have been particularly noted in older adults. Older adultsare more likely to suffer from symptoms of arthritis, including stiff andpainful joints. Pilates practice has also been lauded for its ability to helpprevent injury.
Evenadults undergoing serious rehabilitation therapy can use Pilates to increasetheir range of motion and overall muscle strength. But is Pilates safe for alladults? Who should avoid participating in a Pilates program, and who is morelikely to benefit from the program?
Consultyour medical professional if you have any doubts about your pilates program. Ifyou are suffering from severe degeneration or physical pain, you should takeextra care before beginning a pilates program.
Youshould never feel pain while practicing pilates. If you do, you know that thereis something wrong. Dont be afraid to pull back if you feel overwhelmed.
Pilateswas designed to progress naturally from one movement to another. If you feelstopped at one movement, dont give up. Start at the beginning and work yourway back to the areas you found most challenging.
Other Benefits of Pilates
- Tone and build long, lean muscles without bulk.
- Reduce stress, relieve tension, and boost energy through deep stretching.
- Restore postural alignment.
- Create a stronger, more flexible spine.
- Increase joint range of motion.
- Improve circulation.
- Heighten neuromuscular coordination.
- Offer relief from back pain and joint stress.
- Correct over-training of muscle groups which can lead to stress and injury.
- Enhance mobility, agility and stamina.
- Compliment sports training and develop functional fitness for daily life activity.
- Improve the way your body looks and feels.
Apr
23
The History of Beauty, An Overview
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4-inch lotus feet. Lead-based face makeup. Hairlines plucked to create a longer forehead. Though these may sound like acts from the Circus of Beauty Shop of Horrors, they were all considered common beauty rituals at some point in history. So then just what, you ask, is beautiful?
Dictionary.com defines beautiful as having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear or think about. Sounds simple enough, but that vague explanation doesn’t tell us what physical beautify really is, and it certainly doesn’t account for the passing beauty trends have followed (and at times I would have to say stalked, hunted down and maimed) people throughout history.
When Beauty Becomes Hazardous to Your Health
If you’d been born a woman in Ancient China, chances are your forefront foot bones would have been broken, bent and then tied into place, so that over time your feet would have stopped growing and morphed into a dainty 4-inch lotus-like appendages. Foot binding was a custom practised on young females in
Think that’s scary? During the Elizabethan era, upper-class women covered their skin with Lead-based makeup, often resuting in peripheral neuropathy, gout, anemia, chronic renal failure, and disfiguring scarring. Can you say toxic? The same women also plucked their frontal hairs to lengthen the size of their forehead because, you guessed it, high foreheads were a turn on.
Beauty trends have come and gone, although, sometimes to our dismay, certain trends have crept back in again. Take Twiggy. As thin as a stick, hence her name, Twiggy would have been considered an anomaly in the age of antiquity, when women were round and supple. But in the 60s, her ultra-thin frame was all the rage. Society finally frowned upon skin and bones, so women put a little meat on their frames until the 90s, when heroin-chic took over and the emaciated look became popular once again.
Where do Beauty Trends Come From?
Ginger Garrett, author of Beauty Secrets of the Bible, believes religion has played a key role in setting beauty trends throughout history.
Ancient Greeks and Romans mixed religion and body image with sex. “When husbands went to church, they had sex with the temple prostitute; for them sex was so much at the forefront of the culture and religion and their gods and goddesses had beautiful bodies,” says Garrett. In these times, the focus of beauty was more on the males than the females, as women were rarely encouraged to speak. “Men were supposed to have muscles, and be powerful, like their gods. Women’s ideal shape was heavier than our idea type today, but not obese. It was a very natural standard, with generous hips and belly and relatively small breasts compared to our ideal.”
Christianity caught on, explains Garrett, and suddenly society stopped celebrating the body and began covering it up. A movement called the Gnostics, which taught a hatred of the body, followed. The Greek/Roman worship rituals and their focus on the body was considered evil by the Gnostics, and so they began to teach that everything physical was evil and that beauty was sin. At this time, women were considered child bearers, and wide hips and curves were thought to be attractive on a female because they denoted fertility.
If what Garrett writes about is true, then it appears that
But isn’t there something more . . .
While few would argue that society and religion have been influential when it comes to defining beautiful, neither tells us why millions of people from varying cultures or religions find Brad Pitt (or Jessica Alba, or you insert the star) attractive. The answer might be found in the form of a mathematical ratio.
Beauty is Math
In general, the human face is symmetrical. When we look for a mate, or when we observe someone that we find attractive, we are actually looking for symmetry in that person’s facial features, even if only on a subconscious level. Of course, some faces are more symmetrical than others, and this, some believe, could be one of the keys to pinpointing a beautiful face.
The idea of a connection between beauty and mathematics has spanned centuries. The Pythagorean school believed that objects that were proportioned to the golden ratio were more attractive than those that were not. The Golden Ratio is based on sequences of numbers known as Fibonacci numbers and is alternatively known as phi. This ratio can be found in architecture and nature, and many believe that it can also be found in the angles of the human face-or at least, the angles in a beautiful human face.
Dr. Paul S. Nassif, a facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon with Spalding Plastic Surgery in
Angles and Lines
Dr. Nassif has written about facial analysis and its use in plastic surgery as well as how it can influence what we find beautiful. To analyze the face, you first break it down into sections. The vertical area of the face is divided into five equal parts while the height of the face is divided into three equal areas, from the hairline to the eyebrows, from the eyebrows to the bottom of the nose and from the bottom of the nose to the chin. Once these divisions have been made, facial areas, such as the eyes and the lips, can be analyzed mathematically.
Where’d you get those peepers?
Everyone knows that you can’t beat a pair of sexy eyes, but just what makes those peepers so attractive? On women, the upper eyelid should cover a small portion of the iris without covering the pupil, while the lower eyelid should be about 1-2 millimeters from the iris. These measurements will help to create a more symmetrical look. Eva Longoria’s eyes follow this pattern of symmetry, as do Kate Hudson’s.
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The Nose Knows
When it comes to noses, the length from the forehead to the nose should be approximately 115 to 130 degrees on both men and women, while the area from the bottom of the nose to the edge of the lips should range from 90-95 degrees on men and 95-110 degrees on women. Two celebrities with great noses include Brad Pitt and Brooke Shields.
And What if my face isn’t symmetrical?
So you may be staring in your mirror contemplating the lines and angles of your face and feeling sad that, well, they just don’t add up to perfection. If so, don’t fret: Clairol conducted a survey called What is Beauty and found that, according to participants, one specific definition of beauty did no exist. Celebrities from Julia Roberts to Rosie O’Donnell took home votes, with 53% of participants stating that personality makes a person beautiful and 43% of people voting for self-confidence.
So if your angles are off and your lines just don’t add up, don’t fret. Rather than crying over your golden ratio gone bad, keep your chin up and remember that trends in beauty will come and go (and probably return again), so that at some point during your lifetime what you were born with will probably be considered beautiful, even if it hasn’t caught on just yet.
Apr
23
Inflammatory breast cancer is a harmful disease that is hard to detect. Get 12 signs and 6 frequently asked questions answered that could save your life.
Nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and over 40,000 will die from it. There are seven different types of breast cancer, some more severe and with a lower survival rate than others.
One breast cancer type called inflammatory breast cancer, or IBC, is a unique and aggressive kind that is rare, accounts for 1 – 5% of all cases, but deadly. It is one of the only breast cancer types that have no lumps, which makes it one of the most undetectable and scariest.
There are four breast cancer signs that could mean you have inflammatory breast cancer:
- Skin around the breast is hot to the touch
- Breasts are asymmetrical and were not before
- The skin becomes red or pink
- There is discharge from the nipples
Below are six frequently asked que
stions about inflammatory breast cancer.
What should you do if you if you have these symptoms?
If any of these signs persist for more than a week, speak to a physician.
What is the median age affected?
Women 45 – 55 are more susceptible to this specific type of breast cancer.
How do you identify inflammatory breast cancer?
Through surgical biopsy; IBC cannot be identified through Mammogram, Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), or Core biopsy.
What is the survival rate?
IBC has a 40% survival rate over a five year period. Many times the surgeon may remove the breast too early and cause a reoccurrence.
How is Inflammatory Breast Cancer Treated?
Chemotherapy before surgery, as well as drugs such as trastuzumab and lapatinib.