April 23, 2008 at 7:41 am (Signs, exercise, fitness, habits, health, insomnia, life, medicine, natural therapy, physical therapist, physical therapy, science, therapist, therapists, therapy)
Tags: health, insomnia, life, natural therapy, physical therapy, therapy, tips for health, treatment
Physical:
1 – A walk in the open air before going to sleep.
2 – An air bath in the room with the window open while performing moderately strenous physical gymnastics.
3 – Hot bath
4 – Cold hipbaths
5 – If the extremities are cold, apply hot baths or baths at increasingly hot temperatures to the feet and arms.
6 – A warm abdominal wrap, or a hot compress on the abdomen may help you fall asleep.
Dietary:
- a healthy and frugal diet, which is principally vegetarian.
- eliminate all nutritional products that act as a stimulant: meat, mature cheese (especially those containing phosphates) and eggs.
- avoid heavy meals before going to bed, and have a light snack at night, preferably fruit, at least two and a half hours before going to bed.
- completely eliminate all toxic stimulants, such as tobacco, alcohol, coffee as well as any other drinks that contain caffeine, and tea.
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April 10, 2008 at 1:20 am (Signs, exercise, fitness, habits, health, hydrotherapy, life, physical therapist, science, therapist, therapists, therapy, training, water)
Tags: exercise, fitness, health, hydrotherapy, physical exercise, physical therapy, Signs, therapy, treatment, water
- Never apply cold hydrotherapeutic treatments when the body is also cold and especially not if the person is also shivering.
- It is necessary to warm up first through physical exercise, very hot foot or arm baths or by following any other hydrotherapeutic procedure at alternate temperatures.
- After the treament it is important you avoid feeling cold. Therefore, it is recommended you:
>Carry out moderate physical exercise or,
>Get into bed until sufficiently warm again.
- People who are not used to cold hydrotherapy should initially use it during very brief periods of time.
- It is better not to carry out these treaments when tired or pressed for time or when you do not have sufficient perseverance.
- If these treatments are to be effective, they most be carried out in a relaxed manner so that the neurovegetative system can react correctly.
- Hydrotherapeutic treatments must be prescribed and supervised by medical personnel, especially when dealing with patients in the acute phase and those with heart problems, when treating the elderly and children in a weakened state, and in general everybody with a serious disorder.
- Healthy people can follow hydrotherapeutic treatments once they also abide by the precautions mentioned in each case.
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April 9, 2008 at 1:40 am (Hypertension, Signs, commitment, diet, exercise, health, life, obese, obesity, therapy, training, weight control, weight lose, weight loss)
Tags: cardiorespiratory, exercise, fitness, habits, health, intensity, training, weight loss
Basically, the food that we take in provides the necessary nutrients and fuel your body needs in order to function well. However, if we take in more fuel than we actually need, the excess is stored in the form of body fat. Hence, physical activity, like cardiorespiratory exercise can actually help in increasing your usage of body fat or energy stores in order for us to lose weight.
Finding the Right Intensity for Weight Loss:
We’ve been wondering on how intense our cardiovascular exercise should be in order for weight loss to happen. There are many programs which promote either high intensity or low intensity training.
HIGH INTENSITY TRAINING
Advantages:
- stimulates cardiorespiratory system adaptation sufficiently.
- more total energy consumption in a given exercise time period.
Disadvantages:
- it may lead to overtraining which may decrease performance and the overall training effect.
- for beginners, the load of intensity may be overwhelming and may promote discouragement.
- high intensity training may increase your risk for injury.
LOW INTENSITY TRAINING
Advantages:
- reduce risk for injury
- more suitable for beginners
- given the same duration, it may lead to fair amount of cardiorespiratory adaptation.
- low intensity training utilizes more of your body fat stores as a source of fuel.
Disadvantages:
- workouts may become stale and boring.
- you need more time to induce sufficient calorie expenditure.
- lesser total caloric consumption per given session.
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April 8, 2008 at 7:43 am (Hypertension, exercise, health, obese, obesity, therapist, weight control, weight lose)
Tags: diet, exercise, health, obese, obesity, overweight, Weight
Check your Ideal Body Weight (IBW) or Desirable Body Weight (DBW). IBW for women can be estimated as 100 lbs for the first 5 feet +/- 5 lbs per additional inch over and below 5 feet.
Example: For 5′3″ female, her IBW is 115 lbs.
Using the MODIFIED TANHAUSER’s FORMULA:
IBW or DBW = (height in cm. – 100) – 10% of (height in cm. – 100)
YOU ARE:
NORMAL – if ABW is +/- 10% ABW
OVERWEIGHT – if ABW is 10 – 20% DBW
OBESE – if ABW is >20% DBW
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