Health Tips

The massage is one of the easiest ways to achieve and maintain good health and prosperity. Headaches, insomnia, tension and stress can be alleviated easily through our hands. Massage has amazing effects on human health. Improves blood circulation, relax muscles is, to assist digestion and accelerates clearance of the organism. These direct benefits, combined with psychological ones, quickly create a sense of wellbeing. The American Association of massage therapy indicates that massage therapy provides several key health benefits such as:
- Improve blood circulation;
- Muscle relaxation and enhanced mobility;
- Increased levels of endorphins (the hormone that makes you feel good).
How to do self massage?
You can easily learn how to massage the self. Use self massage energized for the morning before work or evening to relax. No need to undress but you should comfortably. Use massage oil if you massage the skin on the goals. Sit on a chair or bed or floor with knees bent and feet on the floor.
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Running, swimming, weights we use every day … And quite often the sole purpose lose weight. But shed sweat does not guarantee the thin waist. You can listen in your heart. In the literal sense!
Exercise should be carefully dosed and it complies with the rhythm of the heart. The result of each training largely depends on the frequency of cardiac cuts – put in simple words by heart rate. Experts divided range the pulse (from a resting state to the maximum possible load) of 5 areas, each of which has its rules. In a body is supplied with power at the expense of accumulated fat and weakens a person and another – at the expense of glycogen, ie Endurance training is not to reduce weight. And at last, extreme area if we act recklessly and too hot, can very easily get even heart attacks. Area boundaries are calculated difficult because it required a professional approach. But their approximate calculation can help you not make mistakes, not only will not lead to weight loss, but will also harm your health.
The maximum rate is given by: Rmax = 220 – V (V is like your age).
Let’s trace the characteristics of the five areas. H would need to know before the pulse, to define its purpose and only then to start training.
1. Zone of low load, rehabilitation
0.5 to 0.6 Rmax
Health:
You can easily maintain a conversation, unable to be in use, the load is light, without effort.
This is the most comfortable training area in which slowly but surely strengthen your heart and increase your muscle mass. Calories burned also, but for this purpose have to train continuously. The load in this area is suitable for rehabilitation and treatment programs – after trauma in higher weight and cardiovascular problems.
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Diabetes, cancer, migraine, arthritis – these are just some of the most common diseases that can threaten our lives or drastically shorten it. Most people know that poor diets may worsen these conditions, but few are aware that proper diet helps even their treatment or at least keep their development. Joy Bauer (Joy Bauer), author of “Food cures” (Food cures) shares her recipe for a longer and healthier life. An old proverb says: Man is what he eats. This means that if you eat unhealthy foods, it most likely means your life will end sooner. However, if you choose to eat foods rich in valuable nutrients, you can achieve better overall health and the later age. According to Joy Bauer, which is among the best experts in the field of dietetics, the backbone of a healthy diet consists of proteins found in meat fragile, high-carbohydrate, mono-unsaturated and omega-3 fats, and foods rich in water. These nutrients contained in foods that are proven to improve health and sometimes even prove successful drugs against various diseases. “Food is medicine and it is powerful,” says Bauer, “We eat every day several times and therefore take medicines in the form of food, which may promote or worsen our condition.”
Five foods for each of the following:
Overweight
1. Rich in fiber (fiber) cereals. Look for products that include more than 5 grams fiber and less than 120 calories per serving.
2. Cucumbers are rich in water and poor calorie vegetables sate you for a long time.
3. Egg whites contain a significant quantity of high quality protein. This food will increase your metabolism and help you maintain muscle mass while burning fat
4. Sugar-free gum. Give your taste senses something sweet, to avoid to put something in your mouth calorie
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During the day every four hours consecutively rotate three periods, hard Indian ancient tradition. The first period is peace (Kapha), the second – energy activity (Pita) and the third – the period of locomotor activity (Watts). These periods, according to Ayurveda are associated with solar activity. Kapha starts from sunrise to 10 hours. As a rule, the morning was calm and a physiological level of the organism that is reflected with calmness and gravity of the body. Pita lasts from 10 to 14 hours and is characterized by high placement of the sun. During this time people are especially hungry, say “Digestive fire is strongest. Watts continues from 14 to 18 hours. The sun has warmed the earth and air. Starts movement of air masses, wind appears and everything is moving – to swing the branches of trees, grass, water, etc. Watts was the period of greatest efficiency. Then all over again: 18 to 22 hours – Kapha, 22 to 2:00 – Pita, from 2 to 6 hours – Watts. It is this rhythm as Ayurveda all living plants and animals. Such activity was observed both in day and night in birds. Proceeding from these premises, Ayurveda offers the following recommendations for feeding during the day:
1. Get up in the period V, ie slightly earlier than 6:00 and will be active throughout the day. If you get during Kapha will be inert. Drink a glass of warm water. Wool work strengthens the intestines and helps to “evacuation” of the contents in the colon.
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Autumn is seen as the season, accompanied by constant colds. Are common and acute respiratory diseases. Producers of these “Autumn diseases are bacteria and viruses. Many of them live low-throat and mouth and their reproduction is linked to the weakening of the immune system in the autumn. So we need mandatory autumn maintenance. Should not be overlooked vaccines, and medicines, which “reinforce” the organism after various infections. Onions and garlic can be called “medical home” with unique properties bacterias. These products have no side effects. One, two garlics day may replace the medicinal product in the first sensations of a cold. Vitamin deficiency is intrinsic to most people in the autumn, so the morning is good to start with a glass of orange juice, carrot juice or lemons. Experts also recommend a piece of cabbage, turnips or beets. It has been shown that the use of vegetable juices is more useful than they consumed in natural form, because the composition of vegetable juices harmful herbicides do not fall – they remain in the cellulose. Do not forget about fruit. The daily rate is composed of 2 apples and 2 oranges (oranges can be replaced with 2 lemon or grapefruit). To apply preventive measures and mandatory washing of the mouth tonight – if not with a brush and toothpaste, at least rinsing with concentrated salt solution. Inexhaustible source of vitamin E and tea, which added herbs and berries: mint, blueberry, apple and linden color. Forest Tea mitigates inflammation and increases elasticity of blood vessel walls. Tea with added coltsfoot, linden flowers and dried raspberry is an excellent remedy bronchitis.
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