Posts Tagged ‘exercise’

Avoiding back pain is self defense. Avoiding is easier than recovery. Are you ready to learn the most important way to avoid injuring your back?

This short video is intended to teach you how to avoid one of the ways that most people hurt their back. It is with improper lifting of both light and heavy objects. It is a small price to pay to successfully protect your back. All you have to do is follow the instruction for bending, picking-up or moving an object.

There isn’t a substitute for performing these maneuvers properly. Alicia is one of the most enthusiastic educators on fitness. Most of her routines on youhealthupdates.com are intended for beginners. The exercises here are so you can avoid the discomfort that follows when you lift or move an object the wrong way.

Lower back pain affects about 80 percent of the population at one time or another. It is a relatively common ailment. Most people aren’t aware there is a way to pick-up and move items to avoid injury. Well, Alicia Weber always has your back in mind when she demonstrates her exercises.

This video will make you aware of what you need to do to preserve your spine.  

Diabetics low-carb it for results; the proof is in the way it lowers insulin resistance and enables weight loss. A low-carb diet restricts the amount of refined carbohydrates, which alone is worth the effort. The best part it leaves you satisfied. Hunger isn’t your constant companion.

Diabetic Study

Obese women with insulin resistance lose more weight after three months on a lower-carbohydrate diet than on a traditional low-fat diet with the same number of calories, according to a new study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego.

“The typical diet that physicians recommend for weight loss is a low-fat diet,” said the study’s lead author, Raymond Plodkowski, MD, chief of endocrinology, nutrition, and metabolism at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno. “However, as this study shows, not all people have the same response to diets.”

People with insulin resistance, a common precursor for Type 2 diabetes, metabolize carbohydrates, or “carbs,” abnormally, which may affect their rate of weight loss. For them, Plodkowski said, “the lower-carb diet is more effective, at least in the short term.”

Super Booster

This way of eating shouldn’t be thought of as a super booster for accelerated weight loss. For diabetics this would help stabilize and reverse the effects of the condition.

The composition of the low-fat diet was 60 percent calories from carbs, 20 percent from fat and 20 percent from protein. The lower-carb diet also had 20 percent of calories from protein, it had 45 percent from carbs and 35 percent from primarily unsaturated fats, such as nuts. Menus included a minimum of 2 fruits and 3 vegetable servings a day.

The way they did the study was to use a high percent of carbs in the diet. The low-fat diet with 60 percent of the diet in carbohydrates is a study in disaster. Elimination of all refined carbohydrates is really the name of the game. Whole food healthy eating works. A diet high in vegetables and fruit will provide the fiber and some carbohydrates. It is not a matter of low carbohydrates only, it is where are your getting them from.

It is strange how cake, cookies, pie, white bread, white rice, and sugar are called carbohydrates. That would imply that they are food of some sort. This is where the problem  is. A low fat diet consists of low fat dairy high in sugar, and low fat cookies full of sweetners. The truth is it is easier to overeat when presented with these items. They make you hungry and play games with your endocrine, cardiovascular, brain function, and energy level.

Achieving Health

Achieving health the low-carb way is to unleash your internal defenses with plant compounds found in vegetables and fruit, and Omega-3 fatty acids in whole foods such as grass-fed meat.

Aging is disuse in disguise, what that means is that most signs of advancing age are connected to a decline in function. The adage use it or loss it fits, with a growing body of evidence that shows you are not only what you do, but you are what you don’t do.

 Aging Process

What the aging process is associated with is a decline in physical and mental abilities. It can show in both appearance and function. It can also be seen in awkward and limited movement. The crunching, grinding, and squeaking sounds heard as seniors move about makes the younger generation think the aging crowd is from the Jurassic period.

As you dig into the history of people that are aging beyond their years, you will find that you are dealing with an inactive crowd. Active living would produce different results.

Ideologically we can reverse the aging process by 15 to 25 years,” says Mariam Nelson, Ph.D., a Tufts University scientist and specialist in aging. We can do that by becoming stronger. At age 35, says Nelson, we begin to lose one quarter to one third of a pound of muscle each year. Yet, Nelson’s studies of weight training in women over 45 shows that even into their 90s, people can add muscle mass and bone density, reduce the risk of heart disease and osteoporosis, and lead more useful, independent lives.

In other words, the problem isn’t aging but disuse. “People who don’t exercise regularly suffer a 1 percent loss in aerobic fitness every year starting at age 20,” says Barry Franklin, Ph.D. president of the American College of Sports Medicine. “But that loss can be restored years later,” he adds, “through just three months of steady exercise.”

Anti-Aging

Anti-aging strategies are nothing more than increasing your activity and decreasing your caloric intake. Sounds easy enough but the challenge is to get people to do it. The benefits would outweigh the effort. When American’s demand healthy options they may mean public or private insurance, low fat or smaller portions.

The road to fitness is the route to youth. It is within reach, everyone can turn back the clock. People who are fit have less body fat, have better cardiovascular function and may look decades younger than the sedentary crowd.