February 2nd, 2010
Exercise is a good practice for our health. With exercise, a person can increase stamina, reduce blood pressure and reduce the sense of panic in the individual. However, before starting the exercise activities, it is important to ensure your ability to yourself and form of exercise you should do.
Should, see your doctor to determine the level of capability and health before making your exercise activities. Exercise performed above the level of ability a person could bring danger to you. In fact, excessive exercise will also further burden your heart endanger your health.
If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure and you get permission from the doctor to exercise, several steps must be followed. Among them is make sure your exercise session began with warm-up move. Remember, exercise will dramatically burden of cardiovascular system and your breathing.
Avoid doing activities that use the exercise too much movement raise their hands above shoulder level. This is because movement can increase blood pressure. Avoid also like Isometric static exercises that cause you breathless. Weight lifting activities also should be avoided because the movement involves fast and repetitive.
For people with high blood pressure, they have to be careful during times each breathing exercise. Deep breath when you perform your activities down by the body members such as gravity flow during do sit - ups.
Exercise activities should be terminated gradually because a sudden stop of exercise can cause a lot of blood gathered in under the body causing further blood flow to the heart and brain will be stuck. This will cause you to feel dizzy and faint.
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October 30th, 2009
Some diseases result primarily from nutritional diseases - the major deficiency diseases and obesity.
Deficiency diseases seldom present in pure form. More often than not they are secondary to some other illness. Even where food is short, not all the members of a community are equally affected. Individuals with with some physical or mental abnormality usually show clinical menifestation first. Young children and disabled adults are the most vulnerable.
When malnutrition occurs it is unlikely to involve only one nutrient. Even if the clinical features suggest a single deficiency, biochemical tests usually reveal depletion of other nutrients. Treatment should therefore not be confined to large intakes of the nutrient whose deficiency is indicated by the clinical signs. Furthermore, malnourished patients are liable to complications, especially certain infections which may be the presenting illness or may occur in modified form because malnutrition has supressed some of their characteristic signs. Thus complications of malnutrition must be looked for and treated. Much of the skill in diagnosing patients with malnutrition is being aware of and dientangling predisposing illness, other associated malnutrition and complicating diseases.
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August 27th, 2009
Oats are high in protein and oil compared to other grains. The distribution of fat in oat groats is different from other cereal grains in that the endosperm is relatively much higher in fat. Oats contain enzyme systems com
mon to other cereal grain such as amylases, lipases, esterases and proteinases. However, oats have been shown to exhibit relatively high lipase and proteinase activity, compared to other grains. Because oat endosperm carries apprecialble portions of fat, lipolytic activity of rolled oats as a food is of paramount importance. When groats are properly dried and steamed the flakes will remain low in free fatty acids for long period of time. This stability has been attributed to the inactivation of lipases during the drying and steaming process prior to rolling the flakes.
Rolled Oats in The Diet
Rolled oats is essentially a whole grained product and has a higher crude protein content than other cereal foods. Only the hull is removed and the germ fraction containing protein of superior nutritional quality is not lost. This fact helps explain the superior growth promoting value of protein in rolled oats compared to other cereal products. The results of growth tests using weanling rats indicate no significant difference in quality between proteins of groats and rolled oats made from them.
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August 15th, 2009
Doctors use several equations to calculate how many calories a person should eat each day to maintain a stable weight. The most precise ones include height, weight, age, sex, activity level, and stressors like an injury or disease. The simplest way to estimate your daily target for calories is to multiply your weights in pounds by :-
- 12 if you are sedentary (little or no exercise)
- 13.5 if you are somewhat active (light exercise one to three days a week)
- 15.5 if you are moderately active (moderate exercise like brisk walking - you break into sweat - three to five days a week)
- 17 if you are highly active (vigorous exercise or sports six to seven days a week)
- 19 if you are highly active (daily vigorous exercise or sports and a physical job)
For example, a somewhat active person who weighs 45 pounds (66 Kg) needs about 1950 calories a day (145 times 13.5) to keep a steady weight.
To lose weight, start by reducing your intake by 250 calories per day. That’s one can of cola and two butter cookies, or 50 gms of potato chips. If you keep that up for a year, you could shed 20 pounds. Add in more exercise, and you could make it 30 pounds.
Tags: Cola, Exercise, Height, Potato Chips, Weight
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