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Live Longer – 7 Truths to Taking Responsibility For Your Health

March 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

By Consuelo Meux -

Reports are flooding the airwaves about the growing obesity problem in the US. Apparently a new report shows that 28 US States show increases in obesity rates in adults. With that are growing rates of diseases brought on by lack of healthy living.

I doubt if anyone is not affected by this issue in some way. If not personally, at least someone you know has a problem with obesity and related diseases. The difficult thing about obesity related diseases is that the cure requires a lifestyle change. Medical doctors are often at a loss on how to get patients to have the discipline to change what is habitual in their lives. The other unfortunate thing is that the motivation to make the change often only comes when it is almost too late.

Here are 7 important truths to recognize about living a healthier lifestyle.

1. Health Issues Strike Everyone

My father was a mortician and he used to say that, “Death is no respector of person.” What that meant is that at some point, everyone would face death in some way. It might sound morbid but when you think of it, it is just a part of life. The thing is you don’t have to rush to get to what’s going to happen in its own time. Not taking care of yourself is another way to experience how health issues have no respect for individuals. Problems brought on by wrong lifestyle choices don’t care about your income, skin color, position in life or any other factor. If you abuse your health you will suffer the consequences the same as anyone else. Lifestyle choices related to health can be changed. It takes responsibility and discipline but it can be done.

2. You Control Your Body

Unless you are in dire circumstances, most responsible, independent adults are in a position to be in control of their body. If you haven’t known about food choices or not had the ability to select what to put into your mouth, it’s time to start taking on that responsibility. Learn what’s healthy and what’s not then decide to add what’s healthy to your diet. Start moving about and exercising, be positive and think about what you can contribute to the future of your world. You have control over you, so stop making excuses when you really don’t have any to make.

3. Put Yourself to Bed

Rest is a vital component to health. Many professionals brag about their ability to stay up for hours on end working on projects. Sure there will be times when long hours are necessary. But making it a habit can lead to serious consequences. A lack of sleep means being less productive and less effective overall. It is better to give your brain rest instead of wearing it out early. Sleep is a way to replenish the body and make it stronger. A lack of sleep can be a trigger for high blood pressure or even a heart attack. The body needs rest. It might take some time to get back into a normal sleep pattern but this is imperative for better health.

4. Start Exercising

Do you wonder why every President tries to show that nation that they are exercising? It’s no secret that being active keeps a person healthy. Leaders don’t show off their exercise routine solely for a photo opportunity. It’s to influence the citizens to do the same. If the busiest person in the nation can spend time exercising, what’s your excuse? Twenty to 30 minutes a day in deliberate movement is not too much to ask. Walk a longer distance, take the stairs, pump some iron, or go dancing. Just get that heart pumping and muscles working to get your body in shape.

5. Drink More Water

The human body is comprised of over 80% water. As soon as you feel thirsty, your body is starting to become dehydrated. Drinking water is often a problem for people in the workplace who can’t always get up and go the public restroom; but this is an important part of staying healthy and productive. Drinking up to eight glasses of water a day is imperative for health. If you can, bring your own water pitcher with a filter to work. Knowing how much water is in the picture is a great way to measure how much you drink at work and how much you drink during the rest of the day. Try this for a week and you’ll have noticeable differences in how you feel.

6. Get a Check Up

In order to know your base-line health situation, get a full medical check-up. Then you’ll know where to start with a health and wellness program. If you have been sitting around not exercising, don’t just jump up all at once and try to run a marathon. Find out where you are medically so you start in a reasonable manner with a new health and wellness program. Hopefully, you will get a good report but even if you are on the verge of having health issues, knowing the problem is the first step to changing things around.

7. Get a Health and Wellness Coach

Health and wellness coaching is a growing profession that’s here to stay and. As people start to recognize the need to take responsibility for their own health, they are looking for the support to change bad habits and an unhealthy life style. Health and wellness coaches are experts at helping you with nutrition, eating habits, exercise, and weight control among other things. Find a person that will work with your schedule, lifestyle and particular needs.

These 7 steps are the beginning of taking care of your health. You have the responsibility for your body and health. It doesn’t matter how important your position, or how smart you are. If you don’t live healthy you won’t be able to share your gifts with the world. It’s time to get off the treadmill of life and start living healthy.

Consuelo Meux works with leaders, executives and professionals in health and wellness issues. Learn to live healthier longer while being more productive and live a purpose-filled life. Get more information at http://www.consuelomeux.com

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Health and Wellness is Key to Longevity

September 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

By Ilana Diallo -

Looking for the answers to longevity of life? Expecting to live longer than those of the previous generation? This is something that most people are looking for. Having a life that is complete and full of successful achievements and done in great health is highly sought after. There is no mystery to living a long and healthy life.

Health and wellness can open the door to a long and healthy life. Wellness is in simpler terms described as the state of well-being. This can also be defined as ones overall vitality of life in every aspect is brought into complete balance and wholeness. With this a person’s health is a portion of their overall wellness state.

Health and Wellness in Eating

Health and wellness is most commonly thought about when one is either ill or need to lose weight. Is there extra pounds on those thighs? Stomach rounding out more than desired? This is where many people start on their journey. Losing weight is a product to bring the physical body inside into balance.

Eating the right foods is very crucial in bringing a balance to a person’s diet. It is a good idea to start out eating right gradually. This is done to slowly give the body a new habit. This new eating habit needs to be done at a slow and consistent pace. Start out by swapping certain foods for newer foods as well as food substitutions.

For example, If meals that are eaten contain vegetables that are canned then transition gradually to fresh vegetables or even some frozen. This can slowly work up to eating fresh all natural or organic vegetables. This method can be used in all the food categories as the eating transition begins.

Another example, change how food is cooked. Do less frying food and bake food. Use more herbs to season and flavor food and less salt. This helps change the taste buds and allows them to experience new flavors and new foods.

Exercise

The next component in health and wellness that people know about is exercise. Balancing the body does require the whole physical body, inside and out. Need to tighten the stomach muscles? See a ‘love handle’ that has multiplied? This is what many people see in the mirror and motivates them to lose weight.

Exercising the body can assist in the improvement of organ functioning and the blood circulation in the body. Doing cardio workouts can help build a stronger heart. Find a routine that gets the blood pumping without overextending the body in physical exercise.

Gradually increase the physical activity by taking short walks, doing stairs, and targeted dance workouts. Exercise is good for assisting in longevity in life. It has been known that many people have lived longer lives with exercise. As the eating habits change weight will slowly shed off. Then once increased activity occurs the weight will come off quicker.

Complete Balance

There are more aspects to wellness than health. Here are a few areas that wellness stretches to:

1. Social Wellness

2. Occupational Wellness

3. Spiritual Wellness

4. Physical Wellness

5. Intellectual Wellness

6. Emotional Wellness

7. Environmental Wellness

8. Financial Wellness

9. Mental Wellness

10. Medical Wellness

Each of these areas has extensive ways that they can be achieved. Health and Wellness can assist in having a longevity in living through eating right, exercising, and taking supplements that assist in balancing the body’s health condition out. Make the achievement goals in health and wellness a gradual change. This gradual change will eventually change one’s whole life as it concerns to health and wellness.

Ilana Diallo is a professional writer and has been researching and writing for over fifteen years. Ilana is an active member in her local community. Ilana enjoys bringing light to topics that are controversial and new.

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Health Benefits of Singing

April 20, 2010 By 1 Comment

musicBy Noah Mark Rodolfo

As a human being, we love and enjoy music in general. Everyone has a different taste of music. Singing for example can be enjoyed by any individual without any hindrances. Did you know that there is a different effects for every kind of music? Every song defines emotions and the way the singer delivers can be so powerful that the listener can feel it within himself even without understanding the words.

Singing is a silent healer were mostly are not aware of. An enjoyable hobby can be your alternative healthy craze. Study shows that singing provides therapeutic benefits to every singer giving them relief to some illnesses. Below are some of the health benefits of singing.

1.Good for mental therapy – Singing contributes greatly on diseases which affects brain’s mental capacity. Known for its great contribution for Alzheimer’s disease. The lyrics of a song remains in the memory which helps patients to use singing as a medium for communication.

2.Boost Immune System – It is proven that performers and singers have more higher levels of immunoglobulin A and cortisol, a substance responsible for body immunity. Other benefits includes lung capacity improvement, high energy, relieve asthma and proper posture.

3.Stress reliever – While singing, one show deep feelings and emotions which creates an amazing release on stress levels. Singing relaxes our mental state thus making us feel better.

4.Another form of exercise – Medical practitioners believed that singing can be included as another kind of aerobic exercise. This can be supported because frequent singing can be a way of therapy for people who has psychological conditions.

5.Builds confidence – This is the most important benefit you will get from singing. Music as a whole can give you improve your level of confidence. Mainly decrease anxiety and encourages social interaction.

Singing is fun and enjoyable. Make singing a habit to bolster your self-image, improve over all body health and long lasting good relationship with others.

About the author

Noah Mark Rodolfo is an alternative natural healthcare practitioner and is committed to bring the best health and wellness information online. Get the most updated news about health, diseases, weight loss and proper nutrition on his website at http://www.healthtalkbuzz.com.

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Holistic Health – A More Careful Definition

January 19, 2010 By 1 Comment

stethescopeBy Steve McCardell -

For at least the last sixty years, Western medicine has been dominated by pharmaceutical medications. And regardless of your views on prescription drugs, no one can really call that a holistic approach to medicine. The whole concept of pharmaceuticals is to manipulate a chemical response in the body without concern for what is causing that response.

This is why people seldom get well when relying on prescription drugs, and why the drugs themselves are often more dangerous than the chemical response they are attempting to correct. In some instances, of course – as with antibiotics – we have seen some life-saving results. But even in these cases, the approach by definition is not holistic.

Holistic health refers to considering the body as a whole when trying to maintain health or use corrective health solutions. Now, I don’t know that any holistic health treatment, remedy, nutritional solution, and so on, could ever address every aspect of the body at once. You might deal with inflammation present throughout the body, or might get a broad spectrum of nutrients into cells throughout the body, but these or any other solution wouldn’t provide all things needed by the body.

So a holistic solution doesn’t mean providing everything needed at once, and it doesn’t mean correcting everything at once. It only means that you’re considering the needs of the whole body at once. So when you’re providing a holistic service, remedy, nutritional, etc., it will benefit certain aspects of the body and will do no harm elsewhere in the body. And of course by correcting one aspect of the body, that aspect then starts to do its job correctly, which affects other aspects of the body, and there is a positive spill-out effect.

Again, comparing this with pharmaceuticals, an antibiotic may kill certain bacteria in the body that are causing symptomatic problems; but it’s also going to kill beneficial life in the body, which leads to other problems. A holistic approach to bacteria would be to find the cause of the bacteria and to remove that cause (while possibly strengthening the body’s ability to kill off the harmful bacteria in its own way).

A true holistic approach would also recognize the body as more than a mechanical device. It would look at physical health from both the chemical and quantum perspectives, as the quantum (sub-atomic) biofield directly affects chemical interactions occurring in the body. It is also my belief that this biofield is the medium through which our thoughts and emotions affect our physical bodies – and both thoughts and emotions need to be considered in the holistic approach.

(This is one reason, incidentally, why certain remedies or techniques are more appropriate to some people, while other approaches are needed for other people; clients of holistic practitioners should feel comfortable with what is being done and should have as much mental understanding as they want to have about what is happening. No one should be pressured by friends or practitioners into trying a technique.)

Finally, most holistic practitioners and clients will believe a spiritual aspect to the individual, and this also needs to be considered as part of the holistic approach. A few things need to be said on this, however. First, a balanced holistic practitioner would never feel the need to force a certain spiritual viewpoint on a client because of the negative effect this would have on mind and emotions, and thus potentially on physical health.

Second, a practitioner who doesn’t believe in spirituality still needs to be open to the client’s beliefs if only because those beliefs affect the person’s mental and emotional well-being. To ignore these beliefs is to not look holistically at the person.

Third, we need to be careful in talking about “spiritual healing” and “energy healing” in the same way. They are different. Reiki, for instance, is an energy healing technique in which the “life force” energy (ki, or chi) of the client is manipulated in order to bring about self-healing. The force that Reiki is supposed to work with is the pervasive quantum field (an aspect of which is an individual’s biofield), which is part of the physical world. (This is why it’s studied by quantum physicists rather than theologians.)

Spiritual healing, on the other hand, is meant to be based on spiritual life from God and/or the soul passing into the quantum field and thereby vivifying one’s health. This would include techniques such as esoteric healing, and should be used for those clients with the appropriate belief system.

Just as any one technique for the physical (chemical) body will not directly address all aspects of the body, but will indirectly affect many, any physical technique will affect the quantum field, the emotions, the mind, and perhaps the soul. Any emotional technique will affect the physical, quantum, mental, and perhaps the soul aspects.

A holistic viewpoint, then, understands that every object and every event affects every other object and every other event in some way, no matter how subtly. When we keep this in mind, we better grasp the extensive power of each choice. And when we look to holistic health techniques, we can know that every positive choice is simply a step in the overall scheme of things. But it’s a step toward better health in the end.

Steve McCardell is co-founder of the Biophysics Center, a technology-based quantum health center located in downtown Rochester, Michigan. He is also author of “The Quantum Challenge,” and speaks publicly on holistic health and quantum healing. You can learn more at the center’s website: http://www.biophysicscenter.com

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The Secret Role Emotions Play in Our Health and Wellness

April 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

By Josef Mack -

Whether we know it or not or whether we accept it or not, our emotions play a critical role in our overall health. Here are some questions for you to consider: Do you have a handle on your emotions? Are you steady and consistent? Are you all over the map? Are you even aware of your feelings or emotions? Do you cry at the drop of a hat? Or have you never cried at all in your entire life? I am not trying to make any judgments here, but I want you to look at and be honest with yourself. Take the time to recognize the emotional elements that play a role in your health and life.

The secret here is to understand how you handle your emotions. Are you in control of your emotions, or are your emotions in control of you? You may very well ask – so what? If you let your emotions control you then you may want to look at changing that behavior in order to give you a better chance at achieving what you want in your life. Balance in all areas is a major factor in our state of health and wellness.

What is really meant by our emotional nature? And where do our emotions really come from? Our emotions or feelings come from our heart. Are you able to feel, or are you like Mr. Spock from Star Trek, who is strictly logical and intellectual? Do you bury your feelings? Do you ignore your feelings and hope they will go away? Or are your emotions on your shirt sleeve and you don’t think before you react? Remember to be in the best of health we need to be balanced.

We are multi-dimensional beings. We think and we feel, whether we like it or not. And if you claim you don’t feel, I would challenge you – that is a feeling as well.

Emotions can go all over the map, from tears of joy to tears of despair. If we do not acknowledge and deal with our feelings and instead suppress them, all we are doing is stuffing them deep inside ourselves till they explode.

When they explode, we won’t have any way to control that event. Think of a bomb going off. No one knows where the pieces will end up, it is uncontrolled chaos. That state of being uncontrolled is the same thing with our emotions. When we blow – watch out! The stuff will hit the fan and go everywhere.

Have you ever read about people who for no known reason suddenly seem to go crazy and lose it? How about the ‘normal, average citizen’, who goes on a shooting spree and then ends up killing himself as well? When the reporters interview his family or friends, no one can explain it. He was just an average Joe, then he blew up for no apparent reason, or was the reason building up inside of him all those weeks, months and years?

Sometimes the explosion can be internal,and the stress that builds up could lead to a heart attack, an ulcer, a ruptured appendix,a stroke or something equally painful.

Do you really want to take such chances with your health? Our body does the best it can to keep us healthy. When we ignore it, when we don’t take care of it, or when we abuse it, our body does what it can to survive. So the choice is up to us – will we choose to be balanced, or will we choose not to be and accept the consequences?

Josef Mack of Creative Holistic Business Solutions LLC helps people lead better and healthier lives. Get your free copy of   Introduction to Health Secrets Explained at my website which is at http://www.healthsecretsexplained.com

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The Secret Role Emotions Play in Our Health and Wellness

September 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment

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Whether we know it or not or whether we accept it or not, our emotions play a critical role in our overall health. Here are some questions for you to consider: Do you have a handle on your emotions? Are you steady and consistent? Are you all over the map? Are you even aware of your feelings or emotions? Do you cry at the drop of a hat? Or have you never cried at all in your entire life? I am not trying to make any judgments here, but I want you to look at and be honest with yourself. Take the time to recognize the emotional elements that play a role in your health and life. [Read more...]

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