When most people think about exercise, they think of strength training and cardiovascular activities, e.g. lifting weights and running on the treadmill. A good fitness program definitely involves doing both of these sorts of exercise, but it also includes a third often overlooked type of exercise – stretching. Most people think of stretching as something you do for sore muscles or as a quick supplement for cardio or lifting. However, these people fail to recognize the importance that stretching has on being fit. Stretching provides you with a half dozen serious benefits; and anyone who wants to maximize their health should take stretching seriously.
Stretching initially promotes a greater range of movement and circulation through the joints. This is excellent because it allows you to maximize your regular exercise. By promoting good range of muscle movement through joints, you will be ensuring that your muscles can move in the ways needed to lift weights or cycle. Often people injure themselves with their muscles are too tight to perform a motion the way it ought to be done, and stretching can help prevent problems like this.
Stretching is one of the easiest ways to promote blood flow and circulation to the muscles that need it. Increased blood flow provides a two-way street that helps muscles perform better with less effort. On the one hand, the increased blood flow is able to bring oxygen and nutrients to the muscles in order to provide them with the energy they need to function properly. On the other hand, the blood flow is there to flush out waste products that build up when muscles work out, including lactic acid. Stretching also provides a low impact way to condition muscles and tendons. The better conditioned your muscles are, the less prone to injury and soreness they are.
By stretching before you engage in cardio or weight training, you will be warming up muscles and promoting blood flow and circulation; which is a definite way to enhance your workout. However, just as important as stretching before running or lifting, is stretching after the exercise. Post-exercise stretches help develop new flexibility and strength in muscles and tendons, and provide better conditioning to prevent injury. Post-exercise stretches are also a good way to even out blood circulation and flush out the damaging lactic acid buildup.
One thing that everyone serious about stretching should know is that protein is a needed nutrient to promote healthy stretching. Protein helps repair torn muscle fiber and can maximize the benefits that come from stretching. One of the easiest ways to get added protein into your diet is through a whey protein supplement. Whey protein is easier for the body to digest than soy protein, and provides better utilization and absorption into the body. The reason you want to take protein in supplement form is for this reason, you want your body to quickly absorb the nutrients and get the nutrients to the parts of the body that need them.
 

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All the news that’s fit to scare. That was the thrust of this weekend’s New York Times article by Charles Duhigg entitled "Toxic Waters: Debating Just How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass."
As president of the American Council on Science and Health, I have been following environmental and health media articles for some three decades — seeing how they measure up in terms of "honors" for exaggerated risk, biased reporting, misrepresented science, and pure sensationalism. The Duhigg article is clearly a contender for the all-time worst.
Duhigg argues that the widespread use of the herbicide atrazine is polluting our supply of drinking water and putting us all — but particularly pregnant women — at risk. He consistently refers to "recent studies" (but does not cite them) and concerned "scientists and health advocates " (but does not name any mainstream experts) who think that the Environmental Protection Agency is not protecting us from atrazine — and that the manufacturers of the herbicide are somehow poisoning us. He cites "new research" showing that atrazine is hazardous even at low levels but does not specify his sources. He seems oblivious to the work of the most famous early toxicologist (Paracelsus, circa 1500) who set in place the time-honored premise: only the dose makes the poison.
Atrazine is a widely used herbicide — applied on a variety of crops (corn, sugar cane, sorghum, and more). It is a tightly regulated chemical, and levels in water (where there could be spill-off from agricultural or other applications) are closely monitored by environmental agencies. It has been in safe use for over fifty years. There is a huge "safety factor" built in — so that permitted trace levels are some hundred-fold less than what could have an adverse effect on human health. The Safe Drinking Water Act requires monitoring water for a multitude of chemicals, including atrazine. You would drown from drinking the huge amounts of water needed for you to be affected by trace levels of atrazine in any American water supply.
Duhigg appears to be playing to the fears (phobias) of consumers who (a) do not know where their food comes from — and are unaware that without the use of agricultural chemicals like atrazine (which allow farmers to fight weeds, insects and disease) our food supply would be diminished by about half — and (b) think that even a trace amount of any "chemical" in food, water, air, or consumer products is intolerable. The reality, of course, is that everything, including natural foods, is comprised of chemicals — most of which are toxic and/or carcinogenic in animals at high dose but are perfectly safe when we consume them.
How much "weed killer" in your water is safe? Well, how much arsenic in your natural baked potato is safe? (Arsenic occurs naturally in potatoes.) The mere ability to detect a chemical in a substance — in food, air, water, consumer products, or even human tissue — does not signal that there is a public health hazard.
Nowadays, when we have so many serious public health risks to face (cigarette smoking, obesity, swine flu, and more), Duhigg has given top priority to a bogus risk. And this is irresponsible. As a result of his article, he hopes that Americans will be demanding zero tolerance for atrazine in the water supply — and we will incur huge expenses to accomplish this dubious goal, with absolutely no resulting health benefits, since there were never any health risks in the first place. Even the Environmental Protection Agency (the most stringent regulatory agency in the world and the most powerful, not known for downplaying chemical risks) stated that atrazine posed no known health risks when they approved re-registration of it in 2006. EPA has evaluated hundreds of studies finding "no evidence of a link to birth defects."
So why did the New York Times give such prominent coverage to a bogus risk? It is part of a general wave of "chemophobia." Earlier this month, the Times accepted a paid advertisement (an "op-ad") on their editorial page, paid for (at a price of about $50,000) by New York’s prestigious Mount Sinai Hospital and Medical Center. The paid-for editorial copy claimed that industrial "chemicals" (phthalates, BPA, etc.) were imperiling our children, when there was no basis whatsoever for such an assertion.
So it is "in" to scare people about "chemicals" in their air, food, water, and consumer products — and apparently Mr. Duhigg and the Times elected to exploit this phobia. Unfortunately, scaring people about the quality and safety of their drinking water is not only without scientific basis, it is completely counter-productive, distracting us from the real public health hazards we face today.

Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan is president of the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org).
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President of the American Council on Science and Health, a consumer education consortium focusing on food, chemicals and the environment, Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan is author/co-author of twenty-three books on nutrition and environmental issues, including atrazine. Atrazine in drinking water facts also provides additional information.

The popular corn herbicide The popular corn herbicide Atrazine has been used safely by farmers for 50 years now, but it is facing renewed attacks by environmental activists. The Natural Resources Defense Council has formally requested that the EPA cancel atrazine’s registration and revoke all atrazine tolerance levels, which is bringing corn growers to its defense.
Last week, growers met with Syngenta Crop Protection officials about the challenges being faced by atrazine. A roundtable meeting was held at the National Corn Growers Association office, followed by another meeting at the farm of Missouri Corn Growers Association President Keith Witt in Warrenton, Mo. “The science shows atrazine is safe,” Witt said. “We will continue to fight the environmental activists’ misguided agenda. If they are at successful at this, what’s next? Aspirin?”
We can probably thank the New York Times August story “Debating How Much Weed Killer Is Safe in Your Water Glass?” for scaring up new fears about this very safe and affordable herbicide. Read this great commentary by Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan is president of the American Council on Science and Health addressing the NYT article.
Here’s a quote from Dr. Whelan – “How much “weed killer” in your water is safe? Well, how much arsenic in your natural baked potato is safe? (Arsenic occurs naturally in potatoes.) The mere ability to detect a chemical in a substance — in food, air, water, consumer products, or even human tissue — does not signal that there is a public health hazard.”
She also notes, “You would drown from drinking the huge amounts of water needed for you to be affected by trace levels of atrazine in any American water supply.” She calls the whole atrazine issue a “bogus risk” that is part of a general wave of “chemophobia” – scaring people about “chemicals” in their air, food, water, and consumer products.
It just means farmers have to fight harder than ever to keep the tools they need to feed the world.
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Sponsored by the National Corn Growers Association, Corn Commentary provides a lighter look at corn, agriculture and herbicides, including atrazine. Cindy Zimmerman (ZimmComm New Media) is an award-winning agricultural communications specialist who contributes to Corn Commentary. Atrazine in drinking water facts also provides additional information.

AIDS is a terrifying word that can end the hope of life in many people. But facing the problem is always a better solution than hiding it. Many people believe that they cannot get this infection but no one knows when and where they can get this deadly disease. Here in this article, we will discuss the basic information on AIDS – causes, symptoms and prevention.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, abbreviated as AIDS, is a condition where natural defenses against infection are knocked out. This means that patients suffering from AIDS are likely to get infections which lowered resistance.

AIDS patients may develop certain kinds of cancer, as well as serious infections in the lungs, skin or digestive or central nervous system. It is caused by a virus known as HIV. When it enters into the blood stream, it may kill off certain white blood cells which normally act to fight off germs. This leaves the body open to infections of all kinds.

AIDS is caused by two main ways – by direct sexual contact, and getting infected blood into the transmitted from the mother to the unborn baby in the womb or at birth, or to a baby through the mother’s milk.

The symptoms of AIDS are swollen glands especially in the neck and armpits, fatigue, weight loss, fever and swelling at night, lasting for several weeks, diarrhea which lasts for more than a week with no obvious cause, shortness of breath and a dry cough lasting longer than they would if they were just form and cold.

Other symptoms are marks on the skin, pink or purple blotches which appear all over the body and look like bruises or blisters. But remember, each of these symptoms is quite common and may be due to some other cause. It is only when they all occur together and looks like bruises or blisters.

But remember, each of these symptoms is quite common and may be due to some other cause. It is only when they all occur together and last for a long time that there may be reason of concern. Even then, only laboratory tests can prove whether someone has AIDS.

There is no treatment for AIDS. Patient generally dies who have been diagnosed as having had AIDS for more than two year. Condoms and vaginal foams are partial barrier to all diseases. Be sure that your partner has no obvious signs of infection. Be careful with any new partner especially if you know he or she has had a lot of anonymous relationships.

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Ovulation occurs when an egg is released from the ovary and passes into fallopian tube. Sperm must fertilize the egg within 24 hours after its release for pregnancy to occur. The body produces a large amount of luteinizing hormone (LH) immediately prior to the ovulation. This generally happens in the middle of menstrual cycle and is known as LH surge. Pregnancy is more likely to happen during this fertile time.
LH surge in urine signals that ovulation is likely to occur in next 24 to 36 hours. The LH ovulation test is preferred to detect the elevated levels of LH in urine or ovulation.
When to take the test?
First, the length of your menstrual cycle should be determined to know the day of testing. If the length of the cycle is 28 days, count 11 days from the day last period started and the 7th day is the day to test. If your menstrual cycle length is 22 days, 6th day from when your last period started is the day, from which testing has to be done.
Performing the ovulation test
Prior to testing, allow the urine specimen and test device to reach the room temperature. Remove the test device from the sealed pouch and use as soon as possible. Put the test device on a clean and flat surface. Pour three full drops of urine specimen in the specimen well using the dropper. Avoid air bubbles in the specimen well. Start the timer and take results after five minutes.
Inference of the results
For a positive result two lines appear, one is test line and another is reference line. Test line is same as or darker than reference line indicating that you may ovulate within 24 to 36 hours. For a negative result also two lines may appear. There might be no test line or it may be lighter than reference line. A reference line fails to appear in an invalid result. Insufficient specimen volume or wrong procedural techniques are most likely reasons for invalid result.
The FDA approved ovulation test is very helpful to in determining whether to get pregnancy or to avoid without any hassle.
 

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Let’s start with some interesting facts about being overweight. Recent surveys on weight loss indicate that more than 300,000 deaths are reported to have caused due to obesity. Wait a minute, we said that the facts are interesting and did we say that the facts are ugly? Yes all facts about being overweight are revealing the worse health condition of majority of people living in this planet. You will be familiar with the great old saying that problems and solutions are like two sides of a coin.
Things aren’t much different in the case of obesity. Obesity has become a major problem of more than 60% of Americans and obviously, there are more weight loss solution available out there than what is needed. As the people of this planet are desperate to lose weight as quickly as possible, the scammers out there have one thing they are look for – “The Demand”. The huge demand for the weight loss solutions has given birth to countless numbers of weight loss scams. These weight loss scams promise to help you lose your extra pounds in just days with a very little effort which is simply impossible. However, due to the desperate need for getting a weight loss solution, some people think that the impossible is possible sometimes. This thinking has resulted in increase in number of victims of the weight loss scams. Not every weight loss option available today happens to be a scam. Some of the perfectly working solutions such as the weight loss surgeries are hidden beneath the mountain of weight loss scams. Remember that the weight loss surgery is the only recommended option for dealing with obesity.
The Safe Option – Only If Done Right
People out there have a misconception that the weight loss surgery is very risky and that is the reason why it is classified under the major surgeries. The real fact is that, undergoing a weight loss surgery is 100% safe when done by an experienced medical practitioner. Weight loss surgery done without proper medical supervision will lead to serious complications and that is the reason why it is classified as one of the major surgeries. Weight loss surgery, also known as the Bariatric surgery is recommend for people with very slow metabolic rates and those who are greatly obese. It is not advisable to undergo the weight loss surgery on people who are mildly obese. All these people have to do is to follow a healthy diet pattern and do regular exercises.
The Conclusion
Comparing the risk of obesity, the risks involved in weight loss surgery are negligible. Remember that finding a well experienced surgeon to perform the weight loss surgery is all you have to do. This is the factor that decides whether the weight loss surgery is a boon or doom.

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It is common knowledge today that cholesterol is not always bad. There is actually good cholesterol – the HDL or the high-density lipoprotein – which helps in carrying the cholesterol away from the arteries to the liver where it is processed into harmless components. There are a number of studies undertaken which suggest that for every unit of bad cholesterol reduction, the possibility of heart disease reduces by twice that percentage number.
Control of Diet is the Key to Maintaining a Normal Cholesterol Level
Nature has given man sufficient power to maintain his/her health without depending upon any doctor. If our diets were balanced as they were meant to be, then there would not be any health issues, ever. However, our diets consist mostly of meat and saturated fats which contain high levels of the bad cholesterol. Some examples of these types of food are, shell fish, eggs (emphasis lies on the yolk), liver, and so on.
Actually, if you have a normal cholesterol level you can very well enjoy eating such food in moderation. You should never overdo it. A normal cholesterol level will get imbalanced when such foods become the rule instead of the exception.
If a person eats greasy non vegetarian food every day round the clock week after week, the person is sure to become ill. And when such a person falls sick, they stay sick for a very long time. This is why one should always endeavor to maintain proper diet on regular basis which in turn would maintain a normal cholesterol level in the body.
A diet rich in anti-oxidants, and vitamins would help you a great deal. You will be able to maintain a normal cholesterol level with the help of proper diet containing low-fats, niacin (which is reputed to increase HDL or the good cholesterol) peppered with moderate exercise can be exceptionally beneficial.
For those who have no patience with regulation of food and exercise, there are few very effective drugs popularly known as statins that are able to inhibit the body’s ability to produce cholesterol in the first place. As a result, people get protected from developing heart diseases. You should be aware however that the statins may cause damage of liver in certain cases and hence need to be taken under the supervision of the doctor. The best would be to lead a moderate life with a healthy mostly vegetarian diet rich in vitamins and minerals.

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Aromatherapy has been around for thousands of years. I’m pretty sure even the earliest of humans knew that the smell of flowers made them happier than the smell of rotting meat.
Aromatherapy is a natural way to help out your body both physically and emotionally.
Essential oils are concentrated extracts taken from the roots, leaves, or blossoms of plants. I love the fact that it is the essence of the plant.
Essential oils stimulate our powerful sense of smell. The everyday odors that we smell have a major impact on how we are feeling. We have the potential to distinguish between 10,000 different smells! That’s why those air freshener commercials show a powerful pleasant emotion with someone ignoring everything else but the smell and being lifted into a state of euphoria because, as exaggerated as it may seem, that’s essentially what smells can do to us.
Smells enter through the fine hairs lining the nose and move on to the limbic system, the part of the brain that controls our moods, emotions, memory and learning. This is why smells can have such a powerful effect on us.
I know most people associate a specific past event or person in our life with a smell. Even if you’ve forgotten about the event or person for years and years, just one whiff of a smell from that time will trigger the memory and feeling of it very quickly.
Essential oils can also be massaged into the skin or even taken by mouth. When taken orally any guidelines given should be followed. Whether inhaled, absorbed, or ingested, essential oils are gaining attention as an alternative treatment for infections, stress, and other health problems.
Almost every ailment can be helped with essential oils. For example, a few drops of Lavender or Chamomile added to a warm bath can help with stress. Cedarwood or Lemon added to your cream or lotion can help with oily skin or you can add them to rosewater to use as a toner for your skin.
A common one is ginger or peppermint for nausea or stomach upset. You can massage a few drops into the abdomen or add a few drops to a warm bath or even use it as an inhalation.
Those are just a drop in the bucket of what essential oils can do for us. It is quite exciting to think about using these natural oils to help us with physical ailments and emotional issues instead of reaching for the nearest drug.
And the best part is you can make your own oils, lotions, and balms at home.
Homemade essential oils help in relieving the symptoms of various types of mental and bodily disorders but the effectiveness of any homemade essential oil will depend on the quality of herbs used. So use organic herbs when you can, and also very high quality oil.

When you make them at home you know exactly what’s going in them plus it ends up costing less than having to purchase them. It eliminates any unwanted ingredients, or worse an unknown ingredient. Plus while you learn you get to share your new knowledge with all your friends and family and become an example of a natural therapy.
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Electric mobility chairs are the versatile type of wheelchair. They are very transportable due to lightweight composition of the material that is used. However there is a limited capacity of load that this can withhold. When the patient exceeds a load of about 135 kilos, the wheelchair that will be preferred is the heavy-duty electric powered type.

Disabled yet still very adventurous and wants to take a journey? The type that is good for you are the folding powered chair. This is a very portable type that can easily fit a narrow space in your car. Indoor and outdoor performance is exceptionally soaring even surfaces with grassland. The speed is also astounding which is around 6mph.

Electric mobility chairs are handy in trips for they can be disbanded together with other heavy duty collapsible chair however they are very bulky and could take a big amount of space in your car.

When your financial aspect is a big issue, an option that you can do is to just lease a mobility chair on the place that you are going. However you have to check out first before you go to certain place to be sure that it is indeed offered. If no rental of wheelchair is available the most affordable type that you can be able to purchase is the easy transport chairs. This includes a swing way footrest, fold down back, and adequate stuffed arm rest bestowing supplementary comfort.

However if you already have a standard chair that you have been using you do not need to purchase a new one just for traveling. Bear in mind that it is not compulsory to use this worry free travel chairs. When you have extra money then go ahead and purchase another and if you have not bought a wheelchair yet then assess every requirement you have so that when you are ready to purchase it you do not need to buy another one for another purpose.

In going away and have a journey, the best chair to carry with you is the one that can suffice all your needs. You have to consider the weight, durability and also the type where a small space is needed for transport.

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Smokeless electronic cigarettes have been made-up for all individuals’ smokers who wish for to, but cannot, smoke at community non-smoking areas, particularly restaurants, movie theaters, casinos and some bars. Smokeless cigarettes are supposed to be better than conventional cigarettes, as they do not absorb the discharge of dangerous smoke. Smokeless electronic cigarettes mean no smelly clothing, no awful taste in the
Mouth and no residue in the car. Here are other types of Smokeless electronic cigarettes.
The main type is the ’smoke filter cigarettes’, which encompass a filter that prevents the smoke since leaving the cigarette. These types of smokeless electronic cigarette involve the burning of tobacco and carcinogens, and consequently, are worse than conventional cigarettes. The old filter in this kind can be replaced; on the other hand, it is big and appears similar to a weird outcropping from the mouth. Whereas smoke filter cigarettes do not emit smoke, they are even not allowable in communal non-smoking areas.
The next is the ’smokeless electronic cigarette’, which does not absorb the burning of tobacco. As a replacement for, these ‘cigarettes’ apply an electric charge to provide the smoking familiarity. They are full of nicotine, but do not create smoke, which is why they are permitted to be used in non-smoking areas. Yet, the person in charge doubt about this type is that it fails to present the accurate feel conventional cigarettes give. The lack of smoke, large size, and unique feel, makes it less attractive to many.
The third kind, ‘vapor-based mini electronic cigarettes’ are comparable to electronic cigarettes, conflicting only in the smoke characteristic. At the same time as ’smokeless electronic cigarettes’ do not generate smoke at all, ‘vapor-based mini electronic cigarettes’ produces nontoxic water vapor, in that way inspiring the conventional smoking experience. The water vapor gives this cigarette a more normal sense with no harmful smoke. A charger is used to charge the battery of this cigarette, which comprises a cartridge contains nicotine, propylene glycol, water and tobacco flavor. Cartridges with unrelated nicotine levels and flavors (tobacco, apple, and mint, orange, strawberry, caramel and coffee flavors) are offered. An LED is at hand at the tip, which lights up while in use. These ‘cigarettes’ have been intended to look like conventional cigarettes, and are the most excellent choice for people who desire to maintain the smoking experience. What’s more, in certain areas, these cigarettes come up to cheaper than the regular cigarettes. Since these cigarettes do not engage the release of smoke, they are permitted to be used in non-smoking areas.
Companies have move toward with smokeless electronic cigarettes to help out smokers stop smoking. Herbal smokeless cigarettes are also available, which not have tobacco and nicotine, and include herbal medicine, in that way pleasing the tactile tastes feelings lacking dependence on nicotine. The usual herbal aroma smell movements are through the trachea and lungs and remove the nicotine buildup in the smoker’s body by dispelling the smoking stink. It is supposed that these herbal smokeless cigarettes can help knock craving and help smokers stop smoking overall. Most smokeless cigarettes may possibly bring in nicotine to give a fix, on the other hand, they not have the tar and chemicals at hand in regular conventional cigarettes.
Smokeless electronic cigarettes provide no smoke or ash, and hence cause slight or no stains on the fingers, even though nicotine containing cigarettes cause teeth yellowing. No smoky stink lingers on the hair and dress with this Kind of cigarettes. Seeing as there is no second-hand smoke, this compensates non-smokers as well. As well, the fear of the smoking ban being dishonored is very much reduced. Smokeless electronic cigarettes are supposed to be free from the 400+ cancer-causing substances start in conventional cigarettes, as a result eliminating the hazardous substances that cause cancer.
 

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