Managing stroke

Relieve pain and restore self to good health – never let frustrations sink in!

In desperate moments you have everyone near your heart to call on. But if they won’t come don’t let frustrations topple your confidence down. Life has its own meaning and events serve you with a purpose. Try to keep yourself at bay from negative emotions and try listening to music first.

Yes music therapy has a lot to do with your emotions, moods and thinking. Give yourself the chance to feel light to overcome stress. Listen to music and maybe try to sing along with it like you are singing with a karaoke. Music helps to make you feel good even if you go up and down with your mood. It does help ease the pain.

When you hear the sounds daydream a little and you will notice that your mood will elevate. There you are…. You feel lighter now….. Can you snap you fingers? Snap and go with the beat.

Then move your feet… move your legs… that’s it… little by little…. Stretch your arms…. Go …. Go… you are doing well…

Stroke is not easy to deal with but the most critical part is the confidence and the will to survive. Take it easy and listen to the music. Go with the beat and stretch… there you are… stretch again….

Having fun?

I have experienced dragging my left leg five years ago while walking going to the office to report work. And it was not easy. I did not have a stroke but my herniated disc was causing me much pain. My left leg was all numb sometimes I can’t feel with my leg and it was so frustrating because I was still in my 30s at that time.

I had my moments and frustrations but tried to survive by undergoing physical therapy and going to an early morning walk everyday, swim at the sea on weekends and then danced with Britney Spears songs any time when I am at home. It was great help because I am still walking until now without undergoing surgery yet. And by the way, it will make you slimmer and look sexy too. I guess that’s the bonus!

The asthma update

Manchester researchers found that severe asthma is brought by common airborne fungi as such as household molds, damp, dead leaves, trees and grass. Triggers are everywhere if we just think of it. We are not even free from our very own homes. Our homes may contain triggers like dust mites, secondhand smoke, cockroaches, cats and dogs.

At least people nowadays are aware that asthma is considered as life threatening. You just don’t know the feeling I had when I got admitted before to the emergency room because of my asthma. Later I heard some people crying and realized that the man occupying the bed next to mine died of asthma just moments ago. Nyahh… you must have known the little panic that crept within me….

Your environment can cause, trigger or exacerbate asthma symptoms. One good thing to take note is the presence of Nitrogen Dioxide which is an odorless gas. This is the usual byproduct of gas stoves, gas or oil furnaces, fireplaces, wood stoves and unvented kerosene or gas space heaters. I always have my asthma attack if I am exposed to this kind of trigger especially engine exhaust.

So if you have asthma please avoid these triggers and try to breathe more fresh air. This will do well to your lungs.

White spots?

White spots on skin are often cause by fungal infection brought about by using bath towels more than once. It is best to always use fresh towels each time you take a shower or a bath. But if you do have the white spots on your skin now then I think you should try what I’ve stumbled in my research.

Lather your back and your chest or the area of the white spot with an antidandruff shampoo until they are gone. One that was often mentioned in several articles was Selsun Blue. An athlete’s foot crème may be effective for some while tea tree oil is favored by the majority. Whatever treatment you plan to take is welcome but remember never to reuse used towels again or it will come back.

Perfect body

Say hello to a perfect healthy body and say goodbye to chronic diseases the easy way – diet and nutrition!

Diet and nutrition are critical to the promotion and maintenance of good health throughout your entire life course. The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing globally as such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, osteoporosis and dental diseases. But let me ask you guys… Are you not aware that chronic diseases are largely preventable diseases?

Yup darlings they are preventable diseases. Modern dietary patterns and physical activity patterns are risk behaviors affecting one population to another and are considered as communicable at the risk factor level. You may have notice that traditional largely plant based diets are being replaced by high fat energy dense diets with a substantial content of animal based foods at fast food counters while physical inactivity proves to be increasingly affecting a lot of people because of technology and a lot of mechanical innovations to promote comfortable living.

Yesireee comfortable living is giving as an edge to win the marathon race to the doors of early onset of chronic diseases. Lifestyles should be managed and balanced in a way that we used much of our strength to strengthen our muscles and stamina and for cardio purposes. And most of all this gives us the perfect body we need when we decide to start sweating it out.

Food strategies could well be spelled in diet and nutrition. It’s repetitive but we always go back there. Food, diet, nutrition, physical inactivity could be improved by eating lots of fruits and vegetables and doing daily exercises.

Food diary for weight loss and nutrition monitoring

Well we do write a diary everyday to express what we feel and write what we think about things and other people. We write it in blogs, published it or plainly keep our thoughts secret with our notebooks or diaries at home.

I say yes to create a food diary. This is what we need in order to monitor our food and calorie intake. We can even organize a kind of forum or blog for this so other people may stumble on your site and leave comments and suggestions on how to manage your diet and your weight.

It is not easy to act like nutrition experts ourselves because it will entail a lot of intensive research. Blogging is the shortcut. By the way please don’t forget to link to my site when you are already up and live. It would be a pleasure to be able to link with your personal food diaries.

Making a combination of your personal thoughts and nutrition guide is acceptable. So start blogging about what you have and let the world help you on it.

Who wants sexy abs?

Leaner, sleeker, sexier, trimmer and tighter tummy are the kind of abs we want to have. And it is great news to be able to tell you that we can work toward a more amazing abs from flab to fab (fabulous!). But at the moment while you are still working on it please don’t wear jeans that are too small or too tight or it will make your belly or abs protrude.

Our goal is to slash your weight then trim your abs. How do we do that?

Makeup, accessories or any other alternative to make your abs appear lighter with a thinner look may do for a while but may not give you that good look and healthy feeling. It would be best to do a real good walk everyday to trim those fats off.

To progressively increase the training stimulus of your abdominal muscles you may want to perform abdominal curls on a decline bench rather than on a flat bench. Weightlifting exercises your muscles at greater than normal workloads. This produces microscopic tears in the muscle cells and connective tissues. Your body responds by producing new muscle proteins and cause muscle growth while increasing strength.

Please take note that there is a need to rest the exercised muscles between workouts for these changes to occur. Substantial improvements are seen to people who lift weights every other day or maybe 2 to 3 times a week. Lifting weights everyday may risk your muscles by overtraining.

A split routine may be created so you won’t be exercising the same muscle groups everyday and to avoid excessive muscle soreness and overuse injuries. You may also opt for calisthenics as a mild form to strength training. If you have a low back pain like an herniated disc injury then avoid the steps where you need to twist and bend. It may be helpful to alter training stimulus weekly or daily to be able to change combination of intensity, repetition and sets.

Designing your weight management and body composition program is never easy. The help of fitness professional is needed to give it the desired workout intensity and nutrition balance your body needs. But to start toning your body you may want to do an hour a day walking and eating lots of fruits and vegetables.

Banana and its beauty and health value

Bananas have been used by ancient Egyptians for wound dressing in the past. The banana leaves, fruit and the flowering sheath are being utilized effectively as medical treatment for open wounds.

Here’s how they biblically do it in the past:

They first mashed the fruit before applying it as a poultice over rashes, infected scratches, grazes and burns. A banana skin or a banana leaf warmed in hot water is then placed over the affected area to cover and contain the mashed fruit.

The banana still serves more or less the same function with today’s generation. Surfers often used mashed banana pulp to treat sunburned shoulders and noses. Cool….

Aching heels, corns and blisters may be rubbed by the inside of a banana skin. The flowering bract may be used as a heel guard too to ease cracks in the heels of hikers.

And good heavens, here’s another surprise… the flowering bracts may be used to treat scalp problems!

Boil the flowering bracts with few ripe banana skins and use it as a hair rinse for oily and falling hair problems.

Need proof? Look at the Hawaiians glossy thick hair!

Herniated disc pain management

The use of ice may help reduce lumbar pain and muscle spasm at the moment. Painful muscle spasms can be eliminated with ice or heat. Significant signs indicating the need for immediate referral to a physical therapist include muscle weakness, sensory changes, diminish reflexes in the lower extremity and abnormal bladder or bowel function. Minimized load on the spine by avoiding activities that involve impact, lifting, bending, twisting and prolonged sitting and standing. It is important that you take muscle relaxants, passive exercise and gentle stretching. Most of all please loose a little of those fats and maintain your ideal body weight. This is what I’ve been telling about diet, nutrition and exercise. There are more benefits you gain from it than reasons for taking it for granted and actually neglecting it. Anybody wanting to be my exercise buddy lol just email me…..