Google has been thinking a lot of ways to monopolize user’s preference and loyalty. Google health is in its beta stage now. Google is a real one stop shop for all your email and filing storage needs. I am even starting to migrate to Google because of the product features and innovations they are constantly trying to introduce to their users. Google health is just perfect for you. Store your health information there and experience the ease and convenience reading and accessing your health records and history right at the tip of your fingers in a click. You may start to gather your medical records now from your doctors, hospital and pharmacies. This way you will be able to keep yourself and your doctors up to date by merely showing or sharing your health records online. You have the option to share or keep data in private. Google health is safe, secure and free and I highly recommend using it because targeted treatment is only made possible when physicians can read history records. No more hassle remembering things. Just encode it there and access it when you need it. Happy to say that you can also access on important information about your diseases for reference so you don’t have to go from site to site making research about it. You just log in there and everything is provided by Google by the click of your mouse!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Google health record keeping
Posted by Shirley Bongbong at 8/31/2008 05:54:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: free storage, Google Health, health records
Monday, August 25, 2008
Thriftfirstavenue: trading fashion online
Thriftfirstavenue is the site for you ladies. Have you been dumping styles and baggage at your closets? Please don’t be too harsh with fashion. What a pity finding those fashionable clothing and accessories piled in cartons collecting dust. Gracious Lord! Have a heart with the designer’s creativity and show it around.
Thriftfirstavenue allows you to buy clothes you like and sell stuff you sort of “get bored” wearing same sexy compliments. Change your wardrobe as often as your mood lol…. Make it an online habit. Share secrets and trade secrets with fashionistas like you. Watch for it at Thriffirstavenue!
Posted by Shirley Bongbong at 8/25/2008 08:07:00 PM 1 comments
Labels: beauty, extra income, fashion, sell stuff, sexy
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Knives for your herniated discs pain remedy?
Why I am so afraid with knives is not a matter of maturity whether I am going to take the risk of getting operated in a table by some surgeon I wouldn’t know is Christian enough to practice empathy in his profession. The reason is that I am not sure if I am going to get better or worse after the knife part.
Disc herniations are most common in the lumbar area. The usual recommended treatment is generally open back high risks surgery with longer hospital stays and lengthy recuperation time. If you get fed up containing the pain then you just have to settle yourself with the thought of lying on that cold room and getting ready for the knife part. Ngehh…. No… no….nah… as much as I can help it I wouldn’t lie down there.
First consideration is the money that will be spent during the operation and while you are recuperating not to mention the “what if” this will happen to you. You know what I mean. The “what if” is more expensive. What if something goes wrong? Can someone stretch out a dollar for that day to day of your life you are trying to breathe some fresh air in a closed bedroom? God I wouldn’t wanna know what it will be.
So let’s get to the basics of what you should do when you have one herniated lumbar disc like mine. Stop eating too much and maintain your ideal body weight. Yes that’s it! Maintain your ideal body weight and go easy with your diet plan. You need to help your body carry your weight. Getting more weight will cause you more pain. I encourage you do physical activity that does not involve bending like walking. By the way if you stretch too much it will cause you more pain. Observe correct body posture. This means where ever you are, whatever you do – always remember correct body posture. Never take this for granted. Give it a week and you’ll be running for that pain reliever in your medicine cabinet lol.
Swimming is good. Water exercise is good. Don’t swim like an athlete though. Just swim to stretch your muscles in the water. It will do your body more good than harm and will help your muscles relax too. Get a swimming partner buddy so you won’t get bored and lazy. Select someone with not much life baggage. Having a friend with a lot of problems when you are going on a therapy will add up to the pain. You won’t be able to swim but instead spend the whole of your time listening to him. So choose one that can make you smile and look radiant when you are having your therapy. Allocate another time for friends who need your ears and not when you are having your therapy. This is one mistake we always overlook at time.
Get cured be sure that you don’t sit too long nor stand too long. Shift your position always. And the best part is to have a light massage at night with hot packs. Massage the area near the injured area but not directly at the area. But you have to put the hot packs directly at the area of course. Liniments that are most soothing are the ones that will give you a cool hot feeling. Hot I say because it will counter the pain a little and will make you go to sleep. Ops please don’t leave hot packs for more than 20 minutes. Never stop being active it will help you keep yourself healthy. If you have anything to share, leave a comment. Sharing notes with someone of same herniated disc problem is most welcome.
Posted by Shirley Bongbong at 8/20/2008 01:16:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: chronic pain, Herniated disc, lumbar pain, pain management
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Approach to diet and nutrition
Eating the same kind of food everyday gives you the same kind of nourishment you need. Eliminating nutrition deficiency requires sufficient, safe and varied food suppliers to help reduce risk of chronic diseases and prevent malnutrition. Nutrition transition includes quantitative and qualitative changes in your diet which includes a shift in the structure of the diet itself. Diets evolve over time. Factors like lifestyle and food habits as such as buying at fast foods every meal time affects your nutritional value choices. Discipline and physical activity is very important. When you intend to give yourself chances for a better life, choose what you feed yourselves well. Maybe you can limit fast food counters and try cooking a good meal at home for a change. If you feel lazy slicing tomatoes and cooking on pans then might as well know how they cook your favorite dishes and learn how to balance your food intake. Fit your nutrition to your lifestyle and know if you are getting the most nutrition of what you have been feeding yourselves lately.
Posted by Shirley Bongbong at 8/17/2008 08:15:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: diet, fast foods, health, nutrition
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Sleep and cancer
Man cannot survive lack of sleep for as long as he can survive deprivation of food. All the organs of the human body are subject to fatigue as such as our muscles, central nervous system and our sensory organs. Working these organs for sometime at a certain level of intensity and energy expenditure produces fatigue and requires an alternation of exertion and rest.
You must suspend activity temporarily in order to replenish energy. The fatigue that you feel shows how strenuous you have been exerting and going beyond your limits and maybe at a level where you sure could not further exert yourself. I hope you grasp the idea of not stretching what you cannot stretch by the law of nature. Fatigue is a behavioral regulator of activity which is physiological but may lead to pathological conditions of exhaustion or even of collapse that could be organic, psychological or psychosomatic.
Have you ever wondered why sometimes you feel emotionally and physically tired for no reason at all? Lack of sleep has serious consequences. The way you feel and think is being affected by lack of sleep. It has adverse effects on our motor skills and immunity. You should know by now that several nights of poor sleep can hamper immunity. Yeah…. Yeah… and still you are taking it for granted eh?
Learn to stay young and healthy by parking your bodies at the right time. I have encountered a lot of business and career professionals who are trying to find more profitable and productive time at work and a more balanced and enjoyable time at home depriving their selves with what I see is most important to keep them going – sleep!
Sleep could be
The importance of sleep
Our biological clock runs on a daily basis called as the circadian rhythm. Normally your body is alert in the morning and winds down until nighttime when it is a natural state to sleep.
Before you wake up each day your body and blood temperature rises, your heart beats faster and your endocrine glands squirt out cortisol and other hormones you need to get going for the day.
At night before you go to sleep, your temperature, heart rate and blood pressure falls. Your body releases more melatonin from the bare of brain in response to declining levels of light. Thus cortisol is active at day and melatonin is active at night.
Wrong Impression
You may think you are active at night but your bodies may not agree. The point is we don’t go against nature and what we have been built from the very beginning of time. To make my point, I would like to share with you some research I have read in the past like some women working at night shifts found to be more vulnerable to breast and colon cancer and a news item regarding research on highly industrialized areas showing more workers working at night shifts getting cancer. Hah! Here’s more – fatigue and loss of appetite are also caused by the skewed circadian rhythm.
Part of each cell in your body is out of sync with healthy cells. One research found out that if you go to bed by 10pm and wake up at about 6am you reduced your risk on breast cancer by 50% lower.
Don’t take sleep for granted or shall we say life?
Sleep is so important that even one hour less of it each night can cut your life short. Research shows that people who sleep less than six hours a night don’t live as long as those who sleep for seven or eight hours. That magnificent multitasking intelligence that manages your mind and body needed to rest to properly perform all the tasks needed to carry out to keep you balanced and healthy. Sleep that is fewer than four hours invites onset of diseases as such as diabetes, high blood pressure and weight gain. Wow! What a waste of energy carrying out pain!
A simple lifestyle change can help you gain several more productive, creative and focused hours a day! Please don’t let habits and behaviors get in the way. Take sleep seriously and do what it takes to do to add more to your lives or at least keep those net income really an income and not a bounce back expense to medicals. As I have told you, money is not everything but health is!
Posted by Shirley Bongbong at 8/14/2008 04:10:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: cancer, circadian rhythm, fatigue, mood, sleep
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Reduce pain, manage your weight using Herbalife
Start living the life you want and motivate yourselves to become healthy and fit to meet your career goals and financial dreams. Nobody would want to become rich but sickly. That would be funny! Of course you don’t want to work just to spend 80% of your income to paying your medical bills.
The best way to reduce stress and maintain a healthy looking skin youthful look is to maintain your ideal weight. Your wellness program should start with the obvious which is better weight management. You may be not what you eat but your body will show what you’ve been feeding it. If you grasp the idea on how to keep yourself healthy, it always starts with your weight and food intake.
To help you do this you may want to take a look at herbal nutrition sites or herbal supplements sites. I have read the nutritional products and support articles of Herbalife tonight. They are offering a customized Cellular Nutrition approach program to look and feel your best. The big catch with Herbalife is the customized program. Who else would want to copy or follow a program that is not structured to your type of body and health condition?
I’ve look at their featured products and the beverage fruit mix or protein drink mix for hunger control looks and sounds delectable. I had 2 or 3 clients at the bank before who had claimed Herbalife as an effective weight control. If you got the budget you may want to try it.
I am still saving to buy on Shape Works that comes with a customized meal plan. Tell me when you get it. I want to know your success story. Keep in mind this needs discipline too. By the way please don’t forget physical activity. That is still basic to good health and nutrition.
Posted by Shirley Bongbong at 8/07/2008 10:25:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: nutrition, slimming, supplements, weight management
Monday, August 4, 2008
Prevention of chronic diseases
Please don’t go to the doctor when you have them already. It is best to develop healthy eating habits including physical activities to keep you in good shape. Diet and nutrition in the prevention of chronic diseases plays an all equivalent role of importance with exercise and daily burning of fats and calories. The best way I can think of preventing chronic diseases is to discipline and teach your own selves to practice thinking about diet, nutrition, fruits, vegetables and walking or any sweat-it-all physical activity.
We don’t rely on doctors to do this for us because the main thing that they do is type in our complaints and save it on their PDAs. They are on to monitoring and giving treatments if we go back to their clinics. They don’t guarantee health. They only help us keep ourselves getting healthy. So where do we go from here if we don’t make ourselves responsible enough to keep us healthy?
Being healthy is not a matter of getting consultations from the best doctor in town. Being healthy means how you take care of your health and your diet. Well we better start now if we don’t want to be kept on queues in their clinics. Who wants to be my health buddy?
Posted by Shirley Bongbong at 8/04/2008 10:15:00 AM 0 comments