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Thursday December 10, 2009

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This Week in Health

 

 
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Anemia is one of the common conditions affecting human being especially women around the world. Yoga has come a long way and can help in increasing RBC count in two ways. One is by making use of breathing exercises and the other by doing special asanas. Check out this week's article on Yoga for healing Anemia.

 
Hot Fitness Tip of the week

Include protein every time you eat. By including high quality protein in each meal, you can help stimulate the hormone glucagons. Glucagons can help keep blood sugar balanced and help you burn fat faster. Some of the best high quality, low-fat protein sources include 2% low fat cottage cheese, eggs and egg whites, fish, chicken, turkey, beef and pork tenderloin, tofu, tempeh, and pure whey protein powder.

 
Words of Inspiration

Overcoming Obstacles

 

Carol Farmer found out after only two semesters of teaching that education wasn't for her. But what else could she do ? 

She wanted to be a designer, so she set a goal to make more money her first year as a freelance designer than she had made teaching. Carol Farmer had made $5,000 teaching; she made $5,012 her first year as designer.

Her freelance business grew into an ad agency. She was soon offered a salary increase to thirty-five thousand dollars, but she turned it down to form her own company. The former teacher made over one hundred thousand dollars in her first year, twenty times more than she made less than ten years previously and five times more than she made a year before.

 

In 1976, Carol Farmer formed the Doody Company, which billed over $15 million in its first three years. Her staff increased from six to two hundred. Carol Farmer continues to diversify.

 

Too often people see obstacles as roadblocks instead of opportunities. Carol Farmer turned disappointment and unhappiness in one career into happiness, creativity, and profit in another career. Join Carol Farmer in approaching life obstacles creatively, to see yourself on the top.
 

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Success Quote

"You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind" 
--Darwin P. Kingsley

 
Healthy Recipe

WATERCRESS POTATO SALAD

 

Ingredients:

  • 450 g/1 lb small new potatoes, unpeeled 

  • 1 bunch watercress

  • 200g/70z/1 1/2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved

  • 30ml/2 tbsp pumpkinseeds

  • 4.5ml/3tbsp low fat fromage frais

  • 1.5ml/1 tsp soft light brown sugar

  • salt and paprika

Direction:

  • Cook the potatoes in lightly salted, boiling water until just tender, then drain and leave to cool.

  • Toss together the potatoes, watercress, tomatoes and pumpkin seeds.

  • Place the fromage frais, vinegar, sugar, salt and paprika in a screw topped jar and shake well to mix. Pour over the salad just before serving.

Nutritional Information: (per serving) 

  • Energy: 150 Kcals /630 kJ

  • Fat : 4.15g

  • Saturated fat: 0.81g

  • Cholesterol:0.11mg

  • Fibre: 2.55g

 
Article of the Week

Yoga for healing Anemia

Regular practice of different yoga poses increases the RBC production as well as purifies the blood.

Anemia is one of the common conditions affecting human being especially women around the world. In general anemia is considered to be a condition characterized by lack of blood. But medically anemia can be referred as a condition where the iron content or hemoglobin of blood decreases below the normal level.

Yoga can help in increasing RBC count in two ways. One is by making use of breathing exercises and the other is by doing special asanas.

Breathing exercises like Ujjayi, Suryabhedana, Anuloma Viloma and Kapalbhatti increases circulation of blood and improve functioning of the entire circulatory system.

According to various yoga gurus anemic patients should start their yoga session with Pranayama followed by Trikonasana. Other yoga poses for anaemia are Sarvangasana, Paschomittanasana, Uttanpadasana, Viparita-karani-mudra and various shavasanas.

Breathing Exercises:
Ujjayi or The "loud breathing" consists of drawing air in through both nostrils with the glottis held partially closed. This partial closure of the glottis produces a sound like that heard in sobbing, except that it is continuous and unbroken. Ujjayi breathing has many variations. For example, we can breathe in through the throat, then completely close one nostril and breathe out through the other nostril, which is only partly closed. This technique is called an anuloma ujjayi. In a pranayama technique called viloma ujjayi, we breathe in through the nostril and breathe out through the throat. This technique is used to lengthen the inhalation. In ujjayi pranayama it is important to follow this rule: when we regulate the breath through the nostril, we never breathe through the throat at the same time.

 

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