Women Fitness E-Mag Newsletter
Women Fitness E-Mag Newsletter
Women Fitness E-Mag Newsletter
Women Fitness E-Mag Newsletter
Women Fitness E-Mag Newsletter

Thursday April 15, 2010

Women Fitness Sign Up Today
This Week in Health

 

 
New Happening

Rediscovering how our body is meant to move by feeling it from inside, the perfect body is achievable, and your own ideal body will emerge. You have to put time and intelligence into regular practice, to learn more check out this week's article, Rediscovering that Perfect Body.

In fitness
Namita

 
Hot Fitness Tip of the week

Menopause brings with it a wide range of changes to a woman's body. Without doubt, exercise is the menopausal woman's best friend in a way that it allows to control your body and emotions by using your internal resources.

Each time that you take exercise, your adrenal glands are stimulated to convert the male hormone androstenedione into oestrogen. A minimum of four 30-minute exercise sessions each week will help to keep your body producing a little oestrogen. Long-term exercise also means that you will have stronger bones and a lower risk of osteoporosis than non-exercisers.

 
Words of Inspiration

Hold an optimistic outlook

 

Many people tend to assume that they will spend much of their lives either unhappy or at least not really happy. However we have all seen those people who do seem to be genuinely happy with their lives. They smile frequently, laugh often, and seem to be in good humor most of the time. Yet this is not because they are richer or more successful. Sometimes these people were just born with the good fortune to have an optimistic outlook that life has not yet knocked out of them, but often these people have simply chosen that they will be happy and they recognize that there is always something about their lives that makes them happy. You know this is true of yourself as well.

 

Concentrate on the areas of your life that give you happiness whenever you feel unhappiness seeping in and no matter what assume that you will be, you can be, a happy person.

 

Don't simply sit at home waiting for happiness to come knocking on your door. Go out and live life. Think about what currently makes you happy and spend time in those activities and think about what might make you happy and spend time experimenting. The more time you spend actively living your life then the more likely that you will also lead a happy life.
 

Learn more 

 
Success Quote

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
Henry David Thoreau

 
Healthy Recipe

Hot Fruit Salad

 

Makes: 6 servings.

 

Ingredients:

  • 175 g (6oz) dried apricots

  • 150 g (5oz) dried prunes

  • 150 g (5oz) dried figs

  • 600 ml (1pint) apple juice

  • 2 tablespoon Calvados or brandy (optional)

  • 25 g (1oz) walnuts, coarsely chopped

  • Low – fat natural yogurt, to serve (optional)

Direction:

  • Place the dried fruits in a bowl with the apple juice and leave to soak overnight.

  • Transfer to a saucepan and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Turn into a bowl and pour over the calvados or brandy, if using. Sprinkle with the walnuts and serve immediately with low – fat natural yogurt, if liked

Nutritional Information:
Carbohydrate 17g , Protein 8g, Fat 9g, KJ 750, kcal 179

 
Article of the Week

Rediscovering that Perfect Body

 

The image of the body beautiful is constantly with us, whether in the media, with new looks of the rich and famous or in adverts for new and miraculous supplements or exercise fads.

What is a perfect body image?

Well it tends to have toned hips and legs with a pert bottom, a strong stomach and an open chest. Only the genetically gifted or determined fitness freaks seem to embody this ideal, and yet this is in fact how everyone is designed. We all have bigger muscles in our legs than our arms because nature intended us to use our legs as our means of transport. Around our middles are muscles in a similar shape to a girdle that hold our internal organs in the right place. Along our spines are muscles similar to struts that can hold the spine long. In the middle of our body we have a big hinge, the hips, surrounded and protected by big muscles (thighs, buttocks, hamstrings), which help us move around it.

 

So if we move using our hips as a hinge and our legs as support they will be fitter and toned. If we then hold ourselves upright using our "girdle" and maintain a long spine with our "struts" we will then not tend to let our stomachs bulge and our shoulders collapse.

 

Learn more about this article

If you no longer intend to receive Women Fitness E-Mag, simply enter your email address,

then click on "Unsubscribe Me!" button.

 

Women Fitness E-Mag can also be viewed at http://www.womenfitness.net/emag_current.htm

Add to Google