With increasing numbers of people being diagnosed with COPD, it is important to provide different options for exercise that can be tailored to suit each individual. In a study published on April 9, 2014 (in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society), the researchers analyzed the health records of more than 6,000 California patients, aged 40 and older. All were … [Read more...]
Burlesque Queen Dita Von Teese Shares Her Fitness & Beauty Secrets!
Born Heather Sweet in West Branch, Michigan, Dita Von Teese grew up fascinated by the Golden Age of Cinema, pin-up imagery, and vintage lingerie. This naturally blonde, mid-western girl then transformed herself into a glamour girl like those she admired. Performing striptease since 1992, she is the biggest name in burlesque in the world since Gypsy Rose Lee and is credited with … [Read more...]
Michelle Waterson: World Atomweight Champion Reveals Her Workout, Diet & Success Secrets
Michelle E. Waterson is an American mixed martial artist and model whose nickname is The Karate Hottie. She is the Invicta FC Atomweight Champion. Waterson is currently the #9-ranked pound-for-pound female MMA fighter in the world by MMARising.com and the #1-ranked Atomweight (105 lbs) according to the Unified Women's MMA Rankingsand Fight Matrix. Born in Colorado Springs … [Read more...]
Health & Fitness Needs For Women At 40
Physical Needs Nutritional Needs Psychological Needs Middle Life means facing the downhill slope of life for the first time -counting the years left rather than the years gone. The average mid point of life is considered about 39 for women, but most women consider themselves middle aged only once they have entered their 40s. Middle age has a curious way of stealing … [Read more...]
Indian Chess master Dhyani Dave Shares Her Awe-Inspiring Success Story
Whenever Narendra Modi meets this girl, he says, “Tum wohi ladki ho na, jo dimaag kuch zyaada hi chalati ho!” Sponsors are not doing enough for the game, feels chess master Dhyani Dave Chess master Dhyani Dave from Ahmedabad is a gritty girl. Despite facing odds with sponsorship in her profession, she has reached a position where she has been awarded and felicitated by none … [Read more...]
The HIV Guidelines Shift Focus From Care to Standard of Care
The globally-followed guidelines have changed the very nature of guidelines for the treatment of HIV. Clinical consensus among globally-followed guidelines means that the focus shifts from care to the standard of care, and to adding public health and quality of life. The new WHO guidelines state that, "Antiretroviral therapy should be initiated in all adults living with … [Read more...]
Anemia Due To Iron Deficiency
Anemia is the general name for a range of disorders affecting the Red Blood Cells. In all types, of anemia there is a shortage of a chemical called hemoglobin that carries the oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body via these cells. It is unusual in the body in that it contains iron. Because a good supply of oxygen is so vital, anemia has widespread effects, which differ … [Read more...]
Vitamins A, D, E and K Micronutrients for bones, muscles & nerves
The fat-soluble vitamins – A, D, E and K – are needed in small amounts (as are all vitamins) for a variety of functions, one of which is contributing to the growth and strength of your bones. In contrast to the water-soluble B complex and C vitamins, which are used or excreted soon after ingestion and can be stored only in minute quantities, fat-soluble vitamins can be stored … [Read more...]
Chenopodium album or Bathua: A Miraculous Herb
Considered a leafy vegetable, it's actually a weed that grows in waste places and with other cultivated crops. It is found throughout the tropical regions of world. Its leaves and seeds have medicinal uses and is used for home remedies. The seeds of Bathua are outstanding to wheat, buckwheat, millet, corn, and rice. Health Benefits The Bathua leaves are loaded with … [Read more...]
Exercising The Rotator Cuff
Chronic shoulder pain is a common consequence of repetitive overhead activity, such as serving and smashing in tennis, freestyle or butterfly swimming, javelin throwing, or bowling in cricket. The shoulder joint is a truly remarkable creation. It's quite a complex formation of bones, muscles and tendons and provides a great range of motion to the arm. The shoulder is made up of … [Read more...]
The Dumbbell Floor Press
If you are one of those who experience lower back pain with traditional bench presses Moving to the floor can help tremendously in reducing lumbar extension that comes from excessive arching on the bench. Besides, the bench press has its drawbacks. It can be brutal on the shoulders and rotator cuffs for some, while others simply don't feel it in the chest and abandon it for a … [Read more...]
The Hollywood Trainer Jeanette Jenkins Shares Her Enthralling Fitness Journey!
Jeanette Jenkins is one of Hollywood’s most sought after Health & Fitness Experts with over 25 years of experience, founder and President of The Hollywood Trainer LLC. www.TheHollywoodTrainer.com , author of The Hollywood Trainer Weight-Loss Plan and creator of “The Hollywood Trainer Club” a Virtual Online Healthy Living & Weight Loss Club with everything you need to … [Read more...]
Yin Yoga: Changing Your Yoga Practice for the Season Ahead
The practice of yoga can be a rewarding physical, mental, and spiritual journey. Yoga can be your weekly amazing workout. It can be your daily de-stressor at the end of a busy day and offer you a deep connection to your body that may change your life. Autumn is a GREAT time for Yin yoga and some restorative practices. It is based on the Taoist concepts of yin and yang, … [Read more...]
Beauty Trends For Spring 2017
This year the focus is more on bringing out your personality. Eyebrows become a canvas for artistic creativity: This year we anticipate a surge in eyebrow art in the New Year. With metallic brow product launches, razor eyebrow slits, and rainbow brow coloring, we are bound to see creative eyebrows this year. French Manicure with angular oxblood tips: The French … [Read more...]
Whole-Person Sex: Trend for Better Sex In The New Year
The New Year is just going to arrive and lets have a more fulling and happy love life. You might be looking forward to the New Year as a time for more exciting sex with your partner. Like many, you might think a fun New Year's Eve would create the atmosphere for some good -- maybe even great -- sex and be a great beginning to the year ahead. But like many, you'll feel … [Read more...]
Top 5 Online Fitness Tools To Help Kick Start Your Fitness Regime in 2017
The New Year is not only a time for celebration but also when people embark on journeys to better themselves through New Year's resolutions. To varying degrees of success, improving fitness is one resolution that is embarked upon year after year. While getting fit requires hard work and dedication, it is one of the most rewarding journeys you can embark on. As well as shedding … [Read more...]
Adriana Lima: Supermodel Of The Year With A Golden Heart
Adriana Lima has earned about $7.5 million in the year 2013 to get her fourth place in Forbes 2013 highest earning models in the world list. Yet another Victoria's Secret angel atop the list, the Brazilian beauty got her start as the winner of the Ford model competition "Supermodel of the Year." She's also a mother of two daughters, one born to her in November … [Read more...]
Sweatworking: New Trend Taking The Fitness Industry By Storm
Sweatworking is business networking while taking physical exercise and so working up a sweat. This way of working originated in the USA and started to be promoted in London in 2012, where gyms offered facilities and sessions of this kind. Journalist Lucy Kellaway tried sweatworking with the chairman of Wiggle, Andy Bond, who had experience of similar activity at Asda, … [Read more...]
Designer Coats To Keep You Warm This Winter
To combat the winter chill and make a style statement, coats are a kind of garment found in the wardrobe of every fashionista. Modern designer coats have done a good job to stay on trend this season. You simply need to hit your local stores and you will see a plenty of new and off-beat designer stuff. In the 2016-2017 season, designers recommend design coats to the ground or … [Read more...]
Top 10 Stretching Exercises For A Chilling Winter Workout
Warm up and stretching is significantly important before a workout and more so during the winter, to avoid muscle stress and strain. The cold weather makes muscles tighter and less supple, leaving them vulnerable to injury. A proper stretching routine will warm up the muscles. Adding 10 minutes to your workout stretching routine will warm up your muscles to protect them during … [Read more...]
Victoria’s Secret Angel Sara Sampaio Spills Her Fitness & Fashion Secrets!
Sara Sampaio is a Portuguese model best known for being a Victoria's Secret Angel and working for Calzedonia, as well as her appearance in the 2014 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, a first for a Portuguese supermodel, for which she won Rookie of the Year. She has appeared in magazines such as GQ, Elle, Vogue, Glamour and Sports Illustrated. She has won the Portuguese Golden … [Read more...]
Chlamydia- The Silent Epidemic
A bacterium called chlamydia trachomatis causes chlamydia. This infection has become the most common cause of pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) in the Western world. Chlamydia infection may be symptom less in women the whole time that it is causing damage, but there may be some tell-tale signs. Women with chlamydia may be some increased or altered vaginal discharge and get a … [Read more...]
Choosing Contraception
How can I decide which is the best method of contraception for me? There is no ideal, totally reliable and convenient method of contraception. Finding the method that will work best for you depends on many factors. How liable you are to side effects? The pill may not be advisable if you smoke or have high blood pressure. Some barrier methods can provoke cystitis. … [Read more...]
Ectopic Pregnancy: Causes And Treatment
About Risk Factors Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment An ectopic pregnancy (also called a tubal pregnancy) occurs when a fertilized egg is implanted outside the uterus, typically in one of the Fallopian tubes. Sometimes the embryo can also occur in the cervical canal, one of the ovaries or the pelvic or abdominal cavity (abdominal pregnancy). Once … [Read more...]
The Rhesus Factor
If your red blood cells contain a substance known as rhesus factor, you are rhesus, or Rh, positive. If a woman who is Rh negative conceives a baby by a man who is Rh positive and the baby, in turn, is Rh positive, the woman may become sensitized to the Rh positive blood at the time of delivery. If a subsequent baby is also Rh positive, the mother's body recognizes the baby's … [Read more...]
Rh Incompatibility: Fighting For Survival
Rh factor is an inherited protein, found on the surface of red blood cells. If a person has the protein, they are Rh positive. Those who do not have the Rh protein are Rh negative. Rh factor positivity is very common. If a woman who is Rh negative and a father who is Rh positive conceive a child, the fetus may be Rh positive. This can lead to Rh incompatibility and pregnancy … [Read more...]
Presbyopia
Presbyopia is a refractive error which results from a disorder rather than from disease. After age 40, the lens of the eye becomes more rigid and does not flex as easily. The result is that it is more difficult to read at close range. CAUSE : Starting around age 40 the eye's lens begins to lose its elasticity. The layers of tissue accumulate on the lens - the … [Read more...]
Eye Muscle Stimulation: An Option For Treating Presbyopia
Presbyopia is a refractive error which results from ciliary muscles becoming too weak and developing lack in range of motion to alter the curvature of your eye lens. It generally occurs after the age of 40, when the lens of the eyes become more rigid and does not flex as easily. Increasing incidence in presbyopia is a result of people living in modern society never view … [Read more...]
Victoria’s Secret PINK Model Rachel Hilbert Talks Fitness & Fashion!
Today we have with us the young and stunning Rachel Hilbert. When you meet her, you'd be delighted by seeing her enigmatic personality and cheerful attitude. Discovered by an agency at 16 and signed by VS right out of her upstate New York high school, she’s gone from living the life of a dance-obsessed suburban teen to traveling the world for photoshoots and runway shows in … [Read more...]
Tis’ the Season to Stay Healthy…
Experience a Fresh Festive Plan to keep all the Family Happy this Season with Panasonic and Tess Ward Delicious inspiration from Tess Ward, in Partnership with Panasonic’s Small Kitchen Appliance Range Enabling the Whole Family to Experience Fresh this Christmas With Christmas around the corner and the party season upon us, ensuring the family can enjoy the festive … [Read more...]
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