Choices in Life

Posted by admin on 27th May 2010

If you want to make choices about your life, you do first have to able to make choices about your emotion. Forget about the surface or appearance of events, but find out what happened emotionally to you. Acknowledge what’s makes you angry, sad, or frustrated; at the same time explore what’s make you happy and confident and what is it that gives you the feeling of having life by the tail. Once you are able to acknowledge your emotions as valid and tangible try to establish the reason for your feelings try to establish the reason for your feelings. But sometime we commit wrong choices in our life without any consultation of our self and to God. We have to accept the fact that it is not other people and circumstances that kept us achieving the worked for success, but our own doing. There are some people who are afraid of change simply because they are not aware of their strength, they imprison themselves within the narrows of boundaries of their limitations. Change cannot achieve quickly, it has to come gradually and deliberately. Changing ourselves is the first success we will celebrates.

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Stress in Womb

Posted by admin on 26th May 2010

Did you know that a pregnant woman in a stage of stress might put her infant at risk for cognitive problem later in life? But mother’s nurture could protect against the risk. A professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, Thomas o’ Connor said, the first direct human evidence that fetus exposed to elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which possibly gets released in the mother’s body when she stressed out could have trouble paying attention or solving problems when they grow up. But the more intriguing is that this negative link disappear almost entirely if the mother forges a secure connection with her baby. The professor said there is some future studies are needed to confirm the findings.

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Diabetic Diet

Posted by admin on 24th May 2010

If you are a diabetic person here are some simple tips what food’s you should intake. Basically diabetic patient should watch out there diet. It should measure to provide the number of exchanges or serving based on the individual’s caloric requirements. Serving sizes are not the only we look unto, also the amount and kinds of foods for the person who have diabetic. Concentrated sweets and simple carbohydrates are among avoided. For the diabetic person diet we give them high in fiber and low in fat.

Some tips:

- Consult licensed nutritionist-dietitian’s for specific nutrient needs.
- Ask for a calculated diet plan.
- Do not eat too much or too little.
- Avoid sugar and high-sugar containing foods items such as candies, sweet, soft drinks, rich dessert, chocolates, sweetened juices, creams and cakes.
- Eat regularly
- Increase your fiber intake by including a generous amount of leafy vegetables daily in your diet.
- Use legumes and whole grains more than processed meat alternatives. They will help increase dietary fiber and contain no cholesterol.
- Eat heavy breakfast, moderate lunch and light supper.
- Avoid coffee, tea, alcohol beverages including wine and liquors.
- Drink 6 to 8 glasses of water a day between meals.
- Drink a cup of low fat milk.
- Limits fruits to 3 exchanges per day. The fresh the better. Processing and refining make natural sugar in fruits more readily absorb-able, which may lead to rapid rise in blood sugar.
- Monitor and record your weight and blood sugar.
- Follow and be comfortable with your diet plan. Your diet may have to be guided by a plan for the rest of your life.
- Give good attention to your diet, attitude, medication, and physical activity (exercise) control of blood sugar is better when these things are well balanced.

5May

Being Overweight

Posted by admin on 21st May 2010

Overweight refers to over-heavies. It is applied to a person whose weight is to 10 to 20% above the desire able body weight. Obesity is a condition in which body weight is more than 20% above the desirable body weight, marked by excess body fats often resulting in a significant impairment of health. In this problem there are probable causes like, faulty eating habits such as bedtime snacking, over eating, inactivity (decreased energy expenditure), endocrines disorder and drug action effect.

Probable Symptoms :

- Overweight. Overweight is 10 % above the desire body weight. Body fats percentage is more than 15% for men and more than 25% for women.
- Obesity. Weight is 20% above desirable body weight. Body fat percentage is above 20% for men and above 30 % for women.

Helpful Dietary Management :
- Manage overweight and obesity using the physical activity, exercise and behavior modification.
- Modify diet if the cause of obesity is a faulty diet. Only a small percentage of all obesity cases are non- dietary in nature.
- Have a diet low in calories, low fat and high in complex carbohydrates if reducing weight.
- Take daily food allowances in a 3 regular meals with breakfast as the heaviest and supper the lightest.
- Omit supper but not breakfast if ever skipping a meal is desired allow a 5-hour interval between meals, and not less than 3 hours from the last meal bedtime.
- Never snacks just before bedtime. It is major offense.
- Drink from 6 to 8 glasses of pure water everyday. Drink in between meals.
- Lose weight gradually but consistently until you reach a desirable weight. A person should only lose weight but not get sick. Remember you did not grow that big overnight. Up to 2 pounds per week weight loss is desirable.

5May

Hands (Self- Massage)

Posted by admin on 18th May 2010

Self-massage can do wonders to ease away tension and restore energy. Massaging your body with lotions and oils is very relaxing and its helps the skin in glowing condition. You can use yourself to target the particular areas have pain. The beauty of self-massage is you can do it to suit your needs and moods at any time. Here are some tips of self-massage with your hands.

1. Squeeze your hand firmly, spreading the palm laterally. Cover the whole of the hand, fingers and wrist.
2. Using circular pressure, squeeze each fingers joint between your finger and thumb. Then hold the base of each finger and pull the finger gently to stretch it, sliding your grip up to the finger in a continuous movement.
3. With circular thumb pressure, work up each of the furrows between the bones in the hand, from the knuckle to the wrist. When you have covered each furrow, smooth the hand by stroking.
4. Turn the hand over to work on the palm. Cover the area with the circular thumb pressure, paying particular attention to the heel of the hand and the waist. Follow this with some deeper, static pressure all over the palm.
5. Finish by stroking the palm of one hand with the other. This can be quite a firm stroke, working from the tips of the finger to the wrist, leading wit the pressure from the heel of the hand. Stroke back to the fingers and repeat twice, each time using slightly less pressure. Finally, stroke the inside of the wrist.

5May

Vomiting

Posted by admin on 13th May 2010

What is vomiting it is the ejection of the stomach content through the mouth. Which the probable causes are, toxins form drugs, uremia and specific fevers. People have brain tumors and meningitis may also experience vomiting and also those people suffered from stomached disease, intestinal obstruction, motion sickness and nervous involvement.

Probable Symptoms:

- Nausea
- Cold sweating
- General weakness

Helpful Dietary Management

- Give clear liquid diet mouth if acceptable to patients.
- If vomiting continues, administer intravenous fluids under the supervision of a physician to replace vomit’s loss.
- Give clear liquids as often as possible to prevent dehydration and help increase calorie intakes. Allow a feeding interval of 2 to 3 hours.

- Drink a variety of clear liquids like clear or strained juices, Jell-O and fat-free broth.

- Add salt or sugar to the clear liquids to increase electrolytes or calories.

5May

Scalp Massage

Posted by admin on 8th May 2010

Scalp massage is wonderful way to condition our hair; its help to stimulates the scalp and relieve tension. Here are some simple tips and steps to make your hair more stunning. Persuade a dried to help you especially you got a long hair.


1.First you do is to shampoo your hair and towel dry it up to absorbed excess water. Comb through with a wide-tooth comb. Tilt your head back and pour some oil on the hairline, massaging in with thumbs on the temple and fingers spread apart over the center of the hand.
2. Loosely run your finger and oil over the top of the scalp from front to back, lifting hair at the crown. Keep dipping your fingertips in the treatment oil to spread through the hair while massaging.
3. Massage the head with kneading movements. Grip and push (with finger pads, rather than fingernails) against the scalp should gently rotate against the skull. Concentrate on one area at a time, with the hands positioned on either side of the scalp.
4. Scalp massage works from front to back from the forehead, frontal hairline, temples and side, over the crown of the head to the base of the neck, following the natural flow of the blood. If the scalp feels particularly tight then concentrate on the area where the scalp doesn’t want to move. At the base of the skull, press firmly and push the whole scalp up towards the crown to release tension.
5. Pull any extra oil through the hair, working out from the roots to the tips. Make sure all the hair is well oiled and then leave towel-wrapped for at least 15 minutes before shampooing.

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