XCAUSES OF OBESITY

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Obesity begins from the time one is a baby. Most parents love a fat chubby baby, with the result that they grossly over feed their children. So the risk of a coronary attack begins from childhood. The chubby child, whom many parents are so proud of, often becomes a heart-case later on in life. The eating habits formed in childhood continue for the rest of one’s life, with the result that by the time the infant has reached the age of 15, he is well on the way to having a weight problem when he becomes an adult. Surprisingly, even a small amount of excess food can make one put on weight. It is matter of simple arithmetic.

Calories make one put on weight. It is matter of simple exercise take off weight. If the calories coming in by way of food are in excess of the calories going out by way of movement and exercise, the calories become stored in our body as fat; and obesity begins. Even a little excess mounts up and in the course of time the result is substantial overweight. Obesity is also matter of one’s luck and metabolism. Some people eat and drink enormous quantities of calories and yet never put on weight. Their bodies seem to burn up these calories.

SUGGESTIONS FOR INSOMNIACS

Monday, August 24, 2009

Persons who have difficulty in sleeping should not take the offensive: let them use the hours during which they cannot sleep by reading something useful. This is very often a time when the brain is clear and capable of learning and absorbing difficult ideas and concepts. In the time, sleep is bound to come; this is certainly far better than just tossing about restlessly in bed. Anxiety about lack of sleep is much more harmful than any actual loss of sleep. Some of the insomniac’s time also be spent taking in large doses of fresh air or by exercising.

A useful exercise which very often brings about sleep is to lie flat on one’s back: hands by the side, legs slightly apart. In this posture, one should breathe deeply and slowly through the nose, both in and out. The brain should concentrate on the breathing and the body should be completely relaxed. In time, sleep will come; and even if sleep does not come, it does not matter: this posture and breathing will refresh and relax the body even without actual sleep. When one is physically tired, one goes off to sleep immediately. Take a walk after dinner or in the evening or play games to produce a healthy physical tiredness and banish tension. Exercise is the best antidote to emotional tensions. And once tension is removed, sleep comes very soon.

COST OF AN ANNUAL MEDICAL CHECK

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The advantage of a comprehensive annual medical check is that it takes up a considerable amount of time and costs a great deal of money; and in certain cases, it was found that in spite of the expenditure and time taken, these checks did not always detect diseases in time. However, what is important know is that some of the essential periodic medical checks are easy and inexpensive to undertake. In fact, many of them can be done by trained nurses. What is significant, however, is that most people, even the educated ones, do not have even these essential periodic medical checks.

The reason is twofold: fear in case something serious is discovered; and laziness. Because of this, a compulsory periodic medical check of the essential points might be advisable. It at least ensures that all the essential and necessary medical checks are carried out regularly. Even if a periodic medical check finds nothing wrong, it is good for people to know that they are healthy, because everyone always has a little worry at the back of his mind about his health.

MOST MEDICINES NOT NECESSARY

Friday, August 14, 2009

Most medicines are entirely unnecessary in fact; one could go so far as to say that in most cases one would be better off without any medication whatsoever. One can safely say that 90 per cent of illness cures them. They their course. In most such cases, there is no need for medicines; and if medicines are taken, they probably have a marginal effect as far as quickening the cure is concerned, but they may help to make the patient more comfortable. For example, the average cough-mixture has no real effect on curing a cough.

It may, however, relieve the hoarseness in the throat or congestion in the chest and therefore make the patient feel more comfortable. At best, it may tend to cure a cough only a little quicker than if no cough-mixture was taken. But even a relatively harmless cough-mixture taken in excessive amounts may cause unpleasant side-effects. And that is why a growing number of wise people nowadays never take medicines of any kind.

WHAT ARE HEART ATTACKS?

Monday, August 10, 2009

The heart is virtually a pump with valves. It keeps the blood in circulation through approximately 125, 000 kilometers of veins and arteries in the human system. The blood which circulates in the human body brings oxygen and other nutrients required by the cells of the body. Coronary heart disease is caused through a clotting or blockage of blood in one of the arteries of the heart. Every part of the heart must have blood and if there is any stoppage in the flow of blood, that part of the heart which is descried of blood dies.

If clotting takes place in a major artery, it affects a large area of the heart and a massive heart attack takes place which may lead to death. If clotting takes places is one of the smaller arteries, a minor coronary attack develops, leaving a relatively small scar in the heart. The part of the heart that dies through loss of blood dies irrevocably and scar is left: it cannot recover its use as in the case of a diseased liver or a kidney.

EXAMPLE OF TENSION AND ILLNESS

Thursday, August 6, 2009

A good example of the relationship of stress and health is when a marriage goes on the rocks. This often results in a breakdown of health of one or both partners of the marriage. Stress is a normal part of our lives. One can never completely escape from it. But reactions to stress can vary enormously. The most frequent undesirable reaction to stress is continuing anxiety. Some common symptoms of anxiety are insomnia and lack of attention at work. Tension works in many different ways. Some men get more tense playing golf than working in an office. One man can relax by merely walking up and down in his office while somebody else can take a pleasure trip round the world and still be filled with tension. The neurotic man is only half alive. He is anaesthetised against the joys of life and prevented by his neurosis from the accomplishments and happiness that would otherwise be his. It was found that people living in high-rise flats developed various types of illness because of the stress brought about by this type of living. Similarly, the tension caused by serve floods or the death of a loved one, all have a very definite physical effect on the body.

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HOW TO OVERCOME TENSION AND STRESS

Sunday, August 2, 2009

An attempt to identify the cause of stress and anxiety is an important and necessary step in solving the problem of stress and tension. One should try to discover the cause of the tension. Once having established the cause of stress, it is greatly reduced if one talks about it with friends or counselors. This is perhaps the main task of psychoanalysts: they spend hours probing the cause of tension. They often have to go back to the childhood of the patient. Once the cause of the stress is known, it then becomes much easier to find a solution. Often just talking about it helps to find a cure. The system adopted by Catholics of confession with trusted and trained priests is very much on these lines. Taking about intimate and personal problems with a sympathetic priest during confession, or with a friend, tends to reduce the cause of the tension and anxiety.