Importance of Exercises

Exercise is a physical activity that boosts or retains physical condition and overall health. Exercise strengthens muscles and the cardiovascular system, It helps in weight loss, perfecting athletic skills, and maintaining a perfect biological system.

Through regular exercise disease like heart strokes,  cardiovascular disease, obesity and type 2 diabetes are controlled. It also amends mental health, prevents depression, and helps to promote or maintain positive self esteem, increases individuals sex appeal or body image. Childhood obesity can be decreased through regular exercise

There are different types of exercise they are flexibility exercise, Aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise.

Flexible exercise: it has got stretching which improves the motion of muscles and joints.

Aerobic Exercise: it contains cycling, swimming, walking, hiking, running or playing tennis which increases cardiovascular endurance.

Anaerobic Exercise: sprinting, weight training and functional training which increases short term muscle strength.

Pears

Pear... As we all know is a fruit that belongs to the apple family. This is a juicy kind of fruit when it is freshly consumed. This can be consumed especially during summer for it has a good amount of water content in it. This is rich in vitamins, minerals, calcium and phosphorus and is also a very good dietary fiber. Those who have the idea of reducing their weight can very well go for this fruit because of its high fiber content.

Like oranges and lemons, this fruit also has a very rich content of vitamin C that is very much required for our body. Vitamin C is responsible for maintaining the cholesterol levels and also to improve the immune system in our body that is helpful to fight against diseases. Even the recent sensational disease “Swine Flu” could be fought against if we have a good immune system which requires lot of Vitamin C content to be consumed. The effective functioning of the brain is also dependent on the good immune system maintained in our body. The pear fruit is also a well known antioxidant.

The fruit is also known for its unique shape as we have come across many people saying “pear shaped”. But this shape may vary from country to country. The pear trees are known to grow mostly in the colder parts of the world. This grows well in moist soil and the pear fruit can be preserved for more than even 5 months in freezing temperatures. Recent study has shown that this is one among the most consumed fruits in parts of America.

Skin Magics...

Apples are very rich in carbohydrates and contain very insignificant measure of fat. Apple is made up of both soluble and insoluble fibers with high water content. It contains about 80-90 percent of water in its pulp and other minerals such as potassium, iron etc. 

•  Soluble fiber such as pectin present in the apple actually aid to prevent cholesterol piling in the lining of blood vessel walls, which controls the thickening of artery walls called ASVD(arteriosclerotic vascular disease).
• The insoluble fiber in apples helps the intestinal tract to hold water to cleanse and move food quickly through the digestive system.

The cells which are responsible for the aroma and flavor are highly concentrated in the outer layer i.e., the skin.

It is always advisable to eat apple without peeling its skin, since half of the vitamin C is comprised underneath the skin and also it increases insoluble fiber content in our body.

'A' for apple..

'A' for apple. Even a 3 years old child is known very well about this pomaceous fruit. Why not?? It might have only known about this fruit. Each and every individual likes apple. It’s default blood red color grabs everybody’s attention towards it. Even it bears different colors and different varieties by mutation like green apple, golden delicious, red delicious, granny smith, jonathan apple etc.

There is a well known proverb say, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", addresses the importance and health effects of the fruit. Eating fresh apples is always good for one’s circulatory system. And an apple is chiefly made up of vitamin C.

We can find almost all nutritional benefits in the pomum (Latin name for apple) which is produced in large quantities in China. Researches suggest that apples may reduce the risk of colon cancer, prostate cancer and lung cancer.

The seeds of apple contain a small amount of amygdalin, and cyanogenic glycoside which are mildly toxic. But it does not bring harm to humans, but it can deteriorate birds.

Apples are in fact very delicious, easy to carry for snacking, low in calories, a natural mouth freshener, and they are still very competitive in price like apple products (ipods, phones etc.).

Laugh and Live long

If we think of alternative medicine for health, people mostly think of plants, crystals and may be some bugs. But if we realize jokes, humor and comedy are the true medicines. Earlier it was recognized that optimists live longer than pessimists, now it has proven that one with good sense of humor live long.

Studies have been made to find the relation between comedy (laugh) and health. Good jokes always lower the blood pressure, increase the memory power and boost up the immune system. A good sense of humor defends form heart diseases and also alters the biochemical state to a level where the organism generates more antibodies.

If one uses laughter as a remedial measure, the first obvious factor is that there won’t be any side effects. Secondly it improves good sense of humor along with other skills and ability. Last but not the least all of us will tend to find the funny sides of even the small things that happens everyday around us, which in turn keep our health fit.

So laugh and live long.

Basic needs of Human beings

When we consider the area of human needs the needs are many and never ending. There are needs common to every one. Humans keep on thinking about their needs until they get satisfaction. And at once the desired need is met, they move on to another need.

The needs of people move from one level to another. It keeps on increasing and never decreases. The wants of people multiplies. If these needs are not met, obviously it yields tension and anxiousness. Needs come and go. I meant, needs can change accordingly from one place to another and for every situation.

Needs are classified in many ways like safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, physiological needs etc. Mainly it is classified as primary and secondary needs.

The most common but the important needs are Hunger and food-seeking, Thirst and water-seeking, maintenance of body temperature, the need for oxygen, the need for rest, Need for sleep, Need for activity and Need for elimination. These needs are basic needs of human beings. The needs vary for people to people and age to age. These needs begin from prenatal period to old age. The above mentioned basic needs are same across all Persons. Once the basic need is satisfied they will move to secondary needs like wanting for vehicle, securities etc…

Apart from primary needs, all the other secondary needs originate from the inner desires of heart. If a man knows to control his desires then he will excel in all situations and overcome all difficulties. It doesn’t mean that we should not desire for anything. Its core meaning is that one should know to control his desire so that he can avoid tension, dissatisfaction, worries, anger, mal practices, dishonesty, sickness etc., while running for it and should know to hold his patience to come up with flying colors..

Eye Strain

Over use of eye muscles causes eye strain. Normally any muscle held in one position for a long time will cause strain. Concentrating on a particular task like reading, working with computer or watching television for a long period of time will make the eye muscles tighten up which makes the eye to feel the irritations, dry and uncomfortable.

Eye strain stems from overuse. To refresh the eye, refocus once or twice in an hour or take a five minutes break from whatever work we are doing. Close the eyes for few minutes or some few seconds which reduces the eye strain. Blink as much as you can which soothes the eye and moistens. An alternative for blinking is artificial tears which remoistens the eye and releases the strain. Certain eye products like Murine and Visine must be avoided since they can dry the eyes out further.

People working with computer suffer from eye strain; the contrast in the screen must be changed and the position of the computer screen must be placed in such a way that window light doesn’t bounce off and create glare on the screen.