July 6th, 2009 -- Posted in Health & Fitness |
Black Men and Doctor Issues
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Black Men’s Health
Black men suffer far worse health than any other racial group in America. There are a number of reasons for this. They include racial discrimination, a lack of affordable health services, poor health education, cultural barriers, poverty, employment that does not carry health insurance, insufficient medical and social services catering for black men.
Black Male Health Statistics:
Black men live 7.1 years less than other racial groups
They have higher death rates than women for all leading causes of death
They experience disproportionately higher death rates in all the leading causes of death. 40% of black men die prematurely from cardiovascular disease as compared to 21% of white men. They have a higher incidence and a higher rate of death from oral cancer. Black men are 5 times more likely to die of HIV/AIDS.
Other Health Statistics
44% of black men are considered overweight
24% are obese
Black men suffer more preventable oral diseases that are treatable
A higher incidence of diabetes and prostate cancer
A high suicide rate. It is the 3rd leading cause of death in 15 to 24 year olds
July 6th, 2009 -- Posted in Care & Beauty, Health & Fitness |
Yoga For The Face
Your face works hard. All day long it helps you see, breathe, chew, speak, laugh, cry, kiss, grin, grimace, smile, frown, sneeze and whole lot more. It gets hit by sun, rain, wind, snow, rubs, scratches, scrapes, make-up, grit and grime, as well as smiles, stares, glares and other looks from friends, family and strangers.
There are about 16 muscles, a dozen bones and assorted arteries, veins and blood vessels that help your face do the things it does. Like muscles in other parts of your body, your face muscles absorb and store a lot of stress and tension. Unless you relax those muscles, they get stiff and hard and look strained. Tense muscles also constrict blood vessels, limiting the flow of blood and nutrients to your face. What’s more, the tension in your face muscles can cause headaches and spread down into our neck and shoulders. A few simple exercise can help relieve facial tension and help you look and feel more relaxed.
Your face deserves a break. Below are a few simple face exercise that help relax tense muscles, release stress and improve circulation.
1. Palming. - Find a comfortable seated position, either on floor on a cushion or in a chair. Sit with your back straight. Begin with your eyes closed. Focus on your breath as it moves in and out of your nostrils. Cool air in, warm air out. - Rub your palms together very fast until they feel warm. Then cup them over your closed eyes. - Repeat. Benefits: Soothes the optic nerve, eyes and area around the eyes.
2. The Great Rub - Place the index and middle fingers of both hands in the middle of your forehead. Rub your forehead by making small circles with your fingers. - Move your fingers across your brow and to your temples, pausing there to give them a gentle massage. This is an area where we hold stress and tension that can often lead to headaches. - Then move down from your temples to the hinge of your jaw, pausing to massage your jaw muscles. - From there, move across your cheeks and up along the side of your nose to your forehead. - Repeat. Benefits: Releases stress and tension, particularly in the temples and jaw.
3. Eye socket massage. - Take your index and middle fingers of each hand and place them on either side of your nose just below the bridge. Rub your fingers up to the bridge of your nose and along your eyebrows. - You’ll feel a notch in your eye socket where the bone begins to turn downward. Rub the notch gently for a moment. Then follow the line of the socket rim down beneath the eye and back up along the side of your nose. - Repeat 3-5 times. Benefits: Relaxes the eyes and surrounding areas, and relieves stress and tension.
4. Clenched smile. - Grit your teeth and open your lips as wide as they will go. - Feel your lips, cheeks, chin and neck stretch to their limit. Hold…and release. - Repeat. Benefits: Increases circulation, relaxes faces muscles, relieving stress and tension.
5. Scrunches - Scrunch your face real tight. Purse your lips, draw your cheeks in toward your nose, pull your eye brows down and bring the flesh of your chin up toward your mouth. - Hold…and release. - Repeat. Benefits: Provides a counter stretch to the “Clench” exercise. Increases circulation, relaxes faces muscles, relieving stress and tension.
6. The Lion. - Take a deep breath. - All at once, exhale forcefully, open your mouth wide, stick your tongue out as far as it will go, say “Aghhhhhhh,” and open your eyes wide and look up. - Repeat 3 times. Benefits: Relieves tension in the throat and face, stimulates the eyes and improves circulation.
7. Cheek Pinch. Pinch your cheeks, by grabbing bits of flesh and giving them a squeeze. Benefit: Improves circulation.
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June 18th, 2009 -- Posted in Health & Fitness |
Google search on weight lose says that when it comes to burning fat we find a dicey issue. There are so many ways, so many aids and not all work for everyone because we all respond different. There are some groups who do have like results and respond to like diet or training but we have many groups and each one has a different fat burning threshold. There are some tips that I can share with you which are general and regardless of the degree of burn, you should respond if you are consistent and patient.
Fat Loss Tip #1
Portion control and what does it mean? Well I personally don’t believe in portion control to the effect of limiting the amount of food so that you are hungry! I do agree that you do not want to push yourself to the point of moaning and unzipping! Taste has to be a bit compromised in the way that you must not over eat items you enjoy. Control portions by having reasonable helpings of foods which are not threatening to your goals.
Do have 6+ small meals per day - THAT is controlling your portions in my eyes, but do not limit yourself to less than 3 meals per day or very low calories. Metabolism needs to be fired up to burn fat, by eating every 2-3 hours you are doing exactly this which is the optimal way. Go big on dark leafy greens, large portions of this is great, fill up on that fiber and you won’t feel hungry, then the protein should be lean and will aid in appetite control so that your starchy carb does not have to be a large portion, keep this controlled to moderation. Do eat good fats in moderate portions, going too low or too high is adverse to your goals.
Fat Loss Tip #2
Go dark green. As I mentioned in tip 1, go for the broccoli, green beans, and collard or mustard greens for half of our carb intake. Then you can have orange veggies, legumes, and some higher protein grains such as oats and quinoa.
All these foods are considered whole foods, are easy to prepare, fast to cook and perfect for burning fat.
Fat Loss Tip #3
Do cardio after your weight session. You don’t get into your fat burning zone for about 15-20 mins so if you do the weights before hand you will get into fat burning a bit sooner making your cardio more efficient and effective. There is also the round about way by doing anaerobic type cardio such as intervals or HIT training.
Fat Loss Tip #4
Avoid starchy carbs in the evening. Your bodies works better assimilating proteins at the end of day and while sleeping so go for lean proteins and the leafy green veggies for the carbs. Casein is also said to work best at night but not all dairy has this so watch for which do and go for lower fat options or get the powder. This is also a sleep aid for some people.
Fat Loss Tip #5
Last but not least is resistance training. Cardio and diet alone is not enough. In order to burn more calories naturally you want to build muscle. Not to say you need to build very obvious muscle if you do not wish to, and that is not so easy even if you try! Muscle needs fuel too so by enhancing your lean muscle mass to some degree will also aid in fat burning in a huge way.
March 2nd, 2009 -- Posted in Health & Fitness, Inner Health |
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