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Health
Nutrition It seems these days that there is so much conflicting information that we don't know where to turn for advice. I have read oodles of stuff and taken a little of what I need from where I needed it. The following is some of the parts of interest to me.Wellness is the opposite to Illness. I want wellness and I believe that Philip Bridgeman (BSc, N.D) has found a key. Food Additives have had a bit of media attention in recent times. They may be responsible for some unexplained things. Take a good look around Fed Up With Food Additives if you or someone in your family are sensitive to food or have allergies. Nutrition Australia Lots of information about the food pyramid and multicultural recipes. If you need some ideas for dinner, take a look at these links: Dawn Halls Busy People Cooking 10 Nutritional Tips to Keep you Lean by Dr Cherry Pritikin has a healthy and nutritional way to live life to the fullest. Do you have any recipes you'd like to share? Please contact me and share them.
Exercise
In the bible it says that exercise profits little. Doesn't say it doesn't profit at all, so I'm going to dedicate a little of my time to it. 30 minutes a day out of 24 hours. That is a little. That's one 48th of a day. I'd say that's a little amount of time, compared to eating, socialising, working and living. Exercise is making your body move outside of your normal routine of movement. If all you do each day is walk from bed to the kitchen, to the bathroom, to the car, to work and back in various orders, then if you were to walk around the block, that would be exercise. The key to making exercise work for you, is to make it fun.
My exercise is sitting on an exercise bike. Doesn't sound fun, but to me seeing the little speedometer tick over is fun. I imagine the fat coming off at the same speed. I sometimes take a magazine or book to read and other times I put on music. Make it fun for you. You may enjoy the television, fine, follow an aerobics or pilates tape before you watch your favourite show. You may enjoy animals, take your pooch for a walk, or ask the neighbours if you can walk theirs if you don't have one! I once heard a lady who wanted to take up exercise but enjoyed reading too much to get up. She discovered books on tape, or spoken word books. These are also available on CD. I would recommend CD because the books I've gotten out of the library were so distorted I couldn't understand them, even on a walkman! Anyway, this woman bought spoken word books to ONLY listen to while walking, if she wanted to know what was going to happen in the book, she had to keep walking! That's motivation. 7 Keys to Permanent Weight Loss shows you how to relax about diet, exercise and listen to your body. Informal exercise is one key to frugal weight loss. How does exercise make me lose weight? This is truly simple. Your body needs a certain amount of food to survive. Even to just lay in bed and breathe, this is why people have a drip when they are in a coma. This is very basic. Your body breaks down the different things in the food to use to move and maintain your body. If you eat more food than your body needs to do those basic things it stores the food as fat. If you want to lose fat you need to eat a basic diet to look after your body and you need to increase your movement to make your body use up the fat stores. I could go deeper and completely confuse you but truly all you need to know is this. If you work your body so that you can still carry on a normal conversation WITHOUT gasping, you are working hard enough to burn fat. Do not push any harder or you will exhaust yourself. Do this for at least 20 - 30 minute blocks so your body realises it is moving.
Appropriate rate of weight loss. Weight loss can happen too quickly. This is not good. Rapid weight loss without reason can indicate illness. Rapid weight loss at the start of a diet is usually fluid loss not fat loss. 0.5 - 1kg (1-2 lb) per week is a good rate. If you aren't losing weight but you are doing all the right things DON'T WORRY. Your body IS changing inside. You are probably replacing fat with muscle which actually weighs more. The only way to see that you are losing fat is to measure the amount of fat your body has regularly. This site deals with this well.
First Aid DRABCIn ALL emergency situations follow DR ABC D Danger - To self - To others - To casualty R Response - Is the casualty conscious? - Call 000 (in Australia) for an ambulance or ask bystanders to call - If conscious: manage wounds and shock A Airway (the mouth) - Turn casualty into recovery position - Gently clear mouth of any obstructions - Lift the jaw and tilt the head to open airway B Breathing - Is the casualty breathing? - Look, listen and feel for breathing for up to 10 seconds - If breathing, place in recovery position - Check for other injuries - if NO: commence Expired Air Resuscitation C Circulation - Has the casualty got a pulse? (Check the pulse on the neck) - Skin colour?
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