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Tips for Protecting Your Eyes and Vision

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Maintaining your eye health and vision over a lifetime is an important part of your overall health. Eyesight can be directly affected by your daily habits as well as environmental factors. Protecting your eyes is necessary to protect your eyesight over your life time. Here are a few tips to maintain your eye health over the long haul.

First and foremost, regular annual checkups with an ophthalmologist are extremely important. Not only can an ophthalmologist aid in the care of your vision, but he will also be able to see the very early signs of any developing eye problems. So as your ophthalmologist looks for the classic diseases of the eye, he can also check for early signs of other disorders such as diabetes, high blood pressure, certain thyroid conditions and more. This eye checkup is just as important to your overall health as your yearly physical.

Overall general good health is also required to maintain good eye health. Proper nutrition aids our bodies to function properly, repair damage, and fight off infections. Diets lacking in certain vitamins and minerals can have negative consequences on your eyesight. For example, in many third world countries, blindness in children is quite common due to the lack of fundamental proper nutrition. And this need does not change as you age; proper nutrition is just as important to the senior population to help prevent age related eye diseases.

Computer eye strain is a common ailment in modern society. Taking breaks from the computer screen a few times an hour aids in preventing computer related strain, as does installing an anti-glare screen. The daily use of sunglasses is also recommended to protect your eyes from the harmful ultra violet rays of the sun. Just as your skin needs protection from the sun, so do your eyes. Also, remember to always wear proper safety glasses to prevent eye injuries whenever you find yourself in a potentially injurious scenario.

Another good idea to help preserve your vision over your lifetime is to avoid smoking. If you do smoke, then quit. Smoking is directly linked to various eye diseases, including but not limited to, glaucoma, macular degeneration and cataracts.

Proper hygiene is another important factor related to eye health, especially for individuals that wear eye makeup or contact lenses. Eye makeup must be removed nightly to prevent the spread of bacteria and the risk of infection while you sleep. Never share eye makeup, touch the applicator to any foreign surface, or use old products. Additionally, mascara should be renewed every two months, and shadows and liners should be less than 6 months old.
Proper contact lens hygiene is also extremely important to prevent eye infections and diseases. Use your lenses as instructed by your eye doctor and give your eyes breaks from your lenses frequently. Do not sleep in your lenses, and always follow instructions to properly clean them.

These are just some of the steps for a lifetime of good eye health and vision. As you can see, just a few simple habits can make a big difference

Exercising During Pregnancy Through Yoga and Aqua-Gym

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Yoga classes, tai chi, aquagym, Pilates exercises are part of the industry group charged, they are part and aerobics, spinning site, aerodance site, power lifting, etc. site., Except that only the first series to help women enumerated during pregnancy, providing them with easy exercises in the gym, special needs in the 9 months.

Yoga, for example, works directly with the mother’s mind, succeeding in a high degree of concentration and relaxation increased in each exercise that she practices. Breathing, so important for pregnant women, is the bridge between body and mind. Learning to breathe properly, you will be able to remain lucid and will manage to easily relax contractions. Exercises aimed at muscle control, and tone, so the lower body muscles will be worked and stretched enough, allowing a smooth opening of the pelvis during birth. The mother will have control of her body stronger, toned, with good mobility, being able to relax completely. Maintaining the body in harmony, free of surface tension and pain, will rest better and, ultimately, will be ready to traverse the birth in an active form.

Aqua-gym as an alternative choice is very appropriate at this time. The force of gravity gets a new definition in water and therefore make it extremely low impact form of exercise in an optimum for pregnant women. Water is the ideal environment for any exercise, because it helps improve blood circulation, lowers blood pressure and regulate heart rate during exercise. Pressure on the back and joints is reduced, and the balance after these workouts is surprising: joint mobility is improved by at least 50%, as well as the ligament, increased muscle tone and good physical condition allows us to categorized it as a form of motion is indispensable both during pregnancy, and before or after. Water dissipates heat immediately eliminated from the body, which gives a sensation of coolness and relaxation, unparalleled in any other sport. In addition, prevents obesity, varicose veins, cellulite, ischemic heart disease, osteoporosis and rheumatism. To perform the correct exercises, the abdominal and back muscles need to be strained to avoid floating, giving the mom powerful muscles. Aquagym can be practiced until after birth and without any contraindication.

In terms of fitness-type anaerobic effort, however it is recommended that in the first quarter to be minimal effort, leaving free the next two quarters in which you can choose to exercise the right tone and cardio. During exercise, heart rate should be less than 134-140 BPM (beats per minute), and the effort may not last more than 30-40 minutes. In fitness, pregnant women should know they can not put pressure on the abdomen, also aimed at including balance exercises should be excluded from the training program, as well as those involving a cardio exercise suddenly (climbing stairs, etc. stepper site.). Otherwise, under the careful guidance of a specialist coach, pregnant women can achieve effective workouts in the gym.

You should know that complete procedures, which involve breathing correlated with that process and water (breathe in the air, exhale into the water) – to be eliminated in these months, so that all diving is prohibited. Mother apnea can let the baby without oxygen! Breaststroke swimming style and a head so much damage to the surface of the lumbar spine, and so sensitive due to extra weight.

However, childbirth is an athletic event for the pregnant woman must also train an athlete to run a marathon. Women must enjoy the changes that occur and to accept the exercises you can do in terms of these changes. The most important aspect of prenatal training is that women learn to know his own body, its reactions to effort, resilience and means that can accommodate the demands of pregnancy, but also of the job or their lifestyle.

What Is a Natural Diet?

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The term natural diet can lend itself to a range of meanings depending on who you ask, but one thing everyone can probably agree on is that a natural diet must promote good health, help to avoid disease, and be devoid of highly processed foods.

Some nutritionists believe that the paleo diet (also known as the caveman diet), which supports the consumption of wild edibles and naturally available animal products, is the most natural kind of diet in the world of dieting, because it’s based on what we think humans have been eating for thousands of years, before we had agriculture and farming. Yes, even grains, beans and legumes are often dismissed as a valid dietary choice.

Proponents of the paleo diet compare early human foraging behavior to that of other primates, and argue that humans are adapted to omnivory eating, much like their closest living relatives. Surprisingly, many paleo dieters are vegetarian and do not necessarily recommend the consumption of meat. Why is this? Because early humans relied mostly on wild animals and animal products, not industrially produced meats, which are often riddled with chemicals, and give rise to social and environmental concerns, alongside animal cruelty ethical issues.

Vegans have argued that meat and animal products are not naturally suited for the human diet, with fruits, roots and the fleshy parts of vegetables appearing to be the natural food of man. Others think that consuming organically grown foods (that is foods free from pesticides, chemical fertilizers and genetic engineering) is the healthiest way to eat because we’d consume only what nature intended us to. And yet another category of people believe in eating simple foods, with minimum or no cooking and processing involved.

An interesting bit of food for thought (pun intended) is that diets are rarely universal. This means that what may work for some could go terribly wrong for others. While general advice, like eating more fruits and vegetables and less red meat, stands true for most people, metabolic rates and health histories vary from person to person, and that influences our nutritional needs. Humans also have varying dietary needs at different stages of life, so what may be good for an adult may not be fitting for a child.

Sadly, searching for the most natural diet can be a slippery slope into frustration, simply because truly natural foods are hard to find, and may not be feasible options for many of us.

Pre-Diabetes – What Is It and What Do We Do About It?

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Pre-diabetes is a term that we are reading about more and more these days. What is it? It may seem confusing, but it is not. In fact, I am surprised that we have not heard more about it.

The diagnosis of type 2 diabetes has usually rested on finding elevated blood sugar levels. Several blood sugar tests have been used to establish the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. The two most common are the fasting and post meal blood sugar tests.

Gradually, there is a growing interest in what might be going on in the body prior to the point at which the blood sugar test becomes abnormal. And of course, what can we do about it?

Pre-Diabetes is the condition of the body that precedes the official diagnosis of type 2 diabetes

Type 2 diabetes does not strike fast like lightning. It takes years to develop. During pre-diabetes, there are progressive pathological changes in the cells that are found to a greater extent later in full-blown type 2 diabetes. I am hesitant to use the term early diabetes which up until now meant something other than pre-diabetes.

Very recently, researchers have suggested that the blood sugar indeed rises a little in response to a condition called insulin resistance that is common to many conditions. Insulin resistance means that there is an increased level of insulin in the body and with it comes the inability of the body to process sugar circulating in the blood. As a result, a person’s blood sugar level begins to creep up and stay up. This we can measure with the standard blood tests for diabetes.

If you are concerned about diabetes now or in the future, you need to take into consideration that you or a loved one may have insulin resistance and could be showing early signs of diabetes.. If you have had a test for diabetes and it came back normal, you are not off the hook. You could have pre-diabetes.

Confused? No need to be. We are broadening our understanding of diabetes and this should help us fight this dreaded condition.

You need to keep up with the latest developments, latest news and secrets about pre-diabetes. You need a proven and effective source of information that is up-to-date. Next, here is how you can do your part to fight back against diabetes, insulin resistance and all the consequences of abnormal sugar metabolism.