Good health could be defined as state of wellness with absence of disease both physical and mental. We use the phrase “How are you?” when we meet someone. How often do we we wish that we had not asked them! They reply to us as if we had asked them to fill out a medical survey or a financial analysis of their bank balance.It seems that most people do not really know how their health is at all. The capability to be healthy to get up in the mornings without pain in the joints, to be healthy to take a shower and dry ourselves and then to sit at the breakfast plateau and take a hearty breakfast; this is already a picture of a mortal who enjoys good health.The vendors of medicines such as massive pharmaceutical companies have, over the years, advertised their products to such a degree that it has become common practice to want to swallow a pill at the first sign of a twinge in a joint or muscle. As a practicing chiropractor I see patients regularly whose first thought was to swallow pills to alleviate the anguish of a shoulder or neck,When the pills wear off and the pain returns to annoy them, they seek chiropractic care which inevitably repairs their problems by removing the cause of the pain. An interesting concept is to think of the twenty people in an office who work in the same environment. Six of them catch colds or the flu and the remainder do not.What happened? Why did the other fourteen people in the office not become ill? A reasonable answer would be that the six people’s resistance and immune responses were impaired at the time whereas those of the fourteen were not. How did this happen, and what causes an impaired immune response and lowered resistance? We are now approaching some basic tenets of health. To maintain a high level of good health it is necessary to do the following things, or at least to try to do as many of them as possible.1. Eat nourishing foods2. Do not partake of social drugs, including alcohol and tobacco3. Get plenty of sleep, at least 8 hours if possible.4. Exercise regularly5. Drink 6 glasses of water daily6. Do not take yourself seriously. Nobody else does anyway7. Learn to laugh at the foolishness of the world and you will live longer8. Avoid mental stress and tension9. Avoid working in places with a high noise level10. Bring some spirituality into your life. This can include yoga, singing, painting, going to church etc.11. Develop deep breathing. This will bring life giving oxygen into the lungs and help repair dilapidated tissues. We can now see that good health is not quite what we might have thought it to be and that perhaps we had it all along but did not recognize it. Next time a friend asks you how you are, reply “Great!” and just hope that they will state the same to you when you ask them how they are also.
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What is Meant by Good Health
August 24th, 2010 
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Good Parenting: Healthy Lunch Box Challenge
August 9th, 2010 admin Ahhh… the good ole lunch box / snack-box challenge. And yes, if your good parenting then you know it is exactly that – a challenge! Oh sure it’s simple if your just gonna throw any ole edible item and beverage in there, but if you are attempting to wage a healthy, yet delicious snack or lunch for your child, with the hopes he won’t trade it for someone else’s junk food, then you know the constraints of the situation.
A child’s energy, attention span and stamina at school depends much on his nutrition. Good parenting means giving your child a healthy breakfast and lunch or snack, which is just as important as being in a good school and having a good teacher. Just as important as hygiene, and just as important as learning to be a nice person. Unfortunately not all parents take the time to ensure a nutritious meal and send their children to school with a box full of junk, making it harder for the other children to be interested in their healthy snack, which furthers to a parents frustration when the healthy lunch or snack box comes home untouched.
Good parenting means recognizing that it isn’t always a good intent to solely rely on school cafeteria lunches, because even though the United Says Department of Agriculture (USDA) states school lunches should wage one-third of a child’s nutrition needs, meeting caloric needs alone is not necessarily nutritious enough. Calorie dense makes no sense if the meal is not also healthy.
Tips To A Well Balanced Lunch Box
A lunch consisting of a lean meat, whole grain, low-fat farm product and fruit and/or vegetable is a well-balanced, healthy lunch. 1-2 to of these is good for a balanced healthy snack. Packing a sandwich with lean meat or tuna fish is good – but making that sandwich with whole grain bread, a good source of fiber, is even better. However, unless from very primeval on a child is accustomed to intake brown bread, children usually become completely uninterested in their sandwich if it’s prefabricated with brown bread. A good intent is to begin off slowly but keeping the healthy sandwich on white bread but making sure you have also packed their favorite fruit to compensate for the brown bread. Include a few carrots and cucumbers as well, or their veg of choice that is packable. Tell your children that if they don’t want the brown bread they have to take a fruit and veg along with their sandwich.
Pack a bottle of water instead of juice boxes. Most juice boxes are high in sugar. However, water will keep a child hydrated without the sugar rush, extra calories and a lowered immune system. Water is also beneficial to the skin, as well many other parts of the body. If your child insists on the juice then dilute the juice in a water bottle.
Involve your child in the decision making of his lunch or snack. This helps to alleviate swapping his food with others. Use the opportunity to chat about healthy intake but try and make it fun and pleasing and not like a classroom experience.
Help keep your child from using his milk money for junk food by packing a dessert. You can satisfy your child’s sweet need with tiny amounts of junk food mix in with healthy foods. A small amount of M&M’s with trail mix, one cookie with yogurt, fruits topped with raisins and a tiny caramel or chocolate sauce or dipping sauce. Try making muffins or cookies with pureed vegetables in the ingredients.
So if your going to make a lunch or snack box, take a few extra minutes to make it count toward your child’s well being and functionality through out the day. It will take some time for your child to get used to his new foods so use the recommendations above as well as be creative and before you know it your child will be accustomed to his new healthy friends and coming home with an empty lunch or snack box. As a parent you will have attained an “A” in parenting for the healthy lunch box challenge.
How to Avoid Unhealthy Foods that Seem Good For You
July 22nd, 2010 admin
Watch this video for a demonstration of “How to Avoid Unhealthy Foods that Seem Good ForYou”. To complete the task, you will need: 100% whole-wheat and whole-grain foods Plain yogurt Loose tea or tea bags Get started with the first step: Beware “fat-free” and “reduced fat” foods. Many are heavy on sugar and additives, and therefore high in calories. For the complete guide, go to www.howcast.com Also check out Howcast for other do it yourself videos from vinzfeller and more videos in the Superior Health category. How can you contribute? Create your own DIY guide at www.howcast.com or apply to the Howcast Emerging Filmmakers Program at www.howcast.com
The “Healthy Eating Pyramid” Pathway Toward Good Health And Long Life
July 19th, 2010 admin Do you ever wonder what happened to the Food Guide Pyramid?
The Food Guide Pyramid was created more than ten years ago by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Pyramid illustrated what the USDA stated were the elements of a healthy diet. The Pyramid was taught in schools, appeared in the media and brochures, on cereal boxes and food labels. It seemed like the absolute final word on what we should really eat.
The Food Guide Pyramid is now like a fairytale. It did not point the way toward healthy eating. We are told now the Food Guide Pyramid was based on shaky scientific evidence. It still has not changed over the years to reflect major advances in our understanding of the connection between diet and good health.
Recently, the USDA retired the old Food Guide Pyramid and replaced it with MyPyramid, a new symbol and “interactive food guidance system. This revision is basically the old Pyramid turned on its side.
Good news about the new MyPyramid:
• It tears apart and buries the flawed Pyramid.
Bad news about the MyPyramid:
• The new MyPyramid does not give us enough information to help us make informed choices about our diet and long-term health.
• It continues to advocate foods that are not essential to good health.
• The food quantities suggested might even be detrimental to our overall health.
So…..what do we take to become and stay healthy?
According to a new dietary guideline released primeval in Jan of 2005:
• We are to continue to concentrate on controlling weight;
• Fats were once considered bad. The new guidelines accentuate low intake of Trans fats and to limit our saturated fats. There is not an artificially low cap on fat intake. The latest advice advocates getting between 20% and 35% of regular calories from fats. The new guidelines also recognize the potential health benefits of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats;
• Complex carbohydrates was a term used in the past that has tiny biological meaning;
• The new guidelines advise Americans to limit sugar intake and stress the benefits of whole grains;
• The guidelines recommend intake half of our grains as refined starch, even though refined starches behave like sugar, add empty calories, have adverse metabolic effects, and increase the risks of diabetes and heart disease.
• The guidelines lump together red meat, poultry, fish, beans and soy products and tell us to judge these accelerator sources by their total fat content. This means to make choices that are lean, low-fat, or fat-free. This advice ignores the evidence that these foods have different types of fats. It also leaves out evidence that replacing red meat with a combination of fish, poultry, beans, and nuts offers numerous health benefits.
So…..if we follow this new dietary guideline we still might not be intake “right,” according to the Harvard School of Public Health. The Harvard School of Public Health nutrition experts created the “Healthy Eating Pyramid.” It is based on the ideal acquirable scientific evidence about the links between diet and health.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid is based upon regular exercise and weight control. Evidence proves regular exercise and weight control influences your chances of staying healthy. They also stress what and how you take and how your food affects you.
Some highlights of the Healthy Eating Pyramid are outlined below:
• Whole grain foods (at most meals).
• Plant oils: Good sources of unsaturated fats include olive, canola, soy, corn, sunflower, peanut, and other vegetable oils and fatty fish such as salmon.
• Vegetables (in abundance) and Fruits (2 to 3 times per day).
• Fish, poultry, and eggs (0 to 2 times per day). Eggs which have been a long time noted as being “bad for you” because they contain evenhandedly high levels of cholesterol, aren’t as bad as once thought to be. An egg for breakfast is much healthier than a bagel prefabricated from refined flour.
• Nuts and Legumes (1 to 3 times) are excellent sources of accelerator and contain healthy fats.
• Dairy or Calcium Supplement (1 to 2 times) Dairy products have been American’s main source of calcium. Cheese has also been another favourite choice for calcium needs. Try to stick with no-fat or low-fat products. If you don’t like farm products, calcium supplements are the way to go.
• Red meat and butter (use sparingly): If you take red meat each day, switch to fish or chicken several times a week to improve cholesterol levels. Switching from butter to olive oil will also improve cholesterol levels.
• White rice, white bread, potatoes, white pasta, soda, and sweets (use sparingly): This group of foods can cause fast and furious increases in blood sugar that can lead to weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic disorders.
• Multiple vitamins: Taking a regular multivitamin, multimineral supplement offers a nutritional backup. They do not replace healthy intake or make up for unhealthy eating. A standard, store-brand, RDA-level is fine. Look for one that meets the stipulations of the U.S. Pharmacopeia, an organization that sets standards for drugs and supplements.
• Alcohol (in moderation): Many studies recommend that having an alcoholic drink a day lowers the risk of heart disease. For men: 1 to 2 drinks a day. For women: One drink a day.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid certainly summarizes the information I personally have been reading recently as the ideal dietary information acquirable to us. It is not something set into stone because nutrition researchers will continue to turn up new information in the years ahead. The Healthy Eating Pyramid will change to reflect the new evidence.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid is not the only up-to-date guide for intake healthy. It does take advantage of more extensive research and offers a broader guide that is not based on a specific culture, such as the Asian, Latin, Mediterranean and vegetarian pyramids.
To sum it all up the number one tip for intake for improving your health would be take foods that have a lot of vitamins and minerals as well as foods that are not high in fat. Exercise moderately.
More Healthy Tips:
• Find the strong points and weak points in your current diet and improve in those areas where you are weak.
• Make small, slow changes.
• Keep track of your food intake by writing down what you take and drink each day. Use this record to help you see where you need to improve.
• If you have medical problems speak it over with your physician or a nutritionist before making any significant changes.
• Good nutrition does not come in a pill. Get your doctor’s suggestions on vitamins and mineral supplements. Your body will benefit the most from intake healthy foods.
• Eat a variety of foods, and learn to try new foods.
• Prepare your meat either by baking, grilling or broiling rather than frying. Take the skin off chicken before eating. Eat fish at least once a week.
• Cut back on extra fat like butter, margarine, sour cream and salad dressings.
• Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables with your meals and snacks.
• Drink no- or low-calorie beverages like water, unsweetened tea and diet soda.
• Exercise moderately daily.
Balanced nutrition and regular exercise are good for your health if your weight never changes. Don’t be discouraged because you don’t loose weight after months of regular exercise. The regular exercise offers you a multitude of benefits toward keeping you healthy.
Healthy Tips for Good Nutrition
June 15th, 2010 admin 1. 5 Small Meals! Eating each 3 to 4 hours (three meals & two snacks) will help your body function and improve its metabolism. Begin your day with a good healthy breakfast to initiate the burning process. Your body needs a source of accelerator and carbohydrate at breakfast. Continue your day intake a good source of protein, carbohydrates and some fats each 3 to 4 hours, totaling 5 meals. Do not let your body go more than 4 hours without food as you might slow down your metabolism!
Good Health Habits to Stay Healthy
June 11th, 2010 admin Health Habits is a important parts of growing up. Many god habits icrising your growth. There are an infinite number of positive acts you can take for your well-being. One can get good health by setting basic rules in life. Eating is an essential and important part of life. One can get good health by setting basic rules in life and thereafter following them for a long duration.. After all, food gives us the calories and nutrients we need to survive and it also provides us with the energy we need to go about our regular business. Healthy intake helps to wage your body with all of the essential nutrients that it requires to function. And, though we often forget to think about it, the food we take has a direct impact on our physical, mental, and emotional health. For these reasons (and many more!) it is important that healthy intake becomes a vital part of our regular lifestyle. But what exactly is healthy eating? Here are some of the basics that can help get you started on the path to healthy eating.Take breakfast each morning enriched with vitamins and minerals and refrain fat and cholesterol rich food. Develop any kind of hobby according to your interest to enjoy and live longer. Protect your skin from restitution using conserving clothing and avoiding hot sun. Take variety of fruits and vegetables in regular diet. A holiday that gives you more than just happiness, also a legacy of good health. You try to make these easy changes in to a regular usage in order to achieve long term success. It is very important to improve your health in order to be happy and enjoy life.
Is Morning Sickness a Good Thing for Your Pregnant Spouse?
June 2nd, 2010 admin Sure your wife is doubled over and sick as a dog and it’s hard to watch her suffer. But you often hear that morning sickness is actually a sign that the baby is doing well. Maybe it’s just a way to make mom feel that all the agony serves some real purpose in the grand plan but laymen theories include the baby “telling” mom what not to take and mom’s reaction to changing hormones.
