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Health and Fitness - To A Healthier and Stronger Life!

 
'Health and Fitness' is dedicated to all those who wants to have a better health for a better life. A fit body leads to a healthy mind and a healthy mind would in turn have a wealthy soul! So, the aim is to provide with information and guidance to achieve a healthy and wealthy body and soul. Keep Smiling, Keep Reading! Cheers :)
Hi All. Hope you are enjoying this series of articles especially on fat loss. Till now we have seen the importance of exercise, weightlifting and a diet with fewer high-fat items in it. And I am sure you all will agree with me when I say that these three things, done religiously will ensure that you lose those extra pounds from your body and will also ensure that you stay fit and fresh.

Being active, fresh and fit is the notion of the nation now! When I say, ‘Notion of the Nation,’ what I mean is that everyone around you and me are trying to be fit and fresh. This is also required to have a healthy mind and body. A fresh mind would surely be more innovative, descriptive and creative. And exercising regularly coupled with a diet with low fat containing food items will keep you fresh, fit and active all through the day.


So, we are now exercising regularly, at least about 30 minutes a day; and we have incorporated weightlifting also in that 30 minutes. Then, we have reduced our intake of high-fat food items. So, what next? If we stop eating high-fat items, that we love so much, what should we be eating now?

Let me tell you, there is a huge list of items that we can take. I know most of the children will shrink their noses when I take the names of low-fat and ideal food items that we should eat; but, it is very important that we maintain a low fat diet while we exercise to cause a fast weight loss. We should eat lots of green vegetables like salad greens, spinach, cucumber, broccoli, beans, tomatoes, carrots and peppers and similar kind of other vegetables. These food items are not only low in calories but also they can help us control our craving for high-fat food items.
Green Vegetables, low fat diet, fast weight loss
Vegetables are very good source of low-fat food items in your diet
You might be thinking how these vegetables would prevent you from eating those high-fat food items that you love so much, right? Green vegetables are one of the most important sources of low-fat nutrition that our body would need. When taken at regular intervals, they will not let your stomach get empty and you may not feel like eating anything else.


That was a secret, wasn’t it? Well, try incorporating these food items more into your daily diet and I am sure this will help you losing weight much faster and in a healthy way.

Cheers!

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How does blood flow through the heart?

January 28th 2010 21:56
The heart has four chambers that pump blood. The chambers are called the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.



The right and left sides of the heart are separated by a muscular wall called the septum.The heart also has valves that separate the chambers and connect to major blood vessels.

heart


The right and left sides of the heart work together
A)Inside the Atria

Right Side:
Blood goes into the heart via two large veins, the inferior and superior vena cava, emptying oxygen-deprived blood from the whole body into the right atrium.

Left Side:
The pulmonary(lung) vein empties oxygen-rich blood, from the lungs into the left atrium.

B)Inside the Ventricles

As the heart contracts, The flaps of connective tissue called valves between the atria and the ventricles open allowing the blood flows from the atria into the ventricles.

* The oxygen-poor blood flows from the right atrium through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle.
* From the right ventricle, blood is pumped through the pulmonary valve into the blood vessel that goes to the lungs. This blood then take up oxygen (becomes oxygenated).

Oxygenated blood flows from the lungs through blood vessels back to the heart's left atrium.

* From the left atrium, blood goes through the mitral valve and into the left ventricle.
* The left ventricle pumps blood through the aortic valve to a major blood vessel called the aorta and out to the body.


The blood delivers oxygen to the body, then returns through veins to the right atrium and repeats the blood flow cycle.


For better understanding watch this animation
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Thongs Flip Flops


Thongs or 'flip-flops', as they are called elsewhere in places such as the US and UK, are an Aussie favourite and an important part of the summer beach wear culture.

But not for the first time, thongs have been blamed for causing health problems and this time, researchers at Auburn University in Alabama, US studied the biomechanics of the footwear and concluded that prolonged wearing of thongs leads to sore feet, ankles and legs.

Flip flops thongs


This is because studies and experiments showed that wearers altered their walking style and gait when in a pair of thongs and in doing so, could lead to pain from the foot and all the way up to the lower back.

"Flip-flop wearers took shorter steps and their heels hit the ground with less vertical force than when the same walkers wore athletic shoes. People wearing flip-flops also don’t bring their toes up as much as the leg swings forward. That results in a larger angle to the ankle and a shorter stride length, the study showed. The reason may be that people tend to grip flip-flops with their toes."

While this may come as bad news for most us, thongs only tend to cause problems when they're worn for prolonged periods which means we can still wear them at the beach or for short periods of time.[nytimes.com]

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Chilli Activates Same Pain Receptor as Spider Bites

New research has found that molecules in ‘hot peppers’ (i.e. chilli) and in a certain spider’s venom target the same receptor on neurons. This find was reported in Science News Online last week.

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Elephants Can Recognise Themselves in a Mirror

According To the book I am reading, Robert Winston’s The Human Mind, babies develop the sense of self-awareness between 18 months and 2 years of age. A good experiment to test if your baby has developed a sense of ’me-self’ is by painting a red dot on the child’s nose and placing him/her in front of a mirror. Babies who have developed the sense will realise they have a mark on their nose and touch it, rub it or maybe even cry because they think they have a blemish! But babies who don’t see themselves as an entity will reach out and touch the mirror, only understanding that there is an external environment which can be acted upon but not realising that they are a person acting within that environment.

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Sneezing When You Look At the Sun - Photic Sneeze Reflex

Many stimuli can trigger a sneeze, such as colds, allergies, cold air, humidity, irritants such as pepper, eating too much, cooling certain parts of the skin, sexual excitement, hair pulling, shivering, eyebrow plucking, and as you’ll find here - exposure to bright sunlight.

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Joint Position Sense - Proprioception

August 16th 2006 09:17
Joint Position Sense, or proprioception (“one’s own perception”), is a 6th sense we all have that indicates the position of a part of the body relative to another part. Our five senses – sight, taste, hearing, touch and smell - advise us of the outside environment but the 6th sense, proprioception, provides the status of the body itself.

This sense was developed by the nervous system as a means to keep track of and control the different parts of the body. In people with joint position sense nerves destroyed, doing something as mundane as moving a finger requires a conscious effort and the use of vision to make sure your finger is doing what you want it to. Normal people are aware that their finger is moving and can say in what direction without even looking at it, thanks to Joint Position Sense.

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Mummy, Why Do I Have Hair Down There?

The bodily inquisitive of our readers may have once wondered, ‘Ok, I get that I have hair on my head, but what is the purpose of all this extra body hair?’ Here are some answers for your hairy pleasure…

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Referred Pain

July 13th 2006 06:07
Referred Pain

Referred pain is a painful sensation that is felt in an area of the body that is not actually the source of the pain. Usually, this referred pain is felt in the skin or other superficial (closer to the surface of the body) areas when deeper structures like internal organs are damaged or inflamed.

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The Skeletal Muscle Pump

June 27th 2006 06:45
The skeletal-muscle pump is the pumping effect of skeletal muscle on veins to increase blood flow. During exercise, muscles squeeze veins, effectively pumping blood back to the heart. This is a significant factor affecting venous return which is the amount of blood that returns to the heart via the veins.

When the skeletal muscle surrounding a vein is relaxed, both the upper and lower vein valves are closed to prevent backflow of the blood inside the vein.

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