Health Care Basics

Chronic pain in the neck and back is one of the most common reasons that people have to go on disability social security. It is hard to give up a career that you have spent your entire life building, but it is even harder trying to live on a fraction of the income you were once able to earn. Aside from the financial issues, back and neck pain cause you to miss out on many of the things you enjoy doing.

Some back and neck problems can be corrected by surgery, but in some cases surgical procedures can be avoided with the proper physical or occupational therapy. In the case of lower back pain, the number one recommended treatment is walking. Physical therapists can also recommend other therapies and exercises that can be extremely helpful.

The proper therapy can reduce your pain as well as your dependence on pain medications. If you are taking prescription drugs for your back and neck pain, there are serious side effects associated with these medications, especially when they are used over a long period of time. There is also a risk of developing an addiction to strong pain killers.

Back and neck pain are usually triggered by an injury. Sometimes the injury is sustained in an impact, but in many cases it is caused by repetitive motions or overworking a certain part of the body. Resting the injury, unless it is very serious, is usually a temporary recommendation. After the injury has had time to heal, proper back and neck therapy is recommended to strengthen the area that was injured.

Using the area of the body that is injured in a normal way is not the same as back and neck therapy provided by a professional therapist. The therapeutic movements are designed to strengthen the muscles and make them more flexible. The combination of strength and flexibility greatly reduces the pain that the patient is currently experiencing as well as helping to prevent further injury.

In some cases, the therapist will recommend that the patient get a special mattress or pillow to help them. These therapeutic pillows do not only help during the night, they will give you a better night of rest and help your back and neck to feel better all of the time. Many of these products are available to consumers without a prescription.

Lying in bed for days at a time is almost never recommended for people who are experiencing back and neck pain. The lack of mobility and exercise will actually increase the level of pain, and loosing muscle tone will make the injury more likely to recur.

While cleansing the face is the first step to any skincare regimen, using a toner should be second on the list. If someone forgets it, they really are missing out on the true benefits behind great skincare.

A toner is used after cleaning and before moisturizing. Skin care professionals say that it prepares the skin for product penetration.

After a facial wash, a toner helps restore the skin to a natural pH balance. A pH balance should be right around 4.5. Some cleansing products are reported to hike a pH balance up to 14 which leaves the skin dehydrated and tight. A toner returns moisture back into the skin where it belongs to keep the skin soft and supple. In other words, it’s a great hydration element which also nourishes the skin.

In addition to balancing pH and hydration, toner also does other great things, such as:

• Gently improves complexion
• Lessens fine lines and wrinkles
• Reduces inflammation
• Removes oil and dirt
• Wipes away residual make-up

A toner really is the answer to making any cleansing routine more complete. Afterwards, skin feels revitalized and renewed. Because a toner works wonders in removing oil, this makes it a great beauty tool to fight acne. Too much oil fuels acne breakouts.

Hearing the word, “toner” may be confusing for some. Just to clarify, a toner does not firm up slack skin – that’s not its purpose.

Toners also come in a host of other different types of names such as:

• Astringent
• Balancer
• Clarifying lotion
• Cleansing water
• Toning lotion

Some manufactures have products which combines both a cleanser and toner in one. Check with a skincare professional to see what product is best — some may recommend two separate products for each task so it offers maximum benefits.

To have a toner perform its hydrating magic, be sure to choose one without SD and/or alcohol and ethanol. Other ingredients to keep away from are acetone, fragrance, mint, menthol, camphor, and witch hazel. All of these can irritate the skin.

Generally, applying a toner is done by dousing several drops on a cotton ball and then gliding it along the face and neck. Please avoid the delicate eye area.

Speaking of which, if there is a burning sensation after usage, stop using the product immediately and seek the help of a skin care professional to find the right toner.

From dry, normal to oily skin, everyone can really benefit from this skin care product. Using it daily will return a facial canvas to a healthy and luminous state.

If you’ve just stopped smoking or are getting ready to you’re probably wondering how you’re going to feel after stopping smoking. What physical changes can you expect? Will you be climbing the walls? When will you start to feel like you’ve really really stopped? You will go through some changes and it helps to know what to expect so you can deal with it when it happens.

Immediately after you quit, actually within 20 minutes, your body starts to heal itself. Your pulse will lower, your blood pressure will drop a little bit and your circulation will increase. Ever notice that you have really cold hands and feet in the winter? Its because smoking decreases your circulation.

Nicotine withdrawal typically begins 4 hours after your last cigarette and will peak in the first 24 to 48 hours. The severity will depend on if you’re using nicotine replacement or a stop smoking pill or another stop smoking aid. Some of the effects you might feel are lightheadedness, dry mouth, insomnia, inability to concentrate, headache, cough.

These symptoms will be the worst in the first couple of days and then begin to taper off. Most people make it over this first hurdle because they have their commitment to quit smoking fresh in their mind.

The nicotine withdrawal symptoms should be gone within 3 weeks. You will still mentally crave a cigarette and unfortunately this is when many people relapse and light up to have “just one”. Smoking that one cigarette will send you back to the beginning. One puff or one pack you’ll have to go through the nicotine withdrawal all over again.

It will take 6 to 8 weeks before you start to feel like a nonsmoker. It takes time to establish new habits and that’s what you’re doing, starting a new habit of not smoking. Think of it as replacing one habit with the other.

As to feeling as if you’ve really really quit? It depends on the person. I quit once for over a year and then went back when I was in a very stressful situation. Now I’ve been smoke free for nearly 4 years. It probably took me about 6 months this time to really feel like a nonsmoker and know that I wasn’t going back.

What you’re going to experience after stopping smoking is going to vary from person to person depending on what smoking cessation therapy you’re using, how you cope with stress, how your body reacts, etc. I can’t give you a carved in stone example of how you’re going to feel, but these are some general guidelines of what you can expect to feel after quitting cigarettes.

From time to time, we all face different types of health problems in our life. Mostly minor ailments bother us but sometimes real life threatening diseases such as heart attack, kidney failure, cancer etc., frighten us. If you realize that the dragon of death is fast approaching you to take away your life, what would be your immediate reaction? Would you surrender or fight with your full force? There are many stories of brave people who defeated death even when there was little hope of their survival.

I had suffered two massive heart attacks in March 2003 and in December 2006. On both these occasions, doctors told me that it was a matter of only minutes between my life and death. I kept myself alive till I reached hospital and doctors started operating on me. I again suffered a lesser degree of heart attack last month (April 2011). On all these occasions, I recovered quickly because I used my inner healing powers to defeat the disease. My family was in great distress on all these occasions but I told them smilingly: “I am alive and fine, nothing to worry about.”

There are, in fact, two ways of speeding up your healing process. One, taking your doctor’s advice seriously; and two, having confidence that you will be getting well soon.

I am giving below some useful tips, from my own personal experience, that will be helpful in your quick recovery from any illness, minor or fatal:

1. You must have full faith in your doctor’s professional abilities. If you are in doubt, change the doctor.
2. Before taking medicines wait for a moment and say to yourself: “I am taking the best and highly effective medicines prescribed by my expert doctor. After taking these medicines, I will be feeling better in a few hours.“
3. Every morning repeat these sentences many times: “I am feeling better than yesterday. My health is improving. There is nothing to worry about.“
4. Tell your friends and family members about your illness in a humorous way. Don’t show them your gloomy face. Keep smiling and tell them confidently that you are recovering rapidly.
5. If your medical reports are bad, don’t panic. Keep your hopes high and remain confident that after a few days treatment your reports will start showing positive signs.
6. Your positive attitude has the power to significantly boost your recovery. Living with hope cheerfully is much better than living hopelessly in self-pity.
7. Overcome your illness tactfully and skillfully. Keep your spirits high and don’t let the negative thoughts keep you worried. Any kind of negativity can prolong your illness.
8. Cleanliness is an important factor in defeating the disease. Keep your hands, mouth and body clean. If possible, take bath everyday and change your clothes daily.
9. If you are a believer, then pray to God for your good health and ask your friends to also remember you in their prayers. Seeking God’s help is always beneficial.
10. If your condition deteriorates to such an extent that there remains no chances of your survival, even then I will suggest that you need not lose heart. Say good bye with a big smile on your face. In this way, you will give the world a clear message that you had fulfilled your mission gracefully and now leaving this world peacefully.

You must have read hundreds of articles or blogs about quit smoking benefits. How many of them do you remember before smoking? Not even a single one, most probably. A likely reason is that a majority of smokers do not want to listen to warnings such as ‘smoking kills you slowly’ and ‘smoking causes cancer’. Here’s something interesting for you to ponder over: most smokers develop a bad breath after a smoke. A non-smoker, on the other hand, can flash a bright and beautiful smile with no teeth stain; exude confidence and a charming persona to mingle with others easily.

You can enjoy plenty of other similar benefits if you stop smoking today. The immediate advantages of quitting are no less important than long-term benefits. If you are a young man who picked up this habit a couple of years ago, you can let it go easily now to enjoy a rewarding social as well as personal life. Champix varenicline is there at your service. It is a prescription-only quit smoking drug that can help a smoker quit smoking and stay quit. Talk to your doctor to learn more about Champix or other medical aids to help you quit smoking. Meanwhile, let’s have some more facts (unique advantages) that can distinguish a smoker from a non-smoker.

No smoking = Better money management

Many smokers, particularly those who are young, often wonder where their money goes. In the UK, a pack of Marlboro costs about ?6. Now one pack a day can burn a big hole in your wallet at the end of every month. Just think what you can do with about ? 180 you will be saving by not smoking.

No nicotine = Improved sense of taste

Prolonged exposure to nicotine can make your taste buds dull and take away the fun of enjoying delicacies. You can enjoy improved sense of taste shortly after you quit smoking and find out that your everyday meals are much more delectable than ever.

No cigarette = Enhanced energy

Do you gasp for breath, particularly when you try to exert yourself physically for some work? Do you have to drag your body off from the bed every morning? Smoking may be the reason for this as nicotine can reduce the level of oxygen in your body, making you feel exhausted and drained. By quitting smoking today, you can find noticeable improvements in your energy levels in just 15 days.

No tobacco = Better complexion

You can easily distinguish a smoker from his/her complexion. Most tobacco addicts have a grayish tinge to their skin. Smoking can also hasten the process of ageing and make you look older than your actual age. Again, for a young man who is about to set foot on a world of opportunities, it is important to wear a bright and charming look all the time. Contrary to the popular belief of the young that smoking actually enhances your persona, smoking will not help improve your physical appearance.

Finally, a smoker can find it difficult to get out of those dizzy spells at inappropriate moments, as in before a job interview or an important meeting. Such spells can reduce your efficiency and awareness, making you appear dull to others.

Let’s hope that these unique advantages of smoking cessation can inspire you enough to ‘butt-out’ today.

With a little bit of knowledge about wheatgrass, you’ll be juicing wheatgrass in as many juicing recipes as you can. Studies show that wheatgrass has a benefical effect in many special areas, and has many vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and enzymes. It is a wonderful ingredient to add to your recipes.

Colon cancer rates can be reduced with chlorophyll high in the diet. Wheatgrass is higher in this than most other green vegetables, almost seventy percent.

Wheatgrass is also used for detoxification, and to increase blood flow and promote digestion. In addition, it helps to oxygenate and alkalize the blood, suppress your appetite, regulate the thyroid, and boost the immune system. Why would you not want to start juicing wheatgrass?

Some stores, as well as health food stores, sell freshly cut wheatgrass flats. You can take these home to put in your juicer. You can also purchase wheatgrass as a juice or frozen. Wheatgrass also comes as a powder or in a tablet, so if you choose to you can use these forms as well.

If you are so inclined, you can also grow your own wheatgrass at home. A six tray wheatgrass sprouter will probably give you 3 to 4 ounces of juice a day. If you do grow your own, I would recommend using a seaweed fertilizer which has a perfect ratio of minerals, which can then be absorbed by the roots.

Of course, if you have a garden, then you can just plant the wheatgrass in the soil. It’s best to soak the seeds, drain and rinse. Set the seeds in the sun to dry. Repeat this several times. What you want is to have a pre sprout before planting.

Some people don’t like the flavor of wheatgrass, so instead of drinking the juice alone, mix it with other types of fruits and vegetables. Many people enjoy mixing wheatgrass with apple juice, cucumber or carrots. Just use your favorite fruits. If you choose, you can sweeten it by just adding some honey. You can also add any other greens you may like. (parsley, celery, alfalfa sprouts). If you like the flavor, you might try putting in some garlic or ginger.

Juicing wheatgrass is not the same as juicing and drinking other fruits and vegetables. It can be harder on the stomach like many other green vegetables. Because wheatgrass has a strong cleansing effect, you probably should not drink more than about four ounces a day, and never on an empty stomach. If you drink too much, it can cause an upset stomach and nausea. Only drink one glass, a few ounces, of wheatgrass each day or even every other day if you have a stomach that is easily upset. Some people will feel the effects of wheatgrass right away like some people feel coffee or tea.

There is a special juicer that’s able to get the moister out of wheatgrass, called a “masticating” juicer. This juicer can of course also be used to juice your other vegetables and herbs. Juicing wheatgrass is just another way of adding many benefits and nutrition to your healthy diet.

How many times now have you promised yourself you are going to slim down and shape up? Actually, many of you probably did start on that diet, lost a few pounds then started to backslide a little – after all, the food choices were so boring – and then you got your second resolve that you were going to make this work. So back on the diet you went and slowly but surely you did lose a few more of those stubborn pounds but your heart’s desire is just no longer in it.

So what happens next? You end up quitting and go right back to your normal eating habits and in no time at all you are right back at the old weight again. Often you may even notice, you have actually gained even a few more pounds.

So what happened – where did you go wrong? Stop and think about this. You have spent your entire life following a consistent plan of eating habits and all you did was gain weight. What makes you think when you go back to it again, why assume old habits are going to elicit any different outcome?

Starting A New Pattern Of Behavior For Success

Ask any doctor how many of his patients actually lost a lot of weight and kept it off all on just willpower alone. The percentages are so low you don’t even need all the fingers on one hand to check it off. Research has determined willpower alone has less than a 3% chance of showing a successful completion rate after 5 years. Using willpower as your sole means of support generally leads to feelings of deprivation (people tend to pick and choose items they think of as “skinny foods”). Eventually, boredom leads to binging and all their good intentions have been blown right out of the equation.

So what’s the magic ingredient that makes a successful diet work? Simply, it is learning to break bad habits and to conform to a new healthy life-long eating plan. All of this comes down to nothing more than a few changes in behavior. Sounds so simple, doesn’t it? But for most people, believe me, it’s not.

Incorporating New Behavior Patterns Into Your Life

Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight starts with a new set of instructions, not just great intentions. Spend some time teaching and training yourself and your body some new daily habits. In the end, you will have trained your body to accept those habits, thus realizing your goals can be successfully reached. Here is some important tips to get you start.
Clear away all of the junk foods in your environment. This includes your house, your car, your desk or office at work and any of your other normal daily stops.

Make some new friends. Stop spending all of your time with the old group if all you ever do is sit around and watch TV or the movies, talk, hang out at a “local hot spot” and gorge yourself on food, beer or soda, ribs, wings, cheese curls or chips.

Add a few new activities to your daily life. You could join a local sports team – whether it is coaching or as a player, a bowling league, camping or hiking club, dance troupe, golf club or just anything wherever your interests lie. Other than achieving a whole new group of friends, you automatically receive the benefit of exercise without the feelings of hopelessness and boredom common to a structured exercise program.

Adopt a new family member – add a dog to the family if you are responsible enough to handle the care of another living being. Other than unconditional love and companionship from your new best friend, you can be proud to know you have saved a life from the local pound or animal rescue organization. Your new dog will reward you with another form of exercise, grab the leash and go for a daily walk. Keep a log of the days and times the two of you have spent together and don’t be too surprised if you eventually realize your time with the two of you is some of the best times in your life.

Keeping a food log or journal is another “must do” for the first two weeks so you can learn your normal daily routines. Most people are surprised when they start one as you unconsciously all day long grab a small bite here and another drink there. All of these cans of soda, cups of sweetened tea or coffee, the 2 or 3 bites which are your samplers as you are cooking, the snacks while you watch the game, a candy bar from the servomation machine at work and on and on. Every single time you put anything into your mouth, it must be logged with what it is, how much and what time. This log of foods and liquids is then used to identify where your strengths and weaknesses are. This will give you a better idea of what your goals need to be for success.

Set realistic goals for yourself. How old are you now? Just think, it took you that many years to get into the condition you are now in so be realistic and remember it is going to take more time than a few days, weeks or months to get it all back off. Realistic goals for exercise and food intake will ultimately let you realize your goals.

So just by setting yourself up a good strong consistent schedule of goals – remember, you don’t need to lose 150 lbs, you need to lose 10 lbs.. When those 10 are gone, set up a new goal for maybe 15 more lbs.. As you reach every one of your goals, reward yourself, just not with food. Buy yourself a new book, a massage or a trip to a day spa, pick up tickets to a local attraction you have wanted to see. Just pick something that is a reward for you. Each and every little achievement is just one piece of the whole puzzle. But with time and a few behavioral changes, you will soon see losing weight and keeping it off no longer has to be just a dream.

Staying healthy doesn’t have to cost very much at all. All of the natural health cures that you need to get better quickly are probably well stocked in your kitchen already! There are a staggering number of people who believe that curing the cold can be as easy as going to the pharmacy aisle at the store, choosing a box of chemicals and viola! You’re better in minutes! When you choose natural remedies you don’t have to leave the house, let alone spend a ton of time trying to figure out which drug you need from the pharmacy.

Peppers can help in more ways than one.

• Bell peppers are full of vitamin C and can really help boost your immune system if you eat them regularly.
• Cayenne pepper is great for the sinuses as well. Add some cayenne pepper to your tea to help stimulate and relax your sinuses so that you can breathe easier. Another reason to “take” cayenne pepper when you are sick is that it will cause you to sweat which will help you heal.

If you’d like to keep the toxins from setting in at all, eat Garlic. To get better quickly, take 1500 mgs of garlic a day and wave good-bye to your cold! You can either eat a clove of garlic or take a 500 mg supplement-nutritionally they’re about the same. If you don’t want to take a tablet to get your 500mgs, just include a clove of garlic into each meal you cook. It’s easy to keep garlic on hand-bottles of the spice are relatively inexpensive and garlic flowers are even cheaper. Taking in the extra garlic is great but don’t keep the regiment up longer than five days. You should consult your doctor if you are still very sick after five days.

Echinacea is another very popular natural health remedy. Echinacea works by attacking a cold when it is still in its early stages which is why you need to take some as soon as you begin to feel cold or flu symptoms. As soon as you feel those symptoms start, take a capsule or two of Echinacea and you might be able to ward off the flu completely. Echinacea can even help you when you’re already well into your cold by making your symptoms weaker and speeding up your healing process. About 1200 mgs per day while you’re sick is enough to help you get better. Take 400 mgs 3 times a day to get the recommended dosage; do not take them all at once. Getting better can easily be done by using the right herbal and natural health cures. Why force yourself to ingest a bunch of drugs if there are better methods of healing? Don’t reach for the drugs out of habit-choose a healthier method instead. Don’t forget to let yourself rest to give the natural health methods time to do their jobs.

The Nutrisystem Diet plan, suggested by superstars for instance Dan Marino and Marie Osmond, has established a course which makes it simple and easy that you can diet. You must not think about meal, since it is provided, each and every calorie in order to depend, which is easy to understand. A lot more than thirty-five years in business shows that this can be a validated program. As well as in line with the Nutrisystem website, over 9 million pounds have been lost this past year alone.

Nutrisystem guarantees weight loss based on a 3 simple steps: Choose Your Plan, Order Your Food, and Eat Healthy. Realizing that doesn’t everyone is created equal, Nutrisystem offers invented 4 individual diet plans for men and four individual diet plans for women. You can choose from Basic, Silver, Diabetic, and Vegetarian. The idea is always to select the strategy in which greatest meets your requirements after which develop a menu depending on which meal plan. The site strolls you through the whole procedure.

Simply by joining on the Nutrisystem website, you can program your meals, buy your food, observe your progress and acquire assistance. Help comes in the form of user discussion forums and boards, daily diet suggestions, normal newsletter, and unlimited counseling. Additionally, there are every week e-classes provided with chat.

There’s no exercise element of the program, since it is solely nutrition-based. Although this may possibly interest those that don’t like workout, motion as well as activity is essential to some wholesome body and a wise companion to be able to weight reduction.

Most of the foods for this program is supplied, and it is nutritionally well-balanced and developed to assist handle food cravings. Nutrisystem enables you to choose your own personal 28-day supply of foods, or else you can easily purchase any pre-selected package. You will find over one hundred seventy Nutrisystem food items, but they don’t arrive inexpensively. At $11 for every person per day, which totals $330 month, plus the incidentals you will have to supplement the plan (fruit, vegetables and also dairy). To get a category of four, that could total an astonishing $1320 per month, possibly twice how much of an common family spends. But it has ease and can help you stay out from the kitchen, evaluating, calculating as well as toiling on the oven.

If you’re lucky enough living in New York City, you are able to take advantage of Nu-Kitchen, where you can purchase newly prepared foods in line with the Nutrisystem diet, lots of which have been ready along with organic and/or local elements. This particular function enables you to have got everyday meals sent, otherwise you can go the la carte and also buy merely the dishes you need each day, plus you can find sufficient for the family or a supper party, if you want to amuse.

Buying meals are simple on the internet. Preparing the foodstuff demands little effort and there’s no stage program or calories to maintain a record of. The Nutrisystem meals are portion controlled, offering you the data of what’s good you can eat. The plan furthermore permits snacking and provides weight loss monitoring resources for you to use on the Nutrisystem website.

When you perform discover portion manage as well as exactly what makes up healthy eating, you do not put together the meals oneself, and when you decide to go off the plan, it might be more challenging to maintain the weight loss while preparing your own personal meals or defaulting in order to take-out or even restaurant cost.

Milk and soybean milk contain a variety of nutrients, which are very beneficial to human body. However, according to the survey and research, it is found out that compared with milk, soybean milk is more suitable for Chinese people, especially for women.

Chinese nutritionists have recommended soybean milk as a kind of ideal drink for the prevention and treatment of hyperglycemia, hypertension, atherosclerosis and other diseases. Drinking more soy milk can prevent and cure iron-deficiency anemia. Compared with milk, it is much more effective for the patients suffering from anemia.

Soy milk is a good drink to protect the cerebrovascular. It contains soy saponin, isoflavone and soy oligosaccharide, all of which are special factors with obvious health-care functions. Often drinking fresh soy milk can maintain the normal balance of nutrition, fully regulate the endocrine system, bring down the level of blood pressure and blood fat, reduce the burden on cardiovascular system, enhance the vitality of heart, promote the blood circulation, and so on. What’s more, it also plays an important role in preventing cancer and strengthening the immunity of human body. As a result, some scientists regard soy milk as “the best drink for the health of cardiovascular”.
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It is also a choice for those who suffer from diabetes. Diabetes is mostly caused by long-term unscientific dieting habits. Improper diet tends to affect the absorption of magnesium, phosphorus, copper, zinc and chromium, which may eventually lead to the occurrence of diabetes. Recently foreign scholars have proved that, soy milk has the effect of lowering the level of blood sugar. In addition, it contains a large number of water-soluble fibers, which can also help control the level of blood sugar. As a result, it is one of the best drinks for diabetics.

What’s more, soybean milk is also a good drink for women. Modern nutrition research points out that, besides plant estrogen, soybean milk also contains other nutrients such as soy protein, isoflavone and lecithin, which can help prevent certain cancers like breast cancer and ovarian cancer. As a result, it is a natural estrogen supplement. At the same time, soybean milk also contains a kind of phytoestrogen called as “Diadzein”, which can adjust the function of female endocrine system. Drinking 300 to 500 milliliters of fresh soybean milk every day can obviously improve women’s mentality and physical quality, delay skin aging, so as to achieve the purpose of maintaining beauty and keeping young.