Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:57 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/ Body Beautiful - Health News en-ca http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/images/logo.gif http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/ info@whitebark.ca http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=184 If you want to pack on some serious muscle mass and you are not currently training on a regular basis, then I recommend starting off with strength training for your first several weeks or so to build a good foundation and to learn proper execution of the exercises. You are required to get stronger to get bigger so its important that you build a solid foundation. After a few weeks of intense strength training, then you might want to progress to mass training with heavier weights to bulk up for several months. After that, a suggestion is to move on to utilize aspects of endurance training to improve your muscle definition, cardiovascular fitness, and overall athleticism. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:57 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=183 There are many people who think that taking care of a newborn baby is an easy task. This is completely wrong. There are some important aspects, which you have to consider while you take care of a newborn. When your baby is born, there will be no ending for your joy. However, you should also be ready for bad situations. A newborn baby could face some common health problems during his or her early days. Most of the people will get panic and overly worried once they see their precious newborn’s sick. Therefore, it is very important to know some of the tips, which will help you to handle such situation. Below listed are some of the frequent problems your baby may face. We have also provided some of the simple and easy solutions for these problems. Mon, 31 May 2010 15:50:19 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=182 Having a headache is one of the most annoying things in the world. When you get one you really have two options. You can either put up with it or take active steps to make it better. This article will look at 9 ways you can manage the pain to help get rid of your headache. Here is a list of some things you can try next time you have a headache. Some of them will help the headache itself whilst some of the other ideas will just make you more comfortable. Sat, 08 May 2010 12:13:16 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=181 Part one of an eleven part series. By Sam Tai Here is an amazing course in Yoga to stimulate your body with the fresh vitality and bubbling energy of youth. You may undertake the practice outlined in this course regardless of your age or physical background. You are not to be concerned with how "stiff' or "out of condition" you think you are or whether you will be "able to do" the Yoga techniques. The reason you are going to practice Yoga is because you very probably are out of your peak physical condition and Yoga works out stiffness, tension, tightness, flabbiness and many other negative conditions which sap your energy and health and prevent you from living a full life. Concerning whether you will be able to do these exercises, I will tell you that I have never yet met a person who cannot do enough Yoga to experience great benefits at once. This is true of students 80 years of age and beyond as well as people of all ages who have allowed themselves to deteriorate into poor physical condition from lack of the proper physical activity. Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:17:02 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=180 Antioxidants work in tremendous and miraculous ways to make you feel and look younger, to make you live longer, and to help you stay healthy overall. Antioxidants work by eliminating everything bad for your body and replacing damaged cells with newer and younger cells. If you want to find out how you can make antioxidants work for you, then you are in the right place! When trying to reach all of your health goals, antioxidants should be an essential part of your diet. Antioxidants can help you stay looking young and stay feeling young by preserving and protecting your health. Antioxidants are known for: reducing/slowing the effects of aging, preventing/reducing risk of cardiovascular diseases/complications, and reducing one’s risk for cancers. Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:55:48 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=179 For women, it isn't always possible to get to a gym. Working out at home doesn't have to mean you have to lack intensity. Bodyweight exercises for women which can be easily peformed at home. They are also a good alternative when looking for a short intense workout when you don't have equipment. We all know the basic body weight exercises, or at least I think we do. Here’s three exercises that everyone should know - pushups, situps, and pullups. But if looking for a more challenging workout you may want to incorporate some other body weight exercises into your exercise routine. Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:40:17 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=178 Antioxidants Makes You Look Younger and Help You Live Longer Have you heard of all the benefits that antioxidants can provide you and your body? It is seriously amazing how important these antioxidants are for your body and health. Antioxidants assist all areas of the body by helping them fight off free radicals, cells that damage our healthy cells and cause diseases. By getting the right amount of the important antioxidants a day, we benefit tremendously! The first benefit of antioxidants—Building our Immune system Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:38:25 -0600 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=177 Obesity is affecting our children, causing them to live sad, unfulfilling lives because of their low self esteem and low motivation. Obesity in children is a major concern because it stops children from living normal lives, perusing their dreams, and being involved in activities. Children with obesity suffer greatly from low self esteem and between sixteen and thirty-three percent of children and teens are obese. So what can YOU do to stop it? The first step in solving obesity in a child is to recognize its cause. Causes of obesity in a child can be family history of obesity, health problems, medical problems, depression, overeating, stress, lack of exercise, poor eating habits, family and peer problems, or medications. To determine the cause of your child’s obesity watch his or her habits. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:34:48 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=176 We all know we should eat fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy balanced diet, but we don't always know how much of each we should actually consume. And not all fruits and vegetables are equal in diet terms either. When choosing your fresh produce always try to include dark green leafy vegetables like romaine lettuce, spinach, broccoli and kale. Don't overcook them nor cover them in fatty dressings. Also go out of your way to find and consume dark orange and red vegetables such as carrots, sweet potatoes and the various types of squash. Have fun with this and select some that you haven't had before or search the Internet for new recipes featuring these products. Vegetables don't have to taste bad! Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:28:06 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=175 When it comes to the treatment of infections there is something that you should always remember, because with infectious bacteria you must kill them all or they can become stronger. When a doctor next prescribes you an antibiotic there are some things you will have to follow. Always make note of your doctor's or pharmacist's instructions on the exact usage for the antibiotic. This includes the dosage and length of time to take the antibiotic. Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:34:57 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=174 Colon cancer symptoms are subtle, so it is hard to tell when you have colon cancer unless you are looking for it. Colon cancer can be very dangerous because the colon helps your body dispose of waste, and if it is not working right, the waste from your body will build up inside of you. But, colon cancer symptoms can easily go unnoticed. The colon is a part of your digestive system, and it plays a huge part in getting the wastes removed from your body. The colon absorbs nutrients, minerals, and water from the waste, and then disposes of the rest in the form of stool. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:03:49 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=173 Serious consideration should be given to the co-morbidities affecting weight classes of obesity, morbid obesity, and super obesity. Secondary disorders of related biological systems urge bariatric surgery almost on their own strength. Argument supports bariatric surgery to arrest co-morbidities underlying obesity before organ systems can suffer additional irreversible damage. Patients indicative of compliance with procedural requirements, especially in the postoperative phase of caloric intake control, will need observant nursing attendance to monitor for surgical aftereffects such as sleep apnea and heparin complications. Considerable potential for side effects such as glucose fluctuation and nutritional behavior such as hunger perception and diet and lifestyle changes exists. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:59 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=172 With all the people today who are affected by arthritis, many are asking if there is really a way for people to prevent arthritis. Because if there is, then why is the number of people who have arthritis have been increasing yearly? But the truth is that there is really a way to prevent arthritis from occurring. So how can arthritis be prevented? There are several ways to do it and if you will notice, all of them come down to lifestyle change. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:20:47 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=171 No, I am not claiming antioxidants cure cancer or prevent cancer from ever forming, I am claiming that antioxidants can help reduce one’s chances of developing cancer, or at least slow the cancer process down. Antioxidants can help fight off potential cancer cells, while at the same time fight off other diseases and viruses as well. Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:11:44 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=170 Maintenance of nutrition for children is a hot topic as medical practice since the onset of child age adult level Type II Diabetes and obesity have focused attention on the nutritive requirements of children versus exercise and lifestyle habits. Extremes of children lacking in nutrition with no weight gain who fail to thrive with larger and larger populations of overweight children who form a health risk over their life span. Nutrition and eating habits, heredity and family lifestyle can dictate body mass index in a child before they can even take control of their nutrition choices with the best information possible. Overfed infants and toddlers can grow into transitional childhood phases of nutrition where training and education of better choices is not present. Childhood nutrition is at a crisis point more than ever before. Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:30:34 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=169 Clinically speaking, depression is considered an illness and can be cured with professional help. However, sometimes a small, tiny, weenie depression could be dealt with on your own, only if you are willing to accept and face it. Call it under the weather sometimes. Depression could be set off by the temperature, disappointments and frustrations from work or relationships, even the price of prime commodities. The moment you feel the beginnings of depressions, do the following: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:28:48 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=168 Arthritis is one joint condition that has different types. There is a type that is only found in children while there are the ones that can only be found in adults. Having different types, this means that arthritis have many causes. So what causes arthritis? There are a number of risk factors that causes arthritis and the most common of them is age. As a person ages, also compared to any regular item, you would not expect that it will be in a very good condition. Joints will start to be brittle and thus loses its regeneration capabilities. Once it becomes brittle, it will cause too much friction and may lead to joint tear. If the problem becomes a bigger problem, it may require arthroplastic surgery. They will replace the joints in order relieve the condition and the pain that accompanies it. Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:39:27 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=167 When it comes to diseases or other medical conditions, medical experts are doing their best in researching for medical breakthroughs. These may be the latest medicine that people may use in treating their diseases, new physical therapy procedures that would help the effects of medicine, or any new classifications of the disease that the people should watch out for. When it comes to arthritis, there are still a number of researches being done in order to know more about this condition. Here are three examples of researches done for arthritis. There is a research about one symptom of psoriatic arthritis. This symptom is fatigue and researchers have found out that mostly women and those who are feeling pain are the ones who are presenting with the same symptom. This study was done by Dr. Dafna Gladman from the University of Toronto. She and her colleagues have studied 499 patients and found out that almost 50% of the people who have been studied were experiencing moderate fatigue while almost 30% were experiencing severe fatigue. Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:55:29 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=166 Eighty percent of adults suffer from back pain at some point in their adult life, but if you start taking the proper precautions today, then you can start preventing your back pain, that way you never have to suffer! Low back pain is the most common and is the fifth most common reason for adults to visit the doctor, but low back pain is one of these easiest types of back pain to prevent! Lower back pain can be caused by many, many factors, but each factor can be eliminated easily with education. Because your lower back and spine is the most strained and takes on the heaviest load than another part of your spine. Due to this, your weight can cause lower back pain, so you should eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly. Also, you need to keep good posture, especially if you are in the same position for long periods of time. In addition, wear comfortable shoes, lift properly, stretch before exercising, and stop smoking. Another great way to prevent back pain is to exercise your back regularly. Stretching and strengthening your back through exercises is recommended to do two or three times a week, but you MUST be very, extremely careful. If you do not do the back exercises properly, then you may injure your back greatly. Common, easy-to-do back exercises are partial sit-ups, knee-to-chest raises, and press-ups (like push-ups, but easier). In addition, be sure you are drinking plenty of water. Water helps enhance your intervertebral disks in your back, which allows them to absorb shock. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:53:33 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=165 Swine flu is a fast mover, if one person is infected inside a household it is very probable that others will follow. Anti-viral medication can be used make the patient comfortable and speed up his or her recovery but they really don’t cure the flu. Swine Influenza is much like the flu we get during the cold and rainy seasons, you may take medication but this will only make you feel better, it will not “cure” you. The best thing you can do is keep the patient comfortable and take care of his aches and pains. Antiviral medication will also help you prevent further complications caused by the virus. They will stop the virus from making you feel worst but they will not kill it or make it go away. The antibodies your body creates take care of this. Once the virus disappears you have the advantage that your body has already created the antibody necessary to eliminate that particular strain if it tries to infect you again. Weather at home or at the hospital the only thing you can do is give the patient support and make him or her comfortable. Give him medication to control his fever, plenty of liquids to substitute those lost through vomit and perspiration do to fever and the most important and relevant to the patient, controlling the pain in his head and joints. Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:40:22 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=164 The CDC recommends that pregnant women and small children get vaccinated against the H1N1 swine influenza virus. Old and sick people who can have complications are also recommended to get vaccinated by the CDC. There are two types of H1N1 vaccine, the first is a regular shot and the second is a in the form of a mist which you breath into your lungs. This mist has the live H1N1 swine influenza virus in it. The mist vaccine is not recommended for pregnant women and small children. It is also not recommended for people who care for children and sick and elderly people. They may transmit the live virus, in the vaccine to those they care for and continue spreading the disease. Although the CDC recommends that pregnant women and small children get vaccinated many doctors disagree. They believe the vaccine for the H1N1 swine virus has not been properly tested to find out if the injection or aspiration of the live virus by the mother will cause any effect on the fetus. There is no documentation or proof that the fetus will also be immunized when the mother gets the vaccine. In fact, some doctors believe that when the mother receives the live virus she may be infecting her unborn child with the virus, the truth about this is not known and it will take time to gather information on the subject. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:37:30 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=163 The symptoms of H1N1 swine flu are much the same as those any regular seasonal flu. This is one of the reasons that the epidemic spread so fast unquenched. Originally people believed it was a strong seasonal flu. People stayed at home and acted in the same manner they did when they had a seasonal flu before. Stay in bed, chicken soup, pain relief medicine, were the solutions to the problem. The flu does come around every year so why should this one be different. Swine flu does not show any symptoms until after the second to fifth day of infection so all these people continued on their normal routines during all this time. For the next few days after they were infected, they themselves infected their co-workers, classmates and all the people around them. When infected people started to come to the hospitals for treatment the virus was already on the move, not only in the area where it started but it was already outside the country’s borders. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:34:09 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=162 H1N1 swine influenza is a very aggressive fast moving virus. It is transmitted through the airways. All that is required is that a person touches a surface where the virus is present; and brings his hand up to his nose or mouth where it will find its way to into the respiratory system. Once there, it will multiply and continue infecting others as it again gets into the atmosphere through the exhaling of air through the nose and mouth. It is almost impossible to contain, the best solution is to completely isolate the infected person. Once a person is infected the symptoms will take between two to five days to show up, but during this time the infected person continues to spread the virus all around him. Our way of life makes it extremely difficult to contain this virus, people need to car pool, and take buses, trains, and subways to work. Business globalization places million of people on airplanes daily, many of these are carrying the virus and taking it across borders and oceans and continents. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:31:36 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=161 H1N1 Swine Flu is a virus that lives in pigs, humans and birds. It is extremely aggressive and can be dangerous if not treated properly. There are vaccines designed to prevent almost all types of swine flu but since they are constantly mutating and producing new strains it is difficult to control and even more to eradicate. Pigs in a farm or in the wild are usually together, close together. They eat and drink from the same food and water, they also sleep together. Swine flu is transmitted between them by contact between their noses, by sharing food and eating and drinking from the same feeding and drinking bins. This is the way they transmit the virus when in the same pen. Infection occurs in the whole farm, not just the one pen, dry mucus in their snouts and face is made airborne by the wind and air circulating around the farm, this air filled with virus is breathed by other pigs and infection occurs. Suddenly the complete farm is infected, in fact, if wild boar or wild pigs live nearby they can also be infected by the airborne virus in the same manner that their virus can infect the pigs in the pen. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:29:09 -0700 http://www.bodybeautiful.ca/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=160 With obesity on the rise, there are multiple ways available now to support and help obese people lose weight, one of them being weight loss, or obesity, surgery. There is much involved in weight loss surgery, and there are many different options. Unfortunately, it is not as many people think it is though. It is not the “easy way out.” After weight loss surgery you have to dramatically change your lifestyle, eating habits, and physical activity levels to continue losing weight, prevent from gaining the weight back, and to prevent complications. But, surgery for weight loss is not for everyone. Surgery for weight loss is strictly for obese people who have a BMI of 40 or higher, or a BMI of 35 or higher and are suffering from an obese related disease. You also have had to try dieting and exercising before the surgery, and must be willing to continue to diet and exercise for you entire life after your surgery. Obesity surgery is to assist people in losing weight, not to lose it for them; it takes some effort on your part too. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:09:06 -0700