Guide to Stay Healthy in the Year 2012

Entering the new year 2012 everyone is vying to become better. Being healthy and long life may be one manifestation of hope many people in this new year.

Health expert, Dian Griesel, Ph.D., and Tom Griesel said that the beginning of each year (January), an increasing number of people visiting fitness centers or health. However, these conditions further Griesel usually does not last long.

To maintain a healthy spirit is maintained throughout the year 2012, Griesels share seven simple steps that can be used as guidelines to stay healthy in the new year:

• Create a plan to remove the fat rather than body weight

Most people go on a diet is always focused on weight loss, resulting in loss of body mass or lean body mass (LBM). LBM loss can significantly reduce the basal metabolic rate (BMR).

• Drink more water

Most people are chronically dehydrated, especially when just waking up. Many assumptions are wrong and say that the thirst for hunger, and we drink only when at dinner only. In fact, you should always drink a large glass of water immediately after you wake up, and every time you feel hungry, before eating anything.

• More active

Sitting for long periods of time can be harmful to health. Never sit for more than an hour at a time, and always looking for ways to increase your daily activity.

• Build and strengthen muscles

Increased muscle mass will be impacted directly on the increased basal metabolic rate or BMR. BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) is the minimum caloric requirement needed someone just to sustain life. To build muscle you do not have to go to the gym. Do simple exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, and squats for 3-5 times per day. Consistency is the key.

• Start improving your diet

Replace processed foods, processing, packaging, and fast food in your current diet with fresh and natural foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, eggs, fish, and meat. Changes in diet will dramatically improve health and body composition. Drink more water instead of soda or sports drinks (sports drinks).


• Get a quality night's sleep time

Everyone needs adequate sleep time and quality to increase energy and optimal health. You must set hours of sleep and as much as possible to avoid caffeine, alcohol, or a TV that can disturb sleep.

• Controlling stress

Stress is the most common condition that almost everyone had experienced. Stress in the long term could have serious consequences on our health. To fix this, you can do meditation. Meditation is a practice that involves the release of relaxing the mind of all things interesting, overburden, or worry about in our daily lives.

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Identify Heart Attack Symptoms in Women

The risk of heart disease in men and women are equal. But in terms of symptoms, is different. A common symptom of heart attack, shortness of breath feels like a heavy load crushed, tend to occur frequently in men than women.

"In fact, 43 percent of women who have coronary heart problems do not have symptoms of chest pain at all," says Marianne Legato, Head of the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine at Columbia University, who quoted from page Prevention.

Symptoms of a heart attack in women is not clearly visible. Thus, women are often late for check-up. In fact, the chances of survival can be increased 23 percent if treatment is given three hours after the attack, and 50 percent if medical treatment is given one hour after the attack.

Therefore it is important to know the symptoms of a heart attack in women. Obviously, in order for you more quickly detect heart attacks and risk of death can be suppressed.

1. Extreme fatigue
During bebrapa days or maybe a week before the heart attack occurred, 70 percent of women feel very weak and incredible fatigue. It feels like a sudden there was no strength to raise your laptop or preparing food.

2. Pain is not too feels
Women do tend to not feel pain in the chest during a heart attack. But actually feel pain in the upper back, shoulders, neck, or jaw.

3. Excessive sweating
You could suddenly sweating so much for no reason. Facial skin also looks very pale.

4. Nausea or dizziness
Before the heart attack, women also tend to experience indigestion until vomiting. The head also hurt and make you like want to faint.

5. Trouble sleeping
Most women who experience heart problems will be difficult to sleep soundly because it is often awakened in the middle of the night.

6. Very restless
"Many women who feel anxious, frightened and worried without cause before a heart attack occurs," Dr. Legato.

The body, according to Dr. Gelato, like telling something will happen. For that, do not underestimate if you feel there's something wrong with your body. immediately

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Keep Harmonious Relationship doesn't cold during holidays

Worried because your sex life according to the weather will cool off this holiday season? tips to stay warm up your love life during this holiday period.

1. Going Out
It's easy to make promises, but make sure you provide at least one special time in a week for a date with my beloved partner.

2. Cooking
It is well known that foods have an effect on libido, consider the food you consume during the holidays. Be sure to keep eating healthy foods like bananas, celery, avocado, asparagus, squash and garlic.

3. Being Childish
Take out your childish attitude, playing ice skating or go horse riding will take you back in time to have fun and full freedom in your life.

4. Being Creative
Creativity associated with sexuality, so share your creative projects with your spouse during the holidays. Such as decorating the house or make a cake, whatever you want to do, do it together.

5. Soaking in warm water
Relax with your partner. Hot bath or soak in the bath together before going to bed will not only warm the atmosphere but also releases stress today.

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Long Holiday Time to do Action Romance

Enjoying the holidays together with your partner the most awaited thing. If you get bored doing the activity outside the home, you and your husband can enjoy a romantic activities in the home. Conducting a bath together may be an option for you couples who do not have children.

Soaking in the tub combines a fragrant aroma, while looking at each other, touching, makes your body relax, as well as stimulating and satisfying to you and your partner. Bath under the shower was no less enjoyable, because you can massage and soaping each other. The result, the body becomes clean, and the stress is gone.

Important benefits shared bath are also more than just cleaning the body and evoke eroticism with a partner. The bathroom is the most personal space, so should you and your partner can talk more intimately about the things you could not talk in the midst of your work.

Here are some tips on bathing activities in order to feel more romantic with

- Decorate the tub with white candles around it

- You can also decorate the area near the candles with rose petals.

- If possible, turn off the lights for the activities conducted shower together

- Place your partner favorite flower in the corners of your bathroom space

- Plan a bubble bath as this can raise mood both of you

- Arrange a few games a sweet romantic thing you can do both

-Complete bathroom activities with you with refreshing drinks such as champagne or drink herb plants as      passionate romance.

-Can also prepare drinks strawberry juice for a refreshing atmosphere

- You can even read a romantic book together while enjoying a drink in a bathtub.

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Vacation tips for diabetics

United States - End of year is a time for a vacation for many people. No exception for those who suffer from diabetes. If you are diabetic and are planning a vacation, following a tip an expert from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

"I tell the patients, especially patients with type 1 diabetes, controlling blood sugar frequently while traveling, especially if going to another continent a different time zone. For very easy to lose control of glucose when you exit the routine, "said Dr. Fernando Ovalle, director of the UAB Multidisciplinary Diabetes Clinic and a senior researcher at the UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center, in a release as quoted by Health Day edition of December 23, 2011.

When traveling in the U.S. or most countries in Europe, Ovalle recommend that patients take the drug package twice than usual is required. But if traveling to locations that are expected to be difficult to achieve the source of drugs, it is advisable to bring three to four times the package. Keep a package of the drug in carry-on bag and take the bag wherever you go. So if you need medication immediately, no matter even if your luggage was already entered into the aircraft baggage or flight delays.

To minimize the risks at the airport, take the letter and prescription from your doctor. This letter contains the information that you are in treatment for diabetes (including having to take pills or insulin injections) and a list of injection equipment, insulin, and various other things necessary for your treatment.

If traveling to different continents, resulting in differences in time, begin to familiarize themselves with increasing the amount of insulin that is injected a few days before departure. According to Ovalle, when the time changes of more than two hours, ask your doctor to make a new dosage schedule in order to reduce the risk of error.

Ovalle said, if traveling long distances, make sure a lot of moving and walking at least every hour. People with diabetes are at risk of blood clots and the move could help prevent it.

In the meantime, continued Ovalle, patients with insulin pumps have to be careful when flying. Research shows that changes in cabin pressure during flight can cause an insulin pump to send too much insulin when the plane up.

"People with diabetes are highly sensitive to insulin release tool should consider before taking off and when the plane landed, also check the supply of insulin to check the water bubble when it landed," said Ovalle.

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