Like To Eat - Go For It!Written by Monique Rider
LIKE TO EAT GO FOR IT! Do you want to have energy all day long, burn mega calories, strip body fat, AND have a healthy digestive system? Then eat and do it frequently! Yes, your body needs food and plenty of it to get through daily grind. Eating four to six small, frequent meals per day is truly key to a healthy body and a healthy lifestyle. Eating frequently keeps adequate calories in body. Most of us really don't eat enough. We are all running around with a full daily schedule, stress, trying to exercise (or not) and expecting to do it all on a few meals per day. Yet we can't figure out why we're not healthy or why we're not losing weight. Focusing on small, frequent meals ensures that we are getting full amount of calories we need. You have to eat more, to burn more calories. Now this doesn't mean four to six "junk" meals each day. It means reasonably sized meals that include protein, carbohydrates, and a LITTLE fat. When you restrict calories by not eating, your body refuses to give up extra body fat. So you must give your body what it wants, and it'll burn calories more efficiently. By eating this way, youll also keep your energy level high all day no more mid-day fatigue. Thats crash you feel when your blood sugar dips too low. Keeping food in your body at regular intervals will prevent that crash. It will also prevent trips to vending machine. Because when blood sugar dips, brain receives a subconscious message to find sugar aka junk food.
| | Muscle Spasms Mimic Symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & Cause Repetitve Strain InjuryWritten by Zev M. Cohen MD and Julie Donnelly, LMT
Do you suffer from chronic low back pain? Do your knees hurt when you go up stairs, and your hands hurt when you try to open a jar? Do you experience headaches that feel like a bomb going off in your head? Do you get ringing in your ears? Have you been diagnosed as having carpal tunnel syndrome?These conditions can all be end result of muscle spasms! While it seems incredible that a simple thing like a spasm can cause so much trouble, itıs easy to understand when you take a close look at body. There are 600 muscles in body and 206 bones. The only reason that bones move is because muscles pull on them (unless you have a traumatic accident), and therein lies problem. The muscle originates at a stationary point in body, it then crosses over a joint and inserts onto another bone. When a muscle contracts it pulls insertion point toward origination point, and joint bends. For example, biceps and triceps are responsible for bending elbow. If your arm is straight out and you contract biceps muscle elbow begins to bend. At same time, in order for arm to completely bend, triceps muscle must fully stretch. If you then want to straighten your arm again triceps must contract and biceps must fully stretch. If you try this, slowly, with your own arm you will understand concept easily. If, for example, triceps muscle is contracted and shortened by a spasm, you will only be able to bend your arm as far as triceps will stretch. Many people then think that they have a problem with elbow, while problem is actually less serious than it appears. We teach our clients an analogy that is very helpful in understanding root of muscle spasm situation. Imagine a young child standing between a deep well filled with water, and a big rain barrel. The child has an eyedropper and is going from well to rain barrel putting tiny amounts on water into barrel, many times back and forth for hours every day. Then, about 40 years later, rain barrel overflows. The child (who is now an adult) says "I donıt understand, Iıve been doing this for years and itıs never done this before!" Likewise, people say to us: "Iıve been doing this (exercise, etc.) for years and it never hurt before, I must be getting old" No youıre not getting old, you just never emptied your "rain barrel" and now its overflowed! The body is amazing. We have mechanisms for healing that are so incredible that science still hasnıt been able to fully understand how they work. Our bodies mutate very slowly, but life is now changing rapidly. It wasnıt such a long time ago, before electricity was discovered, that people would work very hard all day and then rest when sun went down, going to bed early. In past, when people would rest at end of day, body would begin its process of removing lactic acid that is natural by-product of muscle action. This is bodyıs method of emptying rain barrel. But, when electricity increased hours in our days, we began to stretch ourselves by working out in gyms, staying on computer until late at night, and even doing fun things like dancing until wee hours. Our bodies werenıt able to keep up with increased lactic acid production, and we began to pile up spasms one on top of other. This continued day after day, and our muscles started getting tighter and tighter. This situation leads to next analogy that we share with our patients. Remember that muscles originate in one place, cross over joint and then insert in another place. Muscles always pull on insertion point. Now, visualize pulling your hair at end. You donıt feel it at end where you are pulling, but you do feel it on scalp where it inserts. Likewise, you rarely feel pain in part of muscle that is being pulled, but you do feel it at insertion.
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