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 throughrepparttar daily grind. Eating four to six small, frequent meals per day is trulyrepparttar 115872 key to a healthy body and a healthy lifestyle.

Eating frequently keeps adequate calories inrepparttar 115873 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 gettingrepparttar 115874 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 uprepparttar 115875 extra body fat. So you must give your body what it wants, and it'll burn calories more efficiently. By eating this way, you’ll also keep your energy level high all day – no more mid-day fatigue. That’srepparttar 115876 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 torepparttar 115877 vending machine. Because whenrepparttar 115878 blood sugar dips,repparttar 115879 brain receives a subconscious message to find sugar aka junk food.

Muscle Spasms Mimic Symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & Cause Repetitve Strain Injury

Written by Zev M. Cohen MD and Julie Donnelly, LMT


Do you suffer from chronic low back pain? Do your knees hurt when you go uprepparttar 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 berepparttar 115871 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 atrepparttar 115872 body. There are 600 muscles inrepparttar 115873 body and 206 bones. The only reason that bones move is because muscles pull on them (unless you have a traumatic accident), and therein liesrepparttar 115874 problem. The muscle originates at a stationary point inrepparttar 115875 body, it then crosses over a joint and inserts onto another bone. When a muscle contracts it pullsrepparttar 115876 insertion point towardrepparttar 115877 origination point, andrepparttar 115878 joint bends. For example,repparttar 115879 biceps and triceps are responsible for bendingrepparttar 115880 elbow. If your arm is straight out and you contractrepparttar 115881 biceps musclerepparttar 115882 elbow begins to bend. Atrepparttar 115883 same time, in order forrepparttar 115884 arm to completely bend,repparttar 115885 triceps muscle must fully stretch. If you then want to straighten your arm againrepparttar 115886 triceps must contract andrepparttar 115887 biceps must fully stretch. If you try this, slowly, with your own arm you will understandrepparttar 115888 concept easily.

If, for example,repparttar 115889 triceps muscle is contracted and shortened by a spasm, you will only be able to bend your arm as far asrepparttar 115890 triceps will stretch. Many people then think that they have a problem withrepparttar 115891 elbow, whilerepparttar 115892 problem is actually less serious than it appears.

We teach our clients an analogy that is very helpful in understandingrepparttar 115893 root ofrepparttar 115894 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 fromrepparttar 115895 well torepparttar 115896 rain barrel putting tiny amounts on water intorepparttar 115897 barrel, many times back and forth for hours every day. Then, about 40 years later,repparttar 115898 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 whenrepparttar 115899 sun went down, going to bed early. Inrepparttar 115900 past, when people would rest atrepparttar 115901 end ofrepparttar 115902 day,repparttar 115903 body would begin its process of removingrepparttar 115904 lactic acid that isrepparttar 115905 natural by-product of muscle action. This isrepparttar 115906 bodyıs method of emptyingrepparttar 115907 rain barrel. But, when electricity increasedrepparttar 115908 hours in our days, we began to stretch ourselves by working out in gyms, staying onrepparttar 115909 computer until late at night, and even doing fun things like dancing untilrepparttar 115910 wee hours. Our bodies werenıt able to keep up withrepparttar 115911 increased lactic acid production, and we began to pile up spasms one on top ofrepparttar 115912 other. This continued day after day, and our muscles started getting tighter and tighter.

This situation leads torepparttar 115913 next analogy that we share with our patients. Remember that muscles originate in one place, cross overrepparttar 115914 joint and then insert in another place. Muscles always pull onrepparttar 115915 insertion point. Now, visualize pulling your hair atrepparttar 115916 end. You donıt feel it atrepparttar 115917 end where you are pulling, but you do feel it onrepparttar 115918 scalp where it inserts. Likewise, you rarely feelrepparttar 115919 pain inrepparttar 115920 part ofrepparttar 115921 muscle that is being pulled, but you do feel it atrepparttar 115922 insertion.

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