Ten Healthy Reasons to Procrastinate This Holiday Season

Written by Dale Reynolds


Many people procrastinate on their holiday shopping, which begsrepparttar question: are there good reasons to put it off? For a humorous break this season, let’s examine why we might actually want to wait untilrepparttar 115506 last minute to shop!

You’ll have to park farther fromrepparttar 115507 door becauserepparttar 115508 mall will be so crowded, and you’ll get more exercise. Just park way out there-you’ll save frustration and get less door dings!

The escalators and elevators will be so crowded that you’ll have to takerepparttar 115509 stairs to save time (maybe you’ll be inspired to jog them?) and that burns more calories. The more packages you’re carrying,repparttar 115510 more calories you’ll burn!

The food court and restaurants will be busy and you won’t want to bother waiting. You’ll pack healthy food or just eat at home. Carrying your lunch and a water bottle aroundrepparttar 115511 mall is work-say goodbye to more calories!

You might think about catalog shopping, but they’ll be sold out of everything you want and won’t be able to get it to you in time if they do have it in stock. So you’ll be atrepparttar 115512 mall, with all ofrepparttar 115513 above.

You might get lower prices or two-for-one specials. This will make you jump for joy and dance inrepparttar 115514 halls, which constitutes aerobic exercise! Just be careful you don’t land on anybody when you come down.

The gift wrappers will be all tied up, so you’ll need to wrap your own presents at home. Crawling around onrepparttar 115515 floor or leaning overrepparttar 115516 table for several hours will work muscles you forgot you had! Besides, with those two-for-one specials, you’ll have more gifts to wrap. Then, you need to run all overrepparttar 115517 house looking for places to hiderepparttar 115518 loot! Reach high and squat low!

Fibromyalgia Myths and Truths

Written by Lena Sanchez


Fibromyalgia Myths and Truths. © By Lena Sanchez

When, after 15 years of excruciating pain and hospitalizations without an answer torepparttar pain suffered daily, I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyositis, now known by it's common name Fibromyalgia (FMS), I was given a lot of prescriptions and told that I would more than likely end up in a wheel chair.

That is a very true if I had continued to take those prescriptions and listen to those doctors who haven't a clue as to what is going on in FMS patients, yes being wheel chair bound, a side effect ofrepparttar 115505 prescriptions they are prescribing for FMS, would have been my fate.

It took years of trial and error and a lot of years on prescriptions before I was able to break away fromrepparttar 115506 traditional wheel-chair bounding medications.

Most usual prescriptions given are NSAIDS (ibuprofen, Motrin, etc.) or prednisone containing medication andrepparttar 115507 truth of it is, those medications will eat away at your bones and tendons and put you in a wheel chair along with eating repparttar 115508 lining of your stomach creating IBS, horrific bowel problems. IBS is listed as a symptom of FMS, when in actuality it is most usually a side effect ofrepparttar 115509 treatment.

The next prescription given will be something to help you relax and sleep, as FMS people have a hard time staying asleep and end up with severe pain because ofrepparttar 115510 sleep deprivation. When I kickedrepparttar 115511 prescription habit I was taking 150 mg of Amitriptline at bedtime. That was a nightmare in itself. Sure, I gotrepparttar 115512 sleep but it took most ofrepparttar 115513 day for me to be alert enough to feel good andrepparttar 115514 pains would still be there.

Morning meant -getting slowly out of bed then intorepparttar 115515 hottest shower I could stand enabling me to be awake enough to get to work, but most of all to help weaken repparttar 115516 pain enough for me to contend with it all day. That was not a fun time.

Some days it would be so bad I could not get out of bed without screaming in pain. Some days I couldn't get out of bed pain becauserepparttar 115517 pain was more than I could stand. Every movement created tears.

Those years sent me researching for something to stoprepparttar 115518 pain but keep me out of a wheel chair!

FMS MYTHS that I found are: Prescriptions arerepparttar 115519 only answer for FMS pain. Traditional medical world isrepparttar 115520 only ones who can help you with FMS. You will end up in a wheel chair. You are a mental case. You will most likely develop Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). FMS will get worse with age. Doctor says that's all that can be done for your pain!

All those are myths but may come to be reality if you follow repparttar 115521 traditional prescription route of treatments and spouted by doctors in our world of pain but really have no clue what to do for us… Frustrating forrepparttar 115522 doctor who recognizes that he/she is limited in their knowledge and frustrating for those of us who have to live with it.

TRUTHS I found are; FMS is painful and debilitating. It occurs more in women than men. With it comes depression, loss of self worth, pain beyond comprehension and in places you cannot describe literally fromrepparttar 115523 top of your head torepparttar 115524 bottoms of your feet. Disability comes torepparttar 115525 person who followsrepparttar 115526 traditional path of treatment. Pain varies from one person torepparttar 115527 next as torepparttar 115528 severity andrepparttar 115529 areas onrepparttar 115530 body. Sleep deprivation and chronic fatigue are constant companions when FMS is out of control. Alternative Natural medicine isrepparttar 115531 only route to go to keep from becoming a wheel chair bound invalid also regain your self worth and avoid chronic fatigue and IBS. Heart disease comes fromrepparttar 115532 stress of it all so you have to be extra careful to keep antioxidants in your system, 5 to 10 times repparttar 115533 RDA's. Sugary foods exacerbate FMS. Eating empty caloried foods (chips, sodas, cookies, etc.) set up an exacerbation of FMS. Most of these I experienced for myself inrepparttar 115534 past.

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