Ten Quick Tips to Save the Planet and Your Health

Written by Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed.


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Ten Quick Tips to Saverepparttar 115308 Planet and Your Health By Cynthia Perkins, M.Ed.

Many ofrepparttar 115309 common everyday chemicals in your home can contribute to not only harmingrepparttar 115310 environment, but your health as well. Symptoms such as headaches, gastrointestinal disturbances, anxiety, depression, nervousness, fatigue, irritability, inability to concentrate, hyperactivity, joint and muscle pain and many more can berepparttar 115311 result of these chemicals.

Make every day Earth Day! Protectrepparttar 115312 environment and your health by makingrepparttar 115313 following changes in your lifestyle.

1. Eat organic. Pesticides, herbicides, etc. poisonrepparttar 115314 soil, water, air and your body. They are linked to contributing to serious health problems including cancer, depression and central nervous system disorders.

2. Use non-toxic and natural household cleaning products. Most everyday cleaning products are very harmful to your health. Baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, lemon and vinegar are great alternatives and can be used for just about anything.

3. Wear only natural clothing fibers and organic clothes if possible. Synthetic fibers and non-organics are treated with high levels of formaldehyde and even petroleum. About $3 Billion is spent on pesticides for cotton fields each year worldwide, with over 600,000 tons of pesticides and chemical fertilizers onrepparttar 115315 US cotton fields alone.

4. Throw away your perfume and cologne. They contain chemicals contributing to asthma, central nervous disorders, immune dysfunction and a variety of other health problems.

Exercise: Why YOU should do it

Written by Aaron M. Potts, ISSA CFT, YFT


Hundreds of Thousands of Americans spend millions of dollars each year on diet pills, “magical” exercise devices, and misrepresented health and fitness products, when in all actuality a good set of dumbbells and a brisk walk may be all you need to get in better shape than you’ve ever been in.

What can you do with nothing but a set of dumbbells, you ask? Provide resistance to your body’s movements - also known as weight lifting. That’s all weight lifting is – resistance. The terms “weight lifting” and “resistance training” have become one inrepparttar same because they are describingrepparttar 115304 same activity – moving your body under more resistance than it normally has to handle.

In fact, you’ve just stumbled uponrepparttar 115305 basic secret of exercise in general! Whether you are talking about resistance training, Pilates, Yoga, cardiovascular activities, or any other form of exercise, all of these programs have one thing in common - performing more activity than you would get sitting onrepparttar 115306 couch. WHY should you exercise, though?

How about defyingrepparttar 115307 aging process for starters? Do you know thatrepparttar 115308 primary reason why elderly people end up in nursing homes is because they loserepparttar 115309 ability to think and move on their own? Do you also know thatrepparttar 115310 entire process of thinking and moving on our own happens because we do it every day? Until we retire, that is. Once we don’t have to go to work anymore, or deal with scheduling and lifestyle issues, suddenlyrepparttar 115311 only thing that we have to think about is whether to watch game shows or soap operas all day long, andrepparttar 115312 only exercise we get is deftly flying our fingers overrepparttar 115313 remote control.

Mush. That’s what our brains and bodies turn into when we stop using them. Think you are still sharp as a tack, and atrepparttar 115314 height of your game? Try to sayrepparttar 115315 alphabet backwards in 30 seconds or less.

Yes…. sharp indeed.

What about physically? Think that you can still hold your own even though you don’t really exercise much? Stop reading this article and drop down onrepparttar 115316 floor for some correct-form push-ups. Did you do at least 30 if you are female, or at least 40 if you are male? No? How about 20 or 25? 15? Unless you pulled off 30 or 40, you are probably at less thanrepparttar 115317 50 percentile mark for your gender – health conditions notwithstanding.

Okay, so you’ve determined that you aren’t exactly Olympic athlete material. So what? You don’t even like sports, let alone being very good at them. That’s fine, and there is nothing wrong with that. So what about fat? Do you like bodyfat? Do you find it physically appealing? Do you think it’s healthy? If so, we’re done speaking. Go on about your business, and thanks for reading this far.

For everyone else, here is a newsflash: In America today –repparttar 115318 year 2004 – obesity related health conditions account for more deaths inrepparttar 115319 United States each year than all known forms of cancer COMBINED. Heart Disease alone isrepparttar 115320 number one killer of American adults, and it is a PREVENTABLE CONDITION!

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