Short Bursts Of Physical Exercise Might Help Women's Bones

A short Run Might Help a Woman's Bones

 This article is good news for those of us who like fast exercise but not too much!

By Mary Elizabeth Dallas
HealthDay Reporter
 

MONDAY, July 24, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Just a minute or two of running every day could strengthen your bones, new research suggests.

British scientists found that women who engage in "brief bursts" of any high-intensity, weight-bearing physical activity had 4 percent better bone health than their less active peers.

9 Healthy Useful Travel Tips

Very useful Travel Tips

The Travel Season is well under way and people are flocking to the sun or are motoring off elsewhere.

Here are a few useful travel tips:

Traveling is the ultimate wellness practice! Am I right? It feeds your mind, body and soul like nothing else. If you do it correctly, you should feel renewed and inspired upon arriving home. Do it wrong and you end up needing another vacation.

For me, doing it right starts before I even leave the house and culminates when arriving home. Here are some of my travel tips for maintaining wellness while away:

5 Invaluable Ways To Improve Self-Esteem

5 Invaluable Ways to Improve Your Self-Esteem | BeWellBuzz

 

Important information for anyone who wants to build self-esteem.

Building up self-esteem isn’t easy, but it’s absolutely worth the effort. This post from The Independent shares 5 simple ways to improve your self-esteem, coming straight from a psychologist with 20 years of experience.

Self-esteem is a wonderful but delicate thing. When our self-esteem is high, we feel more resilient, we’re less vulnerable to anxiety and rejection, and less cortisol, or the stress hormone, is released into our bloodstream.

Backpacks Send Thousands to the Doctor: Prevent Back Injuries This School Year

Backpacks Send Thousands to the Doctor: Prevent Back Injuries This School Year:

 It’s that time of year again: parents are beginning to buy their children school supplies for the upcoming school year. But what parents may not know is that one particular item is sending thousands of children to their doctors' offices every year—backpacks.

These are a few helpful tips to prevent back injury in your children!

Holiday Reading

Holiday Reading

Here are a few books for those of you heading off on a holiday and in need of reading material .

I admit I have not read either of these books so I hope the recommendation is good.

Panic Attacks And Anxiety Linked To Low Levels Of Vitamin B6 And Iron Levels

Panic Attacks And Anxiety Linked To Low Vitamin B6 And Iron Levels

 

Having shared a post about Anxiety and Panic Attacks recently, here is another post.  We cannot learn enough about these conditions and simply increasing Iron and Vitamin B6 levels might help.

 

Anxiety disorders are the most common form of mental illness, affecting 18% of the American population alone. They develop as the result of a complex set of factors, including personality, brain chemistry, genetics, and life experiences. Anxiety disorders often accompany depression. (1) Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. Panic attacks occur spontaneously and often when there’s no real threat, only a perceived one.

It is characterized by the following physical symptoms (2):

Success And How To Achieve It

Success And What It Takes

 Summer is here once more and with it all sorts of Championships, be it the Tour de France, or Wimbledon that has just ended, or this year marks five years since the London Olympics.  The article deals with success and how to achieve it.

 

Many people are under illusions that success comes without having to put too much work into it, but ask the Athletes and you hear a somewhat different story.

 

Imagine the looks on people's faces when someone says, "You don't need to buy a lighter bike. You'd be a lot better off if you lost 10 or 20 pounds."

(We'll get back to that lovely little scene in a moment.)

Many people feel that buying something new -- new technology, new devices, new systems, new "stuff" -- is the key to success. They're convinced that what they have is not enough. What holds them back are the things they don't have.

But that is rarely true. Most people can't work to the limits of what they already have, much less approach the limits of whatever is newer, or faster, or better.

But that doesn't stop people from spending more time searching for better stuff than they do searching for ways to improve themselves.