HEALTHY AND FITNESS

Home Remedies To Relieve Chronic Pain And Inflammation Chronic Pain is a serious disorder. It can interfere with work, school, and family life. Chronic pain affects more than 25 million Americans and is the second leading cause of disability in the United States.   Naturally , over time we become more and more frustrated with the pain and we want an end to it - but chronic pain is not always something that can be cured by rest or medication. So chronic pain is a condition that you need to learn to live with and manage as best as you can.

  Yoga Poses To Lower High Blood Pressure At least one person in your life, a family member, someone you work with, or a good friend is likely to have high blood pressure and take one or more pills every day to bring it under control.

8-EXERCISE FOR EYES TO GET RID OF GLASSES Every year, more and more people have to wear glasses because they have lost flexibility of their distance vision (nearsightedness) or their close-up vision (farsightedness and aging vision). And once you start wearing glasses or contact lenses, guess what happens? You continue your poor vision habits and the lenses increase strain on the eyes, allowing them to slack off and become even lazier over time. Eye exercises are designed to strengthen your eye muscles, improve focusing, eye movements, and stimulate the vision center of your brain. Eye exercises help you to start getting into better vision habits, reduce the strain on your eyes and enjoy perfect vision for years to come. Once you do, you will be open to experiencing dramatic vision improvement. Causes Of Vision Problems There 2 causes behind blurry vision 1) aging –weakness in ocular muscles due to age, diabetes, etc. and 2) modern living – such as watching TV, working...

Migraine Headache Treatment With Yoga Migraine, a primary headache disorder characterized by recurrent headaches that are moderate to severe, can be controlled with the help of yoga, feel a group of medical professionals. The doctors pointed out that around 20 to 30 percent people suffer from migraines in the country.

Yoga: Ancient Science for Modern Times HEALTHY and FITNESS With the third United Nations International Day of Yoga just around the corner, yoga enthusiasts from several countries have already begun participating in events to mark the occasion, a full three days ahead of schedule. Immerse yourself in a one-of-a-kind experience with a global community of yogis — sages, musicians, scientists and beloved teachers from around the globe — to discover yoga practices, guided meditations and healing breathwork for restoring, balancing and invigorating your body, mind, and soul.

Best Yoga Poses for Weight Loss Our eating habits, hectic schedules, workload, and daily lifestyle have taken a toll on our health due to which we tend to gain weight faster. Obesity makes life lazy and sedentary. The body becomes weak and it decreases the possibilities of a longer life span. A common ailment, bones of buttocks, knees, and spinal column become brittle. It may have an adverse effect on health, leading to many health problems such as cardiovascular disease ,  diabetes , sleep apnea , certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis . Overweight people have an increased risk of high blood pressure , heart disease, and other illnesses. Losing weight reduces risk. However, losing weight is more easily said than done. This is surely a universal truth. This is where ancient holistic fitness therapies of yoga and pranayama come for aid. However, practicing yoga on a daily basis has certainly helped many people lose weight. The fact that yoga brings mind, body, and s...

Back pain   can be caused by several day to day activities and habits. One of the most common reasons would certainly include sitting all day long with minimal physical activity. Wrong sitting posture, excessive driving, wrong sleeping posture or just an old injury resurfacing can be few factors contributing to that nagging back pain. In some cases, skeletal imbalance or morbid obesity are also to blame. The muscles between shoulder blades, the Rhomboid and Trapezius muscles, work hard to keep the head straight in line with the center of gravity.  When these muscles are stressed, we need to soothe them. If they're overworked, it makes lead to knots that are caused by the lactic acid deposit and they need to be  massaged to release tension . Similarly, when you use one of your arms more often than the other to do day to day chores, your body weight tends to shift and it becomes less flexible. Such skeletal imbalances can affect your spine muscles and nerves leading ...

In today's world stress is a part of life. How to relieve stress and anxiety? What are the causes and symptoms of stress? Is there a simple way to get rid of stress, without having to pop pills? That's right, you are asking all the right questions and we have the answers to all your questions! CAUSES OF STRESS:  Let's first talk about a few causes and symptoms of stress - while causes could be anything from financial trouble to pressure at work to health problems, the symptoms may be the inability to sleep, poor performance at work, addictions to smoke and drink, excessive eating and lack of energy. And does this affect your body? Yes, it does! Stress affects your heart , immune system , skin, lungs, digestive tract and most importantly your brain. ROLE OF YOGA IN STRESS MANAGEMENT AND RELAXATION Well, now that you know the causes as well as symptoms of stress, what can we do about it? Practicing yoga is one guaranteed way of relieving stress.   Maintaining ...

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                                                           Do you want to get rid of diabetes permanently and forever? Yoga is the only solution for the permanent treatment of diabetes. The number of diabetic patients is increasing day by day and diabetes is becoming a common problem. Though there are many medicines available in the market for diabetes, with all this, permanent treatment of diabetes is not possible. Yoga not only helps you to eradicate diabetes but also help you to deal with many other physical and psychological problems. Regular practice of yoga helps you to get rid of diabetes and modulates your metabolic rate to maintain proper blood sugar level. Diabetes has multiple causes like sedentary lifestyle, lack of exercise, eating junk food and above all stress. These all point out to our lifestyle. Correcting our life...

Remember that slow and steady wins the race when it comes to trimming your waistline. HEALTHY and FITNESS It has been one of the most problematic areas on a person's body...the stomach, and it seems everyone is obsessed with making it flat. Unfortunately, many people think they can eat whatever they want and get a flat stomach by performing 250 crunches per day to burn off the extra fat and calories. That's probably the biggest myth around. Here's a quick guide you can follow to help flatten your stomach.

Think again! If you thought spending hours in a gym every day would help you slim down. A new study suggests that exercising long hours may not prevent gaining weight. A study by Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in the US states that physical activity may not protect you from gaining weight. The findings of the study were published in the journal PeerJ involving young adults from five countries. Physical activity has lots of proven health benefits, ranging from reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease , diabetes , and cancer to improving mood and mental health. A regular course of exercise is also good for your heart . Physically active and people tend to be healthier and live longer.  But through physical activity burns calories, it also increases one’s appetite, and people may compensate it by eating more or by being less active the rest of the day.

Can yoga be helpful for thyroid treatment? The body's metabolism is regulated by the endocrine system, particularly the thyroid gland. Yoga for hypothyroidism is considered to be effective as it has a positive effect on the organs of the endocrine system, especially by stimulating the parathyroid and thyroid glands. Thyroid Disease: The thyroid or endocrine glands consist of two connected lobes. The thyroid gland  is found in the neck, below the thyroid cartilage(which forms the Adam's apple). The thyroid gland controls how quickly the body uses energy, makes proteins, and controls how sensitive the body is to other hormones. It participates in these processes by producing thyroid hormones, the principal ones being triiodothyronine (T3), and thyroxine (sometimes referred to as tetraiodothyronine (T4)). These hormones regulate the growth and rate of function of many other systems in the body. T3 and T4 are synthesized from iodine and tyrosine. The thyroid also prod...