Apanemia Health Centre

Archive for July, 2011

Here below are listed in alphabetical order certain physical activities, on which is intended only to raise some basic guidelines in reference to the recommended age of achievement for each of them.

Athletics

Depending on the type of activity can be practiced from childhood to middle age, promoting endurance, strength, coordination and elimination of fats. The lesions may be back, joints and others.

Aerobics – water aerobics

From teens to seniors, taking into account the impacts should be reduced by age to not load the joints, especially knees, plus you have to keep an adequate heart rate. We recommend three sessions a week, resting a day between them. Read the rest of this entry »

Regular physical activity combined with healthy eating habits can improve the health of women and help prevent many diseases are the leading causes of death and disability that affect everyone. Think again it is estimated that over eighty percent of women over forty years go by sitting most of the day.

As already indicated, exercise helps prevent cardiovascular diseases, which include heart disease, stroke and hypertension, representing one third of deaths among women worldwide.

The combination of regular physical activity and healthy diet is controlled and fully effective half to prevent and control these problems and others, such as obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis or arthritis, and help in the menopause and even during pregnancy, where you can keep the physical activity that will vastly improve flexibility and strength needed. Read the rest of this entry »

The physical exercise is a habit to be cultivated from an early age, being even social interest is an important part of educating children and youth.

In children, as has been developing scientific about it, they can make proposals both to increase the level of athletic performance and, ultimately, enhance quality of life, especially the future.

Involved in child development variables, hormonal, anthropometric, neurological, environmental … While the hormonal component that determines sexual development, and thus important changes in the body, peaks at puberty, between eleven and fourteen, neurological and deeply developed long before and therefore have into account in sports training from an early age. Read the rest of this entry »

Exercise is beneficial for all ages. The daily practice improves our quality of life by preventing future illness, both chronic and acute.

Of course, in the practice of exercise, especially if it has maintained a sedentary lifestyle, a number of limitations that should be taken into account:

Age.

Personal history, clinical (care situations will be the existence of cardiovascular, respiratory and other) and sports.

The current physical condition, and

The purposes that arise in each case for the practical exercise: recreational, therapeutic and competitive.

From these statements, this topic outlines the need and benefits of physical exercise, especially for three groups, the elderly, children and women, exposing a sports relationship indicating each convenience advisable, according age. Read the rest of this entry »

Warming

Before starting any exercise you must perform a warm-up session to prepare the body for activity, especially the muscular system, including stretching, to get the maximum benefit of exercise and avoid injury.

The warming effect is smooth and rhythmic exercises, working different body parts to stimulate movement in the body. These exercises increase body temperature, gradually accelerating both respiratory or heart rate. All in all, avoid muscle injuries, and also cardiovascular disease.

You have to spend five to ten minutes, stretching the muscles with the help of regular breathing and deep, without forcing too much. In addition, greatly improving flexibility. Read the rest of this entry »

Precautions before exercise

Physical activity is beneficial for everyone, but in some cases the exercise should not be done without medical advice.

People should seek advice before exercising are the situations such as:

- Cardiovascular problems, including hypertension, which requires to be discarded take regular stress.

- Respiratory problems.

- Osteoporosis (will require densitometry to assess bone density).

- Initially mundane processes, such as influenza (which may require not exercise until you are fully recovered).

- Pregnant women: There are physical activities that should be avoided. Read the rest of this entry »

It is not a great feeling at all when you are infected with diarrhoea. One thing for sure is the fact that you will lose plenty of fluid and this causes you to be very weak. There is no definite cure for diarrhoea up until now, but you can remove the symptoms using several ways. First, you can use antibiotics but you will only benefit from this treatment if your illness is not caused by bacteria infection. You can use Imodium diarrhoea treatment because this drug is able to suppress the symptoms and make you feel more relaxed during the recovery period.

Instead of using Imodium diarrhoea treatment, it is best if you use a more natural approach. Changing your diet can certainly create a huge impact on your digestive system and your overall health. The most important thing is to drink plenty of water. If you think that drinking lots of water will only make your condition worse, you are wrong.

On the contrary, it is very important that you drink a lot of water so that you are able to compensate the lost fluid from your body. If you find it difficult to drink plain water, there is nothing wrong for you to consume fruit juices. These drinks will add more nutrients and vitamins into your body and this is essential to maintain a good health.

Convenience of exercise

Today is fully shown that people who exercise regularly improve their physical health and quality of life and reach an older age in better overall health. The controlled and sustained exercise the following benefits:

Enhances emotional well being, reducing stress, anxiety and feelings of depression.

Exerts a preventive and protective against the following diseases:
Cardiovascular lowers cholesterol, increases lung capacity and prevents hypertension;

bone and muscle, promoting muscle development and flexibility of joints;

or degenerative diseases and cancer, improving the immune system and increase resistance to infection. Read the rest of this entry »

You can improve exercise capacity by increasing the amount of explosive muscle creatine phosphate. This can take supplements of this substance for periods from one week to one month before the exercise.

The most important effect of diet to enhance physical performance, especially in sporting events over 60 minutes, occurs through the ability to increase muscle glycogen stores. In fact the increase in physical performance that occurs within a few weeks into the training is mainly due to improved storage of glycogen by muscle and its ability to increase the combustion of glucose and fatty acids. Read the rest of this entry »

The effectiveness of muscle to generate force and motion depends on the ability of muscle cells to contract and, as in other “machines” of the fuel used. Therefore, no wonder the interest in the relationship between muscle power and efficiency. See also ‘Exercise and Calories’

Fuel

Until the early twentieth century it was thought that the ideal fuel for muscle proteins were, it was necessary to provide in the form of meat. These ideas led to supply problems such as the German army in World War I, which according to the beliefs of the time eating per capita was almost a kilo of meat every day. Read the rest of this entry »