Health and Fitness Tips

When the words oils and fats are mentioned, health-conscious individuals tend to run for cover. What they fail to realize is that there are good fats and bad fats. Complete avoidance of intake of oils and fats would actually be detrimental – rather than beneficial – to their health.

The Truth about Fish Oil
Essential fatty acids must always be part of our daily diet – without them, we take one step closer to our deaths. Essential fatty acids are divided into two families: omega-6 EFAs and omega-3 EFAS.

Although there are only very slight differences to distinguish the two groups of essential fatty acids from each other, studies have revealed that too much intake of omega-6 EFAs can lead to inflammation, blood clotting and tumor growth. The good news, however, is that the opposite is true for omega-3 EFAs. Omega-6 EFAs can be found in vegetable oils while omega-3 EFAs can be found in fish oils among other foods. [Read more →]

Do you always find yourself constantly wiping your face? Do beads of sweat always roll down your forehead? Are your temples always wet? How about your head, does it always feel sticky? Do people always ask you if you’ve just been out of the shower and suggest to you that you should buy a new towel?

If you answered ‘yes’ to all the questions above, then you could be having excessive face and head sweating. Also known as cranial or facial hyperhidrosis, this disorder of the sweat glands is experienced not just by you but by millions of other people around the world as well. Although sweating is a normal body function designed to get rid of your toxins from within, there are times when it becomes abnormal.

Like any other disorder, this gives the person suffering it a set of problems. The very first in the list and the major and most common one is altered self-esteem. In this case, the self-esteem is greatly lowered. Although a lot of people suffer from excessive sweating, all of them say that it is embarrassing and makes them feel self-conscious. Because of this, those with this kind of skin disorder, or more aptly sweat gland disorder, do not like to mingle and wish to just keep to themselves. [Read more →]

Most work related health and safety incidents are related to stress and fatigue. And since being efficient at work requires an alert mind and body, these health issues can really be a pain in the neck. Most people who work round the clock to finish work, meet deadlines, and yearn for more dollars on their pay check can end up feeling tired and drowsy at work. But because of all problems related to the credit crunch, a little extra money is what many are after even if it means health is sometimes jeopardized.

If you are one of the many who are working on a hectic schedule, there are some things you can do to help yourself. You can avoid fatigue by just following these simple steps:

1. Avoid too much intake of caffeine. Caffeine in coffee is a stimulant but when it wears off, you would feel more fatigued and tired than before.

2. Stop smoking. Some turn to cigarettes for help when they feel stressed. They say it makes them relax and think clearly. Nicotine, like caffeine, is also a stimulant but the effects on the body are not good. [Read more →]

The numbers on your scale do not indicate whether you are fit or fat. Far more significant than your total body weight is the composition of your body tissue. If a man’s fatty tissue is bigger than 14% up to 15% of his body mass, or if a woman’s is more than 20% to 22%, he or she is overweight, or more precisely, overfat.

A small amount of fat is needed for padding the internal organs and as insulation under the skin. Excess fat leads to such diseases as diabetes, gout, high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and gallbladder problems. There are very few, very fat persons. The reason is that the fittest, not the fattest survive.

The problem now is focused on how to resolve the problem. The problem with most people who want to lose weight is that they have the propensity to concentrate more on getting those numbers lower than what they are seeing now. What happens next is that they strive harder to achieve a lower weight, according to the “ever reliable” result of the weighing scale.

It would be more important to think of the human body as a heat-exchange engine that works on the basic principles of energy physics. The caloric balance equals the total calorie intake minus the total calorie expenditure. [Read more →]