Healthy Crunch

You would have perhaps expecting some names of pills or supplements that’ll instantly make your neighborhood ‘hotties’ drool over you! Well, supplements do sometimes serve their purpose but more often than less it has gifted an unwanted present in the form of side effects.

Here I discuss few natural ways to build up the muscle. Firstly understand your body and body type and have corresponding expectations. Don’t worry, you’ll reach your goal anyways, but maybe the time taken and the effort to be put in will differ.

1. Have a balanced diet. Your diet should contain all the necessary nutrients. Along with those it would be better if there is more of protein and fiber intake. Further, don’t gulp down a heavy meal two times a day! Instead have six moderate meals at equal intervals throughout the day. Remember the golden rule- Eat your breakfast like a king, your lunch like a prince and your dinner like a pauper!
2. Water and fluids are very necessary. A minimum of 12 glasses of water other than healthy fluids is my recommendation.
3. You know what to do next. Workout hard. But do those exercise in the correct manner and consistently.

Be it the diet or the workout, remain consistent. Eat and workout in the correct manner. Dedication, determination and discipline- the three D’s will take you all the way to the fourth D- your Destination!

Anxiety is just another feeling, you, me all of us have been anxious at some point of our life. But when anxiety starts to intrude in your or your child’s daily life activities its time you press the emergency button. Anxiety disorders are seen on a rise especially amongst teens and children. An estimated of 6 to 20 percent of teens and children show symptoms of anxiety disorder.

The reason behind anxiety disorders are generally attributed to hereditary descends and environmental factors. So, maybe you just passed on those symptoms to your child. No? Then maybe the ambience around has played spoilsport. You aren’t with your child or teen always. He or she has a life outside. Stress, peer pressure, household fights etc can add on gradually to build up anxiety.

Fine! So you’ve settled down on the reasons. It’s time you took some serious action. Firstly, don’t panic. Your gem isn’t completely lost. Consult a mental health professional at the soonest. The healing or recuperating is a gradual process as your child requires a lot of time to cope up with his or her worries and fears. A careful evaluation and a case specific treatment along with your love should make your child the child he or she was!

Being mature is not always good, especially when its shows on your face! Ageing is natural. But few products can make you look younger. Here are the anti ageing techniques-

1. Primer is a must. Your ageing skin doesn’t quite hold the color for long. So I would suggest primer to be a must unless you want your makeup to wither away after an hour.
2. For your face always opt for light foundation. A heavy foundation will make those filthy wrinkles and line stand out and you’ll end up looking gaudier than ever. So just touch up with a synthetic brush on the prime areas like your nose, chin and forehead.
3. Eyes need special attention. Enliven your eyes by applying a ‘concealer’ from the inner corner of your eye to mid pupil. Don’t dare to reach the outer corner of your eyes (it gives a ghostly look!).Eyeliner to your upper eyelash (just that) is sufficient. Fill up the white spaces in your brow using a pencil and make it completely defined. Eye shadows have a thumb rule- light shaded color attract light and dark shades absorb light. Now make your own choices!

All of this without the ideal anti ageing technique of ‘feeling young from within’ is helpless!

Alternative health products are those products that are of natural origin and aren’t scientifically proved to be an effective health product. “What? Then why do I subscribe to it? “I can hear you yelling! Well, these have shown considerable improvements in many cases and are suggested by many practitioners as a side therapy. Further. These are very low on side effects. So my point is, why not give it a try? You aren’t going to lose anything!

The different alternative health products include music therapy, diet controls, and nutrient increasing medicines and so on. Some typical products are the cranberry extract pills for urinary tract infections, and this one might interest you more if you are a wannabe Schwarzenegger- Protein powders to increase your bulk! Likewise there are several alternative health products for various diseases like AIDS, cancer, Asthma, Arthritis, Sinusitis, Migraine and so on.

Alternative health products aren’t prepared in labs (they are of natural origin) and perhaps that maybe the reason for someone telling you that those are just placebos. Does that matter much? You just want it to cure your problem or serve its purpose, right? After all, Mother Nature has the best remedies!

‘Aerobics’ true to its meaning ‘with oxygen’ physically conditions and improves your respiratory and circulatory efficiency. There are various exercises that you can choose from- right from walking, cycling, swimming to intensive ones. However, I would like to stress here, irrespective of the exercise incorporated in your aerobics cardio workout, the exercise should be done intensively, in the correct manner and consistently. You lose out on any one of these and the benefits may not be as fruitful as it would have otherwise been.

The benefits of Aerobics cardio include:

1. A stronger and healthier heart. Cardio refers to heart, so strive for an optimum target heart rate (THR) during your workout. Here’s a simple calculation for that- Calculate your Maximum heart rate (MHR) by subtracting your age by 220. Further, THR should be 60-90% of your MHR.
2. This improves your cardiac output i.e. blood delivery to various parts of the body, and it improves your oxygen extraction (more oxygen intake to your body).
3. Decreases the total cholesterol and increases HDL (necessary cholesterol).
4. It reduces blood pressure along with reducing the risk of diabetes, heart stroke and heart attack.
5. Reduces body fat, depression, anxiety, tension and improves efficient sleep hours.

Overall, Aerobics cardio strengthens your heart, lungs and your respiratory and circulatory system. It increases your basic metabolic rate and oxygen intake level.