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Promoting Good Health With Antioxidant Fruits
Thursday, March 15th, 2012Antioxidants are nutrients that support the cells to fight injury caused by free radicals, which are produced when there’s oxidative stress. Oxidative stress occurs in normal bodily operations like extracting of glucose along with other bodily responses to several diseases. In case the balance between antioxidants and free radicals is not preserved, oxidative stress is made even worse and further leads to the production of reactive oxygen species such as free radicals. Essentially, almost any method that necessitates the use of oxygen would emit free radicals within our system.
To address free radicals, there are a lot of antioxidant fruits that are offered in the market. You may opt to incorporate them in your typical nutrition. Five portions of antioxidant fruits each day will help you a bit if you do not prefer to take dietary supplements. Then again, be suggested that antioxidants from food are often damaged by cooking or preparation process so you may wish to omit these types of food since they won’t help much. Moreover, gastric juices aren’t very kind to antioxidants to ensure that before these good enzymes get to the small intestine where they will be produced their amounts are already greatly reduced.
This being said, it is important to take dietary supplements that are extracts of antioxidant fruits. These health supplements may be by means of capsules, tablets, juice and also fortified food items. Antioxidant fruits consist of pomegranate, mangosteen, melons, grapefruit, and even antioxidant-fortified cantaloupes. The good portion of such fruits daily will assist your cells breakdown free radicals into significantly less dangerous chemicals and then further into workable water and oxygen. Reliable information regarding antioxidant fruits can be acquired on the net. But if you fail to discover which of such are legal sources of antioxidant reading material, make sure you confer with your physician before taking any product especially if you have an underlying medical condition that might be affected by increased intake of antioxidant fruits and supplements.
FrumTherapist : Mental Health Resources for the Frum Community
Thursday, November 10th, 2011By Shoshana Averbach, MSW, LMSW, MA, MT-BC, LCAT
Communicating with persons who have cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia can be very challenging for the caregiver and the
affected person. Cognitive impairments such as memory loss, delayed processing time for answering questions, repeating the same question or providing
inaccurate information often leave the caregiver befuddled and feeling frustrated-and more so when the affected person denies or masks that anything is
amiss with him or her. Futility, helplessness and hopelessness cause stress which can result in losing one's temper which does neither party any good
and exacerbates the burdens of caregiving. Music, however, can be employed simply and effectively for alleviating caregiver strain, improving quality
of life for the elderly patient, and injecting playfulness in a stressful situation. Even a person who has no musical training can utilize the
techniques in this article.
Music Therapy and the Power of Music
The American Music Therapy Association (musictherapy.org) defines music therapy as "the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to
accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music-therapy program."
Music therapists discover what types of music and sound turn a person on or off and the associations with those compositions or sounds. Often, these
associations and feelings are imbedded in long-term and the sensory memory and are more accessible than recalling what the person ate for breakfast
earlier that day. One's most primitive memories are with smells and sound. The latter is the first sense to develop in the womb and is the last to go
on the other end of life. Music bypasses the neocortex or thinking part of the brain, thus allowing those primitive images and associations to be
easily accessible and utilized therapeutically. The ability to enjoy and benefit from music is not dependent on any physical or mental functional
ability. Even comatose patients benefit from listening to music.
User-Friendly Techniques Even for the Nonmusician
Reminiscence and discussion
stimulate memory, engage communication skills such as eye contact and promote social interaction rather than withdrawal and self-isolation.
Reminiscence promotes self-esteem and personhood: "I know that!" "That's me!" "That's my Jewish identity and history!" Play a CD of the patient's
favorite songs or songs the patient can relate: WWII, Yiddish, patriotic and holiday songs. Encourage conversation such as "Where were you when you
heard this song? Who was with you? About how old were you? What was your address and telephone number?" Show the person recording jackets, pictures or
photographs that go along with the music.
Music and movement
go hand in hand, literally. If the affected person is ambulatory and steady on his/her feet, get up and dance! Dancing evokes positive feelings of
joyful occasions and helps oxygen and blood circulation which are beneficial for memory and brain function. If one is not ambulatory, "dance" by taking
the persons hands and feet and moving them. Move with a scarf which adds tracking-the ability to follow an object and stay engaged. For persons who
tend to grab and cling, hold the underside of their forearms.
Rhythm-band activities
such as shaking a maraca or tambourine in time to music promote awareness of one's surroundings and is a fun activity as if one is a member of the band
or orchestra. Instruments can be purchased or made inexpensively. Make a shaker from beans, rice, or cloves in a plastic container. Bang a pot lid with
a spoon. March in time to the music while playing.
Orientation songs
help to ease transition times which often confuse dementia patients and cause them to be rigid. Take a song like "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" and insert words
such as "We're going to eat lunch/go to bed/take a bath/get up." Sing melodies to prayers which are imbedded in long-term memory. Just as radio or TV
programs have an opening and closing theme song, begin and end the day with the same song to help the person anticipate what will happen. This reduces
confusion and promotes cooperation.
Communicate by singing
and the person will probably understand you better because the language is processed by a different part of the brain other than the neocortex or
thinking part of the brain. Make up a song to relate the day, date, person's name: Good morning to Moshe, good morning to you, good morning to Moshe
and how do you do?"
Lining Out Songs
is a technique that stimulates memory like "Name That Tune." Play a game called Can You Remember the Lyrics? Start humming a melody. Ask the person to
say or sing the lyrics. If s/he cannot, feed the person with the first few words: e.g., Oh beautiful for ______ (spacious skies).
Listening to music quietly
with dimmed lighting provides a calm and safe environment. This can be effective for persons who are agitated. Agitation often accompanies fear,
anxiety and confusion. Provide verbal and tactile reassurance by holding the person's hand and saying you love him/her or "It's going to be OK., " "I
am here with you."
Defining Success
Apparent feedback is wonderful but not always available. Trust that you are reaching someone, somewhere, somehow, in some way. Even on a spirit level,
you ARE reaching him/her. Keep trying and use repetition. Maybe the person needs extra time to process what's going on or become accustomed to a
routine. Look for subtle signs like change of affect (how emotion is shown on the face), breathing (deeper, faster, slower), eye contact or eye
movement, twitches. Alzheimer's and dementia patients relate on a very basic feeling level. Just as young children are sensitive to facial expressions,
vocal cues, and presence, so are these patients. They are used to being addressed in a certain tone of voice; don't belittle nor infantilize them.
Reinforce any efforts to engage with you or the activity. Even making eye contact is a basic communication skill: Point to your eyes, look at the
person directly, and say "Good looking Miriam!"
Caregiving requires tremendous strength of character. Endorse yourself for your efforts. Accept your limitations and forgive yourself. Listen to your
own favorite music for comfort and strength. Your job is not to complete the task but, rather, to do your best to maintain the patient's quality of
life and personhood. Utilize music to help you and the affected person accomplish this seemingly-monmouth task.
In conclusion, I would like to share this quotation from Sayings of the Moharash, Part B:
Most people who are nervous types, that is only because they have weak nerves, and that causes depression, anger, and murder. Their lives are not
theirs at all because they are under internal pressure, and this completely destroys their life. Therefore, he who has weak nerves is behooved to guard
his health very well: to eat, to drink and to sleep well, and to hear instruments of song and so, because of that, his nerves will be
strengthened and he will merit a complete recovery and everything will pass.
Please feel free to contact me with feedback, questions, or to try a home-based session.
Shoshana Averbach, MSW, LMSW, MA, MT-BC, LCAT, has worked with geriatric clients for over 30 years in the fields of music therapy, social work, and
recreation. She also is certified as an accredited healer, practicing energy and spiritual healing, and uses holistic approaches to optimize wellness
in her clients. She is available for consultations and home and hospital visits. For more information, see her web site: www.healingnotes.com
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Study: Medications in NYC water not a health risk
Saturday, August 20th, 2011NEW YORK (AP) — Tiny amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal care products detected in the drinking water of the nation’s biggest city continue to pose no public health risks to residents, environmental officials said Friday.
The city’s Department of Environmental Protection drew samples from three upstate watersheds between March and December last year and analyzed them for 72 compounds, including antibiotics and prescription medications.
The DEP said that the tests detected 14 pharmaceutical and personal care products at least once but that none was found at levels that would pose a risk to the city’s nearly 9 million residents. It said caffeine, the pain relievers acetaminophen and ibuprofen and the seizure-controlling medication carbamazepine were among the compounds that were detected.
“For most of these detected compounds, a person would have to drink at least tens of thousands of glasses of water a day to get one effective dose of the substance or to meet a toxicity threshold,” the DEP said in a statement.
The study follows one done in 2009 that also detected tiny amounts of pharmaceuticals and personal care products, including penicillin and the insect repellent DEET, in the city’s drinking water.
The initial study was prompted in part by an Associated Press investigation that found pharmaceuticals in drinking water of dozens of the country’s major water providers, serving 41 million people.
Human health risks from trace pharmaceuticals are unclear, and the federal government does not regulate their levels in drinking water.
The DEP said it monitors about 250 contaminants in the city’s water.
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Atlas Chiropractic Health Center Launches a New Website: Your Seattle, Capitol Hill Chiropractor.
Wednesday, May 11th, 20112011-04-21 07:48:08 – Dr. Corinne Xidos is a seasoned chiropractor and has brought a chiropractic diagnosis use during your doorway step in Capitol Hill Seattle and a neighborhood. With her immeasurable knowledge in a field, we can be positive of removing assistance on oodles of conditions. She deals with diagnosis of conditions such as treating collision injuries, regulating specific physique problems such as behind or spinal condition, alleviation of ubiquitous health and investiture of pain use schemes.
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If we are pang from any of a aforementioned and associated conditions, we can take a demeanour during reviews of clients who have already used a use of Dr. Xidos. The services of a alloy are directed during elucidate a base means of a pain instead of treating a symptom, and that has done
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On a initial revisit we make to a health center, Dr. Xidos will initial explain to we how a chiropractic functions in details. Then, she will control consummate diagnosis on we to establish either your condition is fit to be treated regulating chiropractic. The hearing is also essential for assisting a alloy in last diagnosis module that is tailored to fit a mandate and health goals.
Dr. Xidos has endless training in a margin of chiropractic joined with many years of practice; she has gained strenuous knowledge to offer her clients. She deals with veteran diagnosis of conditions such as whiplash, scoliosis, herniated discs and sciatica only to discuss a few. Dr. Xidos has overwhelming annals with diagnosis of these conditions. Patients seeking diagnosis during her health core are positive of removing a excellent studious caring given we will be treated by a alloy who cares about a gratification of her patients. Besides, a hospital has rarely gifted massage therapists who specialize in damage treatment, stress and pain government as good as pregnancy massage.
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Contact:
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Atlas Chiropractic health
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206-324-2225
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Skin caring essential to altogether health: New Redmond business specializes in gripping skin clean, transparent and hydrated
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011The skin is a largest organ of a body; it offers insurance from a elements and helps say a healthy body.
Because it has such an critical job, Sabrina Tarditi pronounced it is critical to take caring of your skin. As a owners of Calming Waters Skin Care during 17090 Avondale Way in Redmond (inside Jones Family chiropractic), a Kirkland proprietor works as an esthetician and creates a vital display others how to do a same.
“Skin caring has come a prolonged approach and is most some-more advanced,” she said, referring to when she initial began her career some-more than 20 years ago. “There’s usually so most some-more we can do. Skin caring is usually so modernized and it’s so complex.”
Everyone’s skin is conflicting and Tarditi, whose business non-stop in December, pronounced today there are many options accessible for all skin types. Her services, operation from facials to waxing and Tarditi customizes a treatments to support to her clients’ skin needs. She uses a Túel skin caring line, that offers products for all skin types.
Tarditi also takes continuing-education courses on a unchanging basement to learn some-more about modernized skin caring and improved offer clients with quite acne-prone skin or other conditions such as rosacea. Next month, she will also be approved to offer microdermabrasion and chemical peels services.
For an at-home skin caring regimen, Tarditi pronounced there are a few simple things specific to any skin form that will assistance we put your best face forward.
She pronounced it’s critical for all skin forms to splash a lot of H2O and stay hydrated, though quite critical for those with dry skin since if a physique isn’t removing adequate hydration, it will get it where it can, for instance from a skin. Tarditi combined that people with dry skin should also use a good peculiarity moisturizer with sunscreen during a day and a nutritive cream during night to condition a skin.
People with greasy or acne-prone skin also need to moisturize. Tarditi pronounced many people assume they don’t need to, though it’s a opposite: droughty skin will furnish some-more oil to make adult for a miss of dampness it is receiving. Oily skin forms should use a moisturizer that is oil free.
Combination skin forms should use peaceful products that won’t over hydrate a greasy tools of their face or undernourish a dry spots. Tarditi pronounced people with multiple skin that is some-more greasy than dry should use a jelly cleanser, while people with a conflicting multiple skin form should gaunt toward a clarification milk.
Dry and supportive skin forms should demeanour for products that will ease and ease their skin. Tarditi pronounced chamomile helps with this and that there are product lines privately for dry and supportive skin.
For mature skin, she pronounced exfoliating is really critical and when moisturizing, demeanour for products with additional vitamins and other components that will delayed down a aging process. Tarditi combined that vitamin C in sold is critical — both practical topically and internally from food and supplements.
Tarditi pronounced everyone, regardless of skin form should use sunscreen.
“Sun causes wrinkles, freckles, age spots, rough, dry skin and some-more critical problems such as skin cancer,” she said. “We need sunscreen all year turn to strengthen a skin from a elements as good as a damaging rays of some indoor lights.”
Other lifestyle aids such as not smoking, handling stress levels, eating right and removing a good night’s nap are also critical to progressing healthy skin, she added.
Tarditi’s services are accessible by appointment only. For some-more information, call (426) 736-3245.
Redmond Reporter Reporter Samantha Pak can be reached during spak@redmond-reporter.com or 425-867-0353, ext. 5052.
To your health: Consider these 5 elementary ways to live a improved life
Sunday, April 17th, 2011You’ve listened this before, though a bottom line is we can’t shun a elementary fact that we have to eat well. No tablet or refreshment or any volume of finished diet dishes will ever take a place of simply eating well.
a) If we don’t eat breakfast… start. You contingency “break a fast” from a night before and get your body’s engine moving. Skipping breakfast creates an diseased cascade of chemical reactions in your physique that can adversely impact mind function, sleep, digestion, heart health (hypertension/cholesterol), mood (stress/depression), blood sugarine and ongoing pain usually to name a few. Breakfast sets a tinge for your day. Studies uncover that if we eat a healthy protein-based breakfast we will select 80 percent fewer calories during your day.
b) Avoid any synthetic sweeteners. This includes Nutrasweet, Splenda, and sucralose. They are poisonous to your shaken system. Stevia is a usually excusable healthy sweetener. People who feast synthetic sweeteners are on normal 7 pounds heavier than a rest of a population.
c) Eat any 2-3 hours and eat fresh. Stop eating dishes from a box. Become a squirrel. That means transport with healthy snacks everywhere we go. Good snacks are almonds/walnuts, apples or any form of veggie. Most “nutrition” bars on a marketplace are really high in sugarine and when they explain to have high protein and low carbs they substantially have synthetic sweeteners.
d) Drink one-half of your physique weight in ounces/day. Add some-more if we exercise. Add a extract of 1 organic lemon/day to your water.
e) Stop celebration soda, diet or otherwise.
THINK WELL
Be good to yourself. Positive self speak is a pivotal to gaining a improved state of mind. How many times have we called yourself a name today? Catch yourself subsequent time we dump a pencil and we call yourself “stupid” or “clumsy.” we pledge if we called we names, we wouldn’t like it really much. So, because is it fine to call yourself names? Change how we speak to yourself and we will change how we feel about yourself.
BREATHE WELL
Most people go days or even weeks though holding a low breath. Deep respirating relaxes a physique and mind, improves recovering and even sleep. Deep respirating alone has been shown to diminution stress and assistance with weight loss. A elementary low respirating exercise: lay or distortion down and tighten your eyes. Imagine a small burble of oxygen on a tip of your nose. On a count of four, breathe forcefully and suppose pulling a burble from a tip of your nose all a approach down to your naval. Hold for a count of four. Exhale by your nose on a count of 4 pulling your hypothetical burble behind out to a tip of your nose. Start with 5 of these and work adult to 10. You might feel a small volatile during initial so take your time and build adult your stamina.
MOVE WELL
We know a advantages of exercise, though use though coherence training puts we during larger risk for musculoskeletal injuries. Practicing yoga provides strengthening, flexibility, balance, coordination and low breathing. There are many forms of yoga, so select a category that fits your needs. Yoga is an all encompassing use that anyone can do during any age.
LIVE WELL
Create a certain universe around you. Watching and listening to a news and crime shows promotes feelings of fear, negativity and depression. If there is something critical we need to know, we pledge someone will tell you. Instead, watch a good comedy. Read a book. Write a book. Be kind. Be nice. Smile. Involve yourself in pointless acts of kindness. Help others. All these things foster good endorphins that improves defence duty and an altogether state of good being for we and others in your life.
Create your happy universe a approach we want. If we any emanate a possess happy world, we can make a tellurian universe a improved place.
Dr. Paula L Ruffin, D.C., owns New Hudson Chiropractic Wellness Center, P.C., and has been in private use for some-more than 12 years. She is a approved First Line Therapy lifestyle, nourishment and weight detriment coach. Reach her during (248) 486-5684 or www.drruffin.com.
Diabetes and added Strain can spoil your health
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011While you are getting diagnosed for diabetes you undeniably try making many changes in your lifestyle, so that you remain healthy and maintain your glucose level in your blood. However, there are many factors that you may be unaware of can spoil your health. And the main reason behind this is the additional stress that [...]
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