Be Active Towards Fitness!
We always associate weight with health: if one is over-weight, he or she is always advised or encouraged to lose weight. But when it comes to heart disease, being fit is as important as being thin, according to a report published in 2004 in the Journal of American Medical Association. 67 percent were over-weight at the start of the study when the mean age of the group was 58. Besides being measured weight, these women were also asked about their habit of physical activities at home, work and at leisure, such as climbing staircases, running a short distance or walking around the block without shopping. 68 of the women died during the study and 455 women suffered a heart disease related problem such as a heart attack or stroke. After analyzing the data, it was found that women who were at least moderately active were less likely to develop heart disease or related problems than women with low activity scores, no matter which weight category they were in. Physical fitness has beneficial effects on many factors related...
Add, Subtract, Change : A Problem Solving Technique
How do you like to solve your problems. Do you prefer to use the more creative problem solving techniques, or the systematic ones. You ll get the best of both with the add-subtract-change method. Add, Subtract, Change I am sitting here looking at my bicycle as I write this. To come up with new ideas in bicycle design, all we have to do is look at the elements that are there and ask three things. What can we add, what can we subtract, and what can we change. Would pet owners like a built-in dog or cat carrier. Are 18 gears necessary. There are still six gears and one less thing to break if a shifter is removed. What if the wheels were larger or the frame made of a flexible material. What would the advantages be. Personal Problems Too The add-subtract-change technique is well suited to developing new products, but what if your having trouble sticking to an exercise plan. Will this kind of problem solving method work for personal issues. You won t know until you try it. Subtract: Distractions, unrealistic goals...
Asthma Cause: Understanding What S Happening
Understanding asthma cause factors can help you to insure that you know why and what is likely to happen to you. Those that face asthma do so, on a daily basis. The cause or triggers of their episodes or attacks really can range in what they are. But, what brings on the disease of asthma in the first place. Understanding this can help to provide you with the overall best results when it comes to treating your asthma condition as well. For some people, asthma is caused by hereditary conditions, passed down through the course of their family genes. Yet, for others the cause of the asthma that they have has to do with the outside factors such as the environment in which they live. Still, there can be an infection or allergy that causes the asthma to come on as well. While finding out what has caused asthma in your specific case may seem important, what is more important is to know what causes your asthma attacks instead. In this case, the cause of your asthma is that of the trigger. In some people, too much physical...