An international consensus statement on physical activity, fitness and health (Bouchard et al 1994) identifies six areas affected by physical exercise: body shape, bone strength, muscle strength, flexibility skeleton, physical fitness and motor fitness of metabolism. Other areas benefit from physical activity is cognitive function, mental health and adaptation to society. Exercise was defined as a regular activity that follows a specific pattern, and whose purpose is to achieve desirable results in terms of fitness, as a better general health or physical functioning. (more…)

There are new strategies to address the 3 critical factors for body health: blood sugar, insulin and inflammation. These formula guarantees that we will not get obese and be lean for life. Inflammation and obesity has relation that can be describing when we eat foods, it immediately causes high of blood sugar to drop, but then again it creates higher levels of the hormone insulin, which causes inflammation. (more…)

Green Food is a popular term used to describe young cereal grasses such as barley grass, wheat, rye and oats, before the grass is changed to grain. Cereal grasses have long been cultivated for their energy-dense granules, but change the profile of green cereal plants as they grow up fast. Chlorophyll, protein and vitamins in cereal grasses declines sharply and the amount of cellulose (indigestible fiber) increases. (more…)

Since the 1960s a number of critiques have been developed about the misrepresentations inherent in the images which portray minority groups. Critiques have been increasingly made of what are seen as demeaning images of women, gays, the elderly, ethnic groups and regional minorities. Here the assumption is that such groups suffer from the imposition of negative stereotypes: images which do not accurately represent their everyday realities and aspirations. (more…)

Addiction is more than frequent drug use. Recent scientific research provides strong evidence that drugs not only interfere with normal brain functioning but also have long-term effects on brain metabolism and activity. Those addicted to drugs experience compulsive drug craving and cannot quit by themselves. Treatment is necessary to end this compulsive behavior. (more…)

My job is to plan for catastrophe, yet Jane’s story was an echo of my own. My mother, a fiercely independent and proud woman, worked until she was 86 years old; but after she was forced into a nursing home at age 93, she died within weeks. Ethel enjoyed a long life. Its end was certainly not a direct result of the loss of independence and personal dignity she experienced in the nursing home. But if I had helped her plan for her very old age, she might have spent her last months surrounded by neighbors and friends, instead of professional caretakers. (more…)