"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."Plutarch
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10 Quick Tips for Buying Elliptical Trainers
10 Quick Tips for Buying Elliptical TrainersAre you thinking about buying an elliptical trainer? Before you purchase your next piece of fitness equipment, be sure to read this informative list of Top Ten Tips to distinguish which elliptical machines work ...
17 Guaranteed Ways to Lose Weight
1. Just Get Started Many times, you may hear conflicting information from different sources about how you should go about accomplishing your goals; confused with information, you attempt to analyze the best route of action...but then you realize that it ...
Salsa Dancing For Fitness Is Hot
Salsa dancing is emerging as a refreshing replacement for conventional aerobic exercises. Classes based on the fiery music and movements of Salsa, Mambo, Cumbia, Merengue and more are starting to get people interested in Salsa dancing, while at the same ...
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Stress may not be a laughing matter to you. But maybe it should be. Humor is one of the most powerful stress-reducing tools there is. "Just as studies have shown the negative effects of stress on the body, we're now finding that humor has positive effects," says Karyn Buxman, R.N., editor of "Therapeutic Humor, the journal of the National Association for Therapeutic Humor. When you laugh, your heart rate and blood pressure rise -- giving your cardiovascular system a mini-aerobic workout -- then temporarily dip lower than they were before. Your immune system makes more immune cells.
Learning to manage stress isn't just good for your body. It keeps your mind and spirit more youthful, too. With fewer worries to tax your brain, don't be surprised if your noggin becomes more nimble. Under highly stressful conditions, it's simply harder to remember things and to concentrate. When stress hits high gear, you may be unable to retain a sentence that you have just read or remember someone you met minutes before.
Some evidence even shows that high levels of stress may shrink the part of the brain that governs learning and memory. Scientists who studied the brains of people with severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder found that one part of the brain, called the "hippocampus", actually became smaller when high-level stress kicked in. Some researchers speculate that the shrinkage could result from raised levels of stress hormones called "glucocorticords".
When stress declines, you are more likely to stretch your physical and mental boundaries, suggests Phil Nuernberger, Ph.D., president of Mind Resources Technologies in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
About the Author
Susan Rutter: Author, Publisher, Nutritionist, Instructor. Assists patients and the public make healthy choices and changes in their lives.
http://stressfree_living.resourcez.com
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Water aerobics class gives new hope to kidney patientHelena Independent RecordMaw regained energy, health and hope while particpating in water aerobics classes. Every morning, rain or shine, roughly 30 people rally into the Broadwater Athletic Club pool. The schedule designates 10 am as a water fitness class, but looking down ... |
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Police officers take part in aerobics classFiji TimesA GROUP of police officers took time out to participate in an aerobics class at the Labasa Police Station bure yesterday to maintain their fitness. Deputy divisional police commander northern Senior Superintendant of Police Fulori Rainibogi said the ... |
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