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Health, Fitness & Beauty Tips

  • Nixing Noontime Fat

    Don’t turn a perfectly good sandwich of water-packed tuna (two grams of fat per three-ounce serving) into a fatty disaster by mixing in a lot of mayonnaise. ...

  • Muscler is Fun

    We really are entering a new era. The fitness game becomes far is the time to spend where we took his shoes and went running outside. Today, you can stay home, installed in front of his TV, while taking care of it! You doubt?...

  • Beware the Overuse of Anti-Inflammatory!

    75% of patients are relieved by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. But for the remaining 25%, it does not work. The main risks of this overuse of NSAIDs are gastrointestinal and renal, but there is also an allergic risk and that from the first prize...

  • Skin

    As skin becomes less taut, sun damage, facial patterns and gravity conspire to make it sag and bunch together. It happens everywhere in the body, but the parts exposed to the elements take the worst beating...

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Wrinkles happen. Why? Loss of skin tone. As skin becomes less taut, sun damage, facial patterns and gravity conspire to make it sag and bunch together. It happens everywhere in the body, but the parts exposed to the elements take the worst beating. Changes in elasticity start during youth, but really kick in after about age 45.

The Test
Top-of-the-hand tug. The two areas that get the most sun are your face and your hands. To get an idea how supple the skin of your face is, pinch the skin on the back of your hand for four or five seconds, then let it go. Count the number of seconds it takes to snap back to its original smoothness. What you can expect:
25 to 34: 1 second
35 to 44: 2 seconds
45 to 64: 11 seconds
65 to 69: 20 seconds
70 and beyond: 50 seconds

What to Do
Forget the miracle cures like herbal baths and mud packs. Honest-to-goodness, scientifically proven wrinkle erasers exit, in the form of Retin-A and its cousin, glycolic acid. Both make the outer skin shed dead cells faster, uncovering younger, less wrinkled skin. Ask your dermatologist for a prescription. And while you’re at it, stay out of the sun. It accounts for 90 percent of skin deterioration.

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The Power Plate, is it the new miracle fitness machine at the beginning of this millennium? Acclaimed by some and decried by others, it is a success. It causes contractions have a positive impact on our muscles and our silhouette. Many doctors have decided to integrate it into their programs. So it vibrate muscles?

The Power Plate offers a muscle by vibration and acceleration. Contractions caused by the machine will optimize the muscle reflex and "compel" the muscle to develop. So according to the posture that we take on the vibrating plate, you can make the muscles of the buttocks, thighs, calves, arms ... All without pain! And yes, as with the Power Plate is the machine that works. It was just to take a position and keep it for 30 to 45 seconds max. An invention perfect for all those not totally sports fans who will be able to muscle effortlessly.


Of health benefits

With this machine fitness, we will be able to develop muscular strength but also improve its shape and control one of the worst enemies of women: cellulite. The machine is particularly effective in reducing water retention. To get results, only the regular premium, three sessions of 30 minutes per week seems a good pace.


The Power Plate machine Wellness

But the Power Plate is also and above all a well-being. Far from seeking a bodybuilder muscles, women now prefer the fitness light. That is why the fitness will more to the concept of wellness. The sensation is quick and we feel pleased to work out our body without pain.


Misconceptions about the Power Plate

This machine physical training seems to have all the qualities required for those wishing to muscles, slowly, without having to exercise too intense. Yet, many myths are circulating about it. Since its launch, the company commissioned thirty scientific studies to prove the benefits of Power Plate. And many doctors have incorporated into their rehabilitation protocols.

So of course to avoid any complications, it is important to drink before and after a session of Power Plate as for any meeting of sport. It must also comply with the instructions of use and do not exceed 45 seconds per posture. The Power Plate imposes rules of conduct as any sport. The opinion of a physician is necessary before embarking on the use of the Power Plate.

And what if you use the Power Plate in your beauty institute? If it is a serious place, you will first complete a questionnaire about your health problems. Anyway, the machines installed in institutions are not the same as what you find in the centers Power Plate. These techniques have aesthetic preference and other physical effort.


The contraindications against the Power Plate

So what really are the contraindications to the use of the Power Plate? Not to drive acceleration during pregnancy. After the birth of the child, the quality of the perineum is about to resume activity. If released, she must undertake rehabilitation before considering the Power Plate. There are, indeed, may leak urine when tones the abs, while the perineum is no state.

Contrary to what one may hear, studies have shown that the Power Plate was not responsible for new diseases. This is an exercise that stimulates the muscles and helps to reshape the silhouette, but it does not replace a sport. This is a very good complement to the sporting activity and can be viewed as a starter for those who want to restore softness. The advantage of a meeting of Power Plate is also based on the box and supported by a coach. This professional takes us, stimulates us and shows us our progress. Everything that we needed to get back to sports!

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As Bill Clinton has learned, even a young president can lack “the vision thing.” Virtually all of us will have trouble focusing on objects close up by out mid sixties or –seventies, the result of a condition known as presbyopia (not to be confused with “Presleyopia,” which is an inability to see Elvis when everybody else claims he’s still around). With age, the lens becomes less pliable, so it can’t make vision-correcting shape changes as easily. This starts as early as the teens but typically doesn’t become noticeable until the forties.

The Test
Fine-print reading. Hold the stock page from the financial section of a newspaper at arm’s length and slowly move it closer to your face. Note how far the paper is from your eyes when the numbers begin to blur. Depending what decade you’re in you should be able to read the fine print all the way from arm’s length in to a distance of:
Twenties: 6 to 7 inches
Thirties: 10 inches
Forties: 13 inches
Fifties and beyond: More than 13 inches
Those in their fifties and beyond will have difficulty focusing on anything closer than arm’s length.

What to Do
From a practical standpoint, presbyopia isn’t a problem until it bothers you. Still dealing with it early can help your eyes generally work more efficiently, possibly warding off declines in distance vision.

Presbyopia can’t be reversed, but it can be compensated for. You’ll need to go to an optometrist and get a prescription for bifocals. And, no they needn’t make you look like your grandfather. The new generations of bifocals don’t have a fogeyish straight edge across the middle of the lens. Instead, they change thickness gradually from top to bottom, so no one can tell that the glasses you’re wearing are actually bifocals. Initial ver4sions of these lenses often distorted vision at the sides, but that problem has largely been eliminated. Ask your optometrist for one of the new designs, such as the Varilux Comfort lens.

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Between ages 30 and 80, muscle power in men declines by 30 to 40 percent. But experts say that happens only if you take this news lying down. The fact is, if you keep muscles working, they’ll retain their youthful strength well into your later years. With strength comes a related benefit, such as greater bone density, more efficient fat-burning metabolism and better posture.

The Test
Chair-lifts. Sit on the edge of an armless chair or bench with your legs straight out so that your heels are on the floor and your toes are pointing up. Place both hands on the sides of the chair seat and inch forward off the chair so that you’re supported by your heels and hands. Now lower yourself until your butt touches the floor. Hold for one second, then push back up. It’s a more accurate test than something like push-ups, because you can’t cheat on it. A man of moderate strength should be able to do ten of these in his twenties, with power falling off about 10 percent per decade. The curve with age:
Thirties: Nine lifts
Forties: Eight lifts
Fifties: Seven lifts
Sixties and beyond: Six lifts

What to Do
Weight exercises like bench and military presses, as well as simple push-ups, will keep your upper-body muscles up to par. But the single best exercise is the test’s chair-lift move, which simultaneously works the chest, triceps, shoulders and midback. Do as many repetitions as you can comfortably, taking two seconds to lower and two seconds to raise up again, with a one-second pause in between. Do two sets.