LONDON — Rigorous workouts lasting as little as three minutes may help prevent diabetes by helping control blood sugar, British researchers said on Wednesday.
The findings published in the journal BioMed Central Endocrine Disorders suggest that people unable to meet government guidelines calling for moderate to vigorous exercise several hours a week can still benefit from exercise.
“This is such a brief amount of exercise you can do it without breaking a sweat,” said James Timmons, an exercise biologist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, who led the study.
“You can make just as big as an effect doing this as you can by doing hours and hours of endurance training each week.”
Type 2 diabetes, which affects an estimated 246 million adults worldwide and accounts for 6 per cent of all global deaths, is a condition in which the body gradually loses the ability to use insulin properly to convert food to energy.
Very strict diet and vigorous, regular and sustained exercise can reverse type 2 diabetes, but this can be difficult for many people. The condition is closely linked to inactivity.
Timmons and his team showed that just seven minutes of exercise each week helped a group of 16 men in their early twenties control their insulin.
The volunteers, who were relatively out of shape but otherwise healthy, rode an exercise bike four times daily in 30 second spurts two days a week.
After two weeks, the young men had a 23 percent improvement in how effectively their body used insulin to clear glucose, or blood sugar, from the blood stream, Prof. Timmons said.
The effect appears to last up to 10 days after the last round of exercise, he added in a telephone interview.
“The simple idea is if you are doing tense muscle contractions during sprints or exercise on a bike you really enhance insulin's ability to clear glucose out of the bloodstream,” he said.
The findings highlight a way for people who do not have time to work out a few hours each week as recommended to improve their health, he added.
His team did not look for other important benefits to health that come from exercise, such as lowered blood pressure or weight control, but said another study had shown similar benefits to heart function.
But Prof. Timmons said getting people to exercise even a little could translate into big savings for health systems that spend hundreds of million of dollars treating diabetes.
Sunday, 15 March 2009
Exercise for the lazy, or busy.
Arthritis Exercises Are Good For EVERYONE
Yesterday was the 2nd week I have attended the Shape Up Tennesse 2009 Class. I know I said I thought the exercises would probably be hokey and not be of much help. Geesh……I’m proven wrong again!!
I never realized how much my right shoulder had tightened up until I tried to do a specific exercise. Hold your arms out to your sides with your palms facing down and then bring your arms up straight over our head with th back palms of your hands touching. If you are doing it right, your arms should be touching both sides of your head.
The first few times I tried this exercise….yikes…my shoulder cracked like I had just broken a twig. Then of course, it really hurt and burned like heck. I only did that one a few times because I couldn’t stand the pain. The good news is, I practiced it all week and was able to do it without any problem yesterday. It still makes a little crinking noise but it’s not painful like the first week.
Another exercise which was really good for me is putting one hand over the shoulder and reaching back as far as I can while using the other hand to reach behind your back (as if unhooking a bra) and reaching up as high as possible. Then you have to switch and do it the other way. I sure feel that one in my shoulders.
These exercises are better than any physical therapy class for me. I remember going for physical therapy twice in my life. Once for my back. Those whirlpool baths were only good while I was in it. Once out….back was right back to where it was. I went to therapy for my left shoulder. Now that was really goofy. She put this electrode thing on my shoulder. It didn’t do a darn thing. After my third session, I quit going. I ended up joining the gym at the hospital and started working out on the weight machines. That really helped. Now it’s my right shoulder that needs some limbering up.
Each week I’ll share another exercise or two that I’ve learned at this class. Becoming more limber will help to make a person more mobile. Thus, increased exercise which will equal weight loss. I love how they all work together.
Eating Habits That Cause You To Gain Weight
If you have gained weight and wonder why, you need to rethink what got you to the point you are at. You need to analyze what can trigger you to over eat and to eat when you aren’t even hungry.
Some of the things you need to consider are:
1. Are you a clock eater? I remember as a kid, our family ate by the clock. Breakfast was at 7:30 am, lunch was at noon, and supper was at 5:00 pm. Hungry or not, we had to eat at those times. You need to listen to what your body is telling you and don’t eat if you aren’t hungry.
2. Do you clean your plate? This was another thing I had to do as a child. We were not allowed up from the table until our plate was clean. Even today, I find it hard to leave food on my plate. You need to get rid of the guilt and realize it’s ok to leave food when you feel full.
3. Do you eat when you’re emotion level is high?
If you are eating when you are upset, mad, feeling sorry for yourself, or plain ole tired, you need to find another source of relief other than food. (Chocoate use to be my comfort food) Take a walk, do some volunteer work, go window shopping (my favorite), or go vist a friend. Sometimes I’ll just jump in the car and take a ride…never sure where I’ll end up.
4. Do you eat because there isn’t any else to do?
This is the hardest one for me. Late at night when I can’t sleep and there isn’t a thing on tv….I find myself navigating towards the refrigerator. Face it, at 1:00 am…..there isn’t much to do. I’ve started reading more, working suduko puzzles and also crocheting. I’m making baby booties to sell in our hospital gift shop.
Take a look at all these factors and identify which ones are keeping you from losing weight. Realize your limitations. Get rid of the food that is your worst enemy. Start making good food choices. We all know a salad is better than a candy bar.
When you have had a great day, you should congratulate yourself. Look back on that day and see what made it success for you and care it into the next day. If you faulter one day, don’t beat yourself up about it. Analzye why it happened and come up with a plan to keep it from it reoccuring.
Weight loss is not easy. I don’t care what anybody says. It is a struggle. Anytime I see the words “fast” and “easy”, I know it’s bologna. Stay focused and determined and you will win the battle. We each have our own weaknesses and strengths in our weight loss battle. Identify yours and you will be successfu
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Sunday, 2 December 2007
NTDTV’s Global Chinese New Year Spectacular - A Gift of Healing
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By: Benjamin Lighthouse
I want to share some of my reasons for sponsoring New Tang Dynasty Television’s (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular. Of course, I am Chinese, and the Chinese New Year is part of my tradition and heritage. I love the colorful costumes, beautiful music and dance depicting ancient myths and legends. It reminds me of stories from my childhood. In addition, the cause, the people involved and the performances themselves have touched me profoundly, they have a healing effect in more than one sense.
Most people in the West don’t know that traditional Chinese culture has really been destroyed by the communist regime. What people nowadays get in China is very shallow as it has been stripped of all its deeper inner meaning and is laden with communist party culture. So while there are other Chinese New Year Galas, I find that only NTDTV has been able to recreate a New Year celebration that is truly authentic, and at the same time has a charming multicultural flavor. It is performed in dozens of cities around the world, and people everywhere enjoy it tremendously. It contributes to greater harmony and understanding between people and cultures.
Right now Chinese society is in the process of a great transformation as millions of Chinese have quit from the communist party during the past 24 months. China is facing the abolishment of communism and a return to its rich cultural heritage. I believe that the annual NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular is promoting the spreading of traditional Chinese culture globally and helps speed up the rebirth of traditional values in Mainland China.
Another reason why I sponsor this event is because there is a spiritually uplifting energy in these wonderful music performances. It is actually a healing energy. I am a doctor of Oriental Medicine and also have a western degree in Neuroscience. I practice vibrational energy medicine as my profession, and I am very sensitive to healing vibrations. The pure energy produced during these shows is very powerful. During the entire show, I find my mind, body and soul are deeply resonating with the music waves. I realized that this is not just a show for entertainment, it goes way beyond ordinary art performances.
In my practice I am seeing increasing numbers of people suffering from different kinds of mental and physical problems. I believe they are a result of our fast-moving, competitive, materialistic, and stressful lifestyle which causes imbalances in the autonomic nervous systems and blocking mental, physical and emotional energy pathways. Many people, including teenagers, listen to noisy, meaningless and mind-disturbing music, which I feel are also contributing to psychological problems including ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety, and more. Many studies indicate that mental stress and negative emotions can cause physical diseases. This is already a common reality today.
One of the treatment modalities in my practice is sound therapy. It involves a complex process of playing certain sounds and frequencies to a patient and monitoring their brain activity to determine what is most harmonious and beneficial in changing their condition. Many patients, including stroke victims, have responded extremely well and recovered from a variety of serious problems using sound therapy.
From my many years of working with sound and music I can tell what kinds of sound and music promote healing and well-being. I found that the NTDTV performances have such an effect. I have shared the DV
Author Resource:-> Benjamin Lighthouse is an independent writer. His focus are cultural, humanistic and spiritual concerns and events
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Saturday, 10 November 2007
BRITNEY MISSES 8 OUT OF 14 DRUG TESTS
Jenifer Lopez
One of Jennifer Lopez’s most public relationships occurred with Sean Combs also known as Puff Daddy, or P.Diddy. However, following a shooting between someone from Puff’s group and another person in a New York shooting Jennifer was arrested for felony gun possession due to a stolen gun being found in the front of the car she was riding in. While the charges were eventually dropped this ruined the relationship she had with P. Diddy.
Jennifer’s next attempt at true love was with actor Ben Affleck whom she became engaged to in November of 2002. However, shortly before the actual wedding was scheduled to take place Jennifer called off the wedding after finding out about Ben going to several strip clubs in the Vancouver area with some of his friends. Ben himself argued that the relationship failed in part due to too much media attention of the couple and has since moved on with his life.
Her latest attempt at love has been with Marc Anthony, whom she married only a week after his divorce from Dayanara Torres the couple invited guests to an afternoon party and proceeded to surprise guest by getting married. However, the paparazzi begining to talk about the impending wedding kept circling her property. Since getting married couple has been very happy together and continue to enjoy a happy lifestyle. Jennifer Lopez has been a great inspiration to many people in her influence as one of the best Hispanic entertainers of all time has helped her to have one of the best careers possible.