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YOUR HEALTH, LETTER"----------------
Sent With Compliments from:
Jay Chatterjee & Roshmi Raychaudhuri
http://www.youngagainforever.com
Editors: Jay Chatterjee &
Roshmi Raychaudhuri
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ISSUE # 10
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Welcome to this issue of:
"TO YOUR HEALTH, LETTER"
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IN THIS ISSUE
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=> From The Heart: A Note from Jay & Roshmi
=> Feature Article: by Alice Lascelles
Five-A-Day Keeps the Doctor at Bay
=> Little Actions That Produce Big Results: Scalp Massage
=> Review of Our Environment: Euros
=> Feature Article: Attitude
=> Feedback from Visitors/Subscribers
=> Guest Column : by Phil Beckett
Older Women Who Exercise Live Longer
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=> How to Be Featured as our Guest Columnist
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*** ATTENTION: THOSE WITH
LOWER BACK PAIN***
Over 1 million people in the US will become
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FROM THE HEART: A
note from Jay & Roshmi
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Hello ,
We had a little (!!!) problem with the server
that controls the delivery of our messages, newsletters and
courses. Roshmi, who is the more computer savvy one, is frantically
putting the pieces together again. Please excuse any delays
you may have encountered.
As a result, this is our first message to you
in the year 2003! A very Happy New Year to you and your family
from Roshmi & I ! We hope you enjoyed your celebrations, in
whatever form they took.
I took the opportunity to visit Rejoy, my eldest
son, and Ayesha, his wife, in Ratingen (a suburb of Dusseldorf)
in Germany. The trip was arranged by my daughter, Alina, who
accompanied me.
We made the most of our 10 day trip, with Rejoy
driving us all over the place! We visited Amsterdam and Anne
Frank's house, tramped through Dusseldorf in the drizzle, spent
an afternoon in Xanten (an ancient Roman town in Germany), and
visited Cologne. Europe is steeped in culture and the history
absolutely envelopes one. We had a wonderful time.
This IS a health newsletter, so I must comment
that I couldn't help but notice how trim and healthy most of
the Germans are. Drizzling and chilly, undaunted they walk around
with their dogs, or cycle about. I know most of our readers,
being health conscious, are not over-weight but unfortunately,
according to all reports, almost 60% of North Americans are
over-weight. That is so unfortunate, as it is so simple to keep
in shape by eating wisely and exercising daily.
There are so many momentous events developing
around us in this new year! Some good, some bad. You know what
I'm talking about. But please focus on your own well-being,
because that is what is the most important. If you are not well
and healthy, you can't assist anyone else, including your family.
That is why, when on a jet flight, you are instructed to first
put on your own oxygen mask before attempting to help the passenger
next to you!
Roshmi & I join you all in mourning the loss of
the seven brave astronauts who died so tragically in the break-up
of the shuttle Columbia. Words cannot describe the enormity
of the tragedy. Yet, life must go on ...
Roshmi & Jay
mailto:toyourhealthletter@yahoo.com
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FIVE-A-DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR
AT BAY
by : Alice Lascelles (from 'The Independent', UK)
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[But what constitutes a portion of fruit or veg?
And how do we maximise their benefits? Alice Lascelles finds
out]
Are you getting your greens? According to the
Department of Health (DoH) - probably not. Most of us are only
managing around half the recommended five portions of fruit
or vegetables a day that we need for a healthy diet. Despite
strong evidence that the five-a-day plan can reduce the risk
of heart disease and some cancers by up to 20 per cent, the
UK continues to have one of the lowest fruit and vegetable intakes
in Europe.
Last week the Government announced a revamped
food-labelling scheme designed to help consumers achieve the
target. Labels will now indicate how many portions of fruit
or vegetables are present in certain products. The changes may
lead food manufacturers to review their recipes to decide whether
they would meet the nutritional tests demanded by the Department
of Health. Heinz has come under fire for labelling small tins
of spaghetti and sausages in tomato sauce as containing "one
portion of fruit or vegetables". Critics point out that any
health advantages risk being outweighed by the high levels of
sugar and salt in the product.
Under the new system, products will have to meet
stringent health standards to carry the trademarked five-a-day
logo. But companies will still be free to run their own unregulated
schemes, so what do we need to know?
Part of the problem has been consumer confusion
over what a "portion" is. The DoH defines a portion as "a typical
serving or a decent-sized helping" of fruit or vegetables -
so a banana, a serving of peas or a handful of grapes would
all count.
Juice, however, counts as only one portion however
many glasses you drink. According to the DoH there are two reasons
for this. Unlike whole fruit, juice lacks fibre, which aids
the uptake of nutrients and helps to prevent bowel cancer. The
juicing process is also responsible for converting fruit sugars
into a different form more harmful to teeth. Beans and pulses
belong to another group that only counts once, while potatoes,
which are considered a starch, don't count at all.
If you want to maximise the benefits of your
diet, research suggests it's also worth paying attention to
the way you prepare and store your food. While it was previously
believed that cooking reduced the health benefits of some vegetables,
a study by the Institute of Food Research in Norwich suggests
just the opposite. Scientists found that when carrots, broccoli
and spinach were cooked and mashed, the human body was able
to absorb up to five times more carotenoids, a group of cancer-fighting
chemicals, than when the vegetables were eaten raw.
Cooked, rather than raw, tomatoes also provide
a much higher level of a carotenoid called lycopene, which is
important for combating cancer and heart disease. The DoH, however,
warns that while cooking raises levels of some nutrients, it
can lower the levels of others - vitamins C and B in particular
- so the secret is to eat a good balance of raw and cooked.
Storage can also affect the nutritional value
of fruit and vegetables. The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF)
recommends replenishing your stocks regularly, rather than buying
in bulk once a week. "Vitamin content can decrease over time,"
says a BNF spokesperson. "If you leave food sitting at the back
of the fridge for a week, it will end up having a lower nutritional
value. If possible you should try and buy fresh produce every
couple of days." If you can't, the BNF says frozen vegetables
can offer a good alternative, as the freezing process stops
the deterioration of vitamins.
Preparation also matters: "If you're buying vegetables
that are pre-cut, like a ready-prepared stir fry, they're likely
to contain less vitamins than something you prepared yourself."
This advice is probably not what the more time-starved
among us want to hear. Ian Marber, a nutritionist and founder
of The Food Doctor clinics, says lack of time is a common excuse
for failing to eat healthily: "People say that they don't have
time to prepare food - but what's faster than an apple or a
banana?"
If you're still struggling to get your five-a-day
then supplements can seem an easy alternative. But Marber says
this tends to be the response of the "worried well", who self-prescribe
supplements they don't really need.
Experts are unanimous that the best way to get
your nutrients is from your diet. But some remain pessimistic
about our ability to change: "It's sensible because it's an
achievable target," says Marber. "I just don't know how many
people will even try to reach it."
Read the rest of the story here:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=371685
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LITTLE ACTIONS THAT PRODUCE
BIG RESULTS: Scalp Massage
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Massage your scalp with warm coconut or castor
oil twice a week.
Massage with the tips of your fingers in a circular
movement for at least half an hour. Leave the oil on over-night
and shampoo the following morning. This prevents the hair from
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by improving the circulation and strengthening the hair roots.
To be really effective, you should feel the skin sliding over
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REVIEW OF THE ENVIRONMENT:
Euro Coins
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In their enthusiasm to homogenize European trade,
they got a tad overzealous and made a rather large mistake that
may cause European citizens and visiting tourists a great deal
of discomfort.
The new euro coins are so toxic that they are
not even safe in the pocket of your pants. Just five minutes'
exposure is long enough to induce itching and inflammation in
susceptible people. The reason is clear: The coins carry a nickel
content 100 times the level considered safe in humans. People
dealing with commerce, such as cashiers, are in for a rough
time of it, since 15 percent of women and 2 to 5 percent of
men are allergic to nickel.
If you know you're allergic to nickel, do not
handle euros. If you are unsure, exercise caution when handling
these coins.
William Campbell Douglass II, MD
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Hello Jay,
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I have now been practicing the technique for about 5 weeks,
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Feature Article: ATTITUDE
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The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud
lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with
her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even
though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.
Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move
necessary.
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby
of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was
ready.
As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator,
I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including
the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. "I love
it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having
just been presented with a new puppy.
"Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just
wait."
"That doesn't have anything to do with it," she
replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture
is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind.
I already decided to love it ... "It's a decision
I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can
spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the
parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and
be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as
long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy
memories I've stored away ... just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account ... you withdraw
from what you've put in.. So, my advice to you would be to deposit
a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories.
Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank.
I am still depositing.
-- Author Unknown
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***** LIFE TIP *****
"It is hard to fight an
enemy who has outposts in your head."
-Sally Kempton
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GUEST COLUMN: by Phil Beckett
Older Women Who Exercise
Live Longer
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Women of all ages often question the benefits
of strength training.
A lot of research has proven the vast physiological
and psychological benefits that this type of exercise has for
you. However, many older women do not believe they can perform
this sort of exercise and quite honestly, think of every excuse
not to.
Don't you think that it would be great if you
were capable of doing the many leisure time activities you want
to throughout your entire life?
Here's a summary for you of some research on this
topic:
1) Muscular strength and endurance of women can increase significantly
through participation in a 12-week resistance- training program
(weight lifting).
2) Skeletal muscle of women in all age groups adjusts to resistance
training by increasing strength and size. The major difference
is the increased length of time required by older women to fully
recovery from weight lifting.
3) Some older women who walk with the help of walkers can improve
strength necessary to convert from the use of a walker to the
use of a cane through regular resistance exercise.
4) In a group of women, 72-94 years of age, I trained for a
12-week program, three-times a week with both resistance and
cardiovascular exercises, all more than doubled the strength
in their leg and hip muscles.
5) It is believed that the main cause of loss of strength in
older women is lack of activity - most notably progressive resistance
overload.
6) Muscle strength of older women increases quickly during the
initial three months of training, then levels out.
7) Women can carry out prolonged moderate to high intensity
resistance training with reasonable compliance and resulting
slow-and fast-twitch muscle fiber enlargement.
8) Exercise has shown to be an effective means of weight- control
by increasing energy requirements (at rest and during exercise),
decreasing body fat, and maintaining metabolically active tissue
in healthy women of all ages.
9) Elastic tubing, even though heavily promoted as being effective,
is very ineffective at improving balance, strength, and walking
ability in older women. However, free weights and resistance
exercise in general are effective.
10) Women of all ages (16 - 68) that I've worked with over the
years with strength and aerobic conditioning for a minimum of
6 months have shown to increase strength (5- 65%), decrease
body fat and increase fat free mass and have done it without
any injury.
Fitness & exercise stops your muscles from wasting
away.
It doesn't matter if you're 40 years old or 75
years old. If you don't build muscle, you'll lose muscle.
Exercise and fitness programs have often disregarded
the importance and usefulness of weight lifting for older women.
Why is added muscular strength so important and
why should women of all ages wish to strength train? Exercise
and fitness will help you to increase the range of movement,
increase lean muscle, strengthen bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments,
improves your ability to do everyday, improves health, helps
prevent accidents, injuries, and sickness, and speeds rehabilitation.
Resistance training helps women tone, shape and
strengthen muscle fibers, minimizing the "fatty marbling" within
the muscle that results in a flabby, weak muscle.
Equally as important, having more strength and
endurance makes daily activities easier and less tiring, thereby
increasing or maintaining stamina.
In addition, not only will you increase lean
muscle mass and overall body strength, but the benefits of exercise
also include increased metabolic rate and increased bone density.
Women who exercise on a regular basis with both
resistance training (weight lifting) and cardiovascular exercise
are able to perform more work without tiring and are less likely
to sustain fractures resulting from osteoporotic conditions.
So, what happens when the body you once knew
begins to acquire a different shape and doesn't respond to activities
and physical exertion as it once did when you were 20 years
old?
Unfortunately, you can't change the fact that
you'll age, but you can control, to some degree, the rate at
which you age.
A lot of women unwisely decrease their activity
level as they grow older, assuming its proper to grow old gracefully.
Regrettably, they grow old ungracefully, with considerable restrictions
on their mobility, self-reliance, and quality of life.
From adulthood into middle age, you will lose
approximately 6.6 pounds of lean muscle mass during each decade
of life. Numerous studies indicate that muscle mass may decline
by 20% to 40% between age 20 and age 65.
These changes have been attributed to a reduction
in muscle fiber number and size and reduced nerve innervation,
and are correlated with functional declines in muscle strength
and endurance in older women.
As you grow older, physical activity, particularly
strength training, appears to be the best method to decelerate
the adverse effects of aging. This is strength for living! The
few minutes of work you do with weights a few days a week will
equal benefits every hour of your day and night, awake and asleep.
While you may now realize that weight training
is something that must be done, you may be at a loss when it
comes to selecting proper exercise equipment to help you reach
your goals.
Unfortunately, not every one has the time to
go to a gym 4 - 5 days a week. Most gyms today are very over
crowded so you can't get a proper workout in anyway. This is
one of the reasons why so many women have chosen to buy exercise
equipment and workout at home. But with all of the thousands
of different pieces of exercise equipment out there, how are
you to know what to use?
Not all equipment is created equal. Just because
a salesperson in an exercise equipment store tells you that
you need it, it doesn't mean that you do.
When you go into any exercise equipment store
you'll see lots and lots of different pieces of fancy, shiny
exercise equipment.
If the salesperson doesn't sit down with you
to discuss your goals and evaluate them with you, (which none
of these people anywhere has ever done) it's impossible for
them to know what is right for you.
Their only agenda is to sell you as much as they
can, regardless if it will help you or not!
Remember, they're just trying to get a sale, they're
not interested in listening to your needs.
Copyright © Physique Concepts Inc.
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About the Author: Phil Beckett is the author of The New Women's
Guide To Successful Weight Loss & Fitness. He's helped thousands
of women with their weight loss, health & fitness goals over
the past 14 years. Visit http://www.womens--health--fitness.com
to contact Phil
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