Enjoying A Healthy Lifestyle with Bryant and Anita Hewitt
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Food
To Chew On:
Wednesday
– Renovation in Progress
2
Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)
But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as
in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image
from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Thought
For The Day:
“The
most exciting discovery of our generation is the discovery that we can alter
our person by altering the attitude of our mind” –William James
When
we are unsure of what to do or were to go, we find ourselves in a wandering
situation… However we must always realize that we are never alone or without
help!! So now we are ready for change and it is never easy but it can be
achieved by a made up mind and hard work!!! So let’s roll our sleeves and get
busy in eating right and exercising and we can do it ……So Have a Healthy Day
with HHWN!!! J
Benefits
Of Stretching For Seniors And The Elderly
Not
only are strength and endurance important for maintaining independence as we
age, flexibility of our muscles and tendons are necessary for most functional
activities.
If
our motion is restricted in any way, shortening develops which decreases the
range of motion in our joints.
Benefits of stretching help improve the
mobility of our "soft tissue" which includes muscle, skin and the
connective tissue surrounding our muscles and joints.
It
prepares us mentally for our activity and decreases the risk and/or severity of
injury.
Shoulder
Stretch
Purpose
of this exercise
•Helps stretch our shoulder, scapula and
supporting muscles and joints.
•Improves
our reaching ability especially across the body.
How
to do it:
Step
1
•Bring
your left hand up onto your right shoulder.
•Support
your elbow with your right hand.
Step
2
•Gently
pull left elbow toward right shoulder.
•When
a stretch is felt, hold for 10 to 15 seconds.
•Repeat
with the other side.
•Gently
pull right elbow toward left shoulder.
Breathing:
•Breathe
normally in through the nose and out through the mouth..
Tips:
•Try
to keep your elbow at shoulder height.
•Lift
your ribs.
•Stretching
should feel pleasant, stop if there is joint pain.
Take
it up a notch:
•Keep
your elbow straight when pulling it back toward your shoulder.
Neti
Pot Use and Safety Tips
Neti
pots often look like miniature tea pots and can be used to flush the nose to
help sinus pressure. Water and a salt mixture are combined and then with some
head tilting, the salt water goes up one nostril and back out the other.
Neti pots have been around for centuries and
originated with the Ayurvedic and yoga medical tradition. A few recent stories have me re-thinking my
neti pot and how I use it. Mine stays in the shower and gets used there so I
don’t make a mess spraying water all over the bathroom.
Recently there have been so me pretty scary
stories of people using tap water in their neti pot and ending up with more
trouble than it was worth. One report is of a woman in Louisiana using tap
water in her neti pot and ending up with an amoeba in her brain. She died
shortly thereafter.
This isn’t typically a problem if the water is
ingested as a drink because the digestive system protects the body by killing
such organisms before they get absorbed into the blood stream. The nose doesn’t
have the strong acid of the stomach to kill offending organisms.
A
Healthy Menu For
Wednesday
For
breakfast select one low-fat blueberry waffle, 2 tbsp. sugar-free syrup, ½ cup
fresh raspberries and 1 cup nonfat milk. Enjoy coffee or tea sweetened with a
sugar substitute, too. Your lunch meal includes 2 scrambled eggs, 1 oz. low fat
cheese, 1 slice of toasted whole grain bread and 1 tsp. soft margarine and ½
cup fresh pineapple. For dinner, choose 3 oz. broiled salmon, ½ quinoa, ½ cup
broccoli and cauliflower mix. Have 4 oz. low fat yogurt with ½ cup sliced
strawberries for dessert.
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