What Your Urine is Telling You About Your Health
By Sally Wadyka for MSN Health & Fitness
A trip to the toilet may be more revealing than you think.
“ The appearance and smell of your urine—as well as the frequency
With which you have to go—can provide many clues to what else is going
On in your body,” says Dr. Michael Farber, director of the Executive Health
Program at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, N.J.
Looking pale
If your urine is as colorless as water, well, that’s probably because
you’ve been drinking a lot of water. And besides the inconvenience
Of going to the bathroom many times a day because your bladder is
Filling up with fluid faster, there’s really nothing medically worrisome
About having a light colored output.
T oo dark
If your urine has a brownish, iced tea-colored tinge,
That could be a sign that you are dehydrated and the kidney is
Producing more concentrated (as opposed to diluted) urine.
“ The urine gives good indications of the body’s level of hydration,
” Farber says, “so if a patient complains of dizziness or lightheadedness,
You would want to check the urine to rule out dehydration as a cause
Of the problem.” The ideal shade to strive for is the color of straw.
Another reason to get yourself checked out if you see dark urine—especially
If it doesn’t lighten up after you drink a few glasses of water—is that the
Cause could actually be blood. It won’t be as obvious as a bright red drop
In the toilet, but it could be a sign of bleeding higher up in the kidney
Which could indicate an infection, kidney disease or even cancer.
Sweet smelling
Catching a whiff of something sugary sweet after you pee might
Actually be a clue to something very serious going on in your body.
“A sugary smell might indicate the presence of blood sugar that’s being
Excreted in the urine,” says Farber. And a high concentration of
Blood sugar in the urine is one sign of diabetes. The kidney acts as
A filter for all sorts of waste that flows through the body. But if your
Filter is damaged, things can leak out of it and end up being excreted
In the urine. In the case of diabetes, excess blood sugar sneaks out
Through a leaky filter and shows up in the urine. If you are pregnant,
Changes in the kidney filtration system can result in the presence of
Sugar in the urine. Whether pregnant or not, if a doctor finds sugar
In your urine, he or she should order further tests to determine if
Diabetes is a concern.
Funny smelling
It can be a little bit disconcerting, but, smelling an
Odd odor when you pee is probably nothing to be worried about.
Certain foods—asparagus, most notoriously—produce a sulfur-containing
Amino acid. So when the food is broken down in the digestive system,
Those smelly substances are released, filtered through the kidney,
And then make their way into the urine where they create an unpleasant
Scent. As soon as the food responsible has been fully digested
And flushed from your system completely, the smell will vanish as well.
Bright yellow
Urine that looks nearly neon-colored may seem somewhat
Alarming, but the cause is most likely nothing more than sinister
Than your daily multivitamin pill. “ The B vitamins and carotene in particular
Give the urine a deeper, more golden color,” says Dr. Deborah J. Lightner,
Associate professor of urology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minn.
And don’t worry: That brightly colored urine means you’re simply pissing
Away all of your expensive supplements. The urine color can be affected
As the vitamins filter through your system—even as they are being
Absorbed and utilized.
A spot of blood
Seeing a splash of red in the toilet can mean many things—
Some quite benign, others quite serious. “For that reason,
You should always have your doctor check your urine if you see blood,”
Warns Lightner. “In an otherwise healthy young woman,
The chances are overwhelmingly in favor of it being a sign
Of a urinary tract infection, but blood in the urine is also one
Of the seven deadly signs of bladder cancer in both women and in men.”
Beyond the possibilities of infection or (worst case scenario) cancer,
Blood in the urine can also be caused by microscopic trauma or tears
(not uncommon after an endurance event like a marathon), kidney stones,
Or as a side effect of taking blood-thinning medication or daily aspirin therapy.
Always gotta go
You’ve seen the commercials of people racing to the bathroom
In a panic because they have to go so often and so urgently.
There are a variety of possible causes, and unless you are going
so often that it’s truly affecting your life, frequent bathroom urges
probably are not cause for concern (or for taking the medications
advertised in those commercials). Look first at your diet and lifestyle.
If you’ve suddenly picked up the habit of toting a water bottle with
you everywhere and have greatly increased your H2O intake, the reason
could be as simple as the fact that you’re filling your bladder up more
often and more quickly than you used to—and, consequently,
it needs to be emptied more frequently than it used to.
Or maybe you’ve recently changed your diet to include foods that
contain more water (such as fruits and vegetables) and act as diuretics,
or begun taking medications (like drugs used to treat high blood pressure)
which are also diuretics. One of the common symptoms of a urinary
tract infection is an urgent need to pee (often without being able to once
you get to the toilet). Growing older can also be to blame for increased
frequency and urgency in both men and women—as the way the kidney
and the bladder make and discharge urine changes with age.
For men, however, the prostate may play a role.
It’s not uncommon as men age for the prostate to
become enlarged and cause an obstruction that causes
weak urine flow and prevents the bladder from emptying
effectively, which then creates the need to go more often.
A little leakage
It’s one of those topics no one likes to talk about,
but a lot of women—even very young women who have
never gone through childbirth—experience some type of
urinary incontinence. “Stress incontinence is a condition in which the
muscles of the pelvic floor can’t handle the increased pressure of high
impact activities like running or gymnastics, or even something like
coughing or sneezing,” Lightner says. And when the pelvic floor is
too weak to withstand that sort of pressure, the result is that a small
amount of urine will leak out. The situation often begins—or gets
significantly worse—after a woman gives birth.
The best solution is to strengthen the pelvic floor by regularly
doing Kegel exercises (in which you repeatedly contract and
release those muscles as if you were trying to stop your flow of urine).
Another type of urinary incontinence is called urge incontinence,
and it is characterized, not by weak muscles, but by a bladder malfunction.
“ The bladder will fire without your permission, so you won’t necessarily
get the signal to head to the bathroom before your bladder
decides it’s time to empty itself,” says Lightner.
A burning sensation
If you are suddenly experiencing pain when you pee,
it’s highly likely that you are experiencing one of the first signs
of a urinary tract infection. Such infections are incredibly common among
sexually active, pre-menopausal women, thanks to the fact that the female
anatomy puts a relatively short urinary canal in close proximity with the vagina and rectum.
That proximity makes it very easy for bacteria to find its way into the urethra and
up the urinary canal. Oral antibiotics can clear the infection up within days,
and increasing fluids can help flush out bacteria to shorten the duration of the
infection. The male anatomy makes urinary tract infections a much rarer
event for men, but they can happen—and, Lightner warns, similar signs
and symptoms in men can also signal an infection of the prostate.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The Benefit of Massage
Body Massage
Massage gives you a roadmap of stress areas in your body. Many times people don't know how much stress they're carrying until they have a massage; then they're able to feel it and let go of it. As the massage therapist stretches and loosens muscles and connective tissues, stress and muscular tension are released. Once you have an awareness of where stress lodges in your body, you can begin to do something about it. You start to educate yourself and your body, and you reverse a negative cycle. Neuromuscular and Lymphatic Drainage massage, often prescribed for injuries and conditions of pain, works at softening the muscles so that the therapist can move in more deeply to break up adhesions. This allows muscles to become really elastic, the way they should be. The body then may be freed of spasm and pain, increase its range of motion, and have the ability to avoid injury.
A Powerful Ally
There's no denying the power of bodywork. Regardless of the adjectives we assign to it (pampering, rejuvenating, therapeutic) or the reasons we seek it out (a luxurious treat, stress relief, pain management), massage therapy can be a powerful ally in your healthcare regimen.
Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. While eliminating anxiety and pressure altogether in this fast-paced world may be idealistic, massage can, without a doubt, help manage stress.
This translates into:
Decreased anxiety.
Enhanced sleep quality.
Greater energy.
Improved concentration.
Increased circulation.
Reduced fatigue.
General Benefits:
Massage feels good, it is pleasurable.
Increases body awareness and sensitivity.
Reduces stress.
Calms the nervous system and has a centering effect.
Relaxes and clears the mind.
Relieves tension-related headaches.
Helps to improve posture.
Massage helps to fulfill the need for caring and nurturing touch.
Promotes self-esteem and a feeling of well-being.
Massage reduces levels of anxiety.
Increased the awareness of the body-mind connection and emotional awareness.
Circulatory System's Benefits:
Produces a dilation of the blood vessels thereby improving circulation.
Reduces the lack of blood, reduces pain due to the irritation of free nerve endings.
Speeds the elimination of the waste products of metabolism.
Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow, the body's natural defense system.
Massage helps to reduce swelling.
Massage increases the number of red blood cells in circulation.
Massage has the overall effect of lowering blood pressure.
Facilitates tissue healing through the enhancement of circulation.
Massage reduces the pulse rate.
Musculoskeletal Systems' Benefits:
Increases the blood supply and nutrition to the muscles. massage increases circulation to the bones, benefiting their nutritional needs and aiding in their growth and repair. Joint pain as experienced with arthritis can be reduced by circulatory drainage.
Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
Relaxes muscles, reducing spasm, tension and cramping.
Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
Reduces adhesions (knots) and fibrosis.
Massage can break the cycle of spasm and pain by decreasing both.
Improves the circulation and nutrition of the joints and can increase joint range of motion.
Helps muscles recover more quickly from exertion and fatigue.
Helps to reestablish proper tone in muscles.
Reduces muscle and soft tissue pain.
Reduces joint strain and compression through releasing tight muscles and tendons.
Increase joint flexibility. Increases ease and efficiency of movement.
Supports increased work capacity and metabolism.
Massage can stimulate muscle contraction.
Nervous System's Benefits:
Massage stimulates the touch, pressure and proprioceptive receptors of the skin and underlying tissue.
Massage can have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending on the type and length of treatment given.
Massage reduces sympathetic stimulation and helps to balance the autonomic nervous system.
Massage relaxes the muscles and helps to reestablish proper tonus through its effect on the neuromuscular reflex pathways.
Known to affect the neurotransmitters of the brain and increase endorphin secretion in particular.
Massage can reduce nerve entrapment through the release of soft tissue or muscular binding.
Massage can reduce nerve root compression caused by muscular tension.
Lymphatic System's Benefits:
Massage increases tissue fluid and lymphatic circulation thus reducing swelling and enhancing the immune and filtering activities of this system.
Massage increases venous and lymphatic flow.
Massage reduces swelling by enhancing lymphatic circulation.
Excretory System's Benefits:
Massage increases the excretion (via the kidneys) of fluids and waste products of protein metabolism, inorganic phosphorous and salt in normal individuals.
Massage can facilitate elimination through the large intestines by mechanically stimulating peristalsis and improving tone.
Skin's Benefits:
Improve the condition of the body,s largest organ the skin. Helps to reduce tension in the skin and adjoining tissues as well as increasing its circulation and improve its nutrition.
Respiratory System's Benefits:
Massage deepens and normalizes the breathing pattern through relaxation, and release of tension in the breathing structures, both the rib cage and the muscles of respiration.
Massage can be used to relieve congestion in the lungs through percussive and compressive movements.
Digestive System's Benefits:
Massage stimulates peristalsis and can reduce cramping or spasm in the digestive tract.
Massage supports healthy digestion through its stress releasing effects.
Furthermore, clients often report a sense of perspective and clarity after receiving a massage. The emotional balance bodywork provides can often be just as vital and valuable as the more tangible physical benefits.
Profound Effects
In response to massage, specific physiological and chemical changes cascade throughout the body, with profound effects. Research shows that with massage: Arthritis sufferers note fewer aches and less stiffness and pain.
Asthmatic children show better pulmonary function and increased peak air flow.
Burn injury patients report reduced pain, itching, and anxiety.
High blood pressure patients demonstrate lower diastolic blood pressure, anxiety, and stress hormones.
Premenstrual syndrome sufferers have decreased water retention and cramping.
Preterm infants have improved weight gain.
Research continues to show the enormous benefits of touch which range from treating chronic diseases, neurological disorders, and injuries, to alleviating the tensions of modern lifestyles. Consequently, the medical community is actively embracing bodywork, and massage is becoming an integral part of hospice care and
neonatal intensive care units. Many hospitals are also incorporating on-site massage practitioners and even spas to treat post surgery or pain patients as part of the recovery process.
Increase the Benefits with Frequent Visits
Getting a massage can do you a world of good. And getting massage frequently can do even more. This is the beauty of bodywork. Taking part in this form of regularly scheduled self-care can play a huge part in how healthy you'll be and how youthful you'll remain with each passing year. Budgeting time and money for bodywork at consistent intervals is truly an investment in your health. And remember: just because massage feels like a pampering treat doesn't mean it is any less therapeutic. Consider massage appointments a necessary piece of your health and wellness plan, and work with your practitioner to establish a treatment schedule that best meets your needs.
Psychological/Emotional Effects:
It is well documented that massage is able to reduce anxiety, depression, stress and the hormone levels associated with it, and give the client a sense of well-being. Massage therapy has a positive effect on our mood states. Additionally, therapeutic massage can also bring forth a release of repressed emotions, which is usually part of a gradual process of the client learning to be more aware of areas of themselves that they have disconnected with.
Pain Control:
Massage is recognized to have a great effect in reducing and managing pain that arises from a variety of sources, such as trauma, post-surgery, headache, fibromyalgia, arthritis and terminal illness. It can address the source of the pain and stop painful nerve firing, it can alter the processing of pain stimuli in the central nervous system (consisting of the brain and spinal cord) and can affect the processing of painful nerve firing by the peripheral nervous system (consisting of the nerves outside the central nervous system).
Preventative Measures:
An important and often overlooked benefit of massage therapy is its use as a means to help prevent injury or other conditions from arising. Athletics will be used as an example. Depending on the sport, athletes may continually overuse certain parts of the body that can cause a build up of tension in muscle tissue and microtears of muscle fibres over time. Muscle imbalances can result causing compensation and therefore altered posture and biomechanics (mechanics of a living body). This will all lead to increased stress on the affected joints, ligaments (connect bone to bone), tendons (connect muscle to bone) and muscles, resulting in possible injury. Before injury, an athlete may only feel the symptoms of tight muscles, mild pain or a mild decrease in range of motion in tissue and/or joints, and disregard it only as symptoms of training. Massage may prevent injury from happening by reducing muscle tension, increasing muscle length and flexibility, and assisting in the removal of metabolic wastes (derived from the chemical processes of cells in the body); therapeutic massage aids in relieving pain and reducing adhesions and fibrosis in injured and healing tissue. This would encourage a more effective and efficient environment for tissue and its surrounding structures to function.
Maintenance:
Another important and often overlooked benefit of massage therapy is its use to assist in increasing and maintaining the health of the body after recovery from an injury or when addressing certain conditions.
An example of how massage is used in the maintenance of our health is as follows. Our homes and vehicles need to be maintained otherwise they start to fall apart or stop working. Our bodies need the same attention we have for anything else in life, if not more. Even though we feel good and have no pain, it does not mean our body no longer requires attention. When symptoms arise, as long as they are not caused by an acute trauma such as a car accident, usually means that there has been some sort of dysfunction going on for some time. This is our own body's way of saying "Enough, I have been trying to normalize whatever you have been doing to me but it is just too much to handle. Stop doing what you are doing or change something. Please."
Massage can maintain tissue health by increasing its circulation thereby removing wastes, supplying nutrition, increasing drainage and decreasing pain. Therapeutic massage can maintain our general health by decreasing stress and stress related hormones thereby maintaining the function of our immune system and decreasing the chance of stress-imposed diseases and conditions. Massage therapy can maintain tissue health by decreasing the amount of fibrosis and adhesions developed from micro-tearing, overuse and lack of proper tissue nutrition; it can maintain our health by positively affecting any of our eleven systems. Massage can maintain our health by aiding in the prevention of injuries and resulting conditions. Massage can maintain our health by addressing, on a regular basis, the changes that occur to our body by the everyday stresses we impose on it, thereby allowing us to continue functioning in the most efficient and effective manner
Massage gives you a roadmap of stress areas in your body. Many times people don't know how much stress they're carrying until they have a massage; then they're able to feel it and let go of it. As the massage therapist stretches and loosens muscles and connective tissues, stress and muscular tension are released. Once you have an awareness of where stress lodges in your body, you can begin to do something about it. You start to educate yourself and your body, and you reverse a negative cycle. Neuromuscular and Lymphatic Drainage massage, often prescribed for injuries and conditions of pain, works at softening the muscles so that the therapist can move in more deeply to break up adhesions. This allows muscles to become really elastic, the way they should be. The body then may be freed of spasm and pain, increase its range of motion, and have the ability to avoid injury.
A Powerful Ally
There's no denying the power of bodywork. Regardless of the adjectives we assign to it (pampering, rejuvenating, therapeutic) or the reasons we seek it out (a luxurious treat, stress relief, pain management), massage therapy can be a powerful ally in your healthcare regimen.
Experts estimate that upwards of ninety percent of disease is stress related. And perhaps nothing ages us faster, internally and externally, than high stress. While eliminating anxiety and pressure altogether in this fast-paced world may be idealistic, massage can, without a doubt, help manage stress.
This translates into:
Decreased anxiety.
Enhanced sleep quality.
Greater energy.
Improved concentration.
Increased circulation.
Reduced fatigue.
General Benefits:
Massage feels good, it is pleasurable.
Increases body awareness and sensitivity.
Reduces stress.
Calms the nervous system and has a centering effect.
Relaxes and clears the mind.
Relieves tension-related headaches.
Helps to improve posture.
Massage helps to fulfill the need for caring and nurturing touch.
Promotes self-esteem and a feeling of well-being.
Massage reduces levels of anxiety.
Increased the awareness of the body-mind connection and emotional awareness.
Circulatory System's Benefits:
Produces a dilation of the blood vessels thereby improving circulation.
Reduces the lack of blood, reduces pain due to the irritation of free nerve endings.
Speeds the elimination of the waste products of metabolism.
Enhance immunity by stimulating lymph flow, the body's natural defense system.
Massage helps to reduce swelling.
Massage increases the number of red blood cells in circulation.
Massage has the overall effect of lowering blood pressure.
Facilitates tissue healing through the enhancement of circulation.
Massage reduces the pulse rate.
Musculoskeletal Systems' Benefits:
Increases the blood supply and nutrition to the muscles. massage increases circulation to the bones, benefiting their nutritional needs and aiding in their growth and repair. Joint pain as experienced with arthritis can be reduced by circulatory drainage.
Alleviate low-back pain and improve range of motion.
Relaxes muscles, reducing spasm, tension and cramping.
Exercise and stretch weak, tight, or atrophied muscles.
Help athletes of any level prepare for, and recover from, strenuous workouts.
Reduces adhesions (knots) and fibrosis.
Massage can break the cycle of spasm and pain by decreasing both.
Improves the circulation and nutrition of the joints and can increase joint range of motion.
Helps muscles recover more quickly from exertion and fatigue.
Helps to reestablish proper tone in muscles.
Reduces muscle and soft tissue pain.
Reduces joint strain and compression through releasing tight muscles and tendons.
Increase joint flexibility. Increases ease and efficiency of movement.
Supports increased work capacity and metabolism.
Massage can stimulate muscle contraction.
Nervous System's Benefits:
Massage stimulates the touch, pressure and proprioceptive receptors of the skin and underlying tissue.
Massage can have a sedative, stimulating or even exhausting effect on the nervous system depending on the type and length of treatment given.
Massage reduces sympathetic stimulation and helps to balance the autonomic nervous system.
Massage relaxes the muscles and helps to reestablish proper tonus through its effect on the neuromuscular reflex pathways.
Known to affect the neurotransmitters of the brain and increase endorphin secretion in particular.
Massage can reduce nerve entrapment through the release of soft tissue or muscular binding.
Massage can reduce nerve root compression caused by muscular tension.
Lymphatic System's Benefits:
Massage increases tissue fluid and lymphatic circulation thus reducing swelling and enhancing the immune and filtering activities of this system.
Massage increases venous and lymphatic flow.
Massage reduces swelling by enhancing lymphatic circulation.
Excretory System's Benefits:
Massage increases the excretion (via the kidneys) of fluids and waste products of protein metabolism, inorganic phosphorous and salt in normal individuals.
Massage can facilitate elimination through the large intestines by mechanically stimulating peristalsis and improving tone.
Skin's Benefits:
Improve the condition of the body,s largest organ the skin. Helps to reduce tension in the skin and adjoining tissues as well as increasing its circulation and improve its nutrition.
Respiratory System's Benefits:
Massage deepens and normalizes the breathing pattern through relaxation, and release of tension in the breathing structures, both the rib cage and the muscles of respiration.
Massage can be used to relieve congestion in the lungs through percussive and compressive movements.
Digestive System's Benefits:
Massage stimulates peristalsis and can reduce cramping or spasm in the digestive tract.
Massage supports healthy digestion through its stress releasing effects.
Furthermore, clients often report a sense of perspective and clarity after receiving a massage. The emotional balance bodywork provides can often be just as vital and valuable as the more tangible physical benefits.
Profound Effects
In response to massage, specific physiological and chemical changes cascade throughout the body, with profound effects. Research shows that with massage: Arthritis sufferers note fewer aches and less stiffness and pain.
Asthmatic children show better pulmonary function and increased peak air flow.
Burn injury patients report reduced pain, itching, and anxiety.
High blood pressure patients demonstrate lower diastolic blood pressure, anxiety, and stress hormones.
Premenstrual syndrome sufferers have decreased water retention and cramping.
Preterm infants have improved weight gain.
Research continues to show the enormous benefits of touch which range from treating chronic diseases, neurological disorders, and injuries, to alleviating the tensions of modern lifestyles. Consequently, the medical community is actively embracing bodywork, and massage is becoming an integral part of hospice care and
neonatal intensive care units. Many hospitals are also incorporating on-site massage practitioners and even spas to treat post surgery or pain patients as part of the recovery process.
Increase the Benefits with Frequent Visits
Getting a massage can do you a world of good. And getting massage frequently can do even more. This is the beauty of bodywork. Taking part in this form of regularly scheduled self-care can play a huge part in how healthy you'll be and how youthful you'll remain with each passing year. Budgeting time and money for bodywork at consistent intervals is truly an investment in your health. And remember: just because massage feels like a pampering treat doesn't mean it is any less therapeutic. Consider massage appointments a necessary piece of your health and wellness plan, and work with your practitioner to establish a treatment schedule that best meets your needs.
Psychological/Emotional Effects:
It is well documented that massage is able to reduce anxiety, depression, stress and the hormone levels associated with it, and give the client a sense of well-being. Massage therapy has a positive effect on our mood states. Additionally, therapeutic massage can also bring forth a release of repressed emotions, which is usually part of a gradual process of the client learning to be more aware of areas of themselves that they have disconnected with.
Pain Control:
Massage is recognized to have a great effect in reducing and managing pain that arises from a variety of sources, such as trauma, post-surgery, headache, fibromyalgia, arthritis and terminal illness. It can address the source of the pain and stop painful nerve firing, it can alter the processing of pain stimuli in the central nervous system (consisting of the brain and spinal cord) and can affect the processing of painful nerve firing by the peripheral nervous system (consisting of the nerves outside the central nervous system).
Preventative Measures:
An important and often overlooked benefit of massage therapy is its use as a means to help prevent injury or other conditions from arising. Athletics will be used as an example. Depending on the sport, athletes may continually overuse certain parts of the body that can cause a build up of tension in muscle tissue and microtears of muscle fibres over time. Muscle imbalances can result causing compensation and therefore altered posture and biomechanics (mechanics of a living body). This will all lead to increased stress on the affected joints, ligaments (connect bone to bone), tendons (connect muscle to bone) and muscles, resulting in possible injury. Before injury, an athlete may only feel the symptoms of tight muscles, mild pain or a mild decrease in range of motion in tissue and/or joints, and disregard it only as symptoms of training. Massage may prevent injury from happening by reducing muscle tension, increasing muscle length and flexibility, and assisting in the removal of metabolic wastes (derived from the chemical processes of cells in the body); therapeutic massage aids in relieving pain and reducing adhesions and fibrosis in injured and healing tissue. This would encourage a more effective and efficient environment for tissue and its surrounding structures to function.
Maintenance:
Another important and often overlooked benefit of massage therapy is its use to assist in increasing and maintaining the health of the body after recovery from an injury or when addressing certain conditions.
An example of how massage is used in the maintenance of our health is as follows. Our homes and vehicles need to be maintained otherwise they start to fall apart or stop working. Our bodies need the same attention we have for anything else in life, if not more. Even though we feel good and have no pain, it does not mean our body no longer requires attention. When symptoms arise, as long as they are not caused by an acute trauma such as a car accident, usually means that there has been some sort of dysfunction going on for some time. This is our own body's way of saying "Enough, I have been trying to normalize whatever you have been doing to me but it is just too much to handle. Stop doing what you are doing or change something. Please."
Massage can maintain tissue health by increasing its circulation thereby removing wastes, supplying nutrition, increasing drainage and decreasing pain. Therapeutic massage can maintain our general health by decreasing stress and stress related hormones thereby maintaining the function of our immune system and decreasing the chance of stress-imposed diseases and conditions. Massage therapy can maintain tissue health by decreasing the amount of fibrosis and adhesions developed from micro-tearing, overuse and lack of proper tissue nutrition; it can maintain our health by positively affecting any of our eleven systems. Massage can maintain our health by aiding in the prevention of injuries and resulting conditions. Massage can maintain our health by addressing, on a regular basis, the changes that occur to our body by the everyday stresses we impose on it, thereby allowing us to continue functioning in the most efficient and effective manner
Monday, January 10, 2011
Heart attack and water (with method of treatment)
DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH
It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:
Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.
Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.
1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water
2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minute
3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.
4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours
5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.
6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.
The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/reduce main diseases:
1. High Blood Pressure (30 days)
2. Gastric (10 days)
3. Diabetes (30 days)
4. Constipation (10 days)
5. Cancer (180 days)
6. TB (90 days)
7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards – daily.
2. Gastric (10 days)
3. Diabetes (30 days)
4. Constipation (10 days)
5. Cancer (180 days)
6. TB (90 days)
7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards – daily.
This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion.
It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion.
Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
A serious note about heart attacks:
· Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting,
· Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
· You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.
· Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.
· 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.
· Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...
Please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you care about
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Happy New Year 2011
now... less than 2 min to reach new year.. 2011...
whatever happened in year 2010 .. is over by another 2 min...
let the sadness left in year 2010... and start a new begining...in new and challenge year ahead...2011..
hope everyone is getting achieve his/her dream in the new year...
ok...we are starting counting down....
5...4...3...2...1....Happy New Year...
1月1日2011年总合1111千年才会遇到一次……我希望~
今天你是快乐的
今晚你是舒心的
今夜你是甜蜜的
今年你是顺利的
今生你是幸福的
今世你是健康的
要记得我是永远给你最多祝福的人哦！提前祝你在来临的新一年；一切顺利，一切完美。
whatever happened in year 2010 .. is over by another 2 min...
let the sadness left in year 2010... and start a new begining...in new and challenge year ahead...2011..
hope everyone is getting achieve his/her dream in the new year...
ok...we are starting counting down....
5...4...3...2...1....Happy New Year...
1月1日2011年总合1111千年才会遇到一次……我希望~
今天你是快乐的
今晚你是舒心的
今夜你是甜蜜的
今年你是顺利的
今生你是幸福的
今世你是健康的
要记得我是永远给你最多祝福的人哦！提前祝你在来临的新一年；一切顺利，一切完美。
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