The Human Heart

The Human Heart
The human heart is an organ which pumps blood through blood
vessels by rhythmic contractions. It is composed of several
muscles, and is in every way a muscular organ. It is a
composition of involuntary and cardiac muscles. Involuntary
muscles are smooth and non-branching muscles that are
uncontrollable. An average human heart beats 72 times in a
single minute which means in a lifetime of 65 years, then
it will beat about 2.4 billion times.

The human heart, the most fundamental of organs in the
human anatomy, is located in the middle of the torso. Its
apex is slightly towards the left and that is why it is
often said that human heart is situated on the left side.
Another reason for this is that the left ventricle of the
heart pumps blood faster than that of right ventricle, thus
one can observe heavier beating of the heart on the left
side.

The heart performs various functions in the body. It
collects the de-oxygenated blood from the veins, keeps it
in the blood atrium, make it pure through pumping and
passes freshly oxygenated blood throughout the body via the
right ventricles. Unfortunately our hearts may develop
problems and diseases as we get older. Diabetes and blood
pressure cases are increasing day by day due caused as much
by depressing and stressful lives as by a clinical
condition, and these are directly affecting the working of
the human heart. Many of the problems can be cured at best
and controlled at worst by taking medical treatment for a
specific time, but many diseases do not yet have any
properly identified treatment or medication.

Resulting from hypertension, nervousness and stress, many
people suffer from cardiac arrest problems when the heart
stops beating. It can end in death if the heart is not
restarted, or does not restart. To restart the heart
mechanically a machine known as automated external
defibrillator, readily available in most hospitals and
within ambulances, should be introduced immediately.

High levels of cholesterol can cause dangerous
cardiovascular disease. More and more people are becoming
victims of high cholesterol levels. Unbalanced diets and
high intakes of fats results is reckoned to lead inevitably
artery diseases. Cholesterol is a blood fat, these fats
often referred to as triglycerides, which is required by
our body but it is all too easy for this to become out of
balance. The excess intake of wrong foods resulting in high
cholesterol levels causes atherosclerosis and leads to poor
functioning of arteries and further risk of heart attack.

Cardiac strokes are also a serious disease becoming
increasingly common these days. Along with poor diet,
increasing age also increases the risk of strokes. Elderly
people, especially women, have greater risk of heart attack
and stroke. Racial factors also play an important role in
the susceptibility to strokes as Negro women are more prone
to heart attacks and strokes than Caucasian women. If there
is family history of heart attacks, the chances to other
members of the family suffering too, especially offspring
and siblings, increase by 20-30 percent.

Typical symptoms of all heart diseases are high or low
blood pressure, poor resistance of the body to infection
and disease, skin problems, loss of appetite, emotional
swings and so on. The best way to prevent heart disease is
to eat only nutritious food that is low in fat and high in
fiber and do lots of exercise. However, if a person already
suffering from some heart problems, it is better to have
proper medication along with exercise and proper diet.

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Value of Liquid Supplements

Value of Liquid Supplements
In todays society health is a major concern, and the
nutrition that we get from our food today is not like it
used to be. Our food today is deficient in vitamins and
minerals due to mineral-deficient soils that are common
throughout the world today. Further depletion of necessary
nutrients results from processing and cooking foods. Our
bodies need the right amounts of vitamins and minerals to
function at its peak, otherwise illness can occur. Since
the nutrients that our body needs is not coming from our
food we need to look at nutritional supplements.

Lets first take a look at why we need vitamins and
minerals. They both have different but vital functions
within our body. Vitamins control the chemical reactions
within the body to convert food into energy and living
tissue. Minerals are needed for several body functions
including building strong bones, transmitting nerve
signals, maintaining a normal heart beat, and are used to
produce necessary hormones.

Recent studies show conclusively that vitamins and minerals
work together in synergy. The lack of one of them can
sometimes interfere with another vitamin or mineral's
function. If this deficiency continues it can have profound
effects on persons health.

Knowing that we do not get the nutrition from our food more
and more people are taking supplements. Liquid supplements
are becoming increasingly popular today. One obvious
advantage to liquid is that you do not have to swallow
pills that can get stuck in your throat or leave an after
taste. Other benefits of liquid supplements are that they
have a high absorption rate and are bio-available. The
reason for this is because they are in liquid form,
therefore the body does not have to break them down.
Capsules and tablets need to be broken down first for the
body to use them and most never get broken down completely
before being passed out of the system. Studies have shown
that the body only absorbs between 10% to 20% of the
nutrients available in capsule form, while over 90% are
absorbed in liquid form.

Liquid formulation also means that you need smaller amount
of ingredients then are found in capsules and tablets. You
can also combine many different vitamins and minerals in
one supplement to give you an all in one product. This can
be done because unlike tablets and capsules there are no
filler and binders needed to keep the product together.

The availability of liquid supplements does not mean that
one can live without eating the proper food and remain
healthy. We must understand that Liquid Multi Vitamins are
not a food substitute, but only food supplements. They will
only supplement the intake of natural vitamins from our
daily diet. The proper nutritional diet is essential and
along with the use multivitamins help ensure that you are
healthy and immune to common infections.

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Let Your New Year's Diet Be a Non-Diet

Let Your New Year's Diet Be a Non-Diet
All right. The parties are over and the dishes are put
away. The leftovers are gone. It is January 2 and you are
just getting up (unless it was YOUR turn to walk the
dog…sorry). What is the first thought that comes into your
head? Your New Year's resolution, of course. And I bet it
goes like this: "today I start the (fill in the blank)
diet, and THIS time it is going to work!"

Before you get started, may I make a rather unusual
request? Why not make your new diet a "non" diet? That's
right; why not give up dieting for the New Year? After
all, you have been on and off diets so many times you've
lost count. You have never been able to keep the weight off
which makes you feel lousy about yourself, right? So why
not try something new this year? Why not make this year's
resolution about learning to become at peace with food?

Perhaps I should explain a bit.

Let's face it-diets do NOT work. Or to put it another way,
all diets work: while you are on them. The problem is once
you go ON a diet, eventually you go OFF that diet, and the
weight just comes back, right? So, think about what would
happen if you stopped dieting? Allow yourself to give it a
moment's thought.

Is it scary? Probably. You are so used to following a
diet, being told (by a piece of paper, a television
personality or the latest diet book) what to eat, and when
to eat it. Now, you have to throw all that away. What's
going to happen?

At first, you may gain a little weight. Why? Because you
are so used to depriving yourself of the foods you love
that when you take away that restriction, it's all you want
to do. But guess what? After a while, when you realize
you can eat those chocolate cookies whenever you want, you
learn to eat them only when you are truly hungry for
chocolate cookies (not because you are sad, depressed or
any emotion except chocolate cookie hunger). And, more
importantly, you find that you are satisfied with less
cookies.

One of the many problems with dieting is that you have been
depriving yourself for so long that you are afraid to trust
your own judgment about what is right for you. You have
developed such a difficult relationship with food that you
no longer know what it feels like to be hungry.

Becoming "at peace with food" is a journey that involves
developing a new relationship with food. Instead of being
marked by frustration and disappointment, by fear and
competition between you and the food you eat, food takes
its place as one of the many activities in your life, along
with family, friends, working and being active. And, like
these other activities, it becomes pleasurable.

Becoming at peace with food is learning to trust yourself
again-to make the right choices for yourself. It results in
no longer fearing food, but loving food and all the
activities related to cooking, eating, and living.

Let's start this New Year by accepting ourselves, becoming
at peace with ourselves, and at peace with food.

Good luck and have a happy new year.

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Is Your Exercise Program Keeping You Fat?

Is Your Exercise Program Keeping You Fat?
Exercise has long been known as a critical factor in
lasting natural weight loss, but it is now becoming clear
that for some people, the wrong kind of exercise may
actually be interfering with their ability to lose weight.
This is primarily true for those people who carry their
excess weight mostly in the lower abdomen - the saggy
stomach "pooch". This type of weight deposition is
characteristic of adrenal dysfunction, and too much or the
wrong kind of exercise can make this problem worse.

The adrenals are small glands that sit on top of the
kidneys ("adrenal" translates to "on top of the kidney").
Alhough they are small, the adrenal glands are powerful
organs and produce hormones involved in many functions.
The most familiar of the adrenal horomones is probably
adrenaline (also called epinephrine). As you are probably
aware, adrenaline is produced in response to stress or fear
and mobilizes the body for "flight or fight" responses by
raising blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing, and by
diverting blood flow to the muscles for fast action.
Adrenaline also promotes the burning of fat for energy, so
adrenal function can promote weight loss during short
periods of physical or even emotional stress.

The adrenal glands produce another hormone that can promote
weight gain though. This hormone is called cortisol, and
it tends to cause the storage of fat in the lower abdomen.
Unlike adrenaline which is produced for only short periods
of time, the adrenal glands can produce cortisol long-term.
This means that any fat-burning effects from adrenaline
will be overcome in the long-run by the fat-storing effects
of cortisol. From a survival standpoint, cortisol serves
the purpose of providing emergency storage of fat for
energy when the body is under stress for a long period of
time. For human cultures in which the primary source of
stress is physical stress, this fat storage can help keep
people alive during extended periods of living under harsh
conditions. Unfortuately, emotional stress stimulates
cortisol production as well, and for many people who live
stressful lives, their ongoing cortisol production will
tend to cause weight gain in the lower abdomen.

So what does this have to do with exercise? Well, for
someone who is under chronic emotional stress and whose
adrenal glands are constantly overworked, their cortisol
production is already high and their ability to produce
adrenaline has been largely exhausted. If you add a lot of
strenuous exercise into the mix, the result is more
cortisol production. As the cortisol levels increase,
there is a greater and greater tendency to store fat in the
lower abdomen.

Many people in this situation who are determined to lose
weight will see their inability to lose weight as an
indication that they need to exercise harder and more
often. These people may be able to continue to lose weight
in general, because if you are burning more calories than
you take in, you will lose weight, but they never are able
to eliminate that lower belly fat. So they work out even
harder, but the belly fat remains - and they become more
and more fatigued and actually begin to lose strength in
the muscles of the arms and legs.

Why would somone lose strength in the muscles in the arms
and legs? Isn't exercise supposed to build muscle? Well,
cortisol not only stores fat in the lower abdomen, it also
stimulates the breakdown of muscle and other tissue to use
for immediate energy needs. So the more determined a
person is to exercise away the belly fat, the more cortisol
is produced, and as we said a moment ago, if you burn more
calories than you take in, you will lose weight, only in
this case the weight being lost is muscle and not fat!

The result is a downward spiral of fatigue, loss of muscle
mass and strength, and sometimes the development of joint
problems as the body eats it's own tissues for energy - but
there's no reduction in that lower abdomen fat deposit that
the body holds in reserve.

So what should a person with this problem do to lose that
lower stomach "pooch"? Well, first of all it is important
to figure out if you actually fall into this category,
because with the exception of someone who has high cortisol
production and overworked adrenals, vigorous exercise is
still one of the most effective weight loss measures one
can take.

Someone with a high cortisol problem will have a certain
collection of signs and symptoms. First, as we've
mentioned several times already, the excess weight is
deposited almost exclusively in the lower abdomen. The
weight would create a sagging area just below the
waistline. As we've already stated, there may be loss of
muscle in the arms and legs, and this might be visibly
noticable, or it may manifest simply as an inability to
build strength in these muscles. In addition, people with
adrenal fatigue and high cortisol may have a collection of
symptoms that could include chronic fatigue, cravings for
salty foods, a need for caffeine or other stimulants just
to stay awake during the day, swelling in the lower legs,
dizziness when arising quickly from a seated position,
numerous arthritic problems, cramps in the calves at night,
and waking up frequently in the middle of the night.

If you do fall into this category of adrenal fatigue / high
cortisol, exercise is still important, but you want the
kind of exercise that helps you to handle stress, not
exercise that creates additional stress. For someone with
overworked adrenals, the best type of exercise is
relatively low-intensity aerobic exercise for 30 to 60
minutes about 3 times per week. This is exercise you can
do without getting out of breath and without feeling
fatigued afterwards. Among the options for this type of
exercise are walking, bicycling, swimming, yoga, tai chi,
and low-intensity aerobics. Exercising outdoors seems to be
particularly beneficial for stress reduction, and
subsequently cortisol reduction, at least when there are no
extremes of temperature to deal with. In addition to going
to a lower-intensity type of exercise, it is important to
make sure to eat enough protein to maintain muscle mass.
This is easily accomplished by most people, but if you've
been drastically cutting calories to lose weight, you are
probably actually working against yourself. Just 3 to 4
ounces of meat, fish, eggs, or dairy three times per day is
sufficient to spare your muscle. If you are a vegan, just
make sure to eat plenty of beans, nuts, seeds, and other
high-protein foods. If you've been working out like crazy
to try to get rid of that belly fat, but all you've managed
to accomplish was feeling tired, weak, and sore, by
reducing the intensity of your workouts and controlling
stress better, you'll likely find that the belly fat
gradually shrinks away and you'll look and feel great!

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Antonio, Texas. For more information, visit
http://www.trainyourbrain4weightloss.com .

Construction Site Accidents Can be Fatal

Construction Site Accidents Can be Fatal
The following are some statistics from the U.S. Department
of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics on safety and
on-the-job injuries in the construction industry:

* One of every five workplace fatalities is a construction
worker.

* There were 1,225 fatal occupational injuries in
construction in 2001, excluding fatalities on September 11.
Also in 2001, there were 481,400 nonfatal injuries and
illnesses in construction. Incidence rates for nonfatal
injuries and illnesses were 7.9 per 100 full-time
equivalent workers in construction, and 5.7 per 100
full-time equivalent workers in all private industry in
2001.

* Because only about 10% of construction companies employ
more than 20 workers, the great majority have no formal job
safety regulations or programs in place.

* In 1992, the "lost-workday" rate for workers in the
construction industry was 5.7 per every 100 full-time
workers. This lost-workday rate was the highest of any
major economic sector.

* Nationwide, about 15% of workers' compensation costs are
attributable to injuries in the construction industry.

Virtually all significant injuries suffered in construction
accidents give rise to workers' compensation rights. Those
limited rights, however may be supplemented by legal
actions against others who have responsibility for various
activities on the job site, including construction
managers, general contractors, subcontractors, equipment
manufacturers, etc. These rights depend upon the
application of various complex laws and the individual
circumstances of the accident.

For example, in most construction projects, many different
contractors are involved. If any contractor other than the
direct employer has responsibility for the injuries, full
damages can be recovered. Likewise, if a defective tool,
machine, or other product causes injury, an injured worker
can be fully compensated.

Construction workers have a right to a safe workplace
according to OSHA, the Federal governing body for
occupational safety and health. If a workplace hazard
exists and action is not taken quickly, an employee should
contact an OSHA area office or state office via a written
complaint. If the OSHA or state office determines that
there are reasonable grounds for believing that a violation
or danger exists, the office will conduct an inspection. A
workers' representative has a right to accompany an OSHA
compliance officer during the inspection. The
representative is chosen by a union representative, if
there is one, or by the employees. Under no circumstances
may the employer choose the workers' representative. The
inspector may conduct a comprehensive inspection of the
entire workplace or a partial inspection limited to certain
areas or aspects of the operation. At the end of the
inspection, the OSHA inspector will meet with the employer
and the employee representatives to discuss the abatement
of any hazards that may have been found. These need to be
corrected or serious penalties and legal liabilities may
arise.

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Train Heavy, Lose Fat!!!! (PART 2)

Train Heavy, Lose Fat!!!! (PART 2)
As mentioned in part 1, muscles are extremely important for
maintaining and elevating our metabolism. If we begin to
lose muscle through excessive cardio (check out part 1) We
begin to slow down our metabolic rate and hold onto bodyfat
more efficiently, the complete opposite of what we desire.

What is the goal of a fat loser?

'To burn as many calories during the workout and raise the
metabolism after your training session'.

What if we could raise our metabolism for up to 36 hours
after exercise?

Well this becomes possible when we introduce weights into
our training programme.

If we really want to speed our metabolism for an extra day
and a half and I'm guessing if you're reading this article
you do. Then we need to involve as many muscles in our
exercise or workout as we can.

This is exactly what happens when you train with free
weights and/or you train more functionally when using what
I call the 600 muscle rule.

Our body has over 600 muscles, if we can actively stimulate
as many of those muscles as possible within one exercise,
we will naturally stimulate and raise our metabolic rate.
When we talk about functionally using the exercise, we are
referring to using free weights and performing exercises on
your feet. Straight away this begins to involve our
stabilizing muscles such as our abdominals and glutes
(bum). These muscles alone once involved will have a
dramatic effect on speeding up the metabolism.

Something else we produce when performing this kind
exercise is something called EPOC (Excessive Post Oxygen
Consumption) meaning that our body has to work harder to
produce more oxygen to recover. This is where we are able
to raise the metabolism for up to 36 hours after exercise
and where weights play a vital part in fat loss.

To get the maximum effects of EPOC, we have to use weights
to make our muscles work even harder. We can turn our
everyday exercises such as the squat, lunge and step up
into a more intense exercise by adding weight that we can
do for no more than 12 repetitions.

Now this is pretty much common sense and the out come will
be more muscle meaning increased calorific expenditure and
increased metabolism. In fact for every pound of muscle,
the body will burn approximately 50 calories extra!

Unfortunately, a common problem with training this way, at
least more common for women is they begin to add a little
too much muscle, especially on the thighs. I'm not going to
go into the science of why this happens but this is where
we need a more even balance of exercise routines which you
will get in part 4. So don't panic too much.

So with a combination of strength exercise to increase lean
muscle whilst at the same time reducing the amount of
aerobic exercise and instead focusing on higher intensity
cardiovascular exercise. We already have a better idea of
personal programme design for us to achieve maximum results
for fat loss.

There is of course one more thing that will slow down the
process of too much muscle and at the same time increase
our muscle firmness more than any of the previous. But
you'll have to read part 3 for that kind of information.

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