Teen Pregnancy: The Importance of Prevention

During the past 20 years, the rate of teen girls having children has dropped by about 40%, but approximately 1,100 teen girls still give birth everyday. Learn what you can do to reduce teen pregnancy.

More than 400,000 teen girls give birth each year in the United States. TV, music, the Internet, and other popular youth media tend to glamorize teens having sexual intercourse and teen parenting, but the reality is starkly different. Having a child during the teen years carries high costs—emotionally, physically, and financially—to the mother, father, child, and community.
Parents, educators, public health and medical professionals, and community organizations all have a role to play in reducing teen pregnancy.

Breaking the Cycle of Teen Pregnancy

1. Preventing teen pregnancy is a priority because of its huge economic, social, and health costs on teen parents and their families.
   • Teen birth rates in the U.S. are unacceptably high, about 4% of all teenage girls give birth each year. Teen births represent 10% of the 4 million births each year.
   • Teen birth rates in the U.S. are up to 9 times higher than in most other developed countries.
   • Hispanic and black teen girls are about 2–3 times more likely to give birth than white teen girls. The percentage of black teen girls ever having sex also is higher than for Hispanic and white teen girls, while the percentage of black teen boys ever having sex is greater than Hispanics or whites.
   • Girls born to teen parents are almost 33% more likely to become teen parents themselves, continuing the cycle of teen pregnancy.
   • About 50% of teen mothers get a high school diploma by age 22 compared with 90% of teen girls who do not give birth.
   • Teen childbearing costs U.S. taxpayers about $9 billion each year.

2. Prevention efforts work by teaching teens how and why to delay starting sex and steps that they need to take if they become sexually active. Key components include sex education that has been shown to work, support for parent-teen communication about preventing pregnancy, and ready access to sexual and reproductive health services. Sexually active teens should have access to effective and affordable birth control. Among high school students;
   • Nearly half have had sexual intercourse (about 46% for both girls and boys), a decrease of about 20% from 1991.
   • About 12% of sexually active boys and girls did not use birth control at the last time they had sex, compared to 16% in 1991.
   • About 9% of sexually active teens used two methods (such as a condom with birth control pills or Depo-Provera, an injectable birth control) to avoid pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
   • About 65% of girls and 53% of boys received formal sex education about both abstinence and birth control.
   • About 44% of girls and 27% of boys had spoken with their parents about both abstinence and birth control.
     

What is CDC Doing?

CDC is:

• Expanding prevention resources through the President's Teen Pregnancy Initiative, which involves the Office of Adolescent Health, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Population Affairs, CDC and many other DHHS agencies.
  
• Working to reach the Healthy People 2020 national objectives to reduce unintended teen pregnancy and improve adolescent health.
  
• Recommending programs that reach teens that have been demonstrated to work, help parents communicate with their teens, and improve sexual and reproductive health services. 

Learn What You Can Do to Reduce Teen Pregnancy

Health care providers can:

• Talk openly to teen boys and girls about how to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
• Provide teen-friendly, culturally-appropriate services for sexual and reproductive health.
• Increase the availability of all forms of birth control.
• Offer teens long-acting reversible birth control (e.g., IUDs or implants).

Communities can:

• Provide opportunities for teens to be engaged in supervised activities after school.
• Promote youth development programs that keep teens in school and teach life skills.
• Make it easy for teens that are already sexually active to get services, including affordable, effective birth control, other medical care, and sex education that has been proven to work.
• Support youth development programs for teens at risk. This includes girls who have already been pregnant, and boys and girls who have a parent or sibling who has been a teen parent, live in foster care, or attend school or programs for troubled teens.

Parents, guardians and caregivers can:

• Talk to your teens about delaying sex, avoiding pregnancy, birth controlling , having respectful relationships, and being aware of dating violence.
• Get to know the parents of your teen's friends and be involved with what's going on in their lives.
• Talk to community leaders about the need for effective programs that prevent teen pregnancy and address overall sexual and reproductive health.

Teens can:

• Talk openly about sexual health issues with parents, other adults you trust, and peers.
• Resist peer pressure to start having sex. Support friends who make this choice.
• Use condoms consistently and correctly each time you have sex.
• Learn as much as you can about sexual and reproductive health, so you can make smart decisions about your future.
• Enjoy your teen years! Prepare for your best possible future by avoiding the responsibilities that come with pregnancy and parenting.

THE 12 STEPS - TO A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

 

I and many others are promoting the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle, but what does that actually mean?  In general, most would agree that a healthy person doesn’t smoke, is at a healthy weight, eats a balanced healthy diet, thinks positively, feels relaxed, exercises regularly, has good relationships, and benefits from a good life balance. 
Maybe I should start by trying to look at a few definitions for the word - lifestyle. A definition in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language says : ‘A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group’.  
In an Encyclopedia of Public Health: Lifestyle is defined as:‘In public health, “lifestyle” generally means a pattern of individual practices and personal behavioural choices that are related to elevated or reduced health risk’.  
The World Health Organisation in 1946 defined health as ‘A complete state of mental, physical and social well-being not merely the absence of disease’. 
Wikipedia: defines a lifestyle as the way a person lives. This includes patterns of social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. A lifestyle typically also reflects an individual’s attitudes, values or worldview. A healthy lifestyle is generally characterized as a “balanced life” in which one makes “wise choices”.  
A final definition of lifestyle is:“The aggregation of decisions by individuals which affect their health, and over which they more or less have control. … 
What is the definition of Healthy Living?  
The World Health Organization (WHO), defines Health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not simply just the absence of disease.
The actual definition of Healthy Living is the steps, actions and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health.  
Healthy Living is about taking responsibility for your decisions and making smart health choices for today and for the future.   So healthy living would consist of:
Physical (For the body):  

• Good nutrition, eating right
• Getting physically fit, beneficial exercise,
• Adequate rest
• Proper stress management.

Emotional Wellness (For the mind):  

• Self-supportive attitudes,
• Positive thoughts and viewpoints
• Positive self-image.

You also need to give and receive:  

• Forgiveness,
• Love and compassion;
• You need to laugh and experience happiness;
• You need joyful relationships with yourself and others.

Spiritual Wellness:  

• Inner calmness,
• Openness to your creativity,
• Trust in your inner knowing.

And all aspects of one’s self, must work in harmony to achieve wellness, so you need to create a balanced life.   

Have you ever wondered what "living a healthy lifestyle" actually means? Do you ever feel that there are unrealistic standards related to improving your health - or just downright confusion about how to improve your health?

Well, this article tackles a couple of the biggest barriers to actually getting going towards living a healthy lifestyle and experiencing the many joys of being healthy.

Let's define "lifestyle" - a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes. It's how you live your life, reflecting the choices and decisions you make. The meaning of "healthy" in this context means "having or indicating good health in body or mind; free from infirmity or disease." A healthy lifestyle then, is living life in a way that promotes physical and mental well-being.

Currently, there are a couple of rather unrealistic concepts in society that make it extremely difficult to get started on improving your health and enjoying a healthy lifestyle.

The first idea is that there are certain, very specific things that define a healthy lifestyle, such as maintaining a certain weight or eating 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Those can be health goals, but they do not define what living a healthy lifestyle is.

The image below illustrates the four primary factors that contribute to living a healthy lifestyle:

Your personal decisions and choices on how you use them in your life are part of your lifestyle. See the article on healthy eating guidelines to learn how to make healthier food choices, for example.

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I read an article on Medicinenet.com that blatantly accuses Americans of not leading a healthy lifestyle, because "...only 3% of American adults adhere to the four tenets of a healthy lifestyle defined in this study. This study confirms that compliance with public health recommendations is remarkably low among US adults..."¹

I don't know about you, but this irritates the hell out of me for several reasons. One, because there is no effective education on what the body needs to be healthy in the US, like HOW to maintain a "healthy weight with a body mass index (BMI) in the range of 18.5-25.0" - which is one of the four things that they define as living a healthy lifestyle.

This pompous, pretentious attitude oppresses a lot of people and is another barrier to being motivated to even learn how to improve your health. Stating that people who aren't maintaining a healthy weight, for example, are guilty of not living a healthy lifestyle is absurd when the facts are that the diet industry rakes in billions of dollars a year from folks who WANT to lose weight. Obesity is a national epidemic.

We can then conclude that that those who accuse us of "not living a healthy lifestyle" are the ones guilty of failure to help their patients with anything effective to achieve and maintain a healthy weight or other similar factors, like not smoking. (I smoked for 30 years and no doctor helped me to stop, ever!)

Crikey, when I read stuff like that, it sounds like we are bad, misbehaving dogs, peeing on the rug or something that we know we shouldn't do but do it anyway!

No wonder such a small percentage of us "pass muster..." We're not bad dogs! We do our best when we feel that we have the power of choice and our own self-determinism over our lives. The joys of being healthy are self-determined, not dictated by some "authority."

Living a healthy lifestyle is a matter of relative choices that you make, the choices being made on the basis of "more healthy or less healthy."

Improving your health is done on a gradient basis. The idea that if you don't get physical activity 30 minutes or more per day at least 5 times a week then you aren't living a healthy lifestyle is a false concept that prevents a lot of folks from even starting in my opinion.

For example, let's take a guy named Joe who leads a pretty sedentary (lack of physical activity) lifestyle. He decides to take a little walk at lunchtime to start incorporating some movement and stress management into his lifestyle. Let's say he starts out by taking a 5 - 10 minute walk at lunch maybe 3 times a week.

According to the definition of "healthy lifestyle" in the above study, Joe is guilty of not living a healthy lifestyle. How do you think Joe might feel if he was accused of that? That he might as well give up right now because it's not real yet for him to engage in physical activity for at least half an hour a day?

I beg to differ. By getting out for a bit of exercise and fresh air, maybe even noshing on an apple mid-morning instead of a doughnut, Joe is certainly living a healthier lifestyle than he was when he was sitting at his desk all day, scarfing down coffee and doughnuts for energy!

So the idea of rigid, "all-or-nothing" compliance to some arbitrary definition of "healthy lifestyle" is probably one of the most unrealistic and ineffective concepts to have if you really want to improve your health and enjoy the joys of being healthy. It isn't a matter of "healthy" or "not healthy." It's a matter of "more healthy" or "less healthy."

The unrealistic ideas that slow us down or prevent us in improving our health are just as important to discuss as going over the factors in living a healthy lifestyle themselves. When you subscribe to À Santé, the health and wellness newsletter of Improving Health and Energy, you'll open the door to useful, realistic help and discussion about how to improve your health.

Starting with the understanding that improving your health is something done gradiently, step-by-step instead of an all-or-nothing activity, you'll be actively living a more healthy lifestyle by tossing that stressful notion into the garbage!

Why is it important? 
A healthy lifestyle is a valuable resource for reducing the incidence and impact of health problems, for recovery, for coping with life stressors, and for improving quality of life.  There is a growing body of scientific evidence that shows our lifestyles play a huge part in how healthy we are.  From what we eat and drink, to how much exercise we take, and whether we smoke or take drugs, all will affect our health, not only in terms of life expectancy, but how long we can expect to live without experiencing chronic disease. 
Conditions such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, joint disease, and mental illness are responsible for a vast number of deaths and disabilities. Currently, we rely almost exclusively on the provision of clinical care by highly trained health professionals as our major strategy to deal with these conditions  Many health problems can be prevented or at least their occurrence postponed by having a healthy lifestyle. 
Why don’t you have a healthy lifestyle? 
It’s a busy life for most of us. And keeping ourselves healthy is all too rarely near the top of our list of ‘things to do’. Convenience often wins - we are all so busy that convenience is at a premium. 
Good Health is ’simple - but it’s not easy’. 
It is so important to make ‘keeping healthy’ a part of our day-to-day living habits. Your health depends on what you do throughout the day, everyday. A healthy lifestyle is absolutely vital. Here is a real simple solution - slowly improve your lifestyle in a step-by-step way. If you take one new health step every two months, for example, in two to three years you will be among the healthiest ten percent of people in the Western world. And boy will you see and feel the benefits. 
Improvements do not have to be large steps; take one small step for your health today, keep that one going, and add another one every two months. Have a plan - maybe introduce 6 improvements over the course of a year. 
Can you adopt a healthy lifestyle? 
Whatever your age, fitness level or body shape, its never too soon or too late to start thinking about living healthily. You can take a step towards healthy living by making one change now to your daily life. That won’t be so hard will it? 
Are you living a healthy lifestyle? 
Do you wake up with enthusiasm for the day ahead?Do you have the high energy you need to do what you want?Do you laugh easily and often, especially at yourself?Do you confidently find solutions for the challenges in your life?Do you feel valued and appreciated?Do you appreciate others and let them know it?Do you have a circle of warm, caring friends?Do the choices you make every day get you what you want? 
The Components Of A Healthy Lifestyle 
Eating Healthily – the right nutrition is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle. Your body requires a well balanced diet every day in order to maintain the adequate amounts of vitamins, nutrients and minerals needed to maintain a healthy body. 
“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.” - La Rochefoucauld 
An Active lifestyle - you will need to include fitness as part of your life.  Physical fitness keeps your weight in check, helps you sleep better at night, prevents heart attacks and strokes and other health problems, and generally prolongs your life. Basically there are so many benefits of exercising that you really can’t live a full life without it.   
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.  ~Edward Stanley 
Stress Management - Emotional stress plays an important role in many illnesses, both directly and indirectly. People are also more likely to smoke, overeat, drink too much, work too hard, argue with others and so on, when they are feeling stressed. Thus, stress management is an important part of your new lifestyle, and meditation and relaxation techniques are truly a key part of living a healthy lifestyle. 
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.  ~ Cicero 
Make friends with yourself - Loving yourself is a key to a healthy, happy lifestyle. Self-esteem is all about how much people value themselves; the pride they feel in themselves, and how worthwhile they feel. Self-esteem is important because feeling good about yourself can affect how you act.  
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.  Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around…. Throughout history, “tender loving care” has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.  ~Larry Dossey   
Powering up your Mind and Body - programme your mind for total success. Develop a vision, a compelling future that excites and inspires you, and focus on it daily. Don’t let anything knock you of course, or make you question its possibility.  I promise you, by taking control of your thoughts, you will improve your life in a big way.  
In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.  ~Alison Rose Levy 
Life Balance - If you want to achieve a healthy lifestyle you must take steps to ensure you maintain a certain level of balance… spiritually, physically, emotionally, socially, mentally and financially. You need to balance work and family, and all the other areas of your life without spreading yourself too thin and having a guilt trip when you do one thing, but think you should be doing another. All of the key areas of our lives overlap and interlink, effecting each other. Unless we create for ourselves satisfaction in each and every part of our life, we can never truly be fulfilled, or live a contented, happy and healthy life.  
“No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.” —BENJAMIN DISRAELI 
Being Healthy is so important. Just change one thing in your life today. Have a Healthy Life beginning now. Living a healthy lifestyle will bring you happiness, health and the life of your dreams. You can fit into your favourite pair of jeans again. You can enjoy all the benefits that perfect health offers you. You can feel your best at all times of the day.

Introduction to livinghealthy

INTRODUCTION:


What is the true definition of Healthy Living? It sounds silly that we need to define Healthy Living. After all, we know what Healthy is and we also know what Living is. Let‘s first start with what Health is.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Interestingly enough, health is not simply defined as just the absence of disease. The actual definition of Healthy Living is the steps, actions and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health. Healthy Living is about taking responsibility and making smart health choices for today and for the future. Eating right, getting physically fit, emotional wellness, spiritual wellness and prevention are all apart of creating a healthy lifestyle. Since the entire YOU, meaning all aspects of one’s self, must work in harmony to achieve wellness, you need to put balanced energy into each aspect of yourself.

• The body or Physical You requires good nutrition, appropriate weight, beneficial exercise, adequate rest and proper stress management.

• The mind or Emotional You needs self-supportive attitudes, positive thoughts and viewpoints and a positive self-image. You also need to give and receive forgiveness, love and compassion; you need to laugh and experience happiness; you need joyful relationships with yourself and others.

• The Spiritual You requires inner calmness, openness to your creativity, and trust in your inner knowing. And for some it requires having a relationship with a higher power.

We all know when the Physical You is out of balance. Our body tells us right away. We feel fatigue or catch a cold or maybe become chronically ill. But how do we know when the Emotional You or Spiritual You are out of balance?


Extent of continuing physical, emotional, mental, and social ability to cope with one's environment. Good health is harder to define than bad health (which can be equated with presence of disease) because it must convey a more positive concept than mere absence of disease,and there is a variable area between health and disease. A person may be in good physical condition but have a cold or mentally ill.

Someone may appear healthy but have a serious condition (e.g., cancer) that is detectable only by physical examination or diagnostic tests or not even by these.


health

1. the state of being bodily and mentally vigorous and free from disease

2. the general condition of body and mind


A state of dynamic equilibrium between an organism and its environment in which all functions of mind and body are normal.

The natural state of the body, characterized by its equilibrium with the environment and by the absence of any pathological changes.

Human health is determined by a complex of biological (inherited and acquired) and social factors; the latter have such great significance in the maintenance of a state of health and in the origin and development of disease, that the preamble to the code of the World Health Organization reads: “Health is a state of complete physical, spiritual, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of diseases and physical defects.” However, such a broad sociological definition of health is somewhat debatable, since the full social development of man does not always coincide with his biological state. In general, the concept of health is somewhat conditional and is objectively established according to the totality of anthropometric, clinical, physiological, and biochemical indexes, which are determined while sex and age factors as well as climatic and geographic conditions are taken into account.

Health must be characterized not only qualitatively but also quantitatively, because there is the concept of the degree of health, which is determined by the breadth of the adaptive possibilities of the body. Although health is essentially a state contrary to that of disease, it is connected with disease by various transitional states, and there may not be distinct boundaries between the two states. A state of health does not exclude the presence in the body of a not-yet-manifested pathogenic principle or of subjective fluctuations in a person’s feeling of well-being. In connection with these features, there has arisen the concept of the “practically healthy person,” in whom pathological changes observed in the body do not affect the subjective state of being and are not reflected in the person’s efficiency. At the same time, the absence of manifest disturbances of health does not indicate the absence of a pathological state, since overstrain of the protective-adaptive mechanisms, while not disrupting health, may lead to the development of disease under the action of strong stimuli on the body.

Factors that determine the health of a population are the amount of real wages, the length of the working day, the degree of intensity and conditions of work, the presence of occupational hazards, nutrition, the housing conditions, the life-style, the state of public health, and the sanitary condition of the country. There is practically no well-defined criterion for judging the state of health of the inhabitants of any country; even such a complex index as the average longevity, taken alone without consideration of complex social and biological research, is still insufficient for evaluation of the health of a population. The scientific organization of health protection for individual persons and groups of people must be based on increasing the defensive properties of the body and on creating conditions that prevent the possibility of human contact with various pathogenic stimuli or reduce their effect on the body.

Soviet public health services strive in every possible way to develop, preserve, and strengthen human health. This is possible because of the prophylactic character of Soviet medicine; free, available, and qualified treatment; the creation of a broad network of institutions for treatment and prophylaxis, sanatoriums, and rest homes; and massive organization of physical culture and sports. The Basic Principles of Legislation of the USSR and the Union Republics on Public Health, adopted by the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on Dec. 19, 1969, reads: “The protection of the people’s health is one of the most important tasks of the Soviet government… . Protection of the health of the population is the obligation of all government organs and community organizations.”


Definition:


Health is the level of functional and (or) metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person in mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain (as in “good health” or “healthy”). The Worl5c d Health Organization(WHO) defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Although this definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as having a lack of operational value and the problem created by use of the word "complete", it remains the most enduring. Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications, which is composed of the International classification of Functioning Disability and Health(ICF) and the International Classification of Disease(ICD), are commonly used to define and measure the components of health.

The maintenance and promotion of health is achieved through different combination of physical, mental and social well-being, together sometimes referred to as the “health triangle The WHO's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health promotion furthered that health is not just a state, but also "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.

Systematic activities to prevent or cure health problems and promote good health in humans are delivered by health care providers. Applications with regard to animal health are covered by the veterinary Sciences. The term "healthy" is also widely used in the context of many types of non-living organizations and their impacts for the benefit of humans, such as in the sense of healthy communities, healthy cities or healthy environment. In addition to health care interventions and a person's surroundings, a number of other factors are known to influence the health status of individuals, including their background, lifestyle, and economic and social conditions; these are referred to as "determinants of health".

The Art of Living Healthy – The Real Meaning of the Art of Healthy Living

The Art of Living Healthy – The Real Meaning of the Art of Healthy Living

The art of living healthy is a term that is thrown about loosely. Mostly people think that’s cool expression, or they just need something catchy on its site, but this is not what this album is all about. The art of healthy living that is only an art. People never talk about healthy lifestyle in relation to the nature of an art form. People see something they have committed to do, or do something they have to impress people. Some people use for a healthy life as a crutch to prove whether they can be taken. They are like the guys who still insist, is not healthy because you are, you start eating and living. I will do my best to avoid any misunderstanding about the nature of art and healthy living to be clarified.

What is art? It was a lot of things just pop into my head. Before I tell you what art means to me I want you first empty your cup of tea, so to my taste. This is an old Zen expression for all the things you think you know so that you afford to return. If you were in school and we were constantly trying, the teachers would do nothing more than you already knew this stuff. Your cup full and you continue to drink would go stale. This cup is your opinion, so before you say what it really means art, you must first empty your mind of all the things you think you know about art.

Art is not something created to be beautiful, it is important that you understand the concept for one of the most important. Although the beauty of a painting or song can and often many, this is not the reason they were created. A flower does not try to be nice and still. Art is the path to freedom. If you are one with your art, you are free to express themselves. If you are a master you a master of all things. But control is not done anything, but rather a course or a pad-to-face with himself. Art is a process and thus the journey begins on the art of living healthy.

The art of living healthy is something very personal and can not be taught. This is not something learned or is it to follow a system or method. There is no specific diet or exercise program you should follow for a healthy living artist. You have to learn who you are in the universe and all the ignorance to overcome, the art of healthy living that only fully reveal itself to you. Every day is a journey of self discovery. We find something new about ourselves every day. Those who do not see that you will not see changing. You tried to freeze the water of life so it no longer flows and all things are hot and stuffy in their lives.

In the art of healthy living, presents great opportunities for a healthy life from many different angles. While some of these factors can not be for you probably because he was a different life, because that position has changed. Some forms of healthy life are useful for preventing other and useless to another. If the art of healthy living has become an artist and every artist you how to make your own style. If the paths of others and not all get to know the way, even if you are not doomed to who you really are. Find out what a healthy life for you, but certainly something to take to something absolute that can be answered by you and you alone. It can not be drawn from another of them only a sign of their way. Their paths may devour some point, but it’s always a fork in the road are at a point where you ask again you have to understand what a healthy lifestyle. Some believe they practice the art of healthy living by following the step of others, but they do not see that these people love themselves and find their own path to follow. Although they are followed for another possible, although it was ultimately a path of their own, and I found what works best for them.

Artists in all fields must understand the art is the best practitioners of the art of living healthy. Learning to live healthy, but not your methods or operating systems on the other. Instead, see what works for you, so that students can choose. On our site, we want to know useful to avoid probably useful to someone else. We take suggestions from our visitors and we present their healthy lifestyle, even if it seems strange to us. Some art is more abstract than others, but still no less art.

The art of living healthy is the creativity of the individual. In this way, the individual creates the healthiest lifestyle for themselves, rather than part of a healthy lifestyle that someone else is better for you, but it is difficult to maintain . Do not feel obliged to live in extreme conditions and excesses. Do not use a power supply and systems that are so strict and rigid, they allow you to ask the art of living healthy. You must also complete as unruly as all aspects of healthy lifestyle deny. You must take your heart and healthy living artist you were born too.

 Dehydration and Tips For Staying Hydrated

The importance of staying hydrated is one type of healthy living information everyone should know. What exactly is dehydration and why you ought to have knowledge of it? Dehydration is a rapid loss of, more than, 3 % of overall body water. The normal mature body is Fifty to 65 per-cent. A guy’s body is Sixty to Sixty five % water, compared to Fifty to Sixty % for a woman. Dehydration, if drastic enough, would be life threatening.

Do you know the warning signs of dehydration?

In accordance with the U.S. National Library of Medicine to possess good healthy living information you need to understand these, commonplace, signs of dehydration:

• Not having the ability to urinate, or not as much as typical
• Urine that is extremely strong and dark yellow in color
• Not being able to produce tears
• Sunken eyes
• Confusion
• Dryness or even sticky feeling within the mouth

What Are Causes of Dehydration?

• One standard reason for dehydration is intestinal sickness, as you greatly reduce fluids through vomiting and diarrhea.
• It is not usual to realize a level of even nominal dehydration during sports activities in addition to other everyday outdoor activity. Unfortunately unless you replenish water you eliminate by means of perspiration as you go, you can end up dehydrated from physical exercise, especially on a hot day.
• Excessive caffeine consumption. Caffeine is seen as a diuretic (it tends to make people urinate a whole lot more frequently that you really customarily might).

Preventing Dehydration

• The ideal way of avoiding dehydration is to drink lots of fluids, especially on scorching, dry days. Water is, frequently, the top choice. Water won’t add calories and is particularly fantastic for ones health.
• Dress properly for your activity. When ever outside on a sweltering day, wear loosely fitting clothes. They are going to help you stay much cooler and reduce sweating.
• If you do get parched or dizzy, please take a quick rest. Be seated somewhere cool and sip water.
• Keep track of just how much water and water based drinks you consume. Remember any frozen fruit juice bars & frozen treats.
• Remember caffeine works as a diuretic also leads to fluid loss, for that reason reduce your consumption of coffee, tea and sodas.
• Fruit juice is sometimes diluted with water to cut back calories

There are other benefits of staying hydrated. When your body’s cells just isn’t effectively hydrated, it has an effect on your general wellness. Appropriate hydration has been shown to:

• Greatly reduce joint painfulness.
• Prevent and treat depression
• Aid in vision health
• Replenish wholesome skin
• Aid elimination of body waste and toxins
• Burn extra body fat and build lean muscle

 Health Coaching: Invest in Your Future – Stop Sabotaging Your Life

“I ought to, I should do, I don’t know how to. If only there were more time- less pressure, less stress, I’m too tired to try, I just can’t do this anymore, why is this necessary?”

These are explanations, justifications and comments that indicate you are still in the “victim” mode of your circumstances rather than taking charge of them. Now is the time to choose to become more disciplined and to move through your comments to better health or disease management. Healthy living for a healthy future is an investment you can’t afford not to make.

It’s time to use YOUR mind over YOUR matter!!! Let your Soul’s energy direct your Spirit’s housing! It’s your future!! This is not just about your weight loss, or a diet, or a diet plan, it’s about a commitment to healthy living and creating a healthy lifestyle.

As a medical intuitive and distant energy healer, I deal with alternative emergency medicine cases, sports medicine injuries and lots of disorders and disease in day-to-day life. Each presents is own health circumstances to overcome. Addressing physical problems and determining the underlying emotional and mental contributions that direct the body to manifest the disease or life issues is one set of problems, having acquired health conditions is another. Sometimes a client’s current “mind set”, lack of knowledge, or lack of “get up and go”, sabotages their personal welfare and puts their life and health at risk, or on hold.

Years ago you went to the gym an instructor guided you. Then came personal trainers, and now it’s a health coach, life coach or life purpose coach. All of these health care professionals are trained to help individuals take charge of their health. Today it’s a holistic (mind, body, and spirit) approach to wellness ie improving existing health conditions, life issues and your personal routine. This broader approach to coaching creates and promotes a healthier life and lifestyle and hopefully prevents and keeps future health and life issues at bay.

Before a personal trainer was a luxury, today health care management is a great investment in your future. A well-planned healthy life management program is complementary to and integrative with your physician’s treatment and regime. Major corporations are encouraging and educating employees to have a better way of life, which is a win-win situation for both. It saves employee ‘sick days”, and the employer’s large insurance costs.

Good intentions and intermittent actions don’t always culminate in change. Even when you are educated and given the tools to change your life, a health coach works with you over a period of time to see that you don’t slip into the past “automatic pilot” life patterns and mindsets that manifested your original issues or undermines your current progression. By choosing and living positive attitudes and health behaviors, you maximize the health benefits of your goals, and you create lifestyle patterns that support and encourage well-being.

It boils down to the basic fact that you learn to use YOUR mind over YOUR matter and to use your Soul’s energy to discipline and maintain your Spirit’s housing The combination of your steadfast commitment and a health coach who is there to give you nudgies, encouragement and guidance when needed, can make the difference between a wanna-be-well victim of your health issues, and an individual who does the best with what they are given, and lives their life to the Max!