Diet danger zone and other stories on health issues

Three stories you should read today

Why 3pm is the diet danger zone – and what you can do to get through it A few simple changes can make all the difference in avoiding an overload of calories and slipping into unhealthy habits Who’s at risk of the 100-day cough and how to stave it off With rates of whooping cough on the rise, here’s how you can steer clear of the annoyingly persistent illness Bryony Gordon: The lesson of burnout is listening to your body, not your brain If I don’t deal with burnout as it arises, I know that it is only a matter of time before I fall once more into despair

WeightWatchers CEO says we ‘got it wrong’ – as even Oprah admits to using weight-loss drugs The role of WW in the age of weight-loss drugs has changed, says Sima Sistani in an exclusive interview. So is the old-fashioned diet over?

To help you out today I shifted my midlife weight in six months – now I’m fitter than I was in my twenties Career stress, grief and the menopause meant that I was gaining weight rapidly, but looking at my health holistically changed everything Why magnesium is so essential for your health From heart health to your immunity, this multifaceted supplement is more important than you think. Here the experts explain the benefits This is what 71 without Botox or Ozempic looks like Ageing is inevitable; as much as we try to obliterate wrinkles on the outside, those on the inside will eventually catch up with us ‘Doctor knows best’ attitude leading to patients being ignored A study by Cambridge University found doctors often disregarded self-assessments when making a diagnosis

After the end of the Summer holiday 2023 Exercising and Getting away of burn out

Modern life can take a huge toll on our physical and psychological health – take a look at these eleven signs you’re suffering from stress before discovering what to do about them.

The key to a longer, healthier life is dealing with inflammation – here’s how to do it
It’s a hidden, lifelong process that’s tied to cancer, heart disease and dementia, but there’s plenty you can do to fix the damage

Until recently, “inflammation” has generally been used to describe something you can see: the redness of a stubbed toe, or the “-itis” of a swollen pair of tonsils or appendix. Then there are the auto-immune conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease. But now attention is being given to “hidden” inflammation, a chronic, insidious lifelong process that could be responsible for common conditions from heart disease to cancer and Type 2 diabetes, and even depression and dementia.

“We now know that many of our chronic conditions are – at least in part – inflammatory disorders. By preventing or treating the inflammation, we may be able to decrease the risk of future disease,”

says Dr Shilpa Ravella.

The key signs you’ve gone from being stressed to totally burnt out
Stressed out with your job? Obsessed with your career? Can’t connect with normality? We ask the experts what can be done.

A report by the Resolution Foundation this week found that the number of young adults who aren’t working because of health issues has risen from 94,000 in 2012 to 185,000 in 2022.

“Burnout is incredibly prevalent now,”

says Bruce Daisley, the former Twitter executive, expert in workplace culture and author of Eat Sleep Work Repeat.

“The advent of email on our phones is taken for granted, but research suggests on average, people are spending 70 hours a week connected to their jobs. No wonder a lot of people feel they can’t escape.”

Seven ways to boost your heart health
How to adjust your routine for a healthier heart, according to a consultant cardiologist

There are harms associated with intense training. I see a lot of elite cyclists and some ultra-marathon runners who develop atrial fibrillation – an irregular heart beat – which is associated with the risk of stroke and heart failure. A brisk, 20-minute walk is great: your cardiovascular system will thank you.

Sedentary lifestyles increase the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular events and even premature death.

It’s a necessary evil in modern working life and hardly seems like the riskiest way to spend your day, but your desk job is more dangerous than you’d think.

Those of us who spend the highest percentage of our days sitting are 112 per cent more likely to develop diabetes, 147 per cent more at risk of cardiovascular events, and 49 per cent more prone to premature death according to research published in the journal Diabetologia.

There are – quite literally – steps you can take. In 2016, a meta-analysis published in The Lancet concluded that those who sat for eight hours or more during the day and only engaged in low levels of activity had an average death risk of 9.9 per cent. Those who reduced their sitting time to four hours and were active for at least an hour reduced their risk to 6.8 per cent.

The good news? An hour of moderately intense activity, such as fast-paced walking, brought the risk of eight hours’ sitting back down to similar levels.

Further research suggests that people who sit for less than 30 minutes at a time have the lowest risk of early death.

Nonetheless: “Try and walk or cycle to and from work, or get off the bus a few stops early and walk the rest,” suggests Srinivasan.

Here are the (literal) steps you can take to get moving.

Why every man should ‘sexercise’

Of all the many reasons we are given about why we should undertake regular short bursts of exercise, increased arousal doesn’t usually feature all that high up on the list. Until now, that is. High-intensity workouts were already known to help improve your mood and promote weight loss and heart health, but now they have been found to have an impact on our libidos too.

German researchers have discovered that men who do just three minutes of strength work will be far more responsive to sexual stimuli afterwards. A small amount of exertion, they say, is enough to jump-start the sympathetic nervous system, which sees the heart rate rise, blood pressure increase and pupils dilate.

Research suggests that men who do just three minutes of strength work may be far more responsive in the bedroom.

A long stroll outdoors is one of the best ways to put your mind at rest – here’s how to cure overthinking and anxiety with walking.

Why you should exercise first thing in the morning – and the other rules of ‘fasted cardio’
The world of fitness is beset by fads and supposed shortcuts, understandably people seek fast, efficient ways to glean the benefits of working out – there are only so many hours in the day. Something that sounds scientific and feels instinctively right is always bound to tempt us.

For the majority of healthy people, steady cardio before breakfast is very safe. Anyone with low blood pressure or blood sugar issues should avoid it and it’s best ease your way in with shorter bursts of gentle exercise and monitor yourself carefully.

For some, working out while digesting food just isn’t comfortable and they’d simply rather work out before breakfast rather than spend half their day waiting for a meal to digest.

The A-list swear by exercising on an empty stomach. But can it really help you lose weight? Find out here.

The simple daily exercise that indicates how long you might live
You might think it’s the easiest thing in the world to get right – but, as Maria Lally explains, there’s a knack to it.

Along with walking 10,000 steps a day and eating more plants, another health mantra you may have heard a lot of in recent years is this: sitting is the new smoking.

Long periods of sitting down – be it hunched over a computer, commuting by car or train, or binge-watching your favourite Netflix show – is bad for our health, and, according to the NHS, many adults spend around nine hours a day doing it.
Sitting for long periods is associated with several health issues, including obesity, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, and it’s thought to slow down your metabolism by affecting the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar and break down body fat.

One study – which involved researchers analysing results from 13 previous studies – found those who sat for more than eight hours a day with little exercise had a similar risk of dying to smokers (hence the “sitting is the new smoking” headlines). While another, from the University of Leicester and the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in 2019, found that adults who sit for more than nine hours a day are doubling their risk of early death (the good news is, they also found walking briskly for 24 minutes every day helped offset some of the damage).

How to increase your ‘healthspan’ by a decade

We’re an ageing society, that’s indisputable, but our later years are increasingly lived in ill health, plagued by the “four horsemen”: diabetes, cancer, heart disease and dementia. This is the terminology used by Dr Peter Attia, cancer surgeon-turned-longevity expert, whose message is that we need to focus on our healthspan – the number of years we live in good health – rather than just our lifespan, the number of years we’re alive.
Dying a ‘slow’ death from a chronic condition is likely for many of us – but scientists now believe there’s room for change.

Naps remain one of life’s great pleasures – and it seems as if fears over them are exaggerated, but only if you get the timing spot on. Here’s how to plan the perfect mid-afternoon snooze.

	Often when we feel tired we don’t look after ourselves as well as we could, which in turn makes us feel even more worn out – here’s how your diet can help break the cycle.
	New research suggests a link between melancholy music and a very human need for connection – here’s why sad songs are good for the soul.

Do you hate your work colleagues? Here’s what to do

Irritating co-workers are inevitable, but these simple strategies can stop them spoiling your day.

# TheMe series: I am enough!

I believe in Daffodils

Being a South African has put its toll on my mental health in the past few weeks. I am proudly South African, but I am hurt by all the complications of living here or, should I say, trying to survive here.

Loadshedding, inflation, and crime have made my anxiety go a 360°.

Where to start elaborating… Working shifts, homework, dealing with “mom, I’m hungry,” driving in the dark, and working out my life in the dark literally, has been beyond overwhelming.

Loadshedding mental shutdown deserves a place in record books as a South African only mental health condition.

Imagine planning around four hours of loadshedding, ending up as six hours of loadshedding. Home work and hungry kids. In this time frame, ironing is only a dream, and preparing a cooked meal is no ones reality. All this chaos after work…

Eating bread is an easy solution to combating loadshedding supper…

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The Importance of Self-Care in Today’s Busy World

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To remember

• today’s fast-paced world = easy to get caught up in hustle & bustle of everyday life.
• constant demands from work, family, + social obligations = no wonder people often neglect their own self-care.
• self-care  = practice of taking deliberate actions to promote physical, mental, + emotional well-being
• = essential for overall health & well-being
• Self-care => reduce stress + prevent burnout + improve our overall quality of life

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Preceding

Doing more

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Also of interest

1. When You Wonder If Anyone Cares
2. 30 things to start doing for yourself – #6 is vital.
3. No time like the present
4. The Order of Time – by Carlo Rovelli
5. Shortness of time
6. The express train of the speeding time
7. Work and career a major focus of young adulthood
8. Spend time creating new blogs
9. Extra Time
10. If Today Was Your Last Day On Earth?

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Related

1. Self-Care on a Budget
2. Putting Yourself First: Overcoming People-Pleasing Tendencies
3. diary of a lost 21 year old
4. Spirituality and Acceptance: The Key to Finding Inner Peace
5. One Task At A Time
6. Seagull yoga and always wanting to be somewhere else
7. #ThinkPositive2023: Mar 27
8. Stop Cribbing, Start Living: How to Shift Your Mindset and Find Joy in Everyday Life
9. The Art of Slowing Down: Why is it so challenging?
10. Qi Gong
11. Christine tricks herself into more mobility exercises
12. Natural Health. Bristol April 8th
13. Sibling Bonding
14. The Future is Bright
15. To-Do Lists
16. I’ll do it later
17. The Importance of Self-Care in Today’s Busy World
18. Healing
19. Ways To Shift From I Can’t To I Can
20. Be Your Own #1

Raising Me

In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. With constant demands from work, family, and social obligations, it’s no wonder that people often neglect their own self-care. However, taking care of oneself is crucial for overall health and well-being. In this post, we’ll discuss the importance of self-care and offer tips for incorporating it into your daily routine.

What is Self-Care?

Self-care is the practice of taking deliberate actions to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being. It involves making choices that prioritize your own health and happiness. Self-care can take many forms, including exercise, healthy eating, sleep, relaxation, and socializing with loved ones.

Why is Self-Care Important?

Self-care is important for a number of reasons. First and foremost, it helps to reduce stress and prevent burnout. When we neglect our own needs, we become more vulnerable to the effects…

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Much too often people forget the importance of self-care.

All too often, people spend a lot of energy on the work they have to do to earn a living. In most cases, they even go so far as to sacrifice themselves. And then things can’t help but go wrong. With the visible results in our current society where we encounter so many people with burnouts and end up in sick care.

As cited, we may assume that we can rebound a ball and by taking good care of ourselves we can also take care of those around us.

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To remember

• practising self-care = essential for maintaining physical, mental + emotional health

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Preceding

Creating Community and Togetherness

To nurture your relationships

That Tiny Eyes Girl

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Also of interest

1. When You Wonder If Anyone Cares
2. 30 things to start doing for yourself – #6 is vital.
3. No time like the present
4. The Order of Time – by Carlo Rovelli
5. Shortness of time
6. The express train of the speeding time
7. Work and career a major focus of young adulthood
8. Spend time creating new blogs
9. Extra Time
10. If Today Was Your Last Day On Earth?

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Related

1. Self-Care on a Budget
2. Putting Yourself First: Overcoming People-Pleasing Tendencies
3. diary of a lost 21 year old
4. Spirituality and Acceptance: The Key to Finding Inner Peace
5. One Task At A Time
6. Seagull yoga and always wanting to be somewhere else
7. #ThinkPositive2023: Mar 27
8. Stop Cribbing, Start Living: How to Shift Your Mindset and Find Joy in Everyday Life
9. The Art of Slowing Down: Why is it so challenging?
10. Qi Gong
11. Christine tricks herself into more mobility exercises
12. Natural Health. Bristol April 8th
13. Sibling Bonding
14. The Future is Bright
15. The Importance of Maternal Mental Health
16. To-Do Lists
17. I’ll do it later
18. The Importance of Self-Care in Today’s Busy World
19. Healing
20. Ways To Shift From I Can’t To I Can
21. Be Your Own #1

Fibromyalgia & ME/CFS Awareness Day

The day after Italy‘s Parliament on Wednesday May 11 overwhelming gave final approval to a law recognizing civil unions between same-sex partners, the world had again a day to think of a lot of things.

The day that Brazil’s Senate has voted to suspend President Dilma Rousseff immediately and begin impeachment proceedings against her on accusations of tampering with accounts to hide a budget shortfall, the world also thought of many people who need lots of funds to pay for their health. Many of them living in a healthy country not being themselves in a healthy state.

Ten years after the mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital began in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead, on May 12 the world also remembered the 7.3-magnitude earthquake and six major aftershocks hit Nepal, killing over 200 people, but leaving many also handicapped.

It is for disabled people certain days are also created to bring their situation in attention. On the Day of the Finnish Identity (Finland) we also have an International Nurses Day and the International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day.

For a long time the medical world did not want to take the condition serious by which people where bullied with concentration problems and need of sleep, feeling tired all the time.

Also the way how media looked at CFS or Chronic fatigue syndrome has often been controversial; in November 1990 the magazine Newsweek ran a cover story on CFS which although supportive of an organic cause of the illness also featured the term Yuppie Flu. Reflecting a stereotype that CFS mainly affected yuppies, the implication was that CFS was a form of burnout.

Luckily today the world recognises Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) as a condition that causes extreme tiredness. Though known it needs to bring it under the loop and bring more awareness under the entices, there has been a created a special day for them. This in the hope that more people can come to understand how the victims of that disease have debilitating fatigue that lasts for six months or longer. At the moment the medical world does not yet have a known cause, which makes that still a lot of research has to be done.

Many doctors and researchers think that CFS may not be a single illness but a group of symptoms caused by several conditions. One theory is that a microorganism, such as a virus, or a chemical injures the body and damages the immune system, allowing dormant viruses to become active. When these viruses start growing again, the immune system may overreact and produce chemicals called cytokines that can cause flu-like symptoms. Immune abnormalities have been found in studies. {Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine | 2005 | Rowland, Belinda; Odle, Teresa}

We do have to take into account that having CFS is not just a matter of being tired. Those people with CFS having severe fatigue that keeps them from performing their normal daily activities should also know that this should not mean they are passed out by the community or would not be able to do something waluable.

Their big problem is to find work, attend school, or even to take part in social activities and to be respected for what is holding them back to give the 100%. And if they love to exercise or try to be active in spite of their fatigue, people with CFS experience what some patients call “payback”— debilitating exhaustion that can confine them to bed for days.

Often such people do not know where to find solace and are confronted with people who do not understand their situations and often consider them as lazy or as profiteers. though when we look at the present figures it is clear that there are so many people caught by that trigger who wants to pull them down, that we also have to question if not somebody in our near environment is having it as well and if it also not have to do with what we have been added in the things we eat (all those chemical additives).

The Bendy Beauty girl started blogging on July 2015 it seems with mostly looking at Glossyboxes. But using these skin creams and treatments perhaps she also came to wonder what is in it all those products we so gladly put on our body hoping to look better, but are they making us also better? Often not. In lots of the additives bad products do a lot of damage to our body. Paraben, widely used preservatives in cosmetic and pharmaceutical products and collagen, which has many medical uses in treating complications of the bones and skin, or not so innocent as many think.

In man’s hope to stay young or to look younger than the real age many brands have jumped on the collagen bandwagon to produce gels, creams and powders but also dermal fillers, to rejuvenate skin and fill wrinkles.

May the 1st being the start of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome awareness month the beauty girl wanted doing posts about EDS, covering the different types of EDS, where the zebra comes from, fibromyalgia awareness day, the HMSA and their work with all of the hypermobility causing syndromes.

For those of you that aren’t aware, the zebra is the mascot animal of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and as a result many of us with EDS collect zebra themed items. We might collect them because we love zebras or because people buy them for us on a regular basis – some EDSers have even been known to get fed up of the whole zebra thing! {Paperchase Serengeti Range – Zebras!}

In one article she also gives 8 self-care tips for getting through a flare up.

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Read about the collagen:

Bendy Investigates: What is Collagen?

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Preceding articles

Though disabled in the eyes of society able to do great things

What would you do if…?

What would you do if…? Continued trial

What would you do if…? Continued trial

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Further reading

1. Chronic Fatigue/M.E Awareness week
2. Chronic Illness and Depression- The Link
3. Chronic Life: Getting a New Diagnosis
4. Narcolepsy gives and takes.
5. The Dietitian

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