Good Health News • June• 2014
Good Health News June• 2014 Volume 6 Number 9
Health in Motion director Natan Gendelman
In This Issue
Summer is coming up, the days are getting brighter!
talks about importance of healthy exercise
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This is the time when ladies start looking at themselves in the mirror and hoping they get bikini-bodies; men look in the mirror and hope to have a fit body for the beach. Some people start going on diets to lose weight before the bikini season starts up; some people start exercising to burn fat.
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However, health does not come just with a good diet, it comes in the package of a lifestyle combining proper nutrition and proper exercising. When we ingest food, nutrients are supplied through the blood in our body after the food is digested. This is why people say, “You are what you eat”.
Healthy Ways to Exercise
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Exercising can hurt, injure, sicken us, or make us feel better and healthier. It depends on what exercise we do and how we exercise. One basic tip is: do not eat at least for an hour prior to exercising. Otherwise, the body will be busy digesting and streaming blood flow to your digestive organs, instead of your muscles or joints that you will be working out. Tip number two: warm up from the tip of your nose to the tip of your toes. This means that when you go to the gym, do not think moving from lighter weights to heavier weights is a way of warming up. This is a big mistake and is a sure way to get injured. If your training consists of one hour, then the warm up takes at least 20 minutes. We should also relax and cool off for 10 minutes after working out. Warm ups should consist of walking, jogging, stretching. After physical training, we should always stretch because the muscles that are tensed up should be relaxed after the workout. Tip number three: do not drink during a workout. Dehydration only occurs after a body has no liquid intake about a day for an adult, definitely not within an hour of a workout session. The reason for not drinking during working out is because our cardiovascular system will be working in a certain rhythm when we are exercising. When we take in fluids, we are putting an extra burden on our cardiovascular system, which is already adjusting itself, not only to the work out, but also to the additional fluids which have to be digested. This is also the reason why we sweat more when we drink during exercising. The best way to rehydrate is to drink warm tea after training, even during the summer. The body will more easily absorb the warm liquid, since it is similar to the body’s temperature, which has been increased during the work out.
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