Thursday, 15 March 2012

Benefits of Cardio Training


Cardio Training is good in improving the healthy body.

To be fit and healthy all the time is the important thing in our life. It is because our body is the most valuable asset that we could have in our life. So everyone must take care of their own body. In order to maintain a healthy body, cardio training is one of the best options.

What is Cardio Training?

Cardio training is an exercise that needs to use large muscle groups of the body in a type of regular and uninterrupted condition. It will elevate the heart rate between 60 to 85 percent during cardio training, which involve the fastest heart rate situation.

There is some usual cardio training like walking, jogging, running, aerobics, cycling, swimming and rowing. Aerobic is well known as cardio training, which is quite normal practice by people.

The Benefits of Training:

Generate Energy to the Body
One will feel the body is full of energy and higher endurance after regular cardio training.

Prevent Diseases
After regular cardio training, it will help prevent heart diseases, diabetes, obesity and cholesterol. During the training, it helps strengthen the heart and the lungs. Some normal cardio exercise like walking or jogging is quite suitable for the elders to improve their body health.

Maintain Body Weight
During cardio training, it will help to burn the extra calories in the body. It is good for someone who would like to lose weight. Continuing practicing this exercise will help maintain and control a person weight.


Avoid Boredom
Cardio training is a fun and good exercise. One will feel more energized and would like to have it regularly.

Cardio training is important to improve the body health. It is advised that a beginner can start the exercise for 30 to 45 minutes a day, 3 to 5 days a week. However, if a person who would like to lose weight, that person should practice the exercise more frequently. It is advised that the training should not go beyond 45 minutes to avoid exhausting too much energy.  

One may start the cardio training now by walking or cycling around the neighborhood. It is important that one should set a goal and follow the goal to make it success. Besides one should modify the diet and having some healthy food to make the goal more successful.  

Once a person increase the fitness level, the intensity of the training must follow the step too. It means that one should increase the speed of the training to avoid it remains unchanged. It will help improve the healthy of a body faster.

One should not do the cardio exercise before bedtime. It will affect the sleeping condition if one generates higher energy in a body.

One should take a snack 30 minutes before start doing the cardio exercise. It is not advisable to have the exercise in an empty stomach because it will not help in the training to achieve proper momentum. However, it is not right to have large meals before the exercise. A proper snack is enough to sustain exhausting movements. 

Cardio exercise is better to be done outdoors. One can have a nature and fresh air outdoors compare to the indoors. Besides, it will not be boring as one can sight seeing the view outdoors. It is also a better opportunity to meet with the neighbor around. 

Be patient and be consistent during the cardio exercise. You will have a healthy body in your life. 

Sunday, 26 February 2012

TRUE Carrots help you see in the dark


Carrots help you see in the dark

Carrots are rich in beta-carotene, a substance the body converts to vitamin A, which is essential for healthy eyes.

Vitamin A is also necessary for the normal functioning of the retina, the part of the eye that controls vision, and for the light-sensitive areas of the eye. It also wards off corneal changes and drying of the eye. In ancient Egypt, Liver, rich in vitamin A, was eaten to prevent night blindness.

Monday, 16 January 2012

Dieting for Weight Loss



People should go for a healthy way for dieting to lose weight.

There are many people having diet for the purpose of weight loss. They want to have a prefect slimming and good looking body to increase their confidence while working in the society. Other people may want to have a healthy body because they are over weight. Whatever the reason it is, this will be a good motivator for the people to look for dieting to weight loss.  

People always complain that they feel hungry during the process of dieting. So they are a few strategies implemented to deal with the feeling of hungry. One of the strategies is having more fiber foods during the dieting. Fiber foods like whole grains, apples, pears and lima beans will help to fill up the stomach. People will not feel hungry so easily and avoid the unpleasant feeling of hungry. However, it is advised that people should spread the fiber intake throughout the day instead of having it at once.

Another strategy is to drink more water during dieting. Water is a good mineral for our body. It helps to deliver the nutrients throughout our body and improve our metabolism. So it is very important to have more water during dieting. Besides, water will enhance our skin elasticity and helps our skin to replace back once the serious weight loss happened on us.

People should learn how to control the food portion. Restaurant always will serve the food more than enough for us. After having appetizers, salads and soups, you should feel a little bit enough. After a main dish and a dessert, it will be more than enough for people who wan to diet. So always remember to control your food portion before over taking the calorie. People should take more vegetables instead of large portion of rich fried foods in order to meet the dieting purpose.

During dieting, people should not go overboard until cutting the meals all in once. There are limits in our body and the minds that we can handle. People should cut the meal a little at a time to let our body use to that limit. So the changes during your dieting will not lead to the risk of your healthy body. Otherwise it may cause the failure of your diet program.

It is advised that people should take the diet step by step and incorporate extra physical activity to ensure the best result. Sometimes, doing some household chaos will help us to burn the calorie. A simple walking to a short distance garden or grocery shop will also help to burn the calorie and meet the weight loss purpose.

In conclusion, dieting does not necessary need to sacrifice something to meet the purpose of weight loss. The important thing is to have a regular exercise and control the food portion during everyday meals. Your daily lifestyle still the same, but you just need to put more effort on loosing weight. It may take a long time to go, so be patient and you will meet the purpose in a healthy way.

Sunday, 15 January 2012

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Appeared in The Times of India (Delhi Edition) on 13th June, 2009 (Saturday)

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Alcohol And Exercise


Think before you have the alcohol. Exercise will not help to recover the healthy body if you consuming too much of alcohol.

After working for a whole day, you probably will think to have some drinks to relax your mind, especially on Friday night. Sometimes, people know that having alcohol is not good for health. However, they may think that they deserve to have some drinks with friends because they have worked so hard everyday to earn their living costs.


People may think that since they are having exercise on a regular basis, some alcohol will not really affect their health. Before you think to go out to have some alcohol with your friends, you should consider the following important points.


A research has proved that a small amount of alcohol will increase muscular endurance and the output of strength. This may be a benefit for some people but it is just a short term. After 20 minutes of consuming the alcohol, some problems will begin to surface. The negative side effects after consuming the alcohol will outweigh the benefits of having it. Alcohol is a poison that will hurt the body. People should aware of it to maintain the body health.


The negative side effect of consuming alcohol is it will reduce the strength endurance, aerobic capability, recovery time, ability to metabolize fat and the muscle growth. It even will affect the nervous system and the brain. Long term of consuming alcohol will cause severe deterioration of the central nervous system.


After having alcohol, the alcohol will reach the blood cell and may damage them. The inflammation of the muscle cells is quite common for the people who having the alcohol for the long time period.  The bloods cell which is affected because of alcohol will slowly die. It will cause the less functional of muscle contractions. Having too much alcohol will also cause soreness of the muscle after exercise. People may need more time to recuperate after exercise.


Alcohol will also affect the heart and circulatory system of the body. After having alcohol, there is a reduction in the endurance capabilities. The heat loss will increase because the alcohol simulating the blood vessels to dilate. The heat loss will affect the muscle to become cold, slower and weaker on muscle contractions.


Having alcohol will cause the digestive and nutrition problem too. Alcohol will release of insulin which increase the metabolism of glycogen. It will make the loss of weight very hard and spare the fat in the body. Alcohol will also affect the absorption of some important nutrients of the body. As a result of less nutrition, people may become anemic and deficient with vitamins B.


Liver is an important organ in the body to detoxify the alcohol. Over consuming the alcohol will affect the liver function. Once the liver is over loaded with the alcohol, it will destroy the liver cells and damage the liver.


Alcohol is diuretic. Having lots of alcohol will affect the kidneys too. During diuretic, the hormones are secreted. It will lead to heightened water retention and damage the kidneys.


People who love to drink alcohol should have it in moderation. People are advised that do not drink the alcohol before exercise. It is because alcohol will affect the balance, coordination and the judgment of a person. Even more exercises will not bring back a healthy body if you take too much of alcohol. Think carefully and concern of your health before you have the alcohol.