2. Know that the cause of many back injuries is the result of improper lifting. When you lift objects using your back muscles rather than your leg muscles, injury is likely to occur.

3. Wear back support braces before performing heavy moving or lifting. Back supports are generally inexpensive.

4. Trim off those extra pounds. Adults who are 10 or more pounds overweight are compounding back pressure. Losing weight will relieve stress on the back muscles. Moderate exercise at least 3 times a week and a good nutritional plan can eliminate excess weight.

5. Go to the “American Physical Association” Web site to find more tips regarding physical therapy for back pain.

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2. Measure your waist. Run a tape measure around your waist at the the belly button. Write down the measurement.

3. Take your body weight and multiply that figure by 1.082. Add the result to 94.42. Save this number.

4. Multiply your waist measurement by 4.15. Once you have this number, subtract it from your result obtained in Step 3. This result represents your lean body weight, or your weight if you had zero body fat.

5. Subtract your total body weight from Step 1 from the number you got in Step 4. Multiply this number by a hundred. Divide this number by your total body weight. This will give you your body fat percentage.

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Remember when you husband could pick you up with ease? Oh how those days can quickly fade, but contrary to popular belief, it is my opinion that female weight gain after marriage is NOT due to the fact that the woman has now caught the man and can thus let herself go. That’s such a misogynistic view and I believe just plain wrong. There are however a significant amount of women who gain a noticeable amount of weight after marriage. Here are some of the reasons:

Your new Celebratory State! Many women spend their single lives looking for that perfect someone. When you finally meet your mate of a lifetime, you now have a PERMANENT date, hopefully for life. You don’t have to worry who you’ll see the new movie with, who you’ll go grocery shopping with or who you can try out every new restaurant (that you refused to go to alone) with. Let’s face it going out with the girls to all these events can get old. We were created to enjoy companionship from the opposite sex and when we find it, boy are we in a celebratory state! What comes with just about all of these celebrations: EATING – good food and good drink. Believe me going out (especially much more than you did as a single person) and enjoying the world as a married couple can pack on the pounds Fast!

Added stress! Woman are natural worriers and at the very least we worry more than men. When someone new and so very special is added to your life this is someone that you will stress about daily. Good stress or bad. You’ll worry and pray that they make it safely to work and back home, you’ll stress on whether they are taking care of their health (so many men just don’t), you’ll stress over some arguments that seem to come up only after marriage and not during the courtship, you’ll stress about his parents or you new in-laws who may or may not be what you expected, you’ll stress over juggling your work life and new personal life, you’ll stress over events and parties you will have to attend and prepare for new family, friends and co-workers in your life due to your new marriage. Believe me you will have added stress. It is proven that most of us turn to food for comfort when we’re stressed. These stresses will all be new to you; no better reason to turn to something familiar for comfort: FOOD. This will pack on the pounds!

Childbirth! Many women, once married or remarried have children with their new husband, even if they already have children from previous relationships. Weight gain during child birth can be major and some of the toughest weight to lose. Don’t forget that in addition to being pregnant you have the previous two factors: Celebration of a new Marriage & Stress – that can add additional pounds to your natural weight gain during pregnancy. This weight can be depressing to a woman and that too can add pounds. So when you see a newly married women who has gained weight, be kind and empathetic. If you couldn’t think of why on earth this could happen to someone so previously slim, now you have something to dwell on. Help with encouragement to workout with them, babysit or suggest alternative food choices when the new wife goes out to eat. All these can help a woman to lose that weight that many of us inevitably gain after marriage.

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The effects of water pollution are far-reaching and affect not only the environment, but human beings and animals as well.

Water pollution affects our oceans, lakes, rivers, and drinking water, making it a widespread and global concern. Numerous diseases, health problems, and even fatalities have been associated with water pollution.

Water is considered polluted when chemicals, pathogens, or contaminants are detected. Human beings have the most crucial impact on our water resources. They also have the ability to control or eliminate water pollution.

Virtually all types of water pollution are harmful to the health of humans and animals. Water pollution may not damage our health immediately but can be harmful after long term exposure. Different forms of pollutants affect the health of animals in different ways:

* Heavy metals from industrial processes can accumulate in nearby lakes and rivers. These are toxic to marine life such as fish and shellfish, and subsequently to the humans who eat them. Heavy metals can slow development; result in birth defects and some are carcinogenic.
* Industrial waste often contains many toxic compounds that damage the health of aquatic animals and those who eat them. Some of the toxins in industrial waste may only have a mild effect whereas other can be fatal. They can cause immune suppression, reproductive failure or acute poisoning.
* Microbial pollutants from sewage often result in infectious diseases that infect aquatic life and terrestrial life through drinking water. Microbial water pollution is a major problem in the developing world, with diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever being the primary cause of infant mortality.
* Organic matter and nutrients causes an increase in aerobic algae and depletes oxygen from the water column. This causes the suffocation of fish and other aquatic organisms.
* Sulfate particles from acid rain can cause harm the health of marine life in the rivers and lakes it contaminates, and can result in mortality.
* Suspended particles in freshwater reduces the quality of drinking water for humans and the aquatic environment for marine life. Suspended particles can often reduce the amount of sunlight penetrating the water, disrupting the growth of photosynthetic plants and micro-organisms.

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In today’s age of convenience, fast food needs no introduction. Everyone from a 2-year-old toddler to a 60-year-old grandpa seems to be enjoying it every chance they get. And why not? It’s delicious, it’s filling, is really affordable, and readily available just any time of the day, being only a drive through phone call away. What more can you ask for when you are living life in the fast lane?

Well, plenty – fast food is all good tasting, except that it is not nutritionally balanced and, therefore, unhealthy in the long run if consumed on a regular basis.

Fast food is loaded with calories from refined sugar and fats (especially, the artery-clogging saturated and hydrogenated fats, which are repeatedly reheated to high temperatures for frying purposes).

It is also very high in sodium, coming from common salt and other additives. On top of all this, fast food is deficient in dietary fiber and essential micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals.

To make matters worse, heaps of fast food are normally guzzled down with gallons of sugar-rich colas – which many fast-food restaurants serve free with food as an incentive.

To make a long story short, all this results in piling up of unused empty calories in the body, which get stored as body fat – till one day you look in the mirror and realize that your great figure has been replaced by this creature in the mirror.

But that’s not the end of the story, it’s just the beginning – consuming too much fast food not only turns a handsome guy into an unsightly obese man, but as Eric Schlosser points out in his book it is a big health hazard too.

And being physically inactive only adds to the problem of obesity. Not many people who love fast food are ready to acknowledge that obesity is not simply an eyesore – it is a major risk factor for a large number of deadly diseases like hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, and even many types of cancers.

Recent scientific studies have shown that high-calorie foods rich in fats, refined sugar and salt could reconfigure the hormones in the body in such a way that they make you crave for such foods and always leave you asking for more.

In other words, fast food is kind of addictive; you get hooked on to it and continue consuming it in an uncontrolled way in spite of knowing that it is unhealthy. The more you consume, the more difficult it is for you to opt for healthy foods.

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Cell Towers are the base stations which control cell phone communication. The generic term “cell site” can also be used – to include all cell phone towers, antenna masts and other base station forms. Each cell site services one or more “cells”.

Cell tower numbers have grown exponentially in recent years, as service providers raced to improve their coverage.

Increased cell phone traffic also contributes to cell tower density. When a cell becomes too busy, a frequent solution is to divide it into smaller cells, which then require more cell sites.

In 2009 there were over 200,000 cell sites in the USA alone, and 50,000 in U.K.

Cell sites may take the form of a mast or tower, but may also be disguised, in some cases so they cannot be visually discerned at all.

You might notice the camouflaged “trees”, but perhaps not the cell sites on top of buildings, looking like elongated loudspeaker boxes.

You’d almost certainly miss the cell sites installed inside chimneys and church steeples, even flagpoles.

Where a base station is installed on top of a building where people live or work, those occupants may be quite unaware that they are in very close proximity to equipment which produces substantial electromagnetic radiation.

Cellular phone industry spokespersons continue to assert that cell phone towers pose no health risk. Almost all scientists in this field would disagree, at the very least claiming that no such assurance can be given.

There is strong evidence that electromagnetic radiation from cell phone towers is damaging to human (and animal) health.

A study into the effects of a cell tower on a herd of dairy cattle was conducted by the Bavarian state government in Germany and published in 1998. The erection of the tower caused adverse health effects resulting in a measurable drop in milk yield. Relocating the cattle restored the milk yield. Moving them back to the original pasture recreated the problem.

A human study (Kempten West) in 2007 measured blood levels of seratonin and melatonin (important hormones involved in brain messaging, mood, sleep regulation and immune system function) both before, and five months after, the activation of a new cell site.

Twenty-five participants lived within 300 metres of the site. Substantial unfavourable changes occurred with respect to both hormones, in almost all participants.

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2. Schedule plenty of rest and assessment periods during your trip. Traveling can make you unusually tired or excited. Stick to a regular schedule of insulin checks to stay on top of your situation. Rest your feet whenever possible to prevent injury and relieve stress. Over-exerting yourself could lead to nausea, dizziness, or even more serious complications like loss of consciousness.

3. Explain your condition when possible. Travel with a companion who’s well-versed on your condition and treatment regimen. Wear medical bracelets and tags that can alert others to your condition in case you become unable to speak. Carry a water-proof folder with detailed insurance and contact information for emergency use.

4. Consult to a diagnostic check up before your trip begins. Get applicable tests to ensure your diabetes is being controlled by your current treatment regimen. Adjust medications and habits to reflect test findings and doctor recommendations. Fill needed prescriptions prior to your trip to ensure you have access to appropriate medications.

5. Bring a durable case of supplies. Pack insulin and syringes in a crush-proof container to ensure their safety. Take along extra batteries for your blood glucose meter. Use plastic storage bags to prevent spills.

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Grapes are native to the Mediterranean region and Central Asia. They grow in clusters on a deciduous woody vine, Vitis vinifera, and come in many colors. Blue, red, purple, black, golden, and green are the most common. The original grapes were red, and the dark grapes all contain a rich supply of anthocyanins, the antioxidant polyphenolic that conveys many health-promoting properties of grapes. Grapes rank with blueberries and blackberries as excellent sources of antioxidants.

1. Good blood and body builder, it is also a quick source of energy.
2. Grape juice is easily assimilated and called the “nectar of the gods”. It is indicated in cases of constipation, gout, rheumatism, skin and liver disorders.
3. This alkaline fruit (also called “the queen of fruits”) helps greatly to decrease the acidity of the uric acid and lends itself further in aiding the elimination of the acid from the system, thus benefiting the kidneys greatly.
4. Studies shown that grape juice, red wines and raisin tea showed strong antiviral activity against poliovirus, herpes simplex virus.
5. Helps reduce platelet clumping and harmful blood clots.

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After a race, massages are a great way to get rid of all that ‘junk’ that accumulates in the muscles and loosen the knots that are starting to form. I’d like to get massages after all my hard workouts too, but I can’t afford that luxury. So I try to be diligent about giving myself a self-massage after particularly strenuous speed and strength workouts. Admittedly, it’s hard to massage my shoulders and back unless I get a friend to do it for me, but I can at least get to my quads, hamstrings, glutes with my own hands as well as with the many tools out there (e.g., foam rollers, etc.). The TP massage ball is particularly good at almost simulating the pressure from a human finger, though nothing beats a massage from a trained massage therapist! The only downside to self-massage is that I don’t achieve a sense of total relaxation since one part of my body is exerting pressure/doing work on another part. But at least I’m expediting muscle repair and recovery.

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Couples who are close can actually detect each other’s feelings of fear, happiness and sexual arousal, claims a study.

“Familiarity with a partner enhances detection of emotional cues in that person’s smell,” Rice University psychologist Denise Chen told Science News.

To reach the conclusion, Chen and her team looked at 20 heterosexual couples who had been living together for between one and seven years.

As volunteers viewed videos meant to induce self-reported feelings of happiness, fear and sexual arousal, underarm pads collected their sweat.

Then the participants smelled odors from four jars that held the sweat from their partner or a stranger of the opposite sex, and tried to name one smell that came from a person who was experiencing a particular feeling.

One jar held sweat that was collected during a video meant to induce particular emotions. The other jars contained perspiration that had been collected during a neutral video, reports The New York Daily News.

Nearly two-thirds of the time, participants could pick up the specific emotions from their partner’s body odor, and couples who’d lived together the longest were best at homing in on each other’s emotional odors, the study found.

The accuracy rate dropped to 50 per cent for opposite-sex strangers. There was little difference in the couples’ ability to identify odors linked to fear, happiness or sexual arousal.

The study was presented at the Association for Psychological Science annual convention.

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