WHAT OF BENEFIT PLAYING BADMINTON IN YOUR LIFE

Health Benefits of Playing Badminton

In fact it has been found that playing badminton till you get an increase in heart rate or mild breathlessness regularly in middle age lowers the risk of death by about 23% in the subsequent 20 years and improves longevity by at least 2 years. The optimal health benefits are achieved by playing badminton for at least 30 minutes a day after adequate warm up.

The main health benefit is reduction of bad cholesterol and increase in good cholesterol with regular badminton play. In our body, total cholesterol, triglycerides, low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) are bad cholesterols and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) is the only good cholesterol.

Playing badminton regularly increases the levels of HDL good cholesterol while decreasing the levels of bad cholesterols. As bad cholesterols decrease the size of blood vessels promoting heart attacks and strokes, reduction in their levels translates into multiple health benefits for the individual.

Playing regular badminton conditions the body so that the basal heart rate drops a few beats per minute and blood pressure is reduced. Both these effects are helpful in hypertensive individuals. It may help them to ward off their hypertension without medicines and even if they are needed, only fewer amounts are required.

Another particular health benefit of playing regular badminton is protection from heart disease, especially heart attacks. Playing badminton conditions and strengthens the heart muscle besides reducing hypertension and keeping blood vessels from clogging as we have seen earlier. Even people with pre-existing heart disease can benefit by playing badminton within their endurance levels under medical supervision and advise.

Regular indulgence in badminton helps overweight people to reduce their weight and attain optimal weight for their height and age. This effect is due to the excess calories burnt during playing badminton which prevents them from accumulating as fat and increasing the individual's weight.

Moreover, the existing fat deposits are also mobilized to produce energy while playing badminton. But for achieving optimal weight loss, it has to be combined with diet modification as well.

Osteoporosis is a troublesome problem especially in the elderly and women after menopause. It occurs because the bones loose their density due to complex interactions between the body hormones, bone forming and bone dissolving cells. Individuals with osteoporosis can easily sustain fractures because of reduced bone strength to withstand stress and injury.

Osteoporosis can be prevented or delayed by regularly playing badminton, as physical activity is one major factor that prevents osteoporosis, irrespective of the age and sex of the individual. Playing badminton promotes the activity of the bone forming cells and help in the assimilation of calcium in the bone matrix, thereby strengthening it.

Additional health benefit of playing regular badminton is reduced incidence of cancers like cancer of the large bowel and cancer of breast.

Finally, playing badminton keeps you feeling well, strong, motivated, enthusiastic and young. It helps to ward off depression, anxiety, stress and increase self-esteem. It also helps in enjoying a better sleep in the night, thereby minimizing the incidence of pre-existing illnesses getting aggravated due to lack of sleep.

WHY IS SLEEP VERY IMPORTANT?

Why Is Sleep Important?

Sleep plays a vital role in good health and well-being throughout your life. Getting enough quality sleep at the right times can help protect your mental health, physical health, quality of life, and safety.

The way you feel while you're awake depends in part on what happens while you're sleeping. During sleep, your body is working to support healthy brain function and maintain your physical health. In children and teens, sleep also helps support growth and development.

The damage from sleep deficiency can occur in an instant (such as a car crash), or it can harm you over time. For example, ongoing sleep deficiency can raise your risk for some chronic health problems.

 It also can affect how well you think, react, work, learn, and get along with others.

Healthy Brain Function and Emotional Well-Being.

Sleep helps your brain work properly. While you're sleeping, your brain is preparing for the next day. It's forming new pathways to help you learn and remember information.

Studies show that a good night's sleep improves learning. Whether you're learning math, how to play the piano, how to perfect your golf swing, or how to drive a car, sleep helps enhance your learning and problem-solving skills. Sleep also helps you pay attention, make decisions, and be creative.

Studies also show that sleep deficiency alters activity in some parts of the brain. If you're sleep deficient, you may have trouble making decisions, solving problems, controlling your emotions and behavior, and coping with change. Sleep deficiency also has been linked to depression, suicide, and risk-taking behavior.

Children and teens who are sleep deficient may have problems getting along with others. They may feel angry and impulsive, have mood swings, feel sad or depressed, or lack motivation. They also may have problems paying attention, and they may get lower grades and feel stressed.

Physical Health

Sleep plays an important role in your physical health. For example, sleep is involved in healing and repair of your heart and blood vessels. Ongoing sleep deficiency is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke. 

Sleep deficiency also increases the risk of obesity. For example, one study of teenagers showed that with each hour of sleep lost, the odds of becoming obese went up. Sleep deficiency increases the risk of obesity in other age groups as well.

Sleep helps maintain a healthy balance of the hormones that make you feel hungry (ghrelin) or full (leptin). When you don't get enough sleep, your level of ghrelin goes up and your level of leptin goes down. This makes you feel hungrier than when you're well-rested.

Sleep also affects how your body reacts to insulin, the hormone that controls your blood glucose (sugar) level. Sleep deficiency results in a higher than normal blood sugar level, which may increase your risk for diabetes.

Sleep also supports healthy growth and development. Deep sleep triggers the body to release the hormone that promotes normal growth in children and teens. This hormone also boosts muscle mass and helps repair cells and tissues in children, teens, and adults. Sleep also plays a role in puberty and fertility.

Your immune system relies on sleep to stay healthy. This system defends your body against foreign or harmful substances. Ongoing sleep deficiency can change the way in which your immune system responds. For example, if you're sleep deficient, you may have trouble fighting common infections.

THE POWER OF CUPPING (BEKAM)

     Cupping is a medical teraphy of islam, done by removing the dirty blood. This method has existed since the time of the prophet muhammad SAW. Bekam is a medical method used by our prophet wich aims to keep our health and get the reward because this methode is a sunnah from rasulullah.
   At 1985 Thomas W Anderson wrote a book wich the title is “100 diseases treated by cupping method” it same with the hadith Rasulullah SAW:

“Let you do the treatment with the bruise in the middle of the cervix, because actually it is the drug of 72 kinds of diseases”

beside that, cupping can treat the others diseases such as lazy, nervous, misgivings, rage, jin disturbance and the rest.

   Actually there are 3 the main benefits of cupping, it  can remove dirty blood, relief agencies, and make our eyes works fine. But if we described in detail there are so many benefit of bekam. I will mention some benefits of cupping:

1. Cleanse the blood of toxins and food scraps can improve spinal nerve activity
2. Overcome upnormal blood pressure
3. Remove headeche, migrain , tootache
4. Lost cramps in our muscle
5. Remove asthma diseas
6. Help us to remove eyes diseases like miopi, presbiopi etc
7. For  women, it can help to save the uterus and menstruatio
8. Remove problem in shoulder, chest and back
9. Help to remove laziness, tired and over sleeping
10. Remove rheumatism disease
11. Remove the problem in our skin, allergy, acne and itchy
12. To surmount irritation in  core and kidney
13. To surmount the cold
14. Remove the problem of chronic lungs
15. To arrest the hevy rain or menstruation blood and suffer from nosebleed
16. Flabby and sagging stiff muscle
17. Decrease the illness and piled ud blood
18. Remove swelling liver
19. Solve hemorrhoids

  This bring us to conclude that cupping can solve many problem in our body, not only medical problem but also bad habits such as lazy, nervous, misgivings and the rest. it better to do that once a month.

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF NUTRITION CARE IN OUR LIVES

Nutrition as it applies to our daily lives means that we take in what we need to maintain our body’s healthy state. Nutrition has become an important word thanks to the involvement of the USDA in our daily food requirements, and the FDA’s involvement in determining what is and is not dangerous for us to consume.

Nutrition refers to the nurturing of our body, in our ability to keep it healthy and functioning as it is supposed to do. Our ability to provide the body with all the necessary food, vitamins, and minerals so that we continue to thrive in our daily life processes.

How do we determine that we are providing the essential nutritional needs? That knowledge comes by educating ourselves about what our individual needs are, the needs of our family, and then taking that knowledge and applying it to the foods we buy, that we prepare, and that our families consume.

Health is taught as a science course, and addresses matters of personal hygiene, diseases, and the broad spectrum of health as it applies to the masses. No individual attention is given to how to attain optimal health via our eating habits.

Nutrition is a concept that should be as important to our educational process as our ability to count. The ability to recognize our nutritional requirements, find the foods we need to fulfill those requirements, and differentiate between healthy food consumption and “unhealthy” eating habits is not an option. Not for a healthy, happy, long, and quality life.

What we should absorb as we travel along life’s daily path is a way to incorporate good nutrition into our lifestyle. There is generally just as much room for good as there is bad, it just so happens that bad nutritional habits hold more appeal.

To meet your body’s regular nutritional needs, you should consume:

• a wide variety of nutritious foods
• water on a daily basis
• enough kilojoules for energy, with carbohydrates as the preferred source
• essential fatty acids from foods such as oily fish, nuts, avocado
• adequate protein for cell maintenance and repair
• fat-soluble and water-soluble vitamins
• essential minerals such as iron, calcium and zinc
• foods containing plant-derived phytochemicals, which may protect against heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, arthritis and osteoporosis.

THE SWIMMING IN YOUR LIFE

The Importance Of Swimming Skills For Safety, Health and Enjoyment

Many animals are born with the ability to swim, but humans must learn practice before being able to swim with ease. Some people never learn how to swim, which often causes them to fear water. Learning to swim is important for several reasons, and mastering this skill at a young age can benefit you throughout your life.

Personal Safety

An obvious reason for learning how to swim is to acquire the ability to survive in water. At one time or another, you are bound to find yourself in or near water, whether you're on a cruise, boating trip, fishing or lounging by a pool with friends. If the water is deeper than your height, and you find yourself in it, knowing how to swim could save your life.

Health

Most doctors agree that swimming is a healthy form of exercise. It requires you to use many of the muscles in your body, is for building strength and endurance and is beneficial for your metabolism and cardiovascular system. The water provides a natural resistance when you are swimming, while also making the activity less strenuous on your body. Water, in most cases, also provides a natural cooling element for the body.

Health benefits of swimming

Swimming is a great workout because you need to move your whole body against the resistance of the water.

Swimming is a good all-round activity because it:

• keeps your heart rate up but takes some of the impact stress off your body
• builds endurance, muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness
• helps maintain a healthy weight, healthy heart and lungs
• tones muscles and builds strength
• provides an all-over body workout, as nearly all of your muscles are used during swimming.
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Other benefits of swimming

Swimming has many other benefits including:

• being a relaxing and peaceful form of exercise
• alleviating stress
• improving coordination, balance and posture
• improving flexibility
• providing good low-impact therapy for some injuries and conditions
• providing a pleasant way to cool down on a hot day

MENU THERAPEUTIC DIETS

Definition Diet Therapeutics

Diets that require modification of the nutrients for the treatment of a disease. It involves raising or lowering one or more macronutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, fats and micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals.

Who require therapeutic diet?

• Patients who suffer from diseases that require specific dietary modifications,
• Such diet modifications which could help the healing process or to control the disease in the long run.
• Examples: Patients Diabetes, hypertension and so on.

The Example Therapeutic Diet

1) DIABETIC DIET

Objective:

• To control blood sugar levels.
• To achieve / maintain your ideal weight.
• Prevent / delay the complications.

Preparation method:

1. Avoid the use of sugar in food and drinks.
2. Avoid consumption of sweetened condensed milk to drink, use low-fat milk powder.
3. Avoid serving sweet cakes or biscuits.
4. Use margarine as a substitute for a jam and the like.
5. Use fresh fruits, do not use fruit canned in. (Fruit such as bananas less promoted)
6. Serve carbohydrates such as bread, rice, noodles or porridge must be in accordance with the portion set by the Dietitian.
7. Serve two types of vegetables at lunch and dinner.

2) LOW SALT DIET

Objective:

• To control the level of sodium / sodium in the blood.
• To control the patient's blood pressure.

Preparation method:

1. Avoid using salt when cooking.
2. All ingredients high in salt is not allowed to use:

• Soy sauce
• Oyster sauce
• Canned sardines
• Stock cubes (tom yam paste / chicken cubes / anchovies)
• Ajinomoto
• Cheese / cheese
• Nuggets and processed meats such as sausages.

3) LOW-FAT DIET

Objective:

• To lose weight
• To lower the fat content in the blood.

Preparation method:

1. Remove fat from meat and poultry fat and skin.
2. Do not use oil during cooking.
3. Do not use coconut milk and ghee (ghee).
4. Use low-fat milk / skimming for drinks or milk substitute.
5. Cook using the grill, steam, boil or bake. (Use a microwave oven or fryer or non steaks)
6. Use as a substitute margarine and jam like (to put on the bread)

How can smoking affect your health?

Smoking damages your lungs

Smoking damages the airways and small air sacs in the lungs. This can cause chronic coughing, wheezing, trouble breathing, and long-term (chronic) lung disease. More than 90% of deaths due to chronic bronchitis and emphysema – together these are known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – are caused by smoking. Today, more women than men die from COPD, and evidence suggests that women are more likely to get severe COPD at younger ages than men.

The risk of COPD goes up with the number of cigarettes smoked each day and with the length of time a woman has been smoking. Female smokers aged 35 or older are almost 13 times more likely to die from emphysema or bronchitis than those who have never smoked.

The lungs grow more slowly in teenage girls who smoke. And adult women who smoke start losing lung function in early adulthood.

Smoking causes other health problems

Smoking can cause or worsen poor blood flow to the arms and legs (a condition known as peripheral vascular diseaseor PVD). This can limit everyday activities such as walking, and may lead to open sores that don’t heal. Even worse, surgery to improve the blood flow often fails in people who keep smoking. This is why many doctors who operate on blood vessels (vascular surgeons) won’t do certain surgeries on patients with PVD unless they stop smoking. Stopping smoking lowers a woman’s risk of PVD. And in people who already have PVD, quitting smoking improves the odds that PVD treatments will work.

Women who smoke, especially after going through menopause, have lower bone density (thinner bones). This means they have a higher risk for broken bones, including hip fracture, than women who do not smoke. They may also be at higher risk for getting rheumatoid arthritis and cataracts (clouding of the lenses of the eyes), as well as age-related macular degeneration, which can cause blindness.

Smoking shortens lives

A large 2013 study of women in the United Kingdom found that 2 out of 3 deaths in smokers who were in their 50s, 60s, and 70s were caused by smoking. The researchers observed that continuing smokers lose at least 10 years of their lifespans, but added that smokers who quit before age 40 were able to avoid 90% of the early deaths caused by continued smoking. If the women quit before age 30, they were able to avoid more than 97% of these early deaths.