Healthy Lifestyles

Habit of waking up early is very beneficial for not only physical but also mental health. Research to prove it to the experts. Analysis of the scientists from the University of Toronto Canada concluded, those who get up early in general have better health conditions. People who get up earlier also feel happier life than sleeping late because they are more adaptable to the schedule of daily activities.

According to researchers, they often wake up late and prefers activities at night are more likely to experience a "social jet lag". It is a condition where a person's body clock becomes out of synch with social activities. On the other hand, the "morning people" proved to be more refreshed,  alert, happier and more motivated to face challenges, but also increased immunity.

As published in the journal Emotion, researchers found that most people tend to start leaving "night habits" such as his youth and became a morning routine wake up as they age. Renee Biss, the research leader, said that this discovery proves for the first time that the elderly have increased the feeling of happiness as the habit of getting up that early.

In this study, there were 435 adults aged 17 to 38 years compared with 300 people aged 59 to 79 years. Both groups were asked to fill out questionnaires about the emotional state, health quality and time to favorite activities.

The study results show, before the age of 60 years, most respondents in the category of "morning person". Less than 10 percent of young respondents included in this type. With age, these statistics are subject to change, which is less than seven percent of the population still has a habit of sleeping late.

"What is most interesting that we found was the tendency of respondents aged adults to get up early to have contributed to a better mood than young adults. People also claim to be happier in the morning than the evening, regardless of whether they are young or old. And Our research indicates that the tendency to get up earlier as you age may have emotional benefits. One night may be more susceptible to social jet lag, which means their biological clock out of synch premises social hour, "said Biss, Ph.D student of Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.

Source: Kompas online

People who undergo detoxification diet or expenditure of toxins in the body by improving the diet will feel more energetic every day. In addition to the detox diet can also help you lose weight.

The following eight healthy eating guide that can remove toxins from the body, as reported from health24, Friday (06/29/2012), among others:

A. Consumption of prebiotic and probiotic

Daily consumption of prebiotics and probiotics contained in yogurt can help restore the balance of good bacteria levels in the colon.

2. Drink more water

Increase water intake to prevent dehydration, remove toxins from the body in the urine and sweat, and prevent constipation.


3. Avoid unhealthy habits

Avoid unhealthy habits such as caffeine, alcohol and smoking. Try to minimize your intake of meat, sugar and salt for several days.

4. Clean your colon

Take bentonite or psyllium supplements to absorb toxins in the digestive tract. It works by helping to erode the natural secar feces in the intestine so that the intestines become cleaner and healthier.

5. Drink a cup of green tea

Consuming green tea beneficial to restore energy after a day of activities. Green tea is also a powerful antioxidant which may counteract free radicals, causing various diseases.


6. Drink vegetable juice

Drink 1-2 glasses of raw vegetable juice every day can help improve and maintain your body's cells. By drinking vegetable juice, you can also meet the body's need for vitamins contained in vegetables.

Vegetable juice may also increase the immune system and help overcome the desire to eat sweets.

7. Reduce consumption of processed foods

Processed foods made in factories are usually resistant to several days due to use of preservatives. Better home-cooked meal that you can define yourself which foods are healthy and which ones are not.

8. Go organic

Choose vegetables and fruits organically to avoid exposure to insecticides, pesticides and antibiotics, which are usually used by farmers to keep the plants from pests.

FOR you who have a job related to external parties, then the meeting with a client or a vendor is something that almost every day must be run. Sometimes the head like a 'smoky' meeting due to a marathon meeting continued without lag. If it were so, then the face and the appearance was no longer unnoticed.


Though the appearance is one of the important points in job performance. Especially for you who often meet people. Why? Because you are a company representative. You represent the image of the company where you work. What happens if you look messy and unkempt. I could have your client fled because he doubted the credibility of the company as reflected in your appearance.

To get the look fresh and energetic in fact not difficult loh. Does not require a thick powder or makeup menor. All you need to do is live a healthy and orderly. Plus added a little polish make-up skills with a natural style. And do not forget to wear Business Attire a dynamic impression. With a mix of everything, then completed the look fresh and vibrant you.

In order to appear fresh, try the healthy living tips:

1. Increase consumption of antioxidants.
Antioxidants make cells - skin cells to repair damage quickly. Therefore, look for vegetables and fruits - fruits that contain antioxidants to keep skin free from free radicals. One of the natural ingredients rich in antioxidants are Rosella, Rosella purple especially as it contains five times more antioxidants than other rosella, and also contains Vitamins A, C, D, E, and K. For those women who have a myriad of activities, Balancea is the right choice because it can help keep the immune system everyday. Additionally Balancea packaged for ready to drink so it fits for you with high mobility.

2. Positive Thinking and smile.
Many people who say that a person's face can reflect his thoughts. Those who are stressed or are facing problems and a lot of thought, his face grim and not likely to shine. Believe it or not, self-empowering every morning after waking up at all useful to start your activity every day.

3. Avoid smoking.
 Smoking is still not good for health especially beauty. Smoking can accelerate the aging process and eliminate the elasticity of the skin. Thus, the skin will look dry and wrinkled faster. In addition, the smell of smoke usually will stick in your body or clothes that you are using. Gone were the scent of your perfume replaced by the smell of smoke.

4. Enough sleep.
Of course you do not want her to attend meetings with dark circles around the eyes and the eyes look large marsupial.  By giving your body enough time to sleep, then it can be avoided. Besides the body becomes tired quickly and you can be more focused through the day.

So, are you ready to live healthy to look fresh?

Sports, when combined with a diet low in fat and low salt is believed to be the best way to lose weight and reduce the high blood pressure. The recommended types of exercise include swimming.


You do not have to be a professional athlete to obtain these benefits. Importantly, the activity is performed routinely swim several times a week.

It has been demonstrated in a study of 43 adults aged 60 years. They swim three to four times a week. In the early commencement of rutinas swim, they have an average of 131 mm Hg systolic readings. After three months, sistoliknya readings down to 122 mm Hg.

For information, people whose blood pressure 120/80 mm Hg is considered normal. While systolic 140 and diastolic readings of 90 or more categorized as hypertensive. If the readings between the two is considered pre-hypertension.

Hirofumi Tanaka, a senior researcher who conducted the research said, swimming is a sport that is safe for elderly people who started just like walking or cycling.

In his report in the journal American Journal of Cardiology, he said that swimming will improve blood vessel function and help lower blood pressure.

"Swimming is an exciting sport. Water sports are cheap and safe for the joints of the elderly," said Tanaka.

As we get older and less mobile lifestyle, waist size was gradually widened as a result of fat. For those of you who want to get rid of fat around the waist, slight changes in daily activities was a big influence on the size of the waist.


They are more often rose from his seat, about 1258 times in a week rose from the seat, has a size of pants two times smaller than their more sedentary, which is about 99 times pause to sit in the same period.

"The size of a smaller waist means less belly fat, and this pile is a good indication for the heart," said Genevieve Healy, researchers from Australia who did the study population health.

He explained, when we stand up, big muscles in the legs and back sequentially will contract to maintain the posture. However, when sitting or lying down, it's muscle groups become inactive.

"For a moment, got up from sitting, about 1-2 minutes, is enough to make these big muscles to contract," said the researchers who published their study in the journal European Heart Journal.

In his research, Healy and his team examined 4757 people aged 20 years and over who participated in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. All the participants wore an accelerometer at the hip right tool for 7 days when they were awake.

This tool will measure the amount and intensity of physical activity every minute participants. When very low levels of activity, the researchers suspected participants were sedentary.

On average the participants were seated approximately 1.8 hours to 21.2 hours a day. Meanwhile, the amount of time taken to get up around 4.12 minutes.

The researchers found that those who spend lots of time to sit down but do pause and rose from his seat has a more slender waistline. In addition, levels of C-reactive protein (an indicator of inflammation in the body) is also lower.

Often felt listless and sleepy in the office? If yes, what you usually do? Is going to the pantry to make a cup of hot coffee? Or you choose a short walk out of the office to seek another environment?

Maybe for the short term, this solution looks quite effective.

For long-term outcomes of the most important is to fix some of our habits in the mornings and evenings.
Here are 4 tip:

- Every day wakes up at the same hour.
Barry Krakow, MD, medical director at Maimonides Sleep Arts and Sciences Ld, in Albuquerque, states have the same waking hours every day will automatically train the body's circadian system. When the system is already good, then our sleep patterns will not be disturbed by any problems. And that means we will avoid sleep problems or insomnia.

- Perform sexual activity on the bed
Assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Avelino Vetceles, MD confirms the main function of the bed is for sleeping and sex. If both functions can be run properly, we will open your eyes, feeling fit and eager to work.

- Eating on time.
Not only hours of sleep, a good working mood can also be realized by having a regular eating schedule. Get used to eating breakfast and lunch on time. Do not let our bodies less 'petrol'. For lack of power will make us feel sleepy in the daytime. For dinner, it is recommended to do 3 hours before bedtime.

- Do not force the body to rest when tired.
After a day packed with a myriad of jobs, usually what we want is to go home and lay down the body into the bed. Many who thought fatigue would be able to take us to dreamland faster. But that assumption is wrong, usually people who will actually be difficult to sleep exhausted and sleepy, clear Krakow. So, step better is to make us calm and relax your body first. At the time of sleep did come, let our bodies sleep by a dream.

Indriati Yosephin interior designers say, a comfortable color for the bedroom is usually green. It's no secret, that the color associated with the color of this plant is able to give the impression of calm and natural.


The green color is also believed to give relief, releasing saturation, as well as helping people become more relaxed. That way, a quiet room will support the quality of rest rooms for the owner.


Besides green, neutral color can also help comfort in the bedroom. Cream, for example, will give the impression of natural and memorable classic. While white, beige, and salmon will give the impression of relief and calm in the room. However, that is not too pale, you can combine them with accessories such as bed linen, curtains, furniture as well.


Yosephin said, if you want to look different through colorful game, you can do it by adding white. That way, the result will be smoother and softer, making it suitable for the bedroom.


To eliminate the boredom, you simply play the accent. The colors mentioned above, he said, is suitable for women because the impression feminine room. Meanwhile, a suitable color for a room of men, can be added with the color black. The addition will create an impression of masculine black.


Source: Kompas news

Some foods are believed to cope with stress due to pressure of work or whatever problem caused it. Including the stress that comes after holidays, because you start counting the amount of money spent during the holidays, plus the change in activity back to normal with the routine work. Whatever the source of stress, you should identify the type of stress that you experience to choose the right foods as an antidote.

Recognizing the type of stress can also help you lose weight. Because, feelings of anxiety and fatigue make the body requires energy, which eventually filled with high-calorie foods and carbohydrates. As a result, your diet program a mess because of stress associated with food.

"Everyone reacts to stress differently. But there is some evidence that shows adverse effects of chronic stress on the ability to lose weight. How your body cope with stress can be a reference that helps you become more calm also more slender," explains therapist and expert nutrition Charlotte Watts, author of The De-stress diet.

Therefore, not surprising that many people fail in dieting because of stress. According Watss, changing diet and lifestyle can help you cope with stress. So, identify the type of stress you and follow some advice given to overcome them, so this 2012 you become leaner, more relaxed, and certainly more healthy.

Stress and digestive problems
If you often troubled by stomach, plus if you're stressed you feel more sick stomach, and also often have a headache, this sign you stress caused digestive problems. Source of the problem not only in digestion but also because of lack of good bacteria in the body.

Increase your intake of prebiotic to help the growth of good bacteria. The trick, asup vegetables and fruits such as garlic, onion, garlic bombat, bananas, or take supplements. Drinking is also a cure for digestive enzymes before meals, to help the body destroy the food.

How to eat you also need attention. Chew slowly and give a one hour break to eat fruit after a meal of protein. Limit intake of sugar, alcohol, caffeine can reduce levels of good bacteria in the body and can also trigger gas, lowered immunity and enhance the growth of fungi.

Stress and feelings of not calm
Often feel anxious, being reactive to stressful situations, difficulty to relax, often feel depressed when given some responsibility and prone to mood swings, these are some common symptoms of stress experienced by many people. Stress of this type of long-term impact as it pertains to physical and mental factors. The impact on the body, people who have experienced the advantages of this type of stress the adrenal glands that controls the amount of stress hormones. As a result, your appetite is increasing and has a tendency to snack.

To fix this, fill each day with a nutritional diet balanced. Make sure the protein intake is met, either from eggs, meat, fish. Asup should multiply the good fats and vegetables. You can also mengasup supplements containing zinc, iron, vitamin C, B, iodine and magnesium, because these nutrients tend to disappear when you experience stress.

Take care not to fatigue the body condition. Try to relax, take a deep breath, before going to bed at night or when I wake up in the morning. Reduce the intensity of your exercise, do not push yourself. Avoid too many things that are so competitive that can trigger stress.

Stress and body limp
You often feel cold when others feel warm, hair loss, difficulty concentrating, often feel tired, hoarse voice, every time I wake up, you feel weak, here's some stress symptoms caused by disorders of the thyroid gland. These signs indicate the body's metabolism does not work optimally. Body's ability to store energy also fell. If you have this, the desire to lose weight more difficult to realize.

Overcome by making sure blood sugar levels in your body stay in balance so that energy is maintained. The trick reduce sugar and carbohydrate intake, and consumption of more protein. Avoid coffee and alcohol. Was more diligent exercise. Try yoga with your head under which help blood circulation and distribution of oxygen and nutrients to the thyroid gland. Let's not mengasup cabbage and broccoli. You should eat foods that are warm like the chili, ginger, green tea, turmeric, wasabi too.

Stress and illness
Are you suffering from numerous diseases such as asthma, throat infections, nose, ears, and fever, headache, except that you also have a tendency to suffer from osteoporosis, heart disease and other diseases? It's your body's immune system markers problematic.

To overcome this problem, limit your intake of sugar. Increase intake of foods rich in vitamin C, E, berakaroten found in fresh fruits and vegetables are brightly colored. Food and beverages such as chocolate, garlic, tea, red wine and green tea good for you. Make sure your intake of omega 3 are met, because of the lack of omega 3 can exacerbate the illness that you suffered earlier. When exercising, avoid cardio workout and you should select the model of light exercise such as jogging or walking.

Stress and hormonal problems
Hormonal problems such as PMS or other problem as a result of the use of contraceptives that are often experienced by women is also stressful. Stress hormones interact with the hormone estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. As a result of hormones in the body off balance, and weight problems experienced by many women by targeting the hip and thigh area.

To overcome this limit alcohol consumption may increase estrogen levels and aggravate PMS. A sup soy-based foods to help balance hormones. In addition to fiber intake also multiply. Exercising every day can help balance hormone because it increases circulation and detoxification.

Stress and fatigue
You often easily upset when I wake up, feeling tired, difficulty sleeping, this is a symptom of stress continuation of the previous type of stress. People with this stress should increase the intake of red meat, fish, eggs, spinach, salad water, milk, tofu, mushrooms and a variety of iron-rich foods. Increase intake of fruits and vegetables, balance is also a sport that can reduce stress hormone levels. Patients with this type of stress may mengasup coffee, alcohol, multivitamins and minerals that increase iron, magnesium, vitamins B and C.

Stress and lost the spirit 
You tend to have difficulty sleeping and depression so often feel the loss of morale and motivation. Stress that you are experiencing this eliminates the hormones serotonin and dopamine which gives a sense of happiness. Feeling unhappy and lost spirit like this that cause you to have a tendency to eat junk food.

You need supplements contain omega-3, increase the intake of protein in the brain to increase energy and improve mood. Perform a healthful habits, such as exercising in open space, is more frequent laugh, listen to music, socializing, and for married couples, have sex regularly.

Source: Daily Mail