Tag: Spectrum
All Calories are NOT Created Equal
Posted on Jul.05, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments
Many people are confused about calories. Often, people assume that in order to lose fat, you have to burn more calories than you eat. This is true to an extent, but it’s not the only factor in losing body fat.
If your body requires 1500 calories a day, the important factor in this is where those calories are coming from. A simple way to look at this is:
A Big Mac? contains
Calories 560
Protein 25
Fat 30
Carbs [...]
There Are Two Kinds of Obesity?
Posted on Jun.26, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments
The general accept is that obesity is genetic. But the combination of obesity and its stability almost always equates increased questions related to ways to maintain a normal weight.
Stable obesity:
When one is stable at a “set point” more then 20 lbs (more or less) above what is considered ideal for ones height and weight and finds it hard to lose (or gain, but who complains about that) away from that “set point”. It is my opinion (and everybody’s [...]
Determine Your Stage and Plot Your Weight Loss Course
Posted on Mar.08, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments
We all know that losing weight and improving your overall fitness are things that don?t happen overnight. But, did you know in order to be truly successful that important steps need to be taken before you even start a diet or exercise program? The first thing you should do is identify where you fall on the behavioral change spectrum. There are five distinct stages of behavioral change. Do you know what stage you currently fall under?
Knowing what stage you are [...]
A Fresh Look at Mantra Yoga
Posted on Feb.23, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments
The whole universe is Consciousness vibrating at different frequencies. All the varying techniques of yoga(union) and meditation are based on the underlying principles of resonance and sympathetic vibration.
Through atunement with a particular state of consciousness we become it. Atunement means aligning our variables so that they correspond with the state we are trying to attain.
What are the variables which we have to work with? They are such things as posture, colour, our actions and the words that we intone.
Sacred alphabets [...]
Is Fibromyalgia a Psychosomatic Disorder?
Posted on Jan.10, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments
Fibromyalgia is a very complex disorder and despite the ongoing efforts of modern medicine to reveal the exact factors responsible for causing it, the phenomenon is still shrouded in mystery. In the absence of accurate data on fibromyalgia, medical scientists can only speculate upon certain aspects of the disorder.
The process of diagnosing fibromyalgia is very problematic. Fibromyalgia generates a wide spectrum of symptoms but rarely leaves any physical traces, rendering doctors unable to diagnose the disorder clinically. People with the [...]
Understanding the Notion of Borderline Autism
Posted on Jan.09, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments
The concept of autism can sometimes be very confusing. The syndrome first explained by Austrian psychiatrist Leo Kanner in the 40?s has generated many controversial opinions throughout the course of history. Autism is a very complex neurological disorder that can lead to different forms of behavioral, communicational, social and cognitive impairment. People with autism rarely fit the standard symptomatic profile introduced by medical scientists in the past. In fact, the syndrome generates a very wide spectrum of symptoms that can [...]
ADHD Without Hyperactivity
Posted on Jan.02, 2009, under Health and Fitness No Comments
Individuals diagnosed with ADHD without hyperactivity, or inattentive
ADHD, are people who tend to drift and float on the edges of an
environment. People who suffer from this problem do not have
problems with hyperactivity, but instead have trouble with
hypoactivity. Hypoactivity is the state of being extremely
underactive, and it can be just as disabling as ADHY with hyperactivity.
Children and adults with inattentive ADD have difficulty moving from an
impulse to an action, and they are very [...]
Eczema: Allergic Contact Dermatitis
Posted on Dec.19, 2008, under Health and Fitness No Comments
Eczema is a frustrating and uncomfortable ailment that affects more people that most know. It is thought that up to 20% of the children of the world have eczema and that about 8% of the adults of the world also suffer from eczema. The thing is that most of the affected individuals do not know that they have eczema since they have not had an outbreak. Even the majority of the persons that have had an eczema [...]
Common Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis
Posted on Sep.22, 2008, under Health and Fitness No Comments
The symptomatic spectrum of multiple sclerosis can be very diverse, involving different manifestations according to the affected body regions. Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory neurological disease, causing dysfunctions mainly at the level of the central nervous system. Due to the fact that multiple sclerosis affects the nervous system, people with this form of neurological disease can in time experience symptoms in most innervated regions of the body.
An estimated number of over 2 million people worldwide suffer from multiple sclerosis, while [...]
















































