Major Factors for Heart Disease

Do you know that your heart is the size of your fist? Your heart is very powerful and with every beat it pumps blood at the rate of about five quart per minute throughout your body in a single day.  It also pumps about 200 gallon of blood and beats more than 100,000 times a day. When you are overweight your heart works even harder.  Below is a list of things you can change, which are major factors for heart disease.

·        Overweight or Obesity

·        Diet

·        High Blood Pressure

·        Smoking

·        Having Diabetes

·        Stress

·        Depression

·        Inactive Lifestyle

You can’t change your age, family history, or gender, but you can change your diet and how active you are in your lifestyle. Your life is worth living, so protect your heart and get in the health fight!

Water Retention & Weight Gain

Water retention is one problem that most people have when they are trying to loss weight. Due to hormones women have water retention problem more than men. Stress, in any form, is the main cause for retaining body toxins and wastes. People believe if they stop drinking water they will lose weight, but that is not the case. Water is the life line for weight loss!  WHY, because it removes toxins from the body. 

The body ONLY have four major ways of removing toxins which are:
Bowels
Urination
Perspiration
Processing of toxins by the liver

The first 3 of these four methods directly excrete water from the body.  When dehydrated, the body will try to save water by minimizing the use of the first three functions and will force the liver to assume as much of the workload as possible. Do not overload your liver get your water in today! 8-10 glasses a day is all you need! Get healthy and start drinking your water today!

Superfoods for Weight Loss

Every Spring I believe you should detoxify your body for optimum weight loss, so I’m always researching for the best super-foods to help detoxify the body. I have 3 top choices that I would like to share because I believe these are the best and most powerful superfoods on earth to detoxify the body for optimum health as well.

Amla (Indian Gooseberries) - Is my 1^st choice and by far the most effective superfood I have ever used. It has 20 times more vitamin C than an orange. When I take this superfood I can feel the effects the same day.

Chlorella Green Alga – Is my 2^nd choice! I must have this superfood in my house at all times. Clinical studies prove that this superfood could detoxify the body. I think that the chlorella powder helps my body better than the pills. I put the powder in my morning smoothie, to mask the taste.

Acai Berries- Is my 3^rd choice for an excellent superfood. I do not consider this superfood a weight loss supplement but a great superfood to detoxify your body before starting a weight loss program. I ONLY purchase Acai berry juice, never the supplements. I believe fresh juice helps with cell regeneration.

Spring is the time for re-birth & re-growth, the best way to re-grow your body cells is to detoxify! Happy Detox! Your body will thank you in the winter!

The Knowledge War on Diabetes- Weight Problems

Most people do not know that diabetics often have low levels of vitamins C, A, and B6.  Vitamin C helps in accelerating healing of wounds and boosts the immune system.  For most diabetics, healing of wounds is a major problem. 

 Also medical reports have indicated that many diabetics have problems with metabolism and utilization of L-carnitine. Mobilizing L- carnitne is important because it help the body metabolize fatty acids for energy that may aid in weight loss.  Weight loss is a major factor with diabetics and cannot be ignored. If you have type 2 diabetes, losing weight will help you with lowing your blood sugar levels and your overall health. There are many diets on the market, but make sure your diet plan is low in sugar and always talk to your medical doctor before you change your diet plan for diabetes.  

Don’t let diabetes control your life, you control it! There are many solutions to help you control you diabetes, get in the fight for your life, because the war on diabetes can be won with knowledge!

Get Knowledge and Get Healthy

Mental Illness - Silent Killer

Tulia Story

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Tulia is not your normal teenage girl. Her father left her mother when she was only 5 years old, but Tulia remembers him as if he was still a part of their lives. Tulia father is mentally challenged and he love to start fires and watch items burn to the ground. Sad to say Tulia have the same mental illness.
At the tender age of 7 Tulia burnt down her mothers’ lovely home. Since the age of 7, Tulia has burnt down 4 homes and has lived in and out of mental intuitions.

Tulia now lives in an environment of bitterness and hatred. Her mother and stepfather resent her because of all the homes she has burnt down, therefore they have very limited involvement with Tulia and her education. Tulia stays in her room when she is at home.She has a younger sister, but her parent does not allow Tulia to be involved in her life due to her mental illness. Tulia mother wish Tulia could stay in a 4 level group home, but due to the mental health reform, Tulia must come home and receive intense in-home services.

If you meet Tulia you will never know she is mentally challenged, until she zones in and out. Her license counselor believes when she zones in and out, she is fantasizing on the next fire she will begin. Tulia counselor also believes that Tulia burn items to remember her father, because Tulia often complains about her paternal father not been a part of her life.

Due to Tulia mental illness all her assignments at school is individualized. Teachers must follow the guidelines in Tulia IEP (Individualize Educational Plan) written by a team which consist of a school psychologists, mother, stepfather, and social worker which is the law for mentally challenged students in state Tulia lives in. The teachers must use the IEP when they creates assignments for Tulia.

Tulia is placed in regular classes and not special needs classes because she comprehends and does not have a learning disability. As written in her IEP, Tulia teachers must understand that her medication will make her very dizzy, sleepy and she may have behavior problems at times. Tulia teachers must also understand that Tulia parent does not want to be involved in Tulia life.

Tulia strength is her desire to learn. Her dream is to become a teacher and help other students with mental illness like herself. She understand that she have a problem and with the right medication and counseling she will one day overcome her mental illness and will be an asset to her community. Tulia dream is to make her mother proud and love her again.

In my concluding Gardner expresses this in his theory of multiple intelligences. The multiple intelligence theory was developed as a psychological theory. Based on the theory of multiple of intelligences, Tulia is an intrapersonal. She gains her peace of mind from being along, but Tulia should never belong because she might commit suicide.

If there a person in your family that is mentally challenge, please do not push them away because they need love and understanding!

References
Howard Gardner (1983).The Frame of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Basic Books (237-239)
Gardner, H. (1991). Intelligence in seven steps. New Horizons for Learning. (Web)