With the increase in technology these days affecting children at an ever younger age, there are many children who are not fit. Instead of running and playing, they spend hours sitting, first at school and then at home playing games with their electronic devices, watching television or plugged into music if they are older. But children need exercise to remain – or get – fit, just the same as adults.
It may even be more important for children to be fit than it is for adults. If children remain in poor health, they have many more years to develop some of those bad diseases such as diabetes and many more years for those diseases to cause even more problems such as blindness or kidney failure, like diabetes does.
In addition, children who don’t get enough exercise are not only unfit, they are also often obese. This causes a great deal of emotional trauma, especially if they are bullied or teased about their weight. And of course, it is unhealthy for them and can lead to early onset of high cholesterol and heart disease, among other things.
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Posted: November 21, 2016 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
Are Your Children Fit?
With the increase in technology these days affecting children at an ever younger age, there are many children who are not fit. Instead of running and playing, they spend hours sitting, first at school and then at home playing games with their electronic devices, watching television or plugged into music if they are older. But children need exercise to remain – or get – fit, just the same as adults.
It may even be more important for children to be fit than it is for adults. If children remain in poor health, they have many more years to develop some of those bad diseases such as diabetes and many more years for those diseases to cause even more problems such as blindness or kidney failure, like diabetes does.
In addition, children who don’t get enough exercise are not only unfit, they are also often obese. This causes a great deal of emotional trauma, especially if they are bullied or teased about their weight. And of course, it is unhealthy for them and can lead to early onset of high cholesterol and heart disease, among other things.
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Posted: March 10, 2016 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
8 Tips for Pretty Feet
Our feet are often the most neglected part of us. We simply shove them into some kind of footwear that may not even fit them properly, and expect them to take us through the day without complaining. During summer your feet are more than likely to be on show as you wear flip-flops and sandals to beat the heat. You may even go around barefoot at home or the beach. If your feet are not looking their prettiest, here are some tips to make up for your neglect of them.
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Posted: October 9, 2015 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
The Importance of Exercise for Mature Aged People
The older you get the less you feel like exercising, but the more it is necessary for good health. The less you exercise the worse condition your muscles are in and this makes you feel even less like exercising until it becomes a vicious circle. Health authorities all agree that exercise keeps us healthy, reduces blood pressure and stress, improves heart function and reduces depression. It helps us to sleep well and gives us a good appetite. So how can we get that exercise that we need but often don’t really want?
How to exercise when you hate walking
It’s important to choose something you like when it comes to exercising. If you hate walking, going for a walk every day will be unpleasant and you’ll look for –and find – many excuses not to go. But if you love photography, the beach, or gardens, then incorporating those things into your walk will make it seem much more pleasant. Fun, even. For instance, you could go for a walk along the beach and take photos or collect shells for a hobby, or for the grandchildren.
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Posted: September 22, 2014 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
How to Get Over the Flu
Every winter the flu virus flies through the air attacking everyone it meets. No matter what strain it is, influenza lays you low and is often difficult to get over properly. But often, people make their lives more difficult by trying to carry on their normal life, no matter how ill they feel. Over the counter medication that makes you feel better than you are doesn’t really help in the long run.
When the flu virus attacks your body, you need to rest as much as possible, stay out of the cold and drink plenty of warm fluids. If possible, stay in bed as rest and sleep are two powerful healers. There is no need for antibiotics unless you develop a secondary infection. Painkillers to relieve headaches and muscular aches and pains, and medication to help clear nasal blockages will both be helpful.
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Posted: June 30, 2013 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
5 Benefits of Dental Implants
For many years, the only treatment options provided by your dentist for missing teeth were bridges and dentures. While both options are more than suitable for a number of people, dental implants can prove to be far more convenient – especially if you only have a few missing teeth. They are also more comfortable than a standard pair of dentures, and can remove the stigma that just elderly people have “false teeth”.
If you’re tired of having missing teeth and believe your confidence levels could improve as a result of having a full set of pearly whites, read about the five benefits of dental implants below. You might just realise that dental implants could be the very thing you need.
If you’re missing teeth – particularly front teeth – you can lose much of your confidence. Many people choose not to smile in photos, and some people are also less inclined to meet new people as it can involve showing their teeth. If your dentist provides dental implants, they can remove this problem altogether. As the implants are matched to your own remaining teeth, they look just like yours, and anyone you meet will be none-the-wiser.
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Posted: April 25, 2012 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
Botox Injections vs. Dermal Fillers
Botox injections are a popular way to have those wrinkles in your face smoothed out so you look younger and more pleasant. Frown lines can make you look like you’re in a bad mood even though you are not. This can have a negative effect on your business and social life. Besides, many people start to get wrinkles in their late twenties and early thirties, far too young to have a wrinkled face.
If you are considering wrinkle treatment, you may be wondering about the difference between Botox and dermal fillers. The two are not the same, so here is some information that will help you make the right decision.
Botox
This injectable is made from botulinum toxin type A. It is a toxic substance that has been purified so it is suitable for human use so long as not too much is used. Botox has been cleared by the FDA for treatment of lines and wrinkles at the outside of the eyes commonly referred to as crow’s feet, and those vertical lines between the eyebrow, but it is used for much more than that, with many other wrinkles on the face being treated with it.
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Posted: March 17, 2012 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
Staying Fit with a Disability
Anyone with a disability will know the importance of staying fit. The less you have to work with, the more important it is for it to be fit. For instance, if you have one leg, it will have to work twice as hard, so if you allow it to become unfit, your ability to move around will be reduced even more. That’s not to say the effort to stay – or get – fit is easy. But it can be done, as many amazing Paralympians will testify to.
Your choice of ways to stay fit will essentially need to depend on your disability. Some disabled people cannot move from a wheelchair, but this doesn’t preclude them from partaking in some kind of exercise. You just have to find something you can do, and there will be help available from physiotherapists and occupational therapists as well as friends and family who will help and cheer you on.
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Posted: September 10, 2011 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
Benefits of Cosmetic Surgery for People with Disabilities
Many people undergo various types of cosmetic surgery to improve their looks in some way. It could be breast augmentation, liposuction or something as simple as a Botox injection or dermal fillers to get rid of wrinkles and make them look younger.
Cosmetic surgery has many benefits and would surely help many people with disabilities. People with a physical disability are just the same as everyone else; it’s just that they are missing a limb. Those with a disease that makes them disabled are not all that much different except that they may find it difficult to express themselves clearly, walk properly or do many of the things we take for granted.
Cosmetic surgery is not all about looking more youthful. In fact, it has been given this reputation by the many film stars and singers that pursue perfection of looks to the utmost – often at great cost. Disabled people often suffer a stigma that their disability makes them different from everyone else – to their detriment. Their concerns are much more likely to be trying to look like the average person in order to become more accepted in society.
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Posted: January 10, 2011 by Health Summit Leave a Comment
Is Liposuction Right for You?
Often, people who want to lose weight consider liposuction to be their magic wand. However, this procedure is not actually performed for this reason. It is a body contour procedure that takes fat from areas of the body that do not respond to dieting or exercise and makes those areas look more in line with the rest of the body.
For instance, if you’ve tried dieting and exercise but have found stubborn areas of fat still cause your thighs to look large in relation to the rest of your shape, liposuction may be the ideal way to solve the problem. But if you haven’t dieted or exercised and want to lose fat from all over your body, or if you have lots of loose and flabby skin folds you want to get rid of, liposuction is not the right treatment and you’ll find your surgeon will not do it for those reasons.
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