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First Degree Fitness Evolution Series E-920
Jan 7th
First Degree Fitness Evolution Series
Following features added value for money
1. Its variable resistance changes at the flick of a lever, offering 20 levels from ‘feather light’ to ‘Olympic sprint’
2. The 360 degree rotating crank arm is adjustable in 5 degree increments to suit users of any size.
3. The seat adjusts through 3 positions and easily removes for standing use and wheelchair access.
4. Hand grips are self-levelling and adjust to multiple positions, from horizontal to vertical.
5. A user-friendly computer with auto start, one button reset and cordless heart rate reception (transmitter not included).
Mobile phone radiation ‘protects’ against Alzheimer’s
Jan 7th
After all the concern over possible damage to health from using mobile phones, scientists have found a potential benefit from radiation. Their work has been carried out on mice, but it suggests mobiles might protect against Alzheimer’s. Florida scientists found that phone radiation actually protected the memories of mice programmed to get Alzheimer’s disease. They are now testing more frequencies to see if they can get better results. The study by the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Prostate cancer stress could kill you
Dec 18th
If being diagnosed with prostate cancer wasn’t enough reason for worry, research suggests that the worry itself may be as deadly as the disease for many sufferers. The research, which analysed data on 168,584 Swedish men diagnosed with prostate cancer between 1961 and 2004, found that the men were at an increased risk of suffering a cardiovascular event and more likely to commit suicide soon after the diagnosis.Before 1987, prostate cancer patients were 11 times more likely to experience a fatal cardiovascular event in the week after diagnosis than men without prostate cancer.
Slight weight loss can improve cardiovascular health
Dec 14th
American scientists have claimed that even moderate weight loss improves heart function of obese people. Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, claimed that obese people who lost a moderate amount of weight by eating less and exercising more improved their cardiovascular health, Journal of the American College of Cardiology reported.”Losing 20 or so pounds might seem daunting to some people, but we showed that even a more modest weight loss can yield heart and vascular benefits,” says lead author Lisa de las Fuentes. Read the rest of this entry »
Pranayama Yoga Best Medicine for Health
Dec 1st
Pranayama aims at bringing the involuntary functions of the respiratory mechanism within human control. The term pranayama has been constituted by two words: Prana + Ayama. Prana is the vital force which pervades the whole cosmos. Prana is more subtle than air and can be defined as the energy essence that is within everything in the universe. Prana is the principle of development and sustenance both of the nervous and cellular tissues of the body and the mind.
In the process of breathing when the prana air is inhaled, definite action takes place. One is related to the ingestion of oxygen into the alveoli and the other to the ingestion of the nervous energy into the brain system.
Ayama means to control or to give a rhythm or a definite flow. In this sense Pranayama may be defined as a process and technique through which vital energy can be stimulated and increased: and this brings about perfect control over the flow of Prana within the body.
Pranayama is an exact science. Regulation of breathing, as a matter of fact, is natural. It hardly offers any scope of artificiality. The breath enters through the nose and depending on ones general health and strength of the lungs; it is retained inside and then is exhaled. This natural condition of intake and outflow of the breath goes on continuously and it is on this process that human life depends. The difference between this natural process and the ‘Pranayama’ is that in the former the inhalation and exhalation is not necessarily connected with the mind ; that process continues owing to the natural functioning of the heart and lungs. The inhalation and the exhalation are, hence, not of any set duration. In some person the inhalation may take a longer time than the exhalation and in some others the opposite may occur. In Pranayama, however, there is a systematic regulation of both the inhalation and exhalation. This is for the reason that the mind is joined to the action of inhalation and exhalation known as Puraka and Rechaka respectively in practicing the Pranayama. Hence their longer and shorter duration within a specified time has to be controlled. The result of this controlled inhalation and exhalation, both in respect of speed and time has a mere beneficial effect on the mind and the body than that of the natural process. Most of us who largely depend on the natural process will derive immense benefit on falling ill by controlled inhalation and exhalation. Such person should inhale slowly and exhale equally slowly in the beginning for 5 to 10 times depending on their strength and continue doing this morning and evening for 25 to 30 day. The natural inhalation is hence called “SWASHANA” or breathing and that inhalation and exhalation which is done extending time limit by applying the power of mind is called “DEERGHASWASHANA” or Pranayama.