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How To Resist The Aging Process

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:00:35 +0000

If you’re the type of person who would rather watch TV and eat all day long than giving you’re muscles a little more stretch, better think twice. Here’s the deal: this lifestyle speeds up aging. How? Well, inactivity accelerates aging in two ways: it decreases our muscle strength and gives us extra pounds.

Muscle meltdown

As we age, the quantity and strength of our muscle fibers diminish. Truth to the matter is, we lose two to four pounds of muscles every ten years. Decreased number and strength of muscles causes our muscles to lose flexibility, losing our usual range of motion and optimal strength.

Lack of exercise is to blame. It was found out that not exercising for even just a week weakens our muscles significantly. In fact, if you don’t exercise for a month, you will lose almost 50% of your original muscle strength. Some people may not even notice their atrophied muscles because of the fatty buildup in their body. Blame that too to lack of exercise.

Gaining extra pounds

The simple logic here is that if you are inactive, you gain extra pounds, and extra pounds can age you. But hey, there’s a missing link. How does an increase in weight speed up aging?

Researchers have recently found out that as people become heavier and became more insulin resistant (a common side effect of being fat and heavy), their telomeres (strands of DNA at the end of a chromosome that protect the tip from destruction and classically shorten with age) shrank more than those of people who didn’t increase their weight and developed more insulin resistance, an apparent sign that the aging process was speeding up among overweight. Researchers suppose that the stress caused by increased weight and insulin resistance spawn inflammation and free radicals that damage cells. Simply put, a heavier body ages its own DNA.

The Solution

But the good news is, you can recover what you have lost and slice off what you have gained. Research clearly shows that a healthy lifestyle and exercise can help keep your DNA younger.

In studies, regular exercise has been proven to keep you from diabetes, muscle atrophy, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s, and heart diseases. Regular workout helps prevent hypertension, reduces body fat, raises High Density Lipoprotein (good cholesterol), lowers Low-Density Lipoprotein (bad cholesterol), improves circulation, keeps the bowel healthy, and regulates key hormones.

Exercise

You can do jogging, cycling, walking, and swimming for thirty minutes a day for about five times a week. Doing these of higher intensity everyday can be helpful in bringing more blood and oxygen to our brain. These activities also guard your heart by lowering blood pressure, reducing LDL, and keeping arteries flexible to improve circulation.Exercise does not only keep you young, it also helps you sleep, firms you up, improves your mood, keeps you slim, and take note of this, charges up your sex life

Lifting Weight

Lifting weights should also be part of your roster of activities. Weightlifting for 20 minutes a day, twice a week can be of great help in having strong bones, and muscles, which of course includes the heart. For beginners, 3-5 pound dumbbells will do.

Breathing Exercise

Breathing exercise is one of the best activities to fight stress. It relaxes the body, thereby, keeping stress from burning you out. It also protects the body against free radicals that break down the elasticity of the skin.

Staying Young Is Just A Meal Away

Healthy foods to stay young? Of course, you’ve heard it before, probably when mom insisted to eat more apples and less burger even when you thought you were too young to age. Indeed, mom was right. You’ll never know when you’ll start to age until you notice some crumpling and folding on your skin. Premature aging might just be a sleep away. And you never want to see that happen.

But it’s never too late. You can delay aging now by changing some items on your plates, and it’s just another meal away.

SPEED DATING 101: Advice to Make Your Next Speed Dating Event a Success

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:47:02 +0000

Speed Dating is a very fast paced social event, not for the timid or faint of heart! but it has many advantages over traditional dating, because you get to meet many singles in a short period of time, thus upping the chance that you will meet someone you really click with, and reducing time wasted on duds.

It also helps singles develop their character and identity because you are faced with a new person asking you personal questions every six minutes or so, and by getting this exposure, you have the opportunity to really get to know yourself a lot better too!

Those of you who have never done it, (and some of you who have been there already…) may be asking: “What is speed dating?”

Well, it’s very simple. Prior to the event, you are asked to come up with 10 questions to bring along. (See the Speed Dating Tips section for some very popular ones) These questions should be geared toward finding the person of your dreams, or at least you will finally get your chance to ask those questions you’ve always wanted to ask of the opposite sex, unless it is a gay or lesbian speed dating event of course, and if you were expecting to meet members of the opposite sex, you may in fact be at the wrong event.

I know that a thousand questions are probably going through your head right now…

* Will I meet my future spouse there?

* Will I be scared?

* Do I need to bring a pencil?

* What should I wear?

* What if I see someone I know there?

* Will I make a fool out of myself in front of a crowd of strange people?

The answer of course is maybe, yes, no, clothing, act natural, and not if you take our advice.

Seriously, everything will be fine, we promise you will survive, if not have fun! Just be yourself, but do wear clothing, preferably business casual or the like. You might see your boss there, so don’t dress like a slob! And you won’t meet strange people, at least some of them will seem normal (usually you can spot a zombie at one of these events really easily. If you get stuck at a table with one, just cover your throat with your hand and politely tell the zombie that you need to go to the bathroom, then run!)

No offense to the zombies out there, Heh heh… I am sure that there is another zombie made for you! As they say in the car sales business, there’s a butt for every seat!

When speed dating, you will have a chance to meet with lots of different potential partners / dates for a TOTAL of 3-10 minutes each (depending on the “rules” of the particular event). During that lightning session, you will try to find out as much about the person as you can. After time is up, you’re on to the next person in line. Just like that! In the course of the evening, you will meet everyone at the event (or in some cases, where there are many participants, you will meet everyone in your particular age category.)

Speed dating is an event that every single person owes it to themselves to try out at least once! If you don’t you may miss out on meeting the person of your dreams, or at least meeting a few good friends that you would not have met otherwise.

The Need for Speed and Car Loans

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:34:51 +0000

Cars have become a way of life these days. Even with global warming on the rise, the demand for cars does not seem to be falling. Instead, we are watching as eco-friendly cars come into the market. And people are still rushing to get loans and buy their very own set of wheels. The need for speed has become a necessity today. Snail mail is completely passe as email has taken over from it almost completely. The rise of the Internet has ensured that there is a need for speed. Nobody today would walk if he could fly off instead. The twenty-first century is the age of speed.

The need for speed makes it crucial for everyone to have a vehicle, or at least aspire towards one. Moreover, these days most of us can manage to buy a car. Auto loans have become very easy on the pocket. As a result, more and more potential car buyers are hoping to benefit from the current situation. If you own property or some other valuable asset that can act as collateral, you are fortunate. Secured car loans generally offer much lower interest rates than do unsecured car loans. Thus, if you can avail of a secured loan, your overall costs will be much lower.

Of course, unsecured car loans can be great options sometimes. These days, with the proliferation of loan providers on the Internet, it is certainly quite easy to find the best deals. Even people with a history of bad credit can avail of competitively priced auto loans. The loans that are offered to people with bad credit histories usually come with higher interest rates. But as a result of the great rivalry among loan providers these days, getting a cheap auto loan is fairly easy.

In fact, while purchasing a car, one must look out for the most inexpensive car loans possible. After all, a car will require a good deal of maintenance. You will have to fill fuel and send the car for regular servicing. Moreover, you cannot help but buy some good car insurance. As in the case of loans, cheap car insurance is not too tough to locate these days.

However, you cannot just sit around and expect cheap insurance (or loans for that matter) to drop in from nowhere. Instead, you must do your share of studying the markets before making the final decision on the insurance policy. All that effort will help you find the best one.