TYPES OF THERAPY

In the privacy of your home, there are several types of therapy that deserve particular attention. Naturally, it is our instinctive tendency to look for the simplest way of getting well. Often people resort to drugs in an attempt to cure themselves, only to find that the drug has changed the form and location the disease, producing new symptoms or complications that might even be worse than the original disease. Furthermore, the expense of drugs, together with their long term risk are reason for great caution in their use by the home health practitioner.
Diet is an extremely important type of home treatment. In case of illness, the patient’s diet should be simpler than is usually eaten. Sometimes a fruit fast for a few days will help a person recover without a grain of medicine.
Juices have a more limited place. Sometimes skipping a meal and drinking water or fruit juice will allow nature a chance to build up defenses against the invader. This should be done at mealtimes, not drinking juices all through the day.
Herb teas have a valued place in healing. Hence, a special chapter is being devoted to their use. Medicinal teas are usually prepared by mixing one teaspoon of the herb in a cup of boiling water and allowing it to steep for three to five minutes, until the tea is ready. The herb is strained out before drinking. Other herbal beverages made with parsley or comfrey, create the so called “green drink,” which is popular in health food stores today. There are many common symptoms that can be treated safely with herbs, making it unnecessary to consult a physician nearly as often as we do these days.
Hydrotherapy seems to be the most neglected home remedy. These treatments involve the use of water, and include such remedies as the hot half bath, cold shower, cold mitten friction, contrast bath, the heating compress, and other therapies discussed in chapters devoted to the specific treatments. Hydrotherapy offers a powerful technique of shifting the circulation in your
body. Its purpose is to decongest certain areas, then improve the ability of an organ to fight infection and overcome any invasion of germs. Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation. Water therapy is one of the most valuable ways to achieve this goal.
Exercise is also a valuable remedy in the treatment of many diseases, particularly those of degenerative nature. The chapters on heart disease, vascular disease, respiratory problems, and nervous disorders will particularly contain advice in regard to therapeutic exercise.
Sunlight, fresh air, abstinence from harmful substances, rest, and the mind healing influence of trusting in Divine power are also powerful remedies that one can use in the home to combat disease and restore right conditions within the system. We will apply these in the next chapter to approach the subject of pain, one of the most common symptoms that afflicts mankind.

Develop Strength from the Inside Out, Not from the Outside In

Remember that from the day you were born into this world, to the day you die, your 640 muscles play an important role in everything you do. Think of it – more than half your body is sheer muscle!
It isn’t the muscles that you see that count as much as those you don’t see! Along the 30-foot gastrointestinal tract there are muscles to force food along this tube. The work of bringing adequate amounts of air into your powerful lungs also requires other strong muscles.
And above all, the greatest muscle in your body is your heart, your number one pump. It is the heart that pumps the blood supply into the body’s 640 muscles. And the more we bring these 640 muscles into play, the better our heart, circulation, physical condition and our entire state of health will be! You have four more extra pumps that can also help this whole process – they are your two arms and your two legs – use and exercise them!

It’s Harmful to Your Health to Overeat!

Second after second, minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day our faithful, loyal heart is working to keep us alive. In both our waking hours and during our sleep, our heart takes only a sixth of a second to rest between beats. The hardest work the heart has to do is right after an individual has eaten. The bigger the meal, the more work it has to do in pumping vast quantities of blood into the digestive tract.
New studies done by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, found that one out of five Americans are obese and the rate is climbing yearly – it’s an epidemic! Obesity is defined as anyone over 30% of their ideal body weight. This leads to high triglyceride levels which can cause diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Remember, exercise is a major key factor in lowering weight and helping keep the heart healthy and fit. Fact: only 20% of Americans exercise one hour weekly, yet they spend over 15 hours with TV and the web weekly.
Current obesity studies show increases in all age groups. The biggest gain is in the 18 to 29 years old group at 12.1%, up from 7.1% back in 1991. American children (1 in 3) are more overweight than ever! The number of overweight children ages 6 to 17, has zoomed up since the 1960’s. Overweight children are at high risks for adult on-set heart disease and diabetes. Teach your children healthy eating habits by being a healthy, trim, fit example for them.
Overeating puts more strain on the heart than any other one thing! Many people load up on a ten-course dinner and soon afterward suffer a heart attack! Overeating is a dangerous, deadly habit that can lead to serious consequences. You should make it a habit to always get up from the table feeling that you could eat a little more.

Exercise Can Decrease Your Back and Joint Pain !!!

An alarming 50 percent of people over the age of thirty suffer from pain in at least one joint and from low back pain. These conditions have been brought on by a variety of causes, including sports
injuries, overuse of joints in activities such as excessive jogging, strain on the joints and back from obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and poor posture caused by the weakening of the muscles in the core area of the body.
If done incorrectly and at too great a level of intensity, exercise can have detrimental effects on back and joint pain. But if done correctly and under a doctor’s supervision, exercise can decrease lower back pain significantly by strengthening the core area of the body. It can also lessen the effects of osteoarthritis by increasing joint flexibility and range of motion.
Dr. Mike Wilson, tells all of his clients with chronic lower back pain to get into a good program of exercises for the core area of the body. The Pro Circuit Exercise Program in this book will do wonders toward relieving your lower back pain. If you feel the need for further back-strengthening exercises, I suggest my book Lose Your Love Handles, in which I offer a program designed solely for strengthening this core area of the body—the abdominals and the lower back.

Early Lifestyle Triggers Obesity

Lifestyle triggers obesity in kids. Many young people are not physically active on a regular basis and physical activity declines dramatically during adolescence. Regular physical activity in childhood and adolescence improves strength and endurance, helps build healthy bones and muscles, helps control weight, reduces anxiety and stress and increases self-esteem. It also helps normalize blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
There are numerous reasons for concern for these overweight children. Studies show that overweight children are at risk for many serious diseases such as high levels of blood pressure, insulin and cholesterol, making them excellent candidates for conditions like heart disease, diabetes and cancer. In addition, there is the emotional stress and depression associated with peer pressure and the stigmatism of being fat.
It’s important to be supportive, accepting and loving of all children, overweight or not. A positive self-image is important for weight control. There are many ways to help an overweight child regain control of their weight. By cutting out 100 calories a day, he’ll lose 15 pounds a year! Turn off the TV and video games and encourage physical activity; sports, handball, tae kwon do, rollerblading, swimming, trampolining, tennis, etc. Teach nutrition and healthy eating practices, not only by making healthy meals, but by example – eat the right foods and avoid fast foods, high sugar snacks, sodas and desserts altogether. Substitute healthy fresh fruit snacks and raw veggie stick snacks. Eat slowly and chew each mouthful thoroughly. Don’t overeat. Exercising, eating healthy foods and an occasional fast day helps teach children early to normalize their weight.

Learn to Anticipate Life’s Next Moves

If you do then you need only take the actions most needed, and you will not waste precious energy rushing around trying this, that, and the other thing until you get it right. Great athletes know how to enhance their performance through anticipating the competition. Retired Miami Dolphin Dan Marino could always come up to the line of scrimmage and have a very accurate idea of where his opponents were going to move. Wayne Gretsky, one of the greatest hockey players of all time, could always see the puck coming two moves away. He knew so much about his game and the people he played against that he could almost always guess what the opposition—and his fellow teammates—were going to do next. Tiger Woods has the same gift.

In life, we need not only to be aware of what’s going on in the here and now but also to be able to look down the road and see what’s approaching. Some blows are inevitable, and the best we can do is to see them coming and try to limit the damage. Others we can prepare for so that we don’t have to sustain damage.
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General George S. Patton once wrote: “I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in great detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances.”
All of us need to learn how to patiently study and understand
those we compete against in life and in the workplace. Always focus on the big picture and anticipate the future. Some tips for doing this include:
• Head off the younger, less experienced coworker who is after your job.
• Read the signs of your industry and see when things are going to make a downturn or a major shift—and be ready.
• See that tremendous opportunity down the road and position yourself so that you are ready to grasp it when it presents itself to you.
• Never become complacent in your career or in any other area of your life. Educate yourself about new developments in your field and make yourself available for new training opportunities.
• Seek out willing mentors who can honestly evaluate your skills and teach you things you could never learn otherwise.
The ability to look ahead and accurately foresee the next move will give you a performance edge that those who spend their lives rushing around to catch up just won’t be able to match.

Exercise for Heart Health

Be aware that doing the right kind of exercise is one of the best prescriptions for gaining and maintaining a healthy heart and cardiovascular system. According to an excellent ten-year study done at the Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute:

• Regular exercise is associated with marked reductions in the long-term risks for major cardiac events such as heart attack or stroke, and death from heart disease.
• People who exercise regularly, at least three times per week, reduced their chance of a cardiac event from 30 to 50 percent.
• A study from the Cooper Clinic shows that physical fitness is directly correlated with increased life span and fewer deaths from cardiovascular causes and cancer.
• Even for obese individuals or for people with several coronary heart disease risk factors, physical fitness strongly decreases the chance of developing symptoms of heart disease.

The Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute has found that the following types of exercise are most effective in treating people with cardiovascular disease, or for people wishing to avoid developing cardiovascular disease:

• Dynamic or aerobic exercises, which include walking, running, cycling, swimming, aerobic dancing, cross-country skiing, and using elliptical machines.
• Light isotonic exercises such as using handgrips or weight lifting (frequent repetitions with low amounts of weight).

The Pro Circuit Exercise Program,fills this prescription perfectly in that it alternates periods of aerobic exercise with periods of isotonic (weight training) exercise.
But before beginning any exercise program, if you are a healthy but sedentary woman over the age of fifty or a man over the age of forty, remember that the American College of Sports Medicine recommends that you should always consult with your physician and have a preexercise medical examination. This is even more important if you have high blood pressure, chest pains, high cholesterol, or any serious risk factors for heart disease, or if you are a smoker.

Find Your Weak Link

It is not as easy as you think to ascertain your level of fitness because the appearance of health is not always the same as true health. I remember when Frank Warren, then a thirteen-year veteran with the New Orleans Saints, dropped out of football to coach. After a while, Frank decided to get back into the game because he felt that he was better than most of the players he was coaching. When Frank came to me for preseason training, he looked as if he were in decent shape. But the in-depth health evaluation that I recommend for all of my trainees showed that he had developed coronary problems and needed angioplasty. If Frank had stepped onto the playing field without assessing his health profile, there is a strong chance that he would have died on the field.
Your career and your passion might be calling to you to put forth your most energetic effort, but no one should ever jump into the stresses of life’s battles without a clear understanding of whether or not there is a weak link in your health chain—a point at which you could literally break down. Following a recent decision by the office of the commissioner of Major League Baseball to create a division known as Umpire Medical Services to manage the health of their umpires, my PEP program was hired as a consultant. I discovered that one umpire, whose weight had soared to 357 pounds, didn’t know that he had type 2 diabetes.
When this man didn’t want to consider the health ramifications he was facing if he didn’t lose weight and begin eating and exercising right, I appealed to his better judgment. “How can you be calling the balls and the strikes for every player when you won’t look at your own score? Your body already has two strikes against it. The next one could be your last.” I explained how easy—and even likely—it was for him to develop complications such as heart disease that might lead to premature death. Finally he took my suggestions seriously. He lost weight and reduced his waist measurement, thereby getting his blood sugar back to normal. Amazingly, he accomplished all this without taking medication, just by following my nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle management programs.
Many people are walking time bombs and don’t even know it. If you don’t have the internal physical health to deal with the stresses, demands, and performance standards of your personal life and career, then it doesn’t matter if you look as if you are fine or even feel relatively good.

Avoid or Decrease Loss of Bone Density and Muscle Mass , Do Exercise

Most people believe that a significant loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia) and bone density is inevitable as one ages, leading to decreased strength, mobility, and flexibility. This is not so. According to a recent article published in the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, most age-related changes in muscle and bone can be reversed through an appropriate exercise program incorporating both aerobic and resistance/strength training (working with weights or objects one has to push against).
Individuals suffering from sarcopenia and bone loss experience a significant decrease in energy levels and strength. A special issue of Newsweek focusing on longevity reported how a seventy-six-year-old woman, Barbara, was finding it more and more difficult to do simple things such as getting up out of her favorite easy chair. Bending over to make her bed was so painful that she had to get down on her knees to do so. At 140 pounds, Barbara was not overweight, but her fat to lean muscle ratio was extremely high. She described herself as “mostly flab and mush.” This is not surprising, since people who lose muscle as they age also gain body fat—and most of us do. Remember, a greater body fat to lean muscle ratio also means a less efficient metabolism, since fat is not metabolically active. It just sits there on your body, pulling you down.
When her doctor told her that she was suffering from low bone density as well, Barbara knew she had to do something to help herself. She enrolled in a study at Oregon State University that was researching the effects of exercise on bone density in women over fifty. The study was exploring the hypothesis that gradually reintroducing women to exercise would increase bone density and muscle mass. The women began by wearing weighted vests and practicing everyday movements such as standing up, walking, and stepping from side to side. They gradually moved on to more strenuous activities, such as four-inch high jumps. Once Barbara began to gain back some of her lost bone and muscle mass, she started exercising regularly with her husband and now says she is more fit at eighty-one than she was at forty. “I can’t describe the feeling—it’s a sense of being stronger and more accomplished and less afraid. You can’t just give up and go downhill. Life is just too precious.”
It used to be that men and women past the age of fifty were expected to be flabby. For many, that attitude is changing as they discover that even a moderate amount of exercise makes muscles stronger and joints more flexible and arrests the loss of bone density (a problem in aging men as well as women). In fact, the Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology reports that studies on sarcopenia unequivocally show that older muscle tissue has the same, if not an even greater capacity, to respond to a vigorous bout of resistance exercise than younger muscle does.
Women: Defeat Osteoporosis through Exercise
Of special interest to women is the fact that osteoporosis can be either prevented or slowed by the consistent practice of a good resistance exercise program. In fact, the older a woman gets, the more important exercise becomes to her musculoskeletal health and strength. Think how many women you know who can barely get around in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. Since women live longer than men, it is especially important for them to keep relatively fit so that their quality of life does not degrade in their later years.

Negative Effects of On-the-Job Stress

For many of us, most of our stress is encountered in the workplace because we spend so much time there. A lot depends on our ability to financially support ourselves and our families and to achieve success in the eyes of the world. Therefore it is important to develop tools for managing on-the-job stress.

According to Dean Sunseri, individuals who do not manage their work-related stress have a higher level of absenteeism, decreased work performance, and emotional instability at their jobs. In their personal lives, this inability to manage stress leads to relationship problems, emotional isolation, substance abuse, verbal/physical violence, and increased high-risk behaviors such as alcoholism.
A recent study by Drs. Nicole A. Roberts and Robert W. Levenson of U.C. Berkeley, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, shows that high levels of on-the-job stress seem to play a significant role in marital problems and could potentially lead to divorce if the stress isn’t acknowledged and managed. “These influences of job stress were found regardless of couples’ marital satisfaction, husbands’ work shift, and couples’ parenthood status,” the authors wrote. They went on to suggest that when job stress levels become highest, couples should make an extra effort to be attuned to themselves so that they could find ways to handle their stress in a constructive manner. “This may include employing stress management techniques, making an effort to infuse positive emotions into marital conversations, and finding ways to talk about job stress rather than avoiding it.”
This is often easier said than done. According to a recent article in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, job stress can sneak up on you so gradually that you don’t even realize it. Many employees entering the workforce are young and single with ample time for leisure activities, exercise, rest, and sports. As they grow older, marry, have children, and acquire a mortgage and other major responsibilities, their stress load will build and their productivity levels drop. Add to this the fact that many companies lay off employees during times of economic recession, burdening those who remain with an increased workload and even greater stress.
Recently I saw a dramatic example of this when a shipping company called me to inquire about my corporate program. Their top salesperson, a middle-aged man named Arnold, had serious physical problems. Arnold was 400 pounds, had a fifty-two-inch waist, and had a blood sugar level of 126, which made him diabetic. Arnold hadn’t been this heavy or this sick when he first went to work for them. But the stresses of his workload and the amount of constant traveling he had to do had brought him to this point. Arnold was a prime candidate to drop dead of a heart attack. And if he had, his company would have been in serious trouble. Fortunately, Arnold is thrilled with the program and has already lost twenty-five pounds.
Dee Edington, director of Michigan’s Health Management Research Center, has spent twenty-five years researching how major corporations have saved literally millions of dollars in health care costs by offering services to their employees such as wellness programs, onsite gyms and fitness programs, and health newsletters. What Edington stresses, however, is that companies should not focus on just those employees whose stress loads and health needs are the greatest. There are tremendous long-term benefits in retaining relatively healthy employees who eat right, exercise regularly, and manage their stress healthfully. “It is much easier to help a low-risk person remain low-risk than to try to change a high-risk person to low-risk,” Edington says.
Unfortunately, most corporations do not take responsibility for their employees’ health. Even if you are fairly healthy, you cannot count on your workplace to take responsibility to help you maintain your health and emotional well-being. Ultimately, that responsibility falls squarely on your shoulders.
In this fast-paced, stress-filled world, the only answer is to develop your own stress management skills. I have found the following stress management techniques to be tremendously effective. I suggest that you experiment with one or a combination of these until you find what works best for you.

Perform Well to Your Last Breath

There is no overtime in life. Therefore it benefits us to perform with as much gusto as we can until our very last breath.

In a very real sense, the adversary all of us will eventually face is death. For this reason a question you must ask yourself is, How do I want to die? Do you want to end up living in a nursing home for the last decade of your life because you can no longer take care of yourself? Do you want to spend your final years partially paralyzed by a stroke? Would you look forward to the pain and limited mobility of arthritis or the hassle of having to replace a knee or hip because the joint was just worn out by overuse or abuse? Would you enjoy being extremely overweight and suffering from obesity-related illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease?

Or do you want to enjoy life, playing and working for as many years as possible?

I often ask my clients, “If how you live is determined by how you want to die, what performance strategies must you develop to work and live with gusto?” While the average life span for men is seventyeight and for women is eighty-two, that figure has been steadily increasing. In fact researchers are projecting that by the year 2025, sixty-two million people will be over the age of sixty-five, and by 2040 as many as one million people will celebrate their hundredth birthday. Many of us will live much longer than our parents did.

The choice we face is this: Do we want to spend our later years as a drain on society, suffering from health problems that are largely avoidable? Or do we want to remain a good prospect for as long as possible, performing with energy and a zest for life?

Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the physician who did the first heart transplant, said, “I want to die ‘young’ as late as possible.” I love to share this with my clients. When I repeated this to one woman, she told me, “That reminds me of my Great Aunt Ruth. She always walked everywhere—miles and miles per week, ate right, and kept her joy for living alive by traveling the world with her children and cultivating friends of all ages. She ran her own business, retired, then managed to keep active and live independently all the way up to the age of ninety-one. At that point she had a stroke that partially paralyzed her and put her into a nursing home. The last eight months of her life were hard for all of us, but at least we knew that she had lived the first ninety-one years with good health and gusto.”

There is no overtime in life, no going back onto the field for one last play. The lifestyle choices we make every day truly determine the level of our performance, whether we remain a good prospect or become suspect. It’s up to us to make sure we’re choosing wisely.

Manage Your Performance to Go the Distance

One of the keys to delivering maximum performance is being able to manage your energy so that you can go the distance. Every task takes a certain amount of time, and you must maintain enough energy during that time to effectively exercise your skills, talents, judgment, and teamwork long enough so that you can win. Athletes are great role models for energy management. For example, boxers must be able to control their energy expenditures for twelve rounds. It does not matter if you give your opponent the battle of his life for five rounds if you don’t have the stamina to finish the fight. The workplace is no different. To complete a task or a project, you need to be able to go the distance.
The competitive challenge in life as in sports is to maintain your own energy levels while pushing your opponent into a state of overuse and overreaching. On the other hand, wise energy management involves being smart enough to never allow others to maneuver you into a position where you are being forced to overreach, to attempt a task that you know is beyond what you can realistically do. That could automatically set you up for a failure.

• Always perform with integrity. If you have integrity, you will go the distance with your client, even when the chips are down. You will stand by your people, handle and minimize the damage, cut your losses, analyze what went wrong, and create a better plan to help you make a comeback
  
• Never overreach yourself. Managing your energy system is crucial to going the distance. It does not matter how much sheer talent and experience you have if you are overreaching. Whatever amount of energy you are putting out daily on your job, make sure that it is never so much that you are not able to recover.

The upside of the equation is that once you have learned how to manage your energy system, you are almost always going to be able to go the distance and accomplish whatever performance goals you set for yourself.

Don’t Procrastinate – Improve Your Health

What kind of lifestyle changes are best? Those that instill the health habits we teach with The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle! A low-fat, vegetarian diet is crucial for the free and unimpeded flow of blood through your body. Reducing fat in your diet also stimulates weight loss, which, in turn, contributes to reduced blood pressure. Finally, make exercise a fixed part of your daily routine and learn to breathe deeply and relax, freeing yourself of stress while you fill yourself with ample fresh oxygen. Begin today to make this Bragg Healthy Lifestyle a lifelong happy habit! It is bringing miracles to millions.
Please listen to Dr. Claude Lenfant, Director, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute. He says Lifestyle changes alone can actually reverse the conditions of heart disease. When it comes to making the kind of changes needed for healthy and happy living, the truly important thing is making those changes happen. However, actually doing it, living it, making it happen – this is what counts! So don’t play procrastinating games with yourself! The moment you think, Do I have time to do this right now? is the moment to stop asking and start doing. The moment you think, I want a big steak for dinner, is the time to open up a vegetarian cookbook with pictures and discover healthy, tasty new recipes. Wepromise you will find recipes more delicious, healthy and satisfying than steak. If you do eat meat, limit it to 1 to 3 times a week and be sure it’s hormone-free and organically fed without harmful chemicals.
Millions of successful Bragg students will tell you the same thing: the beginning is the most difficult. The in-between moment after you decide you want to become healthier and before you begin to act on that decision, is the hardest. Example: the moment before you put one leg in front of the other on the first step of your brisk walk is the hardest moment of the exercise.

Feel the Difference between Arousal and Relaxation

In her book The High Performance Mind: Mastering Brainwaves for Insight, Healing, and Creativity, Anna Wise offers some simple exercises to help you become aware of the difference between feeling aroused, ready to fight or to flee, and feeling relaxed and in control of the situation.
When a person experiences feelings of worry, excitement, fear, anger, exhilaration, nervousness, panic, increased heart rate, faster breathing, and/or anxiety, the sympathetic nervous system is activated. When a person feels a sense of relaxation, tranquility, calmness, serenity, lightness, centeredness, clarity and/or a feeling of being in control, the parasympathetic system is activated.
Wise suggests that you can achieve greater awareness of when you are stressed and when you are relaxed by performing the following exercises and observing your biofeedback—how your body feels.

• Hyperventilate by breathing heavily for a few seconds. (Please be careful not to overdo it. If you start to feel faint, stop immediately.) [Stop. Close your eyes. Notice what your body feels like. Make a mental note of all the sensations.]
• Run in place for a minute or two.
• Think about something very upsetting.
• Think about something very exciting.

After each one of these, stop and notice what is happening inside of your body.
The physical state of arousal you are in while doing these exercises will be similar to how your body responds when exposed to stress.
Next notice how your body feels when completely relaxed:

Close your eyes and exhale deeply. Let your shoulders drop.
Rotate your head gently and loosely until you find a comfortable
balanced position for your head, neck, and shoulders. Let
your jaw relax and hang loose. Relax your lips, tongue, and
throat. Exhale deeply again and let go. Continue to breathe
easily, slowly, evenly, and deeply for one or two minutes.

Stop. Notice what your body feels like. Make a mental note of all of the sensations. Compare these to the sensations you noted when you did the arousal exercises.
Wise goes on to explain, “Arousal is not inherently better than relaxation, or vice versa. Both states are important at certain times. What is optimum is to be able to choose the level of relaxation or arousal that you want and to be able to produce that at will.”

The Silent Killer – High Blood Pressure

What happens when you blow too much air into a balloon? If it doesn’t pop, the overextended balloon becomes thin and delicate. Properly inflated, the balloon can be safely bounced, bent and moved around. A balloon with too much air becomes a pop waiting to happen. Don’t let this happen to your vessels and heart.
Weneedblood pressure for our blood to circulate. Too much pressure makes the heart and blood vessels thin and delicate. Increased pressure on the arterial walls makes them more susceptible to fatty deposits.
High Blood Pressure is Often Symptomless
The dangers of untreated hypertension can be deadly! If left untreated, the arteries can become hardened, scarred, and less elastic, unable to carry adequate blood to the organs. The heart, brain and kidneys are most vulnerable. High blood pressure is the highest risk factor for stroke and heart disease. High blood pressure causes the heart to enlarge and become less efficient, known as left ventricular hypertrophy. This dangerous condition can lead to heart attacks. Many connect stress with high blood pressure. Some studies have suggested thatchronic stress can lead to permanent increases in blood pressure and heart rate. Example: air traffic controllers who have high-pressure jobs, have a two to four times higher rate of hypertension and heart problems.
For a healthy, fit heart, it’s wise to keep your blood pressure within the normal 120/70 range. You can manage this with simple dietary and lifestyle changes. Exercise, deep breathing, ample sleep and a healthy diet helps keep your blood pressure under healthy control.
Don’t eat salt or add salt to food, and avoid prepared foods with high salt, sugar and fat contents. Especially avoid simple sugars like refined sugarand keep yourfat intake to a minimum! Never use highly saturated fats. Avoid the fast, nutritionally empty foods so common in our on the go culture. Eat nutritious foods!

What Miracles Exercise Can Do for You

Get outdoors fast and get physically active when you feel dark moods, anxieties, worries, blues, depression and tensions overtaking you – otherwise these negative moods can damage you! Walking or any other outdoor exercise will help clear up your thinking and put your problems in perspective. Any form of outdoor recreation recreates the human personality. The ancient men of India who desired to become one with God believed the body and bloodstream had to be pure and strong before this could become a reality. Thus, they developed a physical fitness system called Yoga. They daily practice their belief that the body is meant to be stretched, strengthened and exercised correctly in order to remain healthy. No matter what your calendar years, start turning back your biological clock now faithfully with exercise.
Benefits that Moderate Daily Exercise Brings You:

• Exercise increases circulation, and brings more oxygen into your body. You will feel more energetic.
• Exercise relieves stress, strain and tension. Tension gets locked in the tight, stiffened areas of your body, especially the neck, back and spine. Exercise will stretch and loosen these areas as it restores youthful limberness. You will feel more relaxed and at ease.
• Overcoming chronic tiredness is a major benefit of exercise. That chronic tired feeling to a great extent is due to a lack of sufficient circulation to your brain. Exercise brings the oxygen-laden blood into this vital area with an energizing and revitalizing effect.
• Exercise helps calm the nerves. Nothing can calm the nerves better than 30 minutes of brisk walking and exercise. It also helps to promote a good night’s sleep, which is absolutely essential to maintaining calmness, repose and serenity.
• Exercise increases emotional control. Exercise helps to strengthen the nerves of the body and create the composure that comes from a healthy nervous system and a balanced state of mind.

Exercise Promotes Health & Youthfulness

We know that healthy living with proper exercise can produce a new breed of men and women who will enjoy more strength to carry out their daily work and have sufficient energy left for after-work interests, family and hobbies. They can retain the prime of life for 20 to 40 years longer than the person who is lazy and will not exercise. Example: Jack LaLanne, Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman; all ageless, healthy and fit.

All external characteristics of health (such as powerful Nerve Force) are but the result of the healthy functioning of your vital internal organs and glands. These are what keep you going. Exercise actually reaches into your body and brings about specific miracle improvements in certain internal parts such as your nervous system, your heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, entire digestive tract, colon and thyroid gland among others. To attain these benefits you should follow a regular program of exercise.

age a hinderance to daily exercise? The answer is unequivocally, “No!” In fact, age is no excuse for not exercising! Our good friend Roy D. White at 106 years young walks 3 to 8 miles daily! No one is too old to continue safe exercise! Conrad Hilton jogged daily to almost 100.
To rest is to rust! It is far better to wear out than to rust out. you go outdoors and take a brisk, invigorating walk. Say out loud while walking: Health! Peace! Joy! Love for Eternity! You will feel great and your trillions of cells will rejoice with circulation!

Regular Exercise

A lot of studies have shown the benefits of exercise on nearly every aspect of our lives. Exercise can lower blood pressure, control weight,and lower cholesterol. It can help us stop smoking, control stress, and sleep better. It can boost our immune system to help us fight diseases.
It gives us strength and endurance. I can go on, and on, and on. In fact it is almost criminal, or it so it seems to our bodies, not to exercise. It would be hard to find anybody who doesn’t think exercise is good for them. Fortunately, more and more people are adding exercise to their
lifestyles. The bottom line: Exercise is good for you, and is an essential part of a healthy lifestyle.
Now let’s consider some other aspects: exercise being complicated, and the money it takes to exercise.
Complications
We can discuss the different types of exercise: aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercise. We can talk about warm-ups, primary exercises, and cool-downs. We can talk about target heart rate. We can talk about target zones. We can talk about the training effect. Are these things
important? Sure, and if you are an exercise physiologist, you’d better know them. Do you need to know them to exercise? Absolutely not. In fact, if you try to figure out all these things, you might give up because you might think it is too complicated. So let’s make things less complicated. Exercise simply means doing an activity that increases the rate at which your body burns calories. Calories are the bundles of energy that your body needs to do all the things it does to stay alive. We get calories from the foods we eat. If you think of exercise as increasing your body’s activity level, then constantly doing the things that increase your activity level will give you the benefits of exercise.
The Cost of Exercise
A lot of people think that to exercise, they have to join a gym, buy fancy exercise equipment, have a personal trainer, or be involved in an exercise program. If you can afford all these things, great. But you do not need to spend a dime to have an exercise program. Got an old pair
of sneakers? There are a lot of activities you can choose from the list on pages 19–21. If you need a program or someone to help you with your exercise, join an exercise group or start one in your neighborhood. You can also join less expensive clubs like the YMCA.