Health

In today’s fast paced world, when everybody is running behind their careers to make more money and attain more fame, health is definitely taking a back seat. The good news though, is that the awareness of ill effects of neglecting our health is spreading as fast as wild fire and even youngsters in their early twenties have starting joining fitness centers and fitness gyms to keep their body fit and healthy.

Physical fitness is an asset that is absolutely invaluable and a person who is physically fit can accomplish anything that he undertakes. Exercises keep us fit because they tone and shape our body muscles and make them taut. It is like how a potter makes beautiful mud pots out of the mundane clay – he moulds and uses his hands to tend the clay to become beautiful pots. Similarly each and every one has to take care of their physical fitness by exercising regularly.

When we exercise, our muscles lose their flab and the body becomes more agile and light. Once the flab is lost, then the body loses the horrid shape and comes back to the actual shape – for both women and men. Women are also joining fitness gyms specially designed for them – with an all woman image as they are also becoming very concerned about their health. We can see women of all age groups flocking such women’s fitness centre.

Another advantage while exercising to maintain physical fitness is that we acquire a lot muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is where the metabolism happens and a lowering of the metabolism rate results in excess storage of fat in the body. Thus we see that fitness gyms that are found quite commonly today are doing a remarkable job in taking care of our personal fitness.
However, care should be exercised and it is always better to consult a physician before signing up for any of these health and fitness programs. The body condition of the individual needs to be thoroughly analyzed and all risks ruled out while engaging in cardio exercises like running on the treadmill. The fitness trainers who are present in the fitness gym can also help in this regard.

From puberty to marriage, even during childbirth the woman goes through a lot of hormonal changes all through this cycle and it becomes very important to keep her fit and healthy. There are a lot of fitness programs that have been designed specifically for women and go all out to the betterment of women.  The best thing that women can do is to enroll them in fitness programs specially designed for them.  The mistake they do is that amidst the household chores and attending to the various requirements of the various members at home, the priorities are varied and they have hardly any time to spare for themselves.

Women need to break this and come out of their enclosures to concentrate on their health and well being.
When we talk of women, those in the menopausal age need a special mention – Weight gain, feeling stressed out and irritated and feeling hunger pangs could all be symptoms of menopause. Women at menopause put on weight more on their stomach region than anywhere else. Since the hormones stop functioning absorption of insulin in the blood could also become a problem and women who face this can get this treated by having foods rich in carbohydrates and proteins. Women might also find them becoming susceptible to fragile bones and in some cases even osteoporosis. Another point that needs to be noted here is that they could face problems of lower metabolism rate – whereby the body converts all the food it has access into fat.

What women during this stage need to do is follow a simple and regular diet plan – whereby they eat at almost the same time everyday and they eat smaller more nutritious foods containing vegetables and fruits and avoid unhealthy, high calorie foods. There are some foods which act as depressants and women must strictly shoo them away. Regular and routine exercises of simple forms like yoga or aerobics should be followed by menopausal women and this will try to balance out the stress in their bodies as well as helping the women to lose weight that she has inadvertently gained.

Mankind today is in a pitiable state – We don’t care what we eat and we don’t dare look at ourselves in the mirror. We are no longer fit, healthy or smart. What is the reason for this? A changed lifestyle, eating junk foods, sitting in front of the computer for more hours than that is good for our body? It’s tough to find one villain amongst so many, but each and every mentioned point here has done as much as it could to get us to this stage. We don’t have much time on our hands now and it is high time we change – for the better and concentrate on our health and fitness. (more…)