Cause Your Health Counts

Surviving cancer can give you a new lease on life. But what about that satisfaction which men have thrived on since the beginning of time?

What about sex after cancer? Sex and intimacy are a part of life. A part which may not necessarily have to go away.

Naturally, your body will require recovery from the cancer and treatments. Sometimes cancer or treatment can cause erectile dysfunction or impotence.
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A large percentage of the people who weight-lift say that the thing they feel they need the most work on are their abs. Everybody wishes they had abs like [insert preferred celebrity here] but fears that no matter how hard they try, they never will. And partially, this is true, because everyone has different body and muscle types and yours simply may not match up to the desired look. However, by avoiding a few common mistakes, you can bring yourself to a point where you will be happy with the abs you have:

* Don’t work your abs every day – When you work out you are tearing muscle. That muscle needs time off to heal. So try to give your abs at least one day off between workouts. If your routine is 5 days a week, do them on the 1, 3, and 5.
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There are as many ways to work your bicep as there are to eat an Oreo. But all of the positions can be summed up as falling towards one of two poles: total muscle isolation or total body involvement.

There are as many ways to work your bicep as there are to eat an Oreo. But all of the positions can be summed up as falling towards one of two poles: total muscle isolation or total body involvement.

Let’s start off with two exercises. The first is the standing free-weight dumbbell alternating bicep curl. Stand with feet shoulder width apart, a dumbbell in each hand. Make sure your knees are firm but not locked, that your upper body weight is balanced over your pelvis, and that you are looking straight ahead.
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How many times has a coach, trainer, or instructor said “feel the burn”, particularly when you’re doing a high rep exercise like calf presses? Why do they say that and what does it mean?

Technically speaking, when you feel a burning sensation in your muscles, that means those muscles are not getting enough oxygen. Some of that is inevitable, but it’s a good reminder to check and make sure you’re breathing rhythmically, inhaling on the release and exhaling on the press.

If your aren’t, you’d do well to adjust so that your entire body is aligned in the effort. You should be completely focused on the task at hand and regulating your breathing with the movements of your body is one of the best ways to do it. That’s why breathing is so important in meditation.
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Improving your diet can reduce your cancer risk, even if it hangs out in your family tree.

Enriching your diet with antioxidants bulks up your cell system.

Enriching your diet with antioxidants bulks up your cell system. Healthy cells are better equipped to fight free radicals. Free radicals can damage cells and when those cells reproduce the risk for disease increases. Nutrition including antioxidants is probably the easiest way to protect your health.
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For those in the West, cancer is seen as a scourge but a few modifications is all it takes to start on the road to a cancer reduced, if not a cancer-free diet.

Western diets consist of large amounts of red or processed meat. Add to these white bread and pasta with French fries and desserts with lashings of sugar, and you are on the way to a recipe for colon cancer.

Yet dietary adjustment is easy and need not be dramatic. All you need is the help of fruit and vegetables to turn this regular diet into a super anti-cancer diet.
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We have always been told that a vegetarian diet is a sliming diet but is this always the case? Or are there fat vegetarians hiding away somewhere?

Firstly, vegetarian based food means, of course, that you cut down on ‘calorie dense’ foods like fat and animal protein but doing this does not automatically make you slim! And the bad news? Yes, there are fat vegetarians.

The amount of fat you have depends on the quantity of calories you eat. That’s it! If you are a vegetarian and you have a good appetite you can easily eat more calories than your body needs. If you do this your body will save the surplus as fat, simple as that.
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The question is certainly up for debate, and there are many theories, but I go with the majority and say: “Well…it really depends.” A lot of it is simply based on preference. How much cardio do you need versus how much do you want?

The bare minimum for a productive cardio workout, one in which your cardiovascular system is progressively challenged, is twenty minutes of consistently keeping your heart rate up two to three times a week.

That’s all it takes to reduce your risk for heart disease and to burn calories. And the nice thing about this particular measuring stick is that as you advance, so does the effort it takes to keep your heart rate up.
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The experience of actually having a limb, when none actually exists, is known as phantom limb. Phantom limbs can be experienced from birth or after some trauma or surgery in which a limb is removed. People with phantom limbs can describe vivid sensory qualities such as heat , pain, itchiness, etc. In fact such is the sensation that people have been known to try and walk on phantoms because they feel so real.

Strange Facts about Phantom Limbs
* Phantom arms feel as though they hang at rest but move when walking.
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Emphysema is one of a group of diseases called COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that causes progressive damage to the lungs. Of 16 million Americans with COPD, (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), 2 million have emphysema.

Each year over 100,000 Americans die of emphysema. Emphysema is the fourth largest cause of mortality in the U.S. At the present time more men than women aged between 50 and 70 years have emphysema. This pattern is changing as more women take up smoking.

Symptoms of emphysema include shortness of breath (dyspnea), wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, fatigue, headaches and sputum when coughing.
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