Three Methods To Be Healthier | Health & Fitness Tools

17th April, 2012 - Posted by health news -

Believe it or not, there are some remarkably simple things anyone can do to improve their overall health. Multiple times medical research has shown that chronic illnesses like heart disease, strokes, cancer and diabetes can be prevented just by a few things added into our lives. At the same time other aspects of your overall health could also be improved by using the same tips. If you want to improve your health and your quality living, then you need to do these 3 simple things.

Dietary Choices: Deep down, we all know what we?re supposed to be eating, but sometimes life just gets in the way. Take-out is much quicker and easier than standing in the kitchen trying to cook vegetables and healthy foods. Unfortunately, the food you eat can seriously affect your health so the choices you make are important.

You do not have to give up on all the food you love. For your body to function correctly you need nutrients, vitamins, minerals and fiber, and these can be gotten by just adding a few extra vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains into your diet each day. To reduce your overall calorie intake, adding these things will also help which will make it easier for you to maintain a healthy weight. Regular Exercise: A poor choice that many people make when trying to lose weight is to go to the gym and work out too much. Exercise is only beneficial if it is done on a gradual basis. You might want to try Pilates or yoga. By exercising regularly, but not overdoing it, you can improve joint mobility and lessen inflammation in your joints. If you want to improve your overall cardiovascular system, and also reduce the potential of heart attacks in the future, this type of respiratory exercise is great. This gentle kind of exercise will keep the pounds off which is always a good goal to have.

High stress levels really can cause some major health issues, so you should stay happy and not worry. You need to improve your happiness if you know you struggle to cope with stress, by finding a way to de-stress yourself. Within is where happiness comes from, not from other people. It?s how you feel when you?re content with who you are and what you?re doing. Another way to improve your health is to stay happy by finding things to do to make you smile and feel better, as people who are happy are normally healthier than people who are not happy. Think about a combination of a little physical exercise, like walking, and then focusing on an activity that makes you smile, like watching a silly comedy. Walking will raise your endorphin levels, making you feel good. From going outside in the sun you will get some Vitamin D which will make you feel a bit happier and watching something funny will bring out your happy feelings.

Giving up on things that you enjoy is something you do not have to do to live a healthy lifestyle, you just need to include wise decisions. Being healthy is not always just about eating like a rabbit and losing some of your weight. Total health includes your spiritual well-being, as well as your mental health and happiness. Combine having a good physical health with these so that you enjoy having a long, happy life.

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Sponging up oil spills: Nanosponges soak up oil again and again

ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2012) ? Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while creating nanotubes turns them into solid, spongy, reusable blocks that have an astounding ability to absorb oil spilled in water.

That's one of a range of potential innovations for the material created in a single step. The team found for the first time that boron puts kinks and elbows into the nanotubes as they grow and promotes the formation of covalent bonds, which give the sponges their robust qualities.

The researchers, who collaborated with peers in labs around the nation and in Spain, Belgium and Japan, revealed their discovery in Nature's online open-access journal Scientific Reports.

Lead author Daniel Hashim, a graduate student in the Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan, said the blocks are both superhydrophobic (they hate water, so they float really well) and oleophilic (they love oil). The nanosponges, which are more than 99 percent air, also conduct electricity and can easily be manipulated with magnets.

To demonstrate, Hashim dropped the sponge into a dish of water with used motor oil floating on top. The sponge soaked it up. He then put a match to the material, burned off the oil and returned the sponge to the water to absorb more. The robust sponge can be used repeatedly and stands up to abuse; he said a sample remained elastic after about 10,000 compressions in the lab. The sponge can also store the oil for later retrieval, he said.

"These samples can be made pretty large and can be easily scaled up," said Hashim, holding a half-inch square block of billions of nanotubes. "They're super-low density, so the available volume is large. That's why the uptake of oil can be so high." He said the sponges described in the paper can absorb more than a hundred times their weight in oil.

Ajayan, Rice's Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of chemistry, said multiwalled carbon nanotubes grown on a substrate via chemical vapor deposition usually stand up straight without any real connections to their neighbors. But the boron-introduced defects induced the nanotubes to bond at the atomic level, which tangled them into a complex network. Nanotube sponges with oil-absorbing potential have been made before, but this is the first time the covalent junctions between nanotubes in such solids have been convincingly demonstrated, he said.

"The interactions happen as they grow, and the material comes out of the furnace as a solid," Ajayan said. "People have made nanotube solids via post-growth processing but without proper covalent connections. The advantage here is that the material is directly created during growth and comes out as a cross-linked porous network.

"It's easy for us to make nano building blocks, but getting to the macroscale has been tough," he said. "The nanotubes have to connect either through some clever way of creating topological defects, or they have to be welded together."

When he was an undergraduate student of Ajayan's at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hashim and his classmates discovered hints of a topological solution to the problem while participating in a National Science Foundation exchange program at the Institute of Scientific Research and Technology (IPICYT) in San Luis Potos?, Mexico. The paper's co-author, Mauricio Terrones, a professor of physics, materials science and engineering at Penn State University with an appointment at Shinshu University, Japan, led a nanotechnology lab there.

"Our goal was to find a way to make three-dimensional networks of these carbon nanotubes that would form a macroscale fabric -- a spongy block of nanotubes that would be big and thick enough to be used to clean up oil spills and to perform other tasks," Terrones said. "We realized that the trick was adding boron -- a chemical element next to carbon on the periodic table -- because boron helps to trigger the interconnections of the material. To add the boron, we used very high temperatures and we then 'knitted' the substance into the nanotube fabric."

The researchers have high hopes for the material's environmental applications. "For oil spills, you would have to make large sheets of these or find a way to weld sheets together (a process Hashim continues to work on)," Ajayan said.

"Oil-spill remediation and environmental cleanup are just the beginning of how useful these new nanotube materials could be," Terrones added. "For example, we could use these materials to make more efficient and lighter batteries. We could use them as scaffolds for bone-tissue regeneration. We even could impregnate the nanotube sponge with polymers to fabricate robust and light composites for the automobile and plane industries."

Hashim suggested his nanosponges may also work as membranes for filtration.

"I don't think anybody has created anything like this before," Ajayan said. "It's a spectacular nanostructured sponge."

The paper's co-authors are Narayanan Narayanan, Myung Gwan Hahm, Joseph Suttle and Robert Vajtai, all of Rice; Jose Romo-Herrera of the University of Vigo, Spain; David Cullen and Bobby Sumpter of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Peter Lezzi and Vincent Meunier of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Doug Kelkhoff of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; E. Mu?oz-Sandoval of the Instituto de Microelectr?nica de Madrid; Sabyasachi Ganguli and Ajit Roy of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio (on loan from IPICYT); David Smith of Arizona State University; and Humberto Terrones of Oak Ridge National Lab and the Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

The National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Project MURI program for the synthesis and characterization of 3-D carbon nanotube solid networks supported the research.

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1. Daniel P. Hashim, Narayanan T. Narayanan, Jose M. Romo-Herrera, David A. Cullen, Myung Gwan Hahm, Peter Lezzi, Joseph R. Suttle, Doug Kelkhoff, E. Mu?oz-Sandoval, Sabyasachi Ganguli, Ajit K. Roy, David J. Smith, Robert Vajtai, Bobby G. Sumpter, Vincent Meunier, Humberto Terrones, Mauricio Terrones, Pulickel M. Ajayan. Covalently bonded three-dimensional carbon nanotube solids via boron induced nanojunctions. Scientific Reports, 2012; 2 DOI: 10.1038/srep00363

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Sprint's Steve Elfman has said that the company's intending to activate an LTE service over its 800MHz spectrum by 2014. Big Yellow's already received 3GPP certification to turn Band 26 into super-fast mobile internet, the only remaining regulatory hurdle left to overcome is a thumbs-up from the FCC. The due date isn't set in stone, as it'll depend entirely on how quickly the company can force current iDEN users to migrate to its CDMA Direct Connect service. Meanwhile, LTE service in Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City and San Antonio will activate across next year, with the company confident that it'll be able to keep pace with AT&T and Verizon's services by offloading traffic onto Clearwire's TD-LTE Network which should go live by June 2013. We can only guess that after that the announcement was done, Mr. Elfman looked at a picture of Philip Falcone and had to step outside for a little cry.

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Doctors Without Borders - Bahrain: Despite Reforms, Patients Still ...

NEW YORK/BRUSSELS--(ENEWSPF)--April 12 - As Bahrain implements reforms amidst protests that began last year, a significant number of people from all political and religious backgrounds continue to avoid seeking medical care in public hospitals for fear of discrimination, harassment, and ill treatment, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) said today.

According to information shared with MSF, a sizeable number of people injured during political demonstrations, and suffering from mild to severe orthopedic injuries, skin lacerations, and respiratory distress, resort to private health care facilities because of fear of arrest in public hospitals.

The fear among those seeking care remains despite government efforts to implement reforms recommended by the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry.

?The health care system in Bahrain, which is of excellent quality, is still grappling with the consequences of being caught up in the political unrest that started last year,? said Bart Janssens, MSF director of operations in Brussels. ?While a first aid post opened by MSF was closed in July 2011, our team, which remained in the country until March of this year, is aware that hundreds of patients have avoided going to public hospitals since last summer.?

At the beginning of March, MSF staff members were refused entry into the Kingdom of Bahrain. As a result, the organization has suspended activities in the country.

?We firmly believe that our organization can support efforts by Bahrain?s health authorities to restore the trust of patients who currently do not view the health system as impartial,? said Janssens.

MSF wishes to facilitate dialogue between health professionals in hospitals and other health centers. Furthermore, MSF is prepared to accompany patients to appropriate health facilities to verify that staff, patients, and security personnel are acting in compliance with universally recognized medical ethics and humanitarian principles. MSF also proposes technical support in emergency preparedness and mental health care.

MSF first provided support to victims of violence in Bahrain in March 2011, after the onset of civil unrest in the country. Since then, MSF has continuously sought dialogue with the authorities and provided medical support where possible, including training health staff on mass casualty management and mental health-related issues.

All activities were conducted in accordance with the organization?s medical humanitarian mandate to provide assistance based on the principles of impartiality, neutrality, and independence.

Over the past year, MSF has submitted several proposals to Bahrain?s Ministry of Health. Unfortunately, the proposals and MSF?s expressed concerns have gone unanswered.

MSF reiterates its request to be permitted to operate in Bahrain for the sake of all patients, regardless of their political or religious affiliation, and remains available to meet with relevant authorities, in particular the Ministry of Health, to initiate a constructive dialogue.

Doctors Without Borders/M?decins Sans Fronti?res (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. MSF's work is based on the humanitarian principles of medical ethics and impartiality. The organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation.?MSF operates independently of any political, military, or religious agendas. ??

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Project Glass team member shows off mockup for glasses-wearers, says it's for 'everyone'

While Google isn't ready to answer all of the questions we have about its Project Glass concept yet, a member of the team has chimed in on one of the most common questions -- could it work even the user wears prescription glasses? Industrial designer Isabelle Olsson says the team ideally wants it to work for everyone, and posted a photo of the Glass-on-glasses mockup shown above to her Google+ page. Unless you're a Google exec this doesn't bring you any closer to going retinas-on with the heads-up display / augmented reality project yourself, but hopefully it keeps the dream alive even for the near / far sighted among us.

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