Quotes Having Good Health Inspire You To Live A Healthy Life

There is this book called "500 of the Most Important Health Tips You'll Ever Need: An A-z of Alternative Health Hints to Help over 250 Conditions" by Hazel Courtney. it is an informative guide to alternative treatments for more than 300 common conditions.

You will find various simple solutions to many of your health problems like diabetes, cancer, aging, arthritis, heart conditions, allergies, stress and insomnia. In this book, you will also find lots of proven hints and ideas to improve your health, which include eating garlic and onion to improve circulation and to maintain your healthy cholesterol levels.

In the meantime, let's take a look at these healthy collection of quotes about having good health.

"The groundwork of all happiness is health." - James Leigh Hunt


"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not." - Mark Twain


"You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good — but your rich foods block the gods’ answer and tie Jupiter’s hands." - Persius


"A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools." - Spanish Proverb


"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." - Arabian Proverb
 

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." - Paul Dudley White

"He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not." - Italian Proverb

"To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." - Buddha

"Life is not merely being alive, but being well." - Marcus Valerius Martialis

"Health and intellect are the two blessings of life." - Menander

"The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order." - Henry Ward Beecher


"Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness" - Edward Smith-Stanley

A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison. - Francis Bacon


"To get rich never your risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth." - Richard Baker

"Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, disease seeks men." - Chinese Proverb

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PACE Exercise Program Does It Work?

Have you read about Dr. sears 12-minute workout called PACE?

PACE stands for “Progressively Accelerating Cardiopulmonary Exertion”. This exercise techniques is not about doing long  period of  workout to exert yourself. According to Dr. Sears that those long boring cardio exercises can decrease your lung capacity and downsize the reserve capacity of your heart.

The key of 12-Minute PACE is by making incremental increases in the intensity of your exercise, you will continue to change your body through time.No more long tiresome workouts.

Some say it is similar to high-intensity interval training (HIIT), which is based on the Tabata Method.

PACE is an easy-to-follow exercise plan said to boost your lung power, build heart strength, and burn fat even while resting. And the best part, you just need to do only 12 minutes a day.

Interestingly, this simple exercise program, you find that the duration of each exertion period decreases.

All these methods are about short burst of high-intensity workout and then you take a short period of rest in-between.

For the exercise, you can choose any of your favorite activity that can give exertion to your heart. It can be running on a treadmill, elliptical machine, staionary bike, rope jumping, trampoline even walking up and down the stairs or brisk walking.

For those of you who have a heart problem, it is strongly advisable you should check with your personal physician before doing any of these exercises.

Personally, I am not too sure whether PACE, Tabata Training or other HIIT training methods really work. It is advisable to find out more from various sources or even your doctor, before you do more harm to your body.

Which Is Worse, High Cholesterol Or High Triglycerides?

High Cholesterol Or High Triglycerides

The other day I went for my blood test. According to my doctor, she said generally I am physically fine. From my test results, other than the so-called good and bad cholesterol, I noticed this word "triglycerides".

When I asked my doctor about it, she just brushed off and mumbled that it was nothing important.

She just focused on the cholesterol levels. When I got home, out of curiosity. I looked it up in the internet and check out more about this medical terminology called triglycerides. And to my surprise, it seems triglycerides are in fact MORE important than cholesterol.

These are some of the information I found out from various sources, which I would like to share with you.

So, what are triglycerides? It is said that triglycerides are a type of fat that are important sources of energy to our muscles and our heart and other parts of our body.

Triglycerides are a type of fat (known as lipid) which you can’t control or get rid of them out of your diet because your body produces them from what you eat. And if you don’t cut off those calories you’ve ingested, your body will turn the rest into triglycerides and store them in fat cells.

In other words, if you have a high triglycerides, it simply means you have too much fat in the bloodstream. And according to many medical reports, it is a big problem.

From I have read, if you have problem burning those fat, it could lead you to chronic diseases of aging, and the risk of coronary heart disease.

Another thing which I found out was high triglycerides could be an early symptom of an increased risk of diabetes. According to a number of doctors, cholesterol or rather the bad cholesterol (LDL) is not the major culprit in heart disease.

Interestingly, some claim that there is so such thing as good and bad cholesterol. Both are lipoprotein. Or fats combined with proteins.

I also found out that the amount of cholesterol that one consumes has very little contribution to your cholesterol levels. It is said that most of the cholesterol in your bloodstream comes from what your liver; which manufactures and distributes it.

In fact we all need cholesterol in our body. It is a necessary ingredient in any kind of cellular repair. One of its function is to keep your cell membranes from falling apart.

There have been so many reports which said that those with high risk of heart attack, do not need to take cholesterol-lowering drugs; particularly the so-called "statins".

It was revealed that basically it is all about business. The multi-billion dollar sales of statin drugs. They discovered that eight of the nine "experts" who recommend the use of statin drugs, were on the payroll of pharmaceutical companies that manufacture those drugs.

In fact, cholesterol-lowering drugs have said to be harmful to muscles causing them damage. Many people who take statin, experience muscular aches and pains. This drug also said to cause nerve damage and to greatly impair memory.

So, it appears to me, I should be concerned with the level of triglycerides. In other words, triglycerides matter. So, how much triglycerides is considered normal or safe? Check the information below:

Normal — Less than 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), or less than 1.7 millimoles per L (mmol/L)

Borderline High — 150 to 199 mg/dL (1.8 to 2.2 mmol/L)
   
High — 200 to 499 mg/dL (2.3 to 5.6 mmol/L)
   
Very High — 500 mg/dL or above (5.7 mmol/L or above)

From what I read in Mayo clinic, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that a triglyceride level of 100 mg/dL (1.3 mmol/L) or lower is considered "optimal." This optimal level would improve your heart health.

The AHA doesn't recommend any drug treatment to reach the optimal level. What it suggests is,  make lifestyle changes, such as diet, weight loss and physical activity.

So for those of you who have high triglycerides, you better start to follow a healthier diet with more fruits, vegetables, fiber, and whole grains. Plus, watch your weight and most of all, exercise more regularly. Start off by doing brisk walking and it can burn your calories, thus lowering your triglycerides.

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