Here’s what I have on my personal health and fitness wish list. Maybe you would like to compare it with yours—or may be it will provide some suggestions for hard-to-please people on your gift list.

Yoga mats, zafus

Gravity table

Pilates equipment

Massage oils, massage tables, and soothing music to listen to during massage

Meditation cushions, candles, music, and art

Essential oil sets

Flower remedy gift sets

Baskets of herbal teas

Tai chi, jazzercise or martial arts, meditation, yoga or dance classes

Vitamins and nutritional supplements

Books on alternative therapies, longevity, sports medicine, and nutrition

Skin care and body care products made with natural ingredients

Potted plants of culinary and/or medicinal herbs

I’m sure you can think of more.

Be creative, because these are the kinds of gifts that could save a life, or extend the enjoyment of life, for someone you love.

What’s on your health and fitness wish list? Almost everything I’ve listed can be ordered on line, often at great Savings—so you can please the people on your list—and buy yourself some great health and fitness items, too, and start the new year right.

Hot flashes, vaginal dryness, mood swings, changes in sex drive, backaches, these are among the most felt and seen symptoms of menopause. From 55 to 65% of women undergoing menopause experience these symptoms.

At menopause, the ovaries start to have lower production of the estrogen and progesterone hormones. The diminishing production is automatically sensed by the pituitary gland which makes it trigger more production.

This causes an imbalance in the body. The fluctuating production of hormones begins 6 years before menstrual periods end and goes on until a year after the last stage. After that, there is a stabilized decrease in the production of hormones.

Yoga can assist these menopausal women and relieve their pain and other symptoms. A fact that is not commonly known is the close relation between yoga and menopause. Yoga provides the mental balance that is disrupted by menopause. The postures stretch and relax the muscles and raise the oxygen level of cells and thus improves blood circulation.

Insomnia, common to the early stages of menopause, is dealt with by yoga too. There are postures that effectively result in a state of rest.

In cases of fatigue and body aches, yoga postures like supported back bends provide the help. These poses open the chest and heart.Yoga can also effectively handle mood swings and depressions. When blood circulation and respiration are restored and enhanced, the poses expand the chest and result in easing these problems.

Yoga also addresses the physical issues of menopause and mid-life like cardiovascular health, bone strength and density, etc.. Yoga’s long-touted stress relief powers come very handy to women at this stage. The mind and body are put or resumed balance.

The mental/emotional and physical burdens are coped with by the women when the discipline they acquire from yoga endows them with control over their mind and body, thus enabling them to control their actions.

In this condition, having power over their minds/actions gives women consciousness of their emotions and keeps them from words or actions caused by the lack of equilibrium during menopause. This hormonal imbalance can be easily managed by Yoga poses, besides allowing women to stay cool and relaxed.

Here are some Yoga postures that can assist women facing menopausal symptoms:

- Goddess pose or Supta Baddha Konasana, which grants recharging of the needed energy

- Adho Mukha Virasana, for emotional control, to soothe mind and nerves and bring down blood pressure

- Adho Mukha Svanasana, a posture that’s among the most effective in increasing blood flow to the brain and counteracting a waning memory

- Setu Bandha Sarvangasana, balances blood pressure and hormonal emission in the body, thus calms the heart, mind and nervous system, and effectively controls mood swings, hot flashes and headaches

These are but a few of the Yoga postures that could assist women coping with menopause. As you can see above, Yoga’s link with menopause is its effect on the biological condition and the emergence of other symptoms in this condition.

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It is inevitable that you will gain weight during your pregnancy because you are eating for you and your baby. Not to mention you will gain as your baby develops and grows. The normal weight gain for pregnant women is 25 to 35 pounds. This is just an average range so don’t be afraid if you gain more or less than that.

The importance is to stay fit and healthy during the nine months you are carrying your baby or babies. You don’t want to do anything too strenuous or start a diet or follow a fad diet to keep weight gain down. Here are some ways to stay fit and healthy during your pregnancy.

Eating healthy meals is important because you are providing nourishment for your baby. Don’t cut back on calories because you are afraid of weight gain. Pregnant women should add 200 to 300 calories to their daily intake.

The quality of the foods you eat is just as important as the quantity. Eat organic foods that are rich in vitamins and minerals which will give you energy and nourishment. It is acceptable to give into cravings, but eat sweet treats or generally unhealthy foods in moderation.

To stay in shape and minimize too much weight gain you should exercise regularly. Find an exercise routine that you are comfortable with and one where you won’t overexert yourself.

Also, don’t start a new routine that you didn’t do before you were pregnant. If you have always been a runner, it is ok to run while you are carrying. If it is too painful to run, then you can walk which is also a great way to stay in shape. You can always consult with your doctor if you are worried about harming your baby from the workouts you are doing.

Listen to your body, because it always lets you know your limits. If you haven’t tried yoga before, you can find great mommy yoga classes that will relax and tone your body.

It can be a lot of work carrying a baby. Your legs and back will get sore, and you may notice that you get tired easily. Part of staying healthy is taking care of you.

It is important to get enough sleep and plenty of rest during the day if you need it. Over exerting yourself during the day can be harmful to both you and your baby. Don’t feel guilty about asking for help when you need it or taking naps during the day. Part of being healthy is resting.

Eating properly, exercising on a daily basis, and getting enough rest will ensure that you stay fit and healthy during your pregnancy. You provide the nutrition that your baby needs and staying healthy is important for both of your lives.

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What you eat and what you do can influence your hormones dramatically. When this happens you can either gain weight or lose weight. Avoid these key areas to make sure you lose weight with your healthy weight loss diet. Don’t take for granted just how powerful hormones like these are in determining your weight loss success.

This one hormone that can cause so many problems is called Cortisol. Excess cortisol will stimulate your appetite and prompt more calories to be stored as fat, so it is very influential in your weight loss plan. These are 2 things you don’t want when trying to follow a healthy weight loss diet.

Cortisol also increases protein breakdown within the muscle, which means a slower metabolism and less calories burned. A key to successful weight loss is keeping your metabolism running at a fast rate so that you are always burning calories.

It decreases glucose utilization and increased insulin resistance, which means the glucose or sugars in your body are not used for energy as much as they should be. Instead they float around and eventually get stored as fat. This is strike two against your healthy weight loss diet and healthy eating plans.

One thing that directly increases cortisol is stress. Stress is the culprit in increasing cortisol levels and resistance to insulin and leptin. Stress can come from work issues, family issues, medical problems and even unhealthy foods.

Higher cortisol levels come from stress-induced insulin resistance and increased leptin. Well, when you have higher cortisol levels your leptin and insulin resistance get worse. It is a vicious cycle that keeps feeding on itself until you are overweight or obese. Despite all your healthy eating plans and healthy diet plans if stress is dominating your life then your healthy weight loss diet may be for nothing.

Those with extra fat in your belly, a round face, high blood sugars or high blood pressure most likely have elevated cortisol levels. These are tips for how to lower your cortisol levels.

Eat every few hours. When you wait longer than five hours between meals your body may start to release extra cortisol, which then increases your appetite.

By eating every few hours not only are you going to keep your cortisol levels low you are going to stimulate other hormones that help you feel full for a longer period of time and reduce that urge to keep eating. Also, eat lean protein at every feeding opportunity to trigger certain hormones that will help you to eat less food and burn more calories.

Of course you need to make sure that you also control your stress as I have discussed how important this is to controlling your cortisol levels. Reduce stressors in your life, set a regular sleeping schedule, and get plenty of exercise to maximize the benefits of your healthy weight loss diet.

Jayson Hunter is a Registered Dietitian with more than 10 years of experience helping people breakthrough and discover a healthier life. Learn more powerful nutrition tips at healthy eating guidelines.

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When combined, a healthy diet and regular exercise can go a long way in helping you to avoid becoming overweight, and as such, it can help you to minimize the risk of heart failure, stroke, and even diabetes. Even though this is common knowledge nowadays, many people find it almost impossible to give up their sedentary lifestyles, and because of this, approximately 300,000 Americans die each year from diseases related to unhealthy diets and lack of physical exercise.

Surprisingly enough, it’s actually quite easy to incorporate a healthy diet and regular exercise into your daily routine so that you can remain in good health. The following tips can certainly help you to achieve that goal:

1) Start off slowly

Essentially, this applies to exercise and diet in that just as you should increase your level of exercise gradually, so to should you start making gradual changes to your diet, rather than cutting back significantly right from the beginning. Bear in mind that your current eating habits have been in place for ages and it will take time for you to change them.

2) Water

Even though the vast majority of people are aware of the fact that it is necessary to drink a sufficient amount of water each day, not everybody realizes just how essential this is in terms of helping to regulate metabolism. Ideally one should drink between eight and ten glasses of water each day. On the other hand, don’t be tempted into thinking that more is better because excessive amounts of water can in fact end up flushing much needed nutrients out of the body.

3) Initial changes

Rather than begin with a vigorous exercise routine, you should instead start off by making gradual changes to your daily routine. For example, you could begin by using the stairs rather than the elevator whenever possible. Likewise, instead of driving down the road to the café, you could take a brisk walk instead. Of course, it certainly wouldn’t do you any harm if you included a short jog before and after work.

4) Changing your diet

This of course is something you should do by reducing the size of your meals gradually, while at the same time beginning to eat five meals per day rather than three. Contrary to what you may believe, this will not result in you putting on weight, but instead, it will simply help to ensure that you remain full all day, and this in turn means that you’ll be less tempted to eat snacks. Furthermore, eating five small meals rather than three large meals also helps to optimize your body’s metabolism.

5) Increasing exercise levels

Once you’ve become accustomed to doing some light exercise each day you should then begin incorporating 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise into your daily routine. If for some reason you find that you cannot sacrifice 30 minutes at any one time of the day, then you can of course split this into shorter sessions. For example, you could do three sessions each day with each session lasting ten minutes. If possible, try to include a little bit of a variety in order to prevent your sessions from becoming monotonous. If you go jogging for example, you could consider doing so with your pet or you could invite a friend along for company. Above all, you need to realize that in order to achieve weight loss, there are many options available to you over and above joining a boot camp.

6) Introducing healthy foods

Now is also a good time for you to start introducing foods which you know are healthy, while at the same time cutting back on those things which are unhealthy, such as caffeine, sugar, alcohol, foods which contain a lot of saturated fat, and excessive salt. Rather than having these, you can rather focus on fresh fruit and vegetables, lean meat, cereals, and low fat dairy products.

7) Weight training

In addition to the diet and exercise changes you’ve already made, you should also begin including a certain amount of weight training. Even though this may not sound appealing to you, you need to realize that increased muscle mass means more efficient weight loss and this of course means you’ll have less to worry about in terms of many chronic diseases. Additionally, you need only do one or two sessions each week, so all things considered, some weight training can be extremely beneficial

Nobody is saying that it is always easy to make these changes to your lifestyle, because we all know that temptation awaits around every corner, but if you do become a victim of temptation, rather than despair, simply start again.

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Holiday stress relief could come from banishing holidays, but there has got to be at least one holiday, maybe Groundhog day, that you like.

So maybe it is not the holiday that brings stress, but the thoughts about the holidays, and if I change the thoughts, then I change the physiology in my body, which is what stress is, right, an uncomfortable physiology in my body?

(Stress physiology happens fast, perhaps four times as fast as I can blink my eyes, and has a purpose, and it is not designed to be a habit).

Not sure about you, but when I was a little guy and school started and football started and the leaves turned colors, I felt excitement about the time of year, and looked forward to it, and as I remember delivering the Minneapolis Star Tribune on my early morning route some 50 or so years ago, I feel that same excitement. So that memory of events that happened over 1/2 century ago changes my body today.

That one half century old memory still brings the physiology of pleasure to my body, and that process is the key to holiday stress tips.

But back to the story. As a little guy, when I heard the first Christmas carol on the radio or TV, I felt excitement too, about Christmas, and that physiology was based on an anticipation of what might happen.

Our economic reality was not good, so I knew that I would not get a mountain of presents, but I still felt the excitement, and that is what we would now call eustress or good stress, linked to a positive anticipation.

I still get that tingle when I hear Christmas carols, although they start much earlier in the year now.

And then I change that positive anticipation, that eustress, to distress, by adding in many thoughts about responsibilities I know have including visits to the family and how do I keep my business moving ahead and attend to the holidays for example, and how do I handle my wife’s expectations about what the holidays should look like.

For her it involves lots of family and parties and chatter,ect.

For me it involves quite contemplation, oftentimes done in private.

There is a collision of lifestyles, and when I think about hers, I feel anxious, so it is the thought of fall and fall colors and football and Christmas carols which brings an eager anticipation and the thought about large gatherings of noisy people, even though I like the people, which brings the feeling of anxiety.

Holiday Stress Relief Tip #1

Change the thought to change the feeling. And do it on a schedule.

Is there some reason that I must feel anxious more than I feel good, since it is my thoughts that bring my physiology?

No reason at all, so I believe that we should schedule our thoughts about gratitude, for example, for every five minutes, for at least two heart beats.

That way I get my body used to the idea that it can feel good, whenever it wants to.

Now this is not a rapturous, transcendent kind of pleasure, it is a quiet contentment, and I see no reason not to have it on demand.

After all, I had that kind of physiology as a kid, but got trained out of it, as I grew up.

Time to remember that I can feel a quiet contentment and still take care of my responsibilities. Feeling good is not limited to payday, or Friday before the weekend, or that special date, or TV show, it is ok to feel good anytime.

It is actually the norm for humans to feel ok, the stress response should happen when I need to move quickly into fight, flee, or freeze action, and then I should rest while the feast is cooked.

And a tool to help with this process since it is so easy to get locked into the worst case scenario mindset?

Holiday Stress Relief Tip #2

Learn heart rate variability biofeedback. Heart rate variability biofeedback is a powerful tool that gives real time feedback about how your thinking impacts your physiology, and how fast that happens too, using a computer.

As you learn how fast you can move from an affiliative, cooperative heart centered physiology, you learn how easy it is to switch back to that physiology, so your holiday stress relief is actually done heart beat by heart beat, and that is at the slow end of the scale, because you will get trained in a cue thought to use with the Freeze Frame practice that works at the speed of thought.

For example, when I first heard of Heartmath in 2000, and bought it, I created a thought where I pictured my children, Shane, and Hannah Marie, as best I could, and placed that image inside my chest next to my heart, and the brain in my heart (yes, your heart has its own nervous system) learned that it was to get itself very coherent and feel a lot of love whenever I had that thought.

So I practice that thought routinely over the course of the day, to feel love, because that feeling of love feels good and is far healthier for me than distress over their various kiddie crimes.

Why create distress unnecessarily over kiddie crimes that happened in the past, or have not yet happened?

I prefer to solve problems from a place of eustress rather than distress and heart rate variability biofeedback is the tool for eustress.

Are you an athlete seeking to perform at your peak, or a student preparing for the Graduate Records Exam, Law School Admissions Test?

Heart rate variability biofeedback is an excellent tool to open the higher perceptual centers of the brain for brainstorming.

Yes, there is Research Proof

Heart rate variability biofeedback has grown out of research in the new field of neurocardiology, which is the study of the heart’s own nervous system. The heart can learn and make decisions on its own, it senses a number of things, and sends much more data up about emotional issues than the brain sends down.

So regulating your hearts coherence is a must do for holiday stress relief.

Oh, it took me all of six one-half hour practices to get a good solid feel for the process, which means I no longer need the computer to complete the eustress creation, on demand, on any given heart beat.

Want to check it out?

(Don’t forget that one of the leading brain fitness gurus, Alvaro Fernandez, at Sharp Brains, rates heart rate variability as the best stress management tool).

Michael S. Logan is a brain fitness expert, a counselor, a student of Chi Gong, and licensed one on one HeartMath provider. I enjoy the spiritual, the mythological, and psychological, and I am a late life father to Shane, 10, and Hannah Marie, 4, whose brains are so amazing. http://www.askmikethecounselor2.com

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I always jump out of joy when my clients compliment me. Saying my program has helped the to improve their health positively. And has also made their lives much happy.

This is especially true of my Fibromyalgia program feedback. The same theme is often repeated – my program helped where nothing else did, starting with the fact that I consider fibromyalgia to be a medical condition.

It is no longer surprising to me that many doctors STILL don’t treat fibromyalgia, whose main symptoms include chronic pain and fatigue, as the disease that it is. They often misdiagnose it as depression (this is a symptom of fibromyalgia – not the cause), if they even diagnose it at all. Many still believe that the patient is making it up or it’s some sort of psychosomatic cause.

The daughter of one such client wrote to me, telling me that her mother, who was suffering from some form of dementia and was being tested for Alzheimer’s was also suffering from fibromyalgia. The pain medication prescribed wasn’t working and seemed to actually contribute to the mental confusion her mother was experiencing.

This happened after following my program regularly. Her mother’s memory problem and language lapses have also been jointly cured with joint pain and chronic fatigue dissipate.

How could a program intended for one condition treat another? In short, this can happen with many of my programs – many of them are designed to provide the body with the proper amounts of oxygen. It’s understandable that more oxygen to one area will also mean more oxygen to another.

In this instance, however, it’s more than that. This is because another symptom of fibromyalgia, while not as well known, can still be just as exasperating to deal with. This is called fibro fog. Sufferers of fibro fog can experience one or more of the following: short-term memory loss, clouded thinking, intermittent language lapses and difficulty concentrating.

It is just a mystery. Just like fibromyalgia fibro fog too doesn’t have a definite cause.

Many theories are formulated by experts, but the so far proposed theories are lack of oxygen to the brain, lack of delta wave sleep (deepest level of sleep) and side effects of certain medications (among them, ironically, medicines to treat fibromyalgia pain).

When one cannot go into deep sleep, the brain will not be able to sort through all the details that is kept in the conscious mind. And this can lead to memory loss. You can’t say that the memory is affected but it is the difficulty remember the detail. Pain from fibromyalgia can be caused from lack of sleep.

While the above symptoms of fibro fog do seem to mimic Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia, one should note that fibro fog is a physical symptom of fibromyalgia and is not a degenerative disease. This means that if one can clear up fibromyalgia symptoms, this one will dissipate as well and “normal” thinking will occur again.

Other methods include sleeping well, you can try a fan or a “white noise.” Start taking notes – carry around a small notebook or PDA and take notes often. Not only will you have the information available later but the act of writing helps commit the thought to memory. Repeating words is also quite helpful.

You can also seek the consultation of a physician to rule out the possibility of Alzheimer’s or any other form of dementia. Apart from this you can choose a quiet place to work you should avoid all distractions.

You can also involve in games like crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles and chess. This will activate your brain a lot and helps you with your memory and concentration.

You can also exercise on a regular basis as it is highly recommended. But moderate exercise is the requirement. You can get your blood pumping to get that oxygen to the brain. Rigorous exercising can actually make ibromyalgia pain worse.

My programs are all natural and will definitely work. The breathing and relaxation exercises in my fibromyalgia program is uniquely created for the treatment. Moreover, if you also affected by any kind of dementia the you should make use of my dementia program which about to be launched.

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Christian Goodman has pledged his life to health research and found solutions for most dangerous conditions. You can know more on him on his natural health alternatives blog where you can read on his solutions for many conditions such as hypertension, snoring, and his new Natural Fibromyalgia Pain Treatment Program.

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Here we will take a peek at some things that people can do to help themselves learn how to treat anxiety on their own. This may work for some, but there are times that you may need the help of a professional.

Breathing techniques are one way that people try to calm the body’s reactions to the triggers of an anxiety attack. Doing some deep breathing can be an easy form of relief for some people as long as they make sure that they perform the exercises properly. Rushing through them will not help you in the least.

Exercise is another thing that people have tried, and some have found that it too can be a huge help when learning how to treat anxiety. Try stretching exercises or Yoga as these are ways that help the body and the mind relax and focus on other things than what is happening. This can be the best way to calm yourself down which in turn can prevent matters from getting any worse than they are.

Other people have found that there is a lot of truth in the claims that come with regards to the relaxing qualities of herbal remedies. Teas are one of the most commonly used herbal remedies that is used today. People use these for all sorts of reasons, and anxiety is one of them.

Trying a cup of Chamomille tea, which is know for the relaxing properties that it contains can be the perfect way for a person to get the relief that they need. It may not work for everyone but it is something that can be tried. You may be pleasantly surprised by the results that you see.

Knowing things that cause an anxiety attack can also be a helpful way to keep them away. Caffeine is one of the most common triggers of anxiety when it comes to food. This means that coffee and chocolate are two very big no-no`s for those that suffer from anxiety.

Other foods contain caffeine as well, but the list is huge, so you should pay attention to the labels that are on the foods that you eat and see if they may be a culprit when it comes to your problems.

One never knows when an anxiety attack will hit them. You can be in bed trying to get sleep and all of a sudden you will feel it coming. If this is something that you have experienced and are unsure of what to do, it has been said that getting out of bed is the best place to start. Once out of the bed try to do something that relaxes you, maybe some calming music or a book, whatever calms you down.

Times have changed over the years and this is something that a person can find out a lot about if they take the time to look. This can be some of the best invested time that you spend if it provides you with relief from this devastating disorder.

Finding effective methods for treating anxiety is critical if you want to stop panic attacks and anxiety for good so you can start living a normal life again. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to go to social functions, complete your grocery shopping or simply drive in the car without fear of an anxiety attack?

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Do you ever get the painful, mind-boggling effects of a horrible headache? Well, it’s the most common type of irritation. The headache can be caused by a number of things. I’m not sure why exactly they occur as far as biology and medicine goes, I just know that they are common, annoying, and super prevalent. Here is a list of things that can cause one of those horribly painful headaches that make you want to end your suffering for good.

1. Staring at a computer screen all day under fluorescent lighting.

2. A Train Horn being honked within 10-15 feet of you.

3. Reading all day.

4. Writing all day.

5. Playing too much video games.

6. Watching too much television.

7. Talking too much on your cell phone or falling asleep on the phone.

8. Temperature changes in the air.

9. Sleeping in room full of dust, mold, rust, or signs of asbestos.

10. Eating too much ice cream.

11. Not eating anything all day.

12. Exposing yourself to headphones and speakers for a long period of time.

13. Going to a heavy metal concert.

14. Dealing with incessant baby cries.

15. Getting hit in the head hard.

16. Getting hit in the head or body frequently.

17. Suffering from a brain tumor.

18. Being cross-eyed.

19. Lack of sleep.

20. Too much caffeine.

21. Sniffing intoxicating gases.

22. Smoking too many cigarettes.

23. Standing on your head for too long.

24. Singing in concert for hours on end.

25. Being exposed to harmful gases and chemicals.

26. Painting for too long of a period with toxic paints.

27. Being trapped in a shopping mall with loud, annoying teenagers.

28. Driving for way too long.

29. Taking prescription medications.

30. Being confined to cell walls.

Most of these are done on a daily basis for us working class people, with the exception of incarceration. Be sure to get the proper amount sleep, take breaks during computer work, cut back on the video games, and avoid air horns at all costs.

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