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Month: January 2023
Today’s Health Tip ~ Bone Strength is Important
Exercise to Increase Bone Strength
All exercises for bone strength have one or more of the following attributes:
- They provide resistance. In these forms of exercise, you challenge your muscles by working against some type of resistance, such as dumbbells, elastic bands, or even your own body weight. Resistance exercises, including classic strength training, rely on muscle contractions that tug on bones to stimulate them to bulk up.
- They are weight-bearing. Weight-bearing exercise is any activity, such as running, walking, dancing, hiking, climbing stairs, or playing tennis, golf, or basketball, in which you carry your body weight and work against gravity. This is in contrast to non-weight-bearing activities such as swimming or cycling, where the water or bicycle supports your body weight. The force you exert to counteract gravity when you do weight-bearing activities is what stimulates bones to get stronger.
- They provide impact. When you land a jump or pound the ground with each step as you run, you multiply the weight-bearing effect of gravity. That’s why higher-impact activities generally have a more pronounced effect on bone than lower-impact exercises.
- They’re higher-velocity. Impact can be increased even more as your speed increases. For example, jogging or fast-paced aerobics will do more to strengthen bone than a leisurely stroll or slow calisthenics.
- They involve sudden changes of direction. Changing direction while you’re moving also appears to benefit bones. When researchers reviewed bone strength in the hips of a variety of athletes, they found that those who played sports such as soccer and squash, which involve rapid turns and start-and-stop actions, had bone strength similar to those who did high-impact sports, like triple jumpers and high jumpers—and they all had greater bone density than long-distance runners.
- They help improve your balance. Exercises that target balance may not be the best for building bone, but they will help keep you from falling, so they also serve a bone-protecting function.
Source: Harvard Medical School Healthbeat Newsletter
Today’s Poem ~ The Child Angel
The Child Angel
Tagore
Let your life come amongst them like a flame of light, my child,
unflickering and pure, and delight them into silence.
They are cruel in their greed and their envy,
their words are like hidden knives thirsting for blood.
Go and stand amidst their scowling hearts, my child,
and let your gentle eyes fall upon them like the
forgiving peace of the evening over the strife of the day.
Let them see your face, my child, and thus know the
meaning of all things, let them love you and love each other.
Come and take your seat in the bosom of the limitless, my child.
At sunrise open and raise your heart like a blossoming flower,
and at sunset bend your head and in silence
complete the worship of the day.
Today’s Joke
Joe: “I was washing my my car with my son when he asked me a question.”
Pete: “What did he ask you?”
Joe: “He said, ‘Dad, do you think you could use a sponge?”
Optimism Works ~ The Connection Between Hope & Optimism & Health
Hope is about leaving room for something good to happen. Optimism is about having hope, trusting that things will work out. Hope and optimism are linked to your belief that things will turn out okay when change happens in your life. We know that people can learn to be more optimistic and hopeful, and that engaging in these positive behaviors can improve one’s health. In research studies, optimism and hope have been linked to better physical and mental health outcomes.1 Optimism can help people to have more successful relationships and to be more involved in their community. It can also promote a sense of well-being during difficult times.
Today’s Inspiration ~ A Prayer
“Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.”
Today’s Positive Thought ~ Surprise!
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us (Boris Pasternak).” Sometime we call it fate or coincidence when surprise strikes. It may be the time we unexpectedly met our soul mate. it may be the time opportunity knocked and we answered the door not knowing who was knocking. Life is filled with wonderful surprises, here’s hoping heaps of great, life soaring surprises fill your day.
Today’s Poem ~ The Tables Turned
The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth
Up! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you’ll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun above the mountain’s head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! ’tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There’s more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless–
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:–
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
Today’s Joke
Joe: “My girlfriend plays drums in a band. I got her a gift for her birthday.”
Pete: “What did you get her?”
Joe: “I got her a cymbal of my love.
Optimism Works ~ You’re Stronger Than You Realize
Within each of us are powers and abilities we underestimate, but which can carry us through many challenges. You’re stronger than you think. . . .
“You may have heard the expression, “Hope is not a strategy.” Don’t believe it: Hope is a way of thinking that pushes us to take action. Research by C. R. Snyder found that most hopeful people had three things in common: goals, pathways (strategies), and agency. They were under no illusions that all their strategies would work; they tended to try multiple pathways, realizing that many would be blocked. But they persisted because they had an abiding belief in themselves and their capabilities.” (David Feldman)
Optimists are hope-filled people. They may, at times, get discouraged, but they push on believing tomorrow will be better than today. They push on knowing the right solution exists and they will find it.
