Archive for the ‘Healthy obsession’ category

How to prevent cramps or stitches?

September 13th, 2009

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Thorn in your side?

It helps not to eat two to three hours before exercise and be well hydrated but don’t drink too much of water before a workout.

As you train, keep your breathing slow and controlled. As you get fitter, the chances of a stitch will become slimmer.

When you are running, inhale on the left foot strike, then exhale on right. I don’t know how true is that but many runners swear by this.

Microwaving vegetable

September 12th, 2009

Cooking using microwave not only is the easiest cooking method known to mankind but, a new study in the Journal of Food Science is anything to go by, it’s also the best way to cook vegies.

Researchers analysed six cooking methods – boiling, grilling, pressure cooking, baking, microwaving and frying. They found that microwaving vegetables helped maintain the highest level of beneficial antioxidants, which help prevent cancer and other diseases. Pressure cooking and boiling led to the greatest losses.

In short, water is not the cook’s best friend when it comes to preparing vegetables.

Yum yum?! Eeww!

Cat getting roasted

Is it bad to hold your wee?

September 12th, 2009

Is it bad to hold your wee? Sometimes some women just don’t have time to visit the loo.

The main risk of holding your wee in is a very embarassing accident . However most of us will run as quickly as possible to the toilet when we just have a slight urge to pee. Actually we should all be peeing less to strengthen pelvic floor muscles. So see if you can stretch it out for an hour or so.

Someone should consider diapers...

Someone should consider diapers...

Holding in poo however is way more complicated. It can make you constipated if you do it over a long period of time as in for a week or so, but holding it in for an hour or two until you find a decent toilet won’t do you any harm…LOL…