Exercise and keep a toned perineum

Do you play sports and you like that? Yes, but leaks sometimes occur, which can restrict you in your activity ... Or you know that it can happen and want to prevent this inconvenience. Solutions exist.

Leaks that occur during the sport? It is the incontinence of effort , which indicates a lack of tonicity of the perineum , but also poorly performed exercises. We often do not dare to talk about it , but precautions and solutions exist.

An association, Sport and specificities for women , has become aware of the problem and offers various tips. As stated by the association, created by a physiotherapist and chaired by a gynecologist, the female anatomy was not sufficiently taken into account in the advice given for the training and the practice of the sport. And this is how women find themselves doing "abs" (with high intra-abdominal pressure), or warm up by jumping on site, in a deleterious way for their perineum. Result: leaks and often, avoidance of sports activity!

The association has therefore set up a "passport", which, in addition to helping to identify its perineal problems, gives advice on the directions to take depending on his sport (both in terms of breathing at the time of the effort, that of "perineal locking") and its problem and sensitizes on what to do (and avoid doing!) everyday. This passport is declined according to the ages of the life (cost: between 20 and 30 euros).

The association offers workshops for individuals, but also collaborates with sports associations, awarding a label certifying that the training is adapted to the female anatomy. The workshops are varied: they can take place in group or solo, can address the sexuality (the perineum having a major importance in the sexual relations), the particular case of the pregnant woman, or that of the teenager.

New study proves: Coffee is healthy for us!

Have your colleagues often looked at you at an angle because you drink so much coffee? We give you a good reason to pour in again: a British study proves that coffee is good for your health!

The recommendations regarding coffee enjoyment have always been contradictory. Some say it is harmful to drink too much coffee. The others praise the good health effects. According to a British study, the latter are right: coffee is good for your health!

A British research team has evaluated nearly 200 studies on coffee consumption. They came to the conclusion that a moderate coffee consumption of three to four cups a day protects against many a disease and even lets us live longer.


Coffee, which contains caffeine, has a stimulating effect on the body. Renal function increases in the short term and the vessels in the body are dilated. This helps the body to prevent certain diseases. Coffee drinkers therefore have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, suffering from a stroke or developing liver carcinoma. But the chance of getting Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, depression and Type II diabetes can also be reduced with a few cups of coffee a day. Coffee is a panacea, especially for the heart. In addition, drinking coffee is healthy because it helps "flush" the arteries freely. Coffee drinkers have less calcification in their arteries, which can otherwise contribute to a heart attack.

So you get rid of your cold in just one day

Your nose does not want to stop running, besides, you have a sore throat and your head hurts? Here you can find out how to use home remedies in a short time for relief.

No one is spared cold. Especially in the cold season is a cold for many easy. There are many ways to make a quick recovery, especially with a simple cold. In the best case, you'll feel well and well the next day.

Fighting colds with home remedies - self-help made easy
Not every home remedy that our grandparent generation swears by is really recommended. The following are actually helpful for colds:

Inhalation with hot water vapor: You can also inhale without inhaler. A bowl of hot water and a towel over your head are already enough. That's how you moisturize your respiratory system. With children, however, caution is required. There is a risk of burns here.

Spicy food: horseradish, onions and garlic dissolve mucus and have a germicidal and anti-inflammatory effect. Therefore, season with a cold more sharply spicy than usual.

Chicken soup: Whether the good old chicken soup in a cold actually has an effect, was long debated. Now US researchers have shown that it has anti-inflammatory effects. However, this only applies to home-made soups, not to finished products.

Hot bath: A warm bath is a very relaxing home remedy for colds and has the same effect on the whole body. But be careful not to stay in the water for more than 15 minutes. Bath salts with essential oils enhance the effect. If you have a fever, you should refrain from bathing to protect your body.


Apart from that, your body does not need much rest until it reaches full-blown flu. You can even cure a simple cold when you go to bed and enjoy doing nothing.

Breakfast tailgating: Delicious recipes to help you plan ahead and keep it simple

A few years ago, I was in Minneapolis tailgating with friends for the University of Minnesota’s homecoming game against Northwestern. We got to the parking lot around 8:30 in the morning, to party before the 11 a.m. kickoff. Our host, Chad Jaeger, started the festivities with a hearty breakfast chili — rich and creamy, it was packed with crumbled bacon and sausage, beans, cheddar cheese and diced egg. It was the perfect way to warm up a bunch of Gopher fans on a chilly, 45-degree morning.

As with any great tailgate, the trick is to plan ahead and keep it simple. I try to make as much food as possible before I leave the house, and heat up what I need once I’m set up at the party.

Finally, don’t forget the beverages. Most thermoses will keep hot beverages — coffee, cocoa or cider — warm for hours. And it’s never too early for a cocktail. Mimosas are an easy choice for morning tailgates. If you have fresh fruit, consider making a pitcher of sangria.

Innovative cooking demos inspire healthy eating habits

Health Promotions and Wellness offers a hands-on cooking experience taught by registered dietitians.
Located in the Student Recreation and Activity Center on the Kennesaw campus, Health Promotion and Wellness inspires healthy lifestyles with its innovative cooking demonstrations.

The creative culinary minds behind their savvy recipes are registered dietitians Barbara Oldham and Bethany Wheeler, who promote healthy, affordable lifestyles with a variety of nutritious meals and flavors to boost culinary confidence in the kitchen.
The cooking demonstrations influence students to eat well-balanced meals by providing them with a variety of inexpensive flavors and nutritional food combinations. The aroma of fresh vegetables and proteins are explored as students prepare the authentic recipes devised by Oldham and Wheeler.
“There are 12 students per demonstration so that everyone can have a hands-on experience,” Oldham said. “The main goal is to provide students with the cooking skills to make more nutritious meals at home.”
The cooking demos will continue throughout the semester with “Keep Calm & Curry On,” “Fall Fare,” “Ridin‘ Solo: Meals For One” and “Flavors of the World.”

PORTION CONTROL‘Healthy’ snacks could be adding 300 calories to your diet a day – follow this handy guide and NEVER overeat again

YOU may be armed with the best of intentions, a snack draw brimming with "healthy" treats.

But with no understanding of portion control, you could be eating as many as 300 EXTRA calories a day, sabotaging your dieting dreams.

Popcorn may be a "healthy" snack, but eat too much and you'll still pile on the pounds. These portions reveal how much you should eat if you want to lose, maintain or gain weight

Here's how much oil you should be using in your cooking if you want to lose weight, left, maintain weight, middle or gain weight, right

Portion control could help you shed as many as 300 calories from your daily diet, experts say

The rise of the clean eating trend has given way to people opting for popcorn and whole foods like nuts, dark chocolate and nut butters in a bid to keep up energy levels between main meals.

But experts are warning these healthy snacks can still wreak havoc with your waistline.

This set of pictures, based on NHS guidelines, offers a handy visual guide to how much of your favourite healthy treats you should actually be eating.

And it reveals the best portion sizes depending on whether your want to lose, maintain or gain weight.

5 easy healthy meals for one, according to a dietitian

Unfortunately when we revert to these options for dinner too regularly, our nutrition can suffer, so if you are regularly cooking for one, here are five quick and easy, nutritious and calorie controlled meal options that you can prepare in no time, and ensure your nutrition does not have to suffer simply because you live alone.

Omelette

Eggs are one of nature’s superfoods, packed full of key nutrients and protein and the simple mix of an egg, whatever vegies you have on hand that are easy to chop including tomatoes, mushrooms, spinach and capsicum along with a little of your favourite cheese ticks a number of key nutritional boxes in a meal that can be made in five minutes.

Grill and vegetables

Whether you prefer lamb cutlets, lean sausages or a piece of chicken breast - any grilled lean meat when teamed with a basic salad or a packet or two of frozen vegetables is another nutritionally balanced meal that can be prepared in no time.

Frozen fish and stir fry

The range of plain frozen fish fillets including salmon is wide and when teamed with one of stir fry vegetable kits readily available in supermarkets is a tasty low calorie meal. Another option is the range of fresh fish fillets and prawns in a light marinade that can be found in the fresh section of supermarkets and any of the frozen stir fry vegetable kits that also often come with a sauce to flavour the vegetables.

Naked burger

With a large range of lean beef and turkey burgers, as well as pork and chicken meatballs, you can literally create any number of burgers you like, minus and carb rich bread rolls if you use lettuce or even mushrooms as your burger base. Teamed with plenty of salad, this is a protein rich, tasty dinner that again can be prepared in literally minutes.

Mexican bowl

Forget slaving away over a pot of mince and vegetables for hours - the simple of mix of a few corn chips or tacos shells, warm kidney beans, corn, chopped up vegetables, avocado and a sprinkle of sour cream and cheese is a meat free meal, packed full of vegetable protein that feels like a treat, but one minus the calories and fat of take away Mexican.

3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (or Obamacare). Subsequently, Republicans in the U.S. Senate began working on their version of a law to do the same. The House bill is flawed, leaving many uncertainties that the Senate has promised to address. While the fate of the bill is in flux, there are three immutable trends in the U.S. health care system that won't change. As a result, regardless of how the law evolves, tremendous opportunities will remain for consumers, medical providers, health care payers, and investors to shape and improve the health care system.

The first trend is demographic: The U.S. population is continuing to age. In 1960 the median age for men and women in the U.S. was 29.5; it is now 37.9, and in the next 12 years will exceed 40. Per capita annual health care costs are roughly $4,500 for people age 19 to 44; they double for people age 45 to 64; and they double once again for those 65 and older. Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services.

Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications. In 2004 one in 5 practicing physicians used an electronic health record (EHR) in the U.S. Today nearly nine in 10 physicians regularly employ EHRs. There's a tremendous amount of information and structured data now available to guide treatment, assess outcomes, and measure quality of care. Beyond EHRs, digital health tools — apps, wearable devices, and other hardware and software that measures and monitors health — are becoming common in consumers' lives. From 2015 to 2016, investors poured more than $8 billion into funding these tools. More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. Clearly, most of these tools won't survive. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. health care and, as elsewhere, consumers will choose many of the winners.
Third, irrespective of revisions to the ACA, discoveries in the life sciences that enhance the quality and extend the length of life will continue to flow from research laboratories. These are being driven by two major trends: the availability of personal health data, and the plummeting cost of integrating massive health data sets in the cloud. Based on these two foundations, we’ll begin to see the emergence of personalized medicine.
The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly. According to QuintilesIMS, there are more than 2,000 drugs in the late-stage approval process, and they will yield an estimated 45 new active substances annually over the next five years. This therapeutic deluge will make decision making more complex for clinicians, who must understand efficacy and risk, and for payers, who must choose which treatments to favor through preferred pricing. Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies.
Taken together, these three trends will drive dramatic changes in health care, regardless of government policies. We see several areas where patients and care providers, as well as entrepreneurs and investors, will likely benefit.
First, businesses that help patients understand, access, and use the health care system will be rewarded. Patient engagement has been a mantra for those seeking to reform health care, as it’s widely accepted that patients who are engaged in their own health care have better outcomes. Technology plays a crucial role in promoting engagement, in part by customizing medical information for each patient, and digital platforms — whether websites, apps, or EHRs — that promote health and help patients understand their medical conditions and their options for treatment and prevention will grow in importance.
Investors are already keenly focused on this area, with many startups competing for a slice of the market. In 2011 81 digital health startups received venture funding; with consistent year-over-year increases, 296 startups were venture backed in 2016. The venture industry is betting big on digital health, with $4–$5 billion invested annually. But traditional business models focused on and serving third-party reimbursement continue to struggle with how to monetize digital health tools. We believe models will emerge that capture value from the growing consumer demand for effective digital health-promotion support. Solutions that drive patient engagement and improve outcomes will succeed in the marketplace.
Second, we expect to see growth in businesses that make it easier for consumers to access affordable health care while living where they want to live, in a setting that they can afford. In the U.S., the two key drivers of this trend are the aging of the population and the need for cost control. Telemedicine is increasingly becoming an adjunct to care that addresses these trends. Today’s technology enables practitioners to scale their services, seeing more patients in less time, and it embeds analytics that can help focus clinicians’ time on the cases where they can have the greatest effect. From the patients’ perspective, telemedicine is appealing because it allows them to engage more frequently with doctors than they could through in-person visits — a particular aid for older patients with chronic conditions, who benefit from the frequent contact and care coordination that telemedicine can provide.

We’re convinced that these trends will ultimately drive mainstream adoption for proven digital health solutions. Where clinical trials demonstrate efficacy, and the solutions allow for improved cost management, we’ll begin to see multiple models emerge: insurance reimbursement, employer subsidies, and even consumer purchases. As adoption increases, companies that today provide therapeutics — principally pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers — will begin to add digital health solutions to their portfolios.
Uncertainty surrounding the health care bill shouldn’t have a material effect on the success of various solutions. Indeed, with the current government gridlock, the rapid development of and growing demand for new health care technologies may help policy makers chart the course forward.