The right weight

Grandma was reasonable in everything but this.

 

It’s not a game. Obesity has begun to charge very expense bills to our communities. Only in Piura Department, the medical statistics establish it is the first cause of heart diseases (stroke, arteriosclerosis) and diabetes. In fact, it occupies the second place across Peru in this condition prevalence, that treated out of time can be mortal.

 

The diet and the lack of physical activity are the recurrent causes, according to specialists. The usual food is ever made of rice, tubers, and fried or boiled meat and much spices, and beverages with much sugar and colorants that have replaced to the natural juices and refreshes.

 

Growing besides

In the other hand, the new lifestyle consists in spending long hours in front of the TV or the PC, many times interacting with other pairs virtually but forbidding spaces and moments of physical encounter. This frame is not supposed.

 

The medical doctors coincide that during the teenage, instead growing upside, we are growing besides. Also, they point out that the problem gets worse if we have haven a bad or deficient nutrition during our childhood, so we don’t gain enough height and the body trends to accumulate fat instead of mass.

 

The most optimistic medical forecast is that before 40 years old, many of us already will experience our first stroke or, at least, will have blood stream problems. And the problem is in rural and urban ccommunities, as well.

 

The lifeguard plan

There are actually ways to reverse the frame, and everything depends on a strong personal commitment with your health. Here we present you some useful ideas:

1. Eat according to your real energy requirement: Not all the people need the same wear, so a nutritionist (or specialist in nutriology) can advise us what we have to eat, how much quantity, what time, why and how to combine it in a healthy way.
2. Do exercise: World Health Organization suggests that, at least, 30 daily minutes at home, a park, or the gym, are ideal to improve all the body functions including the slow down of the cell aging.
3. Set your mind free: encourage yourself creatively to take out the stress by doing an activity that take your brain out of the routine, but that enriches it.
4. No vices: If you don’t find a way (or even if you have it clear), don’t run to the alcohol, the tobacco, the drugs, or something that generates you damages for your remaining lifetime. If you think it convenient, visit a mental health specialist for having a guide.
5. Try not to stick to the technology: It’s actually possible to live without it. It seems hard but what the advertising doesn’t say us is the continuous dependence to the electronic devices causes us sedentarism, so problems with our weight. The other part that the advertising doesn’t say us is that a kind of techno-addiction is developed.
6. Appreciate yourself: The key to be happy is loving because of who you are, not who you look like. But this doesn’t mean you uncare of yourself.
7. Choose a medical consultation: If the physical body has problems, or it doesn’t respond like it should, the best is looking for a medical doctor. The friends and relatives –unless they have a diploma in Medicine and be competent—can give ideas but not a professional opinion that can save our live. However, ever look for second and third recommendations to go to the right place.
8. Research and share: On the Internet, there is everything, and especially the information that will open you up a positive perspective to care your health. If you access those contents, study them, file them, discuss them, and share them with your people. Who knows – the fact that can improve the life of somebody else could come from you.

 

The model featured on this entry is André Verona and the photographs are © Marco Mejía.

 

Pranayama - The Health In Your Breath

By Christian Palacios (also photos)

We live in shaking times. everything has been accelerated with the technology and the people sees affected by psychosomatic unbalances much everytime, like the stress and the anxiety.

The yoga is a millenial science that incorporates the practice of pranayamas (breath exercises)  and the meditation as part of a process that allows to activate the healing processes of our body, for reaching an optimal health sstate, the balance of our mind, and a calm state that leads us to the harmony with ourselves and everything around us.

The practices of pranayama allow us to get a better oxygenation of the blood. All components of the body require oxygen for its optimal function and because of pranayama we can balance the chemical processes happening inside ours.

The pranayama exercises allow us to reach a longer, deeper breath, which reflexes into a major oxygenation  and increasing of blood circulation.

Benefits Of Pranayama Practice

• Provides you more energy and vitality.
• Helps to disintoxicate the blood.
• Improves the circulation.
• Strengthen the inmunologic system.
• Helps to clean lungs.
• Reduces the depression sensation.
• Improves the digestive system.
• Benefits the spine function.
• Helps to relief thiroid  problems.

According to Dr Thakur Dass, doing pranayama can increase the normal volume of ventilation for ten times without needing workout. The researcher points out the oxygenation creates the energy, generating ATP (adenosynetriphosphate), what delays the cells degeneration, so doing pranayama acts as an anti-oxidant.

Dass affirms that doing pranayama provides the enough quantitty of oxygen to the entire body, and helps to relief breathing system diseases as the bronchitis, the laringitis, the bronchial asthma, helps in case of heart diseases as the thrombosis and allows to control the blood pressure.

It influences on the endocrine system. It helps to relief diseases as the diabetes and helps to improve the condition of kidney diseases.

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Nidra Yoga
This practice  is based on the meditation and encourages the person to get learning to dominate the biological mechanisms of the body from the mind, for having a deep relaxation, that helps to sleep correctly and to avoid problems such as the anxiety and the insomnia.

If you need further information and you are in Piura City,  visit us in Reiki Yoga Piura: Magisterial Urbanization, 490 Bernal  St., in front of the  Santa Ana Park. You can also follow me on my fanpage.

White and Black, outdoors

By ChulucanasGym.

La Unión District continues to bet the rest of sports as communitarian projection activities. On Sunday July 24^th, a chess collective match was done, pretending to group until a hundred boards, locate them at a public park and get everybody playing.

It was promoted by Almirante Miguel Grau School in 19 de Agosto town.  It’s not about a chess academy, but the idea was to practice learn and detect possible talents, like it’s already working on table tennis and basketball.

“We know there are many sports, but chess highlights because it helps to improve focusing , helps to prevent Alzheimer’s, works out both brain hemispheres, increases reading skills, and helps to take decissions,” initiative’s responsible David Chunga stated.

“It helps us to develop logic thinking, raise self-steem, and know how to manage the time in a more effective way,” he added.

However, there’s actually an objective reason to bet for chess: six La Unión youngs are representing this district in Piura State competences.

In the other hand, it still seems a good proposal to us for un-soccering and un-volleyballing the state sports offer - we believe it deserves all the support from government and community, but if it doesn’t response to an enhanced plan with real goals and strategies, we believe they will be isolated stones thrown into the pond.

What neded is  to create a big flow which ultimate objective be to create  open preventive and inclusive spaces for people’s physical and mental health.  However, they’re possitive steps as initiatives to be.

Let’s see what’s the next surprise coming out from Lower Piura Valley.

Post-produced by Sheyla Benavente.