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Gone are the days when powerlifting is reserved only for men and men alone, as women nowadays have come to embrace powerlifting as not just a way to gain super strength, but also help promote lean mass and firm muscles.
Many people may not be aware about the stresses and pressures that puts a powerlifter to the test. When we say ‘power’ it means really that, strength and determination. The demands are intense and the not many can excel at it.
Women, on the other hand, can benefit a lot from powerlifting. A lot of women doing it said it helps boost their confidence, gives them a sense of purpose and helps give them build strength of character as well.
It is more than just mental conditioning, rather it is a psychological behavior that lets them feel they are in control with their being that helps improve their self-esteem and is a good exercise to help them stay fit.
A lot of women also believe that they find it to be challenging, most especially when they feel they need to do more from that each weight level they are working on. It helps boost their sense of accomplishment every time they hurdle a challenge for every weight level.
Today’s powerlifting community promotes a very supportive environment for powerlifters, including women, where they find a mechanism where they could get help, updates and information.
Women today are more independent and are immersing themselves on ways to stay fit and healthy like men and powerlifting allows them to challenge their capabilities on strength and endurance.
It also keeps them heart and bone healthy, since powerlifting enhances the body’s absorption of nutrients that are essential for the body, especially the heart and bones.
Powerlifitng has also been proven effective in weight loss and is a good workout for women, who have the less capacity for weight loss than men. It has something to do with their metabolism that makes them lose weight longer and more difficult than men.
Powerlifting also allows women to feel the sense of competition, as many powerlifting events and contests now include women. This allows them to prove their competitive edge with the rest of the women competitors.
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The quest to promote better health is now more prominent with findings that the battle to fight the bulge may go deep into the cellular level as the microbiome linked to a healthier body may be the key to finding out ways to further improve methods to fight obesity.
This was recently revealed after published in the journal Science, may have succeeded in breaking through the mystery of the human microbiome and how it plays a role in health and could someday hold the promise of curbing the global problem of obesity.
The researchers conducted the tests by drawing out bacteria from the intestinal tract of almost 4000 combined participants from across the Netherlands and Belgium, leading to evidence that lifestyle habits and diet significantly affect bacterial development and growth, thus, have its profound impact on health.
Stool samples were gathered from the participants through a uniform process of home-sampling and freezing which were then analyzed in order to determine how intestinal microbes interact with human health and general behaviour.
Although the researchers pointed out that up until this point they are still unable to provide a specific definition of a healthy microbiome, however, the studies indeed confirmed the hypothesis that the presence of a diverse microbiome population is somewhat correlated with improved health.
One of the findings also showed that there is a link, albeit small, of a less diverse microbiome population and a high body mass index (BMI), which measures if a person is overweight or not.
Also, the study found a positive link of a diverse microbiome and a diet high in vegetables and fruits.
Some medical experts, however, believe that additional tests needs to be conducted to validate these findings, as they pointed out that the results of these studies just scratched the surface of studies into the microbiome.
They pointed out that it still was not able to determine the link between microbiome density among persons and there is still no definite value that could serve as baseline data to support the findings.
In the United States, more than two thirds of adults are considered overweight, while 35.7 percent are categorized as obese, which means that a total of 3 in every 4 men are on the level of obese and overweight.
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My first trip to Israel yields numerous culinary highlights, but it’s wandering through the markets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, each one bristling with distinctly charming character, which leaves me most captivated. And it is Carmel Market, or Shuk Ha-Carmel, with its sensorial barrage of shouts for straight-from-the-oven rugelach, wafting scents of garlic, and richly hued vegetables on display, I find especially soulful.
After a week of making a concerted effort to reduce the food packaging that came into — and went out of — my home, I realized there was plenty of low-hanging fruit to pluck: having my groceries double-bagged when I was too distracted (or just plain slow) to fish my nylon market bag out of my purse; the extra utensils, napkins, and condiments that came along with my takeout; the countless small plastic bags I used to transport items from the bulk bins to my canisters at home. All of these were items I could do without easily and with minimal inconvenience.
I don’t remember the first time I had dried plum. Maybe it was on a playground at my elementary school in Guam. Whenever it was, what I’ll never forget is how my fingers would be stained red after eating one, and how I could still taste traces of saltiness hours after nothing was left but the marble-sized pit.
In Guam, these Chinese pickled and dried, sweetened plums are called “sweet and sours” because they are just that — sweet, sour, and a bit salty, too. (Not the usual characteristics you’d attribute to fruit.) In Hawaii, they’re called li hing mui (pronounced lee hee moo-ee, or lee hing moo-ee), or “traveling plum.” And on the islands, they’re absolutely everywhere.
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You may be able to tell if your husband or wife is not carefully paying attention when taking turns watching over the baby, as there is a way that this can be found out, according to studies.
If you are taking your turn watching over your baby, then better pay full attention and make every effort to set aside your smartphone, gadget or your favourite game show, after studies revealed that getting distracted or doing something else during playtime with your kids would rub off your impatient behavior on them and cause them to lose focus and shorten their attention spans.
This, after a recent study by a group of psychologists from Indiana University was published in the journal Current Biology, where the researchers were able to determine a direct link between how long a caregiver focuses on an object and how long a baby stays focused on the same object.
Study author Chen Yu said that a child’s ability to sustain attention becomes a strong indicator for future success in their cognitive development milestones, problem solving and language acquisition.
Yu, a professor of the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences of the Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University, pointed out that caregivers who appear distracted or whose eyes wander most of the time during playtime with their children appeared to have negative impacts on an infant’s attention span while in the early years of physical and mental development.
The study’s co-author Linda Smith, a Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, pointed out that it has been a long believed hypothesis that attention is a property of individual development and that their study showed that attention is in fact affected by social interaction.
“It really appears to be an activity performed by two social partners where it showed one’s attention significantly influence another’s,” Smith said.
The test was conducted by mounting cameras on the heads of both caregivers and infants in the study where it provided a view on children and parents playing together in a carefully designed environment that resembled a play area.
As both children and parents played with physical toys, the eye –tracking software integrated in the camera showed and simulated several scenarios where the parent leads the play, then the babies guided to play and the children being allowed to ‘lead’ the play.
The children that were able to focus intently and lengthily on their parents were those given the role to lead the play, where they developed a more intimate attention with both parties.
The researchers also added that this could help develop more scientific approaches to developing young minds for growth and progress.
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