Exercise

One Secret Tip to Improve Your Health – Standing Meditation

If you do nothing else to improve your health, stand. I love to watch those PBS specials that go on for two or three hours. They feature a doctor who will inform us how to improve our health. Why do we need to keep hearing the same advice though? To improve your health, you need to install healthy habits, and forming new habits takes time. Here is one suggestion where to start.

The absolute simplest and possibly the most important habit to adopt is standing. Yes, standing. Standing meditation has very old roots, and some suggest that it was practiced in pre-historic times. Standing meditation has most efficiently been formalized in Chinese Qi Gong. [click to read more…]

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Can You Prevent Alzheimer’s By Walking

Alzheimer’s Disease and Type II Diabetes are related. But How?

A recent study in Japan discovered that people who have Type II Diabetes have an extremely high chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The study showed that of 135 people with insulin resistance, 72% showed the kind of plaque and tangles that cause Alzheimer’s.

What they didn’t know is whether insulin resistance causes plaques to form.

In other words, the precise relationship between Alzheimer’s disease and Type II Diabetes is unclear. [click to read more…]

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