Good posture is important for a strong back healthy hips and good knees. Modern chairs, with soft seats and too much support may help an ailing body, but do little to prevent arthritis and a bad back.
Squatting is good not just for sitting and resting but also for effective bowel opening and natural childbirth. It protects the nerves of the pelvis and the pelvic nerves are critical for good pelvic function.
Squatting seems more natural and this excellent little film gives it to you straight from the studio of Asian American Film Click here for a link
Serious Health Warning! The Wrong Trousers
Please only do this exercise in Baggy Trousers. An important person with a highly respectable position did the Asian Squat for the first time in his office at work. The result was that in the ensuing battle between his trousers and his lower torso, the torso won and the trousers gave way to reveal what I believe can only be called a bottom.
Although in the film it shows grown men doing this exercise in a suit, these were actors and experienced squatters.
.... and errr.... yes I did laugh when he told me and I realise it was probably not that funny, cept I am still chuckling
Thank you Dr X for telling me and allowing me to tell everyone.
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Creation of 'GM' monkey heralds health revolution
Scientists again promise their gullible public a cure for modern life. An article in the Independent gives another outing to the wonders of Modern Medicine. No boys and girls, the solution to our degenerate lifestyles will not be found in the laboratories of the Medical Industrial Complex
Modern Western Disease such as Parkinsonism, Cancer, Heart disease diseases are preventable. Avoid Big Macs, eat a healthy diet, have one two or three large soft bowel motions a day, squat to give birth (and open your bowels), and exercise daily
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http://www.lizmiller.co.uk/Modern Western Disease such as Parkinsonism, Cancer, Heart disease diseases are preventable. Avoid Big Macs, eat a healthy diet, have one two or three large soft bowel motions a day, squat to give birth (and open your bowels), and exercise daily
Copyright (c) Liz Miller
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Change for life - yes and no
Alan Johnson is beginning to look like a serious candidate for King, or at least the first minister
Time for the scores:
This is the third announcement from his department which has seriously impressed me. The first allowing people to see physiotherapists and other Health Care practitioners directly. The second, allowing people to top up their drugs privately, without losing the right to NHS care.
Change for life - encouraging a healthy diet and exercise, couldn't be better, but that on looking at the small print, this turns out to be about being fat, not about being healthy. Being fat does not make a person unhealthy. Please listen "Being fat does not in itself make a person unhealthy".
Obesity is the side effect of an unhealthy lifestyle. An unhealthy lifestyle makes a person fat. Obesity is the consequence not the cause of ill health. Stop kicking people when they are down. Obese people feel bad enough about themselves - feeling bad about yourself is unhealthy.
Time for the scores:
Marks out ten - An Arlene Phillips 9 for the storyline, and for Content, which is not as good as it should be, a Craig Revel Horwood - 4
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Sunday, November 09, 2008
Get Expert Help - Resources when you need them
Whatever your problem :
Get expert advice quickly
This may come from established experts, your friends, reading, the Internet. If you are faced with a problem with which you are not familiar, its time to Get Help
Where ever possible, don't let problems fester - knowing your luck, they will only get worse.
Finding other people who have also been through the mill helps too! for example http://www.standtoreason.org.uk/home
1 Financial
2 Employment
3 Health Advice
1 Financial Advice
Money Guardian
Learn about money where you can. Web based information on a wide range of money related issues.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money
Money Saving Expert
A useful web based source of money saving information and ideas.
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/
National Debtline
A free, confidential, independent telephone helpline for people with debt problems in England, Wales and Scotland.
Telephone 0808 808 4000 http://www.nationaldebtline.co.uk/
PayPlan
One of the country's leading debt advice agencies with over 12 years experience in helping people with their debt problems.
Telephone 0800 917 7823 http://www.payplan.com/
Consumer Credit Counselling Service
A charity that assists people who are in financial difficulty by providing free, independent, impartial and realistic advice. It is run by the Credit Industry, and has an interest in helping you pay your debts, as opposed to going bankrupt
Telephone 0800 138 1111 http://www.cccs.co.uk/
The UK Insolvency Helpline -
The UK Insolvency Helpline is a national telephone helpline for people with debt problems all over the UK. The service is free, confidential and independent
Telephone 0800 0746918 Website http://www.insolvencyhelpline.co.uk/
For doctors
Royal Medical Benevolent Fund Helps GMC registered doctors and their dependants in need, if resident in the UK. http://www.rmbf.org/
2 Employment Advice
Flexible working
Advice about flexible working and helping develop a life work balance that supports you and your family.
http://www.workingfamilies.org.uk/
Disability Discrimination
For Employers
A quick guide to your obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act
http://www.shaw-trust.org.uk/page/6/92/
How to approach the problem of mental health in the workplace
http://www.tacklementalhealth.org.uk/
For Employees,
Mental ill health is included in the Disability Discrimination legislation.
Disability as described by the Disabilty Discrimination Act
a) It has to be long term, ie it has already lasted or is likely to last more than 12 months
b) It has to be substantial,
c) It has to affect a person’s ordinary day to day activity, even if treatment effectively controls the symptoms.
Find out more
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/DisabilityRights/DG_4001068
3 Health Advice
i) Mental Health
Mental Health Foundation
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
Mind Apples
http://mindapples.org/
Information about depression
www.bluepages.anu.edu.au/symptoms.html
Free online Computerised Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
http://www.moodgym.anu.edu.au/
http://www.myray.com/
ii) Lifestyle
Dr Liz Miller Top Ten Health tips
http://doctorbloggs.blogspot.com/2008/08/dr.html
iii) Diet
Improve your diet
http://www.sustainweb.org/pdf/MHRep_LowRes.pdf
The scientific evidence linking diet and mental health
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/?EntryId5=40150&q=0%c2%acchanging+diets%c2%ac
iv) Reading list
The Natural Way to Beat Depression - Basant K. Puri, Hilary Boyd
Potatoes not Prozac - Kathleen DesMaisons
Manage your mind - Hope & Butler
Healing without Prozac – David Serban-Schreiber
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Dr Liz Miller's Top Ten Health Tips
1. Omega-3 Supplements
2. Exercise daily
3. Get outside and feel the rays
4. Eat healthy food
5. Avoid junk food
6. Avoid alcohol and other poisons
7. Breath from your belly
8. Rest and relax
9. Focus your mind
10. Learn all you can about health
1) Omega-3 Supplements
The easiest and quickest way to improve your health is through Omega –3 supplements. Omega 3 essential fatty acids help a wide range of medical conditions from heart disease, mental health to better joints.
Shop on-line at http://www.mindfirst.co.uk/. or at any health food store, on-line or in the High Street. It takes a couple months for their full benefit to be clear. Choose one without vitamin A or vitamin D. If you are a vegetarian and do not want to take fish oils, then Udo’s Oil and Hemp Seed Oil are fish free alternatives. The next step is a multimineral, multivitamin supplement and if you can choose natural vitamins in preference to synthetic ones.
Once upon a time, a balanced diet gave you the minerals and vitamins you needed but fifty years ago, fruit and vegetables contain five times the vitamins and minerals as they do today. Over-intensive farming, long periods of storage in warehouses, refrigeration, picking unripe fruit and vegetables mean food quality is getting worse.
2 Exercise daily
Exercise needs to be daily, varied and fun; like dancing, football, running, walking the dog, taking the stairs rather than the lift and running up the down escalator. The gym is fine, but variety is the spice of life and the key to being fit.
There are three types of exercise:
1) Those that concentrate on posture such as Yoga, Pilates, Alexander technique, postural alignment and martial arts training. These exercises concentrate on balance, so a person gets their ears above their shoulders, above their hips, above their knees, above their ankles.
2) Those that concentrate on building strength for short bursts of exercise, such as weightlifting, shot putt and gym machines. These exercises build muscle. Core strength is more important than bulging pecs. Regardless of how you look on the beach, if you have strong arms, strong legs and a weak back, you will develop back trouble. Rather than developing specific muscles, all round strength is important,
3) Exercises for stamina, such as running, swimming, football, dancing, skipping, cycling and fast walking.
Try a different exercise, each day of the week
3) Get outside and feel the rays
Sunshine is an instant pickmeup. Just half an hour in the midday sun, especially in winter makes a big difference to the day. Sunshine makes us feel better; so just getting out of the office for a quick wander, even in the rain there is more light outside than there is inside. If you find the winter depressing, think about buying a light box, or a light visor from http://www.outsidein.co.uk/ Put it on full blast while you clean your teeth and make your breakfast to stop the winter blues.
4) Eat healthy food
Start the day with a fresh fruit smoothie. Even easier, a glass of tap water, rehydrates ready for the new day. Eating a healthy diet is about eating natural food. If it was not around 10,000 years ago, then it is probably not good for you and you should not eat it. The best food is organic from your own garden or local farmer. You can have a box delivered to your door.
A natural diet and daily exercise keeps the blood sugar steady and that helps keep your energy up, and helps concentration.
5) Avoid junk food
Treat your stomach with respect. Always read the label. Factories turn food into junk. The purpose of a biscuit is to sell another biscuit. Did you ever see a Kit Kat tree? A packet of crisps can be stored for 2 or even three years, and the crisps are still crunchy, there is nothing alive in that bag. “You are what you eat” and do you want to end as a MacDonald and fries or a Pizza express?
A modern milking cow produces up 20 litres of milk a day, ten times as much as a natural cow. Modern milking cows produce high concentrations of hormones, most of which go into the milk. Dairy products do more for supermarkets selling yoghurt and semi-skimmed milk than for anyone else in the food chain.
The stomach is one of the most complex and interesting organs in the body. It even has its own nervous system or mini brain. It sorts out, digests and absorbs the complete range of diets different people across the world eat. On the other hand, putting something like Coca-Cola into this delicate and refined organ, is like pouring battery acid into your PC. It is hardly surprising people get indigestion.
6) Avoid alcohol and other poisons
Alcohol reaches those parts that other poisons don’t. It damages the brain, the liver, and the pancreas. Few organs escape its effects. Nothing reduces a person’s energy, damages their lungs, narrows their blood-vessels, gives people wrinkles and increases their risk of cancer quicker than cigarettes. In the right environment, the body can recover from almost anything. Drinking and smoking stop the body healing.
7) Breath from your belly
Most people pant! They take far too many short breaths using only the top part of their lungs. Longer deeper breaths increase the oxygen in the blood without over breathing.
Real breathing comes from the belly and it has become counterintuitive. When you breathe in, the belly comes out as the diaphragm pushes down to allow the bottom of the lungs to fill. As you breathe out, the belly comes back in and pushes the air out, like a piston moving up and down. Belly breathing needs the shoulders to be relaxed down and back. Babies and small children naturally breathe from their belly. The first time you start to control your breathing it may feel as though you are going to suffocate, no one has yet.
Practise breathing from your belly for a few minutes everyday and gradually it will become more of a habit as you develop a more natural way of living. Being able to control your breathing, is the fastest way to control your state of mind. It is impossible to panic if you breathe gently and quietly!
8) Rest and relax
There are many ways to relax and calm the mind, from meditation through breathing, repeating a mantra, or just becoming more aware of what is happening from moment to moment. Other people relax by reading, sewing or through a hobby. Nonetheless everyone needs time just to chill out, rest and recover and let go the worries of the day.
9) Focus your mind
In some ways this is the opposite of the last tip. Just as the mind needs to relax, so it also needs to work. The most effective way to work is to focus or concentrate on one task at a time. It can take twenty minutes to recover from an interruption.
Modern life is full of diversions, e-mail, texts, mobile phones and it is easy to be continually distracted and do nothing all day. Multitasking sounds great but it is not efficient. People work better if they concentrate on one task at a time. The natural rhythm of concentration lasts between forty and fifty minutes. After that time, take a few minutes to recover, with some belly breathing, stilling the mind, and having a drink of water, before starting the next cycle.
Focus takes time to develop. Just as it takes time to get the body fit, it takes time to train the mind to focus on one task only. Start by setting a timer, to help you stay concentrated for a few minutes. As you get mentally fitter, your concentration span gets longer, until you can manage to concentrate intensely for up to forty or fifty minutes at a time.
A healthy mind is a fit mind. It is a mind that does what you want it to, rather one that is at the mercy of every passing whim and impulse.
10) Learn all you can about health
Although there is more and more health information available, much of it seems contradictory. One person says do this and another person says do that. Nonetheless, every health article usually has one or two good points worth remembering. But there always has to be a balance, for example, exercise is important but not if you have the flu. Activity has to be balanced with rest, concentration with relaxation and living a healthy life with the demands of earning a living. Some people recommend a low-fat diet, others a low sugar diet. You alone are the best person to find out what suits you and helps you feel healthy and energised.
By being interested in health, you learn more about yourself and this will encourage you to live a happier and healthier life.
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller
http://www.drlizmiller.co.uk
2. Exercise daily
3. Get outside and feel the rays
4. Eat healthy food
5. Avoid junk food
6. Avoid alcohol and other poisons
7. Breath from your belly
8. Rest and relax
9. Focus your mind
10. Learn all you can about health
1) Omega-3 Supplements
The easiest and quickest way to improve your health is through Omega –3 supplements. Omega 3 essential fatty acids help a wide range of medical conditions from heart disease, mental health to better joints.
Shop on-line at http://www.mindfirst.co.uk/. or at any health food store, on-line or in the High Street. It takes a couple months for their full benefit to be clear. Choose one without vitamin A or vitamin D. If you are a vegetarian and do not want to take fish oils, then Udo’s Oil and Hemp Seed Oil are fish free alternatives. The next step is a multimineral, multivitamin supplement and if you can choose natural vitamins in preference to synthetic ones.
Once upon a time, a balanced diet gave you the minerals and vitamins you needed but fifty years ago, fruit and vegetables contain five times the vitamins and minerals as they do today. Over-intensive farming, long periods of storage in warehouses, refrigeration, picking unripe fruit and vegetables mean food quality is getting worse.
2 Exercise daily
Exercise needs to be daily, varied and fun; like dancing, football, running, walking the dog, taking the stairs rather than the lift and running up the down escalator. The gym is fine, but variety is the spice of life and the key to being fit.
There are three types of exercise:
1) Those that concentrate on posture such as Yoga, Pilates, Alexander technique, postural alignment and martial arts training. These exercises concentrate on balance, so a person gets their ears above their shoulders, above their hips, above their knees, above their ankles.
2) Those that concentrate on building strength for short bursts of exercise, such as weightlifting, shot putt and gym machines. These exercises build muscle. Core strength is more important than bulging pecs. Regardless of how you look on the beach, if you have strong arms, strong legs and a weak back, you will develop back trouble. Rather than developing specific muscles, all round strength is important,
3) Exercises for stamina, such as running, swimming, football, dancing, skipping, cycling and fast walking.
Try a different exercise, each day of the week
3) Get outside and feel the rays
Sunshine is an instant pickmeup. Just half an hour in the midday sun, especially in winter makes a big difference to the day. Sunshine makes us feel better; so just getting out of the office for a quick wander, even in the rain there is more light outside than there is inside. If you find the winter depressing, think about buying a light box, or a light visor from http://www.outsidein.co.uk/ Put it on full blast while you clean your teeth and make your breakfast to stop the winter blues.
4) Eat healthy food
Start the day with a fresh fruit smoothie. Even easier, a glass of tap water, rehydrates ready for the new day. Eating a healthy diet is about eating natural food. If it was not around 10,000 years ago, then it is probably not good for you and you should not eat it. The best food is organic from your own garden or local farmer. You can have a box delivered to your door.
A natural diet and daily exercise keeps the blood sugar steady and that helps keep your energy up, and helps concentration.
5) Avoid junk food
Treat your stomach with respect. Always read the label. Factories turn food into junk. The purpose of a biscuit is to sell another biscuit. Did you ever see a Kit Kat tree? A packet of crisps can be stored for 2 or even three years, and the crisps are still crunchy, there is nothing alive in that bag. “You are what you eat” and do you want to end as a MacDonald and fries or a Pizza express?
A modern milking cow produces up 20 litres of milk a day, ten times as much as a natural cow. Modern milking cows produce high concentrations of hormones, most of which go into the milk. Dairy products do more for supermarkets selling yoghurt and semi-skimmed milk than for anyone else in the food chain.
The stomach is one of the most complex and interesting organs in the body. It even has its own nervous system or mini brain. It sorts out, digests and absorbs the complete range of diets different people across the world eat. On the other hand, putting something like Coca-Cola into this delicate and refined organ, is like pouring battery acid into your PC. It is hardly surprising people get indigestion.
6) Avoid alcohol and other poisons
Alcohol reaches those parts that other poisons don’t. It damages the brain, the liver, and the pancreas. Few organs escape its effects. Nothing reduces a person’s energy, damages their lungs, narrows their blood-vessels, gives people wrinkles and increases their risk of cancer quicker than cigarettes. In the right environment, the body can recover from almost anything. Drinking and smoking stop the body healing.
7) Breath from your belly
Most people pant! They take far too many short breaths using only the top part of their lungs. Longer deeper breaths increase the oxygen in the blood without over breathing.
Real breathing comes from the belly and it has become counterintuitive. When you breathe in, the belly comes out as the diaphragm pushes down to allow the bottom of the lungs to fill. As you breathe out, the belly comes back in and pushes the air out, like a piston moving up and down. Belly breathing needs the shoulders to be relaxed down and back. Babies and small children naturally breathe from their belly. The first time you start to control your breathing it may feel as though you are going to suffocate, no one has yet.
Practise breathing from your belly for a few minutes everyday and gradually it will become more of a habit as you develop a more natural way of living. Being able to control your breathing, is the fastest way to control your state of mind. It is impossible to panic if you breathe gently and quietly!
8) Rest and relax
There are many ways to relax and calm the mind, from meditation through breathing, repeating a mantra, or just becoming more aware of what is happening from moment to moment. Other people relax by reading, sewing or through a hobby. Nonetheless everyone needs time just to chill out, rest and recover and let go the worries of the day.
9) Focus your mind
In some ways this is the opposite of the last tip. Just as the mind needs to relax, so it also needs to work. The most effective way to work is to focus or concentrate on one task at a time. It can take twenty minutes to recover from an interruption.
Modern life is full of diversions, e-mail, texts, mobile phones and it is easy to be continually distracted and do nothing all day. Multitasking sounds great but it is not efficient. People work better if they concentrate on one task at a time. The natural rhythm of concentration lasts between forty and fifty minutes. After that time, take a few minutes to recover, with some belly breathing, stilling the mind, and having a drink of water, before starting the next cycle.
Focus takes time to develop. Just as it takes time to get the body fit, it takes time to train the mind to focus on one task only. Start by setting a timer, to help you stay concentrated for a few minutes. As you get mentally fitter, your concentration span gets longer, until you can manage to concentrate intensely for up to forty or fifty minutes at a time.
A healthy mind is a fit mind. It is a mind that does what you want it to, rather one that is at the mercy of every passing whim and impulse.
10) Learn all you can about health
Although there is more and more health information available, much of it seems contradictory. One person says do this and another person says do that. Nonetheless, every health article usually has one or two good points worth remembering. But there always has to be a balance, for example, exercise is important but not if you have the flu. Activity has to be balanced with rest, concentration with relaxation and living a healthy life with the demands of earning a living. Some people recommend a low-fat diet, others a low sugar diet. You alone are the best person to find out what suits you and helps you feel healthy and energised.
By being interested in health, you learn more about yourself and this will encourage you to live a happier and healthier life.
Copyright (c) Dr. Liz Miller
http://www.drlizmiller.co.uk
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