Either ways you are one who stands to benefit. However, while losing weight it is important to understand that any drastic move robs the body of vital nutrients that you actually cannot do without.

This will not only cause you a lot of weakness and rob the body of the vitality needed to perform daily domestic and work related chores, but also ruin the entire effort prematurely. You should research and get educated on fat loss nutrition prior to taking on any remedial measure for weight gain.

Nutritionally right:

It is important to understand that weight gain could be the result of a number of different developments. It could rise out of wrong eating habits or erratic times, or just eating the wrong food components. It could also arise out of a bodily phase like hormonal imbalances during menopause or even the inherited instance of morbid obesity.

It is thus essential to get the condition clinically analyzed and only then take on a remedy. There are a number of online as well as offline resources that now allow you to address fat loss nutrition information for free.

Most of these resources are run by professionals from the medical fraternity or allied industries such as nutritionists, dieticians, weight trainers and even alternate therapy consultants. The whole idea behind the commune is to ensure that you make the right choice of a fat burn product and check out all details on fat loss nutrition when you invest in any one.

They don’t come too cheap and hence it would do you a world of good to investigate prior to investment. Considering the scams and forced referrals that are making the rounds, it also helps to interrogate and choose a product only after personally getting in touch with the company’s resource base or another user of the product via the many highly interactive forums online.

Fat burn and nutrition – vital connection:

Finding out about fat loss nutrition before adopting a weight loss product is the right approach. You can’t starve to lose weight since the body is a delicate mechanism and the biological clock will tick right only when it is fed. This is where fat loss nutrition plays a vital role in the process of fat burn. You can make the endeavor a success or failure with your attitude.

It is critical to remember that abstaining from food is not the solution to be sought; it is actually feeding the self on the right meal components that will usher in change. You will be amazed at the number of resources online and offline that are dedicated simply to empowering you to make the right decision.

The true proponent of judo must know a variety of strangles he can use on his opponent. This is one of the best-kept secrets of judo. In this article we will discuss kata-ha-jime (single wing strangle), hadaka-jime (bare-hand strangle) and ryote-jime (two-hand strangle). All these strangles can be very useful againsy your opponent.

1. Kata-ha-jime (single wing strangle)
Kata-ha-jime is a technique used in strangling an opponent from behind. With your left hand, grasp your opponent’s right collar deeply, using a regular palm-down hold and pressing your forearm against and under his chin. Slide your right forearm under his right arm and carry his arm up and over the nape of his neck while drawing your left hand from the right to the left side to strangle him into submission.

Key points:
a. Keep your posture erect so that you can draw power from your waist and abdominal region.
b. Synchronize the movement of your right arm, which pushes his right arm up and backward, with that of your left hand, which moves horizontally from the right to the left.
c. Pull your opponent’s body back in order to slant his upper body backward a little to the left. This will cause him to lose the resisting power of his waist and abdominal region.

2. Hadaka-jime (bare-hand strangle)
One of the secrets of judo is that in the techniques of strangulation you press both your opponent’s windpipe and the carotid arteries on either side of his neck. In hadaka-jime you place your left forearm against the right side of his neck and your left arm across the front of his neck. Your left palm is placed downward on the inner elbow fold of your right arm.

Now bend your right arm backward and place your right palm against the back of your opponent’s head. Your left arm rests on top of his left shoulder. In the technique of hadaka-jime you apply pressure with the left radius part of your wrist against the front of his neck. Then you push his head forward with the palm of your right hand while you draw your left forearm backward to complete the strangle.

Key points:
a. Keep your posture erect.
b. Break your opponent’s posture backwards to overcome his defensive power.
c. Your left forearm is drawn back-not pulled around-with the same pressure as that exerted by your right hand in pressing forward.

3.Ryote-jime (two-hand strangle)
You grasp your opponent by both sides of his collar in the front with your hands in the regular hold (hands clenched, thumbs up).The little finger of your left hand is placed on his right carotid, and that of your right hand presses his left carotid.

Now, with both your hands, press both sides of his neck at the same time, twisting your wrists inwards until the palms of both hands are turned upwards. The force applied to his neck is produced with the pressure of the front of your clenched fist or the lower part of your fingers. You can also strangle him from underneath.

Key points:
a. Prevent your opponent’s use of the defensive power of his abdominal region by pulling him down and forward, thereby breaking his posture. Complete the movement by pressing the weight of your hip region against the side of his neck. When you apply ryote-jime from underneath, you must break his waist posture by kicking his right thigh away with your foot.
b. Turn both your wrists simultaneously until pressure is created against both sides of his neck when the front of the fists of both your hands (palm up) twist into both sides of his neck to complete the strangle.

It is very crucial and overtly important for bodybuilders to be consistent in every aspect of their bodybuilding program from diet, training and even rest. A lot of bodybuilders majority of whom are teenagers do wonder about in the gym where they just wander from one exercise to the other more so as heavily as they could devoid of any rhyme or even reason.

This is a poor case of planning and it is very paramount that one puts a training plan in place before that important trip towards the gym. It also good to have a look at professional or reputed bodybuilders work out plans so that one who does not have one can be able to draw his own to his/her own perfection.

This in essence is literally a path leading to mediocre returns as well as a cause of injuries that are uncalled for. In fact at the end of the day it is consistency that will be a bodybuilder’s most powerful aide and ally if they will be making any long lasting gains in their bodybuilding lives.

On the other hand a workout plan from a champion’s routine is not overtly recommended because of the level of complexity and harder routines. Once a person has been training for more than ten years as a bodybuilder, then he/she has learnt just how their systems in the body respond to bodybuilding training.

In fact at this point one the bodybuilding world the routine of training has been unmistakably designed to aid in addressing all the weak parts of the body whiles at the same time helping in the maintenance of the strong body parts.

Also, the professional routine could also be isolated in terms of exercise in more ways than a beginner’s or an intermediate’s. Finally, the volume in terms of training as well as frequency in a professional’s training schedule could reflect an individual’s most unique manner for the capacity of the volume of training, which could be too much higher more than that seen in a teen bodybuilder’s.

This in retrospect is an advanced program which is too much for most teenagers who are just on the verge of jumpstarting their bodybuilding activities as well as for those intermediate youths in the bodybuilding world.

Essentially, an advanced routine adapted from the professional or even from high level international or national competitor is enough to leave the teenager as well as intermediate more over trained as well as under trained in other areas.

In addition, the volume of training as well as the frequency could be too high which could immediately end up overtraining the novice bodybuilder and then obviously to the sublimes of injury.

SLEEP HURDLE 2
Restless Legs
The solution Ask her for a massage.
Why it works Men who do a lot of leg work – either during aerobic exercise or when lifting weights – may feel an excess of energy coursing through their lower extremities. A massage may help soothe the savage muscle fibre. If your bed partner isn’t a beefy-armed masseuse, pummel your quads, glutes and calves yourself.

SLEEP HURDLE 3
A Dripping Tap
The solution Until you save up for a washer, tune a radio between two stations to create light static.
Why it works Kept low, the static will help drown out ambient noise while providing a soothing backdrop to fall asleep to, says Dr Victor Kim of the Temple University Sleep Disorders Center in Philadelphia. If noise persists, buy foam earplugs (they won’t hurt your ear canals when you turn over) that can block 32 decibels. You’ll be able to hear emergency sirens, but not low-level noise.

SLEEP HURDLE 4
Your Mind’s Reeling
The solution Read.
Why it works The stimulating content and extra light from TV can keep you awake, but reading helps your brain relax. It’s that repetition – line after line, page after page – that helps you fall asleep, says Dr Alex Chediak, medical director of the Miami Sleep Disorders Center. Drawing or working on a crossword puzzle may help, too.

SLEEP HURDLE 5
You Can’t Get Comfy
The solution Upgrade your bed.
Why it works Your mattress doubles in weight about every 10 years from sweat, oil and dust mites, says Breus. Let that disgusting thought inspire you to go out and buy a better bed.
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Principal contractor, Asaad Al-Helu was undertaking construction work at a site in Hull. The premises contained flammable materials, such as wood and rubbish, and an unsafe electrical system, yet workers were still allowed to smoke and drink on site.

There were no means of escape, or of raising the alarm in the event of a fire. This not only put the men sleeping on site in danger but also posed a potential risk to residents of nearby houses.

On being alerted to the situation at the site by Hull City Council, the HSE investigated the premises in February 2008. Inspector John Rowe immediately served two Prohibition Notices in relation to working at height and the safety of the electrical fixtures, respectively.

Following the inspector’s visit, a fire-safety officer and housing officer from the council investigated the premises and issued a Prohibition Order under the Housing Act 2004, in order to evict and re-house the workers.

Inspector Rowe revisited the site in March 2008 and served a further Prohibition Notice stopping all work, as “there was nobody competent on the site to manage the construction work safely”. Al-Helu had no background in construction and failed to prepare a construction plan before the start of the work. If he had carried out a plan, it should have brought to light the risks from fire, work at height, and site electrics, and enabled safe practices to be used. No work has since been carried out on the site.

Appearing before Hull magistrates on 31 March, Al-Helu pleaded guilty to two offences under s33(1) of the HSWA 1974: a breach of reg. 23(1)(a) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007, for failing to prepare a construction plan; and a failure to discharge his duty under s3(2) of the HSWA not to expose persons not in his employment to risks to their health and safety.

Al-Helu accepted he had made mistakes but had trusted the workers to do a good job. He also told the court he had fallen on hard times because of the credit crunch. The magistrates said it was fairly obvious that Al-Helu had no competence in construction and told him that if he was to engage in such activity he must fully conversant with the rules and regulations.

He was fined £1000 and ordered to pay costs of £1149.

Inspector Rowe told SHP that this was the first time he had ever come across workers sleeping on site. He said: “These five construction workers were allowed to sleep on the site at night, which exposed them to fatal injuries in the foreseeable event of a fire. One carelessly discarded cigarette could have had serious and possibly fatal consequences, not only for themselves but also for local residents.

“Generally, standards of work and preparation on the site fell far short of the industry norm. The risks were foreseeable and straightforward to avoid.”

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Kidneys are super-filters, ridding your body of toxins and turning your blood into high-performance liquid. Unfortunately, we don’t look after them. Too much alcohol and a bad diet stops their good work, resulting in nasty consequences like Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD). Worst case scenario, CKD can lead to heart attacks and strokes. Not good. Here are five solutions to stop you from killing your kidneys.

1. Drop the pressure
   High blood pressure is present in 80 percent of patients with CKD. Nearly one-billion people worldwide have high blood pressure and that number is expected to increase to 1.56 billion by 2025. High blood pressure puts more stress on your kidneys so they can’t filter waste from the blood properly (which eventually leads to CKD). Keep your blood pressure down and you’ll reduce the risk of needing dialysis or experiencing a heart attack or stroke. The best ways to do that? Regular exercise and a balanced diet. Weight loss of as little as four or five kilograms can mean a massive improvement in blood pressure.
2. Cut the sodium
   Men dig biltong. Cheesy pizzas. Slap chips. Unfortunately, your kidneys don’t dig all the salt that comes with these treats. Your kidneys are designed to balance the salt intake naturally occurring in foods, with your body needs. But with the modern processed foods and increased salt levels, our inbuilt filters are working harder than ever. More salt means higher blood pressure and less blood flow to the kidneys, impairing its function and leading to CKD. Try to keep below 1 500mg of sodium a day.
3. Drink water, not booze
   Yes this may sound obvious, but few know the affects of alcohol on the kidney. In simple words, it screws up the balance of nutrients and the way the kidney does its filtering. Ease up on the booze and drink water with all your meals.
4. Check your genetics
   One of the easiest ways of keeping track of your kidney health is to go for regular blood pressure and urine examinations, and also to track your family history. If you have had any relatives with CKD or related diseases, ask your doc for some info. Ask about the dangers of hypertension and learn some self-measurement techniques so you can keep tabs on your own health.
5. Don’t abuse drugs or supplements
   Some over-the-counter medicines can be toxic to your kidneys if taken regularly over a long period of time. Combinations of aspirin, acetaminophen, and other medicines such as ibuprofen are the most dangerous to the kidneys. If you take drugs like these regularly, consult your doctor. If you have diabetes, monitor your blood glucose closely to keep it under control. Watch out for creatine and protein supplements. They place more stress on your kidneys, as the increased protein levels are hard to filter properly. Check with a dietician.

• Keep moving

• Shift your position often – at least every 45 minutes, every 20 minutes is even better, but every two minutes is just bloody annoying for the rest of us – and don’t forget to stretch.

Loneliness versus Solitude

Yet there is nothing wrong with being alone. It is part of finally growing up (at any age). Besides, loneliness and solitude are completely different. Loneliness is a sad, scary experience, negative in every respect. On the other hand, occasional voluntary solitude acts as a positive, peaceful refuge from noise and hassle, an instant respite that nourishes our inner life and, oddly enough, protects us from being lonely. The lonely person feels separated from everybody else by a massive invisible wall, even when he or she is among people. Indeed, the worst scenario is to feel lonely when being with a loved person, as if you were not speaking the same language or living on the same planet.

A sense of loneliness often starts early in life, when a child feels ‘different’ from the others who promptly pick up the cue and act accordingly, sometimes with the surprising cruelty of small children. Being excluded hurts as much at the age of four as at 40. We are social beings, and at least occasionally, need to be mirrored and reassured by our peers. According to the Canadian psychologist Eric Berne, we all need stroking; without it, symbolically speaking, our spine will wither away. Hence the painful conflict of the lonely individual – on the one hand there is the great longing to be accepted, on the other the fear of being rejected, just like in the past. Normally the fear is the stronger, and the wall of isolation grows a little thicker.

Loneliness, like poverty, doesn’t come from God, from outer space or from any other external source. Over the years I have been observing how several clients of mine were actually causing the loneliness they were complaining about. One of them, a young, attractive flight attendant working at a London airport repeatedly claimed that her colleagues were nice and polite but remote, unwilling to make friends with her. One day, describing her daily routine, she told me that she normally had breakfast in the canteen, where her colleagues always ate together, while she would sit at a small table behind a pillar. In the coach, which took the crew to their next flying job, she also had a favourite seat, a single perch behind the driver. At this stage for an irreverent moment I wondered whether she’d actually prefer to travel on the aircraft’s wings, but instead I only asked how she expected anyone to join her on her single seats, and indeed wasn’t she giving the impression of being aloof and unfriendly? This idea amazed her. She even objected to it, but not for long.

Another, more mature client, who enjoyed financial security and had many acquaintances, lived on her own and complained bitterly about not belonging to any group or community. Yes, she did receive invitations – to sing in a choir, to run a reading circle, to join a dance group, but she turned them all down. Why, since she had a good voice and loved reading and dancing? Because she felt sure that behind the invitations there was nothing but pity for her lonely state, and she was too proud to go along with that. Clearly, own goals are not limited to the football field.

These two stories are good examples of the DIY origin of loneliness. Its antidote is the realization that life is a network of countless connections, and that if we acknowledge the shared factors of existence, the atmosphere and temperature of our relationships will immediately improve, for clearly others need stroking as much as we do. At the most basic level we are all born and we all die, and between those two gates of life our paths are pretty similar – we might just as well be linked by what we share, rather than be separated by our differences.

Solitude at its Best

Solitude is the positive aspect of being alone. We all need it at times, but many people are afraid of it, afraid of its silence and inactivity, which are so different from the noisy, stressful, driven lifestyle they take for granted. That lifestyle only serves the interests of the consumer society, for it stops us from staying still and pondering life’s essential values. And, of course, independent thought curbs the appetite for acquisitions. But if we never choose to spend some time alone, how can we observe our inner experiences, or find out who we really are behind our public image, where we are going, or what our life is all about?

Only in solitude can we hear our inner voice, that of instinct and intuition, which is normally wiser and more honest than our everyday perception. That inner voice has the answer to our important questions, and that in turn gives us a sense of independence, for we no longer expect others to hold up a mirror for us and pass judgment on the result. This inner independence even improves our intimate relationships, for we no longer expect – normally in vain – that our partner should make up for all our deficiencies. Above all, we discover how to be alone without feeling in the least bit lonely.

Without solitude there is no creativity. The greatest geniuses – artists, philosophers, inventors, authors – did not produce their masterpieces in company. But you needn’t be a genius to enjoy the fruits of solitude. All of us are capable of producing at least one masterpiece: the greatest possible flowering and fulfilment of our own life.

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People who work long hours are at an increased risk of suffering a decline in their cognitive function.

This close association is revealed
in a major study carried out by the Finnish Institute of Occupational
Health and University College London, and comes ahead of ‘Work Your
Proper Hours Day’ on 27 February.

More than 2200 British civil servants were tested as part of the research, which formed part of the Whitehall II study. They took five different cognitive tests in 1997-99, and again in 2002-04. Employees working very long hours (more than 55 hours per week) and those who worked an average of 41-55 hours performed worse in vocabulary and cognitive-reasoning tests, compared with employees who worked normal working hours (35-40 hours).

Employees with long working hours also slept for shorter periods, reported more symptoms of depression, and consumed more alcohol than those with normal working hours.

It is not, however, known why long working hours seem to have an adverse effect on cognitive function. According to the Institute, several factors may contribute to the process, including sleeping problems, depression, unhealthy lifestyle, and cardiovascular diseases.

The Institute’s professor, Mika Kivimaki, commented: “We will go on with this study question in the future. It is particularly important to examine whether the effects are long-lasting and whether long working hours predict more serious conditions, such as dementia.”

The TUC accepts that the recession will encourage many workers across the country to do all they can – including working beyond their contracted hours – to keep their employers afloat and their jobs secure. But it still intends to celebrate Work Your Proper Hours Day on Friday to get the message across that working excessive hours can be harmful to health.

General secretary, Brendan Barber, told SHP: “This week the TUC is marking Work Your Proper Hours Day by showing that, once again, 5 million workers in the UK are giving their employers seven hours and six minutes of their time for free in unpaid overtime each week. Workers should be applauded for wanting to help their employers out in a downturn but when the economy gets back on its feet, employers must be careful to limit the effect of the long-hours’ culture on their workplaces.”

Provincial and ex-South African Universities surfer, Jazz Kuschke, puts the revolutionary Firewire surfboard from Australian shaper, Nev Hyman, through its paces

What is it? A board made from a combination of epoxy composites and an expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam core that has balsa-wood rails rather than a stringer (a thin piece of wood running from nose to tail that increases the strength of the board), like a conventional fibreglass board. The history of using balsa as a material for surfboard making, goes back to the Hawaiians but really took off in the late Thirties. The advantage of balsa wood is that it’s light and strong, making surfboards more buoyant and therefore easier to handle.

Why all the fuss? The Firewire ticks all three magic, surf-tech boxes:

1. LIGHTER:
It may sound like space-science, but the numbers don’t lie: unlike regular polyurethane cores, which weigh can weigh up to 1.5kg per cubic foot, Firewire’s cores are built from 500g EPS foam. To stabilise the core and increase strength a three-millimetre layer of high-density aerospace composite is then added through a vacuum process. This leaves you with a wave-riding machine that’s lighter than most boards you’re likely to buy off a surf shop shelf. That being said, a (conventional) custom-shaped, competition-specific board glassed (outer cloth on the top and bottom of the board) with four-once cloth will probably weigh about the same. The trade-off comes in the durability.

2. STRONGER:
Conventional boards are notoriously weak – take a big wave on the head or hit a sand bank at the wrong angle and you’re back on the beach with half a board in each hand. A Firewire can take just about everything the ocean and rider can throw at it. Rumour has it that top World Tour professional Taj Burrow goes through one Firewire in the same time he used to go through 20 “normal” boards. To me that says a lot – pros demand a lot from their equipment.

3. FASTER:
It’s the hardest one of the three to measure truly objectively, but in practical surfing terms it’s probably the easiest – surfers are all about how boards “feel”. And the Taj model flies. As proof – there hasn’t been a lot of swell around Cape Town for the past couple of weeks, so I’ve been riding it in tiny West Coast slop and generating the most speed I’ve ever been able to on such powerless waves.

What about the drawbacks?

• The price – R6 500 (for the Taj model) is pretty steep.
• No custom shapes yet – you have to choose from a pre-determined model. (If the mass production thing worries you, know that top South African surfer, Sean Holmes, swears by his.)
• It may be too strong. In my opinion, one of the coolest things about surfing is ordering and getting a new custom-shaped board. With Firewire, you’ll probably need to buy only one board every five years or so.