Category: General Interest

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Interval Walking Training — Going Beyond Step Count

  • Interval Walking Training (IWT) was observed to help improve lower blood pressure, depression symptoms and stroke risk while enhancing muscle strength and immune system function
  • Moderate-intensity exercise like walking is highly beneficial, with benefits increasing from 2,000 to 12,000 steps daily without apparent upper limits on positive effects
  • Japanese researchers have developed innovative walking techniques, including IWT and slow running, offering accessible solutions for people of all ages and fitness levels
  • Slow running and light-intensity exercise activates brain genes, increases neural activity in the hippocampus and provides mental health benefits without requiring athlete-like levels of discipline
  • Walking is enhanced through various methods like weighted vests, Nordic walking, outdoor nature walks, social walking and using the time for creative thinking and personal development

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2025/01/11/interval-walking-training.aspx

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‘Wide Body of Science’ Links Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals to Infertility in Women

Endocrine Chemicals Infertility

In a Frontiers in Public Health review article, researchers report on the wide body of science connecting adverse effects to the female reproductive system, such as infertility, with exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, or EDCs.

The authors call these effects a significant concern for public health, as there has been growing evidence of EDCs with risk factors for decreased fertility.

Infertility “affects a substantial proportion of the world’s population with approximately one in six people affected,” the researchers note.

They continue:

“Over the last 70 years, global fertility has been constantly in decline due to behavioral and societal changes … emerging evidence has shown that infertility incidence is linked to exposure to environmental factors such as tobacco, alcohol, and a wide range of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) including pesticides (chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane [DDT] and methoxychlor), phthalates, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB), dioxins, and bisphenols.”

In this review, over 100 studies are summarized to showcase the link between EDC exposure and reproductive effects in women, including infertility and related diseases such as endometriosis, premature ovarian insufficiency, or POI, and endocrine axis dysregulation.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-infertility-women/

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Attitude Is Everything

A famous writer was in his study.  He picked up his pen and began writing:
“Last year, my gallbladder was removed.
I was stuck in bed due to this surgery for a long time.
The same year I reached the age of 60 and had to give up my favorite job.
I had spent 30 years of my life with this publishing company.
The same year I experienced the death of my father.
In the same year my son failed in his medical exam because he had a car accident. He had to stay in the hospital with a cast on his leg for several days.
And, the destruction of the car was a second loss.
Alas! It was such a bad year!”

When the writer’s wife entered the room, she found her husband looking dejected, sad and lost in his thoughts.  
She carefully and surreptitiously read what he had written, and silently left the room and came back shortly with another piece of paper on which she had written her summary of the year’s events and placed it beside 
her husband’s paper.  
 
When her husband saw that she had written something in response to his account of the year’s events, he read:

“Last year I finally got rid of my gallbladder which had given me many years of pain.  
I turned 60 with sound health and retired from my job. 
Now I can utilize my time to write better and with more focus and peace.
The same year my father, at the age of 95 without depending on anyone and without any critical conditions, met his Creator.
The same year, God blessed my son with life.
“My car was destroyed, but my son was alive and without permanent disability.
This year was an immense blessing and it passed well!”

~ MORAL ~
In our daily lives we must see that it’s not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. There is always, always something to be thankful for.
 
ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
Attitude is the one thing that we always, in every circumstance, have control over.