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Thursday, September 6, 2007

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Performing a Balancing Act
Balance is often put on the backburner of most fitness programs. In fact, we often don't think about balance until we lose it.
Good balance is necessary to perform all activities in optimal form and to reduce injuries. Properly developed core muscles (the muscles from your shoulder to your groin) are central to stabilizing the entire body and promoting balance.
Training for better balance doesn't have to be a major project. First, thoroughly train your core a few times per week.Then perform some actual balance moves such as:
* standing on one leg with various arm positions
* stand with feet together and eyes closed.
* stand on one leg and shift your glance up, down, right and left.
* repeat all of the above on an uneven surface like a soft pillow.
Crosstraining which involves participating in a variety of activities significantly improves coordination, strength and flexibility which in turn leads to better balance. Finally try walking or jogging on uneven ground or sand.
As you can see balance training isn't difficult or time consuming but it is a necessity. Balance is as important as other fitness componenets and should be given proper attention in the design of a well rounded exercise program.
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Dr Lanny Schaffer is an Exercise Physiologist and President of The International Fitness Academy. For more cutting edge health and fitness articles go to http://www.aerobic-exercise-coach.com


Learn the symptoms of strep throat and how to distinguish it from a cold
Strep throat is an annoying contagious illness that makes the throat irritated and can cause serious pain in some cases. It keeps advancing if it's not treated. Strep throat is caused by a bacteria called a streptococcus that can be transmitted through the air, especially if an already infected person coughs or sneezes.
It's good to know the symptoms of strep throat so that you take action as soon as you suspect that you have been infected with the bacteria that causes it. Starting the treatment early can prevent the infection from evolving and spreading, so keep an eye out for the following signs:
-sore throat and pain when you swallow
-sudden severe sore throat not accompanied by sneezing like when you have a cold
-fever that goes over 38°C (high fever indicates an infection with a virus)
-in some cases, usually at young children the patient can vomit and experience stomach aches
-headache usually comes with the more severe sore throat
-your tonsils swallow visibly and red spots can appear of the roof of your mouth
-the lymph nodes from the neck swallow
-skin rash appears in seldom cases
You should be able to make the difference between a sore throat and an influenza or a cold. Colds also come with sneezing, coughing and fever under 38°C. When you have a cold or an influenza your nose is runny, while strep throat doesn't make your nose run.
You should start suspecting strep throat when you see that you have a sore throat that does not pass, in fact it gets worse although you have taken the normal medication. If your sore throat is accompanied by a headache then the chances are higher. When you start feeling very tired all the time then it's almost sure that you have been infected with the streptococcus.
If you pay attention to the symptoms and you suspect that you or a family member has strep throat visit your doctor to get an accurate diagnosis. Do this soon, before the illness spreads and causes complications. The treatment is easy and the whole infection can be cured in a few days because antibiotics are very effective against strep throat, especially if the infection has not spread.

For more resources on different strep throat subjects check out this link http://www.strep-throat-center.com. You can find great content regarding strep throat in adults, strep throat symptoms, home remedy for strep throat , strep throat symptoms, sore throat and many more strep throat related issues.


How is scabies treated and what is the most effective treatment method?
Scabies is a parasitic, contagious infection of the skin that can spread quite quickly both from one area of the skin to another and from one person to another by simple skin to skin contact. It is caused by very tiny, almost invisible without a magnifying device, mites. These mites live on the skin and cause it to irritate and itch. They also lay eggs and multiply so you need to get rid of them quick if you don't want all your skin to become infected.
You can recognize persons with scabies by the large amount of small red spots on their skin. These dot-like spots appear where the mites burrow under the skin surface to search for food or to lay eggs.
The scabies infection is very nasty and it can lead to unbearable itching, so you need to treat it as soon as you discover that you have it, or you must try to prevent it if you see that one of your friends or family members have it.
You must first consult a doctor who will look at your skin and analyze a sample from an affected area to confirm that it has the mites on it. If the result is positive then the treatment must begin.
There's nothing to worry about the scabies treatments. It's highly effective and it's also simple. The doctor will prescribe you a cream or a lotion that you need to apply all over your body, on both the infected areas and the clean ones, because scabies may have laid eggs that are not visible.
The creams and lotions shouldn't be applied on the skin after a bath because the skin is more absorbant after it's washed and the lotions must stay on the infected areas for a few hours so that they can kill the mites. Some creams must stay for 12 hours on the skin and then they need to be washed away. You need to apply the lotions several times before all the mites go away and then for a few more days to prevent them from re-appearing.
After getting rid of the mites from your skin you need to carefully clean all the clothing that you've worn since the infection, because the mites can remain on them. However, if the clothes are not worn for more than a week the mites will starve, but the best thing to do is wash them at more than 50 degrees Celsius.
Remember that although the mites are dead, the skin will still be very itchy for 2 or 3 more weeks because it is irritated from the mites' dead bodies.
The scabies treatment is very effective, the creams and lotions kill all the mites, but if the scabies wasn't treated for a long time then there may be thousands of them on your skin. In this case a much stronger treatment is needed, but they will die eventually. Remember that you need to visit a doctor as soon as the first signs appear.

For more resources on different scabies related issues like causes of scabies, scabies rash, scabies treatment and many more visit http://www.scabies-center.com/