10 Reasons to Exercise & A 30-Day Challenge. | Rebelle Society
1. Keeps you youthful. Cardio exercise such as yoga, jogging, light aerobics, brisk walking or bicycling increase the amount of oxygen consumed during exercise. Studies now show that people who exercise regularly tend to stay healthier as they age — according to Web MD, researchers have found that people who exercise have cells that look much younger under a microscope than people who do not regularly exercise. And we all know, true beauty emanates from the inside out — what’s inside will eventually make its way through.
2. Increases immunity. Regular, mindful workouts (not over-doing it) rev-up the immune system. Research shares that the average adult has two to three upper respiratory infections each year. However, studies found that people with a regular exercise routine report fewer colds and infections. And a strong immunity keeps us saying yes to life and all its invitations.
3. Prevents heart disease. An inactive lifestyle is one of the top risk factors for heart disease. Physical activity helps to keep you at a healthy weight and can reduce your chances of developing conditions that may put a strain on your heart, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. And a healthy heart could just translate into healthier relationships.
4. Eases-up asthma. According to a study in the UK, eight out of ten people with asthma aren’t doing enough exercise. Mindful and appropriate exercise for asthmatics can actually improve your lung capacity, which can help to manage asthma.
5. Controls blood sugar and lower diabetes. Moderate exercise makes your heart beat faster. When this happens, your muscles use more glucose, the sugar in your blood stream. Over time, this can lower blood sugar level and help the insulin in your body work better.
6. Helps to prevent cancer. New studies show that there is strong evidence that exercise is associated with reduced risk of cancers of the colon and breast, and reduces the risk of endometrial/uterus, lung, and prostate cancers.
7. Alleviates stress. According to the Mayo Clinic, exercise in almost any form can act as a stress reliever and can boost your feel-good endorphins — and distract you from daily, arbitrary worries.
8. Relieves menopausal symptoms. Moderate and frequent exercise has proven to improve the quality of sleep and elevate mood. It may also relieve night sweats, by reducing stress and balancing out hormones.
9. Protects men’s health. According to a study shared on Web MD, men who found time for five or more hours of exercise a week (just under an hour a day), whether job-related or for fun, were 30% to 50% less likely to develop an enlarged prostrate than those who exercised fewer than two hours a week.
10. Prolongs life. Researchers have found that moderate exercise, such as walking or bicycling, can substantially reduce your risk of early death.
And, just think — these are only 10 of the benefits of moving your body! Find what works best for you and the best part? You don’t have to over do it. Thirty minutes of sincere, moderate exercise every day will offer you life-affirming benefits.
via 10 Reasons to Exercise & A 30-Day Challenge. | Rebelle Society.
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AmeriCorps members are finding careers, bringing new energy to disaster services
When looking at the emotional phases of a disaster there is an attempt to understand what individual survivors and communities are going through after an event. Time and again we see the greatness of humanity post impact with heroic moments both great and small.
During the heroic phase we see people opening their homes, helping out neighbors, and performing infinite small kindnesses. It is during the heroic and honeymoon phases that survivors feel they are not alone, and they have hope for the future. Unfortunately the realization of the long haul ahead along with the truth of the months or years it will take to recover often leads to disillusionment, and sometimes the loss of that very hope that was so strongly present just days or weeks before.
Ebola kills 56 in two days, says WHO | News , World | THE DAILY STAR
The Ebola virus killed 56 people in just two days, bringing the global death toll to 1,069, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The death toll, which passed the 1,000-mark at the weekend, soared higher between August 10 and 11.
The number of confirmed infections jumped by 128 over the two days, bringing the total number of cases to 1,975 people, the UN’s health agency said.
New cases and deaths had been registered in all four west African countries so far hit by the worst Ebola epidemic seen since the deadly virus was discovered four decades ago.
Liberia saw 71 new cases and 32 new deaths, while Sierra Leone recorded 53 new cases and 19 more deaths, according to fresh WHO data.
Guinea, where the outbreak began at the beginning of the year, counted four new cases and four new deaths.
Nigeria, meanwhile, counted one more death, bringing the total there to three, but WHO lowered the total number of suspected, probable and confirmed cases in the country to 12 from 13.
via Ebola kills 56 in two days, says WHO | News , World | THE DAILY STAR.
‘My wife thinks I will come home in a box’ – and three days later Gaza bomb disposal expert was dead | World | The Guardian
Rahed Taysir al’Hom was buried in the sandy soil of the cemetery of Jabaliya, the rough Gaza neighbourhood where he had grown up, at 1pm on the third day of the ceasefire.
His funeral was quick, attended by a hundred or so mourners, and accompanied by a quick sermon from a white-turbaned cleric, a sobbing father and some shots fired from a Kalashnikov by a skinny teenager.
Two breezeblocks and a ripped piece of cardboard with his name scrawled on it now mark the grave of a personable man with an easy smile, hollow eyes and a quiet intensity that was entirely understandable given his job.
The 43-year-old father of seven lies next to his brother – a Hamas fighter killed in an Israeli air strike two weeks ago. But the al’Hom who died on Wednesday was not a warrior. He was head of the sole bomb disposal unit of Gaza’s northern governorate and his job was to protect several hundred thousand people from the unexploded ordnance that now litters the streets, fields and the rubble of many homes.
Al’Hom, who died when a 500kg bomb he was trying to defuse exploded at 10.30am on Wednesday, was an incidental casualty of a month-long war that no one seems able to stop.
Israeli Occupation Forces wage campaign of mass arrests in Jerusalem this morning
{Have not yet learned that this type of control cannot go on forever – if for no other reasons than expenses and allocation of personnel – 30% of Israeli’s working as police and military?} Today at dawn the Israeli Occupation Forces launched a campaign of mass arrests all over Jerusalem. They arrested more than 60 Palestinians under the pretext that they participated in protests in solidarity with Gaza and that they threw stones and bottles to the IOF and settlers during clashes.
A large group of Israeli Occupation Forces raided several districts and villages in and around Jerusalem in the early morning, causing the outbreak of clashes with the youth in different areas.
via Israeli Occupation Forces wage campaign of mass arrests in Jerusalem this morning.
Spider photobombs BBC Scotland news | Media | The Guardian
A spider photobombed a live BBC news bulletin when it crawled across the screen to catch an insect.
The spider, which which looked giant on screen, invaded the early morning edition of Reporting Scotland when it crept across the lens of the roof camera.
Newsreader Graham Stewart looked unperturbed as the spider grabbed the insect before retreating.
He later tweeted: “Never mind the pandas: giant hungry spider invades Reporting Scotland at breakfast time!”
via Spider photobombs BBC Scotland news | Media | The Guardian.
Watch Out: NYPD Starts 2-Week Bicyclist Crackdown Today!: Gothamist
Will the police knock bicyclists off their bikes to ticket them? Block the bike lane to ticket bicyclists? Hand out tickets for not wearing helmets (should be a field day with Citi Bike users)? Hand out pamphlets for “psycho cyclists”? Does Alec Baldwin know about this?!?
Anything could happen. Send your experiences to tips@gothamist.com.
via Watch Out: NYPD Starts 2-Week Bicyclist Crackdown Today!: Gothamist.
Party People on the Streets of Blackpool
Blackpool was never the Riviera. Twenty years ago, William E. Schmidt, a correspondent for The New York Times, wrote a travel article in which he said, “Even by the dreary standards of so many British beach resorts — foul water and worse weather — Blackpool is in a league of its own.”






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