Showing posts with label Morning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morning. Show all posts

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

5 Simple Components of a Perfect Morning

Cannot bring yourself to wake up and go to work? Each morning turns into a nightmare? Tired of looking for a suitable motivation technique for waking up and still every morning you hate the whole world? To make your morning good, these 5 simple but effective components are needed:


It is not necessary to immediately turn into a professional athlete and put a bunch of unrealistic goals such as the number of sit-ups and push-ups or a certain distance to run. Start simple: each morning in all weather and at any mood, 10 minutes after waking up out of bed do a little workout with smooth movements, and then gradually increase the pace. The load, number and variety of exercises should be gradually increased every 3 days by adding new elements and movements. Strength exercises and heavy loads should be left for the second half of the day: do not try to wake yourself up with strength training. A proper morning exercise works better than any coffee and antidepressants or stimulants.


Morning shower should last no longer than 15 minutes. This is a quick way to refresh your mind and body, finally wake up and reinforce that boost of energy you got after 15-30 minutes of morning warm-up exercises.


Always take your breakfast, since it is the most important meal and the start of your day. Not only your mother and grandmother agree on the importance of the breakfast, but also eminent dieticians, therapists and doctors working with athletes and the military.


Emotional charge for your body is no less important than food. Something invigorating, rhythmic but unobtrusive should be your background music. Avoid listening to the radio or watching the TV with their advertising and news about politics and accidents! Start your morning with positive music, not with disturbing and negative influences of the media.


It is the final component of a good morning on our list, but not the least in importance. Even if you need just 20-30 minutes to get to your place of work or study, prefer to make this journey on foot.


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Friday, 21 March 2014

Morning Break: Deadbeat Patients, Fish in the Gullet?

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Published: Mar 20, 2014

Business owners who claim that forcing them to provide health insurance that covers contraception violates their religious freedom will get their day in court -- Supreme Court -- next Tuesday when the "Supremes" hear oral arguments on that issue. Kaiser Health News in collaboration with The Daily Beast preview talking points.

An ACA rule could put doctors on the hook for patients who don't pay their insurance premiums. Read MedPage Today's coverage of the AMA's advice to doctors on how to handle such patients.

A New England Journal of Medicine editorial Wednesday called for the Senate to confirm Vivek Murthy, MD as the next surgeon general despite his comments about gun control.

Since laughter is the best medicine, here's your Rx today: Dr. Grumpy relates what not to say to a blind patient.

If anyone has ever told you they felt it in their gut that dark chocolate is good for you, unfortunately, they are sort of right.

WHO says only one-quarter of patients globally with multidrug-resistant TB are diagnosed, but a new initiative is improving the odds.

People are passionate about food, as CNN.com learned from the dozens of responses to a story about the "correct" way to cook quinoa.

A nurse's conviction for encouraging suicides was overturned by the Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday, ruling unconstitutional parts of a law making it a crime to encourage or advise suicide, Reuters reported.

In case you ever need to remove a live fish from a patient's throat, here's how.

GlaxoSmithKline's MAGE-A3 cancer vaccine disappointed again, this time in a phase III trial for non-small cell lung cancer. Last fall, it fell short as a melanoma treatment.

An op/ed on SGR asks: "Is this anyway to treat America's doctors?" by MedPage Today reader Brian Joondeph, MD.

What's the evidence for evidence-based medicine? asks a blogger at BMJ.

Leana Wen, MD, profiles The Ten Types of ER Patients.

William Heisel looks at what happens after doctors are disciplined by state medical boards.

Who had richer parents, doctors or artists? asks NPR.

The A4 Alzheimer's chemoprevention trial team lays out the plan and rationale in this essay in Science Translational Medicine (sub req'd).

Health reform is literally changing the way medical practices are built.

IBM's Watson will help match glioblastoma patients with optimal treatment as part of a study run by the New York Genome Center.

Morning Break is a daily guide to what's new and interesting on the Web for healthcare professionals, powered by the MedPage Today community. Got a tip? Send it to us:   MPT_editorial@everydayhealthinc.com.

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Morning Break: Tweeting Surgery, Bionic Limbs

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Published: Mar 21, 2014

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will live Tweet from the OR as surgeons perform gastric bypass surgery on a 12-year old Texas girl who has had uncontrollable hunger following removal of a brain tumor almost 3 years ago. The girl, Alexis Shapiro, gained a national attention following a story in People.

Physician assistants are in hot demand by hospitals, according to staffing firm.

An oncology patient didn't have 8 months to wait for her daughter's wedding, so the hospital staff brought the wedding to the ICU, as reported in the New York Times.

Also in the Times yesterday, the Well blog tackles the issue of whether today's advances in medicine are generating enough of a benefit to make a difference in patients' outcomes.

A woman whose left leg was partially amputated following the Boston Marathon bombing showed off a new bionic limb by dancing a rumba at TED2014.

American Medical Association President Ardis Hoven, MD, went on C-SPAN this week to talk about how the Affordable Care Act is impacting doctors.

Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill may never see the light of day.

Florbetaben (Neuraceq) became the third PET tracer for beta-amyloid plaques to win FDA approval, following florbetapir (AmyVid) and flutemetamol (Vizamyl).

A new poll shows people want elected officials to try to make the ACA work rather than fail.

A former health official in the Clinton administration wrote in the Huffington Post that we shouldn't be quick to judge medical homes.

The Federal Trade Commission opened a two-day workshop on competition in healthcare Thursday.

Lobbyists want the FDA to hurry up on approving new sunscreen ingredients that could prevent skin cancer.

Health Affairs published a policy brief on the ICD-10 conversion. Check it out here.

Medical marijuana is coming to Alabama.

Meanwhile, debate in Connecticut heats up over a physician-assisted suicide bill. (Subscription required)

The EU's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use had a busy week, recommending nine new drugs for approval.

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Morning Break: Tweeting Surgery, Bionic Limbs

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Published: Mar 21, 2014

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will live Tweet from the OR as surgeons perform gastric bypass surgery on a 12-year old Texas girl who has had uncontrollable hunger following removal of a brain tumor almost 3 years ago. The girl, Alexis Shapiro, gained a national attention following a story in People.

Physician assistants are in hot demand by hospitals, according to staffing firm.

An oncology patient didn't have 8 months to wait for her daughter's wedding, so the hospital staff brought the wedding to the ICU, as reported in the New York Times.

Also in the Times yesterday, the Well blog tackles the issue of whether today's advances in medicine are generating enough of a benefit to make a difference in patients' outcomes.

A woman whose left leg was partially amputated following the Boston Marathon bombing showed off a new bionic limb by dancing a rumba at TED2014.

American Medical Association President Ardis Hoven, MD, went on C-SPAN this week to talk about how the Affordable Care Act is impacting doctors.

Republicans' Obamacare replacement bill may never see the light of day.

Florbetaben (Neuraceq) became the third PET tracer for beta-amyloid plaques to win FDA approval, following florbetapir (AmyVid) and flutemetamol (Vizamyl).

A new poll shows people want elected officials to try to make the ACA work rather than fail.

A former health official in the Clinton administration wrote in the Huffington Post that we shouldn't be quick to judge medical homes.

The Federal Trade Commission opened a two-day workshop on competition in healthcare Thursday.

Lobbyists want the FDA to hurry up on approving new sunscreen ingredients that could prevent skin cancer.

Health Affairs published a policy brief on the ICD-10 conversion. Check it out here.

Medical marijuana is coming to Alabama.

Meanwhile, debate in Connecticut heats up over a physician-assisted suicide bill. (Subscription required)

The EU's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use had a busy week, recommending nine new drugs for approval.

Morning Break is a daily guide to what's new and interesting on the Web for healthcare professionals, powered by the MedPage Today community. Got a tip? Send it to us:  MPT_editorial@everydayhealthinc.com.

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Thursday, 5 December 2013

5 Simple Components of a Perfect Morning

Cannot bring yourself to wake up and go to work? Each morning turns into a nightmare? Tired of looking for a suitable motivation technique for waking up and still every morning you hate the whole world? To make your morning good, these 5 simple but effective components are needed:


It is not necessary to immediately turn into a professional athlete and put a bunch of unrealistic goals such as the number of sit-ups and push-ups or a certain distance to run. Start simple: each morning in all weather and at any mood, 10 minutes after waking up out of bed do a little workout with smooth movements, and then gradually increase the pace. The load, number and variety of exercises should be gradually increased every 3 days by adding new elements and movements. Strength exercises and heavy loads should be left for the second half of the day: do not try to wake yourself up with strength training. A proper morning exercise works better than any coffee and antidepressants or stimulants.


Morning shower should last no longer than 15 minutes. This is a quick way to refresh your mind and body, finally wake up and reinforce that boost of energy you got after 15-30 minutes of morning warm-up exercises.


Always take your breakfast, since it is the most important meal and the start of your day. Not only your mother and grandmother agree on the importance of the breakfast, but also eminent dieticians, therapists and doctors working with athletes and the military.


Emotional charge for your body is no less important than food. Something invigorating, rhythmic but unobtrusive should be your background music. Avoid listening to the radio or watching the TV with their advertising and news about politics and accidents! Start your morning with positive music, not with disturbing and negative influences of the media.


It is the final component of a good morning on our list, but not the least in importance. Even if you need just 20-30 minutes to get to your place of work or study, prefer to make this journey on foot.


View the original article here