Simple Way To Get Into Shape

A nice and exquisite summer holiday is expecting you and you feel very fat or you do not fit in your favorite night red dress? Your husband cannot stop repeating you that you have put on weight or your biggest female enemy in the office takes the advantage of her skinny shape to get the promotion? Or you just feel a bit under the weather, because the needless kilos really are too conspicuous and this makes you sad and even depressed? Well, if you only one of these questions gets your positive answer, maybe, it is high time for you to embark a plan that will help you bring the ex self-confidence of yours back.

To be honest with you, no effective and permanent result can actually come immediately and even the worst and the most drastic diet that verges on starvation is recommendable. We suggest you to overtake something healthier and something that is not too risky to exhaust your body and your soul. Little baby steps in the beginning and progressive plan for action is a better idea for your loss in weight. Here is a simple way to get into shape with no risks or strenuous regime of eating, training, and even living.

First of all, you should increase the time you spare in walking. By walking we do not mean for you to go out and wandering around your neighborhood. Such an aimless activity will not lead to any nice result. It could be better, if you just start going to particular places (groceries, the office, your friend`s house) without the car and use the situation to have a walk breath in the air and let your muscles to stir into action. Then, you may start your training program in the gym without the risk to affect your body with some catastrophic consequences. Speaking of the gym, try to choose at least three days from the week, when you can visit the fitness centre. It is much better to have a half an hour training three or even four times a week than doing it once and spending two or three hours on the running path, for instance.

If you are out of free time, perform the activity from your losing weight plan by cleaning the house more often, using your own feet to get to the office or doing some simple exercises at home, while your are watching your favorite TV show, for instance. As to the diet, forget about starvation, but try to make a simple plan for your daily menu. At first, think of the worst and the most harmful products you include in your lunch and remove it or at least reduce it. Then, start thinking about the possibility to eat more often but less quality of calories and discover the magical ability of the water in every diet.

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Spouses of heart attack survivors

Spouses of heart attack victims have an increased risk of depression and anxiety, even if their partner survives, Danish research suggests.

The study found that in the year after losing a spouse to a heart attack, partners were three times more likely to start taking anti-depressants.

Even if their partner survived, the use of anti-depressants still increased by 17%, compared with the year before.

The use of anxiety drugs also went up, the European Heart Journal reports.

There are about 340 heart attacks in the UK every day - approximately 13% are fatal.

Care needed
Maureen Talbot, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: "A heart attack can impact the whole family, and this study emphasises the importance of caring for the partners of heart attack sufferers.

"We know that people can feel anxious or helpless when a loved one has a heart attack. It is essential they receive the emotional and practical support they need during this often traumatic time."

This is the first study to look at the health of spouses after their partner survives a heart attack.

It also found men were more susceptible to the effect than women.

Report author Dr Emil Fosbol, from Duke University Medical Center, said: "This is a major public health issue for which there seems to be very little awareness among doctors and policy makers.

"The most important finding of this study is that the system needs to consider the care needs for the spouses too, not only when a patient dies from a [sudden heart attack], but also when the patient is 'just admitted' to hospital [after a sudden heart attack] and survives."

Using Danish registries, including the National Civil Status Registry that shows whether people are married or not, researchers studied 16,506 spouses of people who died from a sudden heart attack between 1997 and 2008 and 44,566 spouses of patients who survived a sudden heart attack.

Extreme health impact
They also looked at the use of anti-depressants and drugs to treat anxiety before and up to a year after the event, and medical records for depression and suicide.

The scientists also compared this data with the health of 49,518 people whose partners died from causes unrelated to a sudden heart attack, and 131, 563 spouses of people admitted to hospital for a non-fatal condition unrelated to a sudden heart attack.

If the partner had a heart attack, the spouse's health was more seriously affected than those whose partners died from or survived other medical conditions.

The researchers speculate that it is the sudden and unexpected nature of a sudden heart attack that causes the more extreme impact on the spouse.

Dr Fosbol said: "If your partner dies suddenly from a heart attack, you have no time to prepare psychologically for the death, whereas if someone is ill with, for example, cancer, there is more time to grow used to the idea.

"The larger psychological impact of a sudden loss is similar to post-traumatic stress disorder."

By Anna-Marie Lever, BBC News