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Health Blog - thebroadroom.net
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. We are not doctors, nurses, or otherwise trained
medical personnel.
Getting in shape for warm weather!
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Thursday, March 15, 2007
at 8:30 PM (Pacific)
I've started exercising again...it's funny. It's crossed my mind how, gradually, in such a way that you don't notice it...as an American, you become less and less active, unless you consciously do something about it.
It struck me that before, if I were shopping for something, I'd jump into the car and drive to a store and look around, and possibly drive to a couple other stores and look around. It doesn't sound like exercise, but it is. Just the plain fact of walking out of your house, driving, parking, walking to the store, walking around the store....
It sounds like nothing but contrast it with how I shop these days. I get on the computer, open a browser window...depending on what I'm looking for, I'll go to Amazon.com, just to get a list of merchants who sell what I'm looking for. I'll pop open the websites of those merchants and do some comparison. I'll go to Epinions...or whatever. The fact is, the entire operation involves me sitting at a desk, typing a little on a keyboard and using a mouse. That's it.
It's this way...first, the majority of our work became computerized. So, instead of getting up, going to a file cabinet, and getting a file, we sit at a computer and click on a file and open it.
Next, most of our entertainment became computerized. So, instead of getting in the car, driving to a movie theatre (or better yet, walking to a theatre), watching the movie, then driving/walking home, we sit at a computer and type on a keyboard...or click....
Now, even our shopping has become largely a matter of sitting in front of a computer.
I've concluded that for Americans, with our ever-growing obesity problem, it's less a matter of what we eat--more a matter of our growing inactivity.
Oh well enough of that. What I'm doing is walking uphill. I don't mind taking a plain old walk, but doing the uphill thing rocks--you get more, and better, exercise, in a relatively short period of time.
If it takes too much time, I won't do it. If it costs too much money, I won't do it. What's great about uphill walking--it's free.Labels: exercise, weight loss
 
Why suffer from PMS?
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Thursday, October 05, 2006
at 5:27 PM (Pacific)
Dang if this stuff doesn't work. I've been taking a calcium supplement regularly...not twice per day as I'm supposed to, but almost every day at least...and I do feel better. Much, much better.
I missed the webmd article on this last time: Relief for PMS. This includes not only calcium and magnesium, but some reference to vitamin B6 and vitamin E.
I'm less enthusiastic about the herbs, if only because my HMO told me that agnus castus (chaste tree berry) could interfere with hormone-based birth control. (I had looked into it previously as a potential acne treatment.)
So, try the calcium supplement!!!!! You have nothing to lose, calcium is good for you anyway, it's cheap and readily available, yadda yadda...
So, what happened to Atkins?
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
at 4:34 PM (Pacific)
I've been link-checking our Women Bloggers page over the past few days...there's no way to do that automatically of course, since many blogs are still up but haven't been updated in years, while many have been forwarded and are still current.
Anyhow I stumbled across a reference to the Atkins diet, circa 2004 (sabrinaspeak) and I got to feeling slightly nostalgic. Have people really become slimmer since the advent--or revival, rather--of this miracle diet?
I don't mean slackers like myself, who played around with "low carb" (I did try it out, albeit it meant a few months of eating less noodles and more sauce). I mean the people who actually bothered reading the material and following the directions.
On a side note, I'm old enough to remember the first time Atkins rolled around in the 70's. It was widely regarded as a joke because of the high fat. The sudden acceptance of the diet as legitimate...was reminiscent to me of Woody Allen in Sleeper, awakening in the future to be told that smoking is good for you.
I'm glad we kept that Women Bloggers page...
More on calcium and PMS...
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
at 12:25 PM (Pacific)
Okay...so I've been taking the calcium supplement regularly...it's the same Costco one...I see from reviewing my post of one month ago, that I was supposed to take it the right way (twice per day), well I haven't been. It's been the same once per day.
I feel there has been an improvement. It's subtle. It's not something you would necessarily notice if you weren't looking for it. That doesn't bother me. I have nothing to lose, right?
Plus, I have adult acne, which has taken me years, literally, to overcome...so trying out one thing and patiently waiting and observing for changes, does not bother me.
If you have PMS, I can say this is worth a try. If you get it bad, then definitely go for the twice-per-day calcium; don't be lazy like me.
Calcium and PMS #2
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Monday, February 06, 2006
at 8:58 PM (Pacific)
Okay it's getting to be that time of the month again.
I've been taking calcium supplements since the last TOM. I haven't been very good about it...you're supposed to take the calcium pills I'm taking twice per day. I keep forgetting the second pill, so it's more accurate that I've been taking them once per day, probably missing a few days.
I do feel better. Not perfect, but not nearly as bad as before. It's hard to say if it's the calcium though since I haven't gotten PMS regularly in a very long time anyway.
I will try to remember to take the second tablet and report back in about a month.
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