Feel Healthier-- it Doesn't Take Very Much!

In America we have become very fat. Our terrible diets have created our lard filled tummies. Although not everyone in the country is large, most of us could probably afford to drop some pounds.

We absolutely should! Becoming a size or two smaller will work wonders for your well being. The fact of the matter is that none of us can reach the high expectations society puts on us so we simply give up on our health. Regulating one's eating is such a hassle! We would all love to look thin, well proportioned, and strong. Of course, our ideas about how we think we should look are rarely achievable. There are ways to improve our looks, however small.

Many of us think we will never lose as much as we want. Whatever diet or fad we choose, we probably won't be able to whittle our hulking bodies into super model frames.

But being America's Next Top Model isn't the only way to get healthy. You can lose a smaller amount of weight and greatly improve your overall health. You aren't going to be required to go on an extreme crackers-and-tuna diet or to run fourteen miles a day to get healthy! If you weigh too much for your frame, you will probably feel sluggish and unmotivated. Then your activity level will drop and you will be a less happy person.

Consider your day to day life. How can you make small alterations that will spice up the nutrition in your diet and make you more active?

Begin your examination of your life with your mornings. What do you do when you wake up in the morning? Do you stretch your arms or legs or do you simply fall into the bathroom? It's a good idea to strech as that gets the muscles working.

One of my favorite ways to begin the day is a healthy breakfast. If you've been skipping out on this important meal, you have been depriving your metabolism of a jump-start it requires to begin burning fat all day.

Do you live close to your work? Maybe you should ride your bike to work. If your house isn't near your place of business, maybe you should park your car a a little bit away from your office to give you an opportunity to walk.

Drinking more water is an easy way to improve one's health. Everyone needs 64 ounces of water per day to keep his or her body working properly and metabolizing food. Plus, it's delicious!

Be sure to eat plenty of vegetables and fruits. These items make perfect side items in meals. They are stuffed full of important minerals, vitamins, and other health-producing vitals. A salad per day with a low-fat dressing is a great way to achieve this. Depending on the season, you might want to bring an orange with you to work every day.

The amount of times you eat per day is just as important as the portions of your meals. Eating several small meals per day is a sure way to boost your metabolism and keep you using fat fat at a regular rate. If you don't kick your metabolism into gear, your body will not be energized. On top of that, you will turn whatever food you do eat into fat, rather than burning the calories you consume.

Constantly eating sugary, fried, or high-carbohydrate foods has a twofold consequence: it fills you up so that you don't want to munch on any healthy food and it sticks right to your trouble spots, causing weight gain. Of course, this doesn't mean that you have to give up chocolate cake for good! Put these foods on your "sometimes" list and don't allow yourself to eat them constantly.

Eating a well balanced diet and staying active are the two keys to a long life and a healthy body. This does not require a complete lifestyle revision. Taking small steps in each of these areas is a great way to start getting healthy!

Lorna Freemont is fascinated by just about every topic you could possibly think of and she enjoys discussing many topics, both in writing and in person. Go to http://www.dietingnyou.com for more of Lorna's writing about dieting.

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Simple Tips for Fibromyalgia Sufferers Trying to Claim Disability

At the moment of writing this article, there is not an entry in the Social Security Disability Listing for Impairment for the condition Fibromyalgia. Nor is there for its other names commonly used such as fibromyositis or Myofacial Pain Syndrome. Getting denied of claims is quite common ground for Fibromyalgia patients, but this doesn't have to be the case.

There is hope for the fibromyalgia patient who needs to claim disability. Many fellow sufferers have gone on to win their cases, you likewise can. The trick is to pursue the claim of disability through the appeal process.

After a person files at the Social Security Office, the case is transferred to DDS, an agency responsible for making the decisions on Disability. Once it is in this agency, the claim is assigned to a specialist who then makes the determination to approve or decline the disability claim.

So why is it so hard to get approved for disability when fibromyalgia is so disabling? Well, the reasons are many. SSD will generally give very little weight to this condition because the condition is not well understood. Your chances get even less when there is not another condition that is accompanying it such as arthritis or some degenerative disease.

Part of the problem is also that the causes are not fully understood and symptoms can range from mild to severe, from one patient to the next. This is why it helps if Fibromyalgia is diagnosed in conjunction with another diagnosis. This is because Fibromyalgia will be seen more legitimately and logical if it is an extension of another "more real" diagnosis.

Another factor is who makes the diagnosis. A diagnosis coming from a Rheumatologist will hold much more weight than if made by a family practitioner or an internist. The label of a specialist holds more umph when it comes to decision time.

This, of course, is no fault of the fibromyalgia sufferer, but there are some tips you can follow to increase your chances of winning your case. The chances of winning are improving as more information about fibromyalgia comes out. So let's get to the tips for a winning case.

If you want to claim Fibromyalgia for your disability make sure that it has been diagnosed and is in your medical records. If a doctor merely mentions fibromyalgia as a possibility without diagnosing it and charting it, you could be out of luck. So, make sure it is in your medical records.

Make sure that you have been diagnosed by a specialist. If your family doctor makes the diagnosis, have a specialist such as a rheumatologist give you the same diagnosis. Like previously mentioned, diagnosis from a specialist will hold more weight.

This sounds brutal but try not to be diagnosed with Fibromyalgia by a mental health worker. Psychiatrists and those in the mental health arena sometimes overdiagnose patients with Fibromyalgia and so it does not look valid to the SSD agents. If you are diagnosed by a mental health provider, make sure that you are also seen by a specialist such as a rheumatologist to validate the diagnosis.

Be informed and know what's in your records. Make copies of everything. It is well known that social security disability cases are decided on records. This holds true for all levels of administration that your case will flow through. By obtaining copies of your medical records before you apply, you will have an idea of how your case looks to the decision makers and help you know if you need to see another doctor before applying.

These simple tips will help you in your fight to win your disability case. Fibromyalgia disability cases can be won and the more that do the easier it will get for our fight.

Copyright (c) 2007 Hailey Harris

Hailey Harris is an expert in dealing with Fibromyalgia after suffering for more than 8 years with health problems. She is now symptom free and living a pain free life. She developed Ridfibromyalgia.com found at http://www.ridfibromyalgia.com to help others learn to do the same. To receive tons of info, tips, and healing strategies for free visit http://www.ridfibromyalgia.com/how.html.

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