Why good posturing is important

Good posture is an effort, not tiring position that can be maintained over a long period. Your posture can be a reflection of your body attitude. One is any deviation curvature of the spine of its normal direction or position.

There are two curves of the spine, which can be viewed from the side. When posture is defective, these curves are exaggerated or reduced. Lordose exists when the neck and dips in the lower back to display a curve. Seen from behind, lordosis is an exaggeration digging back. After time, this can lead to a hollow saddle, or swing back. Cyphose occurs when the curve dips in the opposite direction, in the neck to the waist. Seen from behind, kyphosis is exaggerated or rounded hump. After time, this can lead to a bump.

Seen from the back, shoulders and pelvis should be parallel and head in the line above the tail, displaying a vertical line. Scoliosis is a deviation from the straight line, where the curves of the spine of its central axis from left to right, looking like a S.

Poor posture causes a multitude of symptoms such as back pain, headache, general breathing and digestive difficulties, malaise, problems and feet.

How to regulate your abs

Exercise: This is always the number one way to get rid of the excess fat in your stomach area. Always use cardio type of exercise to loose fat and not doing sit ups vigorously. Exercising also helps your body to maintain a higher metabolic rate which burn fat faster. Also simple exercise like taking the effort to walk and move around everyday also helps.

Here are a few simple things which you can do in order to perform an exercise:

1. Gardening;
2. Take the effort to wash your car;
3. Use the stairs in case of the lift or parking further away so that you can take a walk to office instead.

Diet: It is always important to remember that you should never starve yourself! But choose the type of foods are you consuming in your diet. It would help if you consume high fiber food which has very low calorie – fills your stomach while you consume little or rather no calorie at all. Also consume low-fat protein foods like lean meat, peel off the skin on the chicken before you eat and low-fat dairy products.

Regulate your meal: Count your calories! Think before you consume the food and never eat a huge meal – break it down to smaller ones so that you can eat more often but in smaller and lesser caloric food.

Better fitness and healthy living with yoga

Heavy exercising is not always suitable for everyone. There are however people who would want to maintain a slim and healthy figure, and for that purpose I believe yoga is really suitable for women. This is because yoga is non-strenuous on the body and it can be done at any place.

Here are some good videos from Tara Stiles which focuses on yoga for specific parts of your body.

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