Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Seven Attitudes that can Improve Your Wellness

If we look into lives of some extraordinary people, they definitely follow some principles throughout their life that made them unique in the world. Many people get inspired by them and apply them in their life. In this article, we will discuss seven attitudes that can help a person maintain his/her wellness.

1. Visionary: It develops a thought of “it could be”. This attitude develops imagination or viewing point. Visionary helps to make things better, if you see a thing, if you are a visionary, you think that this thing could be done in this way. This will help you improve analyzing power and give better outputs.

Visionaries work more on perfectionism. Visionary helps in understanding possibilities and give a perfect shape to the idea. In terms of wellness, it will help you to look into a problem from all the angles and how you can make it better.

2. Stoicism: Reacting equally in case of pain and pleasure and being unaffected is called stoicism. If you are very sensitive in reacting to situations, more are the chances you get affected easily. Being sensitive will damage your mental and physical wellness. Stoicism will make you mentally strong.

Most of the time we live in an imaginary world, but stoicism helps you face the real world. Stoicism develops a hope of living and helps to handle situations. It improves your ability to make best out of things.

3. Perfection: No person is ideal in this world. Perfection is like reaching idealism. This attitude will bring discipline in your life. It gives a clarity on things and makes you feel relaxed. It improves to see things from brighter side rather than darker side.

Perfection cannot be achieved easily, adapt this principle in small things in your life like planning the day before for next day, doing work with more concentration, organizing your work properly, planning your diet with specific timings, etc. These things have steady impact on your wellness.

4. Being realistic: This is very vital as reality eliminates almost 80% of our problems. We expect something and the result will be something. We will be affected easily when we face unexpected situations. Try to accept them and work on how to do better rather than worrying or repenting on them.
Reality will help you face and be prepared for situations. Reality improves physical and mental strength promoting overall well being.

5. Cynicism: This is the attitude that prepares to make the best out of the worst. First, they try to see from negative point of you, analyze the thing and plan to make best out of it. It helps develop a sense of humor.

Cynicism will help in times of adverse situations, it will make you react normal even if the situation is beyond your control. It develops power of viewing things even from darker side which we generally neglect. Cynicism makes people brave enough to handle any situation that is very important for wellness.

6. Pragmatism: In simple, it means neutral attitude. This sounds similar to stoicism, but is slightly different. This attitude improves logical way of dealing things. Sometimes because of missing logic, we feel even an easy thing hard. It makes us react according to situation.

It helps in applying logistics to life to make it easy living. For being well, it is necessary to be flexible rather than rigid, sometimes we may have to take a back step for the time being, so cynicism will help react flexible if situation demands.

7. Skepticism: It works on principle “it might not be”. People with this attitude will not easily accept things coming to them and it is not easy to convince them. They first doubt it, put questions to them, investigate and then come to a conclusion.

Skepticism will make you see things that are unseen by most of the people. It improves analyzing power and also help you take right decisions. Skepticism will avoid you react immediately to situation.

All seven attitudes look almost the same, but they are not. They are like beads of chain interlinked with each other. These attitudes will have steady affect on wellness.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Best Vitamins For Men Over 50

According to the American Dietetic Association, eating a balanced and nutritional diet can help the body to function normally, improves quality of life of the men/women. Sometimes this nutritional diet also not sufficient for men over 50 and they should include nutritional diet as well as a variety of foods from each of the food groups.

As Men reach middle age, they start to need certain vitamins. They need to ensure adequate intakes of certain vitamins, including calcium, vitamin D, Vitamin A, B6, B12, C, E, and omega-3 fatty acids.

Vitamins that are spotted at men health can offer significant benefit and help a man lead a healthy, full and productive life. There are some health conditions that affects only men, such as prostate cancer, low testosterone and other health conditions. There are many ways to get rid of these problems.

Calcium and vitamin D intake is essential in older men to maintain stronger bones for men over age 50 otherwise they are affected with a osteoporosis disease(bones becomes delicate).  Calcium is available in milk, yogurt, cheese, sardines with the bones, fortified orange juice and spinach whereas vitamin D is available from the sunshine whenever you are exposed to it.

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for the body's health but cannot manufacture by own. Omega-3 fatty acids protects against heart diseases, cancer and arthritis diseases. Omega-3 fatty acids are available in salmon, mackerel and tuna kind of fishes.

Vitamin B12 is necessary for many functions of the body, and it is a common deficiency for many men over the age of 50. It is required for the body to use iron properly. It is also utilized for red blood cells and is a major component for a properly functioning nervous system.

Folic acid is needed for forming both red and white blood cells; it works in conjunction with vitamin B12 to metabolize protein. The RDI for Folic acid is 400 mcg per day for men over 19. For vitamin B12, the RDI for men 50 and older is 2.4 mcg.