Saturday, June 30, 2018

Benefits of walking barefoot


Bare Foot Walk

A good command on the physical well-being can be achieved through this simple and easy practice of barefoot walking.  Even if people are scared by sore feet, achy joints, injury, illness, or feeling out of shape. This calm, natural activity can literally transmute one’s life, restoring health, vitality, strength, and balance, and improving focus, mood, memory, and more in children, pregnant women, and seniors. Though there are numerous reasons to jump to barefoot walking, here are a few benefits listed-
Grow taller
Tall and a decent posture can be achieved by barefoot walking. When you feel the ground, you gain sentience of your body and your posture. You feel all of your muscles shooting. You can feel if you’re curled, if you’re pooching out your belly, or if you’re drooping at the knees. This prompt response helps you tauten your core and stand tall. You stand straighter, you confiscate your sag, your shoulders halt undulating forward, you pleat your pelvis beneath you, and you stand more like a ballet dancer. You will not be the only one who notices this but those around you, and your chiropractor, will notice as well. Who said you have to start dwindling with age.
Get strong abs
Your core, from your abdominal muscles to your back, begin to tauten and fortify to hold you in position. You’ll feel it in your clothes (they’ll drape better) and in how you feel. Now you can reach things above you minus as much stress, tremble, or strain. You can carry things more effortlessly, you feel sturdier generally, and you feel more powerful too, as your inner power comes from your core.
Ta-ta to foot pain.
In the beginning your feet may fatigue as you go barefoot. But that’s not a bad thing; it’s like lifting weights at the gym. Your muscles get tired and then grow back stronger. As your feet begin to reinforce and adapt, you’ll notice many of the daily aches and pains of your feet and lower legs going away. Soon standing on your feet will be a more enjoyable activity.
Gain greater circulation.
You’ll quickly begin to notice your feet don’t feel as cold. Over time you’ll see an increase in warmth or blood flow to your feet and lower legs, and a decrease in your varicose veins – all without laser therapy. You’ll feel warmer on the cooler days, and cooler on the warmer days.
Grow baby feet again.
Those cute, feet you had as a child just might return. The fat on the lowest of your feet went away ever since you’ve spent too many years in your shoes. Great news here: once you go barefoot, the ground stimulates your feet and the fat you’ve lost since you were a child begins to return. The skin starts to condense, but not as ugly calluses, produced by high-friction areas in an ill-fitting shoe; relatively, it happens as an even thickening over the whole bottom of the foot where the sole encounters the ground. This fat pad will make challenging surfaces much easier to walk on.

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Monday, June 25, 2018

Effective Sexual Health education for youth.


There are as many as 850,000 cases of teen pregnancies occurring annually, and people under 25 years of age experience about 9.1 million sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In US, 70 percent of females and 62 percent of males at the age of 18 have initiated vaginal sex. Compete or comprehensive sex education is efficient at helping young people take healthy decisions about sex and adopt healthy sexual behaviors. No abstinence-only-until-marriage program has helped teens postpone the start of sex or protect themselves against STIs. All the adolescents should have a fundamental human for precise accurate and comprehensive sexual health information.

Comprehensive sex education is operational and does not promote sexual risks

Highly effective sex education and HIV prevention programs affect various behaviors and accomplish positive health outcomes. Behavioral outcomes involve delay in the initiation of sex and decrease in the frequency of sex, decrease in the number of new partners, and the occurrence of unprotected sex, and rise in the use of condoms and contraception among sexually active people. Long-term effects include lower risk of STI and teen pregnancy rates.

Highly effective sex education or HIV prevention education program dictates educating youth about the benefits of condoms and contraception.

Assessment of comprehensive sex education and HIV/ STI prevention programs show that they do not escalate rates of sexual initiation, does not lower the age at which youth initiate sex, and do not increase the frequency of sex or the number of sex partners among sexually active young people.

Abstinence-only programs are unsafe, unsuccessful, and erroneous.

The Society for Adolescent Medicine lately professed that abstinence-only programs loom fundamental human rights of health, information, and life.

As per the researchers of Columbia University, virginity pledge programs rise pledge-takers’ risk for STIs and pregnancy. About 88% pledge-takers started sex before marriage although some delayed sex for a short period. There were similar rates of STIs noted among pledge-takers and non-pledgers in spite of the fact that pledge-takers initiated sex later. Pledge-takers were less likely to go for STI testing and less expected to use contraception during sexual intercourse.
  • These Abstinence-only programs convey:
  •  False information about the efficacy of contraceptives and risks of abortion
  •  Religious beliefs and stereotypes about boys and girls as scientific facts
  •  Medical and scientific errors as fact. 



People’s take

Various American medical academies and societies, indorse comprehensive sex education, including education about both abstinence and also contraception and condoms.

Also it was noted in a study that most American adults indorsed sex education which includes information about both abstinence and also contraception and condoms.

 Effective sex education program should:

  •  Offer age and culturally suitable sexual health information in a safe environment for participants
  •  Are developed in cooperation with members of the target community, especially young people
  • Assist youth to clarify their individual, family, and community values
  • Help teens and youth in communication, rebuttal, and intercession
  • Provide medically precise information about both asceticism and also contraception like condoms
  • Have clear goals for preventing HIV, other STIs, and/or teen pregnancy
  •  Emphasize on specific health behaviors allied to the goals, with clear messages about these behaviors
  • Talk about psychosocial risk and protective factors with activities to change each besieged risk and to promote each protecting factor
  • Respect community standards and respond to community wants
  • Depend on partaking teaching methods, applied by trained educators and using all the activities as designed.