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HEALTHY WEIGHT
If you generally sprinkle sand, soot and grease into the petrol tank of your car, then you would not be at all surprised if it spoils. Our body requires fuel to maintain health and vitality. If we eat junk, then our body will not perform at an optimum level. Junk diets predispose us to illness …
STRESS AND SELF-ESTEEM (2)
Only God gives inward peace, and I depend on him. God alone is the mighty rock that keeps me safe, and he is the fortress where I feel secure. Psalm 62: 5-6 (CEV) The perception of your value and competence is crucial to how you deal with challenges and your capacity to handle stress. Lacking …
WOMEN’S HEALTH AND STRESS II
Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it goes well with your soul. 3 John 1: 2 (ESV) Menopause is a natural change in a woman’s life when she experiences a cessation of her menstrual cycle. It is a step in the long, …
FITNESS EXERCISES: UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS II
Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come (1 Timothy 4: 8 NLT) Fitness can be defined as the state in which the body can perform up to its realisable potential. Heart Rate The heart rate is widely accepted as a …
ANXIETY DISORDERS
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4: 6-7 NKJV) Anxiety disorders are conditions that involve unrealistic fear and worry. These disorders could …
STRESS AND SELF-ESTEEM
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well (Psalm 139: 13-14 ESV). The perception of your value and competence is crucial to how you deal with challenges and your …
WOMEN’S HEALTH AND STRESS
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth (3 John 1: 2) Life stresses have been implicated in certain female conditions. We will consider conditions that tend to be influenced by stress in the womenfolk. Premenstrual Tension Syndrome Premenstrual Tension Syndrome (PMS) is a …
STRESS AND DIET
Diet is one of the first casualty in a period of stress. Often at such times, you are low on time, energy and practically every other thing. It’s much easier to enter a fast food store and pick up confectioneries and take soft drinks. If you do your cooking, it’s probably the time you will …
AGEING AND AGEING GRACEFULLY II
Ageing sneaks up on us unexpectedly and there is no escaping the fact that we are all growing one year older every 365 days. Forget about ageing gracefully in the sense of giving in. Fight it all the way! You are never too young or old to combat the signs of ageing. By living and …
AGEING AND AGEING GRACEFULLY
Ageing is the process of gradual and spontaneous change resulting in maturation through adulthood, puberty, and young adulthood and then decline of many bodily functions through middle and late ages. It is a continuous process that begins at birth and continues throughout all stages of life. Unlike the changes in adolescence which are predictable to …