Yawning, sneezing and belching (and yes, even breaking wind) are good for you! Challenged by a childhood brain tumor and surgery in Japan, Richard S. Omura was taught a self- healing method called katsugen undoh in which the body’s automatic functions such as yawning and sneezing along with other bodily movements are exercised. Since these functions lie at the very foundation of our health, the autonomic nervous system, he found that exercising these capabilities with katsugen brought about a wellspring of health benefits.
As a child he was sedentary and lazy, heavily burdened physically and psychologically by the effects of his brain surgery and had no liking for healthy diet and exercise. Regular katsugen exercise has made him athletic, health conscious, creative, dynamic and outgoing. Katsugen explains the importance of functions such yawning, belching, sneezing and breaking wind and how we can all tap into the source of these bodily movements for a more healthy life.
Every summer I get painful muscle cramps. The affected muscle could be on any part of my body: back, neck, leg etc. Each incident takes 7-10 days to heal. Is there a way to avoid these muscle cramps? I was told, that this is a result of sleeping in an air-conditioned room. True or false? I also read that drinking a lot of electrolyte drinks could help. True or false? If true, which drinks do you suggest? Does lemonade contain electrolytes? I’ve had cramping problems for many years and nothing seems to have worked, although because of food allergies, I haven’t improved my diet too much. So I can’t say that proper nutrition wouldn’t help. I drink almost nothing but Gatorade, exercising or not exercising.
I exercise late (from 22:00-23:30) and I always manage to stimulate my appetite. Is it all right to eat this late (I usually go to bed around 2:00), or should I just try to wait until morning? I’m wondering if eating at this time will just result in unused calories being converted to fat. Despite what magazines etc may say. Food will only be stored as excess fat if you eat more than your body needs. If you have exercised and are hungry then your body is telling you it needs to eat.
Last night I met a woman who ran a toning table and beauty business. With her was one of her clients who had lost several stone and an impressive number of inches using the tables and body wraps. Sh explained the body wraps as being covered in bandages, zipped into a suit and exercising for an hour. After that hour, you were measured in various places and should have lost up to a total of 15″. As long as you didn’t eat spicy food, have alcohol, drink, and several other restrictions, she said the inches stayed off and it wasn’t just water.
Some people still believe that exercising a certain area of the body will reduce the amount of fat in that area more than other areas of the body. This is absolutely not true. For instance, doing lots of crunches everyday will not burn away *only* the fat around your abdomen. It is true that you will strengthen the muscles in your abdominal area and cause them to hypertrophy (size of individual muscle cells will increase). But if you’ve got a nice 6-pack hidden underneath a large fat belt, well, you get the picture… What if you want a 6-pack that everyone can see and you can be proud of?
Well, I didn’t believe it at first when someone posted that on 4/1/98 the London Times said that folks who watched people work out lost as much as those who were, in fact, working out. But then, day before yesterday, I heard a thing on National Public Radio where someone had done reseearch that showed that folks who visualized themselves doing exercise (for two minutes, but never actually did any) “gained 15%” while those that actually did the exercise “gained 30%.
I recently got a heart rate monitor and have a question. I went to see a fitness instructor at the gym and he said it would be better to do a work out on exercise machines really hard, about 80-85% of my max heart rate. But then I read in most other places I should work out at around 50%.
