Vegas Voice 10-18

Zumba Training
By: Mary Richard / Health Fitness
survived a full week of Zumba trainings and
I workshops in Orlando during the end of July.
How in the world did I keep my energy up?
Although this was my 11th year attending the week long convention,
as I get older, my thoughts turn to how to keep my energy level going
and to “recharge my batteries.”
I have followed this solution - a great breakfast with black coffee,
protein, fruit and carbs. Yes, carbs! Those who eliminate carbs from
your diet are doing yourself a harmful dis-service. You really need carbs
as a “building block” to your system.
The breakfast kept me going throughout the mornings and then
a sandwich and/or salad at lunch. A full dinner with meat or fish,
vegetables and more carbs. In between, snacks included fruit or protein
bars. And yes, lots of WATER!
I found my energy level persisted throughout the week, even though
I was burning several hundreds and thousands of calories. I also admit
that I did indulge in an alcoholic beverage once in a while! After all, I
burned off the calories, so I deserved a “treat!”
I did notice certain instructors’ energy levels diminish toward the
end of the week, but they had not learned to pace themselves and
especially eat nutritionally.
Getting plenty of sleep also helps. Lack of sleep contributes to weight
gain. Also try not to eat too late in the evening. You need to give your
digestive system enough time to use up those calories before sleeping.
I found myself eating too late in the evening while I was at another
job. Coming home hungry, I was tempted to grab something “quick.”
I now take the time to eat something earlier in the day to suppress the
hunger that I experienced at night. Drinking a hot cup of chamomile
tea helped to make me sleepy, as well as fill me up before bedtime.
POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND HAPPY HEALTH TO ALL!
Mary Richard was crowned Ms. Senior Nevada 2006, was first
runner-up for Ms. Senior America 2006 and is a life-time
dancer. Mary can be reached at mary-vegasvoice@cox.net.
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October 2018
When What You Don’t Know Can
Hurt You - Part II
By: Kyo Mitchell / A Healthier You
plant needs a certain environment to be
A healthy. Given that healthy environment,
it prospers and blossoms. Put that same plant in an unhealthy
environment and it will wither and eventually die.
The cells of your body behave in the same way. Their environment,
known as the extracellular matrix (ECM), has an electrical potential
that must stay within certain parameters to keep your cells healthy.
In medical issues such as acute inflammation, the electrical potential
is too high and must be decreased to help reduce the inflammation. If
you were to increase the electrical potential instead, you can exacerbate
the inflammation.
In chronic degenerative conditions where cells are working less
efficiently, the electrical potential of the ECM has been decreased. Here it
must be increased to help the cells function efficiently and effectively. If
you were to decreases the electrical potential in this case, you can make
the patient worse, because now, you have made the affected cells work
even less efficiently.
What you have just read is some of the biophysics of how acupuncture
works.
Research has demonstrated that any time you insert a needle through
the skin, you create a depolarization event in the ECM and affect its
electrical potential throughout the body. Students trained in acupuncture
go through years of training to make sure they can properly diagnose
the state of the ECM and then treat it.
Physical therapists doing dry needling, a technique similar to
acupuncture, have no minimal requirement for training. The issue of
the electrical potential is never even addressed.
The issue was addressed to the Nevada State Physical Therapy Board
in July and a book on the medical research supporting this was supplied.
The Board was asked to have an expert review the information as a
means to help keep the public safe.
A member of the committee informed me that they are continuing to
push through legislature for physical therapists to do dry needling with
no minimal standard for training. Is it not their responsibility to make
sure that medically they are doing no harm?
Dr. Kyo Mitchell served as faculty at Bastyr University in Seattle
and Wongu University in Las Vegas for over a decade. Dr. Mitchell
practices in Summerlin and can be reached at 702-481-6216 or
rkyomitchell@gmail.com.