High Blood Pressure is also known as Hypertension.
It is a serious health condition that affects at least
one out of three adults in the United States. It is
even more serious because it hardly ever gives a
warning sign or symptoms, thereby making it
difficult for people who are affected to know until it
is too late. In some cases, it leads to sudden death.
High Blood Pressure can however be managed or
prevented but to do so, it is important to understand
what high blood pressure really is, and what causes
high blood pressure.
What is High Blood Pressure?
High Blood Pressure is when the force of blood
pushing the artery walls is increased and as a
result, causes the heart to work harder than it really
should. The heart is responsible for pumping blood
into the arteries, from where it is circulated
throughout the whole body.
But when a person suffers from high blood pressure,
the heart has to work harder to circulate blood and
this may eventually lead to other problems like
hardening of the arteries or heart failure.
How to Detect High Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) is usually
referred to as a silent killer. This is because of its
lack of symptoms unlike other health problems
where there are usually several tell-tale signs to help
patients detect or suspect that there might be a
problem somewhere. Patients with high blood
pressure hardly know that they are suffering from
the disease until it becomes too late.
However, you can prevent sudden death caused by
hypertension through early detection and constant
monitoring. A regular blood pressure reading can
help you detect high blood pressure early.
A Blood pressure reading would usually contain two
numbers, a numerator and a denominator. The
numerator (the top number) is known as the
Systolic, while the denominator (the bottom
number) is known as the Diastolic.
A person with a blood pressure reading of 120/80
can be said to have a normal pressure while a blood
pressure reading of between 120-130 /80-89 indicates
that the person is in a pre-hypertensive stage and
may eventually suffer from hypertension if serious
measures are not immediately taken. Any blood
pressure reading above that may be an indication
that a person is suffering from Hypertension.
However, for older people a blood pressure reading of
over 140/90 indicates high blood pressure.
It is advisable to visit your doctor regularly for a
blood pressure reading to ensure early detection,
prevention and management of high blood pressure.
What Causes High Blood Pressure?
1. Primary Hypertension: This is also called
essential hypertension. This type of
hypertension has no specific, identifiable cause
and is sometimes said to be caused by
environmental, genetics and age factors.
Majority of people who suffer from
hypertension suffer from this type of
hypertension.
2. Secondary Hypertension: Secondary
hypertension is usually caused by another
medical condition which the patient may
already be suffering from. For instance, some
women develop secondary hypertension during
pregnancy. Secondary hypertension would
usually go away when the underlying
condition is treated.
Other causes of hypertension include:
Alcohol Abuse: Excessive drinking of alcohol
can raise the blood pressure to unhealthy levels
overtime and cause hypertension. The calories
in alcohol can also lead to excessive weight
gain, which is another common cause of
hypertension.
Illegal Drugs: Some illegal drugs like Cocaine,
Amphetamines and Acetaminophen can also
affect the blood pressure.
Medications: Taking of some medications such
as anti-depressants, caffeine, birth control
pills, migraine medications, anti-inflammatory
drugs and nasal decongestants can also
increase blood pressure.
Birth Defects: Sometimes, a person may suffer
from high blood pressure due to defects in their
blood vessels. This type of hypertension is can
be traced to a person’s genes.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Another major cause
of secondary hypertension is a health condition
known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea. It is a
sleeping disorder that causes shortness/
cessation of breath during sleep.
Obesity: Being Overweight or Obese can also
cause a person to develop Hypertension. Excess
fat in the body would require extra oxygen and
nutrients and since it is the heart’s job to
supply these nutrients, it has to overwork
itself to achieve this, thereby leading to
increase in blood pressure.
Poor Diet: High Blood Pressure may also be
caused by a poor diet. When a person
consumes too much sodium, caffeinated drinks
or fatty foods, there are risks of developing
high blood pressure.
Sedentary Lifestyle: Another major cause of
high blood pressure is living a sedentary
lifestyle characterized by low levels of physical
activity or no physical activities at all.
Age: A person may also develop hypertension
as they age. The risks of a person developing
hypertension would actually increase as they
grow older.
Smoking: People who smoke are also at a risk
of developing high blood pressure. The nicotine
contents in cigarettes may cause the arteries to
become narrow and hardened. This stresses the
heart out and eventually leads to hypertension.
Vitamin Deficiencies: Vitamin D deficiency is
yet another factor that may lead to
hypertension. Researchers have discovered that
people with lower levels of Vitamin D are at a
higher risk of developing hypertension.
Chronic Kidney diseases as well as thyroid and
adrenal problems may also cause hypertension.
Click on the arrow below to read how you can
control High Blood Pressure.

How to Control Hypertension without Drugs
Hypertension can be controlled or even cured by
taking some measures to reduce the causative
factors. Some of the steps that you can take in order
to cure hypertension without necessarily taking
medications include:
1. Lose Weight: If you are overweight or obese,
shedding a few pounds might go a very long
way in helping you cure high blood pressure.
2. Increase Physical Activity: One of the major
causes of high blood pressure is living a
sedentary lifestyle therefore increasing your
levels of physical activity can go a long way
in decreasing your blood pressure. You should
make it a goal to try to get at least 30 minutes
of exercise daily.
3. Improve on Your diet: Another step to take is
to improve on your eating habits. Focus on
eating foods that are high in fibre, vegetables
and potassium and avoid foods that have high
cholesterol or sodium levels.
4. Reduce Consumption of Alcohol: Excessive
consumption of alcohol also has negative
impact on your blood pressure therefore you
should try to reduce or completely avoid
consumption of alcohol.
5. Quit Smoking: Lastly, if you are a smoker,
you should try to quit your smoking habits to
avoid ingestion of high amounts of nicotine,
which affects the arteries and causes
hypertension.

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Two weeks ago I met up with
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much about this man through
several forums that I had to
meet him to see if the claims
were true. The word was that
he’s 64 years old and doesn’t
look a day over 40.
After a few email exchanges
we met at a coffee shop off
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not look 64 at all. I couldn’t
believe the man I was talking
to looked younger than me,
and I’m 53 years old! When
we ordered our coffees I got
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After a good laugh, he said
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After a few minutes of staring
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Hillary Clinton's work-
related emails from her private account are now
public, more than 52,000 pages detailing her tenure
as secretary of state but failing to resolve questions
about how she and her closest aides handled
classified information.
Several investigations continue into her exclusive use
of a nongovernment email account and homebrew
server while she was in government, an issue that
has dogged her presidential campaign, even though
she seems well-positioned to capture the Democratic
nomination.
The correspondence between Clinton and her
advisers, friends and political acquaintances offers
no shocking revelations, but it sheds light on a
management style she would take with her to the
White House.
Some of the things we learned:
CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
The emails are full of sections that the State
Department decided were improper for release and
blanked out, ranging from personal information to
national secrets.
In the end, State Department reviewers classified
more than 2,000 emails, mostly at the lower
"confidential" and "secret" levels. Twenty-two emails
were withheld entirely from publication on grounds
that they were "top secret." None of these bore
classification markings at the time they were sent
and most were written by other officials.
Most of the time, Clinton and aides appeared keenly
aware of the limitations of operating over an
unclassified, nongovernment account. Sometimes
they were frustrated by the constraints.
In a February 2010 message, Clinton exclaimed:
"It's a public statement! Just email it." Sent
moments later, the document merely said U.S. and
British officials would cooperate to promote peace.
"Well that is certainly worthy of being top secret,"
Clinton responded sarcastically.
But the State Department's Freedom of Information
Act reviewers found plenty of cases where releasing
the emails in uncensored form today, more than
three years after Clinton left office, would pose
diplomatic or national security concerns.
Many were written by advisers and experts, and
then forwarded to Clinton by one of three close
aides: Cheryl Mills, her chief of staff; Jake Sullivan,
her director of policy planning; and Huma Abedin,
her longtime personal assistant. All three remain in
Clinton's inner circle.
Officials describe Sullivan at the center of the most
sensitive chain, concerning CIA drone strikes. These
were the "top secret" emails the department would
not make public even in heavily censored form.
Other messages show top aides working around the
restrictions.
In February 2010, Abedin writes to Clinton about a
scheduled call with Ecuador's new foreign minister.
Abedin says she is trying to get her boss a "call
sheet," but it's classified.
In June 2011, Clinton tells Sullivan to convert
talking points meant for a secure fax into
"nonpaper" with "no identifying heading and send
nonsecure."
___
HIGH-TECH CHALLENGES
Clinton hardly comes across as a technological whiz.
At one point, she asks her communications adviser
how to charge her iPad and update an app. Asked if
she has wireless Internet, the secretary replies: "I
don't know if I have wi-fi. How do I find out?"
Clinton tells another aide that she is "never sure
which of my emails you receive, so pls let me know
if you receive this one and on which address you
did."
In her final year on the job, she apologizes to
someone for being slow to respond to an email,
describing her BlackBerry as having "a nervous
breakdown on my dime!"
Technological problems included the State
Department's unclassified email system, too.
The department's technology is "so antiquated that
NO ONE uses a State-issued laptop and even high
officials routinely end up using their home email
accounts to be able to get their work done quickly
and effectively," policy chief Anne-Marie Slaughter
laments in 2011.
Mills describes how hackers tried to get into her
account, but says, "I am not sure we want to
telegraph how much folks do or don't do off state
mail b/c it may encourage others who are out there."
In another chain, Clinton asks assistant Nora Toiv
for her email address, prompting Toiv to respond:
"You've always emailed on my State email." Clinton
replied: "Even weirder — I just checked and I do
have your State but not your gmail — so how did
that happen. Must be the Chinese!"
Even though Clinton's home email was unsecure,
she and her aides expressed concern about the
practices of other department officials.
Receiving a long Libya analysis, Clinton asks where
the author works. Sullivan tells her it comes from
one of her employees, and she responds with surprise
that "he used personal account if he is at State."
After a news story appears based on leaked
classified cables, Mills states solemnly: "The leaking
of classified material is a breach not only of trust,
it is also a breach of the law."
___
BENGHAZI
There was no smoking gun.
The congressional investigation into the Sept. 11,
2012, attack on the diplomatic compound in
Benghazi, Libya, may have alerted the public to
Clinton's private account, but the emails themselves
offer little that wasn't already known.
Still, it has provided significant fodder for her
political opponents.
"Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an
al-Qaida-like group: The Ambassador, whom I
handpicked, and a young communications officer on
temporary duty w(ith) a wife and two young
children," Hillary Clinton wrote to her daughter,
who used an account under the alias "Diane
Reynolds."
"Very hard day and I fear more of the same
tomorrow," the secretary wrote.
Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee
seized on that email as evidence Clinton quickly saw
the attack as the work of Islamic extremists, not a
spontaneous street protest against an anti-Muslim
video — a description provided by then-U.N.
Ambassador Susan Rice.
Sullivan assured her in later email that she never
echoed that assessment.
"You never said 'spontaneous' or characterized the
motives," he wrote.
A year earlier, after rebels ousted and killed their
longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Sullivan
hailed his boss as "the public face" of the U.S.
military intervention. While subsequent emails point
to the growing post-war chaos, none cited a specific
threat against the Benghazi mission.
___
OUTSIDE ADVISERS
An interesting set of characters has Clinton's ear.
No one was more prolific than 2008 campaign
adviser Sid Blumenthal. He was barred from
government by the Obama administration but his
"sbwhoeop" email handle pops up 1,030 times in
Clinton's total email correspondence.
Clinton last year called his would-be intelligence
reports "unsolicited." But she replied to one in
August 2012 with "keep 'em coming."
Many dealt with Libya, apparently written by a
former CIA official with whom Blumenthal
coordinated. Others delved into Afghanistan, Egypt,
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and domestic U.S.
politics. Clinton often asked aides to print out
Blumenthal's advice or forwarded it to key State
Department officials.
Not all were welcome.
"This one strains credulity," Clinton wrote about a
report claiming French and British intelligence
services were trying to cut up Libya. "A thin
conspiracy theory," Sullivan responded. Gene Cretz,
U.S. ambassador there at the time, termed another
such memo "odd."
Blumenthal worked for the Clinton family
foundation and advised entrepreneurs trying to win
contracts from Libya's transitional government, and
his regular missives to the secretary of state suggest
a possible blurring of the lines between personal
relationships and private business ventures. Such
criticism has been levied repeatedly against the
Clintons as they and their friends have reaped tens
of millions of dollars since Bill Clinton's presidency.
But if Blumenthal had favorable access, no email
points to any favors he received.
Plenty of other individuals outside of government
chimed in with advice, solicited or not, for Clinton.
They include trusted holdovers from Bill Clinton's
presidency such as John Podesta, now heading
Hillary Clinton's campaign; think tank officials who
would conceivably join a Hillary Clinton presidency,
such as Neera Tanden, the Center for American
Progress' president; and foreign policy veterans,
including Henry Kissinger.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a
frequent interlocutor, praises her for doing the
"Lord's Work." Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu
Kyi of Myanmar asks for technological help. Former
President Jimmy Carter pitches in on North Korea
negotiations.
___
U.S. POLITICS
Domestic politics were never far from Clinton's
mind.
Secretaries of state love to describe themselves as
above politics, but Clinton kept close tabs on
President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, gay
marriage rulings, congressional and presidential
elections, and much more.
She hoped Republicans would put to rest the "
'absurd' death panels argument" during the health
care debate.
With the GOP set to crush Democrats in the 2010
midterm elections, Clinton declared herself
"bewildered" by how poorly her party was delivering
its message. Losing the House, she said, would be a
"disaster in every way."
When longtime Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley
announced he wouldn't run for re-election, Clinton
was "in shock." After asking a childhood friend,
Betsy Ebeling, to share "all insights into this huge
news," Clinton gets a response the next day about
"Rahm rumors everywhere." White House chief of
staff Rahm Emanuel would later become mayor.
Clinton doesn't hold back on Obama's 2012 re-
election campaign, even ascribing nicknames to the
president's potential rivals. Mitt Romney =
"Mittens." Newt Gingrich = "Grinch."
From Clinton's early days as secretary of state,
several emails from her inner circle viewed her public
actions with an eye toward the 2016 election.
In September 2010, communications adviser Philippe
Reines tells Clinton to avoid the furor over a
proposed mosque near the site of the destroyed
World Trade Center in New York.
"You'll be kicking the President when he's down.
Waay down," Reines writes. "There will be a day
you need to publicly disagree with him, but that day
is not Wed, Sep 8, 2010 and that issue is not the
mosque."
___
ROCK STAR DIPLOMAT
Clinton was surrounded by people who cheered her
every move.
"I'm being flooded with emails about how you
rocked," Abedin writes after her boss testified in
January 2013 before two congressional panels on the
Benghazi attack.
She wasn't kidding.
"Twitterverse abuzz with Hillary-kvelling,"
Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott
wrote, using the Yiddish word for gushing praise.
"You looked fabulous," Abedin chimed in.
After a meme of Clinton reading her BlackBerry
became a sensation, Mills told her boss: "You look
cute."
"DAMN - I LOVE YOU!" wrote Capricia Marshall
when Obama nominated the longtime Clinton
supporter for State Department protocol chief.
"Thank you for holding firm for me ___ always in
my foxhole! xxooo"
Former policy chief Slaughter provides many of the
most obvious examples.
"I have NEVER been prouder of having worked for
you," she tells Clinton in March 2011, as the U.S.
intervened in Libya. "Turning POTUS around on
this is a major win for everything we have worked
for."
"Please tell HRC that she was a ROCK STAR
yesterday," Slaughter tells Sullivan after the
Benghazi sessions, having since left office.
Political consultant Mark Penn was a lone
dissenter, suggesting Republicans could use one
moment where she pounded the desk in frustration
as evidence she was rattled.
Communications adviser Philippe Reines leapt to
Clinton's defense:
"Give
Me
A
Break
You did not look rattled. You looked real. There's a
difference. A big one."
Sullivan said Penn gave her the same advice in her
losing 2008 presidential campaign. Clinton replied,
"BINGO!"
___
SENSE OF HUMOR
Clinton likes a good laugh.
So often buttoned-down on the campaign trail or
diplomatic circuit, her sense of humor pours forth in
emails.
When Afghanistan looks at a stricter code of
conduct for women, she writes: "WHAT??? Or, more
to the point, WTF??"
Clinton tries in February 2010 to call the White
House herself, only to reach a disbelieving operator.
She resigns to calling "like a proper and properly
dependent Secretary of State — no independent
dialing allowed."
She tells Reines, disappointed to be uninvited to an
all-woman gathering, that his "message cannot go
through this female-only channel which is required
to operate in perpetuity in a vain attempt to balance
the gender scales. Try again in the next millennium.
Thank you for your understanding."
And after receiving the colorful complaints of a
former Capitol colleague, Sen. Barbara Mikulski of
Maryland, Clinton offers empathy, referencing the
musical, "The Music Man": "Oh, Barb, we got
trouble w a capital "T'' in River City."
"Keep going," she tells Mikulski, invoking their
"home girl" Harriet Tubman, the runaway slave.
At 6 p.m. on New Year's Eve, Clinton asks an aide:
"Anything else I need to know before this year
ends?"

1. Benefit: Nutrition, straight up.
Packing in quite a bit of soluble fiber (4 grams per medium apple) for a modest amount of calories (95) makes apples a filling, sweet snack.
Plus, a medium apple counts as 1 cup of fruit, so after eating one you’re well on your way to meeting your daily fruit quota (around 2 cups for adults on a 2,000-calorie diet). They also are a good source of immune-boosting vitamin C (providing 14% of the Daily Value).
2. Weight Loss
Apples satisfy hunger for few calories so it’s not surprising that they can be part of a healthy diet that promotes weight loss. And in a recent study, dried apples also helped participants lose some weight. Women who ate a cup of dried apples daily for a year lost some weight and lowered their cholesterol and heart disease markers. Florida State University researchers think apples’ antioxidants and pectin (a type of fiber) are responsible for the benefits—and think that fresh apples would be even more effective.
3. Heart Health
The Florida State study is not the only one to link apple consumption to heart health. Last year, the Iowa Women’s Health Study reported that, among the 34,000-plus women it’s been tracking for nearly 20 years, apples were associated with a lower risk of death from both coronary heart disease and cardiovascular disease.
Some years earlier, Finnish researchers studying dietary data collected over 28 years from 9,208 men and women found that frequent apple eaters had the lowest risk of suffering strokes compared with nonapple eaters. Experts attribute the heart- healthy benefits to antioxidant compounds found in apples, which help prevent LDL cholesterol from oxidizing and inhibit inflammation. Plus, the soluble fiber in apples has also been shown to lower cholesterol levels.
4. Protect Against Metabolic
Syndrome
People who eat apples may be less likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms linked to an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes. Joyce Hendley reported in EatingWell Magazine that researchers who analyzed National
Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES) data, a survey of eating and health habits, found that people who had eaten apples in any form over the past day were 27 percent less likely to have symptoms of metabolic syndrome than those who didn’t. The apple eaters also had lower levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation whose presence in the blood suggests an increased risk for heart disease and diabetes.
5. Exercise Extender
Eating an apple before you work out may boost your exercise endurance. Apples deliver an antioxidant called quercetin, which aids
endurance by making oxygen more available to the lungs. One study showed that quercetin—
when taken in supplement form—helped people bike longer.

Why a dog is the perfect jogging companion

Forget complicated training regimes. Richard Askwith gets all the exercise he wants in the company of his pet Fauve, Nutmeg 

 

High energy

After interviewing gurus that counsel both men and women on dating, we noticed something that was quite curious. Some of their dating advice was actually gender-neutral and could be applied to both sexes. As we see it, good advice is good advice.
Here are the top five dating tips for both men and women:

1. Be Open Minded: The number one rule we have heard from both sides of the fence is to go into every date with an open mind. Your ideal partner, based on your personal checklist, may be completely different from the person that you could be truly compatible with. Everyone has this warped sense of who their perfect partner should be, but when interviewing countless older couples who have been married for more than 50 years – their life partners were completely different from the person they initially imagined.
2. Don’t Research Before a First Date: In these days of Google and Facebook, it’s easy to be tempted to do a little research before you even go out on a first date. Don’t do it! You’ll get a false impression of the person, and can make strong judgments without even knowing him/her yet.
   
3. Don’t Bring Baggage: Avoid talking about old relationships, negative experiences, etc. Have those conversations only after several dates. There is little to gain by dwelling on the past.
   
4. Be Honest About Yourself: You can avoid specific topics early on, but don’t lie about things. Starting a relationship based on lies is never a good idea.
   
5. Leave on a High Note: Keep a first date short, and it’s always better to leave on a high note. Meeting for coffee or a meal is great, but don’t make long drawn out plans for another date – excuse yourself and say goodbye. Better to leave the person wanting more.
   

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. In fact, the furor over obesity, which some have termed an “epidemic,” has reached such proportions that one big-city mayor has gone about banning large-sized, sugary soft drinks and the First Lady has been on a crusade to control the dietary offerings in public schools.
Even many adults who do not fit the clinic definition of obese are still overweight, and a large percentage are looking for the best ways to lose weight.

Shedding pounds largely comes down to the two-pronged factors of diet and exercise. Not modifying the first one enough, and not getting enough of the second one, ends up giving the individual a recipe for being overweight.
Conditions related to obesity include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and certain types of cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


Counseling someone to eat less and exercise more might be the simplest advice possible, but it’s also, partially, an oversimplification. When it comes to diet, no one needs to starve themselves in order to lose weight. It has more to do with the types of food you eat than how much you eat.

Reduce the amount of red meat in your diet. If you don’t want to eliminate red meat altogether, choose cuts of meat with less fat content. Limit your intake of salt and starches. If you’ve got to have potato chips alongside your sandwich at lunch, opt for the baked potato chips that are less greasy and contain less fat than the deep-fried chips. You might find you’re really not sacrificing that much in terms of taste.


A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, egg whites, skinless poultry, fish and nonfat dairy products will certainly aid in the mission of losing weight. Drink more water and less sugary drinks. If you have to have a soda, a diet soda is a better option, but seltzer is an even better choice than that.

In terms of exercise, it’s important—if not always easy—to make sure you get at least some physical activity each and every day. Cardio and strength training burn lots of calories. If your feet or your stamina level won’t allow for a regular jogging regimen, then make sure you take lots of walks. Next time you need to mail a letter, walk to the mailbox instead of driving. Try to work in a daily walk in your neighborhood. And if you intend on more rigorous, formal exercising at the gym or fitness center, be sure to pace yourself and don’t build up to an overly ambitious workout agenda too quickly.

There are thousands of diet fads among us.  However, sometimes the best advice is common sense.  
Work towards a healthy diet and integrate regular exercise.  You would be surprised at the results small changes can make.

When you hear the word lifestyle; Lifestyle is the typical way of life of an individual, group, or culture.^[1] The term was originally used by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler (1870-1937).^[2] The term was introduced in the 1950s as a derivative of that of style in modernist art.^{[3][clarification needed]} The term refers to a combination of determining intangible or tangible factors. Tangible factors relate specifically to demographic variables, i.e. an individuals demographic profile, whereas intangible factors concern the psychological aspects of an individual such as personal values, preferences, and outlooks.
A rural environment has different lifestyles compared to an urban metropolis. Location is important even within an urban scope. A particular neighborhood affects lifestyle due to varying degrees of affluence and proximity to open spaces. For example, in areas within a close proximity to the sea, a surf culture or lifestyle is often present. The concept of Lifestyle Management has developed as a result of the growing focus on lifestyle.

 

 Individual identity

A lifestyle typically reflects an individual's attitudes, values or world view. Therefore, a lifestyle is a means of forging a sense of self and to create cultural symbols that resonate with personal identity. Not all aspects of a lifestyle are voluntary. Surrounding social and technical systems can constrain the lifestyle choices available to the individual and the symbols she/he is able to project to others and the self.^[4]
The lines between personal identity and the everyday doings that signal a particular lifestyle become blurred in modern society.^[5] For example, "green lifestyle" means holding beliefs and engaging in activities that consume fewer resources and produce less harmful waste (i.e. a smaller ecological footprint), and deriving a sense of self from holding these beliefs and engaging in these activities. Some commentators^[who?] argue that, in modernity, the cornerstone of lifestyle construction is consumption behavior, which offers the possibility to create and further individualize the self with different products or services that signal different ways of life.^[6]
Lifestyle may include views on politics, religion, health, intimacy, and more. All of these aspects play a role in shaping someone's lifestyle. ^[7] In the magazine and television industries, "lifestyle" is used to describe a category of publications or programs.

Health

An individual's health depends a lot on their lifestyle. Maintaining physical and mental health are crucial to an individual's longevity. The more time spent on hygiene, physical fitness, and diet regulation, the healthier lifestyle they have. Those who chose to participate in any kind of physical activity on a weekly basis are generally healthier than those who don't. Mental illness may occur through various variables. For example, depression may promote mental illness through stress and anxiety. Reasons for being depressed can be due to a number of things including job loss, recently widowed, divorce, etc. Depression may lead to or increase the frequency of poor habits not promoting physical health. Poor habits may eventually lead to a poor or even dangerous lifestyle.
More interestingly, a healthy or unhealthy lifestyle will most likely be transmitted across generations. According to the study done by Case et al. (2002), when a 0-3 year old child has a mother who practices a healthy lifestyle, this child will be 27% more likely to become healthy and adopt the same lifestyle.^[8] For instance, high income parents are more likely to eat organic food, have time to exercise, and provide the best living condition to their children. On the other hand, low income parents are more likely to participate in unhealthy activities such as smoking to help them release poverty-related stress and depression.^[9] Parents are the first teacher for every child. Everything that parents do will be very like to be transferred to their children through the learning process.

Environment

There are two types of environment for a lifestyle: nature and social. Natural environment involves the conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives and operates. an individual dedicated to this healthy lifestyle will prefer to walk to close places, recycle plastic, papers, cans, etc. In an individual's lifestyle some of this natural environment is needed, such as fresh air, clean water, clean home, clean neighborhood and a clean example for those at home.^[10] Those who are nature involved decide to plant flowers, vegetables and other crops in their backyard and are extremely strict on how to organize their household waste and uses positive and proactive ways to environmental sustainability.^[11] Social environment is totally different. Social Environment includes an individual's living and working conditions, income level, educational background, community and religious beliefs if they have any.^[12] In a social environment there are certain expectations from one's self or from those around. expectations like success and wanting the best. Along with success come a lot of stress. If there is failure, then there may be mood swings and disappointment. In order for this not to happen, there are better ways to avoid disappointment and failure; organization and structure is the main key element.^[13]

Technology

Technology and diversity have greatly changed the lives of people in society. Technology has positive and negative effects on our daily lives. However, the positivity and negativity of technology depends on how much we use it and how much we are exposed to it. In other words, our lifestyle controls our use of technology, while technology influences our lifestyles. To begin, technology has changed the fields of agriculture, manufacturing, warfare, transportation, information, medicine, communication, among others. Technology has also made it easier for other factors to affect our lifestyles, such as the media. All in all, technology has made our lives much easier, therefore we no longer are required to live vigorous lifestyles that, in the past, contributed to the decline in our health. On the other hand, technology has complicated many lives and has many negative effects. Technology has the power to deliver media to us that can change our values and views on the world, which in return will change our lifestyles. Also, technology has negative effects on the environment such as pollution. Because of technology such as computers and television, people have a much more sedentary lifestyle, which leads to health complications and issues.

Class

Life style research can contribute to the question of the relevance of the class concept.^[14]

Media culture

According to Adorno, the media culture^[15] of advanced capitalism typically creates new 'life-styles' to drive the consumption of new commodities.^[16] The term 'lifestyle' was introduced in the 1950s as a derivative of that of style in art.^[3]

D’Banj and Genevieve had dated on and off from 2009 to 2011 before Genevieve called off the relationship because of D’banj’s commitment issues.
You recall that the two lovebirds have been spotted at events together recently.

But as the year ends, popular music star, Dbanj is back in love with Nigerian screen goddess, Genevieve Nnaji.

According to a reports 33-year-old D’Banj and Nigerian screen goddess Genevieve Nnaji, 34, are back in love again.

Genevieve is reportedly staying at D’banj’s Lekki home, and they are already talking marriage.

Men and woman wants to create and nurture a happy family. The love of a family is life's GREATEST BLESSING. But if your own childhood wasn't so sunny, how do you know what that looks like? And even if you had a blissful upbringing, it's not always easy to define what, exactly, made your family life joyful. Was it the silly games you played on road trips, or the freedom you had to roam in and out of your neighbors' yards? Was it that you had good fortune never to experience a major tragedy, or was it that you had a close-knit clan that pulled together to support one another no matter what? Most of all, how can you make sure that the family you have now will be happy for the long haul?

The truth is, happy families have cranky kids, messy houses, and money struggles, just like everyone else. But underneath it all, they have a core of contentment that sustains them through all of life's ups and downs. "Being happy as a family is something deeper than simply having fun together or feeling the immediate euphoria of a joyful event like opening presents on Christmas morning," explains REDBOOK Love Network expert Scott Haltzman, M.D., author of the new book The Secrets of Happy Families. "A happy family is a family that has a deep sense of meaning and purpose in their lives." When you have that, he adds, the lows feel more manageable, because you can put them into perspective — and the highs are more memorable. Here, your keys to building a family life that will make your guy, your kids, and you truly happy.

Certain values fall into place naturally; if you're married, you and your husband probably committed to each other in the first place because of values that both of you share. However, Haltzman insists on not simply letting your values evolve on their own, but rather deliberately shaping and naming your core principles. "Defining your values together cannot only reinforce a lot of the qualities that brought you together, but it can also help steer you in times when you feel conflicted," he says. Knowing that you prioritize new experiences, for example, you might decide to pull the kids out of school for a special family trip, while another family who values education over everything else would never consider scheduling a vacation during the school year.


Although the grown-ups in the house should drive the discussion, children can also play a part in framing your family's ideals. When Kerry Woodcock, 37, of Calgary, Alberta, and her husband discussed defining their values a few years ago, they asked their children (now ages 8, 7, and 3) about their favorite family moments to gauge which mores were important to them. Their son's love of the family's nightly gratitude ritual (when everyone shares their best moments of the day) has helped them define gratitude as a key value.

When your family agrees on its core values —> and consistently lives by those standards —> you'll build a stronger family identity and reduce conflict.

ADVICE TO TH PARENT ON THEIR CHILDREN
Parent should correct the fault of the family, "Bring them up in the discipline and correction of the GOD" If you love your children, correct them, and while they are growing up, chastise them, even with the rod, as often as it may be necessary.

FREESTYLE SWIMMING





When it comes to freestyle in swimming, Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to only limited restrictions on their swimming stroke. (In other words, they have great freedom with respect to their swimming style.) The stroke used almost universally in freestyle races is the front crawl, as this style is generally the fastest. This swim style is also the most common and has longer distances, such as 1500M or the 1650 yard swim.For this reason, the term freestyle is sometimes used as a synonym for front crawl

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 THE TECHNIQUE
The most common technique for freestyle is front crawl. During a race, the competitor would circle arms forward, alternating arms, and kick their feet up and down about a foot apart (also known as flutter kick). Although competitors can do whatever they please during the freestyle stroke, it is not common to see someone doing dog paddle, or sidestroke during a race or competition. Stand-alone freestyle events can also be swum using one of the officially regulated strokes (breaststroke, butterfly, and backstroke). For the freestyle part of medley competitions, however, one cannot use breaststroke, butterfly, or backstroke. Most competitive swimmers choose the Australian or front crawl during freestyle competitions, as this style provides the greatest speed. It is based on the Trudgen that was improved by Richard Cavill from Sydney, Australia. Cavill developed the stroke by observing a young boy from the Solomon Islands, Alick Wickham. Cavill and his brothers spread the Australian crawl to England, New Zealand and America. Richmond Cavill used this stroke in 1902 at an International Championships in England to set a new world record by swimming 100 yards (91 m) in 58.4 seconds. Freestyle competitions have also been swum completely and partially in other styles, especially at lower ranking competitions as some swimmers find their backstroke quicker than their front crawl. During the Olympic Games, front crawl is swum almost exclusively during freestyle. Some of the few rules are that swimmers must touch the end of the pool during each length and cannot push off the bottom or hang on the wall or pull on the lane lines during the course of the race. As with all competitive events, false starts are not allowed "the number of false starts depends upon the particular competitive rules for that competition".

THE COMPETITION
Here are eight common competitions that are swam in freestyle swimming, both over either a long course (50 m pool) or a short course (25 m pool). The United States also employs short course yards (25 yard pool).

    50 m freestyle
    100 m freestyle
    200 m freestyle
    400 m freestyle (500 yards for short course yards)
    800 m freestyle (1000 yards for short course yards)
    1500 m freestyle (1650 yards for short course yards)
    4×50 m freestyle relay
    4×100 m freestyle relay
    4×200 m freestyle relay.

Nowadays fashion is more than what people are thinking, when we are talking about fashion and style it is one of the most thing that makes a man and women look corporately.
when its comes to the definition of fashion, Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body piercing, or furniture. Fashion refers to a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style in which a person dresses or to prevailing styles in behavior. Fashion also refers to the newest creations of textile designers.[1] The more technical term costume has become so linked to the term "fashion" that the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while "fashion" means clothing more generally, including the study of it.
           


                         ETHNIC FASHION
"Ethnic Fashion" is defined as the fashion of multicultural groups such as African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, etc. Examples of ethnic designers are Sean John. It is estimated that Ethnic Fashion has contributed over $25 billion in revenues, thus making it an important part of the fashion industry.