Swimming is Good For You

Ok!  Everybody into the pool!!!  Swimming can be the gentler and kinder workout for your knees, but you can really kick butt and get a better butt while playing around in the water.  Every time you kick in the water, you are increasing your muscle strength, burning calories and increasing your overall flexibility.  The strokes and form of swimming enable you to lengthen your body to its max, thereby elongating your muscles and stretching your tight and shortened muscles.  The forgiveness of the anti-gravity feeling of the water gives you that ‘feel good’ and happiness of being a kid in the water.  Your lungs will get a great workout through rhythmic breathing and your heart will love you for the overall increase in blood circulation.  After several weeks of pretending you are a fish, you’ll notice toner, firmer muscles and a ‘lifeted’ butt.  Swimming is one exercise that uses all the muscles groups, so you just can’t go wrong.

Here’s Your Healthy Tip of the Day:  Can’t swim?  Shame on you!!!  You might have to save your own life one day just by knowing how to swim to safety.  Take this perspective and go take some swimming lessons.  If you know how to swim, check out your local community or health club pool and join a refresher class, a water polo class or some fun weekly group swim.  If you’re a loner, just jump in and do your thing.  For the readers here in Manhattan:  the Reebok Club, Chelsea Piers and Asphalt Green all have wonderful facilities, multitudes of classes and lessons for all levels.  You’ll feel great and look great at the end of the day and what better way to impress someone at the beach with that new butt!

Good Foods for Lung Health

A part of a home remedy to detox lungs is a change of diet to incorporate a few extra foodstuffs that have been proven to really help in fighting tar and mucus along with invigorating your health all over!

Here is a quick list of what should be in your shopping basket if you are worried about the state of your lungs.

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  Water – While you don’t need to by water having a water purifier dose help. Drinking lots of water helps hydrate yourself and the body will flush out old stale fluids with toxins in it for newer fresher water.


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  Garlic – Also onions and Ginger are very good for lung health and detoxification


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  Rosemary – Helps open up the bronchial tubes and is good for clearing mucus


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  Alkaline Foods – Keeping your body slightly in the Alkaline side of PH neutral has been found to deliver many health benefits which boost your immune system. Click here to find out more on this.
  


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  Green Tea - Green tea is full of antioxidants which should be included in any sort of detox

Thre are also some things you want to stay away from:

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  Dairy foods – Milk, cheese, cream and so on cause mucus which is not good for your lung health and breathing.


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  Corn Wheat & Soy – Can all cause mucus as well and should be eaten in moderation


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  Processed food – The additives in these foods are not healthy and can cause mucus building that drains fluid and toxins into the lungs.

For more on how to clean out your lungs click below.

Lung Detoxification Program