sábado, 30 de outubro de 2010

How can you exercise if you don't have much time and money (like us)?

Exercise, that's it! Yes, exercise is very important for our health, physical and mental life, everyone can and should do it. For each age it has a benefit, like:
-children: when you are a child, playing a sport help you avoiding some diseases like pneumonia. It's also recommended to meet new friends, spend your energy and develop discipline, motor skills, and strategic thinking.
-teenager: adolescence is a hard time in which our body goes through a phase of rapid changes, then exercising help us to develop better, healthful, and have a good body image. If you exercise when you are young, will be more likely to continue the practice into adulthood. 
-adult: when you become an adult you start doing many things at the same time, and it means that you feel stress, maybe depressed and sometimes alone.  Exercising is a way to disconnect ourselves from the stressful routine. Meet new friends (maybe a boyfriend/girlfriend), helps to maintain a beautiful body.
-elder: when you are elder you tend to have more muscular problems and diseases, mental and physical, and it becomes necessary to use medicines. One of the bests "natural" medicines is the exercise. Yes! Exercise cuts diabetes risk, lowers blood pressure, protects against Alzheimer's disease, and moreover the person has contact with other people.


However, how can you exercise if you have a busy life and also don't have money to pay a gym or a club?
To feel less stress and have more energy for the day you must start to have some positive attitudes, (can be on the street, in the job or in the house), like:
- Use stairs instead of the elevator or escalator. 
- Walk more, and use less the car.
- Start a hobby like gardening that makes you move
-Turn off the TV and play with the children
-Dance! You can dance alone or invite some friend to your house.
- Join groups in your neighboor that are active, like mall walkers or cyclists 
-Take your dog for a walk

Start this actions and you will realize the benefits of the exercise.

Dears, remember: before starting an exercise program, consult a physician.
That's it! Ca and I have spent much time in front of the computer then, now we are going to exercise a little.

terça-feira, 26 de outubro de 2010

Thaksgiving: time to be thankful

http://mommylife.net/archives/2009/11/switching_gears.html



Thanksgiving is an important holiday in USA and Canada that is celebrated in November and October respectively. Although this date be recognized in those countries, thanksgiving is present in many other places like China, England, Greece,but ,in fact it started in England. It is a day to be thankful for every good thing that happened in your life during the year, and it's is done by parties and prayers with your family and friends.
Thanksgiving started with some pilgrims that came to Plymouth - currently Massachusetts USA in 1641. As the harvest was great when they arrived in this new country, due to the help of the Americans, the pilgrims did a supper to them as a way of thanking. Every year they enjoy in partiers.
In 1789 the president George Washington announced that Thanksgiving would be celebrated in the last Thursday of November, to honor the United States Constitution. 

Thanksgiving in Brazil the president Gaspar Dutra visited the U.S. at the invitation  of National Cathedral of Washigtion,D.C.,he was enamored by the concept and brought  it to his homeland.In southern Brazil,It is a sort of expressing gratitude to Almighty for  an enormous harvest.Although claimed for its Carnival celebrations they can´t be undermined in the other festivities.
In São Paulo,this date isn´t comemorate.Because our culture is different and the south states were  colonized for Germans and Italians.Then, eg:Their thoughts don´t make part of Brazil.The education and respect are different from the others states.


Ca: I am  thankful for my life.Because withouth it I couldn´t change the world in the future.All the tenagers will can change environment,education,prejudice,wars,misery.I belive on it.
La: I am thankful for having my family and  friends next to me and be a heathy person.