Circulation, Heart Health and Nutrition
Exercise to Benefit the Liver and Kidneys
A normal, healthy heart cannot be injured by these exercises. Weak people should start slowly and work up to a vigorous workout. Just as exercise is good for any muscle, these circulatory exercises are beneficial for both a healthy and an injured heart. These exercises will condition your heart just as they do your visible muscles. Refuse to listen to people who try to frighten you away from exercise! The heart is a muscle and must be exercised if it is to remain strong. By exercising you will build a stronger heart and body!
Do these exercises daily – requires only 15 minutes. This is just a little time to invest in a healthy heart and a healthful life! If you have a sedentary job, if you spend a lot of time sitting or standing, do these exercises 2 or 3 times daily. When on long automobile drives, stop and do exercises every few hours. The more you do these exercises, the better circulation you will have, and this promotes a stronger heart! When at home, after your exercises you can enjoy the Special Showe..
Special Shower Builds Healthy Circulation
Here’s a progressive method for improving circulation over your entire body. All you need is a large back brush or Swedish bath friction mitt, castile soap and a coarse Turkish towel. Get into shower and turn on the hot water. With brush or mitt, gently scrub your body. At first your coddled body won’t be able to take too much scrubbing. Also it’s good to hand–massage neck and upper shoulders. After your scrub/massage part, then alternate hot or cold showers (*filtered) for 3 to 5 minutes. Now towel rub dry your body for 3 to 5 minutes – your circulation will tingle!
It’s wonderful relaxation for tired or sore muscles and refreshing stimulation with the hot/cold water shower, letting the spray beat heavily on back and shoulders. Occasionally before shower applies olive oil if skin is dry. We advise this relaxing shower before dinner on days when you come home tired. It refreshes and relaxes you!
*Don’t gamble with your health; use a shower filter to remove toxins.
Exercise to Benefit the Liver and Kidneys
Your great filters – the kidneys – are the body’s hardest working organs! Exercises that bend and twist the body at its middle will help to stimulate the kidneys, which makes them function more efficiently.
Here’s a great exercise for stimulating the kidneys:
Stand up straight with hands over head. Now bend forward from waist with knees relaxed and try to touch toes. Return your hands overhead; now bend backwards as far as comfortable. Now, arms up, hands clasped, bend first to left side, then to right side as far as possible. Since most of the body’s liquid waste is eliminated through the kidneys, you should do these kidney stimulating exercises daily. Start with 10 of each and work up to 30.
The Dangers of Sitting too Long
Although most waste products are eliminated through the kidneys, the lungs expel carbon dioxide. In the tiny alveoli of the lungs, blood discharges carbon dioxide and takes on oxygen, again turning a bright red. It then flows back into the heart, to be pumped out through the arteries to the rest of the body. This powerful cycle is repeated thousands of times each day. This is the reason you must never sit too long at one time. Sitting slows down the circulation and stagnates the blood. Long periods of sitting can be damaging to the heart. And please, never cross your legs – it’s unhealthy!
People who sit too long may develop a thrombosis (blood clot) in the deep veins of the calf. If your office work requires sitting a lot, get up and move around every hour. On long car trips, stop every hour or so and take a walk or do some exercises. Remember when exercising, you flush out toxins and stimulate blood circulation through your vital pipes that supply food and oxygen.
Cheerfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive. – Jean Paul Richter
The Art of Healthy Sitting
When sitting, sit correctly! The most disastrous and injurious habit of bad sitting is crossing the legs for it compresses the popliteal artery in the back of the knees which can cause a variety of unhealthy problems (blood stagnation – leg, hip and backaches, varicose veins, hemorrhoids, headaches, pain, etc.).
Don’t Cross Your Legs! When you sit in a chair, sit well back. Do not let the edge of the chair cut off circulation in the back of the knees. Keep your feet on floor. Dangling your legs puts too much pressure on veins. When I was small, my dad shortened the legs of a table for me so that my feet would touch the floor. Adults who have shorter legs should use a footstool. We love rocking chairs – you can get rest by sitting, plus some peaceful (even problem solving) rocking exercise!
Sweating is Healthy for You!
The skin, with its millions of pores and sweat glands, is the body’s largest eliminating organ – (often called the third kidney). Sweat has a dual purpose – it rids the body of impurities and serves as a temperature regulator. When our body is exposed to heat or warmed up by exercise, sweat glands are stimulated into action. Evaporation of the sweat cools the blood when it reaches the skin. This helps the body from becoming overheated and, at the same time, eliminates impurities near the skin’s surface.
It’s the toxic impurities or the mixture with skin dirt, that gives sweat a bad odor. If you are clean inside and out, then there is only the good sweat smell. Regardless of what deodorant advertisers say, it’s healthy to sweat. From dancing, calisthenics, walking, cycling and even vigorous housework, to saunas and steam rooms – any activity that makes you sweat improves your heart action and health. Hard work never hurts when you’re healthy!
Nervous Tension can ruin your health in dozens of ways, diminish your productivity and even shorten your lifespan. – Dr. E. Jacobson,You Must Relax
