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Child Obesity: children can also exercise at home

Some advises to get the kids “moving” inside the house:

• Play with rubber jumping balls, balloons, ping pong rackets, that don’t cause damage.
• Home scale Bowling kits
• While they are little, between 2 and 4 years old, let them jump on top of the bed mattress (if they have no breathing problems)
• Pillow fight (if they have no breathing problems)
• Portable Hopscotch game
• A lot of creativity!

These are some examples of how children waste their energy even being at home. Nevertheless they do not substitute the outdoors physical activities or sport practice.

One of my vivid happy memories as a child (and believe me I don’t have many) is the time I spent with my mother near the fireplace playing Bingo. We had homemade cards boards with numbers and a bag with very little cards with numbers. Each time we picked up a number from the bag the number was said aloud and with beans (yes beans, those we use for soap or other dishes) or corn we would mark on the card board the number (if we had it). I really enjoyed playing Bingo with my mother, it was a mother and daughter moment.

Having two kids of my own I also like to play with them Bingo. I have a Bingo set I bought a few years ago but right now we have some missing pieces and I really need to buy a new one.

I’ve heard about Screenlife Games’ Disney Bingo DVD game and I’m really exited about it. My kids love Disney movies and Disney characters so I think this will be the perfect Christmas gift for them.

Timon, Monsters, Lilo, Princesses, Mickey, etc. they are all present on this Disney Bingo DVD game, besides that it is a didactic game that allows kids to learn the numbers, colors and improves matching skills. I’m sure my 4 years old will be thrilled to play this game but I’m also sure that my 9 years old will love to participate once he loves matching games. It will be great to see all the favorite Disney characters while we play this game. Here is a sneak pick:

This game seems to be wonderful following the path of all Disney productions. This is a great gift for your kids and your kids friends. You can buy it at Amazon.com and Drugstore.com. The package contains:

• 1 Disney Bingo DVD
• 6 Double-sided Bingo Cards
• 150 Bingo Chips

Enjoy and Have Fun playing Disney Bingo!!

I’ve been posting less lately due to my back problems. For several months now that I’ve been feeling a lot of pain on my back, specially on the left side of my spine. The pain is similar (at least I think it is) to a stab of a knife. Every time I turn my head left the “knife” stabs causing a lot of pain. Sometimes the pain is continuous no matter I’m moving or quiet. This back pain also causes me neck pain.

First I thought it was a pain caused by stress once my neck was always rigid and aching, but I was wrong. After several months feeling this pain I went to see a doctor and exams showed up a shoulder tendinitis and other problems in the spine. Once a public solution was taking too long and the pain was unbearable I looked for a private physiotherapist once this is the best therapy for this type of pain.

Last week I went to the physiotherapist appointment and I was told that what I have was postural stress due to my 8 hours a day work at a desk. Besides that I have a pinched nerve that is one of the causes of my disability to turn my head left , the feeling of “knife stab” and the numb feeling I have on my left arm and hand.

I have already had six treatment sessions that consist in hot patches, electrotherapy, ultrasounds and massage. So far the results are minimum but noticeable. The big, big problem: I should have never waited eight months to search for professional help for my back pain and now it’s going to take longer to treat it.

Besides this back/shoulder/neck pain I also have, from time to time, sciatic crises that usually just disable me from walking as usual. The pain starts on the lower back, goes to the hip and leg and, I must say, it’s very painful. Right now I’m siting on the floor with the laptop on my bed because if I sit on the bed with the laptop on my lap in a few minutes the pain will start to attack my hip and leg. Maybe because the bed is to hard as the floor, I don’t know, but siting on the bed typing is something I must avoid now.

I’ve been searching the web for back pain related articles and I found some interesting websites as well as Help Videos por people suffering from back pain. Here are some links:

Back Pain

eMedicineHealth

Stabbing Back Pain

Exercises at your desk for neck pain

A good posture is the key to prevent back pain, believe me, I’m aware of that now.

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19 years ago I was shocked when after a conference I had difficulty in seeing what was around me. One person that attended the conference had to take me home and the next day I had to go to a ophthalmologist. The final diagnosis was myopia. I never noticed and the doctor believed that what caused it to show up so quickly was the exposure to a slide show on the wall during the conference. The light and brightness were the trigger to my myopia to make its appearance, of course it was already there but it was covered.

I started using glasses but two years later I tried contact lens and never wanted glasses again. I only use glasses at night when I’m nearly going to sleep. Fortunately my myopia is benign meaning it won’t get worse and I don’t have to increase the grade of the lens.

Unfortunately for others eye diseases can be very dangerous and unfair. There are diseases like: Glaucoma, Cataracts or Macular Degeneration that can cause a lot of trouble and surgery is the only solution. Treatment for eye diseases and disorders is quite expensive, a lot of people can’t afford it and governments don’t give the proper funds for it. Due to this 300 million people around the world live with blindness and vision impairments.

It’s time to “give a cry for help”. Governments and people in general must be aware that eye sight is not something we can just ignore that’s why there is going to be a World Sight Day 2008 on Thursday 9th October 2008.

Why World Sight Day?

World Sight Day is a global event included in the World Health Organization’s official calendar and held every second Thursday of October. World Sight Day 2008 will focus on the Ageing Eye:

* About 300 million people are living with a serious vision impairment
* 90 % live in developing countries with little chance of proper treatment.
* More than 80 % of the people living with blindness are over 50 years of age
* Yet 75 % of blindness cases are preventable, curable, or treatable. Over 150 million people live with defective eyesight simply because of uncorrected refractive errors.

LensShopper.com is running a contest regarding the World Sight Day 2008 (9th October). To enter you just have to enter the site, introduce your name, city and email address. The grand Prize is 1 year’s supply of contact lenses. The winner will be drawn on November 1st 2008.

Let’s spread the word.!!

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