The 7 steps to Healthy Living

The 7 steps to Healthy Living is not a magic formula, it is common sense. There is no magic mathematical formula in the 7 steps to Healthy Living.



Step One: go to your doctor and get a physical. If your doctor does not do it, ask for a complete blood work. This will check your cholestrol, thyroid levels, nutrion levels, blood count, and more. With the right blood work done you can find what your B12 level is, your iron level, basically the works. If you have any medical concerns talk to your doctor, ie high blood pressure, cholesterol. Ask your doctor about any medical advice before changing your diet and exercising.


Step Two: change the way you eat. No more all you can eat buffets, no more big macs or cripsy kreme. The 3 hour diet (not a fad diet) will explain in detail. With this diet make sure you are eating a well balanced diet. Eat a variety of foods. A balanced diet is one that includes all the food groups. Explained in the new USDA food guide pyramid.

Step Three: exercise, there are many activities you can do to get plenty of exercise. You do not have to do the same thing every day, exercise can get boring, especially if you do the same thing over and over again. If you are short of time visit this post about "To Busy To Exercise?" If you have 30 minutes to an hour a day then start an exercise routine.

Adults should accumulate 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week, and to improve cardiovascular endurance, 20 to 60 minutes on three to five days per week.



Step Four: Most people find this hard to start. You should also add working out (strength training)to your weekly routines. You can do this by machine weight, also called free weight stations, or weighted dumbells and bars with plates. Just because you "lift weigths" does not mean you will get buffed or huge. You can lift weights to tone and add definition, or get ripped.

Step Five: get plenty of rest and sleep. Atleast 8 hours a night. Some Dr's say between 6 to 8, but if you get 8 then you will notice the difference. This lets you rest your body as well as you mind.

Step Six: This is the most important of all... Believe in yourself. If you think you cant then you will not. Self esteem, self motivation, self assurance, Be the Change you Want to See in the World not sure of author.

Step Seven: This is almost important as Step Six, when in doubt ask, get help, get advice. If you are not sure of something then get help. The only stupid question is the one not asked.


The seven steps to living healthy is not an unrealistic goal. Nor is it the easiest thing you will ever do. I promise you that if you start the steps the climb will only get easier as you go.

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Rapid detox has revolutionized the treatment of opiate addictions, allowing patients to return to a productive life in a matter of days and eliminating the need to spend months in and out of hospitals or rehabilitation programs.

However, not all rapid detox protocols are the same.

Today, a new form of rapid detox has emerged known as Accelerated Neuro-Regulation. It is performed by a handful of select treatment clinics throughout the world. ANR utilizes the most advanced medical biotechnology available today. It integrates cutting-edge research in the field of opioid receptors and its significance on the physical and psychological components of opiate dependency.

An experienced team of board-certified aneshtesiologists should perform the ANR treatment. The objective of the procedure is to achieve a reversal of opiate physical dependency without unnecessary suffering, fear, or loss of dignity.

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Cold Remedies

Are cold symptoms making you feel miserable? Here are 12 cold remedies you can use right now — at home — to feel better.

Cold Remedy #1: Drink plenty of fluids to help break up your congestion. Drinking water or juice will prevent dehydration and keep your throat moist. You should drink at least 8 to 10 eight-ounce glasses of water daily. Include fluids such as water, sports drinks, herbal teas, fruit drinks, or ginger ale. Your mother's chicken soup might help too! (Avoid cola, coffee, and other drinks with caffeine because it acts like a diuretic and may dehydrate you.)

Cold Remedy #2: Inhale steam to ease your congestion and drippy nose. Hold your head over a pot of boiling water and breathe through your nose. Be careful. If the steam burns your nose, breathe in more slowly. You can buy a humidifier, but the steam will be the same as the water on the stove. Moisture from a hot shower with the door closed, saline nasal spray, or a room humidifier is just as helpful to ease congestion.

Cold Remedy #3: Blow your nose often, but do it the proper way. It's important to blow your nose regularly when you have a cold rather than sniffling mucus back into your head. But when you blow hard, pressure can carry germ-carrying phlegm back into your ear passages, causing earache. The best way to blow your nose is to press a finger over one nostril while you blow gently to clear the other.

Cold Remedy #4: Use saline nasal sprays or make your own salt water rinse to irrigate your nose. Salt-water rinsing helps break nasal congestion while also removing virus particles and bacteria from your nose. Here's a popular recipe:

Mix 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon baking soda in 8 ounces of warm water. Fill a bulb syringe with this mixture (or use a Neti pot, available at most health foods stores). Lean your head over a basin, and using the bulb syringe, gently squirt the salt water into your nose. Hold one nostril closed by applying light finger pressure while squirting the salt mixture into the other nostril. Let it drain. Repeat 2-3 times, and then treat the other nostril.

Cold Remedy #5: Stay warm and rested. Staying warm and resting when you first come down with a cold or the flu helps your body direct its energy toward the immune battle. This battle taxes the body. So give it a little help by lying down under a blanket to stay warm if necessary.

Cold Remedy #6: Gargle with warm salt water. Gargling can moisten a sore or scratchy throat and bring temporary relief. Try a teaspoon of salt dissolved in warm water four times daily. To reduce the tickle in your throat, try an astringent gargle — such as tea that contains tannin — to tighten the membranes. Or use a thick, viscous gargle made with honey, popular in folk medicine. Steep one tablespoon of raspberry leaves or lemon juice in two cups of hot water; mix with one teaspoon of honey. Let the mixture cool to room temperature before gargling.

Cold Remedy #7: Drink hot liquids. Hot liquids relieve nasal congestion, prevent dehydration, and soothe the uncomfortably inflamed membranes that line your nose and throat. If you're so congested you can't sleep at night, try a hot toddy, an age-old remedy. Make a cup of hot herbal tea. Add one teaspoon of honey and 1 small shot (about 1 ounce) of whiskey or bourbon if you wish. Limit yourself to one. Too much alcohol inflames those membranes and is counterproductive.

Cold Remedy #8: Take a steamy shower. Steamy showers moisturize your nasal passages and relax you. If you're dizzy from the flu, run a steamy shower while you sit on a chair nearby and take a sponge bath.

Cold Remedy #9: Try a small dab of mentholated salve under your nose to help open breathing passages and help restore the irritated skin at the base of the nose. Menthol, eucalyptus, and camphor all have mild numbing ingredients that may help relieve the pain of a nose rubbed raw.

Cold Remedy #10: Apply hot packs around your congested sinuses. You can buy reusable hot packs at a drugstore. Or make your own. Take a damp washcloth and heat it for 30 seconds in a microwave. (Test the temperature first to make sure it's right for you.)

Cold Remedy #11: Sleep with an extra pillow under your head. This will help relieve congested nasal passages. If the angle is too awkward, try placing the pillows between the mattress and the box springs to create a more gradual slope.

Cold Remedy #12: Learn about natural remedies like zinc, echinacea, and vitamin C. People looking for natural cold remedies often turn to supplements.

Zinc: While early studies showed that zinc could help fight off a cold more quickly, the latest consensus seems to be that zinc has a minimal benefit at best.

Deputies seize 6,380 pain pills

Federal sentencing

By Ronica Shannon
Register News Writer

Two Madison County men were indicted Wednesday on federal drug charges after an investigation by the Madison County Sheriff’s Department.

Eric Wayne Grimes, 33, and Jonathan Charley Durham, 26, both of Richmond, will serve a total of six years in prison for selling prescription pain medication.

Grimes was sentenced Wednesday to 57 months in prison for trafficking in oxycodone and possessing firearms by a convicted felon.

Durham was sentenced to 15 months for trafficking in hydrocodone.

He admitted in September that he sold $45 worth of Lortab pills on February 2007. According to police, Durham was found to posses 5,280 Lortab pills (a street value of $42,240 if sold for $8 each) with the intention of distribution. Police also uncovered $11,460 in cash which he forfeited as part of a plea agreement.

Grimes admitted Sept. 8 that between February and April 2007, he distributed OxyContin pills, was in possession of eight firearms and had been convicted of receiving stolen property.

In March 2007, police found approximately 1,000 Lortab pills (street value $8,000), 100 OxyContin pills (street value $8,000) and $1,000 in cash on his person.

Lortabs are usually sold at the street price of $8 and OxyContin are $80 each, said Madison County Sheriff Nelson O’Donnell.

“We had been working on Grimes for probably about a week after we got the first complaint, and got a search warrant for his resident,” O'Donnell said.

Prior to being served the warrant, sheriff’s deputies located Grimes sitting inside a vehicle off Tates Creek Road.

Grimes’ vehicle was searched and 1,000 Lortabs were found, O’Donnell said.

The pills were shrink wrapped and “probably came from Mexico,” he said.

After arresting Grimes, information was developed about Durham, O’Donnell said.

His residence was search and sheriff’s deputies found Lortabs and OxyContin.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was notified and assisted in the investigation as a result of weapons being found in possession of a felon, O’Donnell said.

Their involvement also helps bring the case to a federal level.

“We like to get them in federal court because they have to serve 85 percent of their time and that keeps them off the streets longer,” O'Donnell said. “Any time you can take that many pills off the streets, you have to be improving the quality of life in Madison County.”

Federal law mandates that Durham and Grimes serve at least 85 percent of their sentences until being eligible for parole.

After their release, both will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office “for life,” according to a statement released Thursday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Kentucky.

The U.S. was represented in this case by Assistant U.S. Attorney Hydee R. Hawkins.

Protecting Yourself From STDs

Protecting Yourself From STDs

To reduce your risk of STDs, Douglas recommends:

* Delaying sexual activity.
* Being careful about your sexual partners and using condoms.
* Chlamydia screening each year for sexually active young women.
* Getting tested regularly for gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia and HIV if you're in a high-risk group.

U.S. Chlamydia Infections Hit All-Time High

(HealthDay News) -- The number of Americans newly infected with the sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia and syphilis continues to rise, federal health officials reported Tuesday, with chlamydia infections hitting a record million-plus new cases annually.

The numbers, from 2007, show that cases of chlamydia as well as syphilis rose for the third year in a row, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

"The bad news from last year has continued," said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr., director of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention. "These infections remain at very high levels, and frankly, unacceptably high."

Chlamydia and gonorrhea, the two most commonly reported infectious diseases in the United States, together accounted for almost 1.5 million reported cases of sexually transmitted disease (STD) in 2007.

"Chlamydia is at a new all-time record 1.1 million cases -- it went up about 7 percent since 2006," Douglas said. "Gonorrhea is about at 355,000 cases."

STDs, although easily diagnosed and treated, frequently occur without symptoms and may go untreated. Left untreated, chlamydia and gonorrhea can result in pelvic inflammatory disease -- a condition that causes as many as 50,000 U.S. women to become infertile each year, according to the report, Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, 2007.

The overall rate of chlamydia infections among women was 543.6 cases per 100,000 females, almost three times the rate among men -- 190 cases per 100,000 males, the report said.

The increasing number of chlamydia cases is actually a reflection of more people being screened, not a greater incidence of the disease in the population, Douglas said. "It's kind of a mixed piece of good news. We wish those numbers were going down, but we know they have to go up before they go down," he said.

Gonorrhea rates have been stable for about the last 10 years, Douglas said. "This is stable at quite a high level. It represents an example where we have a job half done. Gonorrhea has come down since its highpoint in the 1970s, but we just got stuck in the late 1990s, and we've been stuck ever since then," he said.

Rates of gonorrhea were also higher among women -- 123.5 per 100,000 women -- compared with 113.7 per 100,000 men, according to the report.

But these numbers are probably just the tip of the iceberg, Douglas noted. The CDC estimates that only half of all new chlamydia and gonorrhea infections are reported, bringing the actual number of infected people to more than 3 million.

"We think there are really 2 to 2.5 million cases of chlamydia a year," he said.

The report also found continued increases in rates of syphilis. On the verge of elimination just a decade ago, syphilis rates began increasing in 2001 and rose 15.2 percent between 2006 and 2007, Douglas said.

"We got set back in a recurrence of syphilis among men who have sex with men," Douglas said. "There has been limited success in trying to curb that, but we have begun to see a slide in some of the better-controlled populations."

The increases in syphilis in 2007 were predominately among women. "We have seen increases in babies, which is the ultimate innocent bystander population," Douglas said.

What's more, if you have syphilis, you also have a 50 percent chance of being HIV-positive, he added.

The report found continued racial disparities for STD cases. Gonorrhea was 19 times more common among blacks than whites; chlamydia was eight times more common; and syphilis was seven times more common, Douglas said.

Black women 15 to 19 years old had the highest rates of both chlamydia (9,647 per 100,000 population) and gonorrhea (2,956 per 100,000 population), according to the report.

Sexually transmitted diseases take a significant economic toll -- the CDC estimates that STDs cost the U.S. health-care system an estimated $15.3 billion annually.

Douglas said greater public health campaigns are needed to reverse the trend.

"These diseases can be treated, and we need to have better awareness about how extensive these infections are and what the prevention opportunities are," he said.

Dr. David L. Katz, director of the Yale University School of Medicine Prevention Research Center, said sexually transmitted diseases are a considerable public health burden.

"By serving up crucial details on where and in whom sexually transmitted diseases are most likely, this report helps inform disease-control programs. By highlighting the persistent prevalence of these diseases, it also issues a call to action," he said.

The Real Reasons Men Cheat

50% of men rated emotional dissatisfaction as the primary reason they cheated.

So much for the myth that for men, cheating is all about sex: Only 8 percent of men said that sexual dissatisfaction was the main factor in their infidelity. "Our culture tells us that all men need to be happy is sex," Neuman says. "But men are emotionally driven beings too. They want their wives to show them that they're appreciated, and they want women to understand how hard they're trying to get things right." The problem is that men are less likely than women to express these feelings, so you won't always know when your guy is in need of a little affirmation.

"Most men consider it unmanly to ask for a pat on the back, which is why their emotional needs are often overlooked," Neuman says. "But you can create a marital culture of appreciation and thoughtfulness — and once you set the tone, he's likely to match it."

66% of cheating men report feeling guilt during the affair.

The implications are a little scary: It isn't just uncaring jerks who cheat. In fact, 68 percent of cheaters never dreamed they'd be unfaithful, and almost all of them wished they hadn't done it, Neuman says. Clearly, guilt isn't enough to stop a man from cheating. "Men are good at compartmentalizing feelings," Neuman explains. "They can hold on to their emotions and deal with them later." So even if your husband swears he would never cheat, don't assume it can't happen. It's important for both of you to take steps toward creating the marriage you want.

77% of cheating men have a good friend who cheated.

Hanging around friends who stray makes cheating seem normal and legitimizes it as a possibility. The message he's subconsciously telling himself: My friend is a good guy who happens to be cheating on his wife. I guess even the best of us do it. You can't simply ban your husband from hanging out with Mr. Wandering Eyes, Neuman says, but you can request that they spend their time together in an environment that offers less temptation, like at a sporting event or a restaurant for lunch rather than at a bar or club. Another strategy: Build your social circle around happily married couples that share your values — it'll create an environment that supports marriage.

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Antidepressants Can Be Lifesavers

Antidepressant medications work equally well for most depressed people, but certain antidepressants may be more effective for particular individuals. Sometimes one antidepressant will be helpful after another has failed, or an antidepressant ultimately may help once another medication has been added to augment its effect.

Antidepressants usually are taken daily. Often it takes several weeks for them to be effective. Although some symptoms may improve early, it may take 6 to 8 weeks or longer to achieve the maximum benefits.

Antidepressants generally are helpful for people suffering with major depression, which is a sustained type of depression lasting for weeks or longer and that affects how people feel and function most days.

Although antidepressants are most helpful for more serious types of depression, they also might benefit people with milder depressions.

Antidepressants decrease symptoms of depression rather than directly elevate mood. They are not really mood stimulants. People without symptoms of mood or anxiety disorders generally will have no positive effects from antidepressants.

When people with major depression have responded well to an antidepressant, generally it is recommended that they continue taking the medication for 6 to 12 months. If they have experienced repeated depressive episodes, often it is suggested that they remain on antidepressant medication indefinitely to prevent recurrences.

When people are discontinuing an antidepressant, usually it is recommended that they decrease the dose gradually to avoid any withdrawal symptoms. However, serious side effects may require a sudden discontinuation of a medication. Always coordinate medication changes with a health care provider.

Some antidepressants need to be started at a low dose that is gradually increased over a period of weeks to avoid side effects. However, many of the newer antidepressants can be started at the full therapeutic dose.

The pharmacologic actions of antidepressants vary considerably. Their positive effects are thought to relate to how they influence the receptors for serotonin, norepinephrine, or dopamine in the central nervous system. However, their effects on these and other neurotransmitter systems can cause bothersome or even dangerous side effects.

Antidepressants that are safe and effective when taken alone may become ineffective or unsafe when combined with certain other medications or substances. It is important to make sure that all health care prescribers know all meds a patient is taking to avoid undesired interactions.

Antidepressants have helped millions of people. Often they have been life saving. Most people taking antidepressants benefit from them and tolerate them well. Serious side effects are rare, but it is important that they be taken as prescribed.

If you're taking an antidepressant medication, make sure that you know the name and dose of the drug, when it should be taken, whether any particular foods or other substances should be avoided, whether it should be taken with meals, what common side effects you might experience, and any serious side effects that you should alert your prescriber about right away.

Health Tip: Why You May Have Erectile Dysfunction

(HealthDay News) -- Erectile dysfunction occurs when a man can't achieve or maintain an erection during sex.

The American Academy of Family Physicians says the condition doesn't have to be a natural part of getting older. ED often is attributed to physical or psychological causes. Physical reasons may include:

* Having a side effect of surgery on the prostate or bladder, or radiation therapy to the testicles.
* Having low testosterone levels, kidney failure, liver failure, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson's disease.
* Having chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or hardening of the arteries.
* Having had a stroke or an injury to the brain or spinal cord.
* Using too much tobacco or alcohol.
* Being tired.