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10 Truths about weight lifting for women

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I used to lift weights 10 years back.Then in the mad rush of studies, work , marriage and then baby I had forgotten how much fun it was.
How great I felt.
I started lifting again only 1 year back.
But it’s like finding your best buddy again.
You remember all the fun you had.
First Anniversary mocktail mommies celebration contest
First Anniversary mocktail mommies celebration contest:Day 5 Fitness Friday 
It’s like no time had passed.
  I had first weight trained when  I started my MBBS studies.Didn’t know much about pros and cons of strength training .
But I fell in love with barbells, dumbbells, deadlifts overhead presses, pull ups, squats!Everything.

 

Weight loss for women has myths surrounding it making the truth invisible
Weight loss for women has myths surrounding it making the truth invisible
 

Will you lose weight?

This will largely depend upon your diet and your genes.
  Will you become stronger?
 Yes definitely.
 Will you look great and feel awesome?
 Absolutely .
 
 The Myths about strength training
  • Lifting heavy weights will make you bulky.
  • It’s bad for your joints
  • When you have muscle if you stop lifting it will become  fat.
  • You will lose your femininity.

 10 Truths about strength training for women:

  • Make you stronger
  • Make you healthier.
  • Make you toned.
  • Helps you lose weight even when you are not exercising.
  • Boosts your BMR
  • A quick way to get rid of your blues and increase endorphins.
  • Helps control attacks of anxiety depression and mood swings
  • Decreases stress
  • Sleep quality improved
  • Stronger heart
Yoga for increasing flexibility and finding your core.
The treadmill for improving cardiorespiratory health.
But are they enough?
Can you do targeted weight loss?
No.
For weight loss, you must do compound movements.Big movements.
Movements that need a lot of different muscle groups to complete.
These are the exercises which help you become stronger and leaner.
 

Should men and women lift different weights?

Men have testosterone as their major sex hormone, which helps them bulk up.
While women have estrogen which doesn’t bulk you up.But helps make lean muscle.It helps improve bone density and make you stronger.
 
So why do women heavy lifters look so big?
3 Things.
 They maybe taking special protein supplements.
Specifically,  want that look and have trained for years .
May also be under hormonal therapy.
The truth is for you to find out.
 

 

FITNESS CHALLENGE :Stronger together
FITNESS CHALLENGE: Stronger together
 
 
Treadmill or weight lifting ?
Which burns more?
 Hands down weights do.
Cardio you burn calories while doing it.
Strength training  helps you burn during and after the exercise.
You lift weights
Your muscle continues to need more oxygen after you stop.
This is EPOC or excess post exercise energy consumption.This makes you lose more calorie and increase BMR. 
Standing burns calories,  more than sitting.
Walking is better than standing and strength training is better than walking!

Start lifting heavy weights .Lift everything. The stronger you are the better you will feel.The more confident  you will be.

But it’s important to talk to your brain.Because exercise has a lot to do with your mind. What makes you happy?

Are you ready to make a change be stronger?

 

Tell me ,  do you do like strength training .Comment  below and let me know.

 

 Disclaimer: This is meant to promote awareness about healthy lifestyle and necessity for exercise.This is not a blanket recommendation for all.It is advisable to consult your own doctor before starting any new exercise program.

 

 

 

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals receives JCI accreditation for 4th time

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When I visit a hospital for my own ailments, I feel happy when they meet international standards.

The Joint Commission International Accreditation USA is the recognized leader in handing out quality checks to international healthcare institutes. JCI doesn’t give accreditation and its stamp of approval forever though.

It understands that quality needs consistency too. That’s why it reconfirms it’s accreditation every 3 years. This is a strict process, needing multiple surveys and evaluation.

On 5th March 2018, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals Kolkata received the JCI accreditation for the fourth time in succession.

That makes it the only hospital in eastern India with this quality of patient care set up and management.

What exactly is the JCI and why should you care?

JCI is an important criteria for assessing international standards in India. When it comes to patient care, you desire the best. But how exactly do you know its the best?

How do you know you are getting standard and high-quality care?

JCI is the gold seal of quality healthcare.

The gold seal of approval is a sign of Apollo’s commitment to setting up and maintaining quality healthcare, which matches the best international standards.

As a patient, it makes sense to me to have an objective way of knowing how to judge and compare world-class healthcare by looking for the JCI Gold Seal.

Accreditation has helped improve the quality of care across the country. Now hospitals are trying to meet the best patient care and safety standards to give quality healthcare.
JCI was the precursor to NABH, which is now recognized by the government as critical to the delivery of care.

(NABH or National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers, known as NABH too, support improvement of the quality of healthcare service in our country for all strata of the society through various methodologies and tools to supplement the efforts of the providers of healthcare service.
While hospitals were earlier criticised for chasing certification, this has actually helped all Indians. Just like your educational qualification helps prospective employers have an objective idea about your expertise and experience, JCI helps the patient choose the healthcare provider with confidence.

JCI Accreditation Apollo Hospital :What you need to know
JCI Accreditation Apollo Hospital :What you need to know

Since the accreditation is by a reputable authority, it makes good sense to check before we choose!

How is the Accreditation given?

Apollo Gleneagles Hospital team underwent a meticulous process of evaluation for 5 days. Four international surveyors with an expert team of doctors, nurses and healthcare administrators from the Joint Commission International, visited Apollo.They evaluated the hospital on more than 1200 measurable factors.

This included:

•Staff interviews

•Talking with patients

•Evaluating leadership skills of management

•Physical inspection

•Review of records

The successful completion of the survey and the amazing achievement of fourth-time accreditation by JCI reinforces the organization’s commitment to develop and implement healthcare practices and policies with patient safety and benefit as the first word in quality healthcare.

This is meant for spreading general healthcare information.All decisions regarding health and healthcare need the consultation of a doctor in person.Read my disclosure here.

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Fitness challenge to make you stronger

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My daughter is 4 and half years old .For the last 4 years I’ve told my hubby that I am getting fitter ,mentally !
The amount of exercise I do in my brain could have made me a  bikini super model by now.
  This year finally I found an answer to my fitness woes.
 I had more fun getting fitter ,than ever before.

The lessons I learned :

#1 Talk to your brain.It’s the boss! 

 
“I am happy with my body” ,line would have worked ,if that was true.Not lying to myself is my first rule.
I have a treadmill which I use everyday to walk or run or stroll whatever as long as I get on it.It makes me happy.
That shot of adrenaline helped me  explore  how I can make the treadmill trips less boring.I have a few hacks which I will be sharing.

#Lesson 2 

Dumbbells are my favourite  .
Lifting weights are a lot of fun.
They give me a feeling of accomplishment .
I started my weight training journey , apprehensively not sure I could continue it.
But continue I did.
While doing the Blogchatter challenge # My Friend Alexa, I realized most people work best in a community. After reading this this Blogchatter challenge it became obvious to me that, when you’re having fun, with friends its easier to get difficult work done.
 
 
What’s more difficult than  getting fitter?
 
Weight loss is not just about self image for me.It’s about finding  my strongest self.I want my daughter to grow up strong.Strong mothers can help their children grow up stronger.
Not afraid  of the world and its lurking dangers.
As protests for the  wrongs suffered continues ,women need to grow stronger.
The stronger you become it will be more difficult to suppress your voice.

#Lesson 3

When you are the ideal weight ,your heart and your joints having less work to do .
There’s a reason weight and height charts are matched .
Life is about a healthy living and the best life possible.
 
 
 I started lifting weight 6 months back with one  set of dumbbells.
Now I have  a few.  Living  in a little town in West Bengal  and with my crazy schedule, going to the gym  is not convenient .
So whatever I do have to be done at home.
When I started my fitness journey I had a few nagging pains ,left over from my post pregnancy days.
The stronger I became , the better I felt about myself.
The less pains and aches I had .
 
Body weight  and mental health ,have a deep relationship .Mind and body ,live together in your consciousness.
 
When your mind decides  it wants to get stronger  you will get stronger.
 
With 71 days left before 2017 are you as strong as you would like to be?
 
Are you upto,taking part in a fitness challenge to become the strongest you?
If yes ,you need to do two little  things.
 
 
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Looking forward to making friends with strong women.
Because health is about strength and fitness!
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COCHLEAR IMPLANT: Who needs it? How does it help (part 2)

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COCHLEAR IMPLANT: Who needs it? How does it help? This is part 2 in the Cochlear implant series and you can read the first part here.

Cochlear implants appeared rather gimmicky when they first arrived. With misconceptions around its use, most people were apprehensive. Even doctors were doubtful. It promised everything, would it deliver?

What were the fears with a cochlear implant?

*It can’t help, if you are born hearing challenged.

*It doesn’t help in speech development.

*It will make the child alienated.

*It’s no good for old people with hearing problems.

COCHLEAR IMPLANT FEATURED
COCHLEAR IMPLANT FEATURED

So what are the answers? Read on.

The Story from deaf to hearing, is it magic?

Cochlear implants started in the second half of the 1980s.

Riddled by misconceptions and hype it was handicapped by the need for really motivated children and parents.

But like all life-changing things, the cochlear implant stood the test of time with flying colors.

Children who were helped by a cochlear implant make us smile.

They tell us how they hear. How do they understand speech? It’s through their words that we learned about life, from no sound to a noisy world. 

Who does it help?

  • Children
  • Post-lingual deafness in all age groups
  • Old people with profound age-related hearing loss.
  • In Auditory Dys-synchrony

Cochlear Implant in Children

Postlingually deaf children.Children who have already developed speech and have lost hearing due to some disease like meningitis.
Best Age of cochlear implantation: before two and a half years. But it has been done as early as one year of age.

7 years is a watershed zone,  after which  Prelingual deafness has variable results.

The longer the child has an implant, the better is the speech recognition scores. When the duration of use of the implant is the same, results are better with a lower age of implantation. The rate of expressive and receptive language learning is similar to that of hearing children.

Role  of cochlear implant  in presbycusis

Presbycusis or age-related hearing loss is also helped with cochlear implantation. It’s useful for the elderly with profound hearing loss, which cannot be helped with a hearing aid.

A world without sound can be lonely. More so in the aged population.
10% of normal ganglion cells ( approx.3500  cells ) are needed to recognize and understand speech.
The successful hearing outcome is seen with useful hearing. This helps in the hearing rehabilitation of the aged.

Depression, anxiety, and social isolation in both elderly and people with decreased hearing make life more difficult.

Some criteria:

Pure tone audiometry(hearing test) of 70 decibels or more for those planning for implantation in children and adults.

Cochlear implant in Auditory Dys-synchrony

You must be wondering”Auditory what”?

Auditory neuropathy or auditory dys-synchrony is complex. Children have variable hearing abilities.

What do Tests show in Auditory Dys-synchrony?

Normal middle ear functions, otoacoustic emissions present. But Brainstem evoked response Audiometry is unresponsive. This means sounds pass from outside to the ear up to the nerve of hearing, like a hearing person. But the communication between this nerve and the brain is distorted. The sound reaches the brain scrambled and makes no sense.

Why does this happen?
The sensory cochlear hair cells responsible for firing electrical signals in response to sound, do so dys-synchronously. That’s random without the syncing needed for understanding the generated sound.

Plain English: the rhythm of the electrical firing, is not right for your brain to pick up as words.

The action potential doesn’t develop properly in the cochlear nerve. This causes hearing loss. This is variable depending on. the degree of dys-synchrony.

Initially believed that hearing aids and auditory amplification would be useless. But some children benefit from hearing aids too.

Cochlear implantation can restore synchrony by, by-passing cochlear hair cells and stimulating the auditory nerve directly and synchronously.

The theory is good. But research continues for strategizing treatment,  in Auditory Dys-synchrony. Whether a cochlear implant will help in auditory dys-synchrony is decided case to case.

The next burning question:

 1 implant or 2 implants: One ear or both ears?

With 2 implants pros:

Better speech understanding.

This is more obvious in a noisy environment. Better sound localization, the direction of sound detection possible only with hearing in both ears.

Cons of 2   bilateral implants:

Most importantly the cost.

The dedication required for several years of necessary post-implant speech training and follow-up. It’s definitely not easy.

Where do we stand now?

Some governments cover the cost.

Few individuals can afford the cost of the best grade of the implant for both ears.

The government is realizing the cost of the implant is value for money. It is less than the years of disability support a person will need.
In children should you use up both ears?

Over the years as technology improves, maybe they’ll be better options?

Childhood Hearing Loss -Act Now Here is How!
Childhood Hearing Loss -Act Now Here is How!

Should you give up the present for the future many questions still need answers

Can there be a significant bilateral vestibular injury?

With excellent imaging, experienced surgeon, and God’s blessing this is rare.

Is it cost-effective?

The benefits outweigh the potential harm for many cochlear implant candidates. Like with all new medical innovations, it’s a long journey to perfection. We are still far from perfect in this cochlear implant journey. But we are far ahead than 10 years back. Light years away from 50 years back.Where there was no hope…There smiles a child with a cochlear implant who is hearing.

Updated  May 2022

Cochlear Implant: What you need to know(Part 1)

Cochlear Implant: Who needs it?  ( Part2)

When do Babies speak(part3)

How to write away writer’s block:Inspiring Quotes to help

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I have blogged for 2 years.Off and on.Mostly off.I was reading a lot .But writing a lot less.

Thinking about writing.Talking about writing.Then I  always had something coming up.In this writing and exercising was in the same boat.I spent the entire day thinking about doing one or the other.But always had an excuse.Definitely  important ones.

4 months back I wrote 2 posts a month on my blog. That too after thinking for days.

I didn’t think of writers block. Because I didn’t think I was a writer.

But I am a Bengali ,and all Bengali’s love to think they have a few untold stories in them.

Frankly speaking I started writing because my daughter was too young to understand the chatter in my brain.Plus I wanted to give my  darling hubby
a break from my rants.

Yes I rant when I don’t have stimulating book,company,events or any thing which my brain can feed on.That’s why I absolutely  fell in love with  my  Blogchatter BFFs . 

When you are all looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow , it’s fun to have some company.Sharing the gold is good too.Because it actually multiplies infinitely every time you share.

That’s the same with writing.The more I write ,the more I want to write.

It’s not easy.But now I know it’s not easy for anyone.

The best  part bloggers always have fun .Because whatever happens it’s a story right!

Like the time on Nabami, when I was standing in a crowded  waiting room at the Sealdah station  and writing a blog post on my  phone. It’s not my best .But I did it.

It helped drown out the noise ,dirt ,and the two-hour wait standing!Luckily( for me ),my daughter napped on her father’s lap.

Me tapping away on the phone.Rai sleeping.My hubby looking shocked (and a tad irritated ) that I was writing standing in the middle of a crowded room.That’s mad . But you need a little madness to want to share your thoughts with random  strangers right?

Once upon a time I read Perry Mason  everywhere . I wanted to moonlight as a criminal lawyer.

But decided it was easier to do it in the next lifetime.Law books are something I have never attempted reading.And I read everything.

Maybe one day.The same was with writing.One day.

Then in July I did a Blogchatter half marathon daily chatter for 2 weeks.

#MyFriendAlexa challenge for 1 month in September where I wrote 15 posts in 1 month.Definitely more than what I wrote the entire year last
year.

I am doing a #Dailychatter challenge with Blogchatter again .The best part of this is , I am actually able to write everyday.The 500 word thing everyday is a good habit.Try it.

Whenever I read anything on writing it’s like eves dropping inside famous writers head.

I think of myself as work in progress .The following are a few famous quotes which help  me ,when  my   writing brain needs a little push or maybe a shove and some inspiration . 

24 Favourite quotes on Writing by writers

“What a writer brings to any story is an attitude…” John Gregory Dunne

Why you must write everyday?

You must write every single day of your life…You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear
books like hats upon your crazy heads….may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.” Ray
Bradbury

About writer’s block…

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining…researching…talking to people about what you’re doing, none of that is writing. Writing is
writing.” E.L. Doctorow

You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.” Doris Lessing

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Stephen King

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.”

—Larry L. King, WD

You can’t think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.

 John Rogers

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things about all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s
life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Stephen King

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens.

– Ray Bradbury

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway

Writing is like sex; you don’t have to wait until you’re an expert to begin doing it. ~ Anonymous

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.

Richard Bach

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing.
Everything is useful to a writer, you see—every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

Graham Greene

If you wait for inspiration to write; you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter. ~ Dan Poynter

Confused about  what to write?

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you’re afraid to write about.

 Cec Murphy

When do you fail as a writer

You fail only if you stop writing. ~Ray Bradbury

Why you should write?

If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing.

– Kingsley Amis

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

– Philip Pullman

The pen is mightier than the sword and considerably easier to write with.

– Marty Feldman

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

– Robert Cormier

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

– Ernest Hemingway

What is writing?

Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

– Paulo Coelho

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am a grown up they call me a writer.

– Isaac Bashevis Singer

On Editing

The first draft of anything is shit.

– Ernest Hemingway

10 lessons I taught  myself to write away writers block 

#1 Write everyday,everywhere .Sitting standing.Whatever works. No excuses.

#2 It’s a habit and you can do it .

#3 Find friends who write .Not just want to write.

#4 Avoid editing while writing the first time.Write what ever comes to mind.

#5 Your life is your story . It can help someone.

#6 It takes guts to write . So even if no one says so ,you are brave.Don’t stop believing.

#7 Exercise .Somehow it helps me write.

#8 Read ,read read.Then read some more.

#9 Writing is therapy for me.I feel better after getting my thoughts written down.

#10 Writing is a way to keep a little  piece of me for my daughter to find even when I am no more

Do you write?

How do you find inspiration . Write in the comments below .

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