FabulousBody@Home: Health Benefits of Portable Home Sauna

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Health Benefits of Portable Home Sauna

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Portable saunas offer all the benefits of traditional, full-sized saunas. Portable saunas offer the following types of medical and personal benefits:
• Stress relief. Infrared or steam portable saunas can be helpful in reducing stress, by relaxing the muscles and providing a calm environment
• Detoxification. The heat in saunas, causes you to sweat, which helps rid the body of impurities such as heavy metal and environmental toxins
• Skin rejuvenation. The sweat resulting from sauna usage opens and cleanses pores, making skin softer, younger, and glowing.
•Detailed clarification of the skin which akes skin more beautiful, smoother, refresh and silkier.

•Helps lose weight by burning fats from the outside.
•Helps remove toxins from the body (aluminum, cadmium, lead and mercury).
•Reduce body aches, nerves ache, etc.
•Helps increase cardiovascular system.
•Get rid of pressure and relax the muscles.
•Helps blood circulation.
•Increase body immune system.
•Reduce swollen prostate in man.
•Very suitable for those who are paerticular about their body weight and general health.
•Compare the benefits of sauna bath and exercise activities below:
1.Sauna for 15 mins burns 400-600 calories.
2.Doing aerobics for 30 minutes burns 400 calories.
3.Riding bicycle for 30 minutes burns 250 – 500 calories.
4.Jogging for 30 minutes burns 300 calories.
5.Swimming for 30 minutes burns 400 calories.

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The History of Sauna Bath
The history goes way back a few thousand years ago. During Roman empire, sauna bath have long been practised by the Romans and it was known as "Sudatorium". In Turkey, the Persian call it "Hamam", in Russia it is known as "Banja". In other words, sauna bath have been the way of life for people in the previous century to maintain their health and well-being. It has been used traditionally before modern medicine was introduced.

Traditional Malay Sauna Bath
In the old times, (and in some area still practice it today), the sauna bath is done by boiling herbs in the pot.The sauna user will be put near the pot and covered their body with clothing until the water in the pot dries up with no heat. User will be full in sweats and to those who have fever, the fever will definitely gone after using the sauna. These herbs have been proven to be very effective in restoring our health and beauty and cure/heal all kind of diseases. Now the boiling-the-herbs-in-water process has been modernize so that users will enjoy the sauna bath in a more soothing and calm situation.

The advantage of Hot Sauna bath are:
Warm heat effects the body by :
The warm radiation from the heat gives positive effect to the cardiovascular system. While in sauna (for around 20 minutes), your breathing and pulse reading will increase from 75 bpm to 100-150 bpm. This will increase the blood circulation (not the blood pressure) resulting from the heat opening up the delicate blood vessel to help the rising blood circulation to the entire body. This process will enable the body to divide more nutrients to the entire body, especially to the skin and replace dead cells. So, the dramatic positive difference that you can see is you will have a more beautiful, lustrous, glowy and younger looking skin for a few hours after the sauna.
The warmth will heat the entire body, 'melting' the blood, open up the nerves and causing the blood to flow easily. The heat effect will also soothes muscles that will get rid of all the numbness, and all discomfortness from the body.
The heat will also open up pores, removes dirt and toxins in the skin, making the skin healthier, the hair stronger and fresher, and can eliminate dandruff.
The heat will also goes into the breathing system and straight into the blood circulation system / organs 11functional areas and give good effects to the body. From medical aspect, they are good for sinus treatment, bronchitis, allergies, and asthma.

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1. Water and Weight Loss

It is recommended that you should drink eight, 8oz. glasses of water every day for successful weight loss. This works out to be half a gallon, or almost 2 liters of water a day.

How Water Helps with Weight Loss

Drinking a big glass of water whenever you feel hungry and before a meal or snack fills the stomach briefly and makes you feel fuller and stop eating sooner.
Breaking down body fat and body muscle during weight loss produces wastes that must be eliminated through the kidneys. Drinking enough water is important to keep the kidneys functioning to remove these wastes.
Popular high-protein diets produce more waste products from digestion, let alone from breaking down stored fat.
Kidney function is even more important when on a high-protein diet.
Drinking more water does not "flush fat."
If the dieter is drinking plain water, he/she is less likely to be drinking something with calories in it.

If you want an added benefit from water, drink cold water. Doing this will make your body have to work a bit to warm up the water and will burn a few extra calories.

Drinking Water and Your Metabolism

Drinking 500 mL of water (a half-liter or about a pint) increased the study participants’ metabolism briefly - for about a half hour. In that time they burned an extra 25 calories. That’s about a quarter of a piece of sliced bread, or 5 M&Ms. The researchers theorized that most of the effect comes from warming the water in the stomach. In the male participants the calories came mostly from stored fat, in the women it came from stored carbohydrates. The paper was published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, December, 2003. It was conducted by researchers in Berlin.

2. Avoid Skipping Meals

Skipping meals doesn’t help with weight loss - it slows down your metabolism and can actually cause you to gain more weight.

Fact! Many dieters think skipping meals can help them to shed unwanted pounds, but it actually does the opposite. By denying the body of calories, you’re also denying the body’s metabolism, thus slowing it down. A suddenly lowered caloric intake will force the body into “starvation mode” where it conserves calories from what you’re already eaten, and slows down the metabolism, thus storing more calories as fat. Skipping meals actually causes you to GAIN weight!

What’s more, skipping important meals, such as breakfast, can actually lead you to consume more calories later in the day because you are hungrier than you normally would be. The best way to cut calories safely and healthfully is to eat 4-6 small meals throughout the day, giving your body a steady flow of calories to keep your metabolism going strong. You help to optimize your metabolism by feeding your body multiple small meals throughout the day.

3. Controlling Portion Size

The key to losing weight isn't to restrict the number of times you eat, but how much you eat when you do. Controlling portion size is a critical part of losing weight and is a necessary lesson to learn if you are going to keep the weight off after it's gone.

Eating Smaller Meals results in Weight Loss

Filling yourself to fullness at meal time is a part of eating that many people have a hard time letting go. For this reason, ome people would rather reduce the number of times they eat each day than the portion sizes of their meals. This method of dieting however is destined for disaster and failure.

In order to lose weight and keep it off for years to come you need to learn about controlling portion sizes and eating more often, not less. Eating in this way helps your body to maintain a more stable insulin level, which in turn stabilizes blood sugar levels. So instead of two or three large spikes in insulin and blood sugar every day that your body has to fight to recover from, controlling portion sizes and eating more frequently will help to keep your sugar levels stable, which positively affects your health and your mood.

Best Foods to Eat When Controlling Portion Sizes

When you begin to eat more frequently, controlling portion size becomes very important. Meals should be healthy and calorie-restricted. Avoid junk food and empty calorie foods that will leave you hungry for more. Instead, choose foods that will satiate hunger (high protein or high fiber), such as fish, high fiber grains, seeds and nuts.

Eating protein is an important way to get that needed energy as you strive to eat less, but more often. Not only does protein benefit your body, but it also provides the brain with Important amino acids that help to keep you mentally alert. Protein also increases your energy by elevating the brain chemicals called dopamine and nor-epinephrine.

Incorporating protein into your meals is very easy. For example, instead of just having a healthy snack of fruit, try combining it with yogurt for added protein. Protein doesn't have to come from meat either. Low fat versions of yogurt and cheese, eggs, tofu, and beans are some of the excellent ways to include meat-free protein into your diet.

4. Exercise and Weight Loss

Exercise is a crucial part of any weight loss program. Exercise and weight loss are stongly linked together and this relationship should never be ignored. Not only is exercise important for healthy weight loss, but it is also great for your body and long-term health.

Regular exercise naturally increases your body's metabolism so that body fat is burned more efficiently. It does this in two ways; by using body fat stores for energy during exercise and by increasing lean muscle mass. More muscle mass increases metabolism because muscle tissue consumes more calories than fat tissues.

For the best weight loss results from exercise make sure to incorporate aerobic activities, like walking, swimming or cycling. Aerobic exercises have the added benefit of speeding up your metabolism for 4 to 8 hours after you stop exercising.

Weight lifting, resistance or strength training, builds more lean muscle tissue and increases your resting metabolic rate, but is not an efficient way of burning stored calories during exercise. A combination of aerobic exercise and resistance training is best exercise program for optimal fat burning and metabolism boosting. Exercise any time you can fit it into your day and you will burn fat away. By exercising just a little more than usual you can speed up your metabolism and use up stored fat in the process.