Good Bladder Habits

 

 This is another older blog post with more than 700 views. Here it is:-

 

 

"Habit of the Week” this week comes with a warning.  You may want to go to the toilet just reading about it.  

GOOD BLADDER HABITS

 1.       Drink two litres of fluid per day; include water, juices, and milk. 
Ahhh Coffee - special note.

   Restrict caffeine to 3 cups per day, if you don't have "urge"symptoms; Try and eliminate caffeine if urgency and frequency are problems.

2.    For that two litres go to the toilet 5 – 7 times to pass urine from when you get up to when you go to bed.

3.      Cut out ‘just in case’ visits to the toilet.

4.    Go to the toilet when you have a bouncy full bladder sensation rather than the urethral sensation

 

5.    All your life have good bowel function

 

6.   Never hover or strain to pass urine.

 

Makes you think about the habits of a lifetime and all those times mum said to go "Just in case".

30 20 10 Habit of the Week, not the weak

 Here is a reprise of my most-read-blog ever. It is an oldie, but a goodie.  I suggest, at this time of the year, we start in the pool.

Here is a challenge.  It is a modified H.I.IT., that's high intensity interval training.  The difference is,  I think it's do-able.

It is simple
     Walk for 30 seconds,
     Walk briskly or jog for 20 seconds
      Sprint hard for ten,  on the spot, I suggest.

If you are not fit or a beginner, 5 cycles of this is recommended.  If you are fit and want a bit of a challenge, 10 intervals.

HIIT is supposed to reduce the actual training time, while giving better results.

It is a variation on our 8 second sprint/12second walk that we have been doing in class.

Don't forget, our HIIT can be done on a stationary bike, or in the pool.

Messiah Thoughts

 Here is a note from Rev. Deb Bird.  She has co-authored the play which is embedded in our performance of the Messiah

In the 1800’s a music critic once hailed The Messiah as “the one great work that not only embodies a religion but has become a religion itself.” It was immediately popular when first performed in 1742 and has only increased in popularity ever since.

Although Handel’s masterwork has been a Christmas tradition since the 1790’s, its structure - from nativity to sacrifice to resurrection makes it an Easter story. Themes of peace, hope and redemption connect us with a very human telling of a salvic figure experiencing profound ostracism and abandonment before the story reaches that place where we can sing Hallelujah.

It’s an experience we can all relate to at some point in our lives. Things fall apart in quiet and life changing ways, and we dwell a while in grief and unknowing before the way forward emerges and we make tentative first steps toward the life we are yet to live.  It's a familiar pattern that makes a modern retelling both a completely natural and boldly ambitious move.

In this reimagining, a profoundly broken man converses with a priest about his experiences of war and the impacts of PTSD on his life and relationships. This is no attempt to minimise the complexities of PTSD, nor is it a suggestion that religion is its cure. This is, however, a conversation that explores the search for hope after devastation, firm in the conviction we are each worthy of healing, deserving of fullness of life, and that we each need companions on that journey.

I wish Kim, the musicians, choir, actors and all who have contributed to this heartfelt offering the very best for this performance and congratulate them on their own conviction that this is a story worth telling.

Rev’d Deb Bird

Spectacular Data

 I have just come across this story an article from 2013 Journal of Internal Medicine, December edition

"Early Response to Preventive Strategies in the Diabetes Prevention Program"

The article says that a 5% to 7% weight loss leads to a 54% reduction in your Type II diabetes risk.