Exercise

Exercise

Exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness. It is performed for various reasons, to aid growth and improve strength, prevent ageing, develop muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, improve health, and also for enjoyment. Many individuals choose to exercise outdoors where they can congregate in groups, socialize, and enhance their well-being.

In terms of health benefits, the amount of recommended exercise depends upon the goal, the type of exercise, and the age of the person. Even doing a small amount of exercise is healthier than doing none.

Physical exercises are generally grouped into three types, depending on the overall effect they have on the human body:  

  • Aerobic exercise is any physical activity that uses large muscle groups and causes the body to use more oxygen than it would while resting. The goal of aerobic exercise is to increase cardiovascular endurance. Examples of aerobic exercise include running, cycling, swimming, brisk walking, skipping rope,  rowing, and hiking. dancing, playing tennis, continuous training, and long-distance running.
  • Anaerobic exercise, which includes strength and resistance training, can firm, strengthen, and increase muscle mass and improve bone density, balance, and coordination.  Strength exercises include push-ups, pull-ups, lunges, squats, and bench presses. Anaerobic exercise also includes weight training and functional training. eccentric training, interval training, sprinting, and high-intensity interval training, increasing short-term muscle strength.
  • Flexibility exercises stretch and lengthen muscles.  Activities such as stretching help to improve joint flexibility and keep muscles limber. The goal is to improve the range of motion which can reduce the chance of injury.

Physical exercise can also include training that focuses on accuracy,  agility,  power, and speed.

Types of exercise can also be classified as dynamic or static. ‘Dynamic’ exercises such as steady running, tend to produce a lowering of the diastolic blood pressure during exercise, due to the improved blood flow. Conversely, static exercise (such as weight-lifting) can cause the systolic pressure to rise significantly, albeit transiently, during the performance of the exercise.

Physical exercise is essential for maintaining physical fitness. It can contribute to maintaining a healthy weight, regulating the digestive system, building and maintaining nutritional bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility, promoting physiological well-being, reducing surgical risks, and strengthening the immune system.

Fever

When body temperature is higher than normal it’s fever.  An abnormal process could be occurring in the body.  Body temperature rise could be attributed to exercise, hot weather or common childhood immunizations.

A fever is not an illness by itself. It is a symptom that something is wrong in the body.  The cause nor the disease is not known as fever. It may be a bacterial or viral infection or a reaction from an allergy to medicine or food. Playing in the sun could also result in fever.

The body’s normal temperature ranges from 97.5°F to 98.9°F (36.4°C to 37.2°C). It tends to decrease in the morning and increase in the evening. High fevers could bring on seizures in children.

The other symptoms of fever are a Flushed face, Hot, dry skin, Low output of urine, or dark urine, Not interested in eating, Constipation or diarrhoea, Vomiting, Headache, Aching all over, Nausea

They are important when caring for babies, young children, and disabled people as they may not be able to express how they feel.

Fever can be diagnosed by taking the temperature with a thermometer.

A lukewarm bath may reduce the fever.

We should contact our Family Doctor anytime we are uncomfortable with the conditions of the fever, and also we should contact your healthcare any time the temperature spikes quickly or persists despite treatment.

Diet

Diet is the sum of food consumed by us.  Often the word diet is used regarding specific intake of nutrition for health for weight management reasons or nutrition Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the quality of life, health, and longevity. Complete nutrition requires the ingestion and absorption of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids from protein, and essential fatty acids from fat-containing food, also food energy in the form of carbohydrates, protein, and fat. A healthy diet may improve or maintain optimal health.

Health agencies recommend that people maintain a normal weight by limiting the consumption of energy-dense foods and sugary drinks, eating plant-based food, and limiting the consumption of red and processed meat.

Many choose to forgo food from animal sources to varying degrees for health reasons, issues surrounding morality, or to reduce their environmental impact.

A particular diet may be chosen to seek weight loss or weight gain. Changing a subject’s dietary intake, or “going on a diet”, can change the energy balance and increase or decrease the amount of fat stored by the body. The terms “healthy diet” and “diet for weight management” are often related, as the two promote healthy weight management.

An eating disorder is a mental disorder that interferes with normal food consumption. It is defined by abnormal eating habits and thoughts about food that may involve eating much more or much less than needed.

Bacteriology

Bacteriology is a branch of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria, as well as many other aspects related to them.  The identification, classification and characterization of bacterial species is a subdivision of microbiology. This is the study of bacteria and their relation to medicine. Identifying and characterizing bacteria associated with diseases led to advances in pathogenic bacteriology. This has led to many successful advances like effective vaccines, such as diphtheria and tetanus. Bacteriology has also provided the discovery of antibiotics. The connection of microorganisms to disease can be dated back to the nineteenth century when Robert Koch introduced the science of microorganisms to the medical field. He identified that bacteria was the cause of infectious diseases and the process of fermentation in diseases. Louis Pasteur developed techniques to produce vaccines. Both Koch and Pasteur were instrumental in improving antisepsis in medical treatment. The importance of bacteria was recognized as it led to the study of disease prevention and treatment of diseases by vaccines.

Audiology

Audiology is the branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. Audiologists aim to determine whether someone has normal sensitivity to sounds by various testing strategies. If hearing loss is identified, audiologists determine which portions of hearing (high, middle, or low frequencies) are affected, to what degree, and where the lesion causing the hearing loss is found. If an audiologist determines that a hearing loss or vestibular abnormality is present he or she will provide recommendations for interventions or rehabilitation (eg., hearing aids, cochlear implants, appropriate medical referrals).

In addition to diagnosing audiology and vestibular pathologies, audiologists help in rehabilitation. Audiologists can provide hearing health care from birth to end-of-life. They counsel families through a new diagnosis of hearing loss in infants and help teach coping and compensation skills to late-deafened adults. They also help design and implement personal and industrial hearing safety programs, newborn hearing and screening and school hearing screening programs, and provide special or custom-fitted earplugs and other hearing protection devices to help prevent hearing loss.

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