Run for health and recreation

Manila, Philippines -  Running offers many health benefits, including conditioning your heart and lungs. Nowadays, individuals who are fit enough to run are signing up for a 5K. The latest 2012 issue of the Healthy Options Lifestyle Newsdigest highlighting urban fitness features articles that may be of interest to beginning runners and athletes.

Find feature write-ups like “5K basics for a beginning runner” which offers tips, including how to rev up the body and train for a 5K, what to eat while in training, and the running gear you need to have. Read “4 rules to avoid runner burnout” or ways to achieve a great workout through running, without going too far and sustaining injury. Also a must-read is “Preventing sports injuries” which may benefit readers who are into fitness or sports activities.

Meanwhile, women who have just given birth can get loads of tips and insights on firming up their bodies and becoming stronger through the article on “Post-pregnancy fitness.” The article offers suggestions on specific exercises and the best time to get down to doing them, depending on whether women had normal vaginal births or caesarean births.

Got a kid who shows promise of being a future athlete? Find out “How to raise an athlete — and why you should” and play to your child’s strengths.

Also incorporated in the new issue of the Healthy Options Lifestyle Newsdigest are the latest medical news, including a fast way to create bone using stem cells, and the effect of environmental factors like stress in triggering Alzheimer’s disease. Another article worth perusing is “Statins: the CoQ10 drain” which cites how statins, among the widely prescribed drugs today, tend to block the production of a molecule that is the essential precursor both to cholesterol and CoQ10 production.

The Healthy Options Lifestyle Newsdigest is available free to Healthy Options members. For more information, visit the Healthy Options website at www.healthyoptions.com.ph.