Saturday, March 4, 2017

It's National Nutrition Month. Start Living Right this March with Martial Arts

It's National Nutrition Month. Start Living Right this March with Martial Arts
Written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts



Now that we are back to March, the month which the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics observe as the National Nutrition Month, everywhere the slogans are about eating right and switching to that healthy bite. A nutritional and healthy diet is definitely a sure part of healthy living. However the worsening numbers of obesity and other lifestyle-related health issues in the US indicate how important it is to broaden what we consider ways of healthy living.

The Obesity Paradigm: Is It Just About Unhealthy Diet?
Often, in discussions related to obesity, we see that a direct cause-and-effect relationship is drawn between unhealthy eating habits and overweight. Similarly experts tend to establish a link between US being one of the richest nations and also a nation with the highest obesity numbers. Today, however, many argue that even though unhealthy eating habits like junk food consumption and lack of nutritional diet are a large reason for obesity, the causes and remedies for obesity could not be reduced to this. Some studies highlighted by Food Research and Action Center such as a NHANES 2005-08 Analysis and a 2011 study by Freedman could be seen as examples. What is different about them is that they explore the increasing instances of obesity among the poor and the relationship between poverty and obesity.

 Such studies have led to an emerging consensus that diet habits are just one among the many causes for obesity. The spectrum of causes that doctors recognize today, apart from junk diet habits, include sedentary lifestyle, inaccessibility to nutritional food at the right time, hereditary conditions that affect the brain and the body, stress, health conditions like diabetes and more. In the wake of these new bits of research, we can see that eating right is only one of the many important steps we can take toward living a healthy lifestyle. We need to think beyond.

 Alternate Remedies: Finding an Answer in Martial Arts
If you are on a broad lookout for something that will take care of the many possible causes for conditions like obesity, perhaps the best remedy to watch out for is martial arts. Unlike the other measures that you might resort to like a diet plan or a workout scheme, martial arts can address the multiple causes behind unhealthy conditions like obesity. For instance:

  •  Martial arts can give you a physically active break from your sedentary lifestyle in an easier and a more effective way than common workouts.
  •  Adept martial art instructors can give you not just a plan for healthy diet, but a complete plan for healthy lifestyle and practices of life.
  •  Martial arts under professional experts can improve not just your physical health, but also your mental spirit, emotional strength and social skills. Stress relief is a typical example.
  • Sustained and effective martial art lessons will help you to address a number of health conditions that indirectly contribute to obesity, cardiac issues and stroke. It helps to combat diabetes, hormone imbalances, calcium and thyroid imbalances, lipid conditions and blood pressure.
  • At some offbeat martial art schools like Bruce McCorry’s academy, you get unique programs that offer martial arts along with mind healing techniques which is the shortest path to achieving a healthy body and mind. 


 Instructors who will personally attend to you and institutions which will give you tips on healthy living can actually bring about a change. Make the National Nutrition Month of March meaningful by thinking out of the box and adopting a complete healthy lifestyle that includes healthy diet but not just that!

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Friday, March 3, 2017

Pain Management through Martial Arts

Pain Management through Martial Arts 
written by: Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts

KICK THE PAIN KILLER ADDICTION AWAY!





Looking back at the year 2016, it won’t be an overstatement to say that the word painkiller became quite a news maker. For quite a while, studies have pointed out the increasing cases of painkiller addiction among Americans, and this became a matter of debate last year. With this turn, it becomes important to discuss the ill effects of pain management systems based on addictive and dangerous coping mechanisms like painkillers and to think of alternate pain management mechanisms which are safer, better and healthier.

Mapping the Painkiller Addiction and its Consequences
The survey that made painkiller epidemic a matter of public debate was the 2016 Poll by Kaiser Family Foundation. A glance through the study shows that not everything is cool with America’s increasing obsession with pain relief medicines. An alarming 44% who took the survey certified that they knew at least one person who was addicted to prescribed pain medicines. It was further noted that more number of people found the opioid family, which includes painkiller medicines, a more serious threat to health than alcohol. It should concern us that more than 60% who took the survey felt that what the governments and prescribing doctors do to combat painkiller addiction is not enough. These voices are worth listening to, because it was only one year ago that CDC noted a four-time increase in deaths from drug overuse in the past fifteen years, matched by a similar four-time increase in the selling of prescribed painkillers. All these show that it is high time we thought of alternate pain management systems.

Pain Management through Martial Arts
There are several remedies put forth for the pain medicine epidemic by individuals and experts. Among them are getting medical staff and doctors trained in pain management, de-addiction treatments, awareness schemes, stronger and deeper research, as well as curbing the prescription and sales of painkiller medicines. But none of these address the core issue at hand: patients suffering from minor injuries to terminal diseases are badly in need of a system to curb pain, and once painkillers are out of the picture, we need a strong if not stronger alternate pain relief mechanism, which is healthy and free of side effects.


In the past few years, martial art was increasingly proposed as an alternate pain relief system for those in need. Testimonies and upcoming studies from different parts of the world show how martial arts help those whose threshold and nature of pain varies over a wide spectrum. This ranges from minor and temporary conditions of pain like injuries and muscular ailments to pain caused by chronic and terminal conditions.

A successful example of martial arts as a support for pain management could be seen at Bruce McCorry’s Academy in Massachusetts, a state which has not fared well when it comes to statistics on painkiller addiction. At Bruce McCorry’s Academy, the unique combination of martial arts, mind healing, meditation and physical training is used to energize the body and to becalm the mind. Gradually this leads to a lesser sensitivity and greater immunity to pain. Many successful examples like Bruce McCorry’s show how martial arts can be developed to a natural pain relief system - a potential alternate to the life-threatening painkiller syndrome. 

 KICK THE PAIN KILLER ADDICTION AWAY!

For each individual suffering from conditions of pain, martial arts is a sensible way of dealing with the struggle than painkillers as it provides a safe and healthy pain relief system instead.

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