STRAIGHTEN UP THAT BODY

One of the reasons that might have you feeling like your belly is out of size and sticking out is that not only are your abdominals not strong enough to hold in and in place all you internal tissues and fluids, along with the actual muscular tissues from your abdominal belt not being in the right “state of mind”.

If you’re not too much of a sports person and know, or believe, that your belly is sticking out because you don’t have enough muscles and/or you have the habit of not holding your body straight (you often end up in a hunchback style position when you sit down to long), then you need to work your muscular tissues.

But not only. Positioning your body correctly is also a key to a healthy and slim overall look. And positioning right comes from you head first, both the actual part of your body and your intellect. It is almost automatic for most people that feel down or upset, that feel not good looking or ugly, or that feel fat or overweight, to adopt an unhealthy position.

Head down and eyes to your feet, shoulders locked in a position that makes you look like you are freezing cold, belly tensed in the hope that it will go unnoticed… These are bad habits that don’t help you at all. As a matter of fact, it is quite the opposite really.

Keeping your chin too close to your chest and arching your shoulders towards the front, you are compressing your lungs, pushing your diaphragm (the lower part of your lungs), ever lower towards your stomach and digestive and urinal organs. By doing that for years, you have forced you bowels towards the front, swelling you belly and loosening the skin around it, creating space for fat settle in.

By trying to hold in your belly every time you are in public, you are putting harmful stress on many muscular packs, as well as putting a dangerous pressure on your digestive system. You might be stopping the food from transiting properly inside your body, causing the digestion process to slow or even stagnate at times, creating more gas then you should, therefore swelling even more your belly, and causing pain and uncomforting. Overtime, doing this repeatedly could even cause you serious damage to your intestines. In addition, slowing down digestion increases significantly the amount of fat you absorb and accumulate.

So, look up straight ahead of you, relax your shoulders and belly, and breathe through your chest, with your back nice and straight. By doing this, you will put your body in a natural position that will ease your transit and release tensions. You need to adopt that position as much as you can, whenever you are standing, sitting, or even laying down.

A good way of achieving this is by always trying to keep the right position in mind, and most of all the right mind state associated with the position. You will see that the position described here is the one that a human being naturally takes when he feels proud of himself! So be proud of who you are and of the body you have as much as you can, it will truly help you not only be in better shape and health, but also make you look like you are blooming all the time!

Feeling fat? Get to know your body!

A lot of people are worried about their weight, the look of their belly or hips, in another words, they are concerned they might be fat. But having a weight a few pounds over the average for your height, or having a belly with some kind of a swollen look isn’t necessarily being fat!

Some people may have a bone structure that is heavier than others. If one is very sporty and has an impressive proportion of muscles in the body, he will necessarily have a higher weight than a person that is averagely built or slightly fat and of the same height, since muscle cells are a lot heavier than most other tissues in the body, including fat.

Now, about the look of your belly. If nobody but yourself considers you as fat, and you only got to that conclusion because when you look down you see your belly sticking out, then they is a good chance fat hasn’t got much to do with it.

It is totally natural for your belly to have a bit of roundish shape. That is how we are. Now I’m not saying that not being able to see your feet is normal, but the belly of an average person is simply not designed to be flat all the time.

If when you grab the skin of your belly with your fingers and pinch it slightly it is no larger than an inch and a half, then you don’t desperately need to lose fat from your stomach area. In other cases, you will have to work that fat off.

Now if when you are totally relaxed and standing up, looking straight ahead of you, your belly sticks out further then your toes, but you don’t have that layer of fat larger than 1,5 inches over your abdominals, you might still have a too big belly. You want to make sure that when you try to figure out if your stomach sticks out too much, it should not be just after eating, for obviously your belly will be swollen at that moment.

So what is going on here is you either have a too big stomach, or your abdominal belt is too weak to keep all your internal organs and digestive material in the right place, and you might even have the bad habit of having an overall body positioning that doesn’t allow you bowls to be in the right place!

To figure out which one is of these could be your problem, just go out for a bit of sport. Once you are sweating a bit and you can feel your muscles are more tense than the usual, have a look at that belly. Is it still sticking out as much, or is it looking a bit better? If you feel it looks ok, or better at least, than you either don’t have enough muscles, or you don’t hold your body correctly with a proper muscle tone.

If you still look like you have just eaten a basketball, then you really need to start working on reducing the size of your stomach by reducing the volumes of what you ingest. Now you have to be aware that many other factors can come into play for your belly to stick out or you to accumulate fat. Remember to always talk to a health specialist before trying any radical solution such as pills or heavy diets, for it might harm your body or worsen your weight problems in the long run.

ARE ALL PROCESSED FOOD BAD FOR WEIGHT?

The question has been fuelling debates for years it seems, but still the answer is not clear. In fact, chances are we will never really know exactly what food impacts in what way. Although some chemicals have proven effects, the factors are just too numerous to be categorical on the subject. And chances are, as time goes by, it will get harder and harder to feed the world population on only healthy natural unprocessed food.

And anyway, what is processed food? Food that is not been transformed by the hand of Man with their natural state. Does that mean we should chew off raw meat from cadavers still warm with the heat of life, just like our ancestors did thousands of years ago? Feeding on freshly undug roots and wild berries is not that realistic. Let's face it, just cooking the food is processing it.

What you should be scared of, maybe, is the synthetic stuff. The chemical industry is booming, and has been for years. Every year thousands of new "possibly comestible" molecules are created in labs around the world. And if many are refused by health authorities, others are fully accepted and incorporated into the food distributed to the population on large scales. It may be that some, even a large part, of these synthetic "food" are totally harmless to the human body, like the studies indicate us to believe. But what if some test were just not conducted the right way?

On what kind of duration are these chemicals tested for potential harmful effects? How long can a lab afford to wait after having created a molecule before it is allowed to sell it? Even if they feed lab rats on a specific chemical for 5 years and the results are “acceptable”, what happens if a human being eats some for 30 years every day? And chances are, he won’t be eating only that unique synthetic chemical. What happens when there’s an explosive mix that no one had the idea of testing?

Will it's simple, people fall sick or die. Sometimes it can go unnoticed, in the case of someone with a specific health condition and having ingested just the wrong amount of the wrong mix of synthetic molecules. Other times it bursts out to public view as an epidemic disease. In that case, the product is just called out of sales, is modified or banned, and labs keep coming up with a new discovery.

So, in some way, yes, you could be scared of some highly synthetic food, although major risks are limited by health authorities. But food processing is just inevitable, and we have to live with it, but everything that comes out of a factory isn’t necessarily unhealthy or a weight gainer product. You can be slim and healthy without having to eat raw carrots and cabbage every day, just be careful not to eat only industrially processed food.

RIGHT OF WATER-NEED OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

Billions of people are lacking safe drinking water in the word. Water is an amenity and indeed necessity of human being. Different epidemic water borne diseases are due to lack of access to safe drinking water in the word, especially in the third word. The human rights emphasis on implementation of global environmental justice and force to adopt such approach  which make sure the universal access of people to safe and potable water. Word is lacking of formal water provision and increasing environmental pollution leading towards significant challenges. The global dissertations concerning the human rights to water can be strengthened by applying environmental justice. Access to potable water is fundamental human right.

What is potable water?

Potable water can be defined as drinking water having qualities/parameters mentioned below:

•          Free of disease causing microorganisms

•          Desirable Taste

•          Odor (smell)

•          Color and

•          No Turbidity (cloudiness)

•          Contain no harmful chemicals

Objectives of Safe and treated water

The objectives of water treatment are to produce:

•          Water that is safe for human consumption

•          Water that is appealing aesthetically to the consumer and

•          Water at a reasonable cost

These objectives are readily met in the developed world and the technology of treatment is similar world-wide. Water treatment technologies are, however, constantly undergoing research, not only to improve the end water product but also to find ways of treating water that was once deemed unsuitable as a raw source. Advanced methods are also used by public waterworks to remove contaminants such as organics. Performance of water treatment plants should be in accordance with WHO drinking water guideline values at output ends like tap.  

Need of social justice for water

International aid providing communities, nations and local organizations have failed to satisfy the basic human water demand which caused a considerable, unnecessary and preventable human suffering. Though, there is an argument that access to water is a fundamental right and requirement of human beings. This should be protected by international laws, state practice and declarations. Governments, international aid providing agencies, local communities and non-governmental organizations should make provision of water requirement for  all human beings  and assured  fundamental human right of water. The different international forums completely failed to address this issue in 20^th century. The human right to water dialogue has a strategic potential not only to ensure physical access to water, but also to advance claims in broader social justice contexts.

In present situation, private water provision act did not allow to recognize other factors like underlying processes and enclosure. It is difficult to understand the potential of the human right of water (HRW). This emphasizes the importance of reforming the variable limits and opportunities associated with any strategy or concept. Basic fundamental human rights demand to consider the safe and possible human right of water irrespective of regions and public or private provision of boundaries. Access to water is an inseparable part of livelihoods and need a broader conceptualization of the HRW. It should be focused on scarcity and concomitant of social context.

“Water is precious, we have to protect it and make provision for human beings, future generations and for ourselves.”

STOP: BEAT OVERWEIGHT AT THE CORE

It’s a secret for nobody in the weight loss industry; the solution is simple as 1-2-3. All you need to do if you want to lose weight is to give your body less energy on a daily basis than he uses throughout the day.

And it's no secret either; the only naturally efficient way of healthily increasing your basal metabolic rate (i.e the average number of calories one body burns in 24H) is by increasing your physical activity. But, of course, if you start being more active, your body will request more energy. Therefore, you will be hungrier. But if you satisfy that hunger by eating, and in the process reach, or even go over, your basal metabolic rate, then you will either stabilize your weight or increase it.

Now things start to get a bit tricky. There really are three main reasons why you will feel like you should eat something. The first one is that even if your diet is balanced, you are intentionally eating less calories than what your basal metabolic rate recommends in order to lose weight. In that case make sure you are not too low in calories, and if not then try focusing on something else until the next meal time. Just get busy with something interesting for a while!

The second reason is that maybe your diet is not correctly balanced, and your body lacks a specific essential nutrient, or even multiple nutrients. For example, of you have just started an intensive physical activity, then you should consider the fact that you are building muscular tissue, and your protein intake should be increased in proportion. When the hunger comes, and you are respecting the daily recommendations in terms of calories, then try eating different types of food until you find what it is you need. For example, try eating a fruit the first day, maybe it's vitamins you lack. Then the next day you can try a protein with a piece of lean meat of vegetable protein if you're concerned about the fat proportions. If you have been increasing your activity levels, but not changing your diet, chances are you have a protein deficit.

Now the third reason. Well, that would just be a matter of breaking your bad habits. I'm afraid it's all in your head. If you are used to having a bowl of ice-cream every evening when watching TV, it's going to be very hard to stop! But try filling the gap with something else. Have a pint of water, a cup of tea, a piece of fruit. One will has to "train" his brain to get used to a different routine. Although the idea is plain and simple, I agree it's the hardest bit. But who says healthy life is easy?

So if you what to lose weight, it’s simple as setting up a strict plan composed of a healthy, balanced and calorie-controlled diet and a fair amount of regular physical exercise. Sticking to the plan depends only on you…

Weight Loss, Calories, Weight, Habits

GET YOUR WEIGHT OFF YOUR MIND

It is a fact, losing weight properly comes by only thanks to the physical activity and a balanced and adequately proportioned diet. Starving yourself on regular bases or trying out a suspicious medication can be useless, if not dangerous. The right way of doing it is to be active, and watch what you eat; it's that simple.

By exercising, you wash stuff out of your body, essential stuff that is bad or merely useless for your body. That stuff includes the fat your body doesn’t need and dislodges while you get moving. So if you don’t take in too much bad stuff by an unhealthy diet, there won’t be too much to wash away, so your body can focus on getting rid of the stocks of fat responsible for your excessive weight.

On the other hand, if you are packed with toxins and chemicals your body just doesn't need, there're good probabilities you will be sweating out a lot of that stuff before your body starts digging into the stocks of fat. Also, when he gets there, it’s very doubtful you will still have enough water to get a cleansing process that functions sufficiently to be able to start working on eliminating fat.

And it's exactly the same when you get to look into how some toxins we over-ingest can affect our metabolisms. Some of the stuff you can find in your food is just going to make you hungrier, lacking specific nutrients, retaining water, or even helping the fat cells accumulate in your system.

So a healthy diet really is important if you want your body to have a just of washing away some fat when you exercise. But, of course, in order to "wash", you understand you will need fair amounts of water since water is the base of the liquids and fluids that operate the cleaning of your body. But merely paying careful attention to your diet and drinking loads is not going to get you very far, even if you could start losing a few pounds that way. What is the key to losing weight really is exercise.

The more you move, the fatter you make available for elimination in your body. Also, if you are correctly hydrated, the process of eliminating fat through physical exercise is just the easiest thing you could imagine. If you build a program suited to your actual fitness levels, and with realistic aims in terms of weight loss and time, you will be amazed at how fast you can drop weight just by living in a healthier way, with a healthier state of mind.

You just have to realize you are not going to wake up one morning having lost 10 pounds overnight. The pills and surgery can often come at great cost. Your best chance of getting in that healthy weight range really only depends on your ability to set your mind on being healthy, once you’ve done that, your body will just obey your head, and slowly but surely you will get in better shape!

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY AND POWER PLANTS

Geothermal energy is environmental friendly and efficient solution to solve the issue with global warming. It is being used by many countries of the world for the generation of electricity, heating up homes and even cooling homes. Geothermal energy exhibits intense heat that continuously flows outward from the depth of the earth. This heat comes from the core and can be generated due to the decay of radioactive substances beneath the ground. The term "geothermal" is derived from Greek words "Geo" which means "earth" and "therme", which means "heat." Thus, geothermal energy is translated as the heat energy generated in the center of the earth. It becomes warmer depending on the depth of exploration in the earth, and the temperature in the core can reach up to 4000 Celsius. The intensity of heat is capable of melting rocks and these melted rocks within the earth surface are known as magma. This can escape to the ground surface due to the volcanic eruption

Many countries, where geothermal energy is extensively used, are considered very clean. It is a sustainable energy not only because of the nonrenewable source but also easy to access. Geothermal energy is not a new technology because the first geothermal energy plant was built in 1902 in Larderello. The trends for geothermal power generation gained continue increase on the globe except during the period of World War II. The Larderello field remained out of operation during this period. Italy developed first ever commercial geothermal power commercially at Larderello in 1914.

                                                View of Geysers Geothermal Plant

The geothermal power generation has been continuously increasing since the year 1920 at rate of about 8.5 % per annum and projected installed capacity is reported as 20841 MW by 2015 as shown in Figure below:

Cumulative installed and projected geothermal power capacity (MW)

Source adopted: http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/geothermal-energy-companies/379

A geothermal power plant emits about average 122kg/MW/hr of carbon dioxide that is eight times less than the emission generated by the coal power plant. This proves that the environment can be protected by using this source of energy. Today this technology is used in many countries including the United States of America, Iceland, Turkey, New Zealand, France and so forth. 

One interesting fact about this energy is that it can be tapped from almost everywhere from upper 3 m of the Earth's surface. Geothermal heat pumps are required for this purpose and to deliver the energy to the homes and industries. However, the major drawback in implementing geothermal energy is initial the cost issue. The initial investment cost of installation is high, but low running cost make it feasible and economical. Besides, with recent technological advancement such as enhanced geothermal systems, geothermal energy is now easier to exploit more of these resources, and the cost is lowered. Geothermal energy is a stable and reliable source of energy and power output can be accurately predicted unlike some other sources of energy like wind and solar.
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In short, geothermal energy is declared the sustainable source of energy. It is an interesting fact for a layman that the earth beneath their houses has a tremendous amount of energy, far beyond what the entire petroleum reserves can provide. It is also powering turbines for the production of electricity. This makes geothermal energy not only an alternative to the energy from fossil fuel but also a vital energy immensely needed for efficient running of our day to day lives.