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 “When we think of healthcare, we often focus on doctor visits, preventive care, lab tests and immunizations. But there are other factors that are in our personal control, like improving our diets, reducing stress and adding fun to our lives,” says Jordan Horowitz, M.D., a gynecologist with Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation and clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. “Exercise is one of these controllable factors, and it’s highly effective at improving health.” According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, regular exercise provides a great array of health benefits, including lowering blood pressure, reducing cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, preventing diabetes, improving mood and cognitive function, and reducing mortality. For women, those benefits expand, thanks to their particular combination of hormones and health risks. MORE PHOTO

    First things first, you MUST love aviation and flying. You can’t be a VIP flight attendant if you have a lousy attitude towards work. Just imagine being impolite with the president of USA.You will have to dedicate most of your time to this job. Firstly, you are on call 24/7, so planning family meetings isn’t exactly a good idea. Also, you have duties outside the airplane, like having to search for that special bottle of wine the client ordered. Don’t be alert, of course you will have days off. Though, they are scheduled differently than in most jobs. For example, some airlines offer to work for a month and then have some time off.  You have to be attentive, caring, and understanding not only to the passengers, but to the other crew members as well. Just don’t be overbearing.Be intellectual. Why? Because you are going to travel and maybe even make a conversation with royalty, presidents, superstars, successful entrepreneurs etc. They are the kind of people who wi...

  After months and months of pounding the pavement, pumping iron, and saying no to happy hour, you’ve finally lost that stubborn gut. Congrats! We’re sure you feel more confident about your appearance—and just feel better period. Dropping weight doesn’t come easy (beer and wings on a Sunday afternoon just feels so right!) but it does have some serious benefits, many which you won’t see coming. Better sex and brighter skin are just the beginning… Snoozing probably helped you lose more weight in the first place, but as a result of your weight loss you’ll actually get better quality sleep now. Research shows that losing 5% of your bodyweight can help you sleep better and longer throughout the night. What’s more, ridding your body of excess fat can also help alleviate sleep apnea and snoring. MORE PHOTO

  Decomposing stature into its major components is proving to be a useful strategy to assess the antecedents of disease, morbidity and death in adulthood. Human leg length (femur + tibia), sitting height (trunk length + head length) and their proportions, for example, (leg length/stature), or the sitting height ratio (sitting height/stature × 100), among others) are associated with epidemiological risk for overweight (fatness), coronary heart disease, diabetes, liver dysfunction and certain cancers. There is also wide support for the use of relative leg length as an indicator of the quality of the environment for growth during infancy, childhood and the juvenile years of development. Human beings follow a cephalo-caudal gradient of growth, the pattern of growth common to all mammals. A special feature of the human pattern is that between birth and puberty the legs grow relatively faster than other post-cranial body segments. MORE PHOTO

  Pattaya is a city on Thailand’s eastern Gulf coast known for its beaches. A quiet fishing village as recently as the 1960s, it’s now lined with resort hotels, high-rise condos, shopping malls, cabaret bars and 24-hour clubs. Nearby, hillside Wat Phra Yai Temple features an 18m-tall golden Buddha. The area also features several designer golf courses, some with views of Pattaya Bay. Thailand's famous beach resort town of Pattaya has developed a colorful reputation over the years. Located less than 200 kilometers from Thailand's capital city of Bangkok, it's a convenient place to enjoy the sun, sand, and sea. Pattaya has drawn tourists and expats from all over the world ever since US soldiers "discovered" the once-sleepy getaway destination during the Vietnam War. Since then, Pattaya's profile has steadily increased, and it is now one of the most popular beach destinations in Southeast Asia.

  Exercise is defined as any movement that makes your muscles work and requires your body to burn calories.  There are many types of physical activity, including swimming, running, jogging, walking and dancing, to name a few. Being active has been shown to have many health benefits, both physically and mentally. It may even help you live longer.  Here are the top 10 ways regular exercise benefits your body and brain. Exercise has been shown to improve your mood and decrease feelings of depression, anxiety and stress . It produces changes in the parts of the brain that regulate stress and anxiety. It can also increase brain sensitivity for the hormones serotonin and norepinephrine, which relieve feelings of depression.Additionally, exercise can increase the production of endorphins, which are known to help produce positive feelings and reduce the perception of pain .