In the fall season, most of us feel the urge to stay fit and healthy. And yet, we feel too lazy to workout or follow a healthy lifestyle. The good news is that there are a number of ways you can get healthy during the fall, along with the rest of your family! Here are some of the most interesting and creative things you can do to stay healthy while spending quality time with your family. Hiking Hiking is one of the most exciting activities which you can do with your family during the fall season. This activity is both highly enjoyable, and challenging. You can go with friends and family members for hiking on weekends, and have some memorable experiences while getting fit in the process! Playing in the park If you have young children who love to play in the park, then this will be an ideal way to get healthy this fall. Parks are truly beautiful places during the fall season. Your kids will enjoy playing in sections of the park specifically prepared to cater to them. There are also various parts of the park that have walking tracks and nature-based gyms, for adults and elderly individuals.

Are you a pet lover and can’t live without your pet no matter where in the world you are? Then you are at the right place. Traveling with pets have become a trend these days. An increasing number of individuals are finding ways to travel with their pets while ensuring that neither their pets nor their fellow travelers are inconvenienced. A number of travel agencies and transport service providers too have been offering facilities to specially cater to people who wish to travel with their pets. Make sure to follow some basic steps if you are planning to take your pet along with you on a journey: Search for transport services which provide facilities to take pets along with you. Talk to the representatives of service providers you have shortlisted well in advance to find out what the arrangements are. Book your tickets with the provider whose arrangements are the most agreeable to you. Many individuals prefer not to have pets around them while they are traveling. So, you need to ensure that your pet does not disturb anyone. It would be best if you follow the guidelines of your transport provider with regards to this. In addition to the above, bear in mind that your pet can fall sick while travelling.

What is C-section or cesarean? In ancient times, normal delivery was the only known method of delivery. Over time, with revolutions in medicine and healthcare, various new techniques were introduced for different procedures. Caesarean section or C-section is one significant procedure developed in the area of childbirth. In C-section, a cut is made in the tummy and the womb of the mother, and the baby is taken out from the mother’s womb. What is the procedure? A series of steps are carried out to ensure successful delivery of the baby with the help of the cesarean operation. First, the doctor talks to the mother and ensures that she is in an active state of mind. It is essential that she does not panic during the procedure. The mother is given anesthesia in such a way that the abdominal area, and the surrounding structures, are anesthetized. It ensures that the mother is fine during the procedure. The health status is continuously monitored, which includes the heart rate, rhythm, blood pressure as well as the blood oxygen levels. Once the areas are anesthetized, the doctor makes a cesarean incision in the area of the lower abdomen and uterus. The baby is pulled out, and then the doctor removes the placenta.

If you observe stores and online portals that sell health products, you will come across one word frequently- Antioxidants. Every product in the market seems to contain antioxidants. Antioxidants are virtually a mantra in the healthcare industry. But what are these antioxidants, and are they really worth all the fuss? Read on for the answer to these, and other questions. Before understanding antioxidants, you must learn what oxidation is all about. Try answering this question – why do cells die? The answer – they age! But what causes this aging? Well, here’s the answer to that – your cells undergo damage each day due to oxidation. When they reach a critical point, they die altogether. That’s what happens to your genes as well. They undergo oxidative damage, and their structure keeps changing till a point when death takes over. All these are due to oxidation. If you want a better idea of the effects of oxidation, look at people who’ve got skin cancer due to excessive contact with the sun. Their skin cancer is due to oxidative damage to the cells of the skin. If you have understood this, then anti-oxidation is all about preventing, controlling or reversing the effects of oxidation.

Yoga is now a multi-billion dollar industry all over the world. In the US, a yoga studio is as much a part of the scenery as a McDonald’s. A 2016 estimate pegged the number of yoga practitioners in the US at 36.7 million. Gwyneth Paltrow does yoga, and so does Lebron James. It wouldn’t be too difficult to find many CEOs in the Bay Area who do yoga too. There is also a very marketable story that backs up the new place that yoga has found in the American cultural landscape. The story of an esoteric practice from pre-historic India that has spread through a materialistic modern culture and has the power to connect us to what is fundamentally human in us, or as Master Shifu puts it in Kung Fu Panda: “Inner Peace”. Yoga and inner peace In its original form, yoga had no place for contortions and poses and was based on a belief system. There are those who still swear by the same two millennia old ideas even today. The idea of pursuing inner peace is itself a new import into yoga, as are most of the asanas or poses we consider integral to yogic practice. Our ideas of inner peace are drawn largely from modern medical ideas around psychological disorders like anxiety and stress.