Love your spouse the best way.

To acknowledge different kinds of love essential to each gender, does not mean that men do not need any of the love essential to women, and vice versa. It therefore implies that good understanding of these essential loves that your partner needs is a powerful tool for improving relationship and achieving great friendship with your spouses.

For example, when a woman expresses her trust and acceptance of her husband, he begins to reciprocate and automatically return his respect, devotion and care to his wife. In the same way, when a man shows care and expresses good understanding to his wife, she instinctively and automatically reciprocates with trust and appreciation of him.

Men become fully perceptive and appreciative of the love needs of women when their own primary or essential needs and desires are first fulfilled. Likewise, a woman can truly value and appreciate her man’s essential love needs and desires when her own parts are fulfilled.

A man feels empowered when he is trusted, accepted, appreciated, admired, approved of and encouraged. A woman’s encouraging attitude gives hope and courage to a man by imbibing confidence in his ability and character. To trust a man is to believe that he is doing his best and that he wants the best for his spouse.

A woman’s attitude and good character can indeed encourage her man to be all that he can be and motivates him to give her all the love needs and desires that she may need for a happy married life.

Take care of your feet.

The feet are the parts of the body that are easily neglected. But it is indeed very easy to take care of the feet. Apart of regular washing and moisturising of the feet and wearing feet coverings that fit, there are other measures that we can take to look after our feet If you’re going to the gym or the pool, remember the fact that the moist atmosphere of the changing rooms make them a breeding ground for all kinds of microorganisms, most commonly those that lead to athlete’s foot (a fungal infection) or plantar warts and veruccas (transmitted by a virus). So beware, don’t go barefoot. Avoid the risk by always wearing flip-flops-even in the shower and changing into a clean pair of shoes before you go home.

The link between stress and arthritis.

Did you know that rheumatoid arthritis can be caused by stress and anger. This inflammatory condition, which can affect people at any age and causes pain and swelling in the joints. Bad-tempered people are often unhappy, this constant underlying anger actually causes physical changes in the body’s cells, leading to inflammation. Anger and stress reduction is necessary to reduce the impact on the overall well being of the body and possible stop arthritis.

Healthy living with Dr Franca -Roast dinner recipe.

Roast pork dinner recipe is featured in the healthy living with Dr Franca.

Ingredients

a. Pork chops

b. Potatoes

c. Vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and spinach (optional) )

d. Onions, garlic, ginger

e. Spices (curry, thyme, basil, nutmeg, cinnamon, black pepper)

f. Olive oil, sesame oil, salt and fresh red hot chili pepper and seasoning

g. Beef gravy granules.

Directions

First is to marinade the pork chops with a mixture of olive oil, sesame oil, chopped onions, garlic, ginger, cinnamon, basil, thyme, curry, nutmeg, chopped red hot chili peppers, salt and seasoning.

Peel the potatoes and cut in chunks. Put them in an oven tray and sprinkle olive oil, sesame oil, salt and black pepper then put in preheated oven for thirty minutes.

Place the pork chops in an oven tray and put in preheated oven for thirty minutes.

Boil the broccoli, cauliflower and carrots

Put some granules in a bowl and pour in hot water

Chop the washed spinach

Voila our delicious roast is ready.

Bon apetit

Relieve yourself of desk pressure and save your spine.

Studies have stated that one have to stand up and rest our backs while sitting down working on our desks. We are supposed to get up from our desks every two hours or hourly if we can. Then take a break of about ten minutes. This rests our backs from the pressure of constant sitting down and our eyes from constant stare on the screens. Of course, if you’re hunched over your desk all day, that’s going to cause aches and pains. But Business or work pressure and concerns about money also seem to make people hold themselves in a very stiff, tense way all the time.’ A study in the journal Spine suggested that people who react badly to stress were more likely to use the wrong muscles when picking things up. Massage and physiotherapy can help in the short term, but it is imperative to find ways to relieve the pressure. It helps to have a strategy at ways to ease your workload, and build in some routine in stress-management techniques such as gentle form of yoga or meditation which can help soothe anxiety. Taking regular breaks from our desks are more necessary now a lot of people are working from home.

Five tips for happiness.

1. Make sure you have friends who make you laugh. That’s what’s friends are for.

2. Act on your vision. Don’t let your vision and goals go to waste.

3. Invest in reading good news. Most of the world’ news are bad and if that’s all you read, you’ll think nothing good ever happens. Look for stories that inspire or move you, that show the strength of the human spirit or how much good there is in the world.

4. The brain answers the questions its is asked, so ask your brain good questions all the time, Stop asking yourself negative questions like ‘Why am I so sad or angry? Instead ask your brain, ‘What would make me so happy today?’ or ‘What type of fun am i going to have this week? That way, your brain will find the right answers for you and make you happy.

5. Go for simplicity, take daily baby steps towards your big dreams, One step at time. It’s easy to clog up to-do lists with daily time consuming chores like (shopping, cooking or cleaning), but make room for your assessing and achieving your aspirations.

Simple things to boost your energy levels.

Most people may have a million things to do but running on empty stomach will eventually do damage to your physical and psychological wellbeing. So try and have a healthy breakfast to boost your energy for the day.

Combat the stress of everyday life by taking time out on a regular basis to soak away your stress. You can go to a spa but if you can’t go to a spa you can easily enjoy a warm bath with bath oils and so on.

You can check into a nice hotel for the week end but remember you can still have a great time at home by putting the right things in place such as finding the time to take a good bath, reading a book you love or taking a yoga session/meditation. All these will definitely boost your energy levels.

You can also pamper yourself with a luxury manicure and pedicure topped up with a nice home make over. You will notice that your energy levels will be boosted.

Ten ways to a healthy life.

  1. Regularize your weight, so that you are neither overweight or underweight.
  2. Have regular eating habits with no snacking between meals.
  3. Eat a hearty and well balanced breakfast
  4. Do not engage in the use of abusive substances
  5. Try and get around seven to eight hours of sleep every
  6. Maintain a moderate and consistent exercise program
  7. Do not smoke
  8. Try and be stress free
  9. Have friends who make you laugh
  10. Accept yourself the way you are and do not take yourself too seriously and make laughter your friend.

Do you know your family medical history? When health check up is important.

Health check up is important when you know your family history. Most diseases when caught early can be cured or eliminated from the boy due to advances in science, technology and medicine. Knowing your family medical history from at least two generations ago is vital when it comes to early diagnosis of inherited disease or in cases where a family history is thought to be a significant risk factor, for example, breast cancer, prostrate cancer, diabetes, glaucoma. There are some preventative procedures that can be followed for people who are at risk of these inherited diseases.

Early detection and treatment can mean the difference between life and death so do your research and make a list. You’ll need to know the specifics about who had what and at what age.

Self regulate yourself on your sugar intake.

Self regulation and Temperance

Self regulation and temperance is strict adherence to that which promotes health. Self regulation and temperance is the elimination of such harmful things as alcohol, tobacco, drugs, caffeinated drinks, fatty foods and refined sugar.

One hundred years ago, it was believed the average American consumed about 40 pounds of sugar per year. Now it has jumped to at least 100 pounds per year. The use of refined sugar not only adds empty calories to our diet, but it destroys the body’s ability to fight off bacteria For example a regular supply of bedroom sixteen-ounce soft drink contains 8-10 teaspoons of sugar which decreases the ability of our white blood cells ta-destroy bacteria by fifty percent. Beware that some fruits and fruit drink or smoothies will still contain lots of sugar. So fix your sugar intake or addiction with vegetables.