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"That's where you go out and work really hard and raise your heart rate. swimming would be a good way to get that kind of exercise. There's also antigravity exercise. For example, if you're trying to prevent osteoporosis, swimming isn't the optimal activity, because it doesn't increase the strength of your bones. Frank Shearer first put on water skis in 1939. At age 99, he still enjoys the activity. "I like the outdoors and the exercise, " he says. There, working against gravity, walking, standing does more to increase bone metabolism than swimming does." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Just as water in a swimming pool develops problems when its acid-alkaline ratio becomes unbalanced, so does the human body. If swimming pool water is allowed to become too acid or too alkaline, cloudiness in the water or problems with algae become evident; the water environment becomes a medium for unhealthy organisms. To achieve the proper balance for clear water again, the pH must be adjusted by adding the required acid or alkaline chemicals. The same thing happens within our bodies, except that we don't notice it unless we test for it." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"It's more likely to be a tip-off that your swimming pool is heavily chlorinated, or that copper from water pipes is seeping into your pool water. In fact, green hair used to be fairly common among copper- and brassworkers. STOP SIGN ^¦l Rinsing your hair with lemon juice or vinegar may help restore green hair to its natural color. If you haven't been swimming lately, your sea-green hair can be a sign that you enjoy bathing in a tub that's been cleaned with chlorine-containing products." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"For example, if you're trying to prevent osteoporosis, swimming isn't the optimal activity, because it doesn't increase the strength of your bones. Frank Shearer first put on water skis in 1939. At age 99, he still enjoys the activity. "I like the outdoors and the exercise, " he says. There, working against gravity, walking, standing does more to increase bone metabolism than swimming does. Then there are exercises designed to improve your balance. Tai Chi is one people talk about, or yoga. Those are exercises that have been associated with reducing the risk of falls." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Suddenly I notice brightly colored fish, about six of them, swimming through the air, about six feet off the ground! At first I conclude, "They can breathe and live in our environment just like we do in theirs." Then I see even more fish swimming by in the air and the incongruity strikes me. I realize, "I'm dreaming! This is a lucid dream!" I decide not to run off or go flying, but wonder, "Well, what should I do?" I think about trying to find God, but realize that I have tried that before with limited success." - Robert Waggoner, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self (Get the book.)

"Other cardiovascular exercises would include moderately fast walking, jogging, swimming, and so on. There is no need to make exercise a complicated procedure, but to find exercise that is enjoyable and that finds you feeling positively stimulated rather than exhausted. REBOUNDING Jumping on a rebounder, or mini-trampoline, is possibly the best and most fun cardiovascular and lymphatic stimulating exercise, requiring the least amount of time of any exercise system. It is my favorite aerobic and lymphatic stimulating exercise." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"While trained athletes might not become hypoxic for several miles of running, swimming, or cycling, a mostly sedentary person may become hypoxic with only minor exercise, such as raking the leaves on a sunny fall day, playing golf, or participating in a weekend game of touch football. In either case, the energy reserves of the muscle are depleted and the physiological health of the muscle will suffer. Age is another consideration." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Walking and swimming are great forms of exercise that are easy on the body. Light weight training, jogging, aerobics, and organized sports such as golf and Softball are excellent, if your body is up to it. Any type of exercise can improve your balance and energy level and can provide psychological and social benefits that contribute to your well-being." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Yourself performing an activity such as running, riding a bike, swimming, or working out at the gym. Try to feel what it is like for your body to be moving that way. ?Your favorite music. (Try to "hear" the music internally). ?A recent experience with an intense physical sensation (such as plunging into a pool or the ocean, having a steam bath, feeling snow or rain, or making love). Try to relive all the physical sensations. To visualize your intention, first work it out carefully ahead of time: ?Now, create a picture in your mind's eye of the desired result." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "He called it a "homing thought," because it reminded him of his youth in Sydney, Australia, swimming in the surf. Whenever a large wave threatened, he and his friends would dive to the bottom of the water and hold on to the sand with their fingertips. "We had learned that as soon as we were faced with this situation of stress, we could dive down, grab on to our securing handhold and hang on to our 'rock' until the stress passed," he writes.30 The homing thought that each of us can hold on to, Diamond realized, was our ultimate aspiration or purpose in life." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"So many patients say, T seem to be feeling better and then as soon as I take a brisk walk or go swimming, within 72 hours, I begin to experience what seems like a flu?chills, sore throats, fevers. I get exhausted and go into a relapse and I don't feel well for anywhere from a week or two to months on end.' "Fatigue is usually a symptom of depression. Because there is no known cause of chronic fatigue, you might see your general practitioner and complain of a list of symptoms and he would diagnose depression. But we now know that chronic fatigue simply is not depression." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "We know not to go swimming right after we eat, because there is not enough blood supply in the body to adequately supply both the intestinal tract and the muscles. When your blood supply is concentrated in your intestinal tract digesting your meal, going for a vigorous swim risks not getting enough blood in the muscles, resulting in cramps and, possibly, drowning. When you are chronically stressed—and most stresses are not psychological but environmental—your body deals with it with a fight-or-flight response, which makes your muscles get a little more chronically tight and active." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Whether it is power walking, jogging, bicycling, or swimming, a lot of people feel the symptoms of their PMS subside when they engage in exercise. They are improving their immune systems. Also, their central nervous system functions are changing. Dr. Hyla Cass emphasizes how often biochemical imbalances and psychological problems coexist. In her practice, she combines her work as a holistic psychiatrist with use of naturally occurring substances to restore biochemical balance. She begins with nutrition, as described in the patient story above. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"When Hal was swimming in Costa Rica, they saw the scene from his perspective; if he was distracted by a scene other than the central one he was visiting at the time, then so were they. It was as though they operated with the senses of two people - their own and the person on the scene. The signals were acting as though they'd been sent through some low-frequency bit channel. The information in their experiments was received in bits and often imperfectly. Although the basic information came through, sometimes the details were a little blurred." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "Hal and Russ underwent nine trials with him, following their usual double-blind protocol of sealed target spots near Palo Alto - Hoover Tower, a nature preserve, a radio telescope, a marina, a toll plaza, a drive-in movie theater, an arts and crafts plaza, a Catholic church and a swimming pool complex. Independent judges concluded that Price had scored seven hits out of the nine. In some cases, like the Hoover Tower, Price even recognized it and correctly identified it by name."" Price was noted for his incredible accuracy and also his ability to 'see' through the eyes of his traveling partner." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"By contrast, swimming, a buoyant activity not associated with counteracting the effect of gravity, does not appear to increase BMD. In one study of elite university athletes, swimmers actually had lower bone mass than gymnasts or nonathletic controls, despite increased muscle bulk and regular weight training [15]. Young athletes who spend more than 20 hours each week in a buoyant environment for many years may simply not experience sufficient gravitational stress to promote fully the expected degree of bone acquisition." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In the average cell, which contains one molecule of protein for every ten thousand molecules of water, molecules jostle around the cell like a handful of tennis balls floating about in a swimming pool. The central problem with the current theory is that it is too dependent upon chance and also requires a good deal of time. It can't begin to account for the speed of biological processes, like anger, joy, sadness or fear." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"One advantage of a modified Tabata approach to interval training is that you can use it with many different aerobic activities, including running, biking, swimming, rowing, water aerobics, elliptical training, or using a step machine. You can also alternate your activities: use a stationary bike one day, use an elliptical trainer the second day, swim the third day, and so on. The entire modified Tabata training session, including warm-up and cooldown, takes just twelve minutes. Here's how you do it. ?Four minutes of warm-up using dynamic stretching and joint mobility movements." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Getting physical and upping your cardiac output—from taking a brisk walk to activities like running, swimming, and cycling—is one of the greatest ways to naturally cleanse the blood and all body tissues. Put simply, exercise is body purification. In this brief chapter, I'm going to share some of my secret techniques to using exercise for purposes of complementing your detoxification program. Certainly, we all may have unique reasons or motivators for working out?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Endurance: Activities like walking, hiking, swimming, and cycling improve the health of the cardiovascular system. Strength: Lifting weights builds up and maintains muscles. Flexibility: Stretching keeps us limber and flexible. Balance: Practicing balance through activities like yoga will help avoid falls. raw, but really, whatever is handy. I am not a nutritionist, and I don't profess to be." Another thing that helps keep the weight off is drinking water, Wareham noted, as, almost in gentle rebuttal, his wife entered and gave us both a glass of cranberry juice. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "There, working against gravity, walking, standing does more to increase bone metabolism than swimming does. Then there are exercises designed to improve your balance. Tai Chi is one people talk about, or yoga. Those are exercises that have been associated with reducing the risk of falls. Then there are strength exercises, which run all the way from weightlifters, who probably put themselves into a disadvantageous state from overdeveloping their muscles, to people who do some modest amount of weightlifting or antigravity exercise that strengthens their muscles." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"There was a paradise of beautiful gardens, with jewels in the rocks, waterfalls, and a large pool with a silver fish swimming in it. The fish stepped out of the pool and became a silver Queen. She said, "I am only silver in my fluidity and so you must stay fluid." She took my hand and led me into the water where I swam through silver water, becoming like the fish. I stepped out of the water and she poured silver fluid into me through the top of my head, reminding me of the abundance in my life. She urged me to pour fluid silver into myself so as not to forget abundance." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"For instance, there are often high levels of organochlorines in swimming pools. Once again, the chlorine in the swimming pool water combines with organic material in the water. These organochlorines can enter the body through the skin. We can also inhale them from fumes near the surface levels of swimming pools and hot tubs. And it is not uncommon to breathe in organochlorines every time we open our dishwasher at home!" - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Even when she reduced the level of Prozac to the minuscule amount that scientists have found in the nation's rivers, the frogs swimming in it were significantly smaller than those in clean water. If the growth of frogs is being stunted and male fish are producing eggs, could far more subtle changes be occurring in humans? And what other environmental consequences may await us? Already scientists have traced a widespread ecological disaster of a different sort to a prescription drug. In 2000 Dr. J." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Differential effects of swimming versus weight-bearing activity on bone mineral status of eumenorrheic athletes. /. Bone Miner. Res. 10, 586-593. 16. Snow-Harter, C, Bouxsein, M., Lewis, B. T., Carter, D. R., and Marcus, R. (1992). Effects of resistance and endurance exercise on bone mineral status of young women: A randomized exercise intervention trial. J. Bone Miner. Res. 7, 761-769. 17. Friedlander, A. L., Genant, H. K., Sadowsky, S., Byl, N. N., and Gluer, C. C. (1995). A two-year program of aerobics and weight-training enhances BMD of young women. /. Bone Miner. Res. 10, 574-585. 18." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The question was whether people could change the fish's swimming orientation. Mongolian gerbils were another good candidate because they like to run in activity wheels. This also gave Braud something to measure. He could quantify the velocity of a gerbil on its run and then see if human intention could make it go faster. Braud wanted to test the effects of intention on human cells, ideally those of the immune system, for if an outside agent could influence the immune system, the prospects for healing were immense. But this represented a challenge far too great for his laboratory." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Avoid drinking unfiltered tap water, swimming in chlorinated pools, or showering without a chlorine-removing filter. (You absorb more chlorine through the skin than you could possibly ingest from drinking tap water.) Fluoride in municipal drinking water: just as carcinogenic as chlorine. Fluoride actually increases your body's uptake of aluminum. Use a water filter that takes out fluoride. Electromagnetic radiation: Electromagnetic radiation interferes with the body's own electromagnetic field and undermines basic intercellular communication." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"My head is swimming. Neurons never before activated are firing up my central cortex. I greedily eat up the whole lemon, detecting hints of crystallized grapes and berries. The American Chemical Society declared it an "unexcelled" sweetener at a national meeting in 1964: "The quality of the miracle-fruit-induced sweetness is more desirable than any of the known natural or synthetic sweeteners." They especially loved it with strawberries: "The delightful flavor of fresh strawberries eaten after miracle fruit is so wonderful that it defies adequate description." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Loquats were forbidden to common people in China because of a legend about a carp swimming upstream who turned into a dragon by eating loquats. The emperor said, 'Hey I don't want the common people to eat loquats and become strong like dragons and kick me out of office,' so they were banned." Loquats are just the tip of his obsessiveness. Love is an Asiaphile who has been on many expeditions to the Far East. He once passed out in Singapore after eating sashimi of dog brain filet. He recently wrote an Internet guide to 1,530 Japanese restaurants in the United States." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

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