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White Eagle Magazine presents an exciting and enlightening article taken from www.SinnetsHelse.no article tums is somewhat tums shortened, but can be read in full on the website mentioned. An article well worth reading, and who can give inspiration to get out in the woods. It's never too late to start exercise! Specialists in psychiatry Egil W. Martinsen interviewed have Gudrun Vinsrygg. tums
Being physically active can even help to prevent mental ill-health - and to heal common mental disorders such as anxiety and depression. It says Egil W. Martinsen, doctor, specialist in Psychiatry and Head of Research at Modum Bad and the Norwegian Association for Cognitive Therapy. In his latest tums book, Body and Mind Physical tums activity and mental health (Fagbokforlaget 2004) he takes among other things, the most important diseases and how to exercise to get a better physical and mental health.
- In mental health, there have been different traditions when it comes to views on the relationship between tums body and soul. Today we have the evidence to say that physical activity can both have a preventive and healing in a variety of mental disorders, says Egil W. Martinsen. In his medical tums doctorate in 1989 he studied physical activity as treatment of mental disorders. Today he has 25 years of practical and research experience in this field. Mental illness affects us all
Mental disorders are common diseases. From large population studies both in Norway and in other countries, we know that half of all people have a mental illness during their lifetime, and one in three of all times in need of treatment psychological distress. This means that we will get in touch with the problem, whether we ourselves are sick, or we feel that someone in the family - or circle it.
- Mood disorders (mostly tums depression), anxiety disorders and abuse or addiction to drugs. Even more will have stress reactions and mental distress that do not qualify for any psychiatric diagnosis. Along with stress disorders are mental disorders the most common causes of sick leave and disability. Mental health problems entail tums considerable suffering, both for the victim and for the next. Health on the green prescription
- In the years I have worked as a treat, teach, coach, manager and researcher in mental health, I have been able to enjoy my great strides in the provision of effective treatment, says Egil W. Martinsen. - But I have also become increasingly aware of how important it is that people help to maintain and strengthen tums their own health. There is a limited amount of health that can be extracted from the health care system. One of the measures the government has taken, the green prescription scheme. This means that physicians receive reimbursement from insurance to recommend tums physical activity as treatment for specific diagnostic groups. It also published a booklet Tips for facilitation of physical activity for people with mental tums illness, and in 2004 was made an action plan for increasing physical activity. When it comes to mental health, I think there is a great need for simple, readily available strategies - both to prevent and to relieve mental pain. And physical tums activity is just such self-help. It's about moving
- In this book I define physical activity and exercise activities that most of us learn from childhood, such as walking, cycling, skiing and swimming. tums It is both a so-called aerobic exercise or fitness training to improve cardiovascular lungekapasieten and increase the body's oxygen intake, strength training and training of agility, coordination and relaxation. Physical activity tums is an umbrella term that covers all forms of muscular work, while physical training used more systematic training program whose goal is happiness, health and recreation - but the terms are used somewhat interchangeably. tums
- It can even thrive and continue. Physical activity is the road, not the destination. In the case studies, brisk walking and jogging the exercise forms that have been best studied. These are activities most people can do, they can be performed almost anywhere - and they require no equipment other than good shoes.
Two American scientists - a biologist and an anthropologist - presented in Nature (November 2004) theory that man is created to run over large distances, and that this ability has been crucial to our evolution from ape to human. They believe that running is not just a byproduct tums of walking, but running has been a driving force for the development of the brain; only when we managed to chase prey and provide us with enough proteins, we developed brain. They also point out that good shock absorbers in arch and