An MD in south Sweden raised the alarm when he found six children between 12 and 16 who where diagnosed with a serious sleep disorder just 1 or 2 months after they were vaccinated with the H1N2 vaccine Pandemrix.

The sleep disorder Narcolepsy is  uncommon and normally  only one case every few year is diagnosed in the whole country. Narcolepsy causes excessive sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks. The attacks are not possible to stop and a person with the illness can for example not operate a car.

Another case of a suspected connection between H1N1 vaccine and Narcolepsy has also been reported in Germany and it is logged in EudraVigilance, where side effects are registered in EU. The connection will now be investigated further.

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Doing a Breast Self Exams is an important part of women’s health. It’s easy and you can and should do this on a regular basis. Follow these step-by-step instructions.

What You Need to Look For:

• Any lumps (may or may not be painful or tender)
• Unusual thickening or swelling of your breasts
• Any changes in the skin of your nipples or breasts, such as puckering, dimpling, scaly skin or other skin changes
• Any unusual increase in the size of one breast
• Bloody or sticky discharge from your nipples
• If one breast unusually lower than the other

How to Check Your Breast : Breast-Self Exam

1.    Start by standing in front of a mirror. Look at your breasts with your arms at your side, then with your arms raised behind your head, and last with your arms on your hips and your chest muscles flexed.
2.    Now raise your left arm and use the pads of your first 3 fingers of your right hand to feel in and around your armpit.
3.    Do the same thing with the other armpit.
4.    Next, lie down with a pillow under your left shoulder. Put your left hand behind your head and feel your left breast with the pads of the 3 middle fingers on your right hand. Start at the outer edge and work around your breast in small circles, getting closer to your nipple with each circle. After you’ve finished checking your breast, squeeze your nipple gently and look for fluid coming out of the nipple.
5.    Do the same thing to your right breast with a pillow under your right shoulder.
Your breasts can also be checked while you are taking a bath. It is easier to feel lumps when your skin is wet.

When Should You Check Your Breasts:
If you are 20 years of age or older you should check your breasts monthly, preferably one week after your period.

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Do store bought cleanses work?

Or are they a waste of money?

Maybe you’re done with spring cleaning your house. How about your body?

I just watched a video about whether cleanse products mean effective weight loss or a waste of money.

The main reasons that people do a detox is to:

1. Lose Weight
2. Get clearer skin
3. Increase your energy

Does it work? Yes, a detox works. But not the cleanse products, according to the experts.

Eating more fruit and vegetables is really what makes a difference during the cleanse. The actual product doesn’t matter.

I think this is in individual choice.

Once a friend of mine tried the same cleanse product at the same time. She lost weight and all her eczema disappeared. While I felt noticed nothing.

To really understand that you must look at our normal diets. She ate a “normal” reasonably healthy American diet. While I had a large very large percentage raw food in my diet, avoided preservatives and additives and did not drink any coffee or black tea.

The conclusion is probably that she needed a detox I didn’t.

I’m firm believer in detox. A couple of days, every now and then. I always gives me huge amounts of energy. So does a 1-day fast.

Adding a couple of days of fast or detox into your weekly schedule can have amazing results on your body fat. You consume less calories so you lose weight. It’s really quite simple. However there are not a lot of weight loss diets that can promise you increased energy levels.

If a store bought cleanse product will help your motivation. Then that is the prefect choice for you.

If you have the will to do it on your own. I would recommend to spend that money on your favorite raw foods are create your own personal detox. It is really quite simple. You can find all the information you need in the article how  to detoxify your body naturally .

Read my diary from the first day I was fasting for weight loss.

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The so called Captains Chair has been called the worlds most effective abs exercise. You can find them in most gyms.

The beauty of this great exercise to get flat belly is that you don’t need to go to the gym to do it.

It’s really easy to do and you can do it during 1 minute a day at home of at the office and you will see results fast.  So No More Excuses!

How to do the best  flat belly exericse  in only 1 minute a day:

1. Sit on a chair that does not allow you to touch the floor.
2. Put your hands under your legs.
3. Move your body weight to your hands (as if you plan to lift your body).
4. Bend your knees and lift your legs about 6-8 cm from the chair.
5. Lower them a again in slow controlled movement.
6. Repeat for at least 1 minute.

What other abs exericse can brag about results in just 1 minute a day?

Here is a video with the traditional captains chair exercise in the gym.

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“I don’t need those, I’ve got running shoes.”

That was my first thought when I saw Skechers new Shape-Up Shoes.

Then I started hear more and more good things about them. Great for your back. Great for your butt. I even heard of someone who got rid of  incontinence with the help of Shape-Ups. When my mother visited from Sweden and told me that they sell for 300 bucks over there.  I decided that it was worth $100 to try them out.

If people are willing to pay $300 and still only have good things to say about them then I get interested. So I picked up a pair of  black and white Metabolize Shape-ups.

The first thing I noticed is that it felt like walking on bouncy cushions. I felt very tall. No wonder consider how high they are but they also make you straighten up your posture so the effect is double.

I didn’t follow the instructions to use them for only 45 minutes the first two days, I never follow instructions. NO I just put them on and did my thing. The first two I had a lot of errands to run so that’s what I did. The shoes were very comfortable and very warm and I enjoyed wearing them.

I  just wore just wore my new shoes doing what I normally do errands, dropping of and picking up kids and I only wore them outside the house. This is what happened:

The first night I felt my back.

The second night I felt my buttocks

The third night I my transverse abs joined the party.

I was very impressed by the effect I felt by the Shape-Ups. I had to remind myself to stretch since I didn’t think about the fact that I was working out. After three days I decided I was probably better off using them every other day as I built up the strength in my back. The shoes toned my muscles much more that I had expected.

A week after I’d purchased the shoes I took them on a power walk. It was a very comfortable and the bouncy effect made me  feel very fit.  But I must confess that the work-out was impressive. I normally have to work very hard to get out of breath by walking but that was not the case when I was wearing the my new shoes.

Pros and Cons with Skechers Shape-Ups Shoes:

+ comfortable

+ tones calves, back, abs and buttocks

+ corrects posture

+ increase resistance while you walk which improves your circulation and helps you burn more fat

+ improved circulation helps combat cellulites

- warm

- since you don’t really notice that you work out it’s easy to forget to stretch afterwards

I can definitely recommend the shape-up shoes. If you can planning to use them indoors or during the summer months I would consider one of the open shoes since the sneaker is very warm. It is also very important to remember to stretch your muscles and remember let them rest. If you work your back muscles during fitness you stretch out after wards and you don’t get surprised if you feel your muscles the next day.  Same goes for these shoes. They really work your back with is excellent since a lot of people suffer from back and neck pain however we also have a tendency to think that ache in our back muscles is dangerous. Just like any other muscles in your body the muscles in your back can get sore.

The shoes comes with a booklet and a DVD, it is probably a good idea to read the instructions.

Remember to build up your strength slowly and stretch your muscles after using your new shoes and you will love your Shape-Up shoes.

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Maybe we were a little too eager to go green.

A Swiss research team just published results on radiation from the popular Energy Saving Light Bulbs. Turns out that the radiation is high enough to be potentially dangerous just 30 cm. That’s about 12 inch.

This very moment my son is probably a sleep with his bedside lamp still lit just 8 inch from his head. Now that feels great!

Switzerland is now recommending that you keep a distance of a least 30 cm from energy saving lamps while you rest, work or do any longer activity. So no energy saving by your bed or at your desk.

It’s the CFL bulbs they are talking about compact fluorescent lamp.  CFL light bulbs are expensive but they use less energy and have a longer rated life. It is estimated that you can save $30 in electricity costs during the lamp’s life time. The lamp bulbs are very popular in Europe and many countries have banned the old fashioned “safe” light bulbs.

Now I have to go upstairs and change a lamp. See you guys later.

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No what?

A friend of mine signed me up for a 10k race. So now I have to start running. The race is still a couple of weeks away and it makes me feel very motivated to start running. But I have yet to actually get out there.

I would like to track how far I run so I am looking for iPhone apps that can assist me. I found a bunch on Marshable.

RunKeeper Pro $9.99 is probably the most well-known of the running apps on this list. This is a feature-rich app that enables GPS tracking, distance, speed monitoring, caloric output and activity history for any number of activities you partake in including sports such as running, cycling, hiking, skiing and swimming. You can also sync all the data to RunKeeper’s website to monitor progress and share publicly. RunKeeper also offers a simplified version of the app for free.

Targeted more for beginner runners, Get Running for $1.99 provides users with a specific training regimen over the course of nine weeks, with the end goal of being able to run for 30 minutes. Audio prompts guide users through each workout and even provide encouragement along the way.

Fitnio, $1.99,  is another GPS-based tracking and monitoring app for walking, running and cycling. The app records your activity and then displays distance, pace, caloric burn and also keeps an ongoing log of all workouts and also syncs with its website. Fitnio also provides an emergency contact option in the event that immediate help is needed during a workout.

If you want a GPS-based route tracker and activity log, but don’t want to pay for one, iMapMyRun is a good alternative. Similar to some of the other tracking apps, this also enables you to save your data to the app’s website where you can monitor progress and share publicly, even via Twitter. For more features like iPod integration and photo geo-tagging, there’s a more comprehensive version available called iMapMyRun+ that costs $4.99.

I’m thinking that maybe Get Running is a good alternative to start with or maybe the free iMapMyRun.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Combine to these two exercise with the foods that foods that increase breast size and a breast enhancing massage  to get the best results.

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The average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day.  That is 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year. In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube.

We’re recommended to keep our kids on a maximum of 2 hours of screen time each day. Is it really equivalent, to watch TV and play video games?

A just released Swedish study shows that there is a big difference. They studied children and found that computer time or video games time had no effect on the children’s weight. TV time or even spending time in a room with the TV on had a very clear link with overweight in the studied children.

The theory is  that  video games and even chatting requires much more activity. TV on the other hand is very passive and it is dangerously easy to snack in front of the TV.

This is of course not only valid for children. Have you every tired to turn on the Nintendo Wii at night instead of collapsing on the couch?  Try a boxing game or skiing on the Wii Fit. You’ll have a totally different experience.

This is probably one of the reasons that the Wii gaming platform has become so popular.

Other great Positive Effects of Video Games are:

1. Playing video games demands an interactive involvement of the players

2. Many video games involve reading

3. Video games practices problem solving, planning and analysis

4. Playing video games stimulates imagination

5. Video games practices multi-tasking and fine motor skills

Turn out kids who play video games mainly do so with friends and they stand up for each other.

Sounds like video games have more benefits that we first thought.

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