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Leg Cramps
Alcoholic Cirrhosis
Did You Know?
Testimonials
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Leg cramps, often called charley horses, usually last for a few painful moments and then subside. Some charley horses may be caused by low electrolyte levels. If you work out and sweat excessively, this can cause a depletion in necessary electrolytes. Sometimes replacement of electrolytes (perhaps with a sport drink such as Gatorade) can do the trick.
For immediate relief when one of these spasms hits, you might try extending your leg straight while pushing your heel out. This helps elongate the muscles and relax the spasm. If your charley horses become persistent and frequent, see your doctor. There may be an underlying problem.
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Exercise and Sport Sciences degree from Colorado State University
Cirrhosis is the term for end-stage scarring and destruction of the liver. Cirrhosis (sir-ROW-sis) caused by chronic alcoholism is the most common type found in North America. The typical patient with alcoholic cirrhosis has had a daily consumption of a pint or more of whiskey, several quarts of wine, or an equivalent amount of beer for at least ten years.
Injury to the liver by the toxic effects of alcohol is first manifested as fatty liver. This damage is thought to be reversible if the alcohol is stopped. If drinking continues, alcoholic hepatitis develops, which is a more severe liver injury. As the liver attempts to repair the damage, scarring and destruction occurs, which eventually leads to cirrhosis. The cirrhotic liver is small and riddled with scars. It is unable to provide several key functions, including the inability to clear toxins from the blood. There is also a reduction in the blood channeled through the liver, causing a massive collection of fluid in the abdomen known as ascites (UH-site-ease). There is accumulation of bile, causing jaundice, or yellowing of the skin and membranes. The liver also loses the ability to synthesize proteins, including blood clotting proteins, causing severe bleeding disorders. Over a period of years, the cirrhotic patient becomes weak, frail, chronically jaundiced, and may fall into coma or suffer a catastrophic hemorrhage.
Although much of the liver damage is reversible in the early stages of chronic alcohol use, cirrhosis is irreversible and fatal. With the exception of liver transplantation, there is nothing that will restore normal liver function at this stage. If an alcoholic with cirrhosis continues to drink, they have only a 50 percent chance of being alive in 5 years.
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Weight Training Helps Women Burn Fat
- Weight training may prove as important
as aerobic exercise for women in fighting fat. Health scientists at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Arizona State University
in Tempe found that resistance exercises push the body to burn
calories for up to two hours after the workout.
Aerobic/cardiovascular exercise usually burns more calories during the actual workout than
weight training, but the increase in energy expenditure following the workout is less. "Resistance training could have a more lasting effect
on metabolism than aerobic exercise," says researcher Carol Binzen.
"It burns fat and increases muscle mass." Researchers studied a
dozen women ages 24 to 34. On one day, the women did weight training
exercises such as chest presses, leg presses, and bicep curls (as shown on the Mr. Trainer Videos),
while on another day they sat still and watched a movie.
On average, the exercises burned more than three times as many calories
than were burned while watching the movie. "We studied regular
women, not super fitness enthusiasts, so these results may apply
to most moderately active women," Binzen says. For maximum workout,
the researchers suggest a combination of both aerobic exercise and resistance exercises, such as those found on the Mr. Trainer Videos. The researchers reported their findings
in the journal Medicine, Science Sports and Exercise.
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