Health Education Centers: May 2012

Babies are a Wonderful Blessing!

Such a Cutie Pie! My niece, Ava Marie

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at http://PattiWood.net. Also check out the body language quiz on her YouTube Channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

Photo Read of Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart by Patti Wood

Interesting. He has the whole front of his body throat window, heart window, stomach window. pelvis window towards her with his pelvis window ( indicating sexual connection) around her. She is hunched forward in a protective way closing off her stomack window strongly with a her fingers closed. I know from watching TV interviews of her to see her baseline body language that she hunching her shoulders a habit of her in public situations. What is interesting is that she does it when she is with him. As typically people that do that hunch TOWARD their sweeties so that their venerable heart and stomachs are toward the person they trust.

He feels that closing off enough for him to want to pull her a bit towards him with a belt hold. This shows sexual ownership. It is a loose hold put a hold none the less. In laymen’s terms He is very hot for her.

Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's Body Language

Patti weighs in on the body language of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart for Hollywoodlife. Check the links below for her insights!

http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/05/24/robert-pattinson-kristen-stewart-relationship-edward-bella/

http://www.hollywoodlife.com/2012/05/24/robert-pattinson-kristen-stewart-sex-life-details/

Body Language Read of Rob Pattinson and Kristen at OTR After Party

First Video,

He faces her and takes the crook of his arm and locks it around Kristen’s head in an ownership gesture. It is playful and brief. This gesture is typically done when standing to the side of a women when in the presence of others as a show of ownership, "She is with me.” In this case he does it standing facing her so it is to prove to himself that she is his. His smile and head shaking and playful touches indicate he can’t believe she is his. Her posture in response is a slightly hunched over she doesn’t touch back nor does she linger. At first she does not “respond it kind” to his advances. She is more shy.

Later when he makes that ummm sound as he hugs her she does a comfort cue, putting her hand to her mouth and leaving it there as he tries to get intimate indicating she is not comfortable with his caresses. But when she sees him finally back up she changes. I think that when he backed up she felt that absence of his advance and she reaches up and puts her hand around his neck so he comes closer.

At the beginning even when she tilts her head up to talk to him she doesn’t hold her hands up or touch him as she does to pull him closer to her. She rests her head ever so briefly.

If you watch the tape several times you can see the dance of the relationship is him cornering her and moving closer and her moving back. His odd shaking side to side is in part his frustration that she is not moving towards her. Again he is playful but she is not fully playing back in kind.

http://robpattinson.blogspot.com.br/2012/05/video-of-rob-and-kristen-at-otr.html?m=1

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ERC Tour 2012 - We are home

It was a great week. I enjoyed the entire week, visiting the sites, and learning with the students and other faculty. This is an opportunity for students to learn about occupational safety and health outside of the classroom. This tour gives students the chance to see workers in their work environment, allows them to see the hazards and exposures, and gives them the opportunity asses a real life condition.

The interdisciplinary aspect of the tour allows students to learn from each other, create an understanding that we need to rely on multiple disciplines to ensure workers are safe.

I am glad we had the opportunity to meet with our colleagues from Cincinnati and Italy. Thanks for a great week.

Below are some of the fun pictures.

ERC Tour 2012 - Hope Cemetery Pictures

Below are some pictures from Hope Cemetery in Barre, VT. The monuments are extraordinary.

ERC Tour 2012 - Rock of Ages

We visited the Rock of Ages granite quarry. It is awesome to see the 600 foot deep quarry, and the massive pieces of granite that are cut from the earth. The large blocks of granite are hoisted up to the top of the quarry, where they are cut to smaller pieces. Even these smaller pieces are huge. After the granite is taken form the quarry, it goes to the factory to be made into a piece of art. Rock of Ages makes many memorials, head stones, and other intricate stone pieces.

We learned about silicosis, a respiratory disease found in the granite workers. The pneumatic drilling operations lead to the increased rate of silicosis in the workers.

After Rock of Ages, we went to the hope Cemetery. This cemetery is a "museum" of ornate headstones. There are elaborate headstones made to represent the hobbies of those who are buried in the cemetery. You can see race cars, soccer balls, airplanes, ad other extraordinary grave markings.

Following lunch, we went to Ben and Jerrys ice cream. A delicious way to end the tour.

How To Plan A Healthy Diet | Easy Tips.

Many people are unsure of what healthy eating means - not surprising when you consider the variety of, often conflicting, advice given.

Eating healthily isn't complicated once you know the basics. Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love.

Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, stabilizing your mood, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible– all of which can be achieved by learning some nutrition basics and using them in a way that works for you. You can expand your range of healthy food choices and learn how to plan ahead to create and maintain a tasty, healthy diet.

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Most people know how to eat healthy, and know that they should — it’s just that when it comes down to implementing this knowledge, there’s a bridge that needs to be crossed from knowledge to action. So, here is a complete action plan to help you eat healthy.

Healthy eating tip 1: Set yourself up for success

How do you actually eat healthy, instead of just knowing that you should eat healthy?

Eat slowly so that you can get a feeling that you have had enough food and your tummy is full. Eat slowly and fully relish the taste.

Create a meal plan, constructed with super healthy foods that you enjoy eating.

To set yourself up for success, think about planning a healthy diet as a number of small, manageable steps rather than one big drastic change. If you approach the changes gradually and with commitment, you will have a healthy diet sooner than you think. Now, there are three parts of that solution, if you look closely, and all three parts are equally important.

1) Simplify. Instead of being overly concerned with counting calories or measuring portion sizes, think of your diet in terms of color, variety, and freshness. This way it should be easier to make healthy choices. Focus on finding foods you love and easy recipes that incorporate a few fresh ingredients. Gradually, your diet will become healthier and more delicious.

2) Start slow and make changes to your eating habits over time. Trying to make your diet healthy overnight isn’t realistic or smart. Changing everything at once usually leads to cheating or giving up on your new eating plan. Make small steps, like adding a salad (full of different color vegetables) to your diet once a day or switching from butter to olive oil when cooking. As your small changes become habit, you can continue to add more healthy choices to your diet.

3) Every change you make to improve your diet matters. You don’t have to be perfect and you don’t have to completely eliminate foods you enjoy to have a healthy diet. The long term goal is to feel good, have more energy, and reduce the risk of cancer and disease. Don’t let your missteps derail you—every healthy food choice you make counts.

Think of water and exercise as food groups in your diet.

Water. Water helps flush our systems of waste products and toxins, yet many people go through life dehydrated—causing tiredness, low energy, and headaches. It’s common to mistake thirst for hunger, so staying well hydrated will also help you make healthier food choices.

Exercise. Find something active that you like to do and add it to your day, just like you would add healthy greens, blueberries, or salmon. The benefits of lifelong exercise are abundant and regular exercise may even motivate you to make healthy food choices a habit.

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ERC Tour 2012 - Sappi Paper

We visited Sappi Paper, in Skowhegan, Maine today. Skip Pratt, the Manager of Safety and Industrial Hygiene, provided a great overview of the safety and health issues at the paper mill. They have an extensive lock out tag out program, confined space entry procedures, and a process safety management program. After the overview, we were able to tour the paper mill. We saw how paper is made, dried, and rolled. Sappi makes high end papers for magazines, annual reports, and other quality uses.

Thanks to Skip and his team for hosting us today, and allowing us to walk through the plant.

ERC Tour 2012 - Bath Iron Works

Today we visited Bath Iron Works and the Maine Maritime Museum.

Bath Iron Works has been a leading ship building site over 100 years. They have built over 245 military ships, mostly destroyers and frigates for the US Navy. We were able to tour the facility from the comfy confines of our bus, as it drove through the ship yard. We were able to see some of the operations to build the ships. Sections of the ships are assembled, and the sections are brought to the staging are for final assembly. They are working on the Zumwalt, a high tech US Navy Destroyer ship. We also saw the USS Michael Murphy, named after Lt. Michael Murphy, a Navy Seal killed in action in Afghanistan.

After the BIW visit, we visited the Maine Maritime Museum. The museum honors the ship building past by preserving part of Percy and Small ship building. They built the Wyoming, largest wood framed sailing vessel ever built. We had the opportunity to see several historic buildings, including the tree nail shop, the mill and joiner shop.

After the tours, the tour participants had free time in Freeport or Portland.

ERC Tour 2012 - New Bedford, MA

Today, Ted Harrington from the USCG Division Office in Boston, met us to provide an overview of fishing safety issues. He provided real life scenarios of what type of decision-making needs to occur when something goes wrong on a fishing vessel. The three things he stressed are: 1. Have the necessary equipment; 2. The equipment is capable of being used; and 3. Fishermen know how to use the equipment. He showed us several videos that showed that equipment was available and the fishermen knew how to use it, but it not capable of being used.

After that, Rodney Avila took us to the docks in New Bedford to show us several types of fishing vessels. We went on one of the scallop boats that was being repaired, and saw how the workers would work on the boat.

It was a great experience to see the dangers of fishing safety, and to learn the advancements in the past 8 years in training fishermen in safety practices. Through these training programs it is hoped that the accident and fatality rates continue to drop.

A great big THANKS to Ted and Rodney!

After arriving in Portland, the participants presented their site overview for Bath Iron Works and Sappi Paper. Then everyone was on their own for dinner and more. Guess who was at Karaoke?

How to protect your spine

Simple tips to protect your spine.

The human body is the greatest wonder of this world. At any given moment, it performs hundreds of thousands of individual functions like circulating and purifying blood, turning food intake into energy, maintaining proper internal temperature, taking in oxygen, and all the other operations which keep us alive and healthy. It works like a fully automatic machine.

The Spinal Cord is the center axis of the body, 26 bones encasing the spinal cord and defining the entries and exits for many nerves in and out of the nervous system. Our bodies are born with -- our Innate Intelligence -- every cell and organ sends and receives messages to and from the brain.

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In fact, the brain acts like a central communication depot, processing millions of messages every second. These messages, relayed as electrical impulses, are sent out over nerves the way phone calls travel along telephone wires.

Brain and spinal cord are critical to the survival and health of the individual. Protecting them is absolutely vital. the brain is encased in a "shell" of solid bone -- the skull.

A thick braid formed by billions of these nerves is attached to the brain and extends down from the base of the skull. This is the spinal cord.

Smaller braids branch off from the cord. These braids divide again and again into tiny nerve fibers and fill the entire body, going to each cell, organ and tissue. Every human being has an estimated 15 billion nerve cells. All send and receive messages as nerve impulses through the spinal cord.

But what about the spinal cord? How does the body protect it?

The answer is the spinal column.

The spinal column is an elaborate "tunnel" of small, interlocking bones slightly curved in the shape of the letter "S." It's flexible enough to allow the body to twist and bend, but sturdy enough to protect the spinal cord.

In order to protect our spinal column we must Learn how to sit, stand, move and exercise in a balanced manner to reduce the neck and lower back pain to a great extent.

STRETCHING regularly and correctly is one of the three ways to protect the spine and keep the body in balance. Its relaxing effects contribute significantly to your ability to recuperate and tone up. Who hasn't suffered from low back pain or stiffness at one time or the other? Even children are not immune to it.

The spine has three natural curves and a change in one curve affects the other two. The thoracic or middle back area is less mobile because of the ribs attached to it. This results in the neck and lower back being very closely related and an injury to one can often harm the other..

For example, if you suffer from whiplash injury and the neck muscles are not repaired immediately, the lower back tries to compensate it by balancing the body and thereby over-stressing itself. This can decrease the pressure on the nerves of the neck and decrease the pain. But, unfortunately, now the lower back is prone to injuries due to the increased stress on it.

A similar situation often occurs if the lower back is injured. The neck compensates the injury by providing the balance needed ot the body. This can lead to chronic problems later unless the muscle damage is repaired fast. Prevention, therefore is very important.

The pain in the neck and lower back is usually caused by stress or damaged muscles putting the spinal vertebrae and other related bones out of their normal positions.

The solution is three-fold. The first step is to learn how to sit, stand, move and exercise in a balanced manner to minimize muscle stress. Here are few tips for proper sitting: Sit with your feet flat on the floor. Knee should level with or slightly above your buttocks. Sit as straight as you can and then relax about 10 to 15 minutes after that. This is a good sitting posture.

When writing, use a flat surface and look downward instead of flexing your neck forward. When reading, keep your book in such a way that your head remains straight. Muscles in front of your neck, if kept tight, will restrict the blood flow to the thyroid gland which would slow down the metabolism. This would make the body gain weight.

The second important factor is to stretch the muscles that contract while sitting. The muscles involved are the hamstring muscles (back of the thigh), the muscles in front of the neck, the hip flexures and pectoris minor muscles (in the chest).

The hamstring muscles can be stretched by standing with the legs straight and bending forward while maintaining your normal lower-back curve. Stretching can be done a few times a day for 30 to 40 seconds or more. The most effective time for stretching is when the muscles are warm from exercise. Stretching is extremely powerful in reducing stress and tension and in preventing lower back and neck pain.

The third important part is the musculus skeletal structure of the body. The exercise program should be balanced as to give exercise to all the muscles.

For example, many give exercise to the chest muscles ignoring the back. This can lead to an imbalance in the shoulder joints, neck and upper-back. Properly balanced training techniques can prevent the back and neck pains to a great extent.

Did you find these tips helpful, if you have suggestion for readers please share in comment section

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