Fit and Youthful Life

Guest Author: Abhishek Agarwal


There is no doubt that the utility of anti anxiety medicines is unmatched in the treatment of the most distressing anxiety symptoms. These symptoms can be immediately controlled with the use of anti anxiety medicines which provide a great respite to anxiety torn patients, but their use is not without serious side effects. Hence a lot of precautions are advised in their use.

Anti anxiety drugs like Xanax and Valium are used to immediately treat anxiety and stress symptoms. But these drugs are depressants and prolonged use is strictly contraindicated as they have severe limitations.

Anti anxiety medicines quickly lessen symptoms of panic attack and help patients ward off fear and deal with insomnia. However, they do not provide a complete cure. The main drawbacks of these medicines are as follows:

*Partial treatment: These anti anxiety drugs are usually not sufficient to remove all the distressing symptoms of anxiety. Anxiety treatment is not simply managed with a pill. Very often, supplementary regimen of psychotherapy and other treatment needs to be resorted to for the treatment of all the symptoms in totality.

*Dosing vigilance: These anti anxiety medications have very specific dosage recommendations. The patients must have due vigilance in obeying their doctor’s orders as regards to dosing so as to derive the maximum benefit. Otherwise potential harm can result or the impact of the drugs could lessen.

Anti anxiety drugs often cause undesirable side effects. These may not manifest in all people but for some they pose a real threat. It is always advisable to observe the patient for the following side effects:

Allergic reactions: Immediate attention of a doctor is a must if these occur. These can manifest as troubled breathing, swelling of the body, skin rashes, etc. Anaphylaxis if present, demands immediate medical attention which can prove life-saving.

Stomach complaints: These are most commonly experienced side effect of various drugs.

Headaches: A very common side effect.

Dizziness: Anti anxiety medicines often cause this side effect. Since they are depressants, the patients feel drowsy or a little dizzy.

Sexual side effects: The patient loses interest in sex which is very common.

Addiction to anti anxiety drugs is also quite prevalent amongst patients. The anti anxiety medicines can become an addiction very easily. That is the reason doctors give short term prescriptions for these drugs during chronic treatment. Patients who get easily addicted should bring this to the notice of their doctors. The doctors could then explore other avenues of treatment which would suit these patients better.

The utility of anti anxiety medicines in lessening the anxiety symptoms is unmatched as they afford a chance for other medications to work on the patients. But they are not an end in themselves and should never be used for prolonged periods and never without the doctor’s prescription.

Guest Author: Terry Sandhu


ercise is always the first thing that omes to mind whenever anyone wants to lose weight.There is no doubt that by doing cardio,along with changes to your diet,you will get results.

Cardio exercise is basically any exercise that is going to raise your heart rate and force you to breathe harder for an extended period of time. Cardio exercise has many benefits apart from weight loss. Cardio will give you more stamina and more endurance. It will improve the health of your heart, and it will improve the ability of your lungs to the point where your body can receive more oxygen more easily.

The more oxygen you can get into your body, the more energy you will have. Cardio will also have a positive effect on your body’s abilities to cope with stress. Cardio exercise can be performed through various methods such as brisk walking, jogging, running, cycling, swimming, using a stepper and so on. The method will depend on your preference. While engaged in cardio exercise you will without doubt burn calories.However this will come to a halt shortly after finshing cardio.

There is another method of exercising that you should do along with cardio in your weight loss program, which will substantially increase your results. This method is to start weight training. Most of the population is unaware of how valuable training with weights can be when it comes to losing weight successfully. When you are weight training, your metabolism gets a huge boost. Not only does it burn calories while you are training, it continues to burn calories for many hours after you have stopped training.

As we get older we naturally start losing muscle and in later life this can cause problems with joints, bones and our abilities to lose weight. So it’s important that we do what we can not only to keep muscle but to increase it where we can. Weight training is not just about bodybuilding or power lifting. All types of athletes and sports people use weight training in their routines, and they are not all body builders and power lifters.

When you only do cardio, you will lose weight. Keep in mind that some of the weight that you lose will be muscle and not just fat. This is something that really needs to be avoided. The fact is that the more muscle you have on your body, the more calories you will burn. Your body requires many more calories to keep muscle on your body compared to what it takes to keep fat on your body. When you cut back on calories and start cardio, your body will try to get rid of muscle because it is calorie expensive. This will have a negative effect on your body when it comes to weight loss.

Weight training has many benefits and should be an important part of a weight loss program.

Weight training will make you stronger. It will allow your body to burn more calories. It will offset the natural muscle loss that comes with age. It will make you look better. It will protect your bones and joints. It will keep your body firm and toned. You will feel more confident within yourself.

Throughout time a strong physique has received respect.

As you can see weight loss is only one benefit you will receive from weight training. Everyone should have some sort of weight training routine in their exercise program because the benefits of it are too numerous to ignore.

Weight training doesn’t have to mean grunting and groaning in a gym. If you have not trained with weights before or haven’t trained for a long time then you can start with bodyweight exercise. Weight training is about pushing or pulling at a weight. Your body can act as this weight through exercises like push ups, free squats, crunches and pull ups. When you think you are ready for the next step,you can join a gym or buy your own weights,which are pretty cheap if you buy used ones. This will save you the time and membership fees of going to a gym. You can substantially increase your results with cardio and weight training.