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August 18, 2021
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Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
August 17, 2021
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Xilitla is a municipality and town in the state of San Luis Potosí, in the Huasteca region of Mexico. The town is located at 21°23′08″N 98°59′25″W The municipality has an area of 415 square kilometers (160 sq mi) and had a population of 51,498 in 2010 of whom 6,576 lived in town of Xilitla.
Xilitla is known for its fertile mountains and springs which create panoramic landscapes throughout the municipality. Las Pozas gardens are a tourist attraction.
The rugged landscape has partly shielded Xilitla from industrialization, helping preserve its indigenous Huastec and Nahuatl cultures and traditional agrarian lifestyles. Most of Xilitla’s residents live in over 100 rural villages of several dozen up to several hundred people. About 30,000 people in Xilitla live in indigenous households and about 20,000 of them speak an indigenous language, principally Huastec. Most of the speakers of an indigenous language also speak Spanish. Wikipedia
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Sleep Anxiety: Tips on How to Cope With Insomnia Worsened By Worry
August 17, 2021
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There’s one night, in particular, I remember most. It was my third night of zero sleep and the light was growing brighter in the living room — I had transitioned to the couch after tossing in bed for close to four hours. “Please,” I pleaded aloud. “Please, just fall asleep.” I was panicking, thinking I may never sleep again and that I’d end up in the hospital with delirium or drop dead from exhaustion on a city street. (Spoiler alert: neither happened.)
Insomnia can be an insidious, strange affliction, in that the more you care about its effects, the worse it gets. Though insomnia can be caused by a variety of issues, including physical and psychological factors, for many people a few sleepless nights can snowball into what’s referred to as sleep anxiety — wherein your worry about falling asleep feeds the cycle of diminished sleep. This cycle can feel impossible to break, especially for those of us who are already prone to other forms of anxiety and obsessive thinking. Sufferers usually grow more and more anxious as the night draws closer. Reigning in the anxiety usually means rejiggering how your mind thinks about sleep.
First, a few facts about types of insomnia. It can be acute (short-term) or chronic (usually defined as at least three times a week for at least three months), as well as onset- (have trouble falling asleep) or maintenance-based (have trouble staying asleep). It can be primary, in that it has no outside causes, or secondary, wherein it’s linked to periods of intense stress, mental illness, physical pain, sleep apnea, or a variety of other things. Speaking to a professional can be helpful in homing in on the root cause and can be especially important for those struggling with secondary insomnia caused by mental illness.
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This 30-Day Arm Workout Challenge Will Transform Your Upper Body
August 17, 2021
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“I have, like, no arm strength.” If you’ve ever said this (or even thought it while lugging your heavy tote bag), this is a challenge for you. “Women are often very critical about their arms,” says personal trainer and fitness expert Angelique Millis. “But, then they’re surprised at how quickly they respond once they start using weights.” By integrating resistance training into your fitness routine, you improve your posture, coordination, stability, and of course strength — and you can even affect your body composition, reducing non-lean mass (a.k.a. fat) and increasing lean mass (sleek, toned, powerful muscles).
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The exercises chosen for our 30-Day Arm Challenge are ones the American Council on Exercise (ACE) has pinpointed as best for activation of the primary muscles used — in other words, these moves give you the best bang for your buck. The challenge starts slowly, with just one exercise per day, so you learn proper form and don’t get too sore. As the month progresses, you’ll begin doing more sets and reps and combining the exercises into super-sets and circuits for the greatest benefit. “You’ll get stronger and more functional for real-life activities, such as lifting a suitcase into the overhead bin,” Millis says.
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St Abb’s Head National Nature Reserve Scotland
August 16, 2021
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The national nature reserves (NNRs) of Scotland are areas of land or water designated under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as containing habitats and species of national importance. National nature reserves can be owned by public, private, community, or voluntary organizations but must be managed to conserve their important habitats and species, as well as providing opportunities for the public to enjoy and engage with nature. There are currently 43 NNRs in Scotland, which cover 154,250 hectares (1,542.5 km2), or less than 1.5% of the land area of Scotland. They range in size from Corrieshalloch Gorge at 7 ha to Mar Lodge Estate, which covers 29,324 ha.
National nature reserve status is an accolade awarded to the best nature reserves in Scotland, and the selected sites provide examples of nationally or internationally important species and habitats. NNRs are intended to showcase Scotland’s nature, and as well as being well managed for wildlife they must be managed to provide opportunities for the public to visit and enjoy them. NNRs therefore generally have facilities such as visitor centers and trails to allow visitors to explore and understand the habitats or wildlife they contain.
Most NNRs in Scotland are also designated as Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Many also form part of the Natura 2000 network, which covers Special Protection Areas and Special Areas of Conservation. Additionally, some of the NNRs are designated as Ramsar sites. Wikipedia
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A Simple Mistake Meant I Failed to Lose Weight for Years
August 16, 2021
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You can lose a lot more weight when you get informed about calorie burn.
Now that I understand an appropriate diet for my height and level of exercise, it’s been much easier to lose weight and keep it off.
I’ve been overweight for much of my adult life, and it’s something I’ve long wanted to change. I tried and failed many times to address it because I misunderstood the value of exercise.
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A Full-Body Strength Workout That Has Just 5 Moves
August 16, 2021
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If you want to start lifting heavier weights, a full-body strength workout is a must to add to your routine. And you don’t need to go overboard on the number of exercises to get it done.
When you’re looking to get stronger, the exercises you choose and how you program your workout become particularly important, ACE-certified personal trainer Sivan Fagan, C.P.T., owner of Strong with Sivan, tells SELF. As for the exercises that’ll help you get stronger, the best bang for your workout buck is going to be big, basic compound movements—think squats and rows rather than leg extensions or bicep curls. Because these exercises activate large muscle groups, you’re also going to be able to load them up with more weight than you would for moves that isolate smaller muscles.
Then comes how you program your workout. If your goal is to build full-body strength, straight sets—where you complete one set, rest, then go back to the same exercise for one or more work-rest periods—are going to be a better way to accomplish that than circuits, where you go from one exercise to the other without resting, says Fagan. Circuits keep your heart rate up (and add a cardiovascular boost), but they don’t give you the recovery you need to lift heavy weights set after set.
Which brings us to our next point—a really important one. When you’re strength-training with the specific goal of getting stronger (rather than for general fitness, or to build muscle or endurance), you need to rest longer than you may think, says Fagan. That’s why in the full-body workout she created below, you’ll be resting a full two to three minutes after each set.
“You should rest enough so your heart rate goes back to baseline,” Fagan says. “The goal is for you to feel like you are very close to almost full recovery here, in order to feel like you can repeat the same amount of reps at the same amount of weight for three or four rounds.”
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Fidgeting Can Relax Your Body and Brain—If You Do It Right
August 15, 2021
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For a brief time in 2017, fidget spinners were inescapable. They lined the shelves of department stores and gas stations, and teachers struggled to manage the sudden influx of twirling plastic devices in classrooms.
But fidgeting didn’t start with the spinner.
Whether it’s flicking a pen, tapping our legs, or fiddling with our hair, fidgeting has long been a standard piece of the human behavioral puzzle. While the science on exactly why we fidget isn’t completely settled, research has already provided us with some strategies we can employ to help make it more productive for our cognitive processes—and less distracting for the people around us.
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Fidget spinners may have died off as a cultural phenomenon, but they could still be useful for some people. Photo by David Bartus via Pexels
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