Health
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Bergen Fjell Marathon (21,1 km)
BFM – mountain half marathon organized in Bergen is a fantastic mountain adventure! Sweat, stones, mud and mountains – this is what you can definitely expect 🙂This year’s edition was the 10th jubilee edition of this event and on this occasion – apart from t-shirts, medals were also distributed to everyone – lucky me!My participation was completely devoid of competition – I know, I saw the results from previous editions and my great goal was to finish this marathon 😉 The route starts at Urliken – Montana and goes past Urliken Peak via Vidden, turning on the way to Viking Hytten, from there via Rundemannen, Blåmannen, Fløyen and ending at…
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Health alphabet #1 Vitamin D3
Yes, yes, it’s not a mistake that I start the health alphabet with vitamin D3 and not with vitamin A 😉* The most important,* the most underrated* its deficiency causes serious diseases* and we usually have too little of this vitamin 🙁 Let’s start from scratch: What is this?Vitamin D, along with vitamins A, E and K, belongs to the group fat-soluble vitamins. She was discoveredonly in 1919 by Mellanbe, who for the first time the first to show that rickets could be caused by eficiencies in the diet of soluble substances in fats. Vitamin D can be supplied to the body in two ways – with food products or…
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Food in plastic? NO! BPA (bisfenol A) is your poison!
The plastic monomer and plasticizer bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the highest volume chemicals produced worldwide. BPA is used in the production of polycarbonate plastics, epoxy resins used to line metal cans, and in many plastic consumer products including: cans, plastic bottles (pets), plastic food packaging, food containers, thermal paper, baby bottles, toys, water pipes, drinking containers, eyeglass lenses, sports safety equipment, dental monomers, medical equipment and tubing, and consumer electronics (1). BPA can contaminate food, beverage, air, and soil. It accumulates in several human tissues and organs and is potentially harmful to human health through different molecular mechanisms. Due to its hormone-like properties, BPA may bind to estrogen…
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First 5 km run!
I thought for a long time if I was born for running… As you know, I love activities, yoga, climbing, trekking, trips. But I always had doubts whether I could stand the distance, whether I had enough strength. So I tried.Completely spontaneously, I bought a ticket for a 5 km run as part of the fantastic annual #BergenCityMarathon event … and I ran 😉Time was irrelevant (35.26 min), the most important thing was whether I had enough strength… and I have… I will say more… I want more! 🙂 There is something fantastic about group running – this strength, this energy, these smiling faces! Truly magical time! Well, of course, great…
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Tea World
Tea – a drink known probably all over the world. Drink – an infusion made from the leaves and buds of a group of plants – belonging to the Camellia plant genus. The history of tea drinking begins in China and most of its varieties come from here. Tea plantations can also be found in India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Japan, Iran, Turkey, Vietnam and Indonesia.However, it is worth knowing a few details about the tea that is worth drinking, and which one should rather be avoided, because not every tea is tea 😉Real tea – these are dried leaves or buds (in the mixture you can also sometimes find “sticks”…
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Kombucha – homemade booster!
What is “kombucha”?It is a sweet and sour drink made of tea, sugar and tea mushroom (Japanese mushroom). When ready to drink – ripe, it should be slightly sour – “a’la ice tea”. Only advantages – no disadvantages:– strengthening the immune system, due to the huge amount of natural probiotics,– rich in vitamins B1, B6, B12, C, proteins, fats, polyphenols and minerals– mine, due to the fact that it is made on the basis of green tea, has an additional antioxidant effect,– detoxifying effect – contains glucuric acid, which combines with toxins and drug metabolites, toxins are captured and excreted from the body,– contains acetic acid, therefore it has an…
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Daily activity
My friends often ask how to be healthy, what to do to be in good shape and how to live a long and happy life 🙂 To be honest, I don’t know the golden recipe, but I’ll tell you what I do 😉I love the mountains – so I try to do a little training on Floyen at least once a week,I also need good stretching – so I do stretching yoga twice a week – usually 20-30 min,I also need to strengthen my muscles – so 2 times a week I do strengthening workouts – with dumbbells, leg weights and bands – 30-40 min.On the weekend I read books,…
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Food power! #1
A foreword to this big chapter.In our fast-paced life, we forget about the most important thing that builds our body, that strengthens and heals it – nutrition! We learned to eat mechanically – instead of nourishing! We swallow food in a hurry, we eat whatever, we eat toxins, antibiotics, pesticides…Look at your plate and ask yourself “Are there vitamins? is there good quality protein? is there good quality fat?”It is not by chance that it is said that “You are what you eat”… If you don’t take care of NUTRITION, forget about a healthy body, healthy head, positive thoughts, strength to live, power and energy! Nourishment – strengthens, builds, nourishes,…
