Running on the spot

Running slowly on the spot is an exercise that can train both body and mind. It is not limited by time, place, and weather, and is particularly suitable and safe for older people.

You should run slowly while keeping in mind the number of times of putting down your foot on the ground, which is to concentrate your attention.

First relax the whole body. Lift your legs more than 20cm from the ground, then stand on tiptoe.

At this time, you should move rhythmically using elasticity of the front of your foot.

Both arms should swing back and forth naturally with head up, chest protruding, and belly pulling in.

Breathing should be natural and enough through nose with an equal interval. It is best to do it in the fresh air outside.

Raising the arms

It is good for your health to raise your arms regularly.

Raising the arms, the gastrointestinal flexion becomes less and food is rapidly passed.

This improves peristaltic movement and prevents decay, fermentation and microbial mutations.

It also prevents arm sagging. The sagging arms deform the spine and consequently causes osteochondrosis and other diseases.

Raising the arms lead to a stretched spine and flexibility.

As you get old there is a case when parts of chest and abdomen move down deviating from their original position.

The abdomen hangs down and its strength gets weak if their internal organs sink.

In this case exercises of raising your arms would strengthen the abdominal muscle.

It is good to raise your arms not only after eating but also after drinking. This allows the liquid to pass quickly through the intestine without staying in the body, and to wash out the waste from the intestine wall.

Drink 1 to 1.5 cups of water 20 to 30 minutes before eating, and raise your arms.

This is particularly beneficial for those who suffer from constipation.

Here’s the best way of raising your arms.

Keep upraised arms parallel or stretch back with hands clasped and walk a bit in this position.

Do this exercise for 10-15 minutes a day. You can do it without getting up from the chair.

Three things to refrain from for health

- Dependence on healthy food

Some people think that they take a good care of their health only by eating vitamins without doing any exercises.

Experts believe that the repeated intake of healthy foods can cause health problems. Thus, long-term consumption of artificially prepared healthy foods may have bad influences on livers or kidneys.

Rather than taking healthy foods recklessly, it is ideal to combine various good methods for health and use them.

- Excessive exercise

Many people reckon exercise as a prerequisite for their healthy lives. However, excessive exercise is rather harmful to health.

Exercise produces substances that recover from muscle damages, which contain antioxidants. However, excessive exercise produces higher amounts of active oxygen than that of antioxidants, which eventually accelerates aging. It is generally advisable to do exercise more than five days a week. Doing exercise for 15-30 minutes a day is advisable until beads of sweat break out.

- Unstable mental state

In order to be healthy for people, it is essential to have good physical conditions as well as a stable mental state.

If a young person is exposed to overwork or emotional stress, blood vessels and muscles can contract and cause problems in the circulation.

The immune status of a person with a constant mental health and positive mind is observed to be much healthier than that of an unstable person.

Therefore, it is always advisable to live optimistically.

Food that should not be eaten together in two hours

- Eating radish and honey together can cause ear problems.

- Eating eggs and saccharin together can cause toxicities, which is life threatening.

- Eating beef and chestnuts together can make you vomit.

- Eating crabs and nuts together can cause diarrhea.

- Eating potatoes and bananas together can make your face spotted.

- Eating chicken and celery together can make you lose spirits.

- Eating goose and eggs together can also make you lose spirits.

- Eating spinach and bean curd together can cause gallstones.

On the creation and development of wind instruments in our country

From ancient times our ancestors have made remarkable progress in the field of instrumental music.

In those days our ancestors made and used new kinds of wind instruments, called "Doppy Pipe", made out of the bark of peach trees, along with horns, daggers, pipes made out of avian bones, drums, etc., which had been handed down from the primitive times.

Typical national instruments were newly produced and tens of kinds of musical instruments were widely used in musical activities. During the period, the number of wind instruments, stringed instruments, percussion instruments that were handed down from ancient times added up to more than 40 kinds including newly created national musical instruments: kayagum (a nineteen-stringed Korean harp), komungo (a Korean lute), fife, tungso (a Korean six-haled bamboo flute), janggu (an hourglass drum), etc.

In the field of instrumental music during the period of Koryo, the number of musical instruments increased and diversified further, and in particular, the great progress was made in instrumental performance.

The court music became the main part of the instrumental music during that period, but the instrumental performance of the professional private artistes called "Sandae Musicians" also took an important place.

By the musicians, the "Six Musical Instruments," a folk instrumental ensemble was formed.

In the mid-15th to 19th centuries, more than 60 kinds of instruments were used in musical practice, and the newly created tanso (a Korean short bamboo flute) was widely used, thus occupying an important place in national instrumental music.

In this manner, the development of wind instruments in our country has been created and developed through a long history since the ancient times and has played a great role in inheriting and further developing the time-honored traditions of our nation.

“Ryonggang Ginari” and its legend

The northwestern provinces of Korea are widely known as one of the places where folk songs have been developed most abundantly in our country since ancient times.

Work songs and lyric folk songs which reflect the social conditions of manners and customs of people account for a large proportion of folk songs of the northwestern provinces of Korea.

The characteristics of these folk songs are that their attractiveness is expressed in gentle grace free and easy.

"Ryonggang Ginari" is one of those typical folk songs.

The folk song, "Ryonggang Ginari" was widely disseminated in the 17th to 19th centuries as a folk music creation in the Ryonggang and Kangso areas of South Phyongan Province. It is a continuous series of fluent and original songs like "Ginari" as well as fluent and inflexible "Tharyong" songs.

"Ryonggang Ginari", which contains the excellent features of folk songs of northwestern provinces of Korea, has been deeply infiltrated into people’s life of the regions and widely disseminated with love among people as a song sung on such holidays like New Year’s Day and the 15th day of the January by the lunar calendar as well as while weeding dry and paddy fields.

Kelp good for health

Kelp contains lots of nutritious and medicinal composition good for human health.

Especially, there are many essential amino acids that have a beneficial effect on the rapid growth of children’s height and their health.

It is said that kelp is rich in iodine and is effective in treating iodine deficiency including goiter and can reduce the cholesterol content in blood.

Kelp also helps to quicken the circulation of the blood all over the body, which not only improves nutritive conditions but also activates metabolism. This helps to prevent cell from aging and relieves fatigue quickly. Since kelp improves elasticity of blood vessels, it is effective in the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis and hypertension.

Kelp also has anticancer effect.

Kelp contains lots of good composition for ulcer treatment; therefore, frequent drinking of extractive for several hours can prevent ulcers.

For its nutritional and pharmacological value, people have been having kelp for many years in various ways.

Kelp juice, kelp nutritive liquid, etc. can be made from kelp, which is popular as a health food.

Kelp can be processed wet to be used for food or dried well for its use as a subsidiary food.

Kelp dishes include kelp sprouts, kelp frying, salted kelp and kelp jelly.

Generally, kelp is salty and does not need to be seasoned separately. In addition, kelp can be used to make a variety of dishes.

Cold cucumber soup good for lowering blood pressure

A cardiologist talked about cold cucumber soup that lowers blood pressure.

According to him, one of the ingredients of cold cucumber soup is garlic, which contains allicin in its composition. This substance helps to produce nitric oxide that naturally dilates the blood vessels.

The daily intake of 4 g of garlic can reduce blood pressure.

In addition, cucurbitacin in cucumber skin prevents thrombosis.

It is very simple to make cold cucumber soup.

Add chopped cucumber, onion, minced garlic, etc. to the bowl and mix together. After adding salt and chili powder, pour cold water into it.

When you get angry very often

When you get angry, blood pressure rises, causing severe vasoconstriction. If you get red or become severe, cerebral hemorrhage and myocardial infarction can occur. The amount of blood streams increases if you get really angry, which causes a poor blood stream to the heart and affects the cardiovascular system.

In addition, the lung is unable to function because of the poor breathing and the continued expansion of the alveoli. Long-term anger leads to a loss of endocrine function and immunity and an easy illness.

However, you must not bear your anger and find a way to cool it down.

Some points to be aware of when hydrating

It is recommended to rehydrate in time after a great deal of sweat.

However, you must be careful of the following points.

- Do not drink water too quickly.

Usually, people drink a large quantity of water quickly at once, when they sweat heavily and are thirsty, which is very harmful to their health.

Rapid drinking can cause gastric enlargement, sudden increase in gastric load, which may affect digestive function and ultimately cause gastrointestinal disease.

Thus, you should drink water slowly and often in small quantity.

The quantity of water consumed at a time is 200-300 ml.

- Do not drink beer or other drinks as a substitute for water.

Some people prefer to drink beer or all sorts of sweet juice instead of water when they are thirsty, which is very bad.

Beer or sweet juice is not able to relieve thirst.

And people with high cholesterol, hypertension, hyperglycemia, and gout may have worse disease.