GALAW-galaw para tumgal ang buhay. How often do we hear people say this to us?
It turns out galaw-galaw, or moving freely during your spare time, has more benefits than we know it.
Among women, constantly moving about, or even doing small stretching exercises can yield positive effects to health.
Came across this headline recently: Stretching may ease women’s depression and menopause symptoms.
According to Reuters Health, stretching just 10 minutes a day might help ease menopause and depression symptoms in middle-aged women, a small study suggests.
“Light-intensity exercises such as stretching have not been previously evaluated for its impact on menopausal and depressive symptoms,” lead researcher Yuko Kai told Reuters Health.
The study surveyed 40 Japanese women, ages 40 to 61 years.
Twenty of the women were randomly assigned to stretch 10 minutes a day before bedtime for three weeks. The other 20 were instructed to remain sedentary before bed.
Overall, the women in the stretching group had improved scores in the study.
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TRIVIA PA MORE (Various Sources): The Philippines became the first Asian country to win nine major international beauty pageant crowns – three for Miss Universe, in 1969, 1973, 2015; and six for Miss International – in 1965, 1970, 1979, 2005 2013, 2016.
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Diving paradise Anilao, in the province of Batangas, is the theme of a picture book that bagged the International Prize for Underwater Images at the 27th World Festival of Underwater Images in France in November 2000. “Anilao” book creators and Filipino scuba divers Scott Tuason and Eduardo Cu Unjieng defeated big names in underwater photography such as Jacques Mayol, Pascal Kobeh, Monique Walker, and Alessandro Tommasi.
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The biggest game preserve and wildlife sanctuary in the Philippines is located on Calauit Island in Palawan, which has the largest land area among the Philippine provinces.
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