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Can Doctors Fight Obesity By Teaching Patients to Cook?

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:00:15 +0000

sxc.hu: lockstockb Most of us go to our doctor expecting them to reach us a prescription at the end of the consultation. But, imagine if your doctor handed you a recipe instead… that would be different! Or, ” What if hospitals were equipped with teaching kitchens, where patients could trade in their hospital gowns for aprons, before being discharged ?” Sound a little farfetched? Continue reading…

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Obesity Etiquette: Is It Really Necessary?

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:09:40 +0000

Etiquette guru Mary Mitchell says that it’s not polite to tell someone they’re fat. No kidding. It’s also not polite to suggest ways for an obese person to lose weight, or to say, “You’d be so much prettier if you were thin.” But, in a recent column at Reuters, Mitchell says that when including an obese individual in your social plans, it’s important to take their needs into consideration. Continue reading…

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Is Teen Obesity Associated With MS Later In Life?

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:06 +0000

Researchers believe that being obese at age 18 may be linked with developing multiple sclerosis (MS) as an adult. Continue reading…

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Waist to Hip Ratio Good Measure of Obesity in Seniors

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:00:46 +0000

imotion.com BMI gets a lot of flack. The gripe you hear most is it doesn’t consider muscle mass. Let’s say you’re short and have big muscles, your BMI will call you obese. It’s happened to me for years. Experts say a similar glitch occurs in old folks. Body composition changes as you age, meaning BMI becomes less accurate over time. Continue reading…

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Obesity Not a Good Predictor of High Cholesterol in Kids

admin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:00:29 +0000

South Park Studios You don’t have to be a doctor to suspect an overweight or obese person is going to have some health problems–sometimes it obvious. Nowadays you hear a lot of reports about healthy-looking people getting heart disease, hypertension and high-cholesterol. Turns out, same goes for kids. That’s why a new study claims using obesity alone is not a good predicator of high-cholesterol in children. Continue reading…

What’s Up With Self-Sabotage?

admin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:15:41 +0000

How many times have we started a new diet with the very best of intentions? We know we picked a good program, we're excited, we've stocked up on the essentials. We might even manage to do well for a few days. Then the shoe falls. Our resolve wanders. We almost look for an excuse to cheat. You ask yourself, “Why?” You know full well that 14 strong days as free of temptation as possible will garner you the best chance of weight loss success. Good plan! So, what do you instead? You make a date to meet your pals at the local hangout – you know, the one with the free Happy Hour buffet and 25¢ beers. You rationalize you “deserve” it. You convince yourself that your friends will bolster you with “support”. Lastly, you promise yourself to stick to 1, okay 2 max, Michelob Lights. Yeah that was the promise, but it didn't quite turn out that way. Yet again. It's not like we need to someone to hold our hand into temptation! It surely doesn't help that there's a McDonalds, Burger King and/or Pizza Hut on every corner. Calling at us like an epic siren, we turn into the drive thru like Pavlov's dogs. Our low carb brain tells us to order a bunless cheeseburger or grilled chicken salad, meanwhile we splurt out “Big Mac & Diet Coke”. Of course Diet Coke! Hey, we're on a diet! Why do we do it? Why do we set ourselves up? Seemingly, almost on purpose? Personally, I think it's akin to the emotional reasons we eat, whether we're actually hungry or not. The next time you're standing in front of the fridge, door swung wide open, staring in a blank trance as if some magical 0 cal 0 carb delicious delight will suddenly appear. Take comfort in knowing that your dieting sisters and brothers are joining you world over. Self examination is the key. What's going on inside your brain? What are we furiously trying to bury under the wrong foods and poor choices? What on earth are we afraid of? Worried that we can't blame personal failures on our fat anymore? Scared about sudden attention and flirting from the opposite sex? Zillions of books have been written on the subject and I'm far from an expert, but I have spent the better portion of my adult life pondering this puzzle. Therapy is probably the most obvious answer, but we don't have time and I'm certainly unqualified! Behavior modification techniques would be beneficial, as are online support groups, like those at the Kimkins.com site. For my buck, the most bang is journaling. Yes, men, even you. You've heard confession is good for the soul. Well, it's absolutely true. As luck would have it, your Kimkins membership comes with your very own personal journal – yours to share with other members for accountability or just to jot down your inner most feelings. We'll touch more on self-sabotage in upcoming article. But for now, committing feelings and insecurities, whether to paper or bandwidth, can help. Go ahead, discover yourself.

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The Importance of Early Healthy Eating Basics

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:05:55 +0000

If you want to become one of those people than have no worries about weight, or at least they don’t show that they do, you really have to build up some healthy eating basic habits. In the end, it is all about habits and about things we consider normal or not. I am a person that used to run away the very minutes I saw cooked vegetable on my plate. I did that when I was a boy, and continued to do it later on. If my wife cooked non fat stuff, then it wasn’t for me, I was going to dine out, which of course meant getting a hamburger or something from around the corner. And you can only imagine the effects of all this junk food on my body. I can’t say that I used to be obese, but I can say that I’ve been overweighed my entire life, and this wasn’t really something I’ve chosen to do in my adulthood, it is a thing that was allowed to develop and flourish from the time I was an infant. I’m not blaming my parents, I’m rather blaming society for their healthy eating guidelines. I mean, it’s clear that there are obvious obesity tendencies in children. You can see that by the clothes sizes. I happen to have a toddler daughter that is not overweight as most kids are. And because she is fit, we have a lot of trouble finding clothes that fit her well: the ones for her age are too loose, even if they are right in heights. There are less and less companies that make clothes for normally weight children, because with the entire obesity tendency amongst infants they would have no clients. But to return to my weight problems. My main concern was that I did not have the healthy eating basics and I was afraid to find out what those healthy eating tips were… In the end, even if it was hard to start, I managed to gather some information about healthy eating basics and they prove to be not that scary as they initially appeared. I mean, I was completely out of control a first thinking that I’m going to eat lettuce with carrots with a slice of cereal bread the entire day. I’m sure that many others feel just the way I did because they are not accustomed to eating healthy. The truth is that the healthy eating plan can be easily turned into a habit if you have the necessary will. It’s all down to routine. If we are accustomed to certain types of foods, the organism will ask for them. So, a diet than brakes the negative habits is needed. A drastic diet, that forbids even aliments which you can actually consume in a healthy diet. I’ve chosen a true vegetarian diet, no meat what so ever, and took it for three weeks. I did not starve myself at all, if anything I actually ate a bigger food quantity but the calories were low. After that, I found it a lot easier to stay away from all fat foods, from constant sweet treats and middle day salted snacks. Instead, I chose to eat apples or bananas, dietetic biscuits or yogurts. As far as meals go, they are normal meals orientated towards a healthy life style, excluding any high cholesterol products and most over processed sugars from alimentation. I did finally, but it has been very hard. This is why I consider it is crucial to give your children healthy eating basics from the time they are babies. They should not be fat, as everyone thinks it’s cute…this will affect more than 80% of them on their way to adulthood. Only 20 percent of the over weighted infants will manage to turn into normal weighted toddler and small children. Think about that for a while when you are trying to stuff your baby with some more food just because the neighbor’s child is a lot fatter, and everyone says that when it comes to babies fat means healthy…believe me, it doesn’t. And abusing children’s diets will turn them in little gourmands. I know that every parent is happy to see his child eating but eating all the time when the child is already a bit fat has no good ending.

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Obesity and Inactivity Costs California $41 Billion

admin — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:01:19 +0000

He sent the T-1000 to a molten grave, he killed a terrorising predator, he took down the snake cult, and he dealt with having made “Jingle all the Way”. But, the “Governator” now faces a truly insurmountable foe in the lifestyle of Californians, who are burdening businesses and taxpayers to the tune of $41 Billion. Continue reading…

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Is Your Diet Risking Your Health?

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:11:32 +0000

Have you noticed that fad diets rise and fall in popularity like the latest fashions or current pop songs? We’ve seen (and seen off) the soup diet; the grapefruit diet; the no carbs diet; the only carbs diet and so on. I remember as a teenager eating only hard boiled eggs for a week! I lost a tonne of weight, but I’m never going to do it again! Are you putting your health at risk by following a fad diet? As a result of experimenting with the latest “food exclusion” diets, many people are actually cutting out entire food groups, leading to nutritional deficiencies, which could be damaging their health! While it may seem that cutting out carbs is great for fast weight loss, there is a very real risk that it will trigger carbohydrate cravings. Have you ever experience carbohydrate deprivation? First you become edgy then start to crave carbs, especially the wrong sort of starchy crabs that are stored as fat. Many people simply give in and become compulsive, but those who hold out can suffer severe side effects. Vitamin B group deficiency is one outcome, leading to fatigue and anxiety. Did you know the body’s main fuel source for energy comes from carbohydrates? Did you know that carbs also are the brain food used to fuel it’s function? Is it any wonder you carve high-carb, high-sugar snacks when studying hard, problem solving or using a computer? Health professionals advise that eliminating carbs from your diet is counter-productive. A much better strategy is giving your body the right type of carbs it requires. Others cut out meat when dieting, thinking this is the way to eliminate excess fat from their bodies. By doing so they could be missing out on important vitamins and minerals such as iron, vitamin B12 and zinc. Iron deficiency leads to serious conditions such as anemia. Protein is an essential building block for the body and is needed for the growth of new cells and tissues. If you don’t eat meat it is vital to get adequate protein from other sources such as soy, fish, eggs and chicken.

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Self Hypnosis For Weight Loss- How To Use An Activity You Do Every Day To Shed Excess Pounds Of Your Body.

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:48:15 +0000

by Cynthia A Williams Using Self Hypnosis for weight loss is very easy because we all go in and out of trance regularly on a daily basis. Examples of when you experience trances include watching an interesting movie, finding your way home and not really remembering any part of the journey. The experience of hypnosis is very similar to these trance states that we already experience on a daily basis but the difference is that we now use it in a conscious way to achieve our dream weight. I use hypnosis on a daily basis to achieve my goals, see things in a more positive light, and relate better with people. The good thing about hypnosis is that you can use it for just about any aspect of your life that you would like to improve upon. Using self-hypnosis for weight loss has many benefits. Firstly, it makes losing weight effortless and easy. This is because it goes right to the root of the issue, your subconscious mind. It changes the negative programming that has held you back and made weight loss difficult to a more positive one where you actually begin to enjoying losing weight. It also helps you develop good long term eating and exercise habits, and let go of all bad habits and false beliefs. So apart from helping you lose weight you will begin to establish new beliefs and habits that will stand you in the stead of time and never to back to the days of yo-yo dieting. Also using self hypnosis will help you develop a new self-image. One with improved self-esteem and self-confidence. In my experience, I have to say the greatest benefit that I have received from using hypnosis is the feeling of being in control. In control of my life, my weight and my eating habits. I also look forward to my listening sessions because it helps me relax after a long day. So it works like a two edged sword, a fantastic relaxation and me time and positive mental programming at the same time. What could be easier? So far we have looked at how self-hypnosis for weight loss is very easy and the benefits that we receive from using it consistently are huge. There are so many hypnosis experts out there, but how do you tell whi is real or not? About the Author: If you would like to know the powerful and effective Self Hypnosis For Weight Loss cd that I used to lose 5 pounds in one week simply by giving up sugar easily (finally!) and using a smaller plate for my meals (as instructed by the hypnosis cd) then visit http://www.squidoo.com/enjoying-weight-loss for my secret