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Who's fat? New definition
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Major League Fatsos. The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals are
fielding teams of fatsos and fatties. According to the government's
flawed definition, nearly every World Series player -- 43 out of 50 --
is officially overweight.
Stopping That Rebound In Weight
Why Weight Bounces Back Why is it
so difficult to avoid putting those pounds back on? Biology, environment
and the pressures of everyday life all play a role.
- Biology — The body's metabolism, programmed
for survival in times of food shortage, works against dieters. "Your
metabolism slows down because it's trying to conserve energy,"
Obarzanek says. "So you get hungry, your body doesn't expend as many
calories as before doing the same things, and you have to reduce
calories even more."
- Environment — "It's tougher to lose weight and
keep weight off now than it was 20 years ago because there are so many
incentives to eat more and move less," Foster says. "The cheapest
foods are often the unhealthiest." Activity is reduced by labor-saving
devices, sit-down entertainment such as television, and the growing
number of people in desk jobs.
- Life pressures — "Weight control takes a lot
of work, hard work," Foster says. "If life gets in the way — a spouse
gets ill, your child is going through behavioral problems — the
disposable energy that you have for any project, including weight
control, gets diverted." So you go back to old habits, and you regain
weight.
Miavita Fitness Tips Patience pays. If you don't get results right
away, don't quit -- buff takes time. When you start an exercise program,
don't expect changes overnight. It may be a couple of weeks before you
see improvements. Although changes may seem subtle at first, stick with
it. Even small amounts of exercise will start you on the road to a
better body.
Things You Didn't Know About Your Body
The world's most amazing, practical, and powerful health tips for men
ACSH Holiday Dinner Menu
Menu analysis prepared by ACSH staff, directors, and scientific advisors, with technical assistance from Dr. Ruth Kava, Director of Nutrition, and Dr. Leonard Flynn, scientific consultant.
Lose 5 lbs. a year without
dieting. One simple change in your daily routine can help
you burn extra calories and shed excess pounds. Anything you do every
day to burn an extra 50 calories will save you the equivalent of five
extra pounds over the course of a year. It can be as easy as parking
your car a mere five minutes further from your office each morning and
then walk briskly to your desk and back again after work. That's easy
weight loss in just 10 minutes a day!
Knock down cholesterol. It's not
just about diet -- physical activity makes a huge difference, too.
Exercise improves your blood cholesterol profile by lowering your levels
of LDL (bad) cholesterol and, more important, boosting your levels of
HDL (protective) cholesterol. It also reduces your overall risk of dying
prematurely and helps you control your weight; significantly reduces
your risk of dying from coronary artery disease or a heart attack; helps
your heart pump more blood with each contraction; reduces your risk of
developing high blood pressure and helps lower existing high blood
pressure; and improves blood circulation throughout your body.
Why Are We
Fat? The short answer is too much food
and not enough activity.
Less Stress in Six
Steps.
Five Tips For Planning And Losing
Weight
Nine Tips for Keeping the Weight Off
1. Wear form-fitting or tight clothes!
2. Keep problem foods you have a history of abusing out of your
home. 3. Set a weight ceiling, and defend it. 4. Weigh yourself
every day. 5. Exercise. 6. Keep a photo of yourself at your
heaviest weight. 7. Keep a food diary. 8. Give yourself clear
boundaries. 9. Go beyond the food reward
system.
A Smokers Diet
Before I went on this diet I use to get at least three or four colds a year. Since I went on this diet I haven't had a cold for at least 5 years.:)
Here is the 'big' kicker for "Fatty' Acids!!
Why does eating feel so good? It's all in the head
10/19/06 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Why does eating feel so good? The secret may lie in the head, not in the stomach, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.
Tests on rats show that the appetite hormone ghrelin acts on pleasure receptors in the brain.
The findings may help researchers develop better diet drugs.
"In mice and rats ghrelin triggers the same neurons as delicious food, sexual experience, and many recreational drugs; that is, neurons that provide the sensation of pleasure and the expectation of reward," the researchers write in Friday's issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
"These neurons produce dopamine and are located in a region of the brain known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA)," wrote the researchers, headed by Dr. Tamas Horvath of the Yale University School of Medicine in Connecticut.
Horvath's team found that ghrelin, itself only discovered in the last decade, acts on a molecular structure on brain cells called the ghrelin receptor growth hormone secretagogue 1 receptor or GHSR for short.
When ghrelin was infused into this area of the rats' brains, they ate as hungrily as they did after being kept hungry overnight, the researchers said.
Ghrelin is produced in the gut and triggers the brain to promote eating.
Several hormones are known to be involved in eating and appetite, and studies have shown that influencing them can affect weight gain in rats and mice. Influencing human eating behavior has proven far more difficult, however.
Horvath said it might be possible to design a drug that interferes with GHSR and thus help people with eating disorders.
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