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No one likes being overweight and unfit.
Your clothes are too tight , you get out of breath when you have to go up a flight of stairs and
thanks to the stereotypes put out in the media
it makes you uncool.
Well I don't want to scare you, but if you think that's all there is to carrying around
"a few extra pounds" then you are unaware
of what being overweight really means.
I've put together a few articles on this front page that should fill in a few blanks for you.
I am not saying that everyone should be a hundred pounds with a pert bum and six pack,
I'm just saying that you should maintain a
weight and fitness level that doesn't stop you
from doing normal daily activities without feeling like you've run a marathon.
There isn't a silver bullet to make you look like the models in the magazines!
Those people look like that for a living!
They spend every waking hour worrying about that
3 ounces they put on this week ,
because it might mean they don't work next week.
When they're not worrying about that
they are in the gym or doing weights or jogging past the muggers in the park....you get the picture .
Then the photoshop guys come in with
the airbrush and make them ''perfect''.
Well good luck to them. It's a multi billion dollar industry that thrives on our insecurity and they have created a a fantasy world that we schmucks have bought into.
Most of us don't have the time or inclination
to spend our lives on that treadmill
(no pun intended).
On the site we've gathered not only advice on diets and methods to get your weight down to a figure you are content with, we also take a look at other aspects of life and we will be adding more content over the coming months.
In the archives you will find hundreds of articles
to let you go deeper into whatever aspect
interests you.
I hope that you find the site useful and we would like to hear from you with any suggestions and stories you would like to share, about what you are doing to kickstart your life into a higher gear.
There's alot of info here so take your time and comeback as often as you like and remember
let us know what you think!
Oh and if we do find a silver bullet
we'll let you know!
No one likes being overweight and unfit.
Your clothes are too tight , you get out of breath when you have to go up a flight of stairs and
thanks to the stereotypes put out in the media
it makes you uncool.
Well I don't want to scare you, but if you think that's all there is to carrying around
"a few extra pounds" then you are unaware
of what being overweight really means.
I've put together a few articles on this front page that should fill in a few blanks for you.
I am not saying that everyone should be a hundred pounds with a pert bum and six pack,
I'm just saying that you should maintain a
weight and fitness level that doesn't stop you
from doing normal daily activities without feeling like you've run a marathon.
There isn't a silver bullet to make you look like the models in the magazines!
Those people look like that for a living!
They spend every waking hour worrying about that
3 ounces they put on this week ,
because it might mean they don't work next week.
When they're not worrying about that
they are in the gym or doing weights or jogging past the muggers in the park....you get the picture .
Then the photoshop guys come in with
the airbrush and make them ''perfect''.
Well good luck to them. It's a multi billion dollar industry that thrives on our insecurity and they have created a a fantasy world that we schmucks have bought into.
Most of us don't have the time or inclination
to spend our lives on that treadmill
(no pun intended).
On the site we've gathered not only advice on diets and methods to get your weight down to a figure you are content with, we also take a look at other aspects of life and we will be adding more content over the coming months.
In the archives you will find hundreds of articles
to let you go deeper into whatever aspect
interests you.
I hope that you find the site useful and we would like to hear from you with any suggestions and stories you would like to share, about what you are doing to kickstart your life into a higher gear.
There's alot of info here so take your time and comeback as often as you like and remember
let us know what you think!
Oh and if we do find a silver bullet
we'll let you know!
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Total of Obese Americans to Reach 42%
It’s not the bubonic plague and you get it from cheeseburgers, not blood thirsty rats, but the United States is double-chin deep in an obesity epidemic.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity has grown dramatically over the past 20 years. Only Colorado and the District of Columbia have an obesity rate less than 20%.
But now researchers say total obesity in the U.S. will reach 42%.
Published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Computational Biology, scientists predict the number of obese people in the United States to “top out” at 42% over the next 40 years. Up 8% from a 2007 prediction of 34%.
Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30.
For the study, a mathematical model was applied to four decades of data obtained from the Framingham study; a long term study examining the health and habits of nearly an entire town in Massachusetts.
Data also found an association between obesity and the friends you keep. The researchers say an American has an additional 0.5% chance of becoming obese with each obese social contact, i.e. friend, they make per year.
The severity of obesity in the U.S. varies from state to state. CDC data shows southern states tend to be the fattest.
Obesity takes a toll on the economy too. CDC data puts the total cost of obesity-related healthcare expenditures at $92.6 billion. Wow, that would buy a lot of burgers and fries…with a diet Coke of course.
Are diets bad for you?
Do you think for a moment that our metabolism has not suffered any damage having to adjust a diet that has changed little for centuries to one that is almost exactly the opposite?
As people age their metabolism slows down, when someone’s thyroid gets damaged their metabolism slows down. When people eat food the body has difficulty processing, the metabolism slows down:
How? I guess that depends on the degree of damage that has been caused.
All the new carbo hydrates ridden processed foods that we are told to buy simply slow our metabolism down.
This means that we begin to store fat that normally would have been burned. Our metabolism can then establish a new reference point for what it sees as our ‘normal’ weight.
By then, most of us are prepared to find an easy diet plan
. Then guess what, reduction of calories. and a starvation diet continued for a long time is enough for your confused brain to read as a famine or food shortage and tells your
metabolism to slow down
Our body is not designed to process huge amounts of solid carbo hydrates, diet cravings are often the result. But this body is designed to recognize this as famine and begins to slow your metabolism and make it much harder to lose weight.
When you finally give up, not only will all the weight return , but it will add more weight as protection against another famine.
You know what is good for you because you feel better when you eat it...follow what your body's telling you and do a little research...oh and try walking to the shop rather than hopping in the car. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel in a very short time.
Sesame Street Goes Healthy
The last few years have been a whirlwind for the Cookie Monster. From having to dispel tabloid rumors about his name being changed to the “Vegetable Monster,” to his recent run in the limelight, which centered on an aggressive campaign to host Saturday Night Live.
Although the cookie monster will not be changing the name on his birth certificate, the Sesame Street executives are trying to do their part when it comes to promoting healthy eating, with a specific aim to nourish those who don’t meet basic nutritional needs.
Jeanette Betancourt, vice president of content design for the education, research and outreach department of Sesame Workshop, said:
We found there were really very few resources engaging young children and helping them engage not only in healthy habits but also in knowing that as a family they’re not alone in this.
The program provides families with an educational kit, including;
A video featuring four new Muppets, the “Super foods” - Banana, cheese, whole-grain roll and broccoli. Elmo and friends, including real families, as they try new foods, learn about healthy snacks and discover the importance of sharing a meal together.
The superfoods (although not official Sesame Street cast members) sing and dance, encouraging children to try new healthy foods. The 400,000 kits will be distributed to lower income families and segments will air on the show this month (December 2010).
While this latest campaign is more focal and extensive, Sesame Street and specifically the oft-criticized cookie glutton have actually been promoting healthier eating for a while. To wit, in 1987, the Cookie Monster rapped about healthy food.
More recently, “Hoots” the owl waxed poetic to the Cookie Monster about cookies being a “sometimes food”.
The burning question remains, however, will campaigns like this have a noticeable impact on the foods children eat?
Diabetes to Triple
in the U.S. by 2050
America, “land of the free” - yeah, free to eat whatever we want, which isn’t exactly doing us any favors. Obesity epidemic, heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes… lots of diabetes.
And if we don’t kick our unhealthy habits, it’s going to get a lot worse.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn if we continue to eat poorly and avoid exercise, one third of Americans will have diabetes by 2050.
Officials at the CDC studied census numbers and data on current diabetes trends, and made models to project future spikes in diabetes. Researchers say unless Americans change their lifestyles, diabetes could become even more common in the United States over the next 40 years.
The new report claims over the next 40 years the prevalence of total diabetes, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, could jump from 1 in 10 adults to between 1 in 5 adults, and 1 in 3 adults by 2050.
A spokesperson for the CDC said, “These are alarming numbers that show how critical it is to change the course of type-2 diabetes.”
It’s only 2010 and the U.S. is already mired in diabetes. In 2007, the American Diabetes Association estimated 17.9 million people were diagnosed with diabetes, with potentially another 5.7 million undiagnosed cases.
The CDC’s current figures are no better. They estimate 24 million U.S. adults have diabetes, with type-2 diabetes being the most common. Poor diet, lack of exercise, and obesity are major risk factors for type-2 diabetes.
But hey, the rest of the world is in bad shape, too. The World Health Organization reports 220 million people have diabetes worldwide. World fail.
Free diet weight loss
I have always believed if weight loss is not permanent, what is the point of hunger, anxiety, and the pure hell of cutting calories when you know that this time next month, next spring or anytime next year all the weight will be back and then some?
We think ''Yes, but really it was my own fault that I put all the weight back. I started to eat normal again. ''
Well, just hang on a minute; normal eating is what we were intended to do. We should do that, of course, without putting on weight.
I was around not that long ago when you only put weight on when you DID NOT eat normal. This is truly ironic, but is also a fact that should make us all stop and ask ourselves for some serious questions.
What has changed in a few decades to ensure that everyone is getting fatter?
The answer is diets.
They are not a normal thing to do, and our body
is doing its best to fight it.
We have been encouraged to take advice from people who are not qualified to give it and who have a particular interest inkeeping us fat. We blindly led into some unpleasant quicksand called food addictionand once you're in
it's hard to get out.
People who promote and encourage our habit are everywhere. They are powerful and resourceful. It is not that long ago we saw how powerful the tobacco industry is. These people say anything and do anything to keep you hooked to your addiction. First thing you will do is to deny that there is such thing as food addiction. Sounds familiar?
If you think of your body as a kind of machine, which is what it is, the food you eat is fuel. This body was designed for thousands of years to run a particular combination of foods. The body can become accustomed to many slow, very gradual changes over the centuries.
At the beginning of the 1960s, things began to change.
Novel foods began to enter at a very rapid pace, here we were, completely changing our diet in a couple of decades. By the 1980s there was already evidence of weight problems, but nothing like today’s epidemic. At that time it was still something that happened to someone else.
As more and more people followed new ideas about what was good for the body to eat, nobody stopped to think that the machine was starting to malfunction from an overload of food that it had not had a chance to learn how to process.
What put the nail in the coffin was cholesterol.?
People in their millions were urged to have make cholesterol readings. But they were not reading it right until very recently, You see nobody knew that you had to have two separate readings. One cancels out the other. Instead, for decades, they had been adding them together.
This meant that most people showed dangerously high cholesterol levels . Most were encouraged to change their diet immediately. This disaster was aggravated by the arrival of a new profession called nutritionist. These people had invented a diet super high in carbohydrates. Cholesterol gave their sales shot in the arm.
Given that their diet was the latest, most up-to-date naturally it was declared the best answer to combat cholesterol. This appealed to the people as it promised to cure cholesterol problems. Most people that came out of that diet had what you might be called a non-existent weight problem.
If you think about this and ask how we came to be so fat and why now, then the answer is ovious...our bodies arn't used to preproccessed foods.
It’s not the bubonic plague and you get it from cheeseburgers, not blood thirsty rats, but the United States is double-chin deep in an obesity epidemic.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, obesity has grown dramatically over the past 20 years. Only Colorado and the District of Columbia have an obesity rate less than 20%.
But now researchers say total obesity in the U.S. will reach 42%.
Published in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Computational Biology, scientists predict the number of obese people in the United States to “top out” at 42% over the next 40 years. Up 8% from a 2007 prediction of 34%.
Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30.
For the study, a mathematical model was applied to four decades of data obtained from the Framingham study; a long term study examining the health and habits of nearly an entire town in Massachusetts.
Data also found an association between obesity and the friends you keep. The researchers say an American has an additional 0.5% chance of becoming obese with each obese social contact, i.e. friend, they make per year.
The severity of obesity in the U.S. varies from state to state. CDC data shows southern states tend to be the fattest.
Obesity takes a toll on the economy too. CDC data puts the total cost of obesity-related healthcare expenditures at $92.6 billion. Wow, that would buy a lot of burgers and fries…with a diet Coke of course.
Are diets bad for you?
Do you think for a moment that our metabolism has not suffered any damage having to adjust a diet that has changed little for centuries to one that is almost exactly the opposite?
As people age their metabolism slows down, when someone’s thyroid gets damaged their metabolism slows down. When people eat food the body has difficulty processing, the metabolism slows down:
How? I guess that depends on the degree of damage that has been caused.
All the new carbo hydrates ridden processed foods that we are told to buy simply slow our metabolism down.
This means that we begin to store fat that normally would have been burned. Our metabolism can then establish a new reference point for what it sees as our ‘normal’ weight.
By then, most of us are prepared to find an easy diet plan
. Then guess what, reduction of calories. and a starvation diet continued for a long time is enough for your confused brain to read as a famine or food shortage and tells your
metabolism to slow down
Our body is not designed to process huge amounts of solid carbo hydrates, diet cravings are often the result. But this body is designed to recognize this as famine and begins to slow your metabolism and make it much harder to lose weight.
When you finally give up, not only will all the weight return , but it will add more weight as protection against another famine.
You know what is good for you because you feel better when you eat it...follow what your body's telling you and do a little research...oh and try walking to the shop rather than hopping in the car. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel in a very short time.
Sesame Street Goes Healthy
The last few years have been a whirlwind for the Cookie Monster. From having to dispel tabloid rumors about his name being changed to the “Vegetable Monster,” to his recent run in the limelight, which centered on an aggressive campaign to host Saturday Night Live.
Although the cookie monster will not be changing the name on his birth certificate, the Sesame Street executives are trying to do their part when it comes to promoting healthy eating, with a specific aim to nourish those who don’t meet basic nutritional needs.
Jeanette Betancourt, vice president of content design for the education, research and outreach department of Sesame Workshop, said:
We found there were really very few resources engaging young children and helping them engage not only in healthy habits but also in knowing that as a family they’re not alone in this.
The program provides families with an educational kit, including;
A video featuring four new Muppets, the “Super foods” - Banana, cheese, whole-grain roll and broccoli. Elmo and friends, including real families, as they try new foods, learn about healthy snacks and discover the importance of sharing a meal together.
The superfoods (although not official Sesame Street cast members) sing and dance, encouraging children to try new healthy foods. The 400,000 kits will be distributed to lower income families and segments will air on the show this month (December 2010).
While this latest campaign is more focal and extensive, Sesame Street and specifically the oft-criticized cookie glutton have actually been promoting healthier eating for a while. To wit, in 1987, the Cookie Monster rapped about healthy food.
More recently, “Hoots” the owl waxed poetic to the Cookie Monster about cookies being a “sometimes food”.
The burning question remains, however, will campaigns like this have a noticeable impact on the foods children eat?
Diabetes to Triple
in the U.S. by 2050
America, “land of the free” - yeah, free to eat whatever we want, which isn’t exactly doing us any favors. Obesity epidemic, heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes… lots of diabetes.
And if we don’t kick our unhealthy habits, it’s going to get a lot worse.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn if we continue to eat poorly and avoid exercise, one third of Americans will have diabetes by 2050.
Officials at the CDC studied census numbers and data on current diabetes trends, and made models to project future spikes in diabetes. Researchers say unless Americans change their lifestyles, diabetes could become even more common in the United States over the next 40 years.
The new report claims over the next 40 years the prevalence of total diabetes, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, could jump from 1 in 10 adults to between 1 in 5 adults, and 1 in 3 adults by 2050.
A spokesperson for the CDC said, “These are alarming numbers that show how critical it is to change the course of type-2 diabetes.”
It’s only 2010 and the U.S. is already mired in diabetes. In 2007, the American Diabetes Association estimated 17.9 million people were diagnosed with diabetes, with potentially another 5.7 million undiagnosed cases.
The CDC’s current figures are no better. They estimate 24 million U.S. adults have diabetes, with type-2 diabetes being the most common. Poor diet, lack of exercise, and obesity are major risk factors for type-2 diabetes.
But hey, the rest of the world is in bad shape, too. The World Health Organization reports 220 million people have diabetes worldwide. World fail.
Free diet weight loss
I have always believed if weight loss is not permanent, what is the point of hunger, anxiety, and the pure hell of cutting calories when you know that this time next month, next spring or anytime next year all the weight will be back and then some?
We think ''Yes, but really it was my own fault that I put all the weight back. I started to eat normal again. ''
Well, just hang on a minute; normal eating is what we were intended to do. We should do that, of course, without putting on weight.
I was around not that long ago when you only put weight on when you DID NOT eat normal. This is truly ironic, but is also a fact that should make us all stop and ask ourselves for some serious questions.
What has changed in a few decades to ensure that everyone is getting fatter?
The answer is diets.
They are not a normal thing to do, and our body
is doing its best to fight it.
We have been encouraged to take advice from people who are not qualified to give it and who have a particular interest inkeeping us fat. We blindly led into some unpleasant quicksand called food addictionand once you're in
it's hard to get out.
People who promote and encourage our habit are everywhere. They are powerful and resourceful. It is not that long ago we saw how powerful the tobacco industry is. These people say anything and do anything to keep you hooked to your addiction. First thing you will do is to deny that there is such thing as food addiction. Sounds familiar?
If you think of your body as a kind of machine, which is what it is, the food you eat is fuel. This body was designed for thousands of years to run a particular combination of foods. The body can become accustomed to many slow, very gradual changes over the centuries.
At the beginning of the 1960s, things began to change.
Novel foods began to enter at a very rapid pace, here we were, completely changing our diet in a couple of decades. By the 1980s there was already evidence of weight problems, but nothing like today’s epidemic. At that time it was still something that happened to someone else.
As more and more people followed new ideas about what was good for the body to eat, nobody stopped to think that the machine was starting to malfunction from an overload of food that it had not had a chance to learn how to process.
What put the nail in the coffin was cholesterol.?
People in their millions were urged to have make cholesterol readings. But they were not reading it right until very recently, You see nobody knew that you had to have two separate readings. One cancels out the other. Instead, for decades, they had been adding them together.
This meant that most people showed dangerously high cholesterol levels . Most were encouraged to change their diet immediately. This disaster was aggravated by the arrival of a new profession called nutritionist. These people had invented a diet super high in carbohydrates. Cholesterol gave their sales shot in the arm.
Given that their diet was the latest, most up-to-date naturally it was declared the best answer to combat cholesterol. This appealed to the people as it promised to cure cholesterol problems. Most people that came out of that diet had what you might be called a non-existent weight problem.
If you think about this and ask how we came to be so fat and why now, then the answer is ovious...our bodies arn't used to preproccessed foods.
