Everyone knows that Americans are fat, and increasingly more so. According to new research, we eat considerably more food than we did 30 years ago.
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We are what we eat..
Today is the day, and you're well on your way..
Thinking of starting your own business...or maybe running for president? Here are certain qualities that all successful people possess.
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Kiss and tell, the good news!
Are you afraid of that awkward kiss on the cheek from on old friend? Here are some tips that will improve your oral health. You'll be most likely surprised.
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Tango? Salsa? Waltzing?
Take your pick! New research shows that dancing could decrease memory loss and improve overall health - more than regular exercise. So strap on your dancing shoes and find a partner!
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A la santé!
The French enjoy one of the longest life expectancies on earth. They also don't get fat, as you might have read. It is true that, in general, their lifestyle is quite different from ours, but it probably helps that the French benefit from a very generous healthcare system. Read why 'la vie' really is 'belle' in France.
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Pain but no gain??
Perhaps you are trying to get pregnant and you think acupuncture might help. You could save yourself a great deal of time and money without it, researchers say.
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A glass a day keeps the doctor away??
Think that nightly glass of red wine will prevent you from having a heart attack? Think again...
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Save your limbs this summer!
Do you let your kids mow the lawn? If so, you should take some common sense precautions.
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Where is my friendly, local bio-fuel distributor??
In case you drive a car that uses ethanol or some other alternative to regular gasoline, here is a little help on where to find venues for these products in the metro area...
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For the misled: Eat real food!
Many of us have become accustomed to purchasing specialty foods to increase workout potential and for the recovery period. A couple of Canadian doctors are here to tell us that these are unnecessary. Instead, just eat an banana...
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Merci, Monsieur Saint-Laurent...
Ladies, you may thank him for those comfortable trousers you wear to the office. In any case, he played a role in revolutionizing women's relationship to the world and their place in society.
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Incontinence got you down??
Most people know that coffee is a diuretic and that alcohol dehydrates. Here is an easy tool to learn what drinks/foods give you those sudden urges..
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Age gracefully, sans surgery!
Plastic surgery is not the end all, be all. Some researchers have done studies showing that people without the eye-lid tuck actually look livelier.
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Economize, or pay..literally!
Chances are you'll be taking to the friendly skies this summer. Check out the science of packing light, so you can save some money...to use for gas, of course!
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Think you know, but you probably have no idea...
Why don't you take a little time and learn what alternatives to "low-fat" and sugar-free" you can by to lead a more sustainable lifestyle?
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Change your life, by changing your lifestyle..
Do you ever wonder about people who stay thin but don't follow a strict workout routine? There are many easy changes to your daily life that can result in significant weight loss over a period of time.
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14 Habits That Make You Fat
1TV Watching
Prolonged TV watching is a strong predictor for obesity1. Recent research2 has proved that people who watch around two hours of TV per day are much more likely to be overweight than those who watched only half an hour per day. When you watch TV you are virtually motionless. Your heart rate, blood pressure and metabolic rate decline, resulting in burning 20 to 30 calories less per hour. Research by Harvard University4 has shown that there is a link between the amount children eat and the amount of television they watch.
2Eating Too Fast
It is a habit of most people living in a fast paced society. Eating fast lets you eat too much before you are fully aware of it. It takes the brain about 15-20 minutes to start signaling feelings of fullness. Scientists suppose that fast eating is a risk factor for the metabolic syndrome3, a combination of the symptoms such as high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol, and insulin resistance.
3Task Snacking
Task snacking refers to eating while doing other activities. if you often eat meals or snacks while working by yourself in front of your computer, while driving, watching TV, or standing at the kitchen counter, shopping with a friend, or talking on the phone, it's likely that the "task snacking" eating style is increasing your odds of becoming overweight or obese.
4Frequent Fast Food Consumption
One of the big reasons we’re seeing more obesity in our society these days is that we are too stressed and busy to make healthy dinners at home, often opting to get fast food at the nearest drive-thru instead. Fast foods compromise the quality of the diet by replacing more healthy foods. Fast foods are known for having high content of saturated and trans-fat, low content of fiber and massive portion sizes, which leads to obesity.
5Eating To Manage Feelings
Emotional eating is the practice of consuming large quantities of food (usually "comfort" or junk foods) in response to feelings (such as depression, anxiety, or loneliness) instead of hunger.
Experts estimate that 75% of overeating is caused by emotions. How many times have you found yourself scouring the kitchen for a snack, or absently munching on junk food when you’re stressed, but not really hungry?
6Too Busy To Exercise
With all the demands on your schedule, exercise may be one of the last things on your to-do list. If so, you’re not alone. Americans live a more sedentary lifestyle than we have in past generations, yet our minds seem to be racing from everything we have to do. Unfortunately, from sitting in traffic, clocking hours at our desks, and plopping in front of the TV in exhaustion at the end of the day, exercise often goes by the wayside.
7Your Friends Can Make You Fat
If you're putting on weight, you might want to take a look at who you're hanging around with. A study7 published in the July 26, 2007 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that obesity may be "socially contagious." The study was conducted on more than 12,000 people over 32 years, and concluded that having an overweight friend, sibling or spouse increased one's risk of obesity by 37 to 57 percent.
8Lack Of Sleep
Sleep deprivation can increase your risk of obesity by boosting ghrelin (an appetite stimulating hormone) and lowering leptin (an appetite suppressor). The study5 from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom found that, compared to an eight hours of shut-eye, each one-hour decrease in sleep duration was linked to almost 3% more body fat.
9Unaware Of Calories And Fat
Many people eat foods with no idea of the calorie or fat value. This leads to weight gain and unhealthy eating habits because you can easily consume twice the normal calories required to maintain your weight, let alone lose weight, if you don't know how many calories you are eating.
10Credit Cards
Your plastic may be affecting more than just your credit score. Visa conducted a study of 100,000 fast-food restaurant transactions and found that people who pay for their food with a credit card spend 30% more than those who pay with cash. For the average woman, who visits a fast-food restaurant once a week, that adds an extra 17,160 calories, or 4.9 pounds, per year.
11Missing Meals
Research shows that people who eat breakfast are less likely to be overweight, and that morning meals seem to help those who've lost weight keep it off. Denise Bruner, MD, obesity specialist and former president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, says that skipping meals of any kind results in a "tremendous bout of compensatory hunger."
12Uncomfortable Clothing
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse6 found that casual and comfortable clothing workdays promote increased physical activity. Specifically, study participants took an average of 491 (or 8%) more steps on Jeans Day than on those days in which they wore normal business attire. It is also estimated that study participants burned an average of 25 additional calories on Jeans Day with the extra steps and miles walked. Wearing casual clothing every day for 50 weeks of work translates into burning an additional 125 calories per week and 6,250 calories per year.
13Neglecting Scales
Recent study from the University of Minnesota found that dieters who weighed themselves daily lost about 12 pounds over two years, while those who never did shed only four pounds. Other research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, concluded that those who have daily weigh-ins (along with face-to-face support) are 82% less likely to regain five pounds than a control group without weigh-ins or support.
14Boredom
A survey by the Priory Group in the U.K. found that more people ate when bored than when stressed.
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Get a Nintendo, Lose 20 lbs!!
The new Nintendo Wii Fit just went on sale, feeding off the popularity of the original Wii. Forget about the treadmill at home. You can play tennis or go bowling in your living room!
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Break your ankle or buy new shoes..hmmm
You buy new tires for your car on a regular basis. So why not treat your feet the same way if you're an avid runner?
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May you live long and forget many phone numbers..
As people age, they tend to forget everyday information: names, phone numbers. This may not be a bad thing!
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There's water in that Orange!
Everyone knows the rule about water: eight, eight ounce glasses per day. Researchers says that 8 glasses is probably too much for most people, when you consider that most drinks and foods actually contain water.
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To eat or not to eat...the Chilean Tomato
Over the past few years, much has been said for eating locally grown produce. That organic zucchini may be delicious, but how many greenhouse gases were emitted on its way here from South America? Now some scientists are saying that all this could be quite overblown.
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Gluten-free Gluttons Unite!
Life is not easy for those with celiac disease, but there are increasingly more options for gluten-free products. Educate yourself!
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Want to be a real Smoothie King?...Brush your teeth!
It is clear that smoothies are good for you. However, scientists say they can cause severe tooth decay without proper dental hygeine.
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Use it or lose it!
Building muscles should not be an exercise in vanity but one that produces lifelong benefits, says researchers. If one is to continue with basic, daily functions as a senior, it is important to have a normal routine of resistance training.
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More than a Common Cranium
Apparently our junk food binge-eating habits are shared by our primate cousins. Here in Atlanta, researchers are examining the relationship between social status and food consumption in monkeys. How would you like banana-flavored pellets for a midnight snack??
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How To Mess Up Your Life: Become Sleep Deprived!
Researchers in the UK have found that sleep deprivation causes your brain to malfunction - and then work - and then malfunction - and then work - and then malfunction.
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Family Values? Overweight Children?
Isn't it kind of odd for a culture that trumpets its 'family values' to treat its children like cattle, fattening them up on corn and soy by-products?
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Fluoride = Obesity?
There is clear evidence that small amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies,
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Use It Or Lose It.....(Your Brain)
At Pace's our motto is "Train The Brain, Lose The Gain."
An interesting article in NYT: here
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"Boy's Toys?" Grow up. Buy a Prius.
I traded my 9 mpg G55 for a Prius. Why?
Because I grew up.
Because I grew up.
You can't deposit stares and envy in the bank at night. Therefore, it's worthless.
Leave it in the car.
Leave it in the car. If you really want / need it, you'll drag yourself back inside and buy it. Think before you spend recklessly.
Every time you spend a dollar, you sacrifice a bit of your future
"Five years ago, I believed the above sentence was foolishness. I was 24 years old, working at a high paying job, and about to get married to a wonderful woman. I had just spent almost ten thousand dollars on a wedding ring and an exorbitant honeymoon in Europe, and I was actively shopping for a new vehicle because, well, my current ride just wasn’t quite good enough.Roll forward three years.
I had $17,000 in credit card debt and literally not enough money to pay my bills. A good chunk of the debt incurred for that honeymoon still sat on the credit cards. My wife, son, and I lived together in a tiny apartment, trying to figure out what we were going to do next.
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The Top 7 Self-Destructive Habits
Habits play a very crucial part in life. The personality of a person is determined by his habits. Good habits make a person calm, genial and great while bad habits deform and disfigure a personality. Everyone is responsive of the importance of habits and many wish to change their bad habits in order to improve their character, traits and personality.
Here a the top 7 of the most destructive habits that people have:
1. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep deprivation is a general lack of the necessary amount of sleep.
Sleep deprivation can have serious effects on your health in the form of physical and mental impairments. Inadequate rest impairs our ability to think, to handle stress, to maintain a healthy immune system and to moderate our emotions. Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells. In fact, sleep is so important to our overall health that total sleep deprivation has been proven to be fatal: lab rats denied the chance to rest die within two to three weeks.
2. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
The brain is a muscle and it can atrophy if you do not take good care of it. Thinking is the greatest way to train our brain. Lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
3. Negative Thinking
Negative thinking is counterproductive, self-defeating thinking that makes you feel worse, see things in a worse light, and act in ways that often interfere with goals. The more you think negatively, the worse you feel. Changing habits of negative thinking helps a great deal in changing emotions and improving personal problems.
4. Waste the time
One of the most frustrating paradigms in the modern workplace is that “staying busy” is often substituted for “staying efficient.” You can stay busy for eight hours and get very little work done (we all have known coworkers like this) while others can stay efficient and get 2-3 times as much done in half the time. The key of productivity is about having goals, making plans, and having diligence. And the only way to achieve any of these productivity methods is by having effective habits.
5. Give Up Easily
Our society has largely evolved into a instant gratification kind of world. We expect our food instantly, we do not like to wait in line and we certainly do not want to have to wait to have what we want. The instant gratification habit has instilled in us a sense of ease. We find easy credit, we look for easy work and we want easy ways to have fun. The cost of buying into the notion of instant gratification is that we do not stick to things until completion. As soon as things start to get hard or obstacles presents themselves we quit. By quitting too easily, we never have a chance of gaining mastery over anything and therefore never truly reaping anything of value for ourselves.
6. Excessive Pride
Pride is a lofty self-respect totally apart from reality. It is high esteem of oneself from some imagined or real superiority. Pride destroys capacity for life, love, and happiness.
The arrogant person rejects authority. Pride reproduces itself in jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, revenge motivation and function, inordinate ambition and competition, gossip, slander, maligning, and judging. Pride transformed into self-righteousness produces legalism.
7. Dependence
Drug and alcohol dependence can be described as a compulsion to continue drinking or taking a drug in order to feel good or to avoid feeling bad. When this is done to avoid physical discomfort or withdrawal, it is known as physical dependence; when it has a psychological aspect (the need for stimulation or pleasure, or to escape reality) then it is known as psychological dependence.
- Alcohol Dependence. The signs of alcohol dependence can include frequent hangovers, feelings of guilt or defensiveness about drinking, drinking alone or in secret, and continued drinking despite negative impacts on your health, relationships, finances, or livelihood.
- Smoking dependence. Immediate effects of smoking:initial stimulation, then reduction in brain and nervous system activity; enhanced alertness and concentration; mild euphoria; feelings of relaxation; increased blood pressure and heart rate; decreased blood flow to body extremities like the fingers and toes; dizziness, nausea, watery eyes and acid in the stomach; and decreased appetite, taste and smell.
Long-term effects It is estimated that more than 140,000 hospital episodes and 19,000 deaths in Australia can be attributed to tobacco use every year. The principal diagnoses are cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Drugs dependence. A range of factors may influence dependence on both legal and illicit drugs including; psychological, biological, social and environmental factors. Dependency on drugs is frequently accompanied by other psychological conditions including depression and anxiety. Drug use can also result in psychosis. Although drug use can sometimes be the sole cause of psychosis, in other cases they can trigger psychotic condition such as schizophrenia in someone who is vulnerable to it. Some people also take drugs as a way of coping with a developing psychotic condition, but these drugs can make the symptoms worse and the disorder difficult to diagnose.
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First, give value. Then, get value.
Not the other way around.
This is a bit of a counter-intuitive thing. There is often an idea that someone should give us something or do something for us before we give back. The problem is just that a lot of people think that way. And so far less than possible is given either way.
If you want to increase the value you receive (money, love, kindness, opportunities etc.) you have to increase the value you give. Because over time you pretty much get what you give. It would perhaps be nice to get something for nothing. But that seldom happens.
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