Eating disorders - a nutritional cure on August 31, 2009
Society today can be an enormous imposition when it comes to eating healthfully or at all. While stores may provide plus sizes today as they once did not about ten years ago, there still remain stereotypes that most teenagers want to live up to, and the models parading the runways do all to encourage thinness perhaps in excess. But all too often, there exist chemical imbalances that are closely linked to eating disorders so common among our youth especially. And believe it or not, nutritional deficiencies are often at the core of it. Let's take a look at some of these less understood phenomena.
Top 10 reasons your child should exercise on August 31, 2009
One thing that really annoys me is the situation in today's school lunch rooms and the physical education programs for kids. How difficult is it to offer clean, healthy food for our children and to make sure that they participate in their physical education classes?
Exercise as Medicine on August 31, 2009
In the 19th century, most work involved physical activity; in the 20th century, exercise became a leisure pursuit; today, it's an urgent medical necessity.
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Fitness Tips for Women Over 40 on August 31, 2009
Walk. Lift. Stretch. Move.
It's that easy to look years younger than your chronological age after you hit 40.
After age 40, women are significantly more prone to contracting high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis and obesity. They are also more prone to losing muscle mass and bone density. Exercise helps slow these unhealthy outcomes of your body's natural aging process.
Just four (or more!) 30-minute workouts per week can lower your risk of contracting these life-threatening and quality-of-life-diminishing diseases. You'll increase your good cholesterol, reduce your bad cholesterol, boost your immune system, burn unhealthy fat, build healthy muscle, shed unwanted pounds and radiate a healthy glow.
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Healthy Choices to Change Your Life on August 31, 2009
If people would just do four things -- engage in regular physical activity, eat a healthy
diet, not smoke and avoid becoming obese -- they could slash their risk of
diabetes,
heart attack, stroke or
cancer by 80%, a new report has found.
Obese teenagers opt for surgeon's knife to fight fat on August 31, 2009
THE number of obese young Australians undergoing gastric banding surgery has almost doubled in the past two years, with surgeons revealing that parents of children as young as 12 are requesting the operation.
Weight Loss Surgery on August 31, 2009
Weight loss surgery, or bariatric surgery as it's called, is one hot topic in the obesity world. And I have lots to say about it, as it is the main focus of my research during my year-long sabbatical here at the University of Copenhagen. Here's a little introduction....
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Childhood obesity on the rise on August 28, 2009
Childhood obesity is up at an alarming rate. According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the rates are up from the survey period of 1976-1980 and 2003-2006 childhood obesity rates increased at all age levels, 2-5 went from 5% up to 12.4%, ages 6-11 rose from 6.5% to 17%, and 12-19 year olds went from 5% all the up to 17.6%
How Sleep, Sun, Air, and Stress Play a Role in Your Health on August 28, 2009
The green movement has arguably never been bigger than it is now. Yet, while we strive to better our environment, Mother Nature’s number one foot soldiers have been losing another battle on another front, their own well – being.
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