Archive for September, 2009
Avoid Pigging Out on Football Sundays
Now that the football season is here again, I know that I’m going to have to ramp up for having more willpower since we happen to be the gathering point of all our football watching friends and additionally we happen to always buy lots of chips, dips and appetizers, on top of a “meal” food like pizza or some other ridiculously fattening fare that makes you think of football sundays.
Oh, and pile on the beer or other alcoholic beverages that are bound to be consumed and you have a recipe for unavoidable weight gain every start of the NFL season. At least that’s how it works for me and my fiance.
We nearly always put on weight during the football season, however I’m determined to not do it that day. It seems like that one little day of pigging out nonstop leads to a barrage of eating badly and wanting MORE MORE MORE. More fat, more sugar and more heavy, stick to your thighs good. certain, it tastes great while you’re eating it, but it leads to a bigger overall appetite, a slower pace mentally and physically, and countless Mondays hung by from drinking on Sundays. Not a good combo, my friend!
So, my strategy that moment is to actually do what I always do, which is work at my “other job” for half the duration on Sundays that citizens are here, which will inevitably keep little paws out of the cookie jar, so to speak. And by cookie jar, I mean keep it out of the endless bowls of chips, pretzels, fattening sour cream based dips, cheesy surprises, sauerkraut balls, mini pigs in a blanket, and all the other good, greasy fare that tends to go with those fun football sundays. There’s a huge part of me that loves the whole ritual, but my body definitely does not appreciate it in the end.
I looked at pictures of myself after football season last year, and my face looked puffy and unhealthy, and that made me really think about what I was putting into my body. Not just on Sundays either, it’s considering it’s a domino effect, and it always ends up trailing out into the whole week, or at least into Monday and Tuesday.
That adds up to a lot of calories and a lot of careless meal choices that can’t be reversed except with a lot of discipline and dieting for the next several months. whether you’re a victim of football sunday overeating, take my advice, sit out at least one part of the day, and join the rest of the buffet in the evening, so at least you won’t be eating all day expanded and be able to stop the unstoppable inertia of overeating.
Original post by EatingToLive
Private umbilical cord banking not cost-effective
Private cord blood banking is not cost-effective considering it costs an additional $1,374,246 per life-year gained, as per a new analysis by UCSF researchers. The research team plus concluded that private cord blood banking is cost-effective only for families with a child with a very high likelihood of needing a stem cell transplant……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Changes in Brain Mechanisms for Cocaine Addicts
About 2 million Americans currently use cocaine for its temporary side-effects of euphoria, which have contributed to making it one of the most dangerous and addictive drugs in the country. Cocaine addiction, which can cause severe biological and behavioral problems, is very difficult to overcome. Now, University of Missouri scientists Ashwin Mohan and Sandeep Pendyam, doctoral students in the station of Electrical and Computer Engineering, are utilizing computational models to study how the brain’s chemicals and synaptic mechanisms, or connections amidst neurons, react to cocaine addiction and what that could mean for future therapies……..
Original post by Heather Craven
What is Compression Wear?
Compression wear includes leg wear such as gradient stockings and arm sleeves. They are different from athletic or dress socks. They are designed to improve circulation in the arms and legs. Improved circulation cures swelling and aches caused by the accumulation of blood or lymph in the limbs. These stockings and arm sleeves are used to treat ailments like lymphedema, blood clots and venous ulcers. …….
Original post by Heather Craven
New Review : Caralluma Product
Carallluma fimbriata is another one, like the all too popular hoodia, that is a plant who is from the succulent family. Succulents look like cactuses, or cacti, and I supposed you could signal them from the cactus family as well.
Caralluma is a plant that, when ground up and turned into a powder, or shoot, whether eaten straight in it’s native land, far far away, will curb your appetite, and can even help to curb your thirst. It is another plant that is used by tribesmen to help stave off their starvation and thirst for longer periods of moment so they can get more critical things done eating.
Leave it to us diet-obsessed Americans to find these types of miracle plants, and use them as ingredients in diet and appetite suppressing products designed to help us lose weight. Well, that’s precisely what’s been done, and the product I’ve reviewed is Caralluma Burn, which is a pure Caralluma diet supplement that does not contain any of those additives that manufacture you feel like you want to jump out of your own skin like caffeine or any other types of harsh stimulants.
The problem with these types of diet aids that use stimulation as their main way to suppress starvation is that they often leave the person hungrier than they ever were when they wear off. that product is strange in that it does not use any stimulants, as a lot of hoodia products do, to aid you in your strike against starvation to help fulfill your weight loss goals, rather it just uses the ability of that different caralluma plant to ward off starvation and help your blood sugar remain stable for hours on end so that you can start to burn your calorie stores and reduce your overall weight.
After all, weight loss is by it’s very definition a loss of excess calories, and in order to do that, you have to intake less. Caralluma Burn helps you do that by reducing cravings and appetite. Read on for a full review of the Caralluma product.
Original post by EatingToLive
Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General “Too Big”
Obama’s selection of a highly regarded Doctor for his choice as the new Surgeon General has some raising their eyebrows. citizens are questioning whether the selection of an overweight woman is the right letter to send to the American public, who is already suffering high rates of obesity and related illnesses and what many shout an “obesity epidemic”. The problem, many say, is that the position she is in is specifically related to the public’s health and wellness, and having someone in the position who is overweight and may be put at higher risks for obesity related disease herself is just not setting the best example in these times when obesity is frowned upon, yet so prevalent.
I’m kind of torn here. While I think it’s great that she is a woman and additionally a minority, with the administration shattering so many ethnic boundaries with it’s appointments, I do have that one part of me that thinks perhaps she should be someone who sets the example of being within weight and fitness guidelines that promote the greatest health. whether she were the Attorney General, I could care less, but considering her position is so specifically health related, I feel a bit differently about it.
On the other hand, I feel like women, and men, are put under such a microscope when it comes to their weight, that a part of me feels like someone who is not of the ideal weight and has additional curves is a good example to women who feel they have to be a size 2 to be anything these days. It’s such a double edged sword, particularly for women, that I tend to go both ways on it, particularly myself being a woman who suffered an eating disorder in my youth due to the societal pressure to be supermodel thin back thereupon (which still, in my opinion, continues on today although the pin thin view has eased a bit).
One thing is for certain, her credentials are awesome. She has been an advocate for the health care of the less lucky, which definitely gives her a few notches up with me, and she has won awards for excellence in her profession. Not to mention, she just looks like a really nice and generous woman. I wish her the greatest luck in her new job, and additionally with all the criticism from public who can’t understand the appointment of a larger woman to that role!
Original post by EatingToLive
Asparagus : A Great Diet Food
If you don’t mind your pee stinking from eating what is actually my personally favorite veggie, thereupon you may really want to consider incorporating asparagus into your diet – quite a bit, whether you are a person who is mindful of their figure. It’s actually been revealed as an excellent diet food for a few reasons that you may not even be aware of.
Not to mention, asparagus has a naturally wonderful flavor and texture that invent it one of the favorite veggies by many society, including myself. You can build it super fancy with some lemon juice and olive oil on the grill, or you can simply steam it and put a little low fat butter or butter spray and sea salt on it for a delicious treat that adds fat fighting and nutrition to your complete meal. Shoot, I could invent a whole meal of asparagus, that’s how much I love it, and I don’t even feel like I’m being “good” when I eat it which I think is part of the appeal. When it is cooked right, it tastes like something that is rich considering it is so flavorful, so you get the best of both worlds with that food.
Let’s talk about calories. It’s hard to believe, but asparagus only contains about 26 calories per CUP! That’s pretty amazing, considering you can have four cups of it and still only round out to about 100 calories, and whether you use spray butter instead of the real thing for flavoring, thereupon you’re really not adding anything else to your meal calorie wise. I will many times eat an entire bag of the type that I happen to like called Hanover, which is just the tips and spears, so it’s the most tender part of the veggie. You do have to be careful not to eat too far up the stalk, as it gets very fibery and not flavorful.
Another relatively unknown fact about asparagus is that it is a pretty potent diuretic, which means it makes you urinate more, so you eliminate more of your
excess water weight, which means less bloat and less water weight around the areas where it matter most, so you can fit into your clothes more easily. It’s a great detox food for that reason. But the fact that it’s a diuretic isn’t the reason for that funky smell it emits in your urine, that’s considering of a chemical that is strange to asparagus that chemically reacts with your urine to create that icky sewage smell. It’s still worth it in my book!
Original post by EatingToLive
