Archive for April, 2010
Sleep Deprivation Another Obesity Factor?
I remember reading an editorial a few years ago, and reporting on it, about how there are several (I think it was ten) environmental and lifestyle factors that have evolved by the years and contributed greatly to the obesity problem we face today as Americans. One of them was lack of sleep. We find ourselves today, in that fast paced workaholic world, getting less and less quality sleep.
What scientific research has shown repeatedly is that public who are sleep deprived have larger appetites, and tend to consume more food and crave carbohydrates more after a night where they have received less sleep than the ideal. The ideal is still 8 hours, but 7 hours usually works for most society as well. More than that can actually plus work against you, so it’s good to operate on the 8 hour rule of thumb for most people’s metabolism.
What I’ve noticed personally is that I do tend to want to munch more when I haven’t gotten adequate sleep, and I seem to crave the worst possible junk foods as well. perhaps that is my body’s way of trying to energize artificially, through excess carb consumption? I’m not certain, but that rule of lack of sleep and increased food consumption DEFINITELY applies to me.
A higher BMI (body mass index, which measures the amount of body fat your body is composed of vs. muscle) is plus associated with society who consistently do not get ample sleep, so there is a real correlation here.
Sleeping is vital to not only your mental health and physical health, but it additionally helps you to focus, gives you the needed energy to get through your day, and amps up your body by revitalizing and restoring a lot that was lost during the day. Sleep is so critical to us that lack of sleep on a consistent basis has been shown to lead to psychosis, and even more severe mental problems, including temporary insanity in severe situations, and delusions.
So as you can see, sleep is a operate of the body that we cannot live without or skimp on for too faraway without serious consequences. Plus sleep feels good, I can’t tell you how wonderful it feels to slip onto that pillow top mattress after a hard day’s work every night! Ahhhhh……
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Adderall Frequently Abused as Appetite Suppressant
Adderall is a drug that is commonly prescribed for both ADD and ADHD (ADD in adults). It is a controversial drug of course, considering it is really chemically identical to drugs that are highly addictive and habit forming. that means that folks who take Adderall for valid or non valid reasons may soon find they are looking to tame the beast of addiction without even knowing it. considering it suppresses hunger so well in most humans, it has become the subject of abuse by many adults.
Adderall has additionally found it’s way into the center of drugs that are used as appetite suppressants, even though that is not their intended purpose. Most patients who abuse that drug for the purpose of controlling their weight are admittedly women. There have been hints that it is behind many a thin actresses’ weight loss or seemingly impossible thin weight maintenance too, but that’s all really hearsay thus far.
Adderall is such a energetic appetite suppressant that women will reportedly doctor shop and try to convince doctors they have ADHD, but miraculously, that they can only or will only take Adderall for it, since other ADHD drugs don’t have the appetite suppression benefits. However, that drug does have some seriously undesirable side effects. First off, when you start taking it, it works as an appetite suppressant in most society, however, the effects wear off and folks build a tolerance to it, forcing them to increase their dosage dangerously.
Many patients find that Adderall makes their skin break out as well. considering it acts as a central nervous system stimulant, it plus happens to throw crucial hormones off balance leaving some patients with acne ridden skin as well. Adderall has plus developed a somewhat high street value for illegal use considering of it’s frequent abuse by adults and even college kids to help them study since it is a brain stimulant.
Hmm, sounds nearly like cocaine, and yet it’s legal. I’ll never get that about some of these FDA approved drugs….
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New Calorie and Diet Restrictions in Public?
Wouldn’t it be nice whether we could just all be naturally “programmed” to eat the right foods, choose the right portions, and exercise just the right amount of moment to keep us all in the most ideal physical shape we can possibly be in? But we all know that whether that were true, we’d be living in the land of Barbie dolls, none of us truly differentiated from one another. We’d basically be a society sort of like the one created in Aldous Huxley’s interesting peek into the future where humans were engineered in a lab and we all lived under constant scrutiny of Big Brother.
We all know that is not true though. Look around you, and you will see signs of malnutrition, by eating, and the overall wrong nutrition choices all around you. It’s unlucky but true. However, having the free choice to eat what you want and assemble the choices you want is additionally the greatest part about living in the free world and society which we Americans live in. Admittedly, it is additionally part of the reason why many of us are obese.
I don’t advocate any of the strict measures some think should happen, like imposing fines on restaurants that don’t post calories and things like that, but I do think that we as Americans need to stop self medicating with food, and find other things to do beside eat ourselves into a coma.
That’s an individual choice though, and it is definitely easier said than done. In recent news about increasing government concern by obesity and it’s many related health issues, and the fact that with the new health care bill passing, they are more concerned than ever about a problem so prevalent that it taxes the health care system’s infrastructure and costs billions a years in health care costs.
This has resulted in many states and localities pushing restaurants to post calories on their food offerings, to reduce sodium substance, and to manufacture overall healthier menu options available. Will every customer bite? Of course not, it’s the view that it’s there for them whether they choose.
Panera Bread recently announced that, like Starbucks, they will be posting the calories on their food choices in the menu at their corporate owned stores. plus, movie theaters are being pressured to offer more weight and diet friendly foods at their concession stands. They can do what they want, as faraway as they don’t take away my movie theater buttered popcorn dammit!
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Audrey Hepburns Bio Revels Possible Eating Disorder
I’ve recently become interested in the life and movies of an iconic beauty of a glamorous generation past, Audrey Hepburn. I noticed, as I never had really before, looking through pictures of that beautiful legend, how thin she really was. I always just thought that was her body type, or that she was one of those miraculously blessed women who had the metabolism of a humming bird, or just happened to not like to eat much.
What I read about from her Bio though, is that she apparently admitted to consciously trying to stay at the weight of 103 pounds. And apparently she did do that, with the exception of her pregnancies, where she reportedly only put on about the weight of the baby itself. Sheesh, do you know how hard that is to do, particularly when you are pregnant? It made me wonder whether she had struggled with anorexia, as some in the entertainment world now suspect.
I don’t think that back in her hey day anorexia was a really well known eating disorder, or even considered a disorder at all. Now, with all the attention focused on the prevalence of eating disorders, we know that anorexia is very prevalent now and started to really be a problem when excruciatingly thin women like Hepburn and Twiggie came en vogue. Curvy has always come and gone, and they will always have a niche market, but beware of the super thin envy with women who are perfectionists to start with.
I can’t help but compare Hepburn with a celebrity today who has seemingly modeled her life after Hepburns, becoming, like Hepburn, an ambassador for the UN and do gooder, Angelina Jolie. Jolie plus seems to be painfully thin at times, and apparently she and Hepburn are about the same height. additionally, Jolie has become somewhat of a legend for her looks in our age as well.
It startles me when I see so many women who others look to as role models seemingly starve and deprive themselves to stay so painfully thin. I want to scream that it’s ok to eat, just be healthy about it and try not to eat S&*@ all the instance (I love that, I think Jennifer Aniston said that – I love her).
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Fat Has It’s Own Taste Bud?
Well, it’s no wonder we all find fat so darn tasty. It’s considering, as researchers have recently discovered, fat is actually another one of our many senses of taste. In addition to sweet and salty (nothing like a pretzel and chocolate, yum), fat is actually it’s own taste to the human taste buds, and there are actually sensors on the human tongue that can detect the distinctive taste of fat. Some citizens, it was found, are actually a little more sensitive to the taste of fats than others are.
The society who are lucky suitable to be very sensitive to these fatty flavors are actually less likely to be obese and to have the desire to by eat. considering they can pick up the taste of fat so well, they actually don’t want to eat a lot of it.Conversely, public who don’t have all that great of a sense of fat detection on their tongue’s taste buds, tend to by do it on consuming fat considering they are just simply less dialed in to the flavor.
I’m not certain where I’d fit in personally on the spectrum. I dare say I’d be considered down the middle of the road on that count. Where do you think you fall? Oh, and that fits perfectly with one of our last topics, where researchers have found that junk food is just as addictive as drugs like cocaine considering of what it does to the dopamine levels in the body, and the intense cravings it composes when someone eats a lot of it at one day.
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Fat Better than Carbs in the dawn?
Carbohydrates have towering been thought to be a great energy booster, and a quick provider of energy that is readily and easily utilized by the body. That may be true, but many diets still energize you to limit your carb intake, such as the infamous Atkins diet which is full on protein overload with very little fiber and other healthy vitamins. Now, researchers are trying to pinpoint what types of foods you should eat, at what times of day.
The theory is that your body may be “set up” to utilize convinced types of food to the best of it’s ability all through the day, based on what kind of foods you choose for your breakfast. It’s actually looking like Atkins may have had it right – at least when it comes to breakfast.
Apparently those that ate a higher fat breakfast “set up” their metabolism to burn both carbs and fats more efficiently for the rest of the day, while a meal such as a bagel in the dawn with little fat tended to set up the metabolism to only really efficiently burn through carbs for the rest of the day, but to sort of keep the fat on the back burner.
You know what that means, your body is more likely to store the fat whether it can’t burn it off, so that fat your body found it could not adequately utilize would be stored in all your unsavory areas, like your thighs, butt and stomach, for instance!
So, it’s looking like those seemingly unhealthy breakfasts of eggs and bacon may actually be a bit smarter than we thought. Of course, you should always throw some sort of fiber in there too, you don’t want to bind yourself up in the name of setting your metabolism on the right course every .
They found that in mice that had high fat breakfasts, they tended to burn their calories more efficiently, and were less prone to dangerous visceral (belly) fat, which causes heart disease and can even promote diabetes.
They had an overall healthier and more efficient metabolic profile than the mice that ate a lot of carbs for breakfast. that kinda sucks for society like me who really like to carb it up for breakfast. I do add some healthy fats in there too, but I enjoy carbs for breakfast and it seems to keep me full for a faraway moment and keeps my appetite in check so I’m good with it.
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Are Fatty Foods Truly Addictive?
Well, that probably comes as no real shock to many of us, I know it certain doesn’t to me considering I’ve seen it at work in my own life and habits. What am I talking about? The “revealing” new research that suggests that high calorie, fatty foods are pretty much just as addictive as substances like nicotine and cocaine to the body. that means that there is a real physiological reason behind food addiction. Although, what they are saying is that by consumption is what really triggers the addiction response in the body.
I’ve noticed that when I eat really fatty foods. particularly whether I start off my day with a really terrible breakfast like Burger King’s egg and cheese croissant (one of my guilty pleasures once in a while), and their delicious little slices of heaven, mini round tater tots. whether I eat something like that, loaded in fat and simple carbs, next I tend to crave other poor foods during the day, like chocolate, and starches that are deep fried. I invent out other society say the same thing too, so it’s not just my little idiosyncratic way of thinking!
When you eat foods that are calorically dense, like cheesecake, or pizza, or a big steakum sub and fries or similar foods, you are actually creating an addictive chemical response in your body that makes you crave these types of foods by and by. It’s very similar to the addiction to highly addictive chemicals like alcohol, cocaine and nicotine found in cigarettes.
They are citing that addictive response to fatty foods as part of the growing obesity epidemic as well. It was found that rats in a lab environment often turned into compulsive eaters and became obese when they were introduced to fattening, calorie laden foods.
They additionally found that the dopamine related chemicals were reduced in these overfed, obese rats, which diminished their “reward” response to foods, and made them subsequently crave more and more fattening, flavorful foods in response.
They are now thinking that since compulsive by eating of junk food and drug addiction are so closely related that they can probably use a lot of the research the goes into drug addiction help to plus help public who are compulsive by eaters and plus who tend to always crave the wrong foods. They may actually be able to “cure” obesity the same way they essentially cure drug addiction, which is extremely interesting. After all, food is a drug in it’s own right.
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