How do you stop a child from being overweight? It all begins with education for the parents so they can pass it on to their children. Then the parents have to make the correct choices for their family. If the parents are Obese then the apple usually doesn’t fall far from the tree. Children will [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 26, 2009
For the past four years, ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal experts have predicted the years top health and fitness trends. I wanted to share this with you. Here are the top 20 trends for 2010: 1. Educated & Experienced fitness professionals 2. Strength training 3. Children & Obesity 4. Personal training 5. Core training 6. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 15, 2009
Did you know that the average American makes more than 200 decisions about food everyday? Many of these decisions are subconscious. These subconscious decisions often “trap” us into eating extra calories than we need. The result from this is “Slow but steady weight gain” as we age. I found 7 practical strategies to help you [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 29, 2009
It happens all the time. You’ve stayed on top of your workouts AND watched your diet every day, but then — Bam! — you hit that dreaded weight-loss plateau and can’t get the scale to budge. Instead of getting angry at what the scale is saying, take a minute to think about what the scale [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 24, 2009
Medical experts have long suspected that people with excess deep-body fat are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes and ongoing research bolsters that belief. In 2007, the National Institutes of Health reported that studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston show that deep-belly fat [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 24, 2009
Among the litter of Modern American Society, all the candy wrappers, fast food bags, suburban sprawl, TV addictions, lies a harsh truth about childhood obesity. This might be the first generation of American children to be less healthy than their parents. In the course of a few decades, children have come to dwarf the size [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Below you will find some weight statistics for you to think about. Your health (and your weight) is your responsibility. It’s not your doctors responsibility. It’s not your insurance company’s or the government’s responsibility. It is your responsibility. We all must be proactive in our health otherwise we will pay the price later in life. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Your friends might be making you fat! Study from The New England Journal of Medicine The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370, have nothing to do with bacteria or viruses. Instead, the new data show that obesity is “socially contagious.” That means that people tend to follow suit when their friends [...]
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Monday, December 28, 2009
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