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Browsing Archive: October, 2011

Keeping Track Of Your Weight Loss

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Sunday, October 30, 2011, In : Weight Loss Tools

Keeping track of your progress during weight control is vital to your success, and it is so for any plan or program you choose.

Keeping track involves keeping records of your diet and physical activity.

You will start with knowing your weight health. For this you need your correct weight and your height.

Weigh your self, get a good reliable scale, you will be using it often.

Get your exact height.

Then calculate and record your body mass index ( BMI).

You will need your waist circumference, this...
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Obese Children Increased Risk For Hypertension

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Monday, October 24, 2011, In : Children's Health

Obese children are at increased risk for hypertension, according to a recent study.

High blood pressure only prepares the child for hypertension as an adult.

Experts are emphasizing the importance of viewing overweight/obese kids differently to ones of normal weight to keep them healthy as children and adults.

The study involved 1,111 healthy school children, mean age 10.2 and living in Indiana, USA.

Researchers found that until children reached the overweight category their weight had minimal e...

A Collection Of Weight Loss Tips

Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Sunday, October 16, 2011, In : Weight Loss Tools

Here is a collection of weight loss tips that I want to share with you, there are 25 of them.

My favourite eight are:
1-Set realistic goals.
Losing 5-10% of your present body weight is realistic, even the small changes help.

2-Weigh Regularly

3-Get help from family and friends.

4-Move it to lose it.
I developed a list of daily habits to modify a sedentary lifestyle. These habits once adopted will increase your level of activity without utilizing more than 24 hours in a day.
Click here to see them...

Exercise For Weight Control And Your Health

Posted by healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Saturday, October 8, 2011, In : Exercise

Overweight and obesity are managed and treated with diet and physical activity. The two when combined can bring about changes that will make you lose weight.

This blog post is about exercises for those who need to lose weight, keep it off and be healthy too.

A certain amount of physical activity is required for general health and vitality and to prevent diseases. The amount required is over and above the normal activities of housekeeping. This physical activity is recommended for everyone. I ...
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