Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Friday, February 24, 2012,
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Articles
Consuming more calories than the body burns is a cause of overweight or obesity. The excess fat, as a result, is stored in specific cells until the body is able to burn it.
If the body hasn't had the opportunity to burn fat through physical activity, it leads to weight gain. Over long-term the weight gain can lead to obesity that is difficult to treat without intervention.
Some Facts
Obesity may start as early as during development in the womb, this is when childhood obesity can begin....
Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Tuesday, February 7, 2012,
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Children's Health
Childhood obesity is on the rise and many of the children will go on to be obese adults with early onset of non-communicable diseases.
Medical experts and pediatricians are calling on parents to seek medical attention for children that are obese.
This means early intervention.
Nutrition experts are also saying that dieting in childhood can lead to physical problems that may be difficult to reverse. They say the use of the word dieting for weight control in children may be not a good thi...
Posted by Healthyou, Consumer Health Educator on Sunday, January 8, 2012,
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Videos
This video is about finding a balance in one's lifestyle to lose weight and prevent obesity.
The two methods for treating overweight /obesity are heathy eating and physical activity.
Even if other methods such as medication, surgery or behaviour modification are employed, these two are vital and must be included. This means finding a balance in lifestyle with them.
Balancing the calories eaten with the calories burn would involved healthy eating, calorie control and physical actviity.
Posted by Healthyou on Friday, September 23, 2011,
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Videos
When we talk about weight loss, weight control, weight mangement or healthy weight, we may think of eating less and exercising more.
Exercise and diet modification are both necessary and must be combined for their success.
Diet modification involves more than eating less and controlling calories, it involves healthy eating.
According to experts when comtemplating losing weight and keeping it off calories count and not just carbohydrates. When contemplating a healthy weight loss, healthy eatin...
Here are some tips from a registered dietitian that I want to share with you. I love the article because it makes reference to many of the actions and steps that I teach as important for successful weight control.
The article identifies healthy eating and physical activity tips, the two weight loss methods that are crucial to any weight control plan.
In a randomized study researchers assigned 300 overweight men and women to either:
A high protein diet
A high carbohydrate diet
. Both diets had similar calorie intake
The participants were between the ages 35 and 75 with type 2 diabetes and a body mass index (BMI) of over 27.
They were on this nutritional program for two years.
There was no difference between the plans, they both yielded positive results. Researchers concluded that calorie control was far more important than carbohydate...
Posted by on Tuesday, June 21, 2011,
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Women's Health
"A diet is good as your ability to stick to it," according to this report in the USNews and World.
Compliance and long-term commitment are important for success with any diet plan, so how do you stay on this diet when other factors are influencing you to give up.
Here are some ways to stay on a diet to maintain weight loss, I want to share them with you:
Gather the troops- For support
Hold yourself accountable- No cheating and keep records
Childhood obesity is on the rise and parents are important resources in preventing it.
According to a recent study on Kids & Snacks, children are over snacking on junk food, a cause of childhood obesity. They are consuming 3 of these snacks per day plus three meals.
Parents have been blamed by public health officials for the unhealthy eating and not ensuring adequate exercise. Parents are not the only ones to blamed but they are taking the beating.
Posted by on Saturday, January 29, 2011,
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Weight Control
Lifestyle change could be an important part of self care and weight management.
Lifestyle change may force one to set goals. Fear, anxiety, anger and stress; however, may become hurdles along the way.
For example: * One may be recovering after a lengthy illness * One may be recovering after surgery * One may have just discovered you are at risk for cancer. * You may be overweight and any more may cost you your life * Your cholesterol is high and you are hypertensive.
Managing hunger by drinking water before meals is an effective way to aid a weight loss diet.
According to a recent study, those who drank 2 glasses of water before meals lost 15 1/2 pounds after 12 weeks while those on a calorie reduce diet only lost 11 pounds.
The study involved middle aged and older adults.
The health program at Making Health Decisions prepares people to reduce risk factors such as overweight/obesity. The tutorials provide knowledge to make wise decisions for weight contro... Continue reading ...
If your workout isn't working or if you are disillusioned because you didn't lose the weight after all the exercising, may be its your dietary choices.
Diet and exercise have to be combined for successful weight control. There are no quick fixes.
Calories count and not just carbohydrates; the amount and type of fat consumed are important.
The experts speak out on why your workout may not be working.
