...going on, maintaining a healthy lifestyle gets drowned out. Making friends, keeping up in classwork, and learning to live independently all require significant investments of time and energy, leaving little room for health. Health, however, is not just about restrictive eating to lose weight. Taking a holistic approach through small, yet sustainable changes will yield the best long-term results. Developing healthy habits can only be done by shifting mindset. Willpower only works to an extent, as it is an exhaustible resource that takes time to replenish. However, by changing the attitude of apathy and difficulty...
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...Sedentary Lifestyle Becomes Risk Of Obesity Bracky D. Wyckoff DeVry University A Sedentary Lifestyle Becomes Risk Of Obesity Obesity is a recent health epidemic that has dire consequences for America’s health, especially for its children. Humans are made to be physically active and not indolent, which is known to have a sedentary lifestyle. A sedentary lifestyle is a lifestyle with inadequate or infrequent physical activities. The primary reason why Americans are obese includes, lack of exercise, and low self-esteem. Which can be prevented with frequent exercise and healthy diet. Many have blamed the rise in obesity on a more sedentary lifestyle, including the move to suburbs, where people drive instead of walk, and increased viewing of television. One study of children watching television found a significant drop in the average metabolic rate during viewing. There is little doubt that children who exercise less tend to weigh more, but the couch potato argument does not explain why the enormous weight gains have occurred over the past twenty-five years. The move to the suburbs and the widespread viewing of television began in the 1950’s. Furthermore, the couch potato argument neglects the extraordinary rise of female participation in athletics. The number of young women playing a sport in high school has risen almost tenfold, yet girls, like boys, have gained weight. A distinct reason for obesity is low self-esteem. People with sedentary lifestyles tend...
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...common health issue in the United States. The Center for Disease Control (2011) calls it “dangerous and expensive.” On July 8th, 2014, Medical News Today, a health news website reported that obesity in the U.S. is due to a decline in exercise, and not due to overeating. The article reports, “a study from Stanford University reported in The American Journal of Medicine suggests the rise in obesity in the US is likely due to increased sedentary lifestyles across the nation, and not eating too many calories” (Paddock, 2014, para 1). Although this health issue has received a lot of attention in the last couple of decades, the rate of obesity still continues to be high. According to the CDC, in 2011–2012, the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. has continued to increase significantly in the past 20 years; 36% of adults and 17% of children and teenagers are currently overweight. Another 17% of children and teenagers are obese (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2010). The terms ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ are determined by ‘body mass index’ or BMI. Body Mass Index (BMI) is a number determined from a person's weight and height. For an adult, a BMI from 18.5-24.9 is considered normal, a BMI between 25-29.9 is considered overweight, and a BMI greater than 30 is considered obese (CDC, 2011). This paper discusses the Medical News Today article, the topic of obesity, and how it is related to Healthy People 2020. While I agree with the Medical News Article that a lack of exercise is...
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...English there is a saying, “Health is wealth.” Basically with this everyone can easily realize that how much the health is important for a human being. To be a one everyone should maintain a very nice and fit health. Most of us know that if you wanted to have a good life, you should have a healthy lifestyle. The things that come to my mind when I heard lifestyle is the kind of food a person eats and how a person treats himself or herself. From my point of view, I would like to define healthy Lifestyle as the comparison of our daily habits, our eating habits, and our exercise habits etc. The health is of two kinds: one is Physical Health and the other is Mental Health. The physical health one may attain by eating healthy foods. One should not allow himself / herself to eat too much fast-food and junk food, to smoke, and to drink those alcoholic drinks just for the enjoyment of taste. It will eventually affect his / her health and make him / her ill. Mental health one can maintain or improve by reading or listening to something positive. Which makes him motivated and remove negativity form his mind. Also like to add prayer and faith in god in this part as it do the same thing and makes ones calm and give the piece of mind. One should make the habit of routine exercise. It does not necessarily have to be something like heavy exercises of body building etc. Just make one’s body moving by walking or by joining a gym. I think healthy lifestyle should also include having a...
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... Course: PBH-101 Healthy Lifestyle: Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Lifestyle is defined as: In public health, lifestyle generally means a pattern of individual practices and personal behavioral choices that are related to elevated or reduced health risk. A healthy lifestyle means doing what you can to keep your body and mind in optimum shape. This involves making wise choices in your daily diet, performing the right amount of physical activity, coping well with stress and controlling your weight. The end results will be feeling your best, looking your best and living your best life for a long time. The Most Common Ways To Lead a Healthy Life Style: There can be few recommendations which are: 1. Routine Exercise: In Bangladesh exercise is not a quite popular option but it needs to be followed to lead a healthy lifestyle. Regular exercise strengthens your heart, lungs, muscles and bones to prevent illness and injury, especially as you age. Exercise helps to control your weight by burning the calories you take in from your diet, and it helps to control stress also. The Department of Health and Human Services recommends 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week for cardiovascular benefits. Strength training with weights, pushups or elastic banding in a systematic manner are good for health. Moreover, Exercise helps to strength our muscles, & keep blood...
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...With the rising cost of health benefits and compensations many, companies are turning to a more feasible way to take care of health and wellness issues. It is becoming more practical and cost efficient to incorporate a health and wellness program into the company practice. The extent of how much a program is applied depends greatly on how much a company can and is willing to spend, and how committed they are to help the individual employee have a healthy lifestyle. With a program properly put into practice, both the employee and the employer will see immense benefits. Implementing a Health and Wellness program can be simple for employers who are wishing to reduce health care costs and decrease absenteeism. This can be done by encouraging everyone one involved to show support and commitment to the new services being offered. The best way for companies to introduce such programs is to offer options such as workshops for employees to experience specific ways to live healthier quick meetings during office or lunch hours to learn new tactics and be reminded of previous ones special staff to assist in everyday office lifestyle The different ways to efficiently introduce the advantages of healthy living will have to be determined by each company depending on the cost of implementing it. Putting a health and wellness program will benefit any company by Lowering insurance costs with a simple plan introduction Providing feedback to employees about all aspects...
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...Lifestyle and Weight Management The Lifestyle Redesign® Weight Management Program is based on sound medical research, and has proven successful with thousands of clients. This customized treatment helps you to establish healthy individualized lifestyle choices to enable you to lose weight in ways that are safe, realistic and sustainable. You will find greater satisfaction and pleasure in what you do each day, while you lose weight and keep it off. Each week in the Program, you will explore topics like: *Healthy eating *Physical activity and exercise *Balancing work, rest and play *Stress & time management *Finding healthy pleasures and non-food rewards *The link between your daily choices and chronic conditions (such as diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) *Increasing your energy *Emotional issues tied to food *Social eating *Healthy cooking and dining out *Increasing meaningful activity while decreasing draining activity Eating Habits The term eating habits (or food habits) refers to why and how people eat, which foods they eat, and with whom they eat, as well as the ways people obtain, store, use, and discard food. Individual, social, cultural, religious, economic, environmental, and political factors all influence people's eating habits. Why and How People Eat People eat according to learned behaviors regarding etiquette, meal and snack patterns, acceptable foods, food combinations, and portion sizes. Etiquette refers to acceptable behaviors. For example...
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...problem is trying to find solution to push and motivate myself to live a healthy lifestyle and exercise daily. I will conduct a research on why this is a problem and solutions to resolve this issue. Next, I will design plans and strategies applicable to health and exercise. Then I will evaluate and consider all information gathered as possible solutions. My ultimate goal is to succeed and find a resolution to a new me. Identifying the problem: Living a healthy lifestyle and adding daily exercise is essential to good health. I allowed myself to follow a lifestyle by eating a healthy balance diet and exercising four-to five times a week. However, shortly after I discovered that I was expecting, everything came down the tunnel. I had a difficult time with my pregnancy and it detained my ability to exercise. Though, eating right was still viable, I simply let that go along with mobility. The outcome of not eating right and bed rest enormously added seventy pounds to my small frame body. Aside from the excess weight gain, my biggest day-to-day problem is motivating myself to exercise and work out daily. Presently the baby is out, my eating habit is out of control and my motivation is lacking at its best when it comes down to exercising. Even with a handful schedule, living healthy should be a priority. I believe that this is the time finally change, reduce the body fat and live a healthier lifestyle. To solve the issue, I will be researching different articles, reviews, and...
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...that are just addicted to eating like with any other addict that depends on drugs or alcohol. Many people find themselves looking for a way to lose the added pounds. Proper Nutrition and regular exercise provide a healthier lifestyle compared to extreme exercise routines and fad diets. If you are one of many people that wake up one morning, look in the mirror and decide that it is time to take action. There are two methods to lose weight; the first is proper nutrition and regular exercise, and the second, would be multiple fad diets and extreme exercise programs. Another outlook on these two methods would be to say the right way and the wrong way. Both methods help with achieving weight loss, however only one is the proper method. One might ask what the difference is, the goal is to lose weight and be healthy. Proper nutrition and regular exercise is a lifestyle change, whereas the use of fad diets and extreme work out programs is just a temporary solution. We all want to be more fit and get a clean bill of health from our doctors and I am about to tell you the best way to do this. Applying a lifestyle change by incorporating a balanced diet and at least 30 minutes of regular exercise daily promotes many benefits over today’s fad diets and extreme exercise programs. Balanced diet simply means following the food pyramid, by getting plenty of fruits and vegetables, avoiding red meat and eating more fish and poultry, avoiding...
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...programs to help kids and the adults become healthier in their life styles. It is so hard for people to eat right and be motivated to exercise because there either is not enough time in the day or the people need foods that are fast. Eatting fast food can ultimately cause him or her to become more obese and be very expensive. With in this paper one will address the current fitness and nutritional habbits that I have aquired and one will address some of the health risk associated with obesity. Furthermore, one will identify and describe three new fitness habits that can reasonably be incorporated into my already present lifestyle. In addition, one will find out how these new habits could improve my health. Next, one will identify the there new nutritional habits that I can incorporate into my lifestyle while address the new habits to improve my health. Furthermore, I will discuss how each new promote healthy-weight management and benefit my health in general. Fitness and nutritional habits. To be perfectly honest my fitness level is simi poor. I find that I only exercise once or twice a week if not that. It usually not more than 15 minutes at a time when I do find the time or motivation to want to exercise. I mentally want to exercise but my mind makes me feel like I do not want to, which is cased by lack of motivation. If I do exercise I usually do abs or kettle bells to rase my heart rate. I have also tried to run but I have a hard time trying to do this because of babysitting...
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...longer than previously contended by traditional medicine. General awareness of this information is undervalued as is the fact that menopause may be expedited by unhealthy lifestyle choices. Understanding healthy life style choices and its relationship to these symptoms are paramount to decreasing health risk factors and potential chronic disease associated with the perimenopausal to menopausal woman. Additional health problems can complicate the hormone therapy treatment of menopausal symptoms and should be evaluated and followed carefully by the woman’s healthcare provider before initiating. Educational materials, information, and awareness need to be brought to attention of both the patient and the physicians for the consideration of the underrepresented stages and symptoms of menopause. Overall Program Goal It is the goal of this coalition to increase awareness of signs and symptoms of menopause to the general public thereby working to increase effective interventions. By helping women to understand what their body is going through it is possible to help influence healthier lifestyle choices that can contribute to a better overall wellbeing. Not only would healthier lifestyle choices bring about some alleviation of menopausal symptoms, but also decrease the risk of chronic health diseases. Menopause is a normal process that a woman’s body goes through. It can be confused with various other diagnoses and be inadvertently overlooked. Treatment of menopausal...
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...just resolute by our DNA, but also by our lifestyle. Environmental influences on epigenetics This is where epigenetics grows really interesting. It’s been found that external influences such as diet, stress and exposure to things like cigarette smoke, heavy metals or pesticides may possibly affect DNA methylation patterns. It leads to epigenetic effects that are caused by a person’s environment or lifestyle. Studies have found that young identical twins have almost identical epigenomes but older twin pairs have arresting differences in their DNA methylation...
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...important factors that needs to be considered in order to incorporate exercise into our daily lives. a) First, lack of exercise is harmful to our health. Sadly, many Americans today are leading a sedentary lifestyle because of modern conveniences. This cause many overall health issues. The most serious crisis is the condition of being overweight or obese. According to the report by Lunau, Kate, “Don’t just sit there: It’s tied to obesity, diabetes, even cancer… and daily exercise won’t make up for it. In 2004, 66% of US adults were obese, 16% of American children were overweight, with another 34% at risk of becoming overweight. These statistics, as startling as they are, are expected to rise even more. In fact, US researchers predicted that 75% of Americans will be overweight by the year 2015. What’s more, a sedentary lifestyle, also linked to the development of many illnesses, such as cardiovascular (or heart) disease, strokes, certain forms of cancer, and high blood pressure. These serious health issues can be prevented by adding exercise to our daily lifestyle. b) Next, is the biggest misconception that exercise has to be a chore? People who shy away from exercising say it’s either too difficult or too time consuming. WRONG! Too often, people assume the only ways to exercise are to go to the gym or to go for a run, but in reality the best way to keep you and your family fit is to make exercise a lifestyle rather than an activity. In simpler terms, start finding opportunities...
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...Nutrition and Fitness Lee Morgan SCI/100 April, 30 2012 Laura Ross Nutrition and Fitness Being more health conscious as of late, the ability to make better decisions as it pertains to food intake is becoming more repetitious. A healthy lifestyle is now part of the subconscious mind; eating less junk and more fruit, counting calories instead of counting the minutes to the next meal. Things were not always this way. Before marriage, visits to fast food restaurants were frequent; however, there was not much change afterwards. An individual who is obese much like myself, needs to have a revelation to change their lifestyle. Fortunately, the birth of my son was enough to change previous bad habits. Unfortunately, majority of individuals suffering from obesity experience a different form of revelation that involves a doctor, hospital or worse, a trip to the emergency room. The decision to change one’s lifestyle comes at a cost. Change is inevitable whether it is voluntary or involuntary; however, it is not easy. When an individual is accustomed to eating a certain way, the thought of change can be enough to discourage one to move forward with the process. Personally, the idea of measuring cereal and milk for breakfast seemed unnecessary and tasking. Not to mention lunch, snacks and dinner. What real steak fits in the palm of the hand? In the beginning it was rough; however, when one evaluates how good they feel, they will come to the conclusion, change is good. Now that nutrition...
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...University of Phoenix Material Lifestyle Analysis Consider the following questions concerning sedentary and physically active persons. Answer each question in 75 to 125 words each in the space provided. |Questions for both lifestyles |Sedentary person |Physically active person | |What are this person’s nutrition needs? |People who live a sedentary lifesytel will need |A physically active person’s nutritional needs | | |to eat fewer calories and protein than compared |are not too much different than a person who is | | |to other active people. |less active. Both need to have a variety of | | | |nutrients but the main difference is protein and| | |People who live a sedentary lifestyle still need |carbohydrates, an active person needs more | | |to eat well and will also require good nutrition |protein and carbs. | | |to be and stay healthy. In order to avoid | | | |malnutrition and not gain too much excess body |Carbs are the body’s biggest...
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