...found that 34% of Americans are clinically obese (10 Weight Loss Statistics, 2013). Those are very shocking statistics to hear about our nation. What we do with that information is up to us. We can accept the weight that we have as a nation or chose to lose it. Eating healthy and exercise are important for losing weight but there are some advantages and disadvantages to prescription weight loss pills. Here are some facts that can help you make the choice. Proteins are nutrients that your body needs to stay healthy. Protein is recommended at the absolute minimum of ½-gram per pound of bodyweight per day for people who do not get exercise and 1 full gram of protein per pound of bodyweight for people who are active in any way (How much protein do you really need to eat every day?). But do not forget about the b\vegetables. Vegetables, also, play an important role in losing weight. Put out a vegetable platter. A body of research out of Pennsylvania State University finds that eating water-rich foods such as zucchini, tomatoes, and cucumbers during meals reduces your overall calorie consumption (Easy ways to lose weight: 50+ ideas, 2013). If you eat fewer calories than you burn you lose weight. Instead of the latte that you have been accustoming to drinking at breakfast make water your primary drink. The average American consumes an extra 245 calories a day from soft drinks. That’s nearly 90,000 calories a year—or 25 pounds! And research shows that despite the calories...
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...explain how the diet and weight loss product work. The diet and weight loss product marketing techniques will be examined as well as providing examples of these techniques. Pros and cons will be given for the diet and weight loss program. This diet debunk will determine if the diet and weight loss program come from a reputable source. Last but not least, psychological, cultural, and social media influences that may play a role in an individual’s choice of diet and weight loss product will be examined. Diet Debunk: Weight Loss Program vs. Weight Loss Product The Atkins Diet has been a popular weight loss program for many years with numerous people having success losing pounds on the scale. Another way to lose weight is by using a weight loss product such as Xenadrine. The Atkins Diet and Xenadrine will be compared and contrasted in depth in several areas as well as looking at what influences people to use such methods to lose weight. How Do They Work? The Atkins Diet. The Atkins Diet is a low-carbohydrate diet that was developed by Dr. Robert C. Atkins in 1972. While carbohydrates are restricted, this diet stresses protein and fats. The theory behind The Atkins Diet is that when consuming too many carbohydrates, such as white flour and sugar, the body has blood sugar fluctuations that lead to weight gain. By restricting these carbohydrates, the body will then turn to burning excess fat as fuel and regulate blood sugar to help people lose weight. (Atkins, 2015) This is how the...
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... This is NOT dependent on meal frequency. It is a % of TOTAL CALORIES CONSUMED (and 15% of 3 x 600 cal meals is the same as 15% of 6 x 300 cal meals). It varies according to MACRONUTRIENT and FIBER content. For most mixed diets, it is something around 15%. Protein is higher (up to 25%), carbs are variable (between 5-25%), and fats are low (usually less than 5%). So -> More protein and more carbs and more fiber = HIGHER TEF. More FAT = LOWER TEF. TEE (Total Energy Expenditure): The total calories you require - and the sum of the above (BMR + NEAT + EAT + TEF). Estimating Requirements The simplest method is to base your intake on a standard 'calories per unit of weight (usually kilograms)'. Typically: 12.0-14 kcal/pound for normal, healthy individuals with sedentary lifestyles doing little physical activity lifestyles 14-16 kcal/ pound for those involved in light to moderate activity 3-5 x a week with moderately active 16-18 kcal/ pound for those involved in vigorous activity and highly active jobs For those involved in HEAVY training (eg: athletes) - the demand is greater: 18.5-22 kcal/ pound for those involved in moderate to heavy training (for example: 15-20 hrs/ week training) > 22 kcal/ pound for those involved in heavy to extreme training There are several formulas which calculate BMR. This means it calculates what you need if all you did was sleep 24hr/day. Katch-McArdle: Considered the most accurate formula for those who are relatively lean. Use...
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...unit of power? How does speed relate to power? .energy is the ability of doing work while power is the rate at whch work is done unit of power = Watts = 1J/s power = force * velocity 2. Explain how a sound is actually a form of energy? In what medium do sound waves travel? The longitudinal waves generated by sound will create a wave that transfers at some rate , corresponds to transfer of energy. They travel in all states of matter, but speed will be different in different matters. 3. Give an example of change of energy from potential to kinetic; from kinetic to potential. The water falling from the mountains stores kinetic energy.....when falls its potential energy..... and the danamo kept under it gives us ELECTRICITY.... 4. What is a trophic level? Give some examples. How much energy is lost at each trophic level? The trophic level is the position that an organism occupies in a food chain -what it eats, and what eats it. In an ecosystem there is almost always some foundation species that directly harvests energy from the sun, for example, grass. Next are herbivores (primary consumers) that eat the grass, such as the rabbit. Next are carnivores (secondary consumers) that eat the rabbit, such as a bobcat. There can be several intermediate links, which means that there can be another layer of predators on top, such as mountain lions, which sometimes eat bobcats. The larger amount of energy is lost at each trophic level. There is only 10% of energy that...
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...to check how much and how many servings a person should be having. I realized when it comes to me and my actual plate that I am lacking vegetables and fruits in a lot of my meals. Since I seem to be always in a hurry, I tend to eat out a lot. When you eat out a lot, you are not cooking and preparing your own meals which means that most of the time you will be lacking in fruits and vegetables. I also see that that I do eat enough protein. I eat more than enough protein for two people. The reason I eat so much protein is because I lift weights and exercise. Also, I need to stay away from the sugar. But overall, MyPlate says you should be eating 30% grains, 40% vegetables and 10% fruits with 20% protein. I see that I fall short in grains I ___ my grain intake at 10%, vegetable intake at 10%, fruits intake 5%. I get plenty of protein. I also don’t eat enough fiber. My current exercise regimen is one really good thing I have going for me. It consists of about an hour and a half. I do weight training and then an hour of cardio on the elliptical machine 3 days a week. I have actually lost over 30 pounds in the past 6 months. Compared to MyPyramid, I am in the healthy range of exercise. I have always loved to work out and have been an athlete all of my life including playing baseball basketball and football. I have played Division I college football. My goal is to get back to my playing weight of 220 pounds, which means I need to drop about 30 more pounds. I _____________to...
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...Outline Type of physical exercise training program Jamila wants to lose twenty pounds over the next twelve weeks or three months. In order for Jamila to meet this goal she must burn approximately 6,000 calories a week. Jamila will need to work out twice a day to achieve this goal. In the morning, Jamila will start with an active stretch before she starts her cycling class. She will burn approximately 150-180 calories from actively stretching (Rifkin, 2011). Then she will take a cycling class for 30 min. She will burn approximately 400 calories from this class. In the evening her workout routine will consist of various workout routines. Before Jamila starts her workout routine in the evening she will need to stretch. Jamila will get the ultimate stretch by participating in 30 minutes of hot yoga. She will burn approximately 350-400 calories from hot yoga (Gronot, 2011). Then Jamila will run on the treadmill for approximately 60 minutes. If she runs at approximately 9 mph she will burn approximately 1,020 calories (Weeks, 2011). Once she has completed her running she will stretch out her running muscles to ensure she does not get sore. During her stretching routine she will burn approximately 150-180 calories (Rifkin, 2011). She will do these workouts everyday M-F. On Saturday she will incorporate weight training instead of cycling in the morning. This will allow for muscle growth to occur slowly so she can continue to lose weight and not gain muscle mass. On Sunday Jamila will rest to...
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...start figuring how you’re going to create a calorie deficit, you need to know how many calories your body requires to maintain the weight you are now. That calorie number is unique to you. It depends on many things—your size, your gender, your age, and how active you are. Roughly speaking, the more active you are and the younger you are, the more calories it takes to maintain your current weight. Bigger folks need more calories to fuel them; as they start to lose pounds, they’ll require fewer. Just go to www.runnersworld.com/ rybo and go to the basal metabolic rate (BMR) calculator, where you can enter your numbers. This tool measures how many calories you need each day to maintain your current weight if you’re sitting around doing absolutely nothing—and how many you need if you’re more active. Once you know how many calories you need to maintain your weight, you can make some well-informed decisions about the food you’re consuming and your exercise. You can eat less or move more to get the scale to move, too. n Calorie Math: A Quick Review Let’s strip this idea down to the simplest possible terms. Your body burns calories every day. If you eat more calories than your body burns, those calories are stored on the body as fat. If you eat fewer calories than your body burns, you lose fat. In other words, a calorie deficit is what leads to weight loss. H ow much of a deficit do you need to create? Well, a pound is 3,500 calories. So if you want to lose a pound in a week, you...
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...20 Habits That Make You Fat http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/20-habits-that-make-you-fat Yahoo! Search Mail Web Search HOME HEALTH TOPICS A-Z HEALTHY LIVING CHECK YOUR SYMPTOMS Customize Your Mammogram DRUGS & TREATMENTS FIND A DOCTOR Power Up Your Brain Featured on Yahoo! Health: Understanding Bipolar Disorder Satisfy Your Ice Cream Cravings The Importance of Affection Health Search 1 of 6 7/26/2011 5:55 PM 20 Habits That Make You Fat http://health.yahoo.net/experts/eatthis/20-habits-that-make-you-fat 20 Habits That Make You Fat By David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding Jul 15, 2011 846 Health Experts Main Send Share Print Decades ago, around the time of Steven Tyler's last haircut, a completely wrongheaded idea started being passed around America's dinner tables: Eating fat makes you fat. Wrong. Eating fat won’t make you fat, any more than eating money will make you rich. Calories make you fat, and most “low-fat” or “fat-free” foods actually have just as many calories as their full-fat versions, because of added sugar and chemicals. And there’s no debate on this one: Since we made “cut down on fat” our favorite food Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko with Matt Goulding craze roughly 30 years ago, the U.S. obesity rate has doubled. Among children, it has tripled. That’s a failed food policy if ever there was one. But it’s just one of many “get fat” habits that can be turned into a “slim-down”...
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...How to Lose Weight Fast For instance, if you take in 1,050 to 1,200 calories a day, and exercise for one hour per day, you could lose 3-5 pounds in the first week, or more if you weigh more than 250 pounds. It's very important not to cut calories any further -- that's dangerous. Diets for Fast Weight Loss Eat vegetables to help you feel full. Drink plenty of water. Get tempting foods out of your home. Stay busy -- you don't want to eat just because you're bored. Eat only from a plate, while seated at a table. No grazing in front of the 'fridge. Don't skip meals. Keeping a food journal -- writing down everything you eat -- can also help you stay on track. Plan to do cardio and strength training. "Cardio burns the most calories, so it is ideal for fast weight loss, but afterward you need to include a few hours a week of strength training," Pace yourself. Don't do too much, too soon -- work your way up to help prevent injury. One way to step up the intensity is to do interval training -- brief bursts of high-intensity, followed by a more mellow pace, and repeating that pattern throughout your workout. My plan for you is simple.... Workout schedule: 1min-stretch 1min-warm-up 10-squats 10-push-ups 10-crunches 10-up and downs 10-leg lifts 1min-jump rope 10-lunges 1min-cool down Food guideline: Drink 6 cups of water a day Eat breakfast it's important Liquids are good keep you hydrated and running Vegetables and fruits one portion...
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...syndrome, cancer, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea, gallstones, and much more. Overweight and obesity also increase the health risk for children and teens, type 2 diabetes once was rare in American children, but an increasing number of children are developing the disease. Also overweight children are more likely to become overweight or obese as adults, with the same disease risk. My mom had thyroid cancer and my grandma had breast cancer twice. My mom faces all kinds of health problems. One of the main health problems she faces is diabetes. She also has tumors, the doctor has tried to remove them plenty of times but all they do is grow back. She’s been in and out of the hospital and emergency room all of my life. She’s been through over 10 surgeries, and it’s just a never ending process. I see all that she goes through and it automatically makes me want to better myself. I’m not saying that being overweight or being obese had anything to do with it, but it will probably lower my chances of me going through it, if I do something now....
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...4240 JULY 22, 2010 JOHN A. QUELCH HEATHER BECKHAM Metabical: Positioning and Communications Strategy for a New Weight-Loss Drug “I have tried countless diets and every new weight-loss pill that has come on the market. Nothing seems to take off those extra pounds. With diets, I am miserable because I am starving all the time, and none of the weight-loss pills seem to work. I might lose a couple pounds, but I never reach my weightloss goals and I usually end up gaining more back. I would give anything to lose this extra 20 pounds, so that I can live a longer, happier life.” — Tamara Jinkens: focus group participant, age 42 Barbara Printup, senior director of marketing for Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals (CSP), listened as overweight focus group participants recounted their lifelong struggles with weight loss. Printup had just been placed in charge of the upcoming U.S. product launch of CSP’s newest prescription drug, Metabical (pronounced Meh-tuh-bye-cal). In clinical trials, Metabical proved to be safe and effective in stimulating weight loss for moderately overweight individuals. CSP was an international health care company with a focus on developing, manufacturing, and marketing products that treat metabolic disorders, gastrointestinal diseases, immune deficiencies, as well as other chronic and acute medical conditions. The company captured over $25 billion in sales in 2007. Printup had over 20 years of experience marketing prescription drugs for CSP. She had led six...
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...The Adkin’s Diet How Adkins Works Adkins is a low carb/sugar, high vegetable/protein diet. The goal of the diet is to allow your body to go into ketosis. This occurs when your body stops burning carbs and sugar (glucose) for energy and start burning fat (lipids) reserves. My Personal Experince with Adkins I first earned of the Atkins Diet when I was in my mid-teens (1995ish.) My mother has just been diagnosed a few years prior with type II diabetes and had to start directly on insulin. She heard there was a diet that would allow her to maybe stop taking insulin all together or at least only have to take pills. Being an avid reader and researcher she found the doctor’s book where she learned cutting carbs and sugar from her diet could reduce her dependence on insulin. Being a typical self-absorbed teenager I don’t remember many of the details of her weight loss or what if any medical issues occurred. I do however remember the crazy looks and discussions that occurred when my mom sent me out for fast food and I would ask for a burger without a bun. There are a lot of mouth breathers in the fast food industry, and asking some of these people for this simple request was just too much for them to comprehend. My mom lost over 100 pounds in less than a year, when combined the diet with water aerobics. Because there was way less sugary and carb rich foods in the house I lost a lot of weight also. Looking back at pictures of that time both my mom and I never looked...
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...4th set he goes limit. He uses each rep as a 5-pound indicator for his next workout. He starts the cycle at 400 lbs. Example – 400 x 6, 400 x 6, 400 x6, 400 x limit (e.g. 10) So, from the last set, five pounds for each rep over six would work out to (10 reps minus 6) 4 times 5 (five pound for each rep over six)equals 20 (pounds more next workout). Example (next workout) – 420 x 6, 420 x 6, 420 x 6, 420 x 8. Many 4-20’s! Then, by following the same plan – 2 reps more than 6 in the last set equals a 10 lb. weight increase at the next workout. The highest he has reached in this program is 470 pounds for 4 sets of 6. These workouts fall twice a week of every fourth day, as desired and as his work schedule with the railroad with the railroad with the railroad allows. After 4 weeks Doug goes to a double program. One workout is the same 4 sets of 6, and the next workout is 5 sets of 3. This runs for 4 weeks or up to 4 weeks before the meet. At that time he does only 5 sets of 3 for 2 weeks. 2 weeks before the meet he goes to 5 sets of 2, timing it where he gets three workouts in but rests for five days before the meet. In past programs he had done one limit set of reps at the end of his workout with anywhere from 50 to 100 lbs. under what he was working with his program. His normal peak on the 5 sets of 3 is 500 lbs. but he has reached 520 as of this writing. In the squat and deadlift, Doug likes to use a 5-set program on a 5-4-3-2-1 sequence. This was an old York program used...
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...4240 JULY 22, 2010 JOHN A. QUELCH HEATHER BECKHAM Metabical: Positioning and Communications Strategy for a New Weight-Loss Drug “I have tried countless diets and every new weight-loss pill that has come on the market. Nothing seems to take off those extra pounds. With diets, I am miserable because I am starving all the time, and none of the weight-loss pills seem to work. I might lose a couple pounds, but I never reach my weightloss goals and I usually end up gaining more back. I would give anything to lose this extra 20 pounds, so that I can live a longer, happier life.” — Tamara Jinkens: focus group participant, age 42 Barbara Printup, senior director of marketing for Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals (CSP), listened as overweight focus group participants recounted their lifelong struggles with weight loss. Printup had just been placed in charge of the upcoming U.S. product launch of CSP’s newest prescription drug, Metabical (pronounced Meh-tuh-bye-cal). In clinical trials, Metabical proved to be safe and effective in stimulating weight loss for moderately overweight individuals. CSP was an international health care company with a focus on developing, manufacturing, and marketing products that treat metabolic disorders, gastrointestinal diseases, immune deficiencies, as well as other chronic and acute medical conditions. The company captured over $25 billion in sales in 2007. Printup had over 20 years of experience marketing prescription drugs for CSP. She had led six...
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...7 Day Cabbage Soup Slow Fat Loss Fix 1 7 Day Cabbage Soup Slow Fat Loss Fix Table of Contents Secret #1: Separate fact from fiction! .................................................................... 3 Secret #2: Stick to the plan! .................................................................................. 6 The Original Cabbage Soup Recipe ....................................................................... 11 The Original Cabbage Soup Eating Plan ................................................................ 12 Secret #3: Pair yourself with a buddy!................................................................. 14 Secret #4: Do what works! .................................................................................. 18 Secret #5: Set attainable goals! ........................................................................... 25 Secret #6: Write, write, write!............................................................................. 31 Secret #7: Wear what flatters! ............................................................................ 35 Secret #8: Ramp it up with activity! .................................................................... 41 Secret #9: Keep going! ........................................................................................ 44 Appendix A: Shopping List for the Cabbage Soup Diet ......................................... 48 Appendix B: Your Support List...........................................................
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