Weekends slow weight loss, researchers find
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Saturdays and Sundays can be the worst enemies for our waistlines, according to researchers at Washington University at St Louis Medical School. There was a study done on 48 adults in their 50s and 60s and the trend across the board was that weight loss slowed considerably when the weekend rolled around. They said that tracking around holidays (especially from Thanksgiving to New Year’s) showed this for many years, but this was the first time that a week to week record showed this type of change.
Diet and Exercise
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When hearing the words Diet and Exercise most of us give little or no real thought to it. A physician may say in order to prevent a hear attack, diabetes, cancer or a number of other diseases you need to have a better diet and exercise. You see all the weight loss wonder machines that are invented to work on thighs, hips, stomach and rear-end, but in the very fine print at the bottom of the ad there is a disclaimer “results vary with a correct diet and exercise. There are infomercials on the TV daily, but most likely in the early morning hours of a Saturday you’ll see all sorts of beautiful people working out but they didn’t get to their “after” picture without a good diet and exercise plan.
What does this mean to the average person in America? Well the average is now in the overweight or obese category and is more susceptible to medical problems based upon their current diet and exercise. You see everyone does have a diet; it’s just what food source you put in your body. Some people have a good diet which consists of lower calorie, high fiber and a reduction of red meat. Most however eat way more food than the body needs, and because their metabolism slows down with age, it stores that extra food as fat. This would be considered a bad diet.
Exercise is also a factor in everyone’s life since just the fact of getting up out of bed, or the recliner, or the couch takes some exertion that actually burns some calories. You even are using up calories while you are asleep. Now those that get their exercise walking to and from the fridge on commercials are not doing themselves any favors and this would be considered having a poor, or no exercise plan. If you’re hitting the treadmill 5 times a week of 30 minutes a clip, you have a good exercise program and one that can help you stave off the medical problems I spoke about.
If you are in the category of a bad diet and a no exercise routine, you’re destined to become overweight (if you’re not already) and open your self up for large medical problems later on in life. Those that have a good diet and bad exercise plan may be able to hold off any problems, but the overwhelming evidence of medical research shows that diet alone is not a complete healthy picture. You need to get some aerobic activity in order to correct and possibly reverse any medical problems you may have in your future. Those that have a bad diet but an excellent exercise plan may be a few weeks away from problems if the exercise is ever stopped.
The whole intent of this post is to show you that there is a correlation between diet and exercise and it’s not just a few words that you’ve heard before but a call to action. A real diet and exercise plan has the effect of changing your life for the better.
The 20 Smartest Diet Tips Ever
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If you ever wanted to lose some weight, but always seemed like there was something working against you, the problem may have been tradition, your family and more often, yourself. You see we all fall into many habits that are hard to overcome since these may have been ingrained for many years. In order to lose weight, you have to make changes to what you’re doing now.
Channel 11 in Atlanta came up with 20 tips to help people lose weight. These are some of the simplest, but I’m sure overlooked methods to reduce daily calories. If you take some of these tips you can start to reduce almost instantly.
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