Even small loss can improve overall health

According to the experts, even losing just 5% of body can be a great boosting factor for your overall health. Suppose you are having 200 pounds of weigh, even losing just 10 pounds can be really healthy. With the number of overweight people increasing in US, there is also bigger increase in diseases like blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease and block. All these just increase the problems in our life and overall helps in shortening our life span.

But there is good news from doctors of NY Presbyterian hospital. According to them, even just dropping very few pounds can reduce the risk of all these disease and many more disease. For this we all need to take care of our health by eating healthy food and doing exercise regularly.

According to Goland, co-director of the NYPH-Columbia University, obesity problem in our country is causing a huge jump in insulin resistance and diabetes. About 4,000 new cases of adult-onset diabetes develop every 24 hours, Goland said. The risk of diabetes increases as the pounds increase. Exercise is a must for all. Even exercising daily for thirty minutes can be really helpful.

If you are having waist more than 40 inches as a men and 35 inches as a women, you have greater chances of developing disease related with increased body weight. So even losing a small fraction of your body weight can be really helpful for the overweight.

Is your kid getting overweight?

Many of parents even do not know whether their kids are actually overweight or not. Kids are overweight or not has some relation with kids physical activity and eating patterns. The lack of balance between diet and exercise could make your child look fatty and absurd and may keep them overweight and unhealthy until their adulthood.

The balanced diet with physical exercise helps the kids to get the nutrients they require and to keep the healthy weight. It also helps children steady more, build muscles and strong bones, get more energy, and avoid diseases caused by obesity such as type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure.

You have to play a big role in your child’s diet and overall health. And eat only what you want your kid to eat. If you eat healthy, your child will also eat healthy. If you want that your child to eat low-fat, low-sugar, or high-fiber food, you have to eat the same. However, you may have to try for more than ten times before your child accepts certain foods.

Check the school’s breakfast and lunch. Get involved in choosing the school menu, or include in your child’s lunch pack a variety of healthy foods. The media and your child’s friends may affect his or her food choices.

Exercise and less TV key to successful weight loss

According to a US study Participating in various physical activities and limiting TV is the key to successful weight loss among teens (Yahoo News).

Males who lost weight did 11.7 hours of physical activity per week on an average and females 7.6 hours of physical activity per week on an average. Females were more likely to participate in weight training and strengthening exercises. Teens that were able to lose weight spend less time with TV as compared to teens who gained weight.

Kerri Boutelle, lead author and assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, says it is clear that exercising, staying active and limiting sedentary activity is essential to teens losing weight.

Higher BMI people have less chances of getting disease but higher chances of dying

According to a research report, Higher BMI (Body mass index) does not raise the risk of prostate cancer. But once this disease occurs, High BMI people have higher chancing of dying. "This is a large study that shows a convincing dose-response association between obesity and adult weight gain and death from prostate cancer," lead investigator Dr. Margaret E. Wright told Reuters Health (MSNBC.com).

As all of know BMI of 25 is considered to be normal, 30 being overweight and above it obese. People with BMI of 40 or greater have 33% lesser chances of prostate cancer as compared to a man having BMI less than 25. Conversely, the risk of dying of prostate cancer rose significantly with increasing BMI. This amounted to a 25 percent greater risk for men with a BMI between 25 and 29.9, a 46 percent increase for BMIs between 30 and 34.9, and more than double the risk if BMI was 35 or more.

There was also a significant association between weight gain in adulthood and prostate cancer mortality. "The growing prevalence of obesity in Western countries is alarming," Wright said, "and reducing the risk of prostate cancer death is only one among many health reasons to maintain a healthy weight through diet and exercise."

Extreme weight loss measures exposed

According to a recent survey six out of ten women thought that zero size is attractive for them and size of 12 (97% women) to be fat for them. Celebrities such as Nichole Richie who have zero size are having health risks by extreme weight loss.

The same figure would rather have friends who are fatter than them, and 76% admit they are jealous of slimmer friends. Half of the surveyed women (5,000) said that they had spent days to fit in a dress for a special night. And the motivation to be slim comes from other slim women around.

Six out of 10 women said that they had been criticized for their body shape by their friends and the remaining four said they had been asked by their mother to lose weight.

Six out of 10 surveyed said friends had criticized their body shape and four out of 10 said their mothers had urged them to lose weight. One in five said they can’t sit at their office desk without their work colleagues suggesting they slim down.

Four out of five women said that they would be extremely happy if they lose their weight and one third of women said that they tried dieting by eating calories less than 500 in a day. "No wonder so many women say they can’t eat normally any more because they’re trying to achieve the unachievable."

South Beach Diet benefits?

Dieting not only cause participants to gain weight but also affect the body. Keeping this in mind a number of weight loss programs like South Beach and Atkins are designed which is easy to comprehend and follow. These tell about tasty and nutritious food. Some persons consider South Beach plan as the improved Atkins. However, unlike Atkins, carbohydrates are not totally banned rather they allowed some how. In second and third stages breads and other carbohydrates are allowed. Participants suffering from food intolerances should remain careful otherwise it might affect the safety and efficiency of the plan.

It can provide many benefits to the body keeping in view nutritional perspective. The program is well planned, relying not on the reduction of any sole food group, but on lowering carbohydrates, poor cholesterols, fats, sugar, white bread, and other none-nutritional food products. This plan does not rely on reducing the amounts of saturated fats rather it is designed to tell how metabolism works.

The glycemic index is one of the main reasons for the program's success as it categorizes carbohydrate foods keeping in view their effect on the body’s sugar level. In second stage, low GI foods like fruits, grains and fibers are consumed. This program helps in making eating enjoyable and beneficial. Meals suggested are tasty and having all essential food groups can pacify one’s hunger. With the help of this plan, participants can struggle poor eating habits and lower cholesterol levels, plummeting the risks of cardiovascular complications.

A cardiologist designed this program keeping in view the most successful parts of other dieting plans, to make a holistically healthy eating plan that will not only keep the pounds off, but will also help to ensure the permanence of your body when followed correctly.

Top sugar cutting tips out of your diet

All of us love sugar too much that we try to add it everywhere wherever we can add like in bread, muffins and even in cigarettes. So sugar is added to whole wheat, which is considered as healthy for us and is also added in cigarettes, which is thought to be unhealthy. So we all Americans love sugar too much.

But the fact many of us may not know that sugar is really unhealthy for us. Sugar has been traced back to many common health aliments like acne, yeast infections, mood swings, mental health diseases and even Cancer. All of these diseases were made public when start consuming 10 pounds to 157 pounds in one year. Here is a simple but effective tips that will help you cut sugar out of your life in a health way and help you to live a healthy life:

1. Read out the food labels

   
   Do not forget to read the labels on the food items. There is no doubt sugar is available in many of foods naturally and is also healthy for our body. What to watch out for is to check that sugar is not an added ingredient.
   



2. Try being sugar free

   
   Try to be sugar free on some occassions like taking tea or coffee sugar free. There are many beverages, which are having great taste sugar free as well like many flavored drinks.
   



3. Asking questions about menu

   
   Going out for eating can be a risky act. So good thing for you is asking question about the food you are going to eat and ingredients available in the food.
   



4. Buy Cooking books

   
   Why not purchase a cooking book. There are many treats, which we can prepare easily and that also sugar free.
   



5. Drink less coke and other drinks

   
   You know one coke contains twelve teaspoons of sugar. So by cutting down some of drinks, we can cut great amount of sugar from our total intake of sugar.
   



6. Get rid of canned fruits and vegetables

   
   Fruit is naturally sweet. Canned corn and many other vegetables have sugar or corn syrup in them. Read all labels on the canned foods you buy. Some foods are misleading and you wouldn’t think they would have sugar. Think again. If you are serious about cutting out sugar from your diet be sure to read all labels.
   



7. Pack snacks for the day

   
   When we go to the office or school without our snacks (lunchbox), we have greater chances of consuming calories and sugar. So why not pack healthy snacks for the day.
   



8. Maintain a diary

   
   Maintaining a diary to keep track of what you have to eat, what not to eat and how you feel about things is a great idea. Writing what you have achieved with your diet (calories and sugar) can be really moral boosting.
   



9. Do not deprive yourself of too much

   
   Eating always sugar free is not always possible. There can be some occassions like birthday or marriage where you cannot remain sugar free. So just go and enjoy such occasion and also enjoy your favorite food with a bit of moderation.
   



10. Sharing your eating habits

    
    You can feel depressed and alone with your eating pattern when your friends are enjoying the treats. What you can do is share your healthy change and how great you feel health wise after these implementations. If you are able to satisfy them, it may be possible all or some of them even join in you.
    

Obese Aussies to get bigger ambulances

The obesity problem is getting bigger and bigger in Australia. According to BBC News , the increasing obesity problem has forced the health officials to restore their fleet of ambulances. Super size vehicles have been created and new air ambulances will be redesigned to carry the heavier people.

According to studies, 67% of Australian men and over half of all women aged over 25 are overweight or obese. So many Australians are now bulging at the waistline that ambulances are being equipped with heavy-duty stretchers. These ambulances are capable of carrying patients of up to 220kg.

The medical teams have to deal with obese and overweight people very often. Sometimes it becomes really hard for them to cope with the situation. In a recent case that happens in Sydney, it took several hours for 16 Emergency workers to take a patient to hospital from his home. This patient had broken his legs and was of 400kg. Even the Emergency workers had to destroy some part of this patient’s house to bring him out of his house.

The obesity problem is getting worse in Australia and many parts of the world day by day. A lack of exercise and a poor diet, including drinks loaded with sugar and high-fat snacks, are breeding a new generation of fat Australians.

Experts here are warning that by 2030 half of this country's children will be overweight or obese. They have insisted that breast and colon cancer as well as diabetes and heart disease have strong links to obesity.

Which is most vital diet or exercise?

Nutrition and exercise both are important in weight loss. Dieting is a temporary medium to lessen weight rather wise way is to learn how to eat and what type of food we should have to eat and type of food is required to avoid. One has to consult a doctor about what type of food is best. You have to take organic food and look what it offers. Diet work to certain level. While dieting one has to take enough calories so that the burning of muscles can be avoided.

Every balanced diet includes exercise program. Physical activities help the body to purify and muscle building as well as burn the fats. To achieve the goal of weight loss one has to pay enough amount of energy and time, running or working long hours and not sleeping hardly. You need to take a realistic look at how much time you can offer to an exercise program, and redistribute your daily schedule accordingly. The key to success is formulating a plan that doesn’t waste your time. One has to avoid over training or heavy exercises as it can damage the muscles or make you sick.

You can avoid the high cost of gym equipment by studying what you want to bring about. For doing so you can join a gym club and have a variety of exercises there as a number of options available are available to you. You can lose fats from different parts of body like stomach, chest, hips, thigh through a variety of exercises. Muscles do not know whether they are lifting a book or a dumbbell, it is you who knows that.

More the exercise and you can ignore the diet a little bid but not completely because if exercise shape up your body, diet gives you energy for maintaining body and its activities. So as a result one has to build diet and exercise program accordingly and personally.

Low carb dieters initially lose more weight

According to a study, the overweight and the obese people who went through low carb diet have greater chances of weight loss as compared to people go for low fat, portion-controlled diet (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition).

It was find that people who went on a low carb diet plan were able to lose 10.8 pounds as compared to 5.5 pounds of lose by people who go through the low fat diet. However, after the weight-maintenance phase of the study, which lasted another 24 weeks, differences between the two groups in weight loss and fat mass remained, but were no longer statistically significant.

After 12 weeks of study, the members of either group could go ahead with their respective weight loss diets or could switch to a weight maintenance plan. After 12 weeks of study is clear that low car diet group people were able to more weight and more fat 1.9 kg (4.2 pounds) of fat vs. 0.9 kg (2 pounds) for the low-fat diet group.

By 36 weeks, the low-carb group had kept off 4.5 kg (10 pounds), compared to 2.6 kg (5.7 pounds) for the low-fat group, not a huge difference. Low-carb diet participants had maintained a 2 kg (4.4 pounds) loss of fat weight, compared to 1.3 kg (2.9 pounds) for the low fat group, which again was not a significant difference.

Job stress increase the risk of being fat

According to a new study tension at job can also be a reason for increase in obesity . The more stress men and women feel at job, the more chances they have of becoming obese. Higher stress levels were also tied to excess fat around the middle, which is particularly harmful for health (from Yahoo News).

Constant stress can lead to many of heart and metabolic related problems. The symptoms include excess belly fat that increases the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The study also finds that job stress might make people more likely to develop obesity during adulthood as well.

For this study, 6,895 men and 3,413 women were being followed for 19 years. When the study ends, all of the men and women who were followed during this period were between 35 to 55 years. Participants reported levels of job strain, defined as having heavy demands, little decision-making power, and little social support, at several points during the study.

Men and women who reported job strain on at least three occasions were 73 percent more likely to become obese than those who never said they were stressed on the job. They were also 61 percent more likely to develop central obesity, defined as a waist circumference greater than 102 cm (40 inches) for men or 88 cm (35 inches) for women.

Some natural weight loss tips

Many of us always keep on looking for some natural weight loss diets that has are surely going to work for our weight loss. There are too many diets available in the market, which promise too much and deliver too little. Losing weight has become a passion for many of us. So all of us are very serious about this passion and do not hesitate to go for nay way that promise us towards the fulfillment of this passion.

As I have experienced, weight loss diet pills are not going to help us in any way to our weight loss in the long run. They can be effective in the short term only. So I never prefer weight loss diet pills.

All of us always keep on looking new weight loss tips because all have the dream to lose weight quickly. And we all want immediate results. What will be good for us is that whether we go for quick or slow weight loss, the weight loss should be safe, natural and permanent. For many of us losing weight permanently may be a rather slow progress for some people depending on metabolic rate and how much weight loss is needed. Here I am sharing some natural weight loss tips that are surely going to work for our weight loss and will help us keep it off permanently.

1. It is always recommended that we should never skip our breakfast.


2. We should never eat anything for one hour before going to the bed.


3. Never take your meals while watching TV and taking snacks while watching TV are also not healthy choice.


4. Include more and more vegetables and fruits in your meals.


5. Use honey for sweetener instead of sugar, and carob powder for chocolate in all recipes.


6. Stay away from high calorie foods.


7. And most important is the exercise. Make sure that you go for exercise at least three to four days in the week.

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Study finds Chinese restaurant food unhealthy

According to a recent study restaurant food is full of sodium, saturated fat and calories . Even a plate of chicken is full of 40% more sodium and more than half the calories an average needs for an entire day. The battered, fried chicken dish with vegetables has 1,300 calories, 3,200 milligrams of sodium and 11 grams of saturated fat (From MSNBC.com).

Report state American restaurants need to cut back the calories and salt in the food. An average man needs 2000 calories per day and 2300 milligrams of salt everyday. "Chinese restaurants have so many options available that help customers make smart choices," Sheila Weiss, director of nutrition policy at the National Restaurant Association said. "You can always get steamed vegetables or vegetables in light sauces, as well as lean protein. I think the menus are very clear about the option available."

Italian and Mexican restaurant are the worse food for our health as these restaurant food is higher in saturated fat and which can increase the risk of heart disease. While Chinese restaurant food is bad for your waistline and blood pressure — sodium contributes to hypertension — it does offer vegetable-rich dishes and the kind of fat that’s not bad for the heart.

However — and this is a big however — the veggies aren’t off the hook. A plate of stir-fried greens has 900 calories and 2,200 milligrams of sodium. And eggplant in garlic sauce has 1,000 calories and 2,000 milligrams of sodium.

Even little physical activity for being slim kids

Just 15 minutes a day of kicking around a ball or swimming might be enough to keep children from becoming obese, British and U.S. researchers said on Monday. The study that was conducted on 5500 children found that the children who exercise more have lesser chances of becoming obese. The children who did fair exercise for 15 minutes have 50% less chancing of becoming obese as compared to the children who remain inactive for the whole day.

According to the report the higher intensity physical activity may be more important than total activity. We all know that diet plays an important part in fight against obesity. But many times we forget about physical activities that are as vital as any diet. Even small amount of physical activity can have big impact on your overall obesity.

It is clearly a matter of people eating more calories than they burn off, but experts cannot agree whether diet or exercise is more important -- and which kind of exercise might be best. Ness' team studied 5,500 children, with an average age of 12, who with their mothers have been taking part in a larger, long-term study of health.

The study found that the children who do not exercise at all have greater chances of obesity. "These associations suggest even a modest increase of 15 minutes moderate and vigorous physical activity might result in an important reduction in the prevalence of overweight and obesity," the researchers wrote.

Food labels as our best friends

Food labels and weight loss

Food labels can be our best friends in the fight against obesity. By watching at the food labels at a food item, we can judge whether a particular food item is useful to us or not. But in the long run, we must enjoy our food to be really successful in our weight loss campaign. So here are some things to watch out for on food labels:

• Serving Amount
  We have to be really accurate with our serving amount. Serving amount should be as per our requirement.


• Amount of calories
  The calories count can be really helpful if you are very serious about the amount of calories you want to consume on a particular day or at a particular meal time.
  


• Fat numbers
  There are several fat numbers on the label to help you differentiate what kind of fat the food contains.
  


• Amount of Carbohydrates & Fiber
  The amount of carbohydrate and fiber will help you decide if the food you are eating will “stick to your ribs,” reduce hunger, and help maintain a steady blood sugar level.
  


• Protein
  Protein is important for tissue repair and healing, especially for heavy exercises. Protein also satiates appetite and helps the brain realize you are not hungry so you don’t overeat.
  


• Balanced minerals and vitamins
  It contains the list of various vitamins and minerals in the food. It is recommended we should include as many fruit and vegetables items in our diet.
  

So we have really good information available on food labels. But the food labels has nothing to do with the taste of a particular food item. So many times we eat too much food just for the sake of taste. So we have to be very serious about the amount of food we take. The food labels can be really out best friend in determining what food item to eat and in how much quantity to eat.

Eat out and remain slim

Beating the bulge is best achieved not through crash diets, but normal diets. Keep eating the normal food in moderation and the body mechanism will take care of the rest.

COUNTING CALORIES ISN’T the best way to lose weight! More often than not people adopt the latest diet, hit weight-loss plateaus and end up frustrated. You would be surprised to know that eating normal diet is the best way to control weight. Experts agree that normal eating spurs an automatic control mechanism(www.merinews.com).

Weight loss is a tangible goal. There are numerous ways to achieve it. Most people tend to cut down drastically on their food and suffer hunger pangs, loss of stamina and frustration in the process. So, the approach needs to be realistic. And, what else could be more pragmatic than eating the usual stuff?

Imagine a weight-loss technique that preaches normal eating — like you did before you began bothering about your weight. Sounds great!

Take note. Binging is not a normal eating pattern. A normal diet pattern also calls against “yo-yo dieting”, alternate periods of feast and famine. Take a pre-emptive measure and mend your eating ways. You must eat according to your current daily intake. Anyone who has ever tried dieting understands the haunting feeling of deprivation. As a result, most of us cannot stick to such plans. So, try getting used to eating less gradually.

Serve yourself smaller portions. You would realize in some time that you need less to feel satiated. In short, just eyeball your portions!

Make sure that your diet is varied, adequate in all essential nutrients. It should also include adequate numbers of servings of fruits, vegetables and whole-grain products. Overweight people, who maintain a low-calorie diet with moderate fat intake, limit their fast food consumption and sustain high levels of physical activity, ultimately succeed in weight-loss maintenance. The trick is in eating a normal diet, the normal way.

Crash diets are no shortcuts to slimming. On the contrary, such a practice jeopardizes health. Continuously eating an unbalanced diet can result in weakness; interfere with normal function and cause damage to the body. A normal diet with right doses of physical activity is the best bet to lose weight on a permanent basis.

Everything in moderation is the credo. You should be able to eat what you like and when you like. It boils down to understanding what you are eating. You should be able to eat when you are hungry and continue eating until you are satisfied. You need not totally avoid the so-called “poisonous fat-filled stuff” and other “tasty”, “forbidden” or “pleasurable foods”. When you give yourself the power to choose what you eat and when you eat it, you will find a diet freedom that works.

Use a modicum of restraint in your food selection to ensure you get the right food, but there should be no need to miss out! In principle, a sensible diet made of generally recognized “good” food and an exercise regimen will keep most of you in reasonable shape.

Losing weight is a just a question of maintaining balance. You don’t have to skip diets. You don’t have to starve. You just have to do one thing and that is eating normal food. If you can stick to the normal regime, you have clicked the right button. But you have to sacrifice something — stop munching those wafers. Always!

Americans are still not eating their veggies

According to a recent survey, less than one-third of American adults eat the amount of vegetables and fruits recommended by the government . This is much more below the American Government goal of getting 75% of Americans to eat two servings of fruits and three of vegetables each day by 2010, said Dr. Larry Cohen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (From MSNBC.com).

Specifically the survey showed that 27 percent of adults ate vegetables three times a day, and about 33 percent ate fruit twice a day. A serving size is a half-cup for most fruits and vegetables, one cup for leafy greens.

Younger adults, age 18 to 24, ate the fewest vegetables. Nearly four-fifths of that age category scraped the veggies to the side of their plates — if they had vegetables on the plate at all. Likewise, seniors also ate the most fruit, with nearly 46 percent eating two or more servings of fruit daily. People age 35 to 44 ate fruit the least, with fewer than 28 percent eating the recommended amount of fruit each day.

The federal agency said it doesn’t know why people aren’t eating more veggies or fruits. Cohen said future surveys will ask people what other foods they are eating. Susan Krause, a clinical dietitian at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, said people are eating more refined sugars or choosing protein instead of fruits and vegetables.

Not only are fruits and vegetables lower-calorie, they also have minerals and fiber that help guard against chronic diseases and cancer, the CDC says.

Females fat talking socially compulsory

This is every time hoped when some woman have talk, after some general talking, their topic of discussed goes to whose skinny jeans do not fit anymore. And who among them is heavier on the scale. And the involvement is socially compulsory, according to a new study (MSNBC.com).

Researchers call this “fat talk,” a term coined to describe a behavior common in middle school-aged Caucasian females. But the trend seems to occur in older females as well.

“We have found in our research that both male and female college students know the rule of fat talk—that females are supposed to say negative things about their bodies in a group of females engaging in fat talk,” said study co-author Denise Martz of Appalachian State University.

How to prevent obesity in your child

The incidence of childhood obesity has more than doubled in the past two decades, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Yahoo! News).

Noting that healthy eating habits begin at home, the American Academy of Family Physicians offers these suggestions to prevent the problem:

1. Don't force him to eat when he isn't hungry -- he shouldn't have to clean his plate if he's already full.


2. Don't use food as a reward, or as a comfort when he's upset.


3. Feed your child a healthy, balanced diet -- one that includes fast food no more than once a week.


4. Limit your child's TV watching and encourage physical activity, like playing outside. Offer to play outside with your child.


5. Encourage your child to get regular exercise, so that he continues to exercise into adulthood.

Parents not able to identify obesity

Government is launching a program to help parents identify the obesity signs in their kids . Often parents do not admit that their children are overweight. The Department of Health has pledged to do more in the next year to support parents in encouraging healthy eating and physical activity (From BBC NEWS).

People have a poor perception of their own weight status and are even worse at spotting when their child is overweight or obese. Busy lifestyles, irregular working hours and fears that having a healthy lifestyle is too difficult to achieve also put people off healthy choices.

According to the MRC report, average time spent preparing meals has fallen from two hours to just 20 minutes over the past two decades. And safety concerns prevent children being allowed to walk to school or play outside.

Coffee a source of fiber

There is good news for dieters who love coffee. According to a new study coffee can be a good source of fiber for the dieters. But they should not stop eating fruits and vegetables which are also big source of fiber.

According to the study brewed coffee contains soluble fiber, the roughage found in oatmeal and apples that aids digestion, helps the body absorb vital nutrients and keeps a lid on cholesterol.

According to the American Dietetic Association (ADA), men should consume around 38 gram of fiber per day and women should consume around 25 gram of fiber everyday. But 50% of Americans consumes only 15 grams of fiber or even less than this.

So we all need to improve our intake of fiber which is very essential for our health. So we need to take more coffee and big amount of fruits and vegetables.

Spending too much of time with TV makes child overweight

According to a new study, the more time a three year old child spends in front of a TV, the more calories he consumes. Spending too much time in front of TV is associated with Junk food and lesser intake of healthy food such as fruits, vegetables, fibers and calcium.

Every hour spent in front of the TV makes children drink more sugar-sweetened beverages, and brings almost forty-seven extra calories per day, said Sonia Miller, lead author of the study. Although forty-six extra calories per day may seem unimportant, in time this can make a difference, according to Matthew Gillman, co--author of the study. The study proved that poor dietary habits are strongly related to increased TV or video watching.

Most of the children watched TV or video for almost two hours per day. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that children under two years old do not watch TV or video, while the two-years or older watch TV for no more than two hours per day.

Obese people are less likely to commit suicide

According to a study published in latimes.com, the obese people have lower risk of suicide. Scientists think it may be related to their higher production of insulin and other hormones that affect mood. Report says that bese men were 42% less likely to commit suicide than those at the lower end of the normal-weight range.

Lead author Kenneth J. Mukamal of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said, this study was not applicable to women because of hormone differences related to gender. He also said, the stigma of obesity falls more heavily on women, causing anxiety and other adverse effects on mood. "Men can be jolly and fat,"

"The research was based on the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, a survey of 45,000 men — dentists, veterinarians, optometrists and others — that began in 1986. The study examined the relationship between suicide and body mass index, a ratio of weight to height. For example, a man who is 6 feet tall and weighs 154 pounds has a body mass index, or BMI, of 21. Researchers looked at men with BMIs ranging from below 20, which is considered underweight, to those above 30, which is considered obese."

Cycling for weight loss and improving overall health

Get new friend in the form of exercise bike

Just few weeks back, I met one of my old friend’s who was also going through the fat loss process. In the last few months, he had been able to lose some big of pounds in a healthy and entertaining way. He had been enjoying his weight loss program.

The biggest plus point for his weight loss seems to me his passion for cycling. He spends some of his time riding his bike. That had helped him a lot. That seems to be really useful to me and I have decided that I am going to try it out. When I collected some information about cycling or exercise bike, I find that they are quite helpful in losing weight in an entertaining and funny way.

So I have purchased an exercise bike which I going to lose at least four times in the week. Cycling looks such an easy way to lose extra fat to me. But I and all of us need to be consistent with it. So I am going to devote some of my exercising time to cycling. I am really exciting about it as I really love it. I hope with weight loss cycling will help me to be more fit and fine.

To get some real results with this kind of exercise program we have to be full of enthusiasm. We need to make cycling a part of our life. And it will take some time to make cycling a part of our life. So we all have to start it slowly and then increase it with time. Even ten minutes of cycling in the beginning will be helpful.

With weight loss cycling will help in improving overall health. It will help in reducing the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure. When we do cycling we feel better physically and mentally. So my old friend has given me a new friend in the form of exercise bike. So it is good to get a new good friend from an old friend. And now I am going to enjoy my ride. And if you like you can also enjoy it.

Going to be after weight loss

Now the big question arise for all of us what and how we are going to be after weight loss. So guys how we will look after losing the extra pounds we are occupying. Have you got some idea or thought about it?

We all must have in sight what we will be after certain interval of time. What I think what I will be after I am able to get rid of these extra pounds:

• I will be full of energy and my self-confidence will be sky high. Then I will be able to face everyone’s eye and I will have answers for many of things, which I do not have right now.


• I will be able to live my life in a better way and will be able to have more fun in life.


• Most importantly, I will be fitter and healthier. My jeans and shirts size will be of my desired size and no one will be able to make any comment about my shape.


• I will be able to enjoy more with my friends and will for part kind of things on some occasions, which I try to avoid most of the times.

There are countless numbers of other things, which we are going to achieve automatically as soon as we lose this unwanted weight. So buddy what you are going to get after getting rid of your extra pounds.

Positive thoughts for losing

We cannot be successful in any of our deeds in case we are not optimized, motivated and inspired to do that. You can never win a race with negative thoughts in mind. Just remove the fear of failure from your mind. Just imagine you’re after weight loss picture. Imagine how you will feel after losing the extra pounds you are having.

And think after losing some weight, you will feel full of confidence and have more enjoy in life. With this you have more options in your dress purchasing. It seems really bad to be fat. We have to make this bad thing away from our life.

On many occasions, when we went to a store and try some jeans, we feel full of remorse and sadness that we are not able to fit in a jean in which we were able few months or years back. On some occasions, some of our friend, people around or relatives make some comments about our fat. We do not have to lose heart. We have to stay positive towards our weight loss.

I really feel bad on one occasion just few days back, when I went to a store to bought a jean for me. The salesman in a joking manner makes comment about my fat. And when I was about to try a large size shirt for me, He sad, you should not take this as your tummy will be too much visible in this size shirt. So take extra large size shirt. But we all need to take positives from all this kind of things and remain positive in our way to weight loss.