After a year on this diet I was informed by my doctor that while staying away from so many foods I damaged my vitamin intake. She told me that I had the lowest vitamin D that she had ever seen in her life. I was then prescribed pills of 80,000 mg of vitamin D to take for 8 weeks. I really disliked the pills because they were tough to swallow. This is when I ultimately decided to start adding some meats and dairies back to my diet. I now keep a diet consisting of 80 percent vegetables (most being consumed raw) and 20 percent meat. This has helped me gain much more strength and muscles without the excess body fat. I also since have decided to only focus on one job and my school work so that I main be able to maintain a more specified gym routine mixed with cardio and weight lifting sessions; in addition I have begun meditating and doing light yoga in order to free my mind from the constant stressed that come with school and work. I can say that most of my success in weight loss came from the hunger for knowledge on these subjects. I recall doing a lot of research on the human body and within the sport of bodybuilding to create a plan that works best for me. During the process of this research on exercise I have found many resources stating the importance of staying active. I was shocked to find how being inactive is as much of a health risk as smoking is, this is due to excess buildup of fat in the arteries. The lack of knowledge that the public has about deaths through
Nowadays people just sit down, order everything online and try to not move as much as possible, or that how I was until my freshman year at Arizona State University. I was not active at all and had self-esteem issues and weighted 220 pounds, and my major is computer science (CS) which mean, I get to sit down for hours typing codes and study for all different sorts of hard classes and that increased my anxiety and stress. Then, I started working out and my life changed, I lost 60 pounds, felt happy about myself and how I look, all the stress I had from classes which anyone who takes calculus, computer classes know how hard they can be, it just decreased and I could feel like everything is going to be fine at the end, just have to try harder and that is it. In an article by dozen of PHD scientist in metabolism and fields related to that, they said, “There is strong evidence that physical activity is a key factor in maintaining a healthy body weight and reducing the risk of many health problems, including hypertension, cardiovascular
Joe weighted 309lbs and was in bad shape so he decided to go 60 days on the diet of whole foods and plant based smoothies. Joe had 3 smoothies a day made out of kale, celery, apples, cucumbers, lemon and ginger root. Joe went to the doctor every couple of weeks because in the beginning he was on 11 different types of medications. After 14 days he lost 26 pounds and he is getting all of his nutrients from healthy eating not meats for protein. The doctors said after 30 days he could stop half of the medication he was on.
Patient education: The importance of dieting and exercise is crucial, especially in the modern age we are living in. Staying healthy in America is becoming a serious challenge to most people; cutting down on some fat and going for a weekly physical activities to the gym could make a substantial difference in one’s life. Dieting is so important, considering the amount of carbs and calories the average American consumes each day.
The publics idea of health has evolved over the decades, similar to fashion in that it is continuously morphing and even trends have resurrected with new twists. Recent developments have seen widespread awareness of the importance of regular exercise and many benefits of a balanced diet. Yet despite the plethora of health and fitness methods and resources, the general population has never been so physically sedentary and out of shape. According to the national center for health statistics, America life expectancy has declined despite advances in the fitness industry, concerns over secondary conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes has created an urgency of public health officials as they try to mandate new strategies to fight this national epidemic.
“Come on! It’s simple, just get up off your butt and stop eating so darn much,” a common phrase used when with addressing modern obesity. Yet, this fairly recent epidemic continues to plague and destroy around 93 million Americans (The Issue). Although, with Michael Obama’s “Let’s Move” Campaign making a head wave, the hope for a healthy tomorrow has been restored in the hearts of many Americans. Along those same lines it seems that these days you cannot turn on the TV or Radio without seeing an ad for this Gym or that weight lost supplement. Such items and services also suggest that we as individuals can exercise and never worry about the big, bad condition known as obesity. With all these resources,
Have you shunned incorporating fitness and healthier eating into your routine because you’ve always regarded such dedication as something *other people do*? Appealing to all fitness levels is how we approach the needs of our readership because even those with just a few moments per day can utilize some of the guidelines we endorse. It is never too late or too soon to assimilate better living through exercise and diet. While not everyone aspires to be an Olympian, there is a bit of a health nut in all of us, and finding our inner athlete is most readily accomplished by defining what physical activities are enjoyable on a personal level. If a regimen is not at least somewhat pleasurable and easy to work into a busy schedule, it will likely
Living a healthy lifestyle is a goal many individuals have and that could either be eating vigorous nutritious meals or being active outside in the world, going to the gym for instance. The condition of being physically fit and healthy is what fitness is. Not many people realize the importance of it until they can’t fit in their own jeans. Many individuals argue that there isn’t enough time for the gym or that there is no point in going because it can cause injury, but in reality, it’s all worth it after you realize the outcomes of working out and eating healthy. There is always time to make your life fit and healthier. In order to join this discourse community, a person must learn the typical ways people in that community interact and argue. I will demonstrate that I have entered this discourse community of fitness by obtaining necessary knowledge, establishing strong credibility, and learning to influence other members of the community to strive for more.
Healthy habits in the U.S. has started to drop even as early as the year 1920. These unhealthy eating and exercising habits are what eventually leads to morbid obesity. Obesity in America has become an issue so fast growing, the chance to stop it in its tracks went out the window years ago. Obesity has become a matter so synonymous with America that it is not only a running joke in other countries, but also has become commercialized to the point of making millions of dollars. Weight loss is seen walking down a street, on TV, in magazines, and everywhere else. Weight-loss drugs began to appear in media around the 1920s. Companies then started making money on people being overweight in America. Americans actually getting healthy, at this point in time, overall, would actually cause those companies to lose money. The American Medical Association has been in intense debate on whether or not to consider obesity a disease. On one hand, there are many physicians and doctors who believe that it should be considered a disease, as it leads to early onset Type II diabetes. While on the other hand, it is up to the volition of an individual for whether or not to eat in a healthy manner, exercise responsibly, and to stray away from nutritionally poor and otherwise negatively calorie dense foods (Brown, 2015, para.
According to Dr. Claudia Walther, a doctor from the Heart Centre of the University of Leipzig, “People today have different lifestyles than in the past...they’re less active…” Currently, exercise is portrayed as too hard and people have become lazy. They don't want to have to work and spend time exercising.
Today's world is full of modern conveniences. Communication is at the touch of a button, you can drive right to the window and get handed a greasy, hot meal, and even walking has become bothersome. Trying to find that spot closest to the door is worth driving around the lot five times. Kids play more in virtual reality than outdoors, and parents who are strapped for time settle on quick, processed meals for dinner. Unfortunately, we've created an environment fit for the lazy. Instead of having to preform physical activities to function throughout the day, we must find time for physical activity, which might not be realistic for everyone. The fast food industry and quick processed dinners feed the consumer with no time for exercise, and the
According to Alyssa Brown, “51% of adults want to lose weight, [but] barely half as many (25%) say they are seriously working towards that goal. This discrepancy between Americans’ weight-loss desires and behaviors has existed for years”(Brown). According to society, the definition of a healthy person is someone who exercises often and eats healthy foods. Even though people want to be healthy, becoming healthy is a hard task. Surely it is much easier to lay around at home and eat chips than to work out at the gym. Maybe this is why obesity rates are on the rise. A medical study estimates that “75% of the U.S. population will be classified as overweight or obese or obese by the year 2020” (NewsMax). People wonder, what is the solution to this
I learned many things while researching my project I’ve learned how specific types of exercising can help prevent disease, help with depression and, it can make your brain function better helping with memory and growth. I’ve also learned how many hours a day an average everyday person should exercise to stay in good shape and keep a healthy state of mind.
Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death worldwide, with increasing rates in adults and children. An inactive lifestyle plays a major role in obesity. Worldwide there has been a large change towards less physically demanding work, and currently at least 30% of the world's population gets inadequate exercise. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that overweight and obesity may soon replace more traditional public health concerns such as under nutrition and infectious diseases as the most significant cause of poor health. Diet programs may produce weight loss over the short term, but maintaining this weight loss is frequently difficult and often requires making exercise and a lower food energy diet a permanent part of a person's
One topic that has been talked about for many years within Kinesiology is the debate on whether exercise or diet is more important for losing weight and maintaining weight loss. While both or important for a person's individual health, a person's diet is essentially the foundation for a healthy lifestyle and an important factor in losing weight and gaining nutrients that can help the body develop. Many studies and experiments have shown that a healthy diet goes a long way in helping people lose more weight, but more importantly teaches them how to continue to treat their bodies in a healthy manner. Dieting has been shown to have a bigger impact on weight loss than exercise has. For this reason, it can be said that a good diet is more effective for weight loss as compared to exercise alone.
Yes, Vitamin D deficiency has indeed become a major cause of concern in Ireland as it has recently been highlighted that most Irish people are deficient in this essential vitamin. According to the Irish Osteoporosis society 74% of Irish adults and 88% of Irish primary school children, have less than half of the recommended daily amount of vitamin D. As well as bone health problems deficiency has recently shown cause cancers, diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). This can be defined as a major problem as it is affecting on average over 80% of the population.1 In conjunction with this, this deficiency is also a major problem due to the environmental factors surrounding the Irish climate: The main source of vitamin D in the diet is the biosynthesis of Calciferol by ultraviolet B rays from the sun. Ireland lies 50-55˚ north of the equator, which means from October until March the UVB rays are too weak to synthesise vitamin D.2 Therefore Irish people have to depend on their diet as a source of Vitamin D. There are a very few dietary sources of vitamin D, the main sources including fish and eggs. The two precursors of Vitamin D are Ergosterol from plants and 7-dehydrocholesterol which is found in the skin. When UV radiation acts on these they are converted to ergocalciferol and cholecalciferol respectively. The body is then able utilise these in the liver and kidneys where they are converted to 1,25-dehydroxyvitamin D2 and 1,25-dehydroxyvitamin D3. Calciferol plays a major