July 31, 2007 at 11:47 am
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According to a latest report by Japanese researchers, doing exercise with breaks can burn higher amount of fat for us as compared to doing it continuously. Report says that we have much more chances of losing extra fat when we do exercise workouts with rest in between.
American College of Sports Medicine suggests modest exercise for 45 minutes to burn extra fat. But this study shows that we have better chances of losing fat if we keep some rest period between our exercise programs (From Medical News Today).
So far I believe in doing exercise for hours without any rest. But now I have a solid reason to have some rest between my exercises. Now I hope I will be able to concentrate more on doing exercise regularly and for longer hours with some rest period in between.
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July 27, 2007 at 3:43 am
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According to a latest Harvard and California University, our chances of getting obese increase by 57 percent if my best friend is an obese. For this researchers studied more than 12000 various friends network for 32 years and also monitored their weights during this interval (From Yahoo news).
According to the researchers, weight gain in person has direct effect on weight gain in other people in the friends circle.
Also if any of husband or wife becomes obese, the chances of other were getting obese increases by 37 percent.
This is the first ever study that shows how obesity spreads with social networks and from friends to other friends.
We all need to slow down this wide spread of obesity by eating healthy and doing exercise regularly.
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July 25, 2007 at 5:33 pm
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NBC show Biggest Loser ideas are seems to be spreading in many offices where employees are more concerned about their obesity and employers about the overweight employees cost.
Agora Inc, a newsletter publishing company in Baltimore, offered one such 12 weeks biggest loser contest. The prize for the winners was $1000 for top male, female and team category.
During this 12 weeks period, 84 employees were able to lose around 1000 pounds. Two of the employees in Agora Inc were able to lose more than 40 pounds.
The goal of such programs in offices is to increases employees health, more productivity and lower employees costs (From BBC NEWS).
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July 25, 2007 at 4:51 pm
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According to a latest study, the eating pattern of a pregnant women may tell us whether their child will be overweight latter in life. The study conducted by British and New Zealand scientists states that that women who do not take care of their eating or do not eat properly, their children are have higher chances of putting on weight later in their life. Read the complete story at Women poor diets effect on her kid
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July 24, 2007 at 3:56 pm
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According to a latest study, children of rich people especially with workingwomen are more chances of being overweight or obese.
Researchers found a strange link between obesity and the income of a family earned. Families whose income lies from 22,000 to 33,000 have 10% more chances of being overweight and the families with earning more than 33,000 have 15 % more chances of being overweight.
With workingwomen, the risk of obesity was 13 percent and 19 percent greater. Researchers found that parents job timing could make children to eat more snacks and spending more time with TV.
This is a wake up call for all middle class families. Parents need to consider their behavior and their responsibilities towards their children (From BBC NEWS).
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