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some people are born bigger than what is known to be the average person. Parents have a great influence on their children and take on their parents habits. For example, a child whose parents are overweight or obese, consume foods that are high in calorie, and are inactive are more likely to become obese. However, if the family has good habits in physical activity and consumes healthy food, the possibility of their child becoming overweight or obese is decreased. Your genes may also affect the…

to find out what the primary culprits are. The human body is an amazing machine that can heal and replenish itself to survive, but only if the right things are ingested. Chemicals from the atmosphere are a major contributor but most of all high calorie processed and…

My Body Mass Index is 21.2, at the normal weight range.There are times when I would gain or lose weight, but it never went above the normal weight range. I am not an active person; however, over the past two years, I decided to exercise five days a week and 40 minutes everyday, except for the weekends. In one hour, I would do a 20 minutes warm-up consisting: 20 jumping jacks, 20 push-ups, 50 sit-ups, 10 bicycle crunches, and 10 power lunges. Every Mondays, after my warm-ups, I would walk for one…

Introduction I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, “Cycling Diet and carb Cycling”. Carb cycling is an eating plan that alternates between high carbohydrates and low carbohydrates days. This has been shown to promote weight loss and muscle growth. Carbohydrates, more than any other food group, have a large effect on how our body performs and looks. Contrary to popular belief, limiting carbohydrates intake might have a negative effect on your overall health. The…

John Cisna’s claim about his “McDonald’s Diet,” which he said can contribute to significant weight loss, is a deceitful marketing ploy that thousands of companies utilize to manipulate millions of customers with each year. McDonald’s marketing techniques to young adults is beginning to take a catastrophic toll on teenager’s health and their ability to thrive. The obesity epidemic in this nation is alarming, the rates of sick and unhealthy youth are increasing each year. It is paramount that…

School lunches need a change All around the world, students are starving in school. They don’t get enough. They hate the food and so do I. School lunches are a big problem. It really isn’t the schools problem either, It's the restrictions and mandates they have to follow. It all starts with the National School Lunch Program, or NSLP. It’s a federally funded program that gives schools low-cost or even free, nutritionally balanced meals every day (National School Lunch Program). It limits the fat…

believe schools should only offer nutritious drinks. If all schools choose to only offer nutritious drinks in school students will benefit greatly. Nutritious drinks will give students more energy throughout the day. The students will have a healthy calorie intake from the healthy drinks. Also the healthy drinks contain vitamins that will increase the student’s health. Once a week 28% of high school students fall asleep in class. Many fruit juices contain fructose. Fructose is a form of sugar…

you wouldn’t be the only one. Many people still do. The ongoing myth about how diet soda being healthy is doing nothing but harming your body. When people think of the word diet, automatically the word “healthy” comes to mind. These drinks are calorie free and technically should help people lose weight and prevent health problems. However, instead of using real sugar, diet soda as well as all diet drinks in general use different ingredients mostly known as artificial sweeteners. So…

in eating. Mindful eating is a practice with applications thought to resolve trouble with relationship to food. Taking the time to observe the food with all of our senses before eating. It is thought that when we are in stress mode we eat higher calorie, high fat, foods and what we need to do is take some control back. Mindful eating may help individuals recognize the difference between eating when they are hungry and eating because they are stressed or bored. A study, presented in the video,…

A few chains, such as J. R. Thompson and Childs, provided vitamin and calorie counts in the 1920s. But the public was not too receptive. Stockholders booted out William Childs after he gained control of the mighty lunchroom corporation and removed meat from its menus, causing sales to plunge drastically. (Jan Whitaker, 2008)…