...Regular exercise and the consumption of a healthy diet can lead to a host of benefits, including increased energy, happiness, health and even a long life. Exercise and diet are pivotal to determining a person’s overall health, and making them both part of your lifestyle can make a dramatic difference in how you look and feel. According government guidelines, a healthy diet should consist of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products and lean meats. On top of eating well, you must also minimise your consumption of cholesterol, sodium, sugar and saturated fat. In conjunction with regular exercise, a healthy diet can reduce your risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure and some cancers. Promote increases in physical activity. Exercise provides numerous health benefits Both diet and physical activity play a critical role in controlling your weight. You gain weight when the calories you burn, including those burned during physical activity, are less than the calories you eat or drink. For more information see our section on balancing calories. When it comes to weight management, people vary greatly in how much physical activity they need. You may need to be more active than others to achieve or maintain a healthy weight. Heart disease and stroke are two of the leading causes of death in the UK. But following the Guideline of moderate-intensity aerobic activity can put you at a lower risk for these diseases. You can reduce your risk...
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...Regular Exercise and Healthy Eating Habits in Losing Weight “Diet is about weight. Exercise is about health” (Dr. Robert Lustig) Long-term results are consistent factor to keeping healthy lifestyle. Dieting in order of losing weight is consistent of healthy eating habits daily. Regular exercise not only helps lose weight. It also prevents individuals from chronic disease. Losing or maintaining weight can be a challenge for many of us. It gets hard to juggle so many things in your life and stay dedicated to dropping those pounds. Some of us don’t know how to start and keep going. Some of us have tried everything or tired of spending your money. My nephew is a preteen that was already obese. He weighs about 200 pounds, so he was 50-60 pounds overweight. She found it getting harder to stick him with a strict diet due to lack of knowledge and time-management. Over time it backfired and my nephew was gaining extra pounds. My sister finally received help from a nutrient specialist. The doctor recommended a strict healthy diet and exercise every day. They gave her help on food information, how to read food labels, ways to exercise, and more. After the appointment she came to realize the things she did wrong. In about a month our family saw a drastic change. He lost over 20 pounds and still going. She is making healthier decision on buying food. Making sure he walks, jog, play sport, etc. To reach and maintain the weight at which you will be healthy, develop a program of exercise and healthy...
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...Diet Plans or Exercise: Which is right for you? Erin A. Kelley University of Phoenix Diet Plans or Exercise: Which is right for you? Weight loss, the words often seem to scare people. The questions start to form- Where does weight loss begin? How does one choose from the large variety of weight loss plans and ideas? We ask ourselves if an exercise program is an effective choice for losing excess weight or if a diet plan will be sufficient. There are always new diet programs or exercise programs that proclaim weight loss in a matter of days or weeks. It is up to you to find the best direction for you and your body. Diet plans and exercise have a dramatic effect on a person’s well-being and give support in the fight against illness and disease. Exercise and diet plans can be effective in obtaining a healthy body and achieving weight loss, but there are important differences to address before making the best choice for your needs. Before a person should decide whether exercise or a diet plan is the strategy for them, they need to understand how each work to help with weight loss. There are diet plans that control the amount and types of foods a person can eat. Some diet plans regulate the amount of calories a person may ingest in a day. Still, other diet plans have suggestions of healthy meals to make that have calories counted for you. Then other diet plans suggest eating more fruits and vegetables, reducing refined carbohydrates and sweets, eating moderate...
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...DIET AND EXERCISE ANALYSIS Describe my eating habit, well my eating habits have not changed much, I am still eating the same foods as before but not as much or as often as I should considering my hectic schedule with meetings all day and trying to play catch up with my work at work and my school work has been very challenging for to keep up. But I notice I do get more headaches because I’m not eating or not eating enough. Well I was not been on a diet prior but I still love to eat healthy and the correct foods majority of the time. But so far I haven’t seen much of a change in my diet, just and overwhelming work load. I eat a little at a time when I can at work due to meetings all day three times a week, so that consumes my mornings, and lunch, and even my evenings, but for the other two great days I look forward to, I eat fruit, yogurts, vegetables, plenty of water that it seems I can’t get enough of water, salads, and so forth not much to my diet. Must definitely this diet could be much more productive for me if I had more time in my day to consume my three square meals that are properly planned for me. On my days I have no meeting I take the time to walk around the building mailing paper work that must go out, and to give my eyes and mind a break, but now that it has warmed up I can at least take the time to go outside and breath and just enjoy the little time of piece and serenity I have until I return within the hour to...
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...DIET AND EXERCISE ANALYSIS 1 Diet and Exercise AnalYSIS DIET AND EXERCISE ANALYSIS 2 My current eating habits contain a lot of empty calories. I do, however eat plenty of the daily value of fruits and proteins. The food tracker showed that I should be eating about 2000 calories a day while breastfeeding. When I put int the foods I am eating each day, it was under the daily recommended count. The tracker recommends I eat 6 ounces of grains, 2 1/2 cups of vegetables, 2 cups fruit, 3 cups dairy, and 5 1/2 ounces of proteins. I did not eat enough grains (4 1/2 ounces), but I eat over the recommended protein for the day at 13 1/2 ounces. I did not eat any fruits and I was under the recommended vegetables and dairy for the day. I had only one cup of vegetables and 3/4 cup of dairy. Our body is made of 60% water, which it needs to survive. Carbohydrates are important for energy. Proteins are needed for your body to grow properly. Fats are needed for tissue growth and hormone production. Vitamins are needed for different functions but most importantly for your immune system to function properly. Minerals for our body to fully function. My current diet is not providing me with enough water, vitamins, or minerals. I plan to incorporate more foods such as vegetables and fruits that will give me the vitamins I am lacking in my current diet. I also plan to drink more...
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...this causes an energy imbalance resulting in weight gain, overweight and even obesity (National Institute, 2012). While exercising and dieting both contribute to weight loss, the different effects such as nutrition intake, time consumption and mental effects must be factored in. The human body requires nutrition to function properly. Nutrition repairs muscles, organs and skin. Exercise with no diet does not provide the proper nutrition that is essential to the body (Paez & Kravitz, 2000). Exercising and burning calories is important to recover the body with the proper nutrients. However, it defeats the purpose of exercise when somebody's daily food intake is above or below his or her suggested nutrition. Therefore, the nutrient intake with just exercise and no diet does not fuel the body inadequately. The appropriate amount of nutrients is consumed while dieting properly. Nutrients are required for the body to function appropriately. Essential nutrients are something the body can’t produce or can’t produce in an adequate amount of time on its own. Essential nutrients can only be provided by a proper diet. These nutrients include water, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, protein and fat. (National Institute, 2012). There are recommended daily nutrients depending on an individual’s sex, age, weight, height and lifestyle. The time it...
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...Diet and Exercise Analysis Reynaldo Sanders SCI 241 1 December 2013 Jeff Mundt Diet and Exercise Analysis Submitting the information for the Supper tracker was difficult but eye opening. When I had to submit the information I had to do it per single item or as individual ingredients to one meal. This can be difficult if you ate a lot of fast food such as the case for me. I ate out a lot while my wife and daughter went home so the results of the tracker was somewhat startling. I noticed that my diet revolved around a lot of processed foods, preservatives and empty calories. Also this food was not as filling as say the steak I ate on Friday. My eating habits over the last week involved way more fast food than I was used to. Most times I would only eat it sporadically throughout the week but while my wife was out of town I ate out on a daily. I cannot sustain this type of eating as it can be costly both financially and health wise. Based on the website I knew that I was eating more fats than anyone should eat in a week. I know that I have to change from that eating style to more fruits and vegetables for snacks. Another issue is that I did not exercise over the three days that I had covered. I had already said that I wanted to get up in the mornings before work and job but this is a confirmation of some changes that need to be made. Based on the six classes of nutrients (water, protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals). Based on my current diet...
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...The contrast of diet pills and exercise Stephanie Szlatenyi Would it be a surprise to people if diet pills can cause more harm than good? Diet pills have rapidly become a popular alternative to exercising as the future progresses forwards because they offer quick results that are almost ideal to what exercising would offer. Some people are very self-conscious about how they look, so they want to lose excess fat. While others because they want to impress someone. There are so many reasons. Though at times, people are too fixated on the reasons they so desire that they don't take notice of the effects that each take on the body both physically and mentally. It is easy to be biased about this situation by neglecting the many components that differentiate one from another. It is important to understand though, what these components are in order to see why diet pill consumption has grown in such staggering numbers. While exercise and diet pills contribute to losing weight, the different effects such as nutrition intake, time consumption, and mental effects must be factored in. One of the strongest yet neglected key components that serve to distinguish diet pills from exercise is nutrition intake. Understandably, our body requires nutrition to function appropriately. Nutrition is also used by the body to repair organs, skin, and muscles. Not only do diet pills not provide the...
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...Exercise or Diet Pills? There is a battle going on in America that does not seem to be going away; obesity. In a time where society is shouting out “looks are everything!” this problem, you would think, would cease to exist; yet it does. There are countless ways to lose weight, but the following approaches are at the top of the list: exercising or absorbing diet pills. Exercising and eating healthy are the best ways to lose weight, although, some people take the easy way and consume pills. Diet pills are attractive. Who wouldn’t want to put any effort in exercising and lose weight as if you did? In a day in age where almost everything is available at the snap of a finger, or the click of a mouse, instant results are highly desired. What about being fit inside and out? Diet pills may make you look magnificent on the outside, but what about feeling remarkable on the inside? Which approach is most beneficial in the long run? For the most part, everyone wants to be healthy, but at what cost? Here is an overview to help you decide. It is fair to say that everyone knows in order to be successful in everyday life; you need to participate in some kind of physical routine. Walking to your car, house, or job is a physical activity. Although, it may not be enough to maintain a healthy physique, it is putting your body in motion. The greatest reason to exercise, and we all know this, is to have overall health development. The benefits of exercising are unlimited, but there are some...
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...Low Fat Diet with Exercise Versus Diet Pills University of Phoenix Low Fat Diet with Exercise Versus Diet Pills "If it is too good to be true, then it probably is". In the United States of America, obesity has become a concern for the common public. People get increasingly attracted to anything that claims a quick and effective weight loss technique. Although most people understand that they can lose weight through dieting and regular exercising, they get easily fascinated about the advertisements of diet pills that offer a slim physique within a few months without the hazards of exercising or diet control. This paper is comparing and contrasting the two methods for weight loss: exercising with a balanced low fat diet versus taking prescription diet drugs. Eating a healthy diet and regular exercising can help obese Americans to lose more weight in the long term than do unsafe diet pills. Obese people depend on different methods to lose their weight when they make a decision to shed their extra weight. The most accepted method is to change the diet into a balanced and low fat diet with doing adequate physical exercise. Another method is the use of diet pills to lose weight, which has become very popular among Americans recently. Healthier options of dieting are always good for losing weight. The human body uses food for energy, and any excess energy is stored as fat. When body is set to use these stored fat, the weight losses. The most effective way to do this is...
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...prior assignments. 1) This topic is important to me because throughout my life I have constantly researched different diets, hoping to find one that will help me lose weight and keep it off. With this research I hope to find one that not only help me lose weight, but also begin a new life style. 2) As a result of the on again, off again weight gain I began to see myself as a failure, and also as a fat person who could not keep the weight off. Through this research I am hoping to find not a diet but a life style that is healthily. I hope to be able to recognize a Fad diet as soon as I see one, and be able to educate my friend and family on this matter. Who is your primary audience or reader? Why? Be detailed in your answer about your audience. 1) The targeted audience would be people looking for a quick fix diet, maybe the girl that needs to get into that little black dress this weekend or the boy that will go swimming for the first time with a new girlfriend and wants to look slimmer fast. 2) I believe my secondary audience would be people like myself that just want a diet that works and are looking for new ways to lose weight. Not a quick fix, but a diet that is not very difficult and keeps the weight off. 3) I think the majority of my targeted audience would agree with me, even though the truth hurts. Fad diets are not healthy and are indeed a quick fix. But, people sometimes want to believe otherwise, even though the proof is presented to...
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...Fad Diets: Positive or Negative? Keith Daugherty DeVry University Fad Diets: Positive or Negative? Chad, a middle aged man, goes to work every day of the week to provide for his wife and three children. He wants nothing more than to live a full and healthy life and to always be there for his family, just like his father was there for him and his mom, growing up. Chad attended his annual check-up with the family care provider that he has seen for many years. He has always felt fine and thought he was as healthy as can be. While Chad was with his family care provider, he was told that his cholesterol levels were high, that he has high blood pressure, and that he has an increased chance of experiencing a myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack. His family care provider decided that Chad needed to lose some weight and start eating healthier in order to lower his blood pressure, lower his cholesterol levels, and decrease his chance of suffering a myocardial infarction. Chad agreed to make his doctor’s recommended lifestyle changes because he wanted to be there for his family no matter what the cost. After leaving his family care provider’s office and speaking with this wife about the bad news, he realized that he did not have a plan of action as to how he was going to lose the extra weight that was the source of his health problems. He didn’t know many things about eating healthier or maintaining a healthy lifestyle so he was unsure of where to begin. Later that...
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...Theme: Health and Wellness Topic: Fad Diets` Title: Food Fads. Koch is likely against the use of diets and nutritional information that fall under the category of “fads”. Intended audience: The intended audience is adults and students, primarily in the chiropractic field, interested in the benefits and side effects that food fads can have on health. As well as individuals looking for diet and nutritional information that provides a better understanding of what is safe and healthy. Writer’s background: Koch is a columnist at Today’s Chiropractic Leadership and director at Life University. Writer’s angle: Discussions involving fads, especially on the topic of health and wellness, are widely debated in regards to their health benefits and negative side effects. Individuals will hold different views on the subject based on their involvement with such fads, and their prior education in the matters of nutrition and health sciences. Koch is opposed to the use of such food fads and believes that they negatively affect health, while supporting a more simplistic implementation of diet and exercise. Part 1: The one-sentence summary Koch (2010), columnist at Today’s Chiropractic Life, defines what exactly a food fad is along with how they cycle between healthy and hurtful, as well as giving the reader some tips on how to tell what is nutritional fact apart from what is an unhealthy fad. Part 2: The one-paragraph summary Koch (2010), columnist at Today’s Chiropractic Life...
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...The Skinny on Fad Diets Jessica Johnson DeVry University FAD DIETS You had to stay over at work, pick up the kids, taking them to their various activities, running through the drive through for a quick meal, and begin to unwind on the couch. You could have gone for a walk on your lunch break, hit the gym after work, and made a well-balanced meal for all to eat at the dinner table but with deadlines, a demanding job, and a family to raise with an even crazier schedule; by the end of the day you are beat. However, those extra thirty pounds are just sitting there, waiting to be shed. One day, a thought occurs to seek out a solution, naturally this leads to the internet. A quick Google search and you are now being overloaded with a list of diets, pills, and drinks that will completely change your life around. All without having to rearrange your daily planner to make the life style changes needed for healthy weight loss. Sites with stories of “I lost 20 pounds in the first 2 weeks on diet ABC.” or “Diet XYZ gave me energy to accomplish everything I wanted in the day, while becoming and looking like the person that I want to be.” In other words, the search has brought up results on fad diets. As the schedules of Americans become more and more jam packed, the rate of becoming an unhealthy adult is rising. Currently 69% of Americans are overweight or obese (Jadhav, 2010). Stress from family life, a job, and a tight schedule has a way of causing one to gain weight and having...
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...resolution to begin a strict diet to lose weight and be healthier. Every year, many of those same people chose a one-size-fits-all fad diet and flunk out with in just a few short months, with some calling it quits within weeks. The truth is there is no such thing as the perfect diet for all consumers, yet we still follow the media, celebrities, and coworkers down the road of the most popular fad diet that promises the quickest gains. In the end we spend billions of dollars on these diets and all the accessories that come with them, such as expensive gym memberships and hyped up supplements, and the results are minimal at best. Dieting in America has become a mainstream, profit generating habit that can be unhealthy and costly; educating the public on alternative eating habits and supplemental lifestyle choices can lead to healthier individuals and outweigh the marginal benefits of dieting alone. American’s are competitive by nature, and never want to be left behind. Mainstream dieting has been around for decades, growing more and more popular as our ways to reach out to more consumers grow. I can remember being a child, listening to my mother and aunts discuss New Year’s resolutions that always included dieting. Back then we only had the evening news, newspapers, and telephones. Today we cannot escape the onslaught of social media, and one would be lucky to maneuver the checkout line at CVS without picking up a magazine listing the hottest diet, offered by the hottest model...
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